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Google Adsense Payment Late? Don’t Sweat it!

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

So there is a big buzz for the worried and the anxious Adsense publishers out there today on the Internet. Why? Because Google is slow making their payment for the end of April. Don’t sweat it!

Easy to say right? Well my wife and I have a total of over $26,000 USD due in Adsense income so we could certainly stress about it, but after 5 years of always getting our money, we choose NOT to stress it.

Here is a quote on Twitter from the Adsense team. This sounds like the Adsense team for sure. Adsense has ALWAYS paid me and my wife, even though they have been late the odd time. (more…)

The Adsense Dream

Sunday, May 25th, 2008

The Adsense Dream is a common one for millions of webmasters around the world, and this the reason I still think Adsense income is so amazing. If you play by the rules, and create original content, you can make some serious money from anywhere in the world. The Adsense dream can become reality in India, America, Canada, Egypt, Slovakia, Australia, England, Sweden, or anywhere else you may live.

I was hooked on the idea of big Adsense income profits once upon a time. May 2004 to be more precise. I was dumbfounded by the reality that you could own a website for under $40 a year in cost, and could make anywhere from $5 bucks a month to over $10,000 a month. The $80 bucks a year is broken down into: $8 per year for domain fees, and $3 per month for hosting fees.

The paragraph is so old hat for experienced Internet entrepreneurs it would put them to sleep in a heart beat. For those webmasters who are succeeding online, the above paragraph is a big “so what”, and for those who have been trying for years, it’s a big “yeah right”. For those who are just discovering what Google Adsense is and have just found that they could make money with simply writing content on a website (and work from home without a boss), it’s a big, “holy shit!

Sounds so good right. The only problem is finding the time to learn all the tricks of the trade, and then apply all those tricks consistently over time. After 5 years of working on the Adsense dream, and trying all of the so-called tricks of the trade, I learned a very important fact. Tricks don’t work. Why? Because the search engines are so sophisticated now that trying to game the system is a futile endeavour. Yes, there are some young, inexperienced, and crafty webmasters who believe that they CAN game the search engines, and they can. For a very limited amount of time. I don’t call a temporary profit garnered from temporary traffic as succeeding at the Adsense dream. Making the Adsense Dream come true means having web properties that have a consistent flow of traffic and that traffic is consistent and growing. You are receiving traffic because the content on your website or blog is pure original content.

How To Make The Adsense Dream Come True

It’s simple. Original content consistently loaded on to your domain. Very simple right. Problem is you need LOTS of this quality original content.

The Adsense Dream With Your Own Content

You do this yourself with great results and make up and above $1200 a day. Don’t believe it’s possible. This guy makes more than that. Now, to do what Ask The Builder (home improvement) did you have to write information that people need and want. Information that is passed around the Internet and gets incoming links from other websites, blogs, and webmasters. ATB gets repeat traffic from users who want to see his information multiple times, and it’s a big snowball effect.

The Adsense Dream With Other Peoples Content

The other option which can produce insane amounts of website traffic and make your wildest Adsense Dreams come true, is using other peoples content. A perfect example of this would be the ingenious web property called Plenty of Fish (dating). Other people use the site and create a non-stop flow of fresh original content. At the same time, other websites link to it as an authority in the genre. This website makes upwards of $80,000 – $100,000 per month. This is the most amazing way to make money online. Setup a community based website that millions of visitors spend time making your money for you. The catch is that you need to provide them with a reason to be on your website.

Now, you may be asking yourself how much I make from Adsense. It varies from month to month depending which way the cyber-wind is blowing, but we average about $6000 per month profit. We pay for some traffic, and some of it is free traffic. The reason we finally succeeded is because we quit trying to game the search engines, stopped trying to create inbound link, quite trying to rehash used Internet content, and simply created web sites that have original fresh content.

My wife and I don’t make crazy amounts of money from the Adsense Dream, but we make more than we ever did working for someone, and we work from home. If I want some extra cash for “special things”, like home improvement, or travel, then sometimes I’ll go work for someone else – but only on a temporary contract basis.

What astonishes me the most is that when I stop working on the Internet for months at a time, the money still keeps flowing into our bank accounts. The people keep surfing the Internet, and they keep finding our sites and blogs, and a small percentage of those visitors decide to click an “Ad By Google”.

Since I’ve seen the magic of web building business, I have been formulating ways to create a community based web site that uses the 2nd example of the Adsense dream. This is not a simple task as most good ideas have been used to death. For every successful idea there are thousands of copycats. You need to create something completely original.

Have fun and don’t stop dreaming. Someday your Adsense Dream may come true!

