The Basics of Using AdSense - Location
When you place AdSense on your site, you should look at the task as though you are providing a resource to members, not simply trying to generate income from their clicks. For this reason, you’ll want to target the areas that visitors tend to look at first - sidebars and headers. Visitors that don’t see an ad won’t click on them, either.
Here is a rather brief look at general placement options for most blogs:
Sidebar - The sidebar is one of the most critical placement areas for ads - the second most looked at location right after the content. Ads should be placed in a logical manner, blending in with other similar links or used in a way to attract attention to them, while not overwhelming your visitors with “flashy” graphics.
Between Blog Posts - These ads will display in-between each post (up to three times per page), with nearly every size available, from 120×90 pixel buttons to 300×250 rectangles. There is a good chance that visitors will notice these, thinking they are still a part of your content.
Header - A blog’s header should remain as clean as possible, distinguishing your site from others from the time a new visitors first appears on your site, but it can also be a prime location for placing ads. Generally, the best sizes are 468×15 (up to five links) or larger, as the content/links displayed will be generated from the keywords that have been placed in your header/first posts.
Menu - 728*15 ads in place of the menu in header or just beneath the header will work the most if used in that spot. This will really increase Adsense earnings as the spot and the ad resembles as if the menu of the website. Many readers of your blog may not like placing ad in that position but still if we need to make earnings from Adsense we need to find such most important spots for Adsense. (Thanks BLOGGERUSER)
Inside Blog Posts - If we display Adsense ads inside post, it is found that it has relatively higher CTR. People mostly think this ads as a part of the content and click it often. And these ads have almost related words to the topic or key words you have in your specific blog post. (Thanks CELEBSIMAGE)
Feeds - An area often overlooked for ad placement is in feeds. After all, there are many sites that have thousands of subscribers - people who normally don’t visit the actual website each day
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Thursday, May 28, 2009
how to increase adsense earnings
Ad Positioning: Tactics to Increase Your AdSense Earnings Overnight
In this series I’m examining tactics that can be used to increase AdSense earnings immediately. Read the introduction to this series here.
Today I want to talk about positioning your AdSense ads - something that has a very significant impact upon the amount of money that they are able to earn.
I learned this lesson after I’d been using AdSense for some time - I often wish I’d discovered it earlier - because not thinking it through earlier cost me a significant amount of money!
My Story of Learning about AdSense Positioning
I remember clearly the time that my AdSense earnings almost doubled over night through me simply moving them from one part of my blog to another.
Up until the point where I made this discovery my AdSense ads had been largely in a banner position on my blog. I don’t remember my exact reasoning for putting it there but it was probably because that’s where I saw all the big sites doing. My blog’s post pages looked like the diagram to the right.
Performance with this positioning was OK - but then again, I didn’t know any different so while I was earning enough on my blog at this point to make a day or two a week of earnings I was blissfully unaware of the potential that my blog had to take me a step closer to going full time as a blogger.
I’m not sure of why I decided to experiment with my ad positioning but after a while of positioning my AdSense ads this way I decided to have a ‘play’ with other positions. I began to think about where on my page my readers would give their full attention and decided at the top left hand side of the content area would probably be the most logical position for people to look at a web page (as that’s where they start reading). This was at a time before AdSense brought out their ‘heatmap’ which confirmed that this was a wise move.
So late one afternoon I decided to move my ad unit from the banner position to this spot at the top left hand side of my post area.
My ads now looked like the diagram to the left.
I was actually a little nervous about making this move. What if my earnings went down and I started going backwards?
I decided to give the new position a couple of days testing. I could afford to lose earnings for two days but if they didn’t at least match the previous positioning I’d switch it back.
That night just before I went to bed I decided to log into AdSense to see what the results were like after a few hours.
Imagine my surprise when I saw my CTR 40%!
40% more readers were clicking my ads and this was obviously already impacting my overall earnings!
I didn’t sleep too well that night as I realized the power of what I’d discovered. I could potentially see a 40% increase in my earnings with a simple move of my ads.
The next morning I awoke earlier and logged into AdSense and found that the CTR was now up by just under 50%.
That day I’d increased my earnings enough to dedicate at least another day a week to blogging by simply changing the position of an ad unit!
Tips on Ad Positioning
Ad positioning is vitally important to the performance of ad units like AdSense.
In general - the positions that are ‘hot’ can be seen on the heatmap to the right (this is the official AdSense heatmap which they put together from their own research and observations of where ads work best. You can see how anywhere at the top of content can work best (the brightest orange area) but that in general above the fold and to the left seems to be the ‘hotter areas’.
This does vary from blog to blog and there are some specific spots that work best on blogs (I’ll show them below). The key is to try different things and to find what works best on your blog.
In this series I’m examining tactics that can be used to increase AdSense earnings immediately. Read the introduction to this series here.
Today I want to talk about positioning your AdSense ads - something that has a very significant impact upon the amount of money that they are able to earn.
I learned this lesson after I’d been using AdSense for some time - I often wish I’d discovered it earlier - because not thinking it through earlier cost me a significant amount of money!
My Story of Learning about AdSense Positioning
I remember clearly the time that my AdSense earnings almost doubled over night through me simply moving them from one part of my blog to another.
Up until the point where I made this discovery my AdSense ads had been largely in a banner position on my blog. I don’t remember my exact reasoning for putting it there but it was probably because that’s where I saw all the big sites doing. My blog’s post pages looked like the diagram to the right.
Performance with this positioning was OK - but then again, I didn’t know any different so while I was earning enough on my blog at this point to make a day or two a week of earnings I was blissfully unaware of the potential that my blog had to take me a step closer to going full time as a blogger.
I’m not sure of why I decided to experiment with my ad positioning but after a while of positioning my AdSense ads this way I decided to have a ‘play’ with other positions. I began to think about where on my page my readers would give their full attention and decided at the top left hand side of the content area would probably be the most logical position for people to look at a web page (as that’s where they start reading). This was at a time before AdSense brought out their ‘heatmap’ which confirmed that this was a wise move.
So late one afternoon I decided to move my ad unit from the banner position to this spot at the top left hand side of my post area.
