I’m Surprised - AdsenseAccelerator Is Still Open…

March 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment

That is, the doors are still open for new members…

Every time so far that the doors have opened for new members, it’s sold out quickly - in 4 to 6 days. It’s about that time now…

If you’ve been considering AdsenseAccelerator — and if you’re writing web pages and putting Google’s Adsense on them, you should be considering it — you better jump quickly.

AdsenseAccelerator helps you pick the right words for focusing your site - for better click values and traffic. Of course, it’s also a great help for rewriting and tuning existing sites for better click values.

Check out AdsenseAccelerator quickly, sign up for the service now, or you’ll end up getting in line for the next time the doors open.

Posted by Terry Stockdale | Filed Under Adsense, Advertising, Adwords, Internet Marketing, SEO, Search Engine Optimization, Traffic & Linking, Visitor Experience, Web design tools 

AdsenseAccelerator Open for New Members - March 13th!

March 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment

I’m Not Sure Why I Did It…Waited, that is…

I had been one of the beta testers on AdsenseAccelerator, a great new tool for focusing web sites on the valuable Adsense keywords and for spotting cheap keywords — and building the right keyword lists for advertising via Google’s Adwords.

I liked the AdsenseAccelerator beta and liked that the tool is an online service, not a single purchase of a tool that can become obsolete. Even better, it’s not one of those “high-paying keywords” lists that is out of date when you get it.

AdsenseAccelerator includes hugely powerful tools for generating keywords, more keywords, and recycling keywords for even more keyword phrases — and I get to choose whether I’m targeting high value, medium value or low value keywords. That would be high and medium for my sites and low value for ads that I place <grin>

When I create a new web site, I can focus the right words from the start!

AdsenseAccelerator helps me take web pages that I’ve already created, examine them to identify the topics and applicable keywords. Then, by changing a few keywords so that I use the higher-value keywords, I can greatly raise the value of an Adsense click

I quickly reworked a few pages. My Terry’s Home Theater site got the first workover. Without changing the meaning, without changing the message, just by picking the right words, I dramatically changed the Adsense ads that show — and they should have considerably higher value.

AdsenseAccelerator Opens Again to New Members on Tuesday March 13th!
The Last few times it has opened to add new members,
it sold out in less than a week.
Don’t miss your chance to use AdsenseAccelerator!
If you’re too late, sign up for the Waiting List…

The AdsenseAccelerator Doors Open about
11am EDT, Tuesday March 13th
Don’t Miss It!

Posted by Terry Stockdale | Filed Under Adsense, Advertising, Adwords, Internet Marketing, Monetizing Your Site, SEO, Search Engine Optimization, Traffic & Linking, Web design tools, Yahoo Publisher Network 

Suggested Web Design Resources

February 22, 2007 | 4 Comments

I am often asked which resources (books, etc.) that I recommend for people who want to create web sites.

Many web hosts, such as Powweb, provide basic templates for easy creation of a web site. These can be your base for your very first web site, or can function as a quick way to set up your personal blog, a photo gallery or even a forum.

Once you have your first site created by some type of script or template, you will want to play around with it and change it. Whether you create a site using FrontPage, DreamWeaver, a web host’s templates, or code it by hand, you will probably find that you want to do things that can not be done by the standard package. That’s where coding and tweaking the site by hand come in.

HTML for the World Wide Web with XHTML and CSS: Visual QuickStart Guide, Fifth Edition (Paperback)
– excellent structure, very readable and very understandable. Bite-size chunks of information and examples.

Open Source Web Development with LAMP Using Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl and PHP (the LAMP book will be hard to find).
My reviews of these two books.

If you’re using FrontPage, get FrontPage 2003 The Missing Manual.

Actually, all of the books at this link. I have but haven’t used the JavaScript one. The others are good. Start from the top, with Don’t Make Me Think.

Get one or the other versions (paperback / hardack) of the HTML for the World Wide Web, even if you have another HTML book. www.terryscomputertips.com/computers/web-design-books.php The CSS and PHP anthologies are not learning tools, but more reference / script libraries. The “Build your own database-driven website” book is a good example for getting going with PHP.