How To Hard-Wire (Embed) Your Adsense Code Into ANY Wordpress Theme

Wednesday, June 27th, 2007

I get asked this question allot so here goes:

Q - how do I embed my Adsense code into my Wordpress theme

A - If you’ve never customized a Wordpress blog with your Adsense code. (I mean hard-wiring your Adsense code into your blog template without using like Adsense Deluxe)

1. Start by loading the Wordpress Default theme instead of whatever Theme you’re in love with at the moment. (just do it…..we’ll come back to the theme you are in love with later) Do that by going Dashboard/Presentation and clicking the Default theme. Check your blog to make sure it took

2.

 a) Watch this video on how to upload my custom Adsence Default template PHP files: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3682320675084757149

b) (click here to download my Adsense ready PHP files for the Wordpress Default theme – This download is a .RAR archive file, (I use .RAR instead of .ZIP), but your unzip program should be able to expand the .RAR) 

c) Make sure you open all of my customized PHP files with notepad, or your html editor, after you download them, and put your Adsense publisher ID and channel codes in place of the XXXXXXs I have there.  

d) After you have downloaded my PHP files, and changed all the Adsense code to yours, you need to upload them using your FTP client. Upload them to your Wordpress Themes directory, into the Default Theme folder/directory. Click YES OK TO COPY OVER FILES IN THERE ALREADY.  

3. NOW…take a look at your blog. You should see the nice Adsense ads all over the place bucko. So now you’re still saying,

“But Terry, I want to use the Wordpress theme that I’m so in love with (today anyway)”

You can, but first you need to go into your Dashboard, then click Presentation, then click Theme Editor. Yo can now see all of your Default Theme PHP files listed on the right hand side.

Take a look at all of the theme files that I had you upload. You’ll see where the Adsense code is because you were already there when you changed all my XXXXXXXXs into your Adsense code. 

Now take a GOOD close look at where I pasted the Adsense code. Guess how I knew where to place Adsense code?………I didn’t know!

It was all trial and error by your humble narrator. I just kept placing different Adsense ads into different places in the PHP files until it looked great. You need to do the same, but MAKE SURE you backup your theme first on your desktop, so when you play around with your Adsense placement and inevitably destroy your template files, you can quickly revert back to the original PHP file, and get your blog all back together again.   

This is what you have to do to hard-wire your Adsense code into ANY Wordpress template you want. Trial and error my friend. No-one said this Interent income thing was going to be easy, and if they did……..well I probably did. 

Have fun, and make your Adsense ads stick out like sore thumbs. That’s where the money is.  

Project Black Mask or Black Mask Adsense Review

Saturday, June 23rd, 2007

I admit to “dabbling on the dark side” of affliate marketing and SERP manipulation. It took years of playing around with different scripts, tools, keyword concepts, etc. I do make about $700 USD per month using grayish tactics, but I’m far from an unabashed black-hat webmaster.   

That said, I still buy up every eBook on the subject of black-hat techniques, and I’ve been eagerly awaiting the “Project Black Mask”, or “Black Mask Adsense” release.

I’m aware of most black-hat techinques (well at least I thought I was), but after first reading this lengthy document, and watching the videos, my brain is in overload. The people who do this stuff are brilliant, and the Black Mask Adsense project is an 11 out of 10 rating.

The Best Part About Black Mask Adsense

The best part about Project Black Mask is that many of these techniques can be used on legitimate web properties. I’ll be using at least 3 of these easy techniques on my “pure as snow” white-hat sites immedeatly.

The Worst Thing About Black Mask Adsense

The worst thing about Black Mask Adsense, is that it’s available to all who are interested in making bags of money from online traffic. These techniques have never been issued to the mainstream – this creates more competition.

So that’s it. If you’re wanting to take a trip on the dark side, I’d have to say Black Mask is worth it.  

– Terry 

Remove Your Adsense Code When You Are Working On Your Site

Friday, September 22nd, 2006

Well, I’ve been off at work on one of my blogs (as you can tell by my posting frequency on Zulit these days). As with all my blogs and sites these days, I work hard for months to get things up and rolling. When the blog is receiving steady flow of traffic, I then move on to another.

When I’m working on a blog, I’m loading pages frequently to the tune of a couple hundred page loads in one day of work. This not a good thing when your Adsense ads on those pages. This makes your Adsense CTR and eCPM drop like a stone. Not good, as there is great speculation among Adsense publishers that low CTR (and in turn lower eCPM) can cause low paying Adwords ads placed on your pages.

Anyway, I did not remove the Adsense code from my blog as I worked on it. After a week of work, my income per click on my Adsense account dropped considerably. I caught myself slowly, and removed my Adsense on the busy working pages that I was modifying. Keep in mind that I have been working on Wordpress blog theme customization, so I have to load pages often to test my work. After a week of my CTR climbing, and my eCPM as well, the ads presented on my pages began to climb up again.

Lesson learned: when working on your sites and blogs consider removing your Google Adsense code until you are done.