My ads now looked like the diagram to the left.
I was actually a little nervous about making this move. What if my earnings went down and I started going backwards?
I decided to give the new position a couple of days testing. I could afford to lose earnings for two days but if they didn’t at least match the previous positioning I’d switch it back.
That night just before I went to bed I decided to log into AdSense to see what the results were like after a few hours.
Imagine my surprise when I saw my CTR 40%!
40% more readers were clicking my ads and this was obviously already impacting my overall earnings!
I didn’t sleep too well that night as I realized the power of what I’d discovered. I could potentially see a 40% increase in my earnings with a simple move of my ads.
The next morning I awoke earlier and logged into AdSense and found that the CTR was now up by just under 50%.
That day I’d increased my earnings enough to dedicate at least another day a week to blogging by simply changing the position of an ad unit!
Tips on Ad Positioning
Ad positioning is vitally important to the performance of ad units like AdSense.
In general - the positions that are ‘hot’ can be seen on the heatmap to the right (this is the official AdSense heatmap which they put together from their own research and observations of where ads work best. You can see how anywhere at the top of content can work best (the brightest orange area) but that in general above the fold and to the left seems to be the ‘hotter areas’.
This does vary from blog to blog and there are some specific spots that work best on blogs (I’ll show them below). The key is to try different things and to find what works best on your blog.
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
bebo bebo bebo.com
Launched in July 2005, Bebo has steadily risen to become one of the world’s most popular social networking sites. Users can create profiles on the site for free, stay connected with friends, watch videos, and listen to music. In early 2008 Bebo had over 34 million registered users and 7 billion monthly page views. Bebo’s founders have extensive experience in online social networking, having been involved in the founding and building of such companies as Birthday Alarm, Ringo, and Friendster. Bebo is officially the largest social networking site in the UK, Ireland, and New Zealand, and is the third largest social networking site in the US behind only MySpace and Facebook. In 2006, Bebo received the Webby Award People’s Vote for the best social networking site on the web. Bebo was [acquired by AOL on March 13, 2008](http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/13/aol-buys-bebo-for-750bhioui
Sunday, May 24, 2009
dofollow socialmarker social bookmarking
Lets face it, not all “dofollow” bookmarking sites are created equal. Lately I was examining some incoming links to Some Extra Pennies. I decided to pay special attention to links coming from bookmarking sites and to my surprise I found that most links from these sources are not counted by Google only a hand full of them even appeared in Google’s Webmaster Tools. Then I enrolled myself on a mission to find which were the most useful bookmarking sites around. After realizing it is almost impossible to carry on with a research of this magnitude in a short time I decided to investigate most of the sites marked as “dofollow” on Socialmarker since these are the ones that can actually transmit some link juice to sites.
Having used this tool for quite a few times on some on my own posts I noticed that most links are not counted by Yahoo or Google. I quickly noticed what was happening on most of them. Some bookmarking sites construct pages in ASPX or other languages that construct pages depending on user preferences and do not assign a particular url to your folder making it impossible for crawlers to visit. Others have buggy applications making it impossible to publish your bookmarks to the public which includes search engines. Other bookmarking sites where marked as “dofollow” and where not or redirect to your page using a strange url generated by the bookmarking site itself. So after checking links out for some time I came with four picks.
So here are my picks when it comes to no nonsense bookmarking sites:
Oyax Page rank 4
Furl Page rank 7
Folkd Page Rank 7
Mister Wong Page Rank 7
Note: Mister Wong detects if you are only bookmarking a site in particular and may block you bookmarks making them “private” so bookmark other pages from other people to add credibility to your profile, not really sure about the other sites though but I have not had any inconveniences using them to bookmark my sites.
Update: Furl was sold to Diigo and is now No Follow
Have you used these sites before? What are your results?
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Dennis Edell said:
Hiya Pennies, I dropped by for 2 reasons today…
1. Excellent article, I’m always on the lookout for things to help the cause…so to speak, and do follow social sites do it in spades!
2. I just found you from Javo’s site, and now I’m a subscriber
September 27th, 2008 at 3:45 am
Archie Pennies said:
@ Dennis
Hi Dennis, it makes me very happy to know that you liked the article and thanks a lot for subscribing.
September 29th, 2008 at 1:49 am
Codrut Turcanu @ best blogging platform said:
I have heard about the last one.
I wonder what specific results have you seen from these “promo” submissions…
Maybe you could write another post on that?
October 4th, 2008 at 8:23 pm
Visit Bohol said:
The most difficult bookmarking site is StumbleUpon. It’s hard to navigate the site. I rarely use it. Furl.net is pretty easy to use. Dofollow bookmarking sites will stay for long for sure.
October 6th, 2008 at 3:57 am
Archie Pennies said:
@ Condruct
Social Bookmarking is the way to go. When you submit an entry these sites generate a “tag” that performs very well in search engines and gets your site indexed at light speed. I have gotten excellent results with just bookmarking and article marketing in a niche site I am currently working on which is a highly competitive niche. Of course you have to attack long tail keywords that are less competitive in order for your “bookmarking tag” to crush almost every listing and include your main keyword so that your site get the real juice you are seeking. It is very important to do intensive keyword research it will payoff in the end believe me.
@Bohol Stumble upon is great for traffic. Some Extra Pennies received almost 400 visitors in a day from just one thumbs up. But Stumble is more complicated and submitting your own site too much will get it blocked. So leave that to your visitors. After one of your pages get the first thumbs up from someone you can give it the thumbs up yourself and push it further.
October 8th, 2008 at 7:51 am
Ajith Edassery said:
I guess spurl.net with PR6 figures in that list as well…though PR of the homepage means pretty much nothing unless you get on to the front page for a while.
Cheers,
Ajith
October 23rd, 2008 at 12:27 pm
Archie Pennies said:
@Ajith
I have been testing Spurl for quite some time but I was unable to make my bookmarks public until recently. The API used to give a page not found error. Around a week ago I was able to “publish my bookmark collection” to the public. I am still waiting to see if google picks those links up and displays them in Webmasters tools. If they show up, then I will add Spurl to the list. And thank you a lot for visiting my blog. Have a nice week.
