Optimism Abounds For Some Despite Adsense Earnings Drop

Some webmasters on WebmasterWorld are keeping an optimistic view on Adsense despite disappointment in their earning this year. The issues with Adsense lately are no secret, ranking from reporting issues to a Google glitch holding Adsense checks for some publishers. Let conspiracy theories on why abound, but that's not going to halt some from keeping a positive look on what an earnings drop in Adsense can actually spur you to do. For some when issues arise with Adsense and they fear their income being threatened they kick into high gear to explore areas to diversify their revenue streams into others areas that will hold up when Adsense clearly isn't. As ember a member on WebmasterWorld states when his Adsense earnings drop it "forces him to contact advertisers directly and establish relationships with them. It let's me sleep at night knowing that if I lose my AdSense account, it is not the end of the world".
He goes on to say:
I think this could a blessing in disguise. I was getting lazy, anyway. Time to talk to advertisers.
He makes a great point. Stop being lazy. The WMW thread includes many many success stories on people contacting advertisers directly being able to raise their income well over what Adsense is returning for them. One member complains about the complexity of Adsense turning away people and opting instead for direct relationships that are easier to maintain and consistent

Hack Against ISP Hijacks Bank, Google Adsense

Hackers hijacked a major Brazilian ISP this month in a sophisticated attack that silently served up malicious software and phishing scams to more than a million customers.
According to Brazilian news outlet Globo.com, unknown attackers hijacked the domain name system (DNS) records for NET Virtua, a broadband provider that serves at least 1.4 million customers in the region.
NET Virtua's DNS records reportedly were hijacked on April 11, so that customers who visited any site that ran Google Adsense content were redirected to a site that tried to install and run a Java applet that in turn installed a Trojan horse program.
Globo.com said the attackers also took aim at Bradesco, one of Brazil's largest financial institutions. NET Virtua customers who tried to visit Bradesco.com.br during the four hours the DNS records were hijacked were redirected to a counterfeit version of the site designed to steal customer credentials, the story notes.
Giovana Battiferro, a spokesperson for NET, said in a statement e-mailed to Security Fix that the company "did all the necessary technical tests and didn't find any occurrence" of a DNS hijacking. The Globo.com story, meanwhile, cites a NET ombudsman as acknowledging that at least 1 percent of its customer base was affected.
Ronaldo Castro de Vasconcellos, who helps maintain Securityguys.com.br, a mailing list of Brazilian penetration testers and other security professionals, told Security Fix that lookups he conducted while the attack was underway show that visitors to Bradesco's bank were redirected to a Web site in South Korea.
DNS is akin to the White Pages for the Internet, mapping domain names, like example.com, to numeric Internet addresses. Just as people typically move to a new home every so often, Web sites sometimes change their numeric address. DNS is what helps your Web browser find a site like example.com no matter how many times example.com changes its numeric address.
DNS based attacks can be devastating because they undermine everything we take for granted about Web browsing. Late last year, attackers hijacked the DNS records of Checkfree.com, the largest online bill-paying service, redirecting would-be visitors to a site in Ukraine that served up malicious software.
Also, changes to DNS records take time to propagate out across the Internet, so poisoned DNS records can remain cached at various locations around the Web for up to 48 hours after the affected entity has been fixed.
An excellent, free service that can help protect against these attacks -- no matter which network you happen to be on -- is OpenDNS. It will not prevent all types of DNS hijacking attacks, such as the Checkfree.com attack (where the company's DNS records were altered at the domain registrar level). But in my opinion, it's far safer than accepting whatever DNS records the network you happen to be on decides to hand to you

Google finally lets Blogger users earn money with AdSense ads

If you maintain your own blog hosted on Google’s free blogging service dubbed Blogger, you will be delighted that the search giant has finally paired its AdSense advertising engine with the blogging service. Although Google started rolling out AdSense on Blogger last week, it took some time for the new advertising feature to propagate through the Blogger engine. It appears that new monetizing options are now available in all user accounts on Blogger.

