Top 7 ways to improve your site traffic

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To help your site soar in 2008, there are 7 ways you can improve your site and increase site traffic:

* Keep Content Fresh - New content is a great way to keep visitors coming back. Search engines also rank sites with fresh content higher. Keeping an active blog is a great way to keep your site new and fresh.
* Keep it Simple - Visitors should be able to easily look around your site. If visitors are frustrated and can't find what they are looking for, they are likely to leave quickly and never come back or recommend your site to others.
* Help Visitors Contact You - Make it simple for visitors to reach you if they want. Include a guestbook or blog where they can post questions. Add a "contact me" form where they can submit questions to you via email.
* Use Descriptive File Names - Use descriptive keywords as names for the files (e.g., pictures, videos) on your site. This will help your site appear more with search engines - especially through things like Google Image Search.
* Create Links - Getting links to your site from other websites will help generate more traffic and improve your placement in search engines. Find other Freewebs sites on your same topic and put a link to them on your site -- maybe in a new "Favorite Links" page. Then ask those sites to link back to you by signing their guestbook.
* Tag your Site - Adding site tags can increase the number of times your site shows up in search results. To pick the right keywords, try putting yourself in the shoes of your visitors and think what they would search for if they wanted to find your site.
* Liven Up Site with Widgets - Add widgets to help your visitors interact with your site, get useful information, or just have fun. They are free and easy to add.

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Seven Ways to Monetize Your Blog

By Ryan Lewis

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At some point in your blogging career, you may decide to make the leap from a free reader service to a revenue generating venture. Using the following seven methods, you will be able to start making money online quickly and continually for the life of your blog.

Pay Per Click Ads (PPC)
This is probably the easiest way to increase your initial income from blogging. Showing Pay Per Click (PPC) ads means that you have signed up for any one of a number of different programs available. By adding a small piece of code to your website, small text or image ads will be displayed. Each time a visitor clicks on one of these ads, you make money.

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Whether it be a Buy me a [Fill in your choice of beverage or item] here or just a button on your site that says Donate Here these can be useful little tools as traffic grows. People who read blogs and enjoy the stories or information that are posted get a sense of belonging to the writer. Some blogs make upwards of $200 per month from public donations.

Review for Fee
A recent phenomenon in blogging is in paid reviews of other people’s websites or blogs. Once your readership gets large enough you will be able to command hundreds of dollars to read, analyze and review other websites. Search around the web for review re-sellers or even set up an advertisement link through your own site and use Paypal.

Sell Your Own Banner Ads
One of the oldest forms of advertising on the web can still net you some money each month. You can privately sell advertising on your website to any company looking to attract viewers. Try pricing it out weekly, monthly or quarterly to see what works for your site. The price you can obtain will depend on your site traffic.

Affiliate Programs
Another traditional method of business is still working on the web. An affiliate program is based on a commission for referral payment method. A company will show their product or link on your site and when a person clicks through and buys, you receive a commission. Affiliate programs are offered by hundreds of companies including some very large international retailers. Simply find the product you want to sell and look for a link that says Become an Affiliate.

Text Link Ads
This form of advertising pays you to show links on your site. Depending on your daily traffic volume, you will be paid to show links from other websites. This differs from the PPC advertisement because you are paid a fixed amount for a defined period, rather than per click. This advertising is very similar than banner advertising; however, it is less intrusive.

Write and Sell Your Own eBook
Writing an ebook on your chosen topic is a great way to make money from your site. First, you will receive the money from the sale of the book. Second, you will have links within the book that redirect people back to your site, and third, if the quality is good you will gain popularity and respect in the market. Try using your historical posts as a basis for your eBook or research the best practices on the market and create something new.

Final Thoughts
The money you make from a blog will come from increasing your readership and increasing the number of first-time visitors to your site. First time visitors will generally be the ones that will read your information, subscribe to your RSS feed and potentially click through your PPC ads. Regular visitors are the ones who will help you sell banner ads, affiliate products, text link ads and purchase your ebooks.