October 23rd, 2008 at 1:13 pm
Build Niche Store Tutorials said:
Thanks for this.. I use mr wong and wondered why some of my bookmarks were being make private.. I have had good success with twitter as well… definetly worth using with the ones listed.
November 24th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
Ej Wisher said:
Stumbleupon is easy to navigate I don’t know what your talking about to be honest.
December 2nd, 2008 at 9:51 pm
Archie Pennies said:
@Ej What makes Stumble Upon not good for bookmarking your site is that if you keep submitting URLs from the same domain, the system stops sending the usual avalanche of traffic it is expected. If an account “discovers” consecutively pages from a specific domain it blocks the account from “discovering” more pages from that domain. Thumbs up are handled different from discovered pages. A discovered page is a first time thumbs up. Leave that to your visitors instead if you notice traffic from a page from Stumble, it means somebody submitted it, after this giving a thumbs up will not hurt. Just Google “banned from stumble upon” and you will see what I mean. Rule of the Thumb: Submitting a bunch of your posts to stumble upon will only get your site banned from the system. Submit a few and let others submit them for you. And it is “No Follow”.
December 2nd, 2008 at 10:47 pm
frank said:
It may have been no-follow but the code I’m looking at where someone stumbled my site shows no rel=nofollow attribute to the url. Also shows as do follow with the firefox plugin for follow/no follow links.
is what showed also viewing source code.
also this :
var url = ‘http://www.somesite.com/’;
some top level SeO people have also stated some redirected links still pass on the link juice.
I had one site that had nothing but a stumble links pointing to it which ended up gaining PR as well.
but yes generally speaking your correct in the statement about spamming your own sites can get you into issues with them. now if you have friends in different parts of the world hitting you up now and then that’s a different story…. differing accounts/users and differing world wide ISP addys
December 3rd, 2008 at 2:36 am
joe said:
http://www.stumbleupon.com/demo/#url=http://www.apple.com = nofollow
but:
http://www.stumbleupon.com/click_redir.php?webtb=1&t=4936262ecb6ac&src=user&topic=427&u=http%3A%2F%2Fmoremerchant.com%2Fbloggers-get-50-via-paypal-today
= follow
looking at link #1 with the various firefox dofollow tools shows link #1 as 100 % for sure no follow but link #2 ( also from stumble ) as 100 % dofollow , go figure
December 3rd, 2008 at 2:53 am
joe said:
well at least on the page they appear on…. now reposted here both show as nofollow , odd
December 3rd, 2008 at 2:55 am
Archie Pennies said:
@ Joe I just checked the second link you posted. It appears that the link points to and Iframe. Iframes normally stop crawlers from even looking at the page below. I personally do not know if they are actually reading the page bellow but from the source code I see with Firefox there isn’t even a link to the actual page. The source code itself is from the Iframe. Sometimes a crawler my get around the if there is a no frame tag but I took a quick glance and didn’t found it. I will try to follow that link with a text browser to see what happens. But at first glance all I saw was Java script and some links pointing to Stumble Upon. Sorry for the late reply College is killing me.
December 10th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
AC said:
Thanks for the informative article. Do you think the comments/traffic that come from DoFollow are worth the trouble/spam? Isn’t there a detriment to your PR by allowing this?
January 4th, 2009 at 12:06 am
Archie Pennies said:
@AC Thanks for visiting! Well it depends on what comments you allow. While page rank is believed to leak from followed comments, sometimes comments from users with sites relevant to a blog will have a positive effect. For example, if a site is about cars and a lot of people with sites about cars comment in a post and leave their link as the commenter name search engines might think that this is good resource with lots of content and a links to relevant sites. Just be careful with the sites that are linked to especially with autoblogs, splogs and trackback spam. If a comment looks fishy try a copy - paste on Google to see if the same comment appears on a site in order to verify if it is comment spam or not. As for leaving comments in do follow blogs, the real boost comes with blogs that allow keywords as the name. Check out comment policies. If the blogger does not allow keywords use your name. You still get some link juice but it will probably not help much when it comes to boosting search engine rankings for the desired keyword.
January 4th, 2009 at 8:31 am
Web Development said:
That’s nice list but there are some other bookmarking websites for dofollow links. Like……….
http://slashdot.org
http://digg.com
http://technorati.com
http://www.furl.net
http://www.backflip.com
http://www.hugg.com
http://www.mixx.com
http://ma.gnolia.com
http://www.connotea.org
http://mystuff.ask.com
http://www.reddit.com
http://www.dzone.com
http://www.folkd.com
http://multiply.com
http://www.searchles.com
http://de.lirio.us
http://www.dotnetkicks.com
http://www.bloghop.com
http://www.plime.com
http://www.bibsonomy.org
http://www.clipclip.org
http://linkagogo.com
http://www.spurl.net
http://www.zlitt.com
http://www.indianpad.com
http://www.tumblr.com
http://www.myvmarks.com
http://www.listible.com
http://www.bringr.com
http://faves.com
http://www.linkinn.com
http://spotback.com
http://www.mylinkvault.com
http://my.xilinus.com
http://linkatopia.com
http://www.bumpzee.com
http://www.bookmarktracker.com
http://www.healthranker.com
http://www.a1-webmarks.com
http://www.wirefan.com
http://www.bmaccess.net
http://blogmarks.net
http://www.diigo.com
http://www.oyax.com
http://socialogs.com
http://www.contentpop.com
http://www.pixelmo.com
http://www.memfrag.com
http://getigadget.com
http://www.jumptags.com
http://www.plugim.com
http://www.syncone.net
http://postonfire.com
http://www.business-planet.net
http://www.hatedorloved.com
http://www.bookmarks.com
http://www.yattle.com
http://www.kapely.net
http://www.givealink.org
http://totagit.com
http://socialblink.com
http://wigleytagz.com
http://buzztagz.com
http://youtagz.com
http://space-ed.com
April 1st, 2009 at 7:54 am
Make Money Online | How to make money from home said:
4 quality pick is good enough. involvement with too many bookmarking sites can be distracting
April 1st, 2009 at 11:05 am
Max said:
Web Development, thanks for this list!!!
