Top 8 Tips To Increase Adsense Income-Lazy Goys blog

Adsense is absolute acceptable time earning affairs and abounding publishers, bloggers and webmaster joins this affairs by Google to accomplish a acceptable handsome revenue. Abounding bodies builds websites and blogs with the allegory that its aloof authoritative the blog and balloon it to get a handsome assets but afterwards advantageous a acceptable bulk to the armpit agreeable and afterwards a huge bulk of business campaigns you assuredly get cartage but what the use if you don’t catechumen the visits into clicks.

Now alone visitors with no clicks or abounding clicks and no acquirement can accomplish the blogbuyer mad and assuredly advance him to abdicate the affairs and now assuredly you would actualize campaigns to insult the program. There is no charge to abdicate and actualize terrible publicity for the affairs instead you can go ahead, claiming yourself to get activity to advance your income. You can body your Adsense banners to accede with your blog and see yourself convalescent your income.

Mentioned actuality are the simple means to access your Adsense Revenue

1. Banderole on the top

Always bethink that the aboriginal impressions is the best impressions, so its vital that you accept banderole abreast the top of the page. Now if the visitors accept to annal and see the content, the Adsense banderole would be appropriate afore their awning and atleast visitors will accept a look. Now you accept to set appropriately your armpit back it shouldn’t be aloof Fabricated for Adsense site, its should accept some able attending too, so on the homepage abolish Adsense codes and back advancing to distinct folio accomplish abiding that you accept Adsense cipher on the top, aloof appropriate at area the column starts.

2. Adsense Analogous with your Blog

Its actual vital that you booty your own time to advance Adsense banderole which would altogether bout your website and accomplish the cipher attending aggregate with your armpit design. Now if the users who visits your sites are added accepted to bang on your advertisements if they don’t apperceive it’s an ad. This is a baby ambush but it does assignment and for the aboriginal time you apparatus it wont attending adorable but this will absolutely assignment for you. This additionally makes your armpit attending able after the ambition that its aloof fabricated for Adsense. Dark colors and fashionable colors can ruin the looks of your blog.

3. Utilize your Content

Now if your Adsense codes are placed on the atom area bodies are advantageous attention, apparatus ads there. This will accomplish advertisements attending like allotment of your aboriginal agreeable and makes it abundant added accustomed for readers. Generally a continued agreeable or account on article makes readers to apprehend and appropriately increases the affairs of beat the ads on your blog.

4. Keyword Focused Content

Google Adwords and Google Adsense both works alongside on the base of keywords. If you are autograph a keywords focused agreeable again you not alone get amoebic cartage buts its actual simple and accessible for the Google Adsense to affectation keyword accompanying ads on your blogor abroad Google charge to assumption for the keyword and may abode abutting accessible analogous keywords. Moreover the readers on your blog are for specific agreeable and confined ads with added keywords will n’t server any purpose to them admitting Adsense Ads with specific keywords will accept a achievement that users will see it, may bang on it.

5. Cartage is the King

There is no purpose in optimizing if you don’t accept abundant traffic. Optimization is vital back you accept traffic. The added cartage your blog has the added Adsense acquirement you will generate. But this is one of the best catechism questioned by abounding afar from the one which is discussed here. Building agreeable and accompany the cartage needs adamantine assignment to place a abundant agreeable on your blog.

6. Accomplish Use of Adsense Custom Channels

Its vital for you to apperceive which blog is assuming at what pace. Google allows you to actualize up to 200 custom channels so that you can set it with anniversary banderole that you actualize on your blog and apperceive which one is alive at what pace. By this way you can abbreviate out which are non earning channels and optimize them through balloon and error. Custom channels are appropriate abode to apperceive whether how abundant is the achievement if your Ad block.

7. Making Altered Types of Banner

If you accept altered types of blog area again there is a allowance for altered types of ads placement. You can agreement with anniversary one and see which converts to best results. Don’t be in allegory that alone argument ads works accomplished for all blogs but its the aggregate of both argument and images ads which works excellent.

