Adsense is hot, no doubt about it. So hot in fact that many people are jumping on the bandwagon with the hopes of getting rich without any clue to what they are getting into. Take a quick second and do a search on EBAY for Adsense sites and you’ll see what I mean. The titles of most of these auctions are unquestionably ridiculous…. “Make ten thousand dollars a month if you buy a site from me!!!” The list of these cookie harvester Adsense sites goes on and on and on. But can you really make any cash by plopping down $50 bucks on one of these ready made sites?
Sadly, the answer in most cases is no.
First of all, if the person that sold you the site was really making hundreds or thousands of dollars a month from ‘similar Adsense sites’ do you really reckon he or she would be selling them on EBAY for $30??? Probably not. Most likely the seller in these cases is just a web designer shooting out as many low-cost websites as they can, trying to cash in on the craze. They build the site, you buy it, and the relationship ends there. You now own a website that has zero traffic. Which translates to zero cash. And to make it worse, the person you just bought the site from will most likely relist an exact duplicate the day after your transaction is completed. Causing your site to become even more worthless in the eyes of the search engines.
So what is a person to do that really wants to start an Adsense site business?
Well, there are really two paths that you can choose at this point. If you have the knowledge to build and promote your own website or websites then obviously this is the route you should take. But the majority of the people jumping in on the Adsense craze today are people that have zero knowledge in these areas, so where should they start?
Start with a basic knowledge of what it takes for a site to be successful with surfers and the search engines. By now you’ve certainly heard the phrase ‘Content is KING’. And it’s right. So when considering building or purchasing your first website you should take a look at the content and make a plot to keep the site fresh content wise, for both surfers and search engines. This means that you’re going to probably have to update your site from time to time. But how do you do this if you have no programming skills or html knowledge?
By far, the best method I’ve found to date is by using the new AutoBlogger Pro (http://www.autobloggerpro.com/ ) script with Wordpress (http://www.wordpress.org) What this script does is unquestionably fantastic for those that don’t want to spend all of their time count to their new website. The concept is pretty simple. It’s a Wordpress blog involuntarily fed and updated by RSS feeds and unique content posted by the owner of the site. Literally, all of your updates to the site are done by the click of one button. No html knowledge? That’s ok, Autoblogger Pro has got you covered. Once the site is configured, you simply login once a day or once a week and click one button. It in turn pulls in all kinds of new, fresh content, and then blends it smoothly into your site. Here’s an example of an ABP site that I setup for one of my customers: http://www.blogs.pn (You can also get information on where to buy a site like this there)
The best feature is that you choose the content that feeds your site. It completely optimizes your content for the search engines, allowing you to also focus on the highest paying keywords in Adsense. And it’s going to be completely unique, not at all like the cookie harvester sites mentioned in the first part of this article.
No longer do you have to spend hours each week updating and count to your content. You are now free to spend all of your time where it should be spent. Promoting. Driving traffic to your website. Which is my favorite subject to discuss. But there’s just too much to cover on website promotion to place into an article or two. That’s why I have setup a forum dedicated to ethical website promotion. If you want to learn more on this topic, please feel free to stay us and jump right in: http://www.affiliatewebdesign.com
In closing, choose your path for your online business carefully. Make a plot and then place it into action.
Till next time,
Chuck Crawford
www.affiliatewebdesign.com
Posts Tagged ‘Maintenance’
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Saturday, January 30th, 2010Blog Maintenance
Monday, January 25th, 2010Blogging is rampant. Blogs are aplenty on the internet. Some are still around after many years, while some have simply stopped their activities. To keep the blogs alive, bloggers have to place in a lot of effort to effect continual blog maintenance to their blogs. Technology supports this go. Blog-publishing tools are helping to automate blog maintenance.
Certain factors that will have a bearing on the results of blog maintenance include the following:
(1) Feature of Content and Extent of Time Stanchness
What your blog needs is content. It should be fresh and of feature. The reason for this is because you need to entice readers to return to your blog for more refreshing information. Your blog should not be an island with no visitors. It needs traffic to keep it alive and grow. Content for your blog should be updated actively. It can be scheduled to be on a daily, weekly or monthly basis. You have the prerogative to determine this schedule according to time availability. For bloggers with multiple blogs, efforts should be doubled in terms of apportioning the right amount of time to each blog. Different kinds of blogs may require different amount of time stanchness from you. The main factor here is consistency. Each different blog under each different category should be consistently updated in line with the preset time stanchness schedule. If you have a blog that is shape care related, you can post it on a daily basis. With a sports-related blog, posting can be done weekly. Posting can also done somewhere at any time, for instance at internet cafes. Consistency is the keyword.
(2) Management of your Time Stanchness
Posts can be written at any time of the day and at any place. When you have an inspiration or when an appealing topic strikes up in your mind, jot it down first. You should do the same even if many inspirations come to mind at the same time. There will be no scarcity of thoughts to write your posts when you need them urgently. It would be excellent to fix a certain time of the day to compile your posts onto your blog. This would instill some discipline into your blogging activity. Staying focussed on your posts will certainly produce well-written posts that will be pleasing to read. Such diligence will certainly contribute positively to blog maintenance. Strict adherence to your posting time schedule is excellent for the blog, but do remember to inject some fun into the blogging. Blogging will appear to be robotic and writing posts will be a drag if it is turned into a dull and cumbersome activity.
(3) Simple and Quick posting
Different types of posts can be written in many styles that suit your writing mood. Posts may vary in part. They may be simple or slightly more hard. Posts can be written in a simple and quick manner. Be straight to the point in condemn construction. You can include a small personalization and emotion. Things that you can write about include a topic about your favorite memory, your ultimate wish, what have you heard on the news today, or even what thing you have done lately that makes you feel proud to share. You can show your passionate feelings on such topics, and this makes writing so simple, because these are things you are familiar with. Reading will be so much more fun and pleasurable.
(4) Archival of your posts
The archives that are part of your blog will support the function of archival for your posts. This is extremely effectual as your readers will be able to retrieve them easily. You can choose on how the archival system should be constructed. Archives can be done on daily, weekly, or monthly basis. For instance, monthly archiving will show the link indicating a single month Jan 2008, Feb 2008 and so on. Archives can also be categorized according to different topics. It enables readers to click on the link of the relevant topic they are searching for. Archiving generally helps readers to search for older posts more easily. It will help you administratively especially when you intend to retrieve the dates of certain past programs. Archiving your posts efficiently serves an vital role in blog maintenance.
(5) Install backup for your blog
There must be a backup system for your blog. This is imperative as it will save you the distress of retyping your ancient posts. It can be done on a daily, weekly or monthly basis. Technology makes blogging so enjoyable, but it is better to be safe than sorry. There is a host of vulnerabilities that servers are subject to. No one can tell when technology will fail us, therefore, it is indeed wise to perform backup for your blog. You must discipline yourselves to perform the backup, be it on any time basis. Do not gamble on it!
(6) Occurrence of closures of blog providers
No one can predict what will happen to the blog providers now and in the distant future. A closure to the business owing to poor returns is evenly the ultimate way out for the blog host. Observations reveal that some blog hosts are giving premium fee-based air force in their attempt to keep their survival hopes alive. There are also others who agree to share their online advertising revenues with their bloggers. It will indeed be wise to back up both your blog posts and computer. This is to protect yourself from unnecessary work if even your computer decides to take a break! Permanently be proactive and ready for such an unfortunate twist of circumstances.
The list given is by no means exhaustive. Having your blog out there is an achievement in itself. The added responsibilities of ensuring that the blog is functioning well lie upon your shoulders. Your blog needs your help. You have to be diligently involved in blog maintenance.