April 7th, 2009 at 5:14 am
iZeby said:
Social bookmarking can be useful as a way to access a consolidated set of bookmarks from various computers, organize large numbers of bookmarks, and share bookmarks with contacts. Even libraries have found social bookmarking to be useful as an easy way to provide lists of informative links to patrons.
April 21st, 2009 at 2:59 pm
Marketing Forums said:
Very well written post however, I would recommend that you turn the No Follow off in your comment section.
Keep up the good work.
April 23rd, 2009 at 3:36 am
Jack Clarke said:
I have installed DoFollow on all my blogs hopefully this will attract more visitors and more links for everyone.
- Jack
April 27th, 2009 at 6:50 pm
mahi said:
thanx for this post.
April 30th, 2009 at 9:00 am
Philer said:
Another good dofollow bookmarking site with PR: http://kawilihan.com Check it and join with us.
May 6th, 2009 at 2:38 am
Savings said:
I see dofollow sites depreciate in value soon. Not saying it’s not worth using but should be used for improving awareness rather than anything else.
May 18th, 2009 at 5:17 am
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Having used this tool for quite a few times on some on my own posts I noticed that most links are not counted by Yahoo or Google. I quickly noticed what was happening on most of them. Some bookmarking sites construct pages in ASPX or other languages that construct pages depending on user preferences and do not assign a particular url to your folder making it impossible for crawlers to visit. Others have buggy applications making it impossible to publish your bookmarks to the public which includes search engines. Other bookmarking sites where marked as “dofollow” and where not or redirect to your page using a strange url generated by the bookmarking site itself. So after checking links out for some time I came with four picks.
So here are my picks when it comes to no nonsense bookmarking sites:
Oyax Page rank 4
Furl Page rank 7
Folkd Page Rank 7
Mister Wong Page Rank 7
Note: Mister Wong detects if you are only bookmarking a site in particular and may block you bookmarks making them “private” so bookmark other pages from other people to add credibility to your profile, not really sure about the other sites though but I have not had any inconveniences using them to bookmark my sites.
Update: Furl was sold to Diigo and is now No Follow
Have you used these sites before? What are your results?
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Dennis Edell said:
Hiya Pennies, I dropped by for 2 reasons today…
1. Excellent article, I’m always on the lookout for things to help the cause…so to speak, and do follow social sites do it in spades!
2. I just found you from Javo’s site, and now I’m a subscriber
September 27th, 2008 at 3:45 am
Archie Pennies said:
@ Dennis
Hi Dennis, it makes me very happy to know that you liked the article and thanks a lot for subscribing.
September 29th, 2008 at 1:49 am
Codrut Turcanu @ best blogging platform said:
I have heard about the last one.
I wonder what specific results have you seen from these “promo” submissions…
Maybe you could write another post on that?
October 4th, 2008 at 8:23 pm
Visit Bohol said:
The most difficult bookmarking site is StumbleUpon. It’s hard to navigate the site. I rarely use it. Furl.net is pretty easy to use. Dofollow bookmarking sites will stay for long for sure.
October 6th, 2008 at 3:57 am
Archie Pennies said:
@ Condruct
Social Bookmarking is the way to go. When you submit an entry these sites generate a “tag” that performs very well in search engines and gets your site indexed at light speed. I have gotten excellent results with just bookmarking and article marketing in a niche site I am currently working on which is a highly competitive niche. Of course you have to attack long tail keywords that are less competitive in order for your “bookmarking tag” to crush almost every listing and include your main keyword so that your site get the real juice you are seeking. It is very important to do intensive keyword research it will payoff in the end believe me.
@Bohol Stumble upon is great for traffic. Some Extra Pennies received almost 400 visitors in a day from just one thumbs up. But Stumble is more complicated and submitting your own site too much will get it blocked. So leave that to your visitors. After one of your pages get the first thumbs up from someone you can give it the thumbs up yourself and push it further.
October 8th, 2008 at 7:51 am
Ajith Edassery said:
I guess spurl.net with PR6 figures in that list as well…though PR of the homepage means pretty much nothing unless you get on to the front page for a while.
Cheers,
Ajith
October 23rd, 2008 at 12:27 pm
Archie Pennies said:
@Ajith
I have been testing Spurl for quite some time but I was unable to make my bookmarks public until recently. The API used to give a page not found error. Around a week ago I was able to “publish my bookmark collection” to the public. I am still waiting to see if google picks those links up and displays them in Webmasters tools. If they show up, then I will add Spurl to the list. And thank you a lot for visiting my blog. Have a nice week.
October 23rd, 2008 at 1:13 pm
Build Niche Store Tutorials said:
Thanks for this.. I use mr wong and wondered why some of my bookmarks were being make private.. I have had good success with twitter as well… definetly worth using with the ones listed.
November 24th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
Ej Wisher said:
Stumbleupon is easy to navigate I don’t know what your talking about to be honest.
December 2nd, 2008 at 9:51 pm
Archie Pennies said:
@Ej What makes Stumble Upon not good for bookmarking your site is that if you keep submitting URLs from the same domain, the system stops sending the usual avalanche of traffic it is expected. If an account “discovers” consecutively pages from a specific domain it blocks the account from “discovering” more pages from that domain. Thumbs up are handled different from discovered pages. A discovered page is a first time thumbs up. Leave that to your visitors instead if you notice traffic from a page from Stumble, it means somebody submitted it, after this giving a thumbs up will not hurt. Just Google “banned from stumble upon” and you will see what I mean. Rule of the Thumb: Submitting a bunch of your posts to stumble upon will only get your site banned from the system. Submit a few and let others submit them for you. And it is “No Follow”.
December 2nd, 2008 at 10:47 pm
frank said:
It may have been no-follow but the code I’m looking at where someone stumbled my site shows no rel=nofollow attribute to the url. Also shows as do follow with the firefox plugin for follow/no follow links.
is what showed also viewing source code.
also this :
var url = ‘http://www.somesite.com/’;
some top level SeO people have also stated some redirected links still pass on the link juice.