8. Accumulate Experimenting

One of the acceptable affair which I start is that accumulate on experimenting with Adsense, this will accomplish you added accept with Adsense and will adjudicator appropriate being for your blog. Though you may lose time and a small beneath money but vital is you will be on a appropriate track. So accumulate experimenting until you accept appropriate acquirement from your blog.

Regards, Lazy Goys Blog

21 Tactics to Increase Blog Traffic

A considerable portion of my consulting time has recently revolved around the optimization of corporate blogs (or the addition of blogs to revamped sites). As usual, I find a pattern emerging in the strategies that need attention and the pitfalls that must be avoided. So, rather than charging $400 an hour to give advice on the subject, I thought it would be valuable to share many of the most common pieces of advice here on the blog (business part of Rand fights with open source Rand, but loses, as usual).

1. Choose the Right Blog Software (or Custom Build)
   The right blog CMS makes a big difference. If you want to set yourself apart, I recommend creating a custom blog solution - one that can be completely customized to your users. In most cases,WordPress, Blogger, MovableType or Typepad will suffice, but building from scratch allows you to be very creative with functionality and formatting. The best CMS is something that's easy for the writer(s) to use and brings together the features that allow the blog to flourish. Think about how you want comments, archiving, sub-pages, categorization, multiple feeds and user accounts to operate in order to narrow down your choices. OpenSourceCMS is a very good tool to help you select a software if you go that route.
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2. Host Your Blog Directly on Your Domain
   Hosting your blog on a different domain from your primary site is one of the worst mistakes you can make. A blog on your domain can attract links, attention, publicity, trust and search rankings - by keeping the blog on a separate domain, you shoot yourself in the foot. From worst to best, your options are - Hosted (on a solution like Blogspot or Wordpress), on a unique domain (at least you can 301 it in the future), on a subdomain (these can be treated as unique from the primary domain by the engines) and as a sub-section of the primary domain (in a subfolder or page - this is the best solution).
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3. Write Title Tags with Two Audiences in Mind
   First and foremost, you're writing a title tag for the people who will visit your site or have a subscription to your feed. Title tags that are short, snappy, on-topic and catchy are imperative. You also want to think about search engines when you title your posts, since the engines can help to drive traffic to your blog. A great way to do this is to write the post and the title first, then run a few searches at Overture, WordTracker & KeywordDiscovery to see if there is a phrasing or ordering that can better help you to target "searched for" terms.
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4. Participate at Related Forums & BlogsWhatever industry or niche you're in, there are bloggers, forums and an online community that's already active. Depending on the specificity of your focus, you may need to think one or two levels broader than your own content to find a large community, but with the size of the participatory web today, even the highly specialized content areas receive attention. A great way to find out who these people are is to use Technorati to conduct searches, then sort by number of links (authority). Del.icio.us tags are also very useful in this process, as are straight searches at the engines (Ask.com's blog search in particular is of very good quality).
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How to Optimize WordPress Database Easily

What is the best and easiest way to optimize WordPress database? It is a good idea to optimize your WordPress database tables as useless data “Overhead” piles up over the years and slows your database down.

Our WordPress admin was getting really slow and so were the increasing  number of resource alerts. Like most WordPress bloggers, we too were always hesitant to meddle with the database fearing irreversible loss of data. There are many powerful WordPress database plugins, but they all seem too powerful and capable of modifying so much data, that it seemed better in expert hands. So we were looking for something very simple, easy and trustworthy.

Optimize WordPress Database

The we found the amazing Optimize DB plugin by Yoast, who is a well known creator of some other amazing plugins too. We simply installed and activated the plugin and it automatically analyzed how much database overheads it could save instantly. Then we backed up the database, though Vaultpress saves our latest database files automatically.

This what a partial screenshot of what we got. The plugin was going to optimize our WordPress database and save it by 33%!

Well there is only one button to click, and we clicked it. And in the next few seconds, it was all done.

The WordPress admin speed seems better, site resource alerts seem lower too.

Warning: Always back up your full database before attempting any database changes. This seems standard disclaimer, but is very essential to restore your database if something goes wrong (and sometimes things do go wrong).

