What is Adsense Smart Pricing?

Lose Money with Adsense Smart Pricing

Many people use Adsense to make money online with their blogs but very few actually know what goes on behind closed doors. One common thing that people should understand is that all Adsense publishers are not judged equally. In fact the quality of your site content and the avenues in which you obtain your traffic make a big difference. Generally the term used to describe the varying amounts you are paid for clicks is known as Adsense Ad Click Value Variations.

What is Adsense Smart Pricing?

Basically Smart Pricing is a tactic that Google uses to make their advertising clients happy. It is a way to prevent click-fraud and punish bloggers and sites that have unnatural click behavior. Generally Smart Pricing only applies to blogs and sites that have spammy content. Believe it or not, Google’s methods for detecting this factor are extremely advanced.

Smart Pricing is something that Google uses to determine how much you get paid per click for text or image ad and its based on a few different variables that have not been released to the public.

Here are a few things that may determine Smart Pricing :

1.) Number of impressions
2.) The age of the website
3.) The page rank of the site
4.) The niche value of a site (is it based upon a single topic or many topics?)
5.) The value of inbound links (how many relevant keyword links do you have?)
6.) The CTR factor (the percentage of traffic that clicks on an ad)

If you want to avoid being smart priced, try your best to wait for a few months before you put Adsense on your site. Also, make sure to have high quality content and frequently update your site. More keyword rich backlinks never hurt as well!

If you play by the rules you won’t have to worry about getting smart priced as the system seems to be pretty fair. If you want to experiment with smart pricing set up multiple Adsense accounts and place ads on brand new sites with a lot of social traffic, see what happens?

I hope this article addressed the question : What is Adsense Smart Pricing?

For more information about PPC advertisements and Adsense, please review my archives.

Blogging – 2 Unique Ways to Monetize Your Blog

After your blog is up and running, you have a large subscribe base and a solid amount of natural traffic coming in. The time will come when you want to consider ways to monetize your blog. Not only will your method’s be under consideration, you will be looking for the answer to the ultimate question.

“What is the best way to monetize my blog?”

This article may not have the answer to that question but it will explore 4 unique ways that you can monetize your blog…

1. Start a Raffle

People love contests! Why not give them an opportunity to participate in a paid contest? If you have loyal readers, they will most likely place a lot of weight in your recommendations right? Well what if you offered them the ability to win something that didn’t cost you anything but time… Possible prizes could include :

-Advertising Space on your Website or Blog
-Exclusive Access to a Special Make Money Online E-Book
-Two to Three Hours of Professional Blog Consultation

I think that this would be a fantastic example of link bait! In fact, I’m going to implement this idea on my site immediately…

2. Write Affiliate Reviews

Ok, maybe you’re going to say “Hey wait a minute, that’s not a unique way to monetize my blog!”

It amazes me how effective this strategy truly is… If you can find something of value that may possibly have affiliate value to one of your readers in a similar niche, why not write a review about it?

Don’t forget to include your referral link so you get credit!

Conclusion

Both of these strategies I could just as well keep to myself but that would defeat the purpose of my blog. The point is that we can share these strategies and experience growth together. Please drop me a comment and let me know what you think of these ideas! If you haven’t joined my feed yet, please do so and let me know via comment so I can join yours!

Make Money Online : Associated Content Review

Recently I came across a site called Associated Content. After doing my homework, the site seemed to be very legitimate, and also seems to have more potential when compared to PayPerPost. This article is dedicated to the review of Associated Content.

If you want to make money online, this company will pay you to publish creative works. Another benefit is that you have the option to offer exclusive or un-exclusive rights. This is great because it will give you the ability to write content on your blog and then submit it to them for payment as well!

At this point I have completed a few of their requested content offers and they paid via Paypal within a few days of submission!

One of the content submissions was a valentines day poem… Ok, definitely not within my typical niche but I like Shakespeare so what more is there to say right?

1.) 20 minutes writing the poem
2.) 2 minutes submitting the poem
3.) Received $8.00 via Paypal

Now it has me racking my brain about content I can dig out from one of my other blogs to submit… I’m going to take this site for a ride and see what type of results I can get…

Click here to go to their site and see for yourself!

It’s important to explore new marketing and monetization strategies… Why not try to double dip once in a while right?

How To Make Money Blogging : 2 Different Approaches to Blogging

Blogging can be a very profitable business if you have the tools, dedication and knowledge to create and implement. There are several ways that people make money online with blogs and several different types of blogs that they make money with.

The following article will discuss two different approaches to blogging. Both of them can be quite profitable; however each approach will result in an entirely different blog and will require a different marketing campaign strategy as well.

1.) The Enterprise Blog

This blog is an example of an enterprise blog. It is my goal to educate the masses about internet marketing, search engine optimization and page rank strategies as much as it is to make a living from it. If you decide to create an enterprise blog, the key to success lies in delivering a large number of high quality articles, growing a significant readership base and focusing on ways to gain a huge share of web traffic.

An enterprise blog should be based on a broad niche which will give the writer the ability to touch on a ton of different topics that are interrelated.

In my opinion, the enterprise blog is the best route to take. Why not build on something that you have a passion for? Isn’t it better to make money while helping people at the same time? If your blog has quality content and articles that actually help your readers reach a goal, you are already on your way.

Some of the benefits in creating an enterprise blog include high traffic, loyal readership base, direct advertising opportunities and a brand name that requires less paid advertising then a typical blog. People gravitate towards your brand name and content, you’re products will practically sell themselves.

Please keep in mind that this blog will take a lot of time to build and maintain. There are shortcuts but it may take a while to find and implement them. Eventually you may decide to hire a copywriter to take over some of the content creation responsibilities… You may also decide to outsource some of your sales and marketing responsibilities as well.

2.) The Small Niche Blog – Affiliate or Advertising Purpose

This is an example of the enterprise blog with a twist; generally the small niche blog would be focused on generating affiliate or advertising revenue by focusing on a particular product or service. This is a very common route that many bloggers chose to take. The first thing you will want to do is find a niche that is very profitable in regard to affiliate and advertising revenue. Examples of sites like this include: Forex, Credit Cards, Car Loans, Vacations, Expensive Products i.e. Plasma TVs.

The key to success with this type of blog is to target desired keywords and provide content that matches with those keywords. The ultimate goal being that someone will search for the product or service, find your site, read your review and then click on one of your adsense links or affiliate product ads. The best way to do this is to create long tail keywords in your article titles. This will increase the chance you will be found in the search engines for a particular keyword.

These types of blogs are generally easy to set up and get going but may not be very profitable unless you either convert them into enterprise blogs or focus on creating hundreds of similar sites in different niches.

Conclusion

The two methods discussed in this article are just meant to help spark creativity in regard to making money from blogging. There are millions of other ways to make money from blogs and websites but hopefully this article has given you a few ideas to implement or consider in your search for a blogging strategy.