The Adsense Secrets” ebook by Joel Comm. Joel is “Dr. Adsense” — one of the first people to make over $10,000 per month from Google’s Adsense pay-per-click ads on his web sites. I found this book a BIG help in understanding how to create and display Adsense “pay per click” ads on my sites.
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Visibone.com’s “The Browser Book” is a 16-page quick-reference booklet that I use almost every day. It covers HTML, CSS, colors, fonts, special characters, JavaScript, DOM and Regular Expresions.
www.visibone.com

The Super Affiliates Handbook about selling other people’s products. Rosalind Gardner, formerly an air traffic controller, made over $478,000 in one year as an affiliate selling other people’s products on the web.

Notepad++ color-coded syntax programmers editor (free). Mostly, I use the EditPad Pro ($40, www.jgsoft.com). I reviewed Notepad++ in my November 28th issue of Terry’s Computer Tips.

Adsense Gold (Adsense Tracker script + 2 web-based PPC price lists + ebook). I waited and waited, convincing myself I didn’t need it. I finally bought it recently. It brings a whole new level of understanding web site stats and information on which pages get visited and which adsense ad formats — and ads — get clicked, without having to mess with Google’s limited “channels.”
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SEO Elite Finally, one software package that I’m still considering — probably like my unwise delay in buying Adsense Gold. This package is all about fine-tuning your web site(s) to get high rankings in Google, MSN, Yahoo and similar search engines — and establishing incoming links from other web sites — because higher rankings mean more traffic! And more traffic means more earnings, whether you are selling stuff or have content with advertising. SEO Elite helps you get targeted traffic — traffic interested in your site’s subject.

Why get links? The more inbound links you have — links from other sites to yours — the higher you should rank in the search engines. Search engines also look at blogs for their rankings because blogs have become a major factor in Internet communications in the last year

You can sign up for Free Web Advertising via the ability to post entries to a blog designed specifically for advertising by members. Free members can post a 700 character ad once per week. Paid members can post much more often, with larger ads and HTML (fonts and images) that free members can not.

Pay attention, though — there is a special one-time offer for a paid upgrade that is not repeated. Although you can purchase a lesser upgrade later, you can not post nearly as often and you don’t get all the bonuses available if you go for the “Elite” upgrade. I wish I had…

One of the new services that I have found is LinkMetro. With LinkMetro, which is available in both a free membership and Advanced Membership modes, is a great way to identify potential web sites that you might want to link to you.

Why get links? The more inbound links you have — links from other sites to yours — the higher you should rank in the search engines.

LinkMetro’s free service helps you identify potential link partners. The Advanced Membership makes the tedious task of modifying and maintaining your web site’s link files into a virtually automatic activity. Just initiate a link request, or accept a link request from someone else, and pick where you want the link in your links directory — LinkMetro’s software will handle the rest.

LinkMetro will also allow you to easily view the pages on which your link partners have your links and make sure the links are still there.

Sign up for a free or Advanced Membership at LinkMetro. I recommend the free membership, not the advanced.

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Posted by Terry Stockdale | Filed Under Adsense, Affiliate Marketing, CSS, FrontPage, HTML, Internet Marketing, PHP Scripting, SEO, Scripts, Search Engine Optimization, Text Editors, Traffic & Linking, Usability, Visitor Experience, WYSIWYG Editors, Web design tools 

Joel’s lost his mind

January 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Maybe it’s all he money he’s making from Adsense…

http://www.drawingontheweb.com/r/ads1995special

Adsense guru Joel Comm wrote an ebook a few years ago called Adsense Secrets - What Google Never Told You About Making Money With Adsense. I bought it — at the price of $79.

Then, he came out with the 2nd edition — and I bought it at about a 50% upgrade price.

Then, he came out with the 3rd edition. He raised the list price to $97, too. But I got it from him for a pretty good upgrade price.

I still think each of these purchases was worthwhile. Each edition was updated and had a lot of new tips and techniques.

But, now, Joe’s lost his mind!

