Make more with adsense

Google adsense is great to earn money but when you are first starting out it isn't always enough. A couple of other adsense sites that I have been using are WidgetBucks and Chitika.

WidgetBucks uses adsense widgets with pop-under ads. You earn more and you also earn 15% for twelve months per referral. If you are running more than one blog or website make sure that you add each of your sites to their list. Otherwise you will see only page impressions and no earnings. When setting up your ads also make sure you set up each ad for each site individually shortcuts can be damaging. Take it from somebody who learned the hard way.

Chitika is the other adsense that I use. They don't seem to really pay very good, but it does help your google adsense clickthrough rate. Chitika seems to make your google adsense clicks worth more. It also help you come up in the search engines. If somebody does a search for mortages for example, your blog will come up even if your blog has nothing to do with mortages. Chtika also counts your google adsense clicks towards your chitika. That means if you receive two google adsense clicks that is equal to two chitika clicks as well and you end up earning double. If somebody visits your blog directly they will not see the Chitika ad unless they recently did a google search for something that a chitika ad has.

Get 200+ visitor hits daily with backlinks

A few days ago somebody told me they did not like OutBrain because it spammed their blog. Having somebody else's blog post title on your may seem threatening, don't let it. OutBrain creates backlinks, and if you have heard before that backlinks are great for more hits, it is true.

My earlier post about the Pyzam Three Column Blogger Template is another backlink.Now when somebody does a search for Pyzam Three Column, you will notice that "My Wiki" Blog comes up a few times, but so does this blog. Go on and give it a try, nice isn't it?

If somebody is using outbrain on another blog, and my post is a close enough match to their post, that is another backlink. So again, don't feel threatened about other blogs "Spamming your blog". This is a good thing, your blog is on their blog and their blog is on your blog which means you have another backlink. The more backlinks you have, the more you come up on the search engines.

Here is an example of some free ways to receive more backlinks:
WidgetBox
OutBrain
Link one blog post to another blog post
Google Webmaster tools
Leave a comment on somebodies blog with your Google OpenID

Now that you have backlinks established, now what you need is a great blog post, something that will make people come and visit your blog. A few ways that work are searching other blogs that are common to your blog for interesting topics. StumbleUpon is a FireFox addon, you are able to Stumble on different sites of your choice or use the custom search. The best for last is Google Trends. Google Trends lists the top one-hundred recent search terms, take a look at the top ten, pick one that you think is an interesting topic and use it.

My recent post about "Experts says that Dome built over Houston TX not only will help from Catagory Five Hurricanes, but may also help the environment!" Elizabeth's Hot Topics Blog was the highest visitor hit I have ever made. Look at that, I just created another backlink.

If you look at the OutBrain below my blog, you will see that nobody else has posted it yet. This gives me the advantage of more visitors, and as soon as somebody does post it, this will give me another backlink.

Three 3 Column Pyzam Blogger Layout Template

Three Column Pyzam Rounders Hacked template is done. If any of you who are using the pyzam, and really like the three column, there it is. You can see how it looks at Elizabeth's Hot Topics

Spam can damage your credibility

If you want to promote your blog or website, spamming isn't going to work. People do not like spam. Using the blog forums when you have new posts is fine, to an extent. If you use the forum several times a day, every single day to announce a blog post, you will just end up being blocked. One time, maybe two times a day is usually fine, but sometimes you get the ones who abuse it.

What I will never understand are the ones that private message you with the same message over and over again every few days. Who has gotten the Hello my friend do you shop online, then go to, then they give you the URL to their blog. After the third time, I blocked him, and am probably not the first to do this. Now how far could he have gotten if he did not do that in the first place.

Twitter also, if you setup your ping.fm or hellotext to message twitter every hour, you can possibly lose quite a few followers. I did this by accident, and had it setup so it kept going in the round about circle. Every fifteen minutes it kept sending a message to my twitter (oops).

The fix for that is to just go to TwitterFeed and have it send one of the auto sites, ping.fm or hellotext the posts, but not both at the same time. One of the sites will get it to the other, and it will eventually get to your twitter account in a timely manner. For each of my blogs, I have it send to ping.fm in three hour increments. So every three hours, only one post from one blog sends to twitter, that is two posts per blog daily, one with the url, one without.

The visit response is much better, and my hits have gone up a bit more. I'm not coming across as spammy. You hate spam, I hate spam, they hate spam, so just take into account how you feel about it, and give the same respect, which goes a long way later on.

There is a post on my blog, Why Is Spam Useless? It's from a few weeks ago, but I remember stating how spammers do not ever prosper. For example, how many times do they need to send me an email about cleaning my colon, and how much blockage do they think is going on there. Nothing a big helping of spinash can't fix a few times a week.

As for twitter, the best people I have found to follow are people, pretty much in the same line of work I am. Some of my new visitors are people using traffic exchange sites, pay to click and pay to read email for promoting. One day a piece of my post floated past them, and they checked it out. Every few days a search for words is FaceBook, Twitter and a few others for terms like, PTC, Pay to Click etc... goes a long way.

PS. Good posts, something catchy, like the one I did yesterday in my hot topics blog. Gave my hot topics blog a good response because funny works :)