Enabled through the new Monetize tab found in your blog or the main Dashboard, the feature lets you apply for a new AdSense account or simply pair your Blogger blog to an existing AdSense account. You can also choose to place ads on several predetermined positions in your blog determined by a chosen template. Thanks to the AdSense API, the Monetize feature also shows you ad revenue in real time, right inside the Blogger web interface.
Google warned users that “new applications may take a few days to process.” The search monster also said that not every site will be approved, advising bloggers to check if they are eligible for an AdSense account. While the long overdue addition of Google’s money-making ad engine arrives in times of freezing economy, don’t expect that your blog will pull you out of financial troubles. Typically, you need 100,000 page views monthly to earn anywhere between $100 and $500 on ad revenue - at best. As you can imagine, the search monster milks a significant portion of advertising money that flows through the service.

Microsoft’s AdSense-Like PubCenter Goes into Public Beta

Microsoft is finally making its PubCenter ad publishing tool available to the public after some months of being under close private beta mode. Public beta meaning U.S. public only.
Just like other contextual advertising program, Microsoft PubCenter will be offering websites an opportunity to display ads coming from Microsoft’s online advertising networks.
Specifically, Microsoft PubCenter will allows publishers to :
Display targeted ads on their web sites
Customize adds based on the design of their websites
Deliver high-quality ads from Microsoft advertising networks
Track ad performance using Analytics tools
Of course, there’s no promise that you’ll earn millions from displaying PubCenter’s ads but it could be a good alternative to Google AdSense and other advertising program that may not be earning that much for your sites.
To sign up for Microsoft PubCenter beta, check out the details here. You may also want to read the PubCenter Blog for some enlightening articles on contextual advertising related to Microsoft PubCenter.

Microsoft opens up its answer to Google AdSense

Microsoft on Wednesday opened its PubCenter advertising service up for public beta testing, providing more of an alternative to Google's AdSense and Yahoo Publisher Network technology that places ads on publishers' sites.
All the services scrutinize the content on a Web site and place advertisements the service deems to be relevant to that content. As with ads on search sites, the advertiser pays only when a reader clicks on one of the ads, and revenue is shared with the publisher and the company operating the ad service.
Kevin McCabe, senior product manager of PubCenter, announced the move at the AdSpace conference Wednesday. People can sign up for the beta service at the PubCenter site, though it's only open to people in the United States at present.
Click-through rates on such services typically are far lower than for ads on search engines. But the technology still is significant, particularly during the recession, in part because advertisers can bid for keywords and limit their investments only to areas where they see a return

