How to Avoid Having Your AdSense Accout Banned for Click Fraud

If you trawl through the AdSense message boards you can’t help but come across tales of woe from AdSense publishers that have had their account banned by Google.

Below is a list of ways people have been banned from AdSense and information on how to avoid it happening to you.

Don’t click on your own ads

The obvious one but still people do it. Google has the IP address of the computer/s that you’ve used to create and check your AdSense account. If it sees that this IP address clicks one of your ads you’re in trouble.

Don’t do it. It’s theft. Not from Google but from the AdWords advertisers.

If you want to go to a site advertised by one of your ads don’t click on it look at the URL of the advertising site at the bottom of the ad and type it into your browser.

If you click on one accidentally (which does happen) you’re probably be ok but it’s worth dropping a quick email to Google with an explanation and apology

Don’t log in to AdSense from a shared computer.

As I said above Google keeps a record of every machine IP address used to look at your account. If you check your stats on a machine then someone else clicks on your ads from the same machine Google sees this as click fraud. Worth bearing in mind when thinking of checking your stats from somewhere like an Internet Café.

Don’t log in to your AdSense account from work.

Apart from getting in trouble with the company that employs you there’s also a further real risk. Most companies use a proxy server to access the Internet. A proxy server with ONE IP ADDRESS. Therefore you checking your ads from work means this proxy IP address being recorded by Google as one that you use. Problem is if there are 1000 people in your company it is the same IP address for them too. Google can’t differentiate between you and the other 999 employees in your company. If one of these 999 clicks on one of your ads it’s ban time.

Don’t get into a ‘I’ll click your ads if you click mine’ agreement with another Webmaster.

As above Google will have your IP address and that of every AdSense publisher. If they see these IP addresses consistently clicking on each other ads it’s goodbye for both of you.

Don’t tell friends and family.

Telling friends and family about your money making websites can lead to problems. Even if you tell them not to click on your ads there’s always the chance that Auntie Maud will think it’s a good idea to make some extra money for her favourite nephew. 100 clicks later from the same visitor and your account is screaming ‘Click Fraud’.

Receiving clicks from illegal traffic

Check the AdSense TOS for sources of traffic that aren’t allowed by Google. These include methods like Traffic exchange, PTC advertising, Auto surf etc.

Do monitor your visitor and AdSense figures

Check your account at least once a day. If you see a massive spike coupled with a massive increase in Page CTR investigate using your visitor stats website. If you see it’s all come from the same IP address you could have been the victim of a malicious attack – inform Google via email and offer them access to your logs.

Adsense Tools

Asrep
is the tool to track the clicks and the impressions real time with total information about the visitors IP,Refrel and more with clicked ad URL, ad color etc (trial version is limited to some specific features but you can use it for unlimited time)

Adsense Notifier -
Firefox extension that displays your Adsense earnings on the Firefox statusbar.

SysSense
personal desktop Google AdSense monitor. It keeps your current Google AdSense information in the Windows system tray.


Adsense Widget -
a Mac Dashboard widget that automatically logs into your AdSense Google account and displays the last 6-days of revenue generated from your Google advertising account.

Google Adsense Yahoo Widget -
displays the current income directly from your Google AdSense account.

Stats for AdSense widget -
allows you to view your Google AdSense™ reports directly from your Mac OS X Dashboard.

Adsense Status -
GoogleDesktop plugin to View earnings information from your Google Adsense account in the Google Desktop sidebar. Available information: page impressions, clicks, page CTR, page eCPM, and your earnings.

Adsense Alert -
desktop client monitors your adsense earnings.

Adsense Gold Tracker -
tracks clicks from Google adsense and Yahoo publisher network ads

AdLogger -
an open source Adsense tracker designed for web publishers and website owners.

Performancing Metrics -
a free professional grade blog statistics service that track limited adsense click data

AdSenseDesktop -
provides a wide variety of analysis methods for your AdSense statistics.

Google AdSense Module (Clicksafe) -
edition Google Adsense module for Joomla.

Adsense earnings RSS feed -
a simple script that will create an RSS feed with your daily Adsense earnings to track via your regular feed reader.

Google AdSense Charts and Graphs -
chart your adsense data in a multidimensional line charts.

AdSenseLog
is a tool for checking and analyzing your Adsense ads data (Content, Search, Custom/URL channels and Referrals).

Adsense Secrets: Getting More Clicks on Your Ads

More CTR (Click Thru Ratio) means more clicks on your Google Ads. But, is CTR all about position and colors of your ads? No! It's a lot more than that. CTR also depends upon the quality of traffic, relevancy of ads, and even the subject of your website. Let's get in detail:

Do you own a High CTR website?

Yes! CTR varies from Industry to industry too. It depends upon the keywords you are using to make your web page. It has been observed that more technical the topic is (but not necessarily) less CTR it will give you (for example Search Engine Optimization, Affiliate Network - exceptions are always there), but still works if the Ad content is well written.

