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Here is a simple and easy way to improve your Cost Per Click (CPC) and make more money using Google Adsense:

A sure-fire way to find the HIGHEST PAYING GOOGLE AD for your content using Google’s Keyword Tool.

1. Browse to Google’s Keyword Tool
2. Select Website Content
3. Enter your website URL (you can also enter a specific web page)
4. Click Get keyword ideas
5. Select Show All from the dropdown box
6. Make sure Group keywords by common terms is checked
7. Under Calculate Estimates using Max CPC: select $USD (or whatever currency you use)
8. Enter 100 in the empty box (or the equivelent of $100USD in your currency)
9. Click Recalculate
10. Now the columns below will display the estimated cost per click (CPC) for each keyword!
11. Click the column title Estimated Avg. CPC to sort by price. Click it one more time to sort from highest to lowest.
12. You can now browse down the page to get an idea for which keyword phrases pay the most amount of money
13. Now you can go back to your current articles and rewrite bits of the content, organizing phrases and keywords so they match up with the highest paying AdSense keywords. This will make a big difference, helping AdSense to place similar ads that pay much more instead of low cost per click ads.

Original Content can be found HERE.

WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR YOU?

This means more money for each Google Ad that is clicked on!  That’s amazing!  Instead of making between $.08 to $1.00 per click,  you can start making $10-20 per CLICK!  In no time you’ll be making hardcore money as a blogger.

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Five Things that Search Engine Optimization Companies Aren’t Telling You When You Sign with Them.

I worked as a Sales Consultant and SEO Specialist at a small SEO/Website Design company for four months over the summer.  I learned everything about SEO; the thing that really stuck in my mind, however, are listed below.  Enjoy knowing the things that SEO companies won’t ever tell you!

NUMBER ONE: YOU CAN DO IT YOURSELF!

This is the BIGGEST part of the SEO scam!  They’ll tell you point blank that there is no way on Earth you’ll be able to optimize your website like they can.  Well, they’re wrong (as you’ll learn in Reason 5).  Most things associated with SEO can be done in your spare time!  If you have an hour every day or two to spare (or if you want to hire someone else for a few hours a week to do it), you’ll be completely fine.  Most SEO Companies, especially those that charge thousands each month, have very few employees and a lot of clients.  What does that mean for you?  You’re paying the big bucks for the smallest amount of time spent optimizing your website! Read the rest of this entry »

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Here is the email that LiveJournal users received this morning from lj_notify@livejournal.com:

If you have a paid or permanent account on LiveJournal, you can start earning some extra pocket money simply by doing what you love to do on LiveJournal, like writing, sharing photos, and catching up with friends! The more people who visit your journal, the more money you can earn. It’s that simple. You’ll get to control where ads appear and whether you prefer text or image ads. You can even customize colors and choose different ad sizes and formats. LiveJournal is turning over 100% of net proceeds to you. (After Google takes their cut, the rest is yours.)

Here’s how it works: If you sign up for Your Journal – Your Money, you’ll see Google Adsense ads displayed on your own journal. To help your friends in the program earn extra cash, you can opt-in to see ads on their pages as well. As always, paid and permanent account holders who don’t opt-in will not view ads on other LiveJournal pages.

Here’s all you’ll need to get started:

• A paid account on LiveJournal: If you don’t have one, click here (it costs from $19.95/year)
• Next, click here to sign up for a Google AdSense account or to associate your existing AdSense account with your LiveJournal account
• Complete the easy sign-up process and choose the type of ads you wish to display
• Keep posting and start earning extra income now

This is also awesome news for LiveJournal users!  If you already use LiveJournal and have a large audience, you have an opportunity to tap into that using Google Adsense.

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Older version of WordPress are being attacked and characters are being added to the permalinks. Sure signs of the attack include strange characters in your permalinks (single posts do not work) and an extra administrator account in the users control panel which you cannot see. Look for the administrator count in brackets at the top. Is the number there what you would expect on your blog (Weblogtools).

Please update your Wordpress Blog now before you continue reading this article!  It is just that important.

The warning comes from Lorelle on WordPress after it was discovered that a nasty attack is exploiting security holes in previous versions of the blogging software, creating a new “hidden” Administrator account and getting right down to the database level. These attacks are said to be “growing by the hour”. Lorelle writes:

There are two clues that your WordPress site has been attacked.

There are strange additions to the pretty permalinks, such as example.com/category/post-title/%&(%7B$%7Beval(base64_decode($_SERVER%5BHTTP_REFERER%5D))%7D%7D|.+)&%/. The keywords are “eval” and “base64_decode.”

The second clue is that a “back door” was created by a “hidden” Administrator. Check your site users for “Administrator (2)” or a name you do not recognize. You will probably be unable to access that account.

All users are advised to upgrade to the latest version of WP, while those already affected are in for a trying weekend: you’ll likely need to export your all your content with the built-in XML WordPress export, uninstall and reinstall WordPress and re-import the content. It’s a nasty attack that goes all the way into the database, so exporting the database will result in exporting the hacked code too.

For those unaffected: upgrade today. For those affected: the WordPress community is here to help (mashable).

To Prevent Your Account:

To prevent this form of attack, update your WordPress site IMMEDIATELY to the latest version. Change ALL passwords to a strong password immediately, including WordPress blog access for all users, database, FTP, control panels, everything (Lorelle).