Tips and tricks for AdSense earnings

Found those excellent tips and trick on how to increase adSense omney,enjoy:
1- Show Highest Paid Ads on your site by using titles,descriptions e.t.cThe best way to show high paying ads is to place those keywords in Title,Descrition and tags.When adsense start searching which ads to put in your pages it first go to title and description. Obviously don’t remove your Ranking keywords from titles but use this sign ‘ ‘ b/w your Ranking keywords and Adsense keywords.
2- Filter all low paid ads which is hurting your site.
Use this great tool to increase earnings massively.Go to adsblacklist.com sign up for an a.c, add your website to the list and you will receive big list of all low paying sites, Just copy all of these sites and add it to your filter these urls section adsense.
3- Get 3% + CTR to avoid smart priced by Google.
If you are getting 1 cent per ad it means you have lower CTR than 3% and your are smart priced by adsense and google is cutting 80% of every click you are earning. Learn more on nastyeye.com about how to increase CTR and traffic.
4- Ad Locations ( which match your site best )No matter how good your Ad is but it cannot deliver you any thing if they are not eye catchy.That’s why location is every thing.
‘ What works is wise placement, Put your ads where your content is most likely to interest and will engage your visitors.
Google’s Heat Map shows you an ” average ” sites hot spots. The darker areas are the regions where people looks most frequent. But it doesn’t mean your site would be included in this average, where viewers will look most.
5- Ad Colors and Site
Try to use same colors on your site to match ads to increase your CTR. Be selective with Site fonts, fonts sizes, fonts colors, images and tables of your site. Made your content same to your ads. But with article blue works best, I tested it on many of my sites.
6- Must use Adsense Gold Tracking tool ( add more from adsense black hat ebook )
Adsense is a very powerful tracking tool, It could be your best weapon.This robust application can do any thing from click throughs,ads clicked, ads displayed, format types directories accessed, ip address,referring domains and so much more.
7- Avoid 468 x 60 Ad banner sizes : Use rectangular banner 336 x 280
instead of 468 x 60 use rectangular 336 x 280.Using 336 x 280 is 10 times greater than 468 x 60.Because people are ad blind to this one and viewer judge it by far that it’s an ad.
8- Use Images b/w ads to increase CTR
Google said that you can place images besides your ads but:
· There is a clear cut border between the images and ads
· The images shall not be in anyway related to the ads
Always Feel free to do experiment with any image placement, but remember to add a stylish border
Another great technique you can use is to place picture of some ones face as author of book,site or article.
If you want to get banned than use images which google strictly won′t allow, Image like pointing fingers, arrows,animations of charecters and vehicles moving b/w ads or any thing like this which suggest users to pls click on ads.
9- Embed Videos with ads to Increase CTR
Use videos to increase CTR could be better for your site in comparison with images due to dramatic rise in web videos popularity. Don’t use it with smaller ads but with bigger ads with site related videos.
10- Decorate your ads
You must understand that web surfers have become very “ad-blind”. This is the reason why 468 x 60 don’t work.
look at AdSense ads, be aware
that they are in an invisible, four-sided box. So even if you blend them
with the same color as your site, frequent internet users will instinctually see a virtual square ad and avoid it like the plague.
Try to do something different other than regular adsense ads. Like this.
To make this ad first made one grafix then add one table to your html file set it’s background to your image then paste your adsense ad code to it. If you are finding it difficult to do just leave message and I will do few videos for you with different ideas so you can understand.
Just play with grafix, make more nice and eye catchy ads to increase CTR.
11- Best Ad Positions for forums
Below SignaturesPlace adsene ads right directly below your members signature.Remember to use 234×60 or 125×125 -button Now massive increase in CTR.
Below quick reply
Use 234×60 b/w quick reply form and post button,
B/w post button and reply button forums
Highest click buttons on any forums are Post Button and Reply button.So this is a place where you should place your ads.
Between Topics
Use Text Links b/w forums categories or topics.but only use maximum of two link units.
12- Search Engine Cloaking to target Highest Paid keywords
Cloaking is a technique which differentiate pages which spiders and user’s see.It automatically detects the IP addresses or User Agent of the visitor which is requesting the page to differentiate between user and spiders.
13- Avoid Image ads ( built to be ignored )Try to avoid image ads and always pick text ads first, because they work best most of the times. Image ads also can be very good as well but only if advertiser posts good enough image ads which your users click. But many advertisers don’t make good image ads. So avoid it or may be keep it away from your text or article and used it under header,sidebars and footers.
14- Remove Borders from your Ads.
If you are running Fun, Entertainment or Gaming type of sites than please remove borders now, because users on those sites don’t like to click ads so try your ads looks like a part of content. But if you have money making or business site then I will suggest you to use borders, people look for offers on these sites and they won’t mind to click and look at it.
15- Never Try to play black hat with Adsense.
