December 04 2009

Why Fast Hosting for AdSense Sites

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Lets talk about most concerning issue with Google AdSense. It may not seem to be obvious at the first glance why you want a fast and reliable hosting for AdSense sites — and virtually any of your content site that you create specifically to earn money from contextual advertising or other advertising programs.

First, let us make it clear.

You can host your site on free hosting service. Nothing is going to stop you. During your application, it may increase your chance to be accepted into the program if you have a professional site with your own domain.

Why Fast Hosting for AdSense SitesBut, really, after being accepted, you can take any low quality hosting service and use it for any of your new site.

The thing, I recommend that you always go for the fastest and greatest hosting you can afford for several reasons. It better has to be reliable too. Why?

1. It increases your professionalism

Don’t expect everyone run on broadband. Many people are still on dialup, although broadband penetration is certainly going up. So you optimize your page to load in a breeze.

The sad thing is, with slow hosting which hiccups during peak time, you have just ruined your hard work. Click! Your visitor has just clicked anywhere else, instead of your AdSense ads.

2. It caters to low attention span problem

People have shorter attention span online. It develops over time as there are more pages to choose and read everyday. If your whole page, including Google AdSense ad blocks don’t load in a few short seconds, they are not going to wait.

The back button is just one click away…

Remember that AdSense ads are loaded based on JavaScript code. Although it is a safe bet that Google is usually fast, still you need to load the page fast enough before user browser can start querying for the ads.

3. It increases your income.

Yes, it really does. For every visitor that you miss because of your sluggish hosting, for every minute or even second it goes down, you have just lost your AdSense dollar.

This is not something you can afford, especially given the fact that there are inexpensive hosting packages that actually deliver values.
Best Practices for Hosting

This doesn’t mean that you must go for the most expensive hosting package.

Nowadays, you can get a good hosting package for as low as $10 per month. You just have to shop around, do your own due diligence before getting your credit card out.

Have third opinions. Don’t hesitate to ask.

Some hosting allow multiple domains per account.

So shop around.

March 30 2009

Why should you not launch an incomplete website

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1) Users will remember that your site was incomplete and will be less willing to come back

2) Search engines may index incomplete pages and cache them and then not refresh their cache for months or years

3) Other webmasters will not exchange links with incomplete sites

4) Directories won’t accept submissions from incomplete sites

Keep in mind this generally covers your “under construction” kind of incomplete sites. You certainly can launch a site and then continually add to it and grow it. Even adding whole new sections. But a site that is obviously incomplete just shouldn’t be set loose in the wild until it is ready to go.

February 07 2009

Tips to Make Money Blogging

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There are too many on-line advertisements promise you can make money, up to $20 an hour, blogging part time; at least you can make $20 per post. The hype is enough to make you want to start three or four blogs get started making money right away. Before you do, get the facts straight, without a sales pitch, about how to make money blogging.

It isn’t as easy to make money blogging as many advertisers make it sound, but it can be done. There are a few rules and realities of blogging that you must know and acknowledge in order to make money blogging. Otherwise, you will waste hours and hours and end up with no money at all.

Make Money Blogging: Don’t Buy A Program to Teach You

First, don’t pay anyone to teach you how to make money blogging. There are no big secrets. At best, someone is trying to sell you an e-book they have written. It may how to tell you how to make money blogging, but their main objective is to make money selling e-books. At worst, they may try to get you to pay a hundred dollars or more to get involved in a pyramid scheme teaching others to make money while blogging. There is actually no blogging involved and you stand to lose more money than you make.

Make Money Blogging: Find a Niche Market

Before you begin blogging for money you must to decide on a market niche in which you are interested and in which you have valuable and purposeful information to share with readers. Genuine knowledge is crucial in developing a readership that will help you make money.

The best way to develop a following is to find a very specific niche and share information that is helpful. If you want to make money blogging, the objective is not to sell your information, but to draw readers to your site. Monetizing, or making money from your blog, comes a little later.

Making Money Blogging: Keep your Blog Interesting

Keep readers returning to your blog by writing informative articles every day. The articles don’t need to be long, 300 to 400 words is sufficient. Unless you are an eloquent or riveting writer keeping reader’s engaged for lengthy articles is difficult.