There are many other ways to make money with your blog or website besides using AdSense. In order to make the maximum amount possible with your website, it is important to explore many different ways of making money. Some additional ideas include:

• Other advertising programs instead of AdSense. There are many of them out there. Some of the most prominent are AdBrite and YPN. These additional advertising programs may provide the normal Cost-Per-Click, as well as Cost-Per-Impression. Cost-Per-Impression (CPM) is an amount an advertising program pays you per so many views, so, even though a user never clicks one of your ads, you will still get paid for them viewing your site. Of course, in most cases, to receive any money from a CPM program, your site must receive, at the minimum, thousands of page views.



• Other digital goods. Some popular forms of digital products include screen savers and e-books. If you are a decent photographer, or have access to some freely available pictures, you can easily create a screen saver that you can sell over and over again. e-books are also a possibility. There are many of e-books freely available online that are in the public domain that can be resold. Also, some e-book authors will let you purchase your book, and then resell it as many times as you wish. This is known as buying resell rights. To make the most money possible, however, you need to create your own e-book with your own original content.



• Blog flipping. Create a blog, provide a decent amount of content, get some traffic, and sell it for a nice profit!


'til next time
Bill

What a day! I traveled today, and am using a company laptop. I haven't browsed my site in a while using Internet Explorer, so I decided I'd take a look using the laptop. I was shocked to discover that I had no content, and only the menu bar was showing! After I close my mouth, I scrolled down and was a little relieved to discover the content was still there, however, it was down at the bottom of the page. It looks like the two columns of my site were not displaying side to side, and instead on top of one another.

It took me a bit to discover exactly what was going on, but after saving the source of the main page and experimenting a bit, I discovered that the AdSense ad on the menubar was just a bit too wide. In order to fix it for the moment, I changed the size of the ad from 160x600 to 120x600, and everything was then good as gold.

And I was wondering why >70% of my users were FireFox users!

On a related note, using IE, and a freshly downloaded FireFox, I also discovered my ads on my blog entries had a slightly different background color as the rest. I fixed that quickly.

Until next time,
Bill

Check out this awesome AdSense calculator:

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If you notice on the front page of this Blog, the first entry will always have an AdSense box embedded with the entry. The ad floats, that is, the text starts immediately to one side of the add and continues underneath it; in other words, the text "floats" around the ad.

This is done to make the advertisement look to be a part of the entry. An initial glance does not expose much of a contrast between the ad and the article text. I've also made sure to make the color scheme of the ad mimic the color scheme of the entry in order to make it "fit in" with the blog entry even more.

Here's how to easily do it:

<table align="left">
   <tr>
      <td align="left"> 
         AdSense 
      </td>
   </tr>
</table>

Of course, replace the AdSense above with the AdSense code Google provides. Slap at that at the beginning of your entry and it should put AdSense in a optimal place for viewing inside your article.

Bill

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a way to organize and edit your page so that the popular search engines, such as Google, Yahoo, MSN, etc. can find and display your own website with ease. The more optimized your site, the higher search engines will rank it, and the more popular your site will become.

Here are some tips for search engine optimization:

1) Have Unqiue Content. This it the most important way to get your site to the top of the lists. Unique content allows your page to "stand on its own". Users that search for particular keywords unique to your site will find your page at the top of a search. In addtion, some Webcrawlers (programs used by search engines to obtain content) will ignore non-unique content.

2) Manually Submit Your Site. Do not rely on so-called "Automatic Website Submitters". These programs and/or websites are supposed to automatically submit your site to many search engines, sometimes the search engines are numbering in the hundreds. However, with most of these programs, your website will be denied a submission into a search engine as it was not submitted by hand; in most cases an automatic submission program will not enter your site into a search engine. In face, your website could even be blacklisted by using such a program.

3) Use Heading Tags. Use the H1-H6 tags often, as search engines often use these tags to determine summaries for pages. In other words, use these tags to determine what text should be deemed "most important" by search engines.

4) Avoid Frames. Some search engines will ignore content placed in a different frame, in fact, they may ignore the content alltogether! Frame usage seemed to be most prominent in prior years, and has almost disappeared in recent times. At any rate, don't use the <FRAME> tag!

5) Avoid JavaScript and Flash. Well, you don't have to ignore them altogether, however, Flash programs are not going to be recognized during a search engine's crawl of your webpage. The same thing happens with JavaScript code, search engines will ignore it. Basically, make sure your content is in plain text so an engine can easily search and record your website content.