Regards,
Lazy Goys Blog

9 Ways To Promote Your Blog Offline

1. Start small. In the beginning, get feedback from trusted friends. Ask trusted friends to give you honest feedback. When my brother and I started On Violence, for the first three or four weeks, we only told five of our closest friends. They provided feedback that helped us re-format pages to make them easier to read. We also found out what posts grabbed their attention and they pointed out those pesky typos that dog beginning and expert bloggers. And your friends can tell you, as one of ours did, that your language sounds pretentious. (Not all of the criticism feels good, but it helps.)

2. Tell your friends and family. First, I targeted emails and phone calls to my friends who I thought would want to be part of our community. If you are truly passionate about your topic, I bet a bunch of your friends are too. But this is obvious, what about your Great Aunt Mable, or your weird uncle Ted? Surely they don’t care about your new blog on early 90′s hip-hop. Maybe, but maybe not. You never know who your blog will interest, or who your next loyal reader will be.

3. Tell your co-workers and fellow enthusiasts. Chances are, unless you write a blog on making money from blogging, your blog is about a hobby or interest area. You have other friends in that area; take advantage of this. If your blog covers surfing, then talk to the surfers you ride with at the beach. If they aren’t interested in your blog, who will be?

4. Advertise with Groups and Associations to which you belong. Do you belong to a fraternity or sorority? An industry group? A church with a newsletter? Send out an announcement about your blog.

5. Target the real world recipients of your blog. Similar to tip number three, you need to target the people who are probably interested in your blog that you’ve never met before. If your blog reviews local restaurant, then talk to restaurant owners you know. Basically, wherever your blog can connect with real world people, you need to let them know about it.

6. Ask friends to guest post. There are tangible benefits to this. It is one less post you have to worry about writing, provides another voice to your website, and will help expand your reach into your friend’s social network. The biggest benefit I’ve had is in discovering another wonderful writer. My friend Matt contributed a post about his experience as an aid worker on the Thailand/Burma border. It was meaningful, well written, on topic, and a joy to read. If we hadn’t reached out, he never would have shared this story with us, and our blog wouldn’t be the same.

7. Ask your friends to comment. Nothing is sadder than a blog post with no comments. People want to go to blogs with community. Our blog, though small, has one. When new people come to our blog, they feel free to comment without feeling like they are the only one commenting. (Though to be fair, on some days we still struggle with this.)

8. Invite your friends on facebook/myspace/linkedin. I have over 300 friends on facebook, why would I not invite them to our blog? The more interesting thing has been connecting with friends I haven’t talked to in a long time, and restarting conversations and relationships with them. You have a social network already, use it.

9. Tell people you meet, in real life. This seems obvious, but was hard for me in the beginning and it still is. It is hard to put yourself out there and say, “I have a blog.” It seems pretentious. But again, you never know who or when you could meet a new reader. I met one of our most loyal readers at three in the morning outside a hostel in Munich. A tip: order business cards. They are cheap, practical and will help give you an opening.

Releated Posts:

Top 10 Tips to Sell Your Website or Blog on Flippa

Top 20 Feed Directories For Popular Your Feeds

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Lazy Goys Blog

Top 20 Feed Directories For Popular Your Feeds

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• http://www.feedster.com
• http://www.feeds4all.com
• http://free-rss.page2go2.com/
• http://www.readafeed.de/
• http://www.feedsee.com/
• http://www.everyfeed.com
• http://www.feed-directory.com
• http://www.rss-network.com/
• http://www.sports-feeds.com/
• http://www.political-humor.net/
• http://www.feedsfarm.com
• http://www.easyrss.com
• http://www.2rss.com/
• http://www.daytimenews.com/
• http://www.feedbase.net/
• http://www.rssmotron.com/
• http://www.search4rss.com

Regards,
Lazy Goys Blog

Top 10 Tips to Sell Your Website or Blog on Flippa

If you are planning to buy or sell a website, you probably already heard about Flippa. It is the largest online marketplace for websites. Most people who list a website for sale there, however, end up selling it for peanuts (e.g., $100), or not selling at all.

How come? Most of the times the seller didn’t do his homework. If you want to maximize your chances of selling (and your profit), the 10 tips below will help you.

1. Make Sure Your Website Is Making Money

This is the most important factor. If you want to sell a website successfully, it must be making money. Even if your site has a huge traffic, listing it before monetizing that traffic would be a bad decision. You would be able to sell it, but the money you would get would be far below the real value of the site.