However, this is only one condition; there are many undiscovered conditions that affect the CTR of keywords. At times, a particular season also has an effect on the performance of keywords. For example family of 'Turkey recipe' keyword is more active around November and December only and a quite sluggish rest of the year. It becomes really necessary to study the behavior of keywords before starting a massive website of Adsense around a topic.

Your Ad Position and Color: Old, but very effective

Google heat map helps improve the CTR (Clicks Thru Ratio) of your website by suggesting you the most converting areas for your Adsense Ads. You can have a glance at the Google's Survey that illustrates the ideal placements of ads on your web page.
https://www.google.com/support/adsense
/bin/static.py?page=tips.html#17954

Darker the area, better will be the performance of your ads. Your visitor tends to click on these darker areas more often than the other areas of the web page. Ads placed near rich content usually do well because users are focused on those areas of your web page. For example, on pages where users are typically focused on reading an article, ads placed directly below the concluding part of high quality content tend to perform well, as the visitors are left with no other choice except clicking the Ad block.

Get Targeted Traffic - The Most Essential Part

Traffic that is interested in your content (also called targeted traffic) is interested in your ads too. Thus, there is every likelihood that your ads will be clicked more frequently. Targeted traffic means more CTR, more earnings, and enhanced ad convertibility. On the other hand, the untargeted visitors are not interested either in your content or your ads, so keep your website's traffic targeted.

You can gather highly targeted traffic for your website by web promotion strategy and effective optimization of your web page structure. Effective web promotion strategy requires an appropriate Anchor text and more back links from relevant websites. And, to develop an effective web page structure, you have to optimize your Title Text, internal linking of your website, and most importantly your web content, in the best possible manner.

Choose the Right Anchor Text for Back Link Campaigns

Choosing the right anchor text for back links promotes your website to the traffic you exactly need from the search engines. Choose the Anchor text that directly speaks to your visitors and pulls the traffic that your web page requires. Targeted traffic results in increased CTR of ads. It helps promote your website to that segment of traffic, which is precisely searching for your content (or you can say the traffic that is most profitable to you). Targeting irrelevant keyword reduces your CTR by gathering the traffic which is not interested in your content or ads.

Wisely Choose the Title Text of Your Web Page

Title text of your webpage appears in the SERPs (Search Engine Result Pages) as the Title link to your web page. Therefore, it is the title Text that directly speaks to the surfer on SERPs (Search Engine Result Pages) about your content's theme. It acts like a Free Advertisement Link to your website. If your title text does not interest the surfer, you lose considerable amount of much-needed traffic. Figure out a Title text that directly communicates with your potential visitors, brings targeted traffic, and enhances the CTR of your AdSense Ads. Don't overdo your title text, and use less than ten keywords in your title text.

Help Google Detect the Theme of Your Web Page

There are many on-page and off-page elements that affect your ad relevancy. Better targeted ads increase both your CTR and EPC. Here is how to optimize your ads:

Meta Tags

If there is NO CONTENT on your web page, the Google Mediabot will consider the Meta Tags while displaying ads. Meta tags have a considerable affect on the relevancy of your ads. It is advised never to leave this space empty. Also, try to make it as easy as possible for Mediabot to understand the theme of your web page.

Title Text

Google Mediabot gives good weightage to the keywords used in the Title text, which in turn gets reflected in your ads. Choose effective keywords for your Title text. Even the order of words in a keyword can affect the ads that are appearing on your web page. So, choose your keywords wisely.

Headings

Google Mediabot gives importance to the Heading text enclosed in

,

tags present in your web page. After Title text, here is another chance for you to dictate keywords to Google Mediabot.

Boost Relevancy Artificially - Use Google's Section Targeting

Now, you can enhance Ad relevancy by using Google's Section targeting. Using this technique you can advise Google mediabot about the areas of your content which should be considered or ignored while matching the Ads with your content.

For more information on the same topic, visit:
https://www.google.com/support/adsense
/bin/answer.py?answer=23168&topic=371

Use Channels for Analyzing Your Ads' Performance

Try to relate your traffic logs with your CTR stats. You will get to know which Traffic source is giving you what CTR. This will help you recognize the traffic segment which is most converting for your website. Channels allow you to analyze your ads' performance, so that you can pin point the changes that your website needs to boost your AdSense income. There are two types of channels available - URL Channels and Custom Channels. You can use the URL channel to track your performance, without modifying your Ad code. Through URL channels, you can analyze the performance of individual page or a group of pages, based on the directory system of your website.

Custom channels can help you measure the performance of different Ad formats presented in your web pages. And, by pasting channel-specific ad code into your pages, you can track CTR, Impressions, number of clicks each individual ad format is generating, and compare its performance with other web pages.