One other thing to remember when monetizing your blog is to keep a focus on the content - not the ads. If your blog has more advertising than content, your readers will receive very little value from the site and will not return.

Did you find these tips on monetizing your blog helpful? You can learn more about making money online by visiting http://www.lewisempire.com You can also receive regular posting updates and leave comments about current topics with the RSS feed.

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Volume is the key to AdSense success

By Cody Moya

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It seems that more and more web site entrepreneurs are discovering
the power of AdSense to make money with their web sites. With all
these people jumping on the bandwagon, there is more competition
than ever. This increased level of competition mean that it is
more important than ever before to think creatively in order to
maximize revenue.

One thing that many new web publishers fail to understand is that
it can be very difficult to make any serious money with only one or
two web sites to your name. One web site will rarely yield the
profits most people would find acceptable. Even though it is
theoretically possible to earn thousands of dollars a month from a
single web site, this level of earning is very difficult to achieve
unless that web site is a household name.

In order to drive the traffic needed for serious AdSense revenue,
it is generally necessary to have a larger number of web sites in
place, all hosting targeted AdSense hosted ads.

One of the beauties of Google AdSense, of course, is that it does
not limit you to a single web site. The same AdSense account can
be used for many different web sites. There is much more money to
be made by hosting ads on 10 or 20 web sites, or even 100 sites.

Let's take a look at why multiple web sites are such a good idea.
Those with a single web site and 100 or so visitors a day may be
able to earn a couple of dollars a day from Adsense, while those
with 10 additional web sites may be able to earn 10 times that
amount. If one web site can earn $300 per month through AdSense,
10 of those web sites could bring in $3,000 per month or more.

It is easy to see why multiple web sites are so important to
success with Google AdSense. Setting up all those web sites can
seem like a daunting task, but there is plenty of help and plenty
of automated web site services available to help you along the way.
Best of all, after the web sites are all in place, little ongoing
maintenance is required, other than providing fresh content and
tracking results.

In order to achieve the highest levels of success when it comes to
AdSense, it is important to choose those keywords that have high
value and high cost per click (CPC). This CPC number will help to
determine how much money will be received each time a visitor
clicks on a targeted ad. Knowing how much advertisers are
currently bidding for various keywords is an important part of
AdSense success.

Another critical factor is having a high number of ad impressions.
Of course in order to get those ad impressions it is important to
generate lots of traffic to the web site, through a combination of
keyword rich web site content and other search engine optimization
techniques.

Of course it is also important to get as high a click through ratio
as possible from the web sites. The higher the click through ratio
goes the better the earnings will be. Those web sites with the
highest click through ratios will be able to generate greater
revenue than those with low rates, even if the number of visitors
is the same.

Again, providing highly relevant and useful content
is a great way to gain the confidence of visitors and increase that
all important click through ratio.


ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Cody Moya writes about "Adsense Tips"
in his Adsense Tips Ezine. You can sign up
for his free Ezine and get additional information at his
website: http://adsensetipsezine.com
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Google AdSense and the importance of monitoring

By Cody Moya

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Google AdSense can of course be a great way to make money for your
web site with very little effort on your part. Even though using
Google AdSense may seem easy, however, it is not as easy as it
seems at first blush. It is important to remember that there is
lots of competition out there, and keeping ahead of that
competition means constantly keeping track of what works and what
does not on the internet.

Reporting and monitoring is an essential part of the Google AdSense
process, and Google has in fact built in a number of great
reporting and monitoring features to provide their members with the
information they need to maximize their profit potential.

Among the statistics that the built in Google AdSense monitoring
system includes are:

- The total number of page impressions
- The number of ads clicked
- The rate at which those ads are clicked through
- The cost per click (CPC) and the cost of 1000 impressions (CPM)
- Your total earnings

This information is of course very valuable, but it may not tell
the entire story for many web site owners. Fortunately there are a
number of third party software products that are able to provide
additional information not covered by the basic Google AdSense
reporting. Among the information many of these third party
products provide are the click through rates for every page of the
web site, keyword reports and real time reporting.

This real time reporting can be very important, since the reporting
provided by Google can be delayed for 48 hou