If your website is making $50 or less per month, forget about selling it now. Try to improve your traffic, increase your revenues to at least $300 per month, make the revenues stable, and then list it. If the $300 are coming from Google AdSense, for example, you could sell the site for as much as $8,000. Obviously, the more you can grow your revenue before selling, the better. The $300 is just a ball park figure.

Remember that you’ll need to show proof of revenue, and that most buyers will calculate the revenues as the average of the past four or six months.

How to Find Advertisers for Your Website: The Ultimate Guide

The Pros

• More money: The first advantage of selling your own ads is the fact that you will cut the middlemen out, increasing your revenue potential. Suppose you sell text link ads on your sidebar through a certain company, and the text links sell for $50 monthly. Since you are using the company network to sell the ads, they will eat 50% of the price, and you will end up earning only $25 monthly for each text link. If someone is willing to pay $50 for a text link on your site, though, it means that they are getting $50 of value out of it. Why, then, should you share that with someone else?
• Independence: Sure, large advertising networks have access to a wider pool of advertisers, and they have more credibility to close the deals. But if you have all the requirements in place (see the section below) and spend some time looking at the right places, I am sure that you will be able to sell your own ads just as efficiently as the larger networks.
• Flexibility: The third advantage of selling direct advertising is that you will have much more control over where and how the ads will be displayed (i.e., you can avoid intrusive advertising). Google Adsense is nice, but unless you blend it with the content – annoying some of the readers – you will get terribly low click-through rates.
• Credibility: Finally, having sponsors and direct advertisers on your blog might help your credibility. Even small and poorly crafted blogs can stick some Adsense units here and there. Having established companies that are willing to partnership with your site, on other hand, can signal that your content has quality and that the site is somewhat professional.

The Cons

• Time consuming: While selling your own ads has many advantages, it is no panacea. The first drawback of this monetization option is the time that it will consume. This time will be spent optimizing your website for the ads, finding potential advertisers, negotiating with them, and handling the administrative matters (e.g., making payments, tracking statistics, delivering reports and so on).
• Many requirements: Selling direct adverting is not as easy as making money from Google Adsense. As you can see from the section below, you will need to have a popular blog, a professional looking design, special software and the like.
• Unstable: Unless you close deals for very long periods, which is unlikely, you will find your self looking for new advertisers or optimizing your website to attract new ones every other month. The opposite is true for most advertising networks, where you just need to plug some code and they will do the rest of the work. (If your site or blog is just a hobby, therefore, direct advertising might not be the best option)

What You Need to Have in Place

• A popular website: Before landing direct advertising deals you will need to have a good amount of traffic on your site. There is no “magical” number here, but a good rule of thumb would be 1000 daily unique visitors. If you are below that mark you should focus on building traffic instead of looking for advertisers. Other factors like Google Pagerank, RSS subscribers and Alexa rank might also help. (Notice that small websites might also be able to sell direct advertising, but usually the time spent on that will not justify the results)
• A clear focus: You might have the most popular site on the Internet (well, not as extreme as that, but you get the point), but unless your site also has a very clear niche and a defined audience, advertisers will not find it very attractive. This means that you should avoid rambling about 100 different topics on the website. Advertisers want to deliver a message to specific people, and the more specific the better.
• A professional looking design: If you are planning to monetize your website through sponsors, you probably should invest some money into a professional looking design. Advertisers will be associating their product or service with your website, and not too many of them would be willing to get mixed with an ugly, MySpace looking site.
• Give visibility to the sponsors: This point is connected to the previous one. Not all templates and themes will be suitable for selling direct advertising. Preferably you want to have an idea of what kind of advertising you will sell (e.g., 468×60 banners, 125×125 banners, text links) and design your website according to those objectives. Advertisers want visibility, so reserve a good spot for them.
• Adserver software: In order to serve your ads, rotate banners and track statistics you will need to install an Adserver. If you are looking for a simple solution you should try WP-Ads. This WordPress plugin will serve ads for specific ad zones that you create. The only drawback is that it does not count clicks (only impressions). If you need a more sophisticated solution check OpenAds. You will need to spend some time learning how to use it, but it offers virtually all the features you will ever need.
• “Advertise Here” page: It is very important to have an “Advertise Here” page. On this page you want to give some details about the website, like audience, traffic and any other factor that might be of the interest of potential advertisers. Secondly, make sure that you have some link to that page on the navigation bar and if possible close to the zone where the ads will be displayed. You can see a perfect example of such layout onCopyblogger.com.
• Standard letter to approach advertisers: While some advertisers will contact you after reading your “Advertise Here” page, the rest of them will need to be directly approached by you. In that case, it is a good idea to create a standard letter to contact the advertisers. There is no “one size fits all” solution here, but you can follow some general guidelines:
  1. Introduce yourself and quickly explain what the email is about
  2. Explain why you decided to contact them and what they have to gain
  3. Give details about your site (traffic, subscribers, topic, audience)
  4. Give details about the advertising options (location on the site, max number of advertisers, monthly price)
  That is it, after that information the advertisers should be able to decide if they are interested or not. If they reply, then you will fix the details. Bear in mind that all the info I mentioned should be contained in 2 or 3 paragraphs. If you send an essay to potential advertisers they will just skip it altogether.
• Accepting payments: You might have everything in place, but if you are not able to cash payments – or more importantly, if advertisers are not able to pay easily – you will end up losing deals. PayPal is the best option here. Notice, however, that a personal account will not suffice. You will need at least a premier account to be able to accept credit cards.