I had one site that had nothing but a stumble links pointing to it which ended up gaining PR as well.
but yes generally speaking your correct in the statement about spamming your own sites can get you into issues with them. now if you have friends in different parts of the world hitting you up now and then that’s a different story…. differing accounts/users and differing world wide ISP addys
December 3rd, 2008 at 2:36 am
joe said:
http://www.stumbleupon.com/demo/#url=http://www.apple.com = nofollow
but:
http://www.stumbleupon.com/click_redir.php?webtb=1&t=4936262ecb6ac&src=user&topic=427&u=http%3A%2F%2Fmoremerchant.com%2Fbloggers-get-50-via-paypal-today
= follow
looking at link #1 with the various firefox dofollow tools shows link #1 as 100 % for sure no follow but link #2 ( also from stumble ) as 100 % dofollow , go figure
December 3rd, 2008 at 2:53 am
joe said:
well at least on the page they appear on…. now reposted here both show as nofollow , odd
December 3rd, 2008 at 2:55 am
Archie Pennies said:
@ Joe I just checked the second link you posted. It appears that the link points to and Iframe. Iframes normally stop crawlers from even looking at the page below. I personally do not know if they are actually reading the page bellow but from the source code I see with Firefox there isn’t even a link to the actual page. The source code itself is from the Iframe. Sometimes a crawler my get around the if there is a no frame tag but I took a quick glance and didn’t found it. I will try to follow that link with a text browser to see what happens. But at first glance all I saw was Java script and some links pointing to Stumble Upon. Sorry for the late reply College is killing me.
December 10th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
AC said:
Thanks for the informative article. Do you think the comments/traffic that come from DoFollow are worth the trouble/spam? Isn’t there a detriment to your PR by allowing this?
January 4th, 2009 at 12:06 am
Archie Pennies said:
@AC Thanks for visiting! Well it depends on what comments you allow. While page rank is believed to leak from followed comments, sometimes comments from users with sites relevant to a blog will have a positive effect. For example, if a site is about cars and a lot of people with sites about cars comment in a post and leave their link as the commenter name search engines might think that this is good resource with lots of content and a links to relevant sites. Just be careful with the sites that are linked to especially with autoblogs, splogs and trackback spam. If a comment looks fishy try a copy - paste on Google to see if the same comment appears on a site in order to verify if it is comment spam or not. As for leaving comments in do follow blogs, the real boost comes with blogs that allow keywords as the name. Check out comment policies. If the blogger does not allow keywords use your name. You still get some link juice but it will probably not help much when it comes to boosting search engine rankings for the desired keyword.
January 4th, 2009 at 8:31 am
Web Development said:
That’s nice list but there are some other bookmarking websites for dofollow links. Like……….
http://slashdot.org
http://digg.com
http://technorati.com
http://www.furl.net
http://www.backflip.com
http://www.hugg.com
http://www.mixx.com
http://ma.gnolia.com
http://www.connotea.org
http://mystuff.ask.com
http://www.reddit.com
http://www.dzone.com
http://www.folkd.com
http://multiply.com
http://www.searchles.com
http://de.lirio.us
http://www.dotnetkicks.com
http://www.bloghop.com
http://www.plime.com
http://www.bibsonomy.org
http://www.clipclip.org
http://linkagogo.com
http://www.spurl.net
http://www.zlitt.com
http://www.indianpad.com
http://www.tumblr.com
http://www.myvmarks.com
http://www.listible.com
http://www.bringr.com
http://faves.com
http://www.linkinn.com
http://spotback.com
http://www.mylinkvault.com
http://my.xilinus.com
http://linkatopia.com
http://www.bumpzee.com
http://www.bookmarktracker.com
http://www.healthranker.com
http://www.a1-webmarks.com
http://www.wirefan.com
http://www.bmaccess.net
http://blogmarks.net
http://www.diigo.com
http://www.oyax.com
http://socialogs.com
http://www.contentpop.com
http://www.pixelmo.com
http://www.memfrag.com
http://getigadget.com
http://www.jumptags.com
http://www.plugim.com
http://www.syncone.net
http://postonfire.com
http://www.business-planet.net
http://www.hatedorloved.com
http://www.bookmarks.com
http://www.yattle.com
http://www.kapely.net
http://www.givealink.org
http://totagit.com
http://socialblink.com
http://wigleytagz.com
http://buzztagz.com
http://youtagz.com
http://space-ed.com
April 1st, 2009 at 7:54 am
Make Money Online | How to make money from home said:
4 quality pick is good enough. involvement with too many bookmarking sites can be distracting
April 1st, 2009 at 11:05 am
Max said:
Web Development, thanks for this list!!!
April 7th, 2009 at 5:14 am
iZeby said:
Social bookmarking can be useful as a way to access a consolidated set of bookmarks from various computers, organize large numbers of bookmarks, and share bookmarks with contacts. Even libraries have found social bookmarking to be useful as an easy way to provide lists of informative links to patrons.
April 21st, 2009 at 2:59 pm
Marketing Forums said:
Very well written post however, I would recommend that you turn the No Follow off in your comment section.
Keep up the good work.
April 23rd, 2009 at 3:36 am
Jack Clarke said:
I have installed DoFollow on all my blogs hopefully this will attract more visitors and more links for everyone.
- Jack
April 27th, 2009 at 6:50 pm
mahi said:
thanx for this post.
April 30th, 2009 at 9:00 am
Philer said:
Another good dofollow bookmarking site with PR: http://kawilihan.com Check it and join with us.
May 6th, 2009 at 2:38 am
Savings said:
I see dofollow sites depreciate in value soon. Not saying it’s not worth using but should be used for improving awareness rather than anything else.
May 18th, 2009 at 5:17 am
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Wednesday, May 13, 2009
MAKE MONEY WITH REVENUE SHARING FORUMS
MAKE MONEY WITH REVENUE SHARING FORUMS
8 Revenue Sharing, Dofollow Forums for Webmasters and Affiliates
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What are revenue sharing forums ?
