Google Adsense recently updated their program policies and one of the noteworthy update is that you are allowed to place up to 3 link units on a page. Link units in my opinion provides great extra income and you should make full use of the new update. I have placed a second link unit on the right bar if you have noticed which does blend well with the layout.

Here are some tips from me to increase your search engine ranking positions as well as some unorthodox method to gain traffic for certain keywords.

Post Early
Posting early about a certain event can easily get you into the top postions of the search engines. For e.g. if you have a technology blog, posting about the recent Microsoft Surface could easily get you into top positions for some keywords (even if your blog does not fare well in links) if you are lucky. From my observation, search engines like Google definitely take date of posting into consideration (although not entirely) so try to make full use of this. Sometimes I would go to Google Trends for hot keywords and then blog about them and I do get significant traffic for some of these keywords.

Steal High Traffic Keywords Data From Other Bloggers
It is not easy to find high traffic keywords with little competition and sometimes you can leech this data from other bloggers from their recent comments or most popular posts. These are the posts that yield the most traffic and you can study these or even compete with them by blogging about those keywords as well. Confirm that the traffic is worth venturing by studying it in Google Trends. One of the keywords that I have leeched was ’scary maze’ which is still a good performing keyword up to today. There are still many high traffic keyword with little competition out there so make full use of this tip.

Comments are Great Content
A recent keyword of mine ‘chris angel’ has seen an increment of traffic up to 100% after a lot of people post comments on it. After that I had been scoring a lot of traffic from combination keywords such as ‘chris angel fake’, ‘chris angel antichris’ and many others. Always make your comment section easy for other guys to post comments or perhaps bait your readers to actually comment by posting controversial or great ideas.

That’s all for the tips and do give me feedback so that I can give more great tips next time.

I haven’t kept in touch with my financial goals lately after I realized that there is only so much you can do as a person. There is just not enough time for so many blogs and perhaps concentrating on one or two would have been more ideal.

I also did went and work out on Amazon affiliate again during these period of lacking updates and my conclusion is that Amazon affiliate is pretty much dead. I will tell you why about this in detail in an upcoming post which I would reveal all the products that I have campaigned on. I didn’t make a loss but I only earned a measly profit of $30 after a big spending of around $650 on ads. This would probably be the last of my Amazon affiliate campaigns.

Great, let’s get on with the real topic here so here are my earnings breakdown.

Google Adsense - 1436.31
Kontera - 218.76
Blogads - 105
Text Link Ads - 55.45
Chitika - 45.20
Amazon - 30

Total - 1890.72

Well I’m not too happy with the earnings breakdown, its just that I’m too dependent on Adsense which takes around 76% of the cake. I definitely need to diversify more on other revenue sources since I definitely do not want to put all my eggs in one basket. Kontera was the only good alternative and I started late on it so there should be an increase next month. I have also seen an increment in next month’s text link ads revenue(a few of them came late of the month and only a portion was included here) after I use the blog posts feature.

This month I was also invited to an Adsense Optimization Invitation by Google but they did asked me to refrained this information with other publishers or the media so that’s pretty much all that I can say. Moving on, I am planning to concentrate on niche blogs since in the long run, these are the ones that would benefit most.

I was reading this on CNN Money and I can’t believe this guy slipped past our noses without us knowing it. Kevin Ham has built a $300 million empire and definitely deserves the name of web domain dotcom mogul. How did he do it?

These people are called domain squatters, who profit by buying domains and then either reselling them or in the case of a typo, sells Yahoo ppc ads that often direct users to the web site they intended on going to in the first place. Except that Kevin Ham is a level above the average domain squatters - he writes software to ensure that he buys domains as soon as they are expired.

His latest scheme - Kevin Ham buys .cm domains of popular web domains such as newyorktimes.cm or beer.cm and these generate millions of views every day. These pages directs users to a site called agoga.com, a web portal that composed of Yahoo ads. He partners this venture with the West African contry of Cameroon where they share the revenue earnings.

This really gave insight to me how a simple idea on the internet can actually generate millions of earnings and how these are the things which was never thought of before. Well at least I still have my good ol blogging hobby.

Finally our prayers of honest Adsense earners has been answered - it seems that Google finally starts to shutdown accounts of those Adsense Arbitrageurs as reported by SeroundTable.

How does Adsense Arbitrage work? An example would be paying $0.10 per click on Adwords and then make a profit of an average $0.30 per click with Adsense. This way they could earn a profit of average $0.20 for each click. Expand the number of clicks and you can easily earn a fortune. However these MFA sites are an eyesore and a menace for those wanting a good internet experience and they really put down the quality of Adsense ads. Advertisers are also made to pay for unwanted clicks since users are usually ‘tricked’ into clicking these ads.

One Adsense Arbitrageur commented that

They told me my account will be disabled at 1st June, and also added that I’ll receive payment for all outstanding earnings in accordance with the standard AdSense payment schedule.

The email came out of the blue and Google explains that the business model is not a good fit for Adsense. Some of these publishers are reported to earn $70,000 per month or more. Hopefully we ‘honest Adsense earners’ gets to see an increase of CPC after these terminations. Expecting official word on this from Google soon.