Block Junk Websites and Competitor Websites from Showing Ads

There are many junk websites that might be displaying ads on your website. These websites steal the traffic from your website and recycle it on their own Adsense ad blocks. Recognize such websites and stick them in Adsense Competitive Ad filter. Also, you can block your competitor websites using this competitive filter.

This trick can sometimes double or triple your Adsense income, augment user experience, and makes look your Google ads more genuine. For more information about this tool, visit:
https://www.google.com/support/adsense
/bin/answer.py?answer=21593&ctx=sibling

The Benefits of Link Building to Website Promotion

Search engine optimization seems to be becoming more and more difficult, with search engine algorithms becoming more complexed with what they require to be important. However, one thing for sure is that backlinks in particular are still one of the most effective search engine optimization techniques.

When you receive links to your website, search engines view this as a vote for your site. Now the value of this vote depends on a number of factors such as the number of outgoing links the page with your link on has, the number of incoming links the page has, and whether the site that contains your link is seen by the search engines as an "authority" site.

There are many contributing factors for your website to rank highly in SERP's, but one thing for sure is that you need to continually build the number and quality of links pointing to your site. This could be through a number of methods:

1) Reciprocal linking - you contact other webmasters to offer the opportunity to provide a link to their website for the same in return.

2) One-way linking - this can be from many methods. Write articles and submit to article directories, add a link in your sig in forums, post opinions on blogs with a link back to your site (providing that the site owner does not mind!), and link directories.

There is no doubt that one-way linking is more powerful than reciprocal linking by a long way. Also consider that reciprocal linking should be conducted with sites that are relevant to your own websites theme.

Link building using your chosen keyword is also important. For example, should you have a website that you would like to rank highly in search engines for the phrase "Dog Beds", then if possible have website owner's link to your site using the search term as the actual link to your site. This shows the search engines that your site is relevant to this keyword phrase, and will rank it highly should you receive many links like this. Merely gaining links to your site is not the ONLY optimization that you must do for your site, as mentioned earlier, but it is certainly a significant contributing factor in search results.

An important note to remember is to never link to "link farms". These are sites that contain hundreds upon hundreds of outgoing links on one page. Search engines do not tend to look upon them favorable, and in any case if your link is also on this "link farm" page, the benefit will be minimal due to the large number of other links taking a share of the value of links from the page.

There are many free article directories, and free link directories where it is possible to gain good quality links to your site. However, paying for a link from a link directory is often very rewarding. You may find that paid directories will guarantee the acceptance of your website within hours to a couple of days. This is compared to many free directories often taking months to review your submission, and may not even approve it in the end. There are some exceptions but the key is to find them. Another good point to remember is that many new link directories that are well setup will possibly have categories with very few websites currently accepted. This provides a great opportunity to submit your site to benefit from the page's link value to the fullest

The Importance of Directories and Text Links

The proper use of search engines is an extremely critical aspect of online marketing. The search engines are the initial way that prospective customers can locate your site. That's the reason link popularity is so necessary. If your customers can't find you, you’ll never see any sales

You may be asking yourself “What is so popular about links”? Well, the short answer to that question is “A lot”. The phrase "Link popularity" alludes to the ranking given to your web site by the search engines. It decides what position your page is given by the search engines when people search for certain keywords contained in your site. You’re probably asking “How do I make my link popular?”

Search engines are arbitrary. They give cachet and capital to web sites that have incoming links to their pages originating from complementary, high caliber sites. It's a very simple, but an extremely important blueprint. Google originated the blueprint, and now nearly all the other popular search engines apply it to give value to web pages in their indexes.

The more customarily your keywords are used, the more difficult it will be to attain good link popularity, but without accomplishing this task, it is virtually assured your web site will never rank very high on any of the search engines. Don't get discouraged. There are tried and proven strategies for gaining good link popularity using the most highly searched keywords.

There are some things you should be aware of. Most importantly, you should know that simply putting one of your links on a large number of web sites will not get your web site good link popularity. The fact of the matter is, doing this will have just the opposite effect. This is especially the case when it involves web sites that exist for nothing other than to post outgoing links. These websites are commonly referred to as “link-farms”. The more popular search engines will vigorously show bias against your web site if it is identified with a link farm, so stay far, far away from them!

Another important fact that you should be aware of is the quality of the web sites that are linking to your site. You should never encourage a link from a site you wouldn't want your visitors to see. You don’t want your web site to look like it’s cheap and aimless. Linking with web sites that are of low quality will weaken your web site’s link popularity, and it could possibly even destroy it.

The first step to improving your search engine rankings and achieving good link popularity is to get your site listed in one or more of the popular directories. Two of the better directories are Yahoo and the Open Directory Project. If you have a business related web site you’ll want to get listed in the Yahoo Directory. The Yahoo Directory charges three hundred dollars per year for a listing. That can be a lot of money for some, but