Where to Find the Advertisers

Once you have your direct advertising program established, you will start to receive inquiries from people. On the beginning, however, you will need to hunt advertisers down. Do not get discouraged if get turned down initially, provided you have all the aforementioned requirements, sooner or later you will find someone willing to take a shot on your site.

• People linking to your site or articles: If a company is willing to link to your articles or to add your website under its “Links” or “Resources” section, it is also probably willing to discuss about advertising on your site. Keep track of those incoming links.
• People leaving comments/e-mails: The same principle applies to people leaving comments on your blog or sending you e-mails. If among them you see an employee or the owner of a company that could be interested on your website, bingo! Contact him or her and get the conversation going.
• AdWords advertisers: Through out your search for advertisers you will notice that most of the established companies are not aware of the benefits of online advertising. If a certain company is already spending money on Google AdWords, however, it is very likely that it would also be open to other forms of online advertising. Think about some keywords that are related to your topic and Google them. Check the sponsored links that will appear and contact them. (You can also check the advertisers that appear on the Adsense units of related websites)
• Other advertising networks: While Google AdWords is by far the largest advertising network on the Internet, there are many others that could be useful. Check the companies that are spending money on AdBrite, Text-Link-Ads, BlogAds, SponsoredReviews and so on.
• Banner advertisers on similar sites: Check out popular websites on your niche and see what companies are advertising there. Provided you offer them an interesting deal (i.e., a reasonable price for your size), I am pretty sure they will be interested.
• Create a “Potential Sponsors” bookmark folder: This technique produced outstanding results for me. I have a bookmark folder on my browser called “Potential Sponsors.” Every time I come across a company or website that could be interested in sponsoring my website, I bookmark it. Currently I have over 100 bookmarked sites on that folder, and I have not approached half of them yet.

How Much to Charge

• You need to provide value: It is all about value. A potential sponsor or advertiser will want to see some returns for the money he will be spending on your site, and this can be seen as visibility (impressions) and leads (clicks and possible sales). Make sure, therefore, that your advertising deals will deliver.
• The numbers: Remember that there are some pretty cheap advertising options out there (e.g., Google AdWords), and you will need to be competitive. Provided you reserved a good spot for the sponsors (sidebar or header, preferably) you could start charging a $0,5 CPM (cost per 1000 impressions). If your blog is generating 100,000 monthly page views, therefore, a banner spot on your sidebar should cost around $50. Start low and build your way upwards. Popular blogs (e.g., TechCrunch) have a higher CPM, sometimes as high as $10, but you will need a huge credibility to arrive there.
• Cross-check: You can easily check if you are charging a suitable rate by using Adsense units on the places where you will sell direct advertising. Analyze how much you would gain with Adsense, and adjust your rates accordingly. Secondly, you can also check similar sites that are already selling direct ads.
• Be flexible regarding the terms: Flexibility is key. First of all make advertising agreements on a month-to-month basis. People don’t like to commit to something they are not completely sure about. If someone proposes you a longer deal, offer a discount in exchange.
• Offer test periods: Unless you have a very popular website, you will find potential advertisers reluctant to spend real money. If you are confident that the deal will create value for both parties, however, you can use that on your favor. Offer a free test period whenever needed. Some of the times the advertiser will turn you down after it, but other times they will confirm the deal. Either way you have nothing to lose.