Revenue sharing forums are forums that give active users the option of displaying their ads in threads. Ads are usually show based on probability. For example, if a forum states that if you start a thread you have a 50/50 revenue share probability on AdSense ads. This means that when someone visits a thread you started there is a 50% probability that AdSense ads displayed include you Adsense ID. Any clicks when ads have your publisher ID gets credited to your account. Each forum has its own set of rules when it comes to revenue sharing. Some forums even take in consideration members who post on threads as candidates for the revenue share and not just the person who started the original thread. Rule of thumb: Always read and follow a forums rules and terms.
What benefits can be obtained by participating in these forums?
The most important benefit from participating in these forums is the opportunity to become part in an active community of like minded people that are willing to help. You can learn a lot from other peoples experiences. In forums you can get answers to questions you could not otherwise get answered anywhere, get useful recommendations from other members and have some fun in the process. Other benefits from forums included on the list are that they allow signatures with no follow tag removed from them (great backlinks) and of course money.
Criteria I used in the list:
revenue sharing
allow signatures that pass on link juice (have no follow tag disabled)
are ranked by Google
are mainly directed at webmasters, affiliate marketing or both. Note: Some of them allow even affiliate links other strictly forbid it. Read their rules and TOS.
7 Revenue sharing, dofollow on signature forums
Digital Point PR 7
Webmasters PR 7
Revenue Source PR 5
Web Talk Forums PR 4
DJ Webmaster PR 3
Webmaster Talk PR 3
Webmaster’s Home PR 2
Web Cosmo Forums PR 3
If you know any forums that meet the criteria let me know, this helps make a bigger list. Your comments and suggestions are welcome and needed. Have made any money online using these forums?
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Raman said:
but i doubt,does they reall share revenue???,never heard of anyone getting more from this.
June 14th, 2008 at 11:00 am
Archie said:
Of course they do most of these forums are very popular with webmasters. What you earn depends on participation you will not earn heaping amounts of money but you sure can earn a few bucks.
July 3rd, 2008 at 8:47 am
Andy said:
Hello, My Forum is a Do Follow and I’ve supported this movement since its inception!
Please add me:
http://www.makemoneykingdom.com
Keep up the great work!
December 30th, 2008 at 9:51 am
Webmaster Forum said:
Revenue sharing inspires many get something back in return to their participation in the forums. http://www.webcosmoForums.com is a DOFOLLOW and revenue sharing forum.
April 12th, 2009 at 9:54 am
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8 Revenue Sharing, Dofollow Forums for Webmasters and Affiliates
Posted by Archie Pennies
4 Comment
Told Ya! Are you going to afford missing this one?Catapult your website to the top of search engine listings through Google-tested on-site optimization. Fool Proof SEO! Click Here To Learn More!
What are revenue sharing forums ?
Revenue sharing forums are forums that give active users the option of displaying their ads in threads. Ads are usually show based on probability. For example, if a forum states that if you start a thread you have a 50/50 revenue share probability on AdSense ads. This means that when someone visits a thread you started there is a 50% probability that AdSense ads displayed include you Adsense ID. Any clicks when ads have your publisher ID gets credited to your account. Each forum has its own set of rules when it comes to revenue sharing. Some forums even take in consideration members who post on threads as candidates for the revenue share and not just the person who started the original thread. Rule of thumb: Always read and follow a forums rules and terms.
What benefits can be obtained by participating in these forums?
The most important benefit from participating in these forums is the opportunity to become part in an active community of like minded people that are willing to help. You can learn a lot from other peoples experiences. In forums you can get answers to questions you could not otherwise get answered anywhere, get useful recommendations from other members and have some fun in the process. Other benefits from forums included on the list are that they allow signatures with no follow tag removed from them (great backlinks) and of course money.
Criteria I used in the list:
revenue sharing
allow signatures that pass on link juice (have no follow tag disabled)
are ranked by Google
are mainly directed at webmasters, affiliate marketing or both. Note: Some of them allow even affiliate links other strictly forbid it. Read their rules and TOS.
7 Revenue sharing, dofollow on signature forums
Digital Point PR 7
Webmasters PR 7
Revenue Source PR 5
Web Talk Forums PR 4
DJ Webmaster PR 3
Webmaster Talk PR 3
Webmaster’s Home PR 2
Web Cosmo Forums PR 3
If you know any forums that meet the criteria let me know, this helps make a bigger list. Your comments and suggestions are welcome and needed. Have made any money online using these forums?
Posts you might also like:
8 Basic tips to rank better for your keywords
Made for ads sites and how they profit from your web sites
8 Ways You Can Use Articles to Make Money And Gain Exposure
Making Money Online - The Most Efficient Ways to Waste Your Time Online
Do Follow Comments, Page Rank and SEO
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Raman said:
but i doubt,does they reall share revenue???,never heard of anyone getting more from this.
June 14th, 2008 at 11:00 am
Archie said:
Of course they do most of these forums are very popular with webmasters. What you earn depends on participation you will not earn heaping amounts of money but you sure can earn a few bucks.
July 3rd, 2008 at 8:47 am
Andy said:
Hello, My Forum is a Do Follow and I’ve supported this movement since its inception!
Please add me:
http://www.makemoneykingdom.com
Keep up the great work!
December 30th, 2008 at 9:51 am
Webmaster Forum said:
Revenue sharing inspires many get something back in return to their participation in the forums. http://www.webcosmoForums.com is a DOFOLLOW and revenue sharing forum.
April 12th, 2009 at 9:54 am
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Tuesday, April 14, 2009
make more from google adsense
Many people get frustrated with low click bids on their AdSense ads. While it may seem like there is no money in AdSense, there are ways to get more per click with AdSense. Many things effect your payment per click, some things are how competitive your keywords are, how many ads you have, and relevancy. When you put all these things together, you can get more per click with AdSense in no time!
The more competitive a keyword is, the more you will get per click. For example, if your keyword is "sparks plugs for a 1978 Chevy truck", then you would have very little competition and only get a few cents per click. On the other hand, if you keyword was "make money online", there would be tons of competition and you get a lot per click. I have heard of people making two dollars per click! The problem with highly competitive keywords is that it is hard to get a lot of traffic. There will be many AdSense enthusiast going for the same keywords. To really get more per click with AdSense, you have to be good at driving traffic.