If You’ve Been Attacked:

If your site has already been attacked, it appears that the hack attacks the database, going deep. We’re looking for solutions, but the easiest appears to be to export all your content with the built-in XML WordPress export (pre 2.1 versions, try the WordPress-to-WordPress Import WordPress Plugin) and literally remove your WordPress installation totally (save images and general files). DO NOT EXPORT YOUR DATABASE! Install the latest version of WordPress and add the “clean” backup of your WordPress Theme, then import the XML export. The export will contain your posts, Pages, and comments, and hopefully no other hacked code (Lorelle).

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You can subscribe any time between today and December 31st; however, if you’re not subscribed to the Newsletter or RSS Feed, you’ll lose out on valuable information and other contests that Nick’s Blog will be hosting.  To stay up to date, Subscribe to both the RSS Feed, Newsletter, and add NickReitz on Twitter.

BONUS: If you are a twitter user, post a tweet saying ” @NickReitz Free $25 Google AdWords http://bit.ly/wBdYz ” and if you are the lucky winner, your prize will be tripled!  You will win a $75.oo Google AdWords credit instead!  It’s worth the few extra seconds to post.  While you’re on twitter, follow Nick Reitz.

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Even More Ways to Obtain More Twitter Followers

Given the extreme amounts of traffic to my previous post How to Obtain New (and a Lot More) Twitter Followers and Website Exposure.  Here are a few more easy ways to get a lot of new followers on twitter with minimal effort.

Make sure you implement these tactics over time; if you do it all at once, your account is likely to be suspended or deleted, since Twitter will see you as a spammer.  Just a little tip to keep your efforts for being in vein.

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How to Obtain New (and a Lot More) Twitter Followers and Gain Blogging Exposure

You can market on almost any kind of platform, whether that be Xanga, Facebook, MySpace, or even Twitter.  Here are two great sites to market your twitter account.  My advice would be to use one twitter account as a personal account and one as a promotional blogging account.

Get More Twitter Followers

After signing up for this site, you will begin to use viral marketing to promote your twitter account.  You have 8 levels of people that will add you.  If only five people signed up each level, it would be 5 to the 8th power.  That means you will have almost 2.5 million followers!  I wouldn’t go so far as to say things will be that definite, but even if you gain a few thousand, what do you have to lose? Read the rest of this entry »

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This post is a follow up post to the Free Viral Marketing post that can be found by clicking here.  After you sign up for Free Viral Marketing, here is what you need to make sure you’ve done to optimize your website’s potential:

Step One: Google Adsense

Placed Google AdSense Advertisements in optimal (and not strikingly horrific) places around your site that goes along with your content.  You do not want to place a block ad in the center of your post– It throws off your entire post’s feeling and looks trashy.  Google AdSense will (most likely) be your biggest single source of income.  Look at the places that Google AdSense advertisements are placed on my site.  If you’re not too savvy with placing your ads on your site yourself, try getting an Ad-Ready Layout.

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Viral Marketing: A How-To Guide to Market Your Site

Viral Marketing– How sinister is a name like that?  A virus almost always has a negative connotation attached to it.  Relax, though, because Viral Marketing has nothing to do with making or using viruses to market someone’s website or blog.  The concept of Viral Marketing is this: Leverage one person to spread news of your site (or whatever it is you are marketing) to only two (or three, five, ten, a hundred, whatever) people.  Then, that person will in turn spread the word to other people, and before you know it, one turns into two into four into eight into sixteen, etc.

A great example of this is the penny analogy.  If you were given a penny of the first day and every day after that penny was doubled, how much would you have after the first 3o days?

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The Blog Builder Series: Earn Online Commissions with LinkShare

Linkshare is one of them most useful tools for a blog.  You can earn online commissions for goods purchased from links on your site.  It’s commonly known as affiliate marketing.

I use linkshare throughout my site.  At the top of the page I have a rotating banner showing off all of my affiliates.  In my sidebar, I have a list of affiliates in 125×125 boxes.  It’s a great way to earn extra income, and if you’ve read my post “Blogging Income Sources“, you would know that LinkShare is my third biggest source of income, after Google AdSense and Chitika.

Once you register (which you can do so by clicking the banner to the right), LinkShare offers access to more than 500 of the top online retailers, covering all major product categories.  Then, figure out which affiliates match closely with your site.  Once you have done this, place their banners on your sidebar or wherever you feel comfortable with.

LinkShare also have a referral program.  LinkShare offers $1.50 for every valid referral that registers as an affiliate with LinkShare and generates at least one click-through within 30 days of registering.  That’s an amazing bonus!  And trust me, the referrals really add up quickly.  LinkShare is a great site to be on, so people are always eager to sign up when they read about this opportunity.  One of the best parts about LinkShare is that it is free to join and easy to use.  You can get started right away earning commissions.

You should build up a steady flow of traffic before applying, however.  Most of the affiliates manually go through your site before accepting you and letting you post their banner on your site, so if your site is only averaging 10 visitors a day, you probably will not get accepted by most affiliates.  If you have a high traffic blog, you will have no problem making commissions on the things that your readers already purchase.

What do you really have to lose?  Try it out for 30 days and see if LinkShare is right for you.  If you do not like it, you can always can the idea and try something new.

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