The AdSense Notifier is a great tool that allows you to track your earnings right in your Firefox browser. Using this tool can show you your earnings to date, as well as Impressions, Clicks, Click Through Rate, Cost Per Impression, and Revenue Per Click.

I love it. I used to have the bad habit of constantly checking on my AdSense earnings by going to Google, and this has helped me limit that time-wasting activity. I only have a few minor gripes about the tool. One being that it can only refresh every 15 minutes at a minimum, so it is not quite real time. Two is that it has went down on me before; all of the readouts went to 0 for a few hours.

The only requirement is that you have the Firefox browser installed. I recommend it over Internet Explorer as it is more secure and it has many great extensions available besides the AdSense Notifier. You can get Firefox at GetFirefox.com, and the AdSense Notifier is at: AdSense Notifier.

You can see what your PageRank is with this tool. Normally, you need the Google Toolbar to see this information, but this tool allows you to view it without installing anything.

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Content is a big deal.

Google AdSense delivers ads to your site's viewers by analyzing the content of your site. In other words, it is contextual advertising. With that in mind, you will not get any advertisements related to your site unless you write specific content. For instance, on this site, you will often see ads for AdSense related companies. Also, if your site is mainly imaged based, there will not be enough text for your site to have AdSense display any content at all, besides "generic" advertisements.

Topical Site Content.

Some sites will be making a lot of money, and others will not, even though they may have a very similar layout and the same amount of text. The reason one is making more dollars could be the topic of the "winning" site. Certain topics will automatically bring higher traffic than other topics. In many cases, having a broad topic that is covered in many other websites provides a low payout, due to the fact that the market is saturated. Having a site focusing on a specific niche can oftentimes make a lot of money.

Quality Over Quantity.

Ok, maybe the heading should be Quality and Quantity. Having informative and high quality content that users cannot find elsewhere will drive your traffic through the roof. If users cannot find your information anywhere else, they will come back again and again to your site. Of course, having a lot of this high quality content will bring users back even more.

Update Your Site.

Frequent updating will update RSS readers, and give you more opportunities to submit your entries to blog catalogs and social bookmarking sites. This in turn will cause your website traffic to increase. More traffic equals more exposure to your advertisements.

Fark is one great site. Some of the funniest headlines and the weirdest stories around, not to mention the Photoshop contests.

It also a great site to submit articles to. Some of my highest traffic comes from Fark. Just set yourself up with an account, and get to work. Don't spam the forums; don't constantly submit new links. Have the decency to wait at least an hour between submissions, and only submit entries that others will be interested.

Currently, most of my traffic comes from Fark, about 36%. You will not be able to view the comments of the stories you submit. In order to do that, you need to sign up for TotalFark, which is only $5 a month. You can sign up at TotalFark. Note that I am not an advertiser or on Fark's payroll... I just love the site!

Bill

Check out this tool. It allows you to determine the optimal keyword density for use on your web site. This allows people searching for topics related to your site to find it much easier.

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