The number of ads you have on a web page can effect your payment per click as well. The more ads you have, the less quality of clicks you get. So if you have 20 ads on your web page and get about 10 cents per click, then if you had 2 ads, you would get more per click. You may get less clicks with less ads but you have to find the balance between quality and quantity. When you find that balance, you will get more per click with AdSense.
Relevance will have a big impact on getting more per click with AdSense. The more relevant your ads are, the higher quality of clicks you will get. If you are making a web page about dog training, then stay on the topic of dog training. If you trail off, you might get irrelevant ads. These ads will not be relevant to your web page and will have a low quality score. Making sure your ads stay relevant is an important step to get more per click with AdSense.
To get more per click with AdSense requires work and patients. It takes a little experimentation. Make sure you do not get stuck in a rut doing the same thing over and over. Try new things and you will get more per click with AdSense in no time!
It does take time to get more per click with AdSense but you can take a lot of that time off with the right guidance. Visit "Make More With AdSense" for great tips and tricks to get more per click with AdSense today! Thank you for reading and good luck!
The more competitive a keyword is, the more you will get per click. For example, if your keyword is "sparks plugs for a 1978 Chevy truck", then you would have very little competition and only get a few cents per click. On the other hand, if you keyword was "make money online", there would be tons of competition and you get a lot per click. I have heard of people making two dollars per click! The problem with highly competitive keywords is that it is hard to get a lot of traffic. There will be many AdSense enthusiast going for the same keywords. To really get more per click with AdSense, you have to be good at driving traffic.
The number of ads you have on a web page can effect your payment per click as well. The more ads you have, the less quality of clicks you get. So if you have 20 ads on your web page and get about 10 cents per click, then if you had 2 ads, you would get more per click. You may get less clicks with less ads but you have to find the balance between quality and quantity. When you find that balance, you will get more per click with AdSense.
Relevance will have a big impact on getting more per click with AdSense. The more relevant your ads are, the higher quality of clicks you will get. If you are making a web page about dog training, then stay on the topic of dog training. If you trail off, you might get irrelevant ads. These ads will not be relevant to your web page and will have a low quality score. Making sure your ads stay relevant is an important step to get more per click with AdSense.
To get more per click with AdSense requires work and patients. It takes a little experimentation. Make sure you do not get stuck in a rut doing the same thing over and over. Try new things and you will get more per click with AdSense in no time!
It does take time to get more per click with AdSense but you can take a lot of that time off with the right guidance. Visit "Make More With AdSense" for great tips and tricks to get more per click with AdSense today! Thank you for reading and good luck!
Monday, April 13, 2009
adsense for content
last update 4/12/2009
Reasons Why Adsense Is Essential For Content Sites
To know why Adsense is essential for your content sites is to know first how this works. The concept is really simple, if you think about it. The publisher or the webmaster inserts a java script into a certain website. Each time the page is accessed, the java script will pull advertisements from the Adsense program. The ads that are targeted should therefore be related to the content that is contained on the web page serving the ad.
If a visitor clicks on an advertisement, the webmaster serving the ad earns a portion of the money that the advertiser is paying the search engine for the click. The search engine is the one handling all the tracking and payments, providing an easy way for webmasters to display content-sensitive and targeted ads without having the hassle to solicit advertisers, collect funds, monitor the clicks and statistics which could be a time-consuming task in itself.
It seems that there is never a shortage of advertisers in the program from which the search engine pulls the Adsense ads. Also webmasters are less concerned by the lack of information search engines are providing and are more focused in making cash from these search engines.The first reason why Adsense is essential for content sites is because it already has come a long way in understanding the needs of publishers and webmasters.
Together with its continuous progression is the appearance of more advanced system that allows full ad customization. Webmasters are given the chance to choose from many different types of text ad formats to better complement their website and fit their webpage layout.The different formatting enables the site owners the possibility of more click through from visitors who may or may not be aware of what they are clicking on.
It can also appeal to the people visiting thus make them take that next step of looking up what it is all about. This way the people behind the Adsense will get their content read and making profit in the process.The second reason is the ability of the Adsense publishers to track not only how their sites are progressing but also the earnings based on the webmaster-defined channels. The recent improvements in the search engines gives webmasters the capability to monitor how their ads are performing using customizable reports that has the capacity to detail page impressions, clicks and click-through rates. Webmasters and publishers can now track specific ad formats, colors and pages within a website. Trends are also easily spotted. With the real-time reporting at hand, the effectiveness of the changes made will be assessed quickly.
There would be time to sort out the contents that people are making the most clicks on. The ever-changing demands would be met while generating cash for the webmasters and publishers. The more flexible tools are also allowing webmasters to group web pages by URL, domain, ad type or category, which will provide them some accurate insight on which pages, ads and domains are performing best.The last and final reason is that the advertisers have realized the benefits associated having their ads served on targeted websites.
Thus increasing the possibility that a prospective web surfer will have an interest in their product and services. All because of the content and its constant maintenance. As opposed to those who are no using Adsense in their sites, they are given the option of having other people do their content for them, giving them the benefit of having successful and money-generating web sites.Adsense is all about targeted content, the more targeted your content is, the more target the search engines' ads will be. There are some web masters and publishers who are focused more on their site contents and how best to maintain them rather than the cash that the ads will generate for them. This is the part where the effectiveness is working its best. There was a time when people were not yet aware of the money to be achieved from advertisements. The cash generated only came into existence when the webmasters and publishers realized how they can make Adsense be that generator. In those days, the content were the most important factors that is taken quite seriously. It still is. With the allure of money, of course!
Reasons Why Adsense Is Essential For Content Sites
To know why Adsense is essential for your content sites is to know first how this works. The concept is really simple, if you think about it. The publisher or the webmaster inserts a java script into a certain website. Each time the page is accessed, the java script will pull advertisements from the Adsense program. The ads that are targeted should therefore be related to the content that is contained on the web page serving the ad.
If a visitor clicks on an advertisement, the webmaster serving the ad earns a portion of the money that the advertiser is paying the search engine for the click. The search engine is the one handling all the tracking and payments, providing an easy way for webmasters to display content-sensitive and targeted ads without having the hassle to solicit advertisers, collect funds, monitor the clicks and statistics which could be a time-consuming task in itself.