Now, he’s dropped the price to $19.95. I don’t know how long the price will be so low, but now’s your chance to get his book at a great price.

http://www.drawingontheweb.com/r/ads1995special

Posted by Terry Stockdale | Filed Under Adsense, Advertising, Blogs, Monetizing Your Site, Yahoo Publisher Network 

Articles for Web Sites and Newsletters

December 25, 2006 | Leave a Comment

If you’ve been thinking about using articles on web sites, you can do it the hard way, as I have been doing — writing them all for TerrysComputerTips.com, for my newsletters and for TerryStockdale.com.

Or, you can get a head start with articles from one of the many article directories. These have author “biography/advertising” boxes that you must publish along with the article. The authors’ consent to you to use their article is based on your agreement to show their links as working links. You get content and they get links to their sites, which may send visitors directly there and which will help with search engine rankings. But, you can’t change the articles, so your content duplicates that of many other sites.

You can pay ghostwriters to generate content, if you like, but that can get expensive quickly. Plus, you have to find a good ghostwriter…

Another way to generate content for web sites, newsletters and ezines is to use “Private Label Articles.”

PLA’s are articles that someone has written, or has paid to have written, and then are providing for you to use. Usually, you purchase PLA’s for your use on your web sites or in your newsletters and ezines.

Sometimes, however, you can get private label articles at significant discounts, or even free — you’re really signing up to receive their newsletters and advertising emails, usually about some aspect of marketing via the web. (There are some huge differences between these advertising emails and “spam.” First, you agree to receive them. Second, the emails have an “unsubscribe link” that really works like it should. These marketers are running legitimate internet businesses and they can not afford to “spam.”)

Normally, you can not sell or give away the private label articles that you buy, but you are free to use them on your web site(s) and in your newsletter(s) or ezine(s).

Even better, PLA’s normally do not have an author bio block (so you don’t have unwanted links to take visitors from your pages) and you are usually permitted to change the articles so that you have unique content.

If you have a web site or a newsletter, or are considering setting up a web site, you can get some private label articles for content from Garrie Wilson.

Garrie is is giving away some free private articles - 250 to be exact!

I can’t guarantee how long he will be giving these away so I suggest you get them while you can.

http://terryscomputertips.com/gw250

If you’re really getting started, another option is to buy complete article sites. George Pluss is running one of his 10-cent specials on packages of multiple, complete Adsense-ready web sites — every time someone buys his current AdsensePak3, the price goes up 10 cents! I picked up this package.

George is offering his earlier AdsensePak and AdsensePak2 site collections, too.

Posted by Terry Stockdale | Filed Under Adsense, Blogs, PLR 

Getting Better Web Site Statistics

December 8, 2006 | Leave a Comment

One of the most important things to do, after you get your site initially up and going, is to watch your web statistics.

You want to know which web pages are getting visitors, which sites are referring others to you, which search engines are referring people to your site, what search terms they used to find you, and a lot more.

There are some good statistics packages that most web hosts offer, including Awstats and Webalizer. Powweb, the hosting company that I use, installs Awstats for free.

Those are pretty good for high-level statistics for everyday sites. But, they don’t let you dig deeply enough into the statistics, at least the way the web hosting companies usually set them up.
But, if you’re using Adsense or Yahoo Publisher Network pay-per-click ads on your site, you will want a lot more.

How about an easy view of multiple domains’ activity, multiple web pages activity, all the search keywords that people used to get to your site, how many Google or YPN ads they saw, and how many they clicked on!

Yeah, Google’s and Yahoo’s tracking systems will tell you that — if you want to spend that much time setting up all the specific tracking (and if you don’t have too many different URLs or “channels” you want to track.

Adsense Gold is the tool that I use multiple times a day to monitor my site. It’s a lot easier than going to Google and YPN, plus a lot more information. It has real-time updating, since it’s storing data in a MySQL database on your site and served from your site.

It’s the best tool I’ve found to tell me which of my pages are getting the visits — and how visitors are responding to the Google and YPN ads on the page. That way, I know where I need to focus my redesign, rewriting, etc. efforts.

Posted by Terry Stockdale | Filed Under Adsense, Advertising, Monetizing Your Site, PHP Scripting, Web Hosting, Yahoo Publisher Network 

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