Being that we are witnessing the biggest election of our lifetime, political websites online are booming with traffic.
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Posted in: Online Marketing
I could write about this issue all day long because I strongly believe it is the one key component that will make you successful at what you do and that is LOVE WHAT YOU DO. Some of you may have seen this video going around of Gary Vaynerchuk’s keynote speech in Web 2.0 Expo in New York.
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On August 25, 2008, I wrote a blog post titled, “Project Monetizing Site with Google Adsense & Kontera,” which was done for the purpose of experimenting with creating a website without A SINGLE strategy or tactic implied for the search engines or anyone to find it (link building, etc.)
Since then, I’ve probably added about 4-8 URLs to the website because the goal of this for me (with the LITTLE time I put into it, less than an hour a month) is to create thousands of pages of content to continually make it rank in the search engines for the long-tail keywords and monetize it. I’ve only used Google Adsense and Konetra to monetize it.
I’ve used two different blocks of adsense. The 250×250 block of ads (using blue color links) and also the horizontal half banner using black links (may change to blue on new ones). You can see the post titled, “Best Performing Adsense Ads Explained” for more information on converting adsense ads and understanding their payouts.
Here are the results this month (this is from Sept. 1 - Sept. 25, 2008):
GOOGLE ADSENSE EARNINGS:
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Posted in: Contextual Advertising
The Google pagerank update seems to have been updated web wide this weekend (September 27th) and the PalatnikFactor.com went from a PR 4 to a PR 5. I’ve actually seen many sites lose pagerank with this update.
Should you really be concerned with pagerank? No. I have to admit, I was really happy to see that green bar go up a notch and it is without a doubt an inidcation of the link building structure of your website in terms of how google is looking at your website in terms of links. The search engine will continually try to improve its algorithm to how it “judges” links pointing into your website.
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