It seems that there is never a shortage of advertisers in the program from which the search engine pulls the Adsense ads. Also webmasters are less concerned by the lack of information search engines are providing and are more focused in making cash from these search engines.The first reason why Adsense is essential for content sites is because it already has come a long way in understanding the needs of publishers and webmasters.
Together with its continuous progression is the appearance of more advanced system that allows full ad customization. Webmasters are given the chance to choose from many different types of text ad formats to better complement their website and fit their webpage layout.The different formatting enables the site owners the possibility of more click through from visitors who may or may not be aware of what they are clicking on.
It can also appeal to the people visiting thus make them take that next step of looking up what it is all about. This way the people behind the Adsense will get their content read and making profit in the process.The second reason is the ability of the Adsense publishers to track not only how their sites are progressing but also the earnings based on the webmaster-defined channels. The recent improvements in the search engines gives webmasters the capability to monitor how their ads are performing using customizable reports that has the capacity to detail page impressions, clicks and click-through rates. Webmasters and publishers can now track specific ad formats, colors and pages within a website. Trends are also easily spotted. With the real-time reporting at hand, the effectiveness of the changes made will be assessed quickly.
There would be time to sort out the contents that people are making the most clicks on. The ever-changing demands would be met while generating cash for the webmasters and publishers. The more flexible tools are also allowing webmasters to group web pages by URL, domain, ad type or category, which will provide them some accurate insight on which pages, ads and domains are performing best.The last and final reason is that the advertisers have realized the benefits associated having their ads served on targeted websites.
Thus increasing the possibility that a prospective web surfer will have an interest in their product and services. All because of the content and its constant maintenance. As opposed to those who are no using Adsense in their sites, they are given the option of having other people do their content for them, giving them the benefit of having successful and money-generating web sites.Adsense is all about targeted content, the more targeted your content is, the more target the search engines' ads will be. There are some web masters and publishers who are focused more on their site contents and how best to maintain them rather than the cash that the ads will generate for them. This is the part where the effectiveness is working its best. There was a time when people were not yet aware of the money to be achieved from advertisements. The cash generated only came into existence when the webmasters and publishers realized how they can make Adsense be that generator. In those days, the content were the most important factors that is taken quite seriously. It still is. With the allure of money, of course!
Friday, April 10, 2009
myspace pay per click program
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How it WorksPricingTargeting
Affordable Pay Per Click Advertising
Anyone with a budget over $5/day can advertise on MySpace MyAds.
Pricing
You only pay when someone clicks your ad. Once the daily budget is reached the ad will be paused for the rest of that day. You will not be charged the daily budget just the clicks for that day. You choose the daily budget amount and pay per click bid amount. These can be changed at anytime.
Pricing starts at 25 cents per click
No other fees, just pay per click
No long-term contracts
New to Pay Per Click?
Here's the concept: Ads are competing and bidding for the same ad space. A bid is the price per click each advertiser is willing to pay. The ads with a competitive pay per click bid and a high click rate will get shown more. Ads with a low bid and low click rate will be shown less or not at all. See the tips below to help with bid and click rate.
Tips on Running Successful Pay Per Click Ads
The ad's pay per click bid amount and click rate are two major factors in getting an ad shown more often to be clicked. If the ad is not using up the full budget each day then try these tips:
Tip 1 — Increase the bid amount by 10-25 cents. Monitor and repeat if needed.
Tip 2 — Set up several visually different ads with exactly the same bid and settings. From there, use the ad with the highest click rate shown in the free reports.
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MySpace is the #1 banner ad publisher
“Since we launched our MyAds campaign, traffic to our website has increased 200% at a minimal cost.”
Justin Esch and Dave Lefko,
Bacon Salt Founders
Contact Our Sales Team: Need assistance customizing the ideal MySpace advertising package?
MySpaceContact UsFAQTerms of UseEditorial GuidelinesPrivacy PolicySend Feedback
© 2003-2009 MySpace.com. All Rights Reserved.
Get Started Now
How it WorksPricingTargeting
Affordable Pay Per Click Advertising
Anyone with a budget over $5/day can advertise on MySpace MyAds.
Pricing
You only pay when someone clicks your ad. Once the daily budget is reached the ad will be paused for the rest of that day. You will not be charged the daily budget just the clicks for that day. You choose the daily budget amount and pay per click bid amount. These can be changed at anytime.
Pricing starts at 25 cents per click
No other fees, just pay per click
No long-term contracts
New to Pay Per Click?
Here's the concept: Ads are competing and bidding for the same ad space. A bid is the price per click each advertiser is willing to pay. The ads with a competitive pay per click bid and a high click rate will get shown more. Ads with a low bid and low click rate will be shown less or not at all. See the tips below to help with bid and click rate.
Tips on Running Successful Pay Per Click Ads
The ad's pay per click bid amount and click rate are two major factors in getting an ad shown more often to be clicked. If the ad is not using up the full budget each day then try these tips:
Tip 1 — Increase the bid amount by 10-25 cents. Monitor and repeat if needed.
Tip 2 — Set up several visually different ads with exactly the same bid and settings. From there, use the ad with the highest click rate shown in the free reports.
Get Started Now
MySpace is the #1 banner ad publisher
“Since we launched our MyAds campaign, traffic to our website has increased 200% at a minimal cost.”
Justin Esch and Dave Lefko,
Bacon Salt Founders
Contact Our Sales Team: Need assistance customizing the ideal MySpace advertising package?
MySpaceContact UsFAQTerms of UseEditorial GuidelinesPrivacy PolicySend Feedback
© 2003-2009 MySpace.com. All Rights Reserved.
Monday, April 6, 2009
google adsense pay per click "PPC"
one of the best ways to make money online is with google adsense,a pay per click program.
when you have a website or blog you can add google adsense ads to it and when someone clicks the ad/link you earn anywhere from $.01 to over $1.00.
the range depends on your sites content and the quality of traffic.
when you have a website or blog you can add google adsense ads to it and when someone clicks the ad/link you earn anywhere from $.01 to over $1.00.
the range depends on your sites content and the quality of traffic.
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