Never play tricks to cheat adsense, they are more smarter than you think .once you get caught you will banned for life from adsense though you still get paid what you have earned. But I bet you will miss adsense and you will never find adsense match.
16- Select Best Hosting ServiceSelect best web hosting and if you don’t know which host to select then go for HostGator
17- Write Good ContentGood content is a key to success. If you cannot write or provide your user the best thing they are looking for, forget about making big bucks with adsense. Good content will automatically give you more traffic,original backlinks and adsense earnings.If you don′t know how to find and write good content about your site or blog keep reading NastyEye and you will find good help about this.
18- Use SandBox
Before you apply to AdSense, put your web pages through a ‘mocktest’
with a FREE web utility called the AdSense Sandbox at
www.digitalpoint.com/tools/adsense-sandbox. It’s a great way to
determine what type of ads your pages pull up. You can also
estimate your earnings potential from the keywords in the ads.
The AdSense Sandbox is free to use, requires no subscription and
displays results with a single click.
19- What to do with URL’s appearing on ads.
You know you can change the color of the text appearing on your ad make sure you use same color here which you do with description and it works for me.
20- Why Placing so many ads on you pagesI have seen so many sites that use there maximum allowance of Adsense ads into their pages, a few affiliate banners etc. etc. Placing too many adverts on any page does NOT mean you’re going to earn more. Only place ads to important locations. Remind no one is visiting your site for ads.
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Avoid adSense "Smart Pricing" 5:49 AM at 5:49 AM
AdSense smart pricing is something that You probably hear about. It is off course "unofficial" like any other stuffs related to google, but since a ot of people noticed this, we will threat adsense pricing as fact.
So what is adsense smart pricing ?
Imagine that You have (and maybe you really have) 5 blogs or sites (ok let say just blogs) and adsense on those blogs. Every of those 5 sites i related to different niche market keywords etc. Every of those 5 blogs, makes you aprox $100 monthly, what means that You have approximately $500 montly from your 5 blogs on different keywords and niche markets. At one moment you release that You earnings dropped from $500 to $300 monthly and You are not understanding what happens: you have same traffic (actulay it may be that your traffic is increased) You have same maybe better number of visitors, you have same number of click, but earnings dropped and there is no chance to raise them. Those are classically symptoms of "been adsense smart priced."
Why this happend ?
Well there are few theories why adsense smart pricing beome active for your account, but from my expirience, it is from one simple reason: google think that You have some junk content which he threat as MFA (made for adsense) content, and because of that google want to protect their advertisers, giving "smart pricing" attribute to whole account. Problem is when one of your sites is smart priced, your whole account is smart priced, so if just one of your 4 blogs have bed/copyrighted content, click from rest 4 will be much "cheaper" for advertisers and of course you will receive less money from every click from any of your 5 blogs.
Solution for adSense smart pricing:
If you think that you are smart priced, first done some analysis: compare adsense earnings, CPC and CPM for period before and after been smart priced, if difference is dramatical (more than 50%) then you are probably been smart priced. Find critical blog (with bad, copyrighted, crappy, spamming content) and remove adSense from that blog.If you find right blog that makes problem to rest of your 4 blogs, than very fast, in next few days You will see that You adSense earning coming back. In that time period check every single post and every single word on blog that made this smart pricing problem to you, and fix that with right content. If You can't find anything suspicious than is better to burn that blog or at least change advertiser company yo chitaka, adBrite or whenever you want, or in other words keep adSense from it. In the other hand If You find problem, and fix it, then feel free to back adSense on blog, and watch carefully what happens with your online adSense incomes in next week. If you get back your old earnings that You are successfully stepped out from adSense pricing problem.

Making money with adSense never been easier

Those days, until I am prepairing some new posts, I am receiving a lot of feedback from my readers, who are looking for some shorten way to make money in adsense,or in other words, everybody understand that for making decent profits in adSense if you are starting from scratch you need some time to start making money, and latter some decent profit , but a lot of my readers would like to make money in adSense doing nothing. That is a bit imposible :) Simply you need to understand that you need 2 stuffs to succed in this home business:
1) patience for learning and some native google processes (indexing, authority,etc...)
2) and hard work!
Ok, I wrote already that You can find some 'shortcuts' to your success in adSense money making business for example buying site(s) that generates huge traffic and adSense revenue from proffessionals, but in that case also, you need to continue with work. Evenwith one of sites that thse guy sells if you don't work everyday for at least 1 hour, your site will slowly 'die'.
So, for now just keep visiting my and other excellent blos about adSense and keep learning and working hard on your sites and blogs.