Regards,
Lazy Goys Blog

How to Add Google+ Profile Buttons to Your Site

The best way to direct visitors to your Google+ profile or content page is to use a Google+ Profile Button. Google has provided Google+ Profile Buttons generator tool which can give you a cut and paste code easily.

Google+ Profile Buttons

Visit the Google+ Profile button page and you can grab Google profile buttons in various sizes, have an option to link to your content or profile page.

What is your profile url? We visit https://profiles.google.com and it redirects to https://plus.google.com/110720484075426485909/posts (this will only happen if you have a Google+ account). So either we can use that url or use this profile link https://profiles.google.com/110720484075426485909/ which will also redirect to the same page. You can choose to send visitors to your content or author info page.

Note the code also has the author markup recently introduced by Google built in. So if you select Author page, then the rel=”me” gets in, and if you select content page, then rel=”author” get incorporated. This will help show your profile in Google search results. Also note Google has strict branding guidelinesand you cannot alter the Google+ logos, need to link to your profile and display the button clearly.

Regards,
Lazy Goys Blog

How To Build A Successful Blog Business, For Real

Chapter 1: Blogging as a Business

• Opportunities in Blogging
• Risk and Rewards
• A Sketch of a Blog Business
• Your Role & Blogging Experience
• Setting up as a Business
• Capital and Investment
• Co-founders
• Your Mission and Vision
• Business Planning

Chapter 2: Planning and Researching

• Niches
• Researching a Niche
• Competitive Analysis
• Understanding the Niche
• Planning Your Content
• Your Overall Strategy

Chapter 3: Creating a Brand

• What is a Brand?
• Naming Considerations
• Domain Names
• Visual Branding
• Web Design
• Other Elements of Branding

Chapter 4: Staff

• Freelance and Salaried Staff
• Freelancer Basics
• Employee Basics
• Finding and Identifying Good People
• What to Pay
• Working with Remote Staff
• Setting Parameters and Focusing on Results
• Other Staff Issues
• Roles

Chapter 5: Planning Content

• Writing for the Web
• Making Content Valuable
• Editing
• The Editing Process
• Know What You’re Talking About
• Lists & Popular Content
• Frequency
• Quality Evergreen Content
• News Content
• Filler Posts
• Images & Diagrams
• Headlines
• Style and Tone

Chapter 6: Generating Traffic

• Google Analytics
• Basic Techniques for Generating Traffic
• Social Media Basics
• Guest Posts
• Content Aggregators
• Buying Traffic
• Giving Away Free Stuff
• Leveraging Your Existing Network & Assets
• Consistency & Momentum
• Linking Out to Generate & Keep Traffic
• Search Traffic
• A Basic Guide to SEO

Chapter 7: Monetization

• General Tips on Monetization
• Advertising
• Affiliate Sales
• Premium Content
• Selling Products
• Ad Services
• Selling Your Expertise
• Creating and Selling Web Apps
• Blending, Iterating and Experimenting

Chapter 8: Long Term Strategies

• Building a Long Term Business
• From One Blog to Many
• Using a Blog to Build Other Businesses
• Valuing and Selling a Blog

The Case Studies

• Case Study 1: FreelanceSwitch
• Case Study 2: Psdtuts+
• Case Study 3: AppStorm

I think this book is really solid for one main reason: while there are dozens of books about how to make money blogging (i.e., how to build, promote and monetize a blog), this book is pretty much the only one about how to build a business with blogs (e.g., how to choose niches to enter, hire people, manage writers, scale everything and so on).

Regards,
Lazy Goys Blog