It has been a big week for bloggers launching products and making special offers. AdSense guru Joel Comm has this week also announced a new product (or rather an update of an old one) called AdSense Secrets 4.0. Joe’s written many resources for those wanting to improve their AdSense earnings and his book on the topic has been a best seller on Amazon. This week he’s launched his 4th version of the product. Before you visit his sales page - take a deep breath. It’s long, its full of sales talk…. but the product is only $9.95 (his previous ones have been $97). Joe’s AdSense resources are always a great resource for those starting out with AdSense - so if you’re wanting to improve your AdSense performance or want a good introduction to it a $9.95 investment is definitely worth it. If that’s you just scroll to the bottom of his sales page, skip the sale and click purchase - you’ll save yourself 15 minutes of reading an watching videos in the process!

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I just logged into my AdSense account to check my nightly stats and found a new reporting option in the ‘Advance Reports’ section (pictured below). Now you can choose to view ‘Ad Units’ or ‘Link Units’ or ‘Both’. Ad Units are all of your normal ad units (text ads, image ads, video ads) and ‘Link Units’ are those little adlink unit ads that many bloggers use around their navigational areas that take readers to a second page of ads. it’s good to see these stats as they were previously all mixed into one in the advance reports unless you’d set them up in channels.

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Just under a week ago AdSense rolled out their new Sliding/Scrolling feature on Text Ads. The response from ProBlogger readers was mixed to say the least and included: “They’re interesting. I like that the arrows are pretty small, yet visible to those who are paying attention to the ads.” Stephanie “What a waste - do they really think that people looking at Adsense will take the time find a couple of tiny arrows to look at more ads?” - Blogthority “I’m not a big fan of bells and whistles, so it annoys me a little bit to see more moving parts on a website. On the other hand, if it offers more-relevant ads and gets more clicking for the bloggers, then I’m all for it!” - Jeff “This seems counterintuitive. People don’t like ads anyway, why would they actively scroll to see more ads?” - Lulu “I think it will help people get more targeted ads” - Alex “I am definitely wanting the option to turn it off.”- Prince John OK - so there are a lot of opinions - but one of the questions that I’m left with today is - have the addition of the ability to see more ads in AdSense units led to any changes in your actual earnings? Does the ability for people to see more ads increase the chance of them clicking more and you being paid more? Does it lead to a higher eCPM (amount earned per 1000 page views)? At this stage it’s too early to be conclusive but in spending some time today checking over my own stats I’m not sure there’s much of a difference. In fact if anything some of my AdSense channels have had a decrease in CTR over the past week. I’m hesitant to draw too many conclusions but here is a graph (without any figures) of the CTR and eCPM of one blog with AdSense on it at the moment. The 3 April was the day that the scrolling ads went live on most people’s ads. As I say - it’s too early for conclusions - particularly with just sampling one blog. There’s many explanations for differences in CTR and eCPM however I’d be interested to hear if anyone else has noticed any changes in your AdSense performance over the last week? Share This

Blogs are an extremely powerful tool for earning money online

The following are three time-tested methods for doing so:

Affiliate Programs

One of the most powerful and popular means of earning from your blog is through the marriage of your blog and an affiliate program.  With the proliferation of gigantic affiliate networks such as Clickbank, Commission Junction and Share-A-Sale, it has never been easier to hook your blog up to a tested seller on a large network, and start earning. Read the full story

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Monetized blogs power-charge your online money making ability with Monster Money Maker mobility. How can you pass up an opportunity to drive massive numbers of people to a website and help them out? Isn’t that your purpose for managing a business online? You want to help people. Are you looking for ways to multiply your income from blogging?

Generate more than one blog and drive traffic to more than one blog. If you have a lot to say, say it on the Internet with income creating capabilities. It truly is your responsibility to earn an income from your writing. If you’re not earning, you’ll soon not have time to post your thoughts and people will be losing the benefit of your experience. You must earn an income from your posts and thoughts. Read the full story

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Unless you’ve been living in a cave for the past couple of years, you probably heard of blogging. You may also think there is no way you could do it. I am here to tell you that blogging is a great home based Internet business idea and I want to explain why I say that.

First of all blogging takes most of the hard technical aspects of Internet marketing out of your hands. Using a good blogging software allows you to concentrate on content and not on Web page building, tables, HTML, and these sort of things. Read the full story

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Necessary tools can act as distractions and timewasters for bloggers, especially for the newbie bloggers. These five distractions not only waste much time, but also prick the morale of the bloggers.

1. Readership statistics

This week I have only 42 visitors. Last week I had 57. Where have 15 readers gone? Looking over at the blog statistics can take 30-120 minutes/day, even if you have only a few readers. Spending more than 5 minutes a week analyzing traffic statistics is a waste of time. Read the full story

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According to Wikipedia blogging is a website where entries are written in chronological order, and displayed in reverse order.  There are many reasons people blog and here are some of them:

1. You want to tell a story - If you ever attended a college or a large university, there is  usually a location where people can speak their mind, and if anyone is bored they can lend an ear.  Now, if you are like most people (or belong to the world of nerdopolitans like me) , you would be make a puddle below you before uttering a single word in public.  Well, now you can speak your message, make your point and don’t have to worry about finding the nearest restroom.  Yes, you can speak your mind and if anybody cares, you’ll have a reader. Read the full story

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The use of internet has become very common these days. It can be considered as one of the most effective phenomenon human beings have ever seen. In this situation many people have turned towards online businesses. The online businesses can only help you in making money online if you promote them properly. Promotion of an online business is very important. Read the full story

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The use of social media in promotional efforts is becoming more common these days. The number of web sites on the World Wide Web is increasing at a very fast pace. Due to this change the internet marketers now have to worry about finding new and innovative ways of promoting as web site. In this regard the use of social media and especially the blogs is very common. Blogs are chronological record of people’s opinion about any particular topic. Blogs are written by people while maintained by some web site. These are a very effective promotional tool. There are many people who are making a lot of money through blogging. If you want to be one of those people, you need to know few secrets to the success in blogging. Read the full story

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