Acne Articles

This fairly new site I have has some real good articles about clearing up acne. I also was surprised to see that the bids on the acne keywords for adwords are fairly high. I guess there is a lot of competition for cures and treatments among both the medical industry and the so called alternative industry.

Anyways, if you have a problem with acne check out Acne Articles

Phelan, Phelan Phelan

Yes. Three Phelans! In one day.

Today, just by chance I was coming home from a trip and passed through Phelan California for the first time. Then I had to make a stop at a bookstore and by chance saw a book written by a Phelan and minutes later I drove on Phelan Ave. in San Jose, which is a street I have been on before but not that often.

Kind of a weird coincedence. Or was it? :-0

Back to Internet Marketing in a few hours. I have a bunch of stuff I want to write about. :-)

Tips on Using Google Adwords to get Traffic to Increase Adsense Income.

I have been doing something a little different for me the last few weeks and thought I would share it. I have seen people ask about using adwords to get traffic to a primarily adsense type site and I had tried that months ago without much success. But if you get the right site and the right adwords ad it can work.

Here is what you need to make it work I think:

1. A site that people will want to come back to. For whatever reason they bookmark the site or just remember the name. ( Or perhaps you can set up the a newsletter capture page and send out something to get them to come back.)

2. Steady use of the adwords ad. If it is working at all and you do get the repeat visitors then you should see a steady improvement on the cost of the adwords ad and the revenue of the adsense.

For example, if on the first day you try this and you spend $10 and you get $10.50 from adsense, then you may be tempted to say "That's not going to work. 50 cents? Big deal." and stop the ad. But if you keep it going and you see a steady increase in profit margin then you should keep the ad going. That means people are coming back. Eventually you may want to stop the ad but why as long as your traffic and margin keeps going up?

3. Having an affiliate product or your own product to sell on the site also. This may help you determine whether or not to keep trying to use adwords to get traffic to the site.

This particular site where I got over 1000 clicks yesterday was doing OK for months at a couple hundred clicks. But I tried an inexpensive adwords campaign and the amount I spend on the campaign has remained the same as the amount of traffic has continued to increase to the point now that it is 5 times more than what it was.

I am trying this on a few other sites as well, including one site that is a pure sales site for a niche industry, reselling hundreds of products from shareasale. This one is a little different because I am spending more on the adwords than what I am making on adsense and the sales of the products combined. However I am willing to do that because I see a decrease in the difference and I can see it reaching the point where I will be making more because this site is well made, has a good domain name that people should remember and I want to brand the site.

So is using adwords, or any ppc advertising, a worthwhile way to make money from your adsense sites? I would say yes, but you need to pay attention, watch the figures and test the ads. If it doesn't work out, try another site though. Many just won't work this way. And this probably won't work with the average adsense type site with just articles, feeds and adsense.

Tim

ps...I am thinking of using a geo targeted script so that I can also use YPN ads on this site and seeing what happens. For those who don't use YPN ads the interesting part is you can choose the type of ad for each site if you want. So instead of having contexual ads that may not pay much you can get say insurance or loan ads that may pay 10 times as much. This is something you need to test as well. For example, if this site that gets 1000 clicks from Google contexual ads and makes $100 a day then changes to YPN and gets only
150 clicks but makes $160 a day then you will probably want to switch over to YPN.

However you need to have a script to make the ads geo targeted because yahoo wants the ads only showing in the USA now. Plus something to consider is that the 1000 adsense clicks perday will probably be a much more consistant figure than the 160 YPN clicks per day. Again, you just need to pay attention and test.

Free AutoResponder Test Drive - Newsnletters

NewsnLetters is a new Autoresponder we just released. Try it out for free. We believe people will love all the features which include:

- handles unlimited lists from a single hosting account (the only limits are your hosting ressources)

- easy member management for active users, pending subscribers

- automatic blacklist management (for unsubscribed optins)

- automatic optin queue manangement (for the people waiting to confirm their subscriptions)

- you record each subscriber's subscription date, and ip address (necessary for preventing spam complaints)

- two subscribing types (get simple subscribers by simply asking for their first name and email address), or double-opt in -- the visitor must confirm the subscription by clicking on a link sent to his email address. Otherwise he won't receive any email message from the list owner (this feature is the best to fight spam and also, it prevents getting fake emails in the list).

- create a new list in 2 and a half seconds

- export and import subscribers in CSV format (you can open it with MS Excel)

- one click database backup and one click database restore

- default or custom made thank you for joining pages

- automatically generates RSS feeds for your newsletters to get traffic from search engines and get more people into your list

- can be installed on the same database with other database driven scripts

- automatically generates HTML code for pasting it into your pages and getting subscribers and validates the entry before submitting it

- only real email addresses get into your list, the fake ones won't be accepted

- multilanguage interface

- timezone enabled, avoid sending messages at 9 AM if your server's time is actually 10 PM

- simple and advanced text editor to choose from

- rich text editor for sending HTML emails to your visitors (interface is similar to Microsoft Word)

- automatic text wrapping

- suports text emails and HTML ones

- replaceable variables (send email using your subscriber's name, personalised subscription links, and more)

- automatic affiliate link hider (e.g. www.newsnletters.com/recommends/tagandping will be redirected to http://www.1shoppingcart.com/app/?Clk=1439591)

- supports single attachements, or multiple attachements, and you don't even have to wait for the upload to finish. Ajax and iframes will let you continue writing the newsletter during the upload

- choose how many emails per hour would you like to send to each domain name (to avoid getting extra messages being rejected)

- smart sender -> you can activate this feature in case the SMTP connection fails. We will use the next possible way of sending emails to your subscribers if the default one is not available.

- upload local files from client computer (no FTP knowledge required) and send them as an attachement

- free installation, and configuration, it is a totally turn key system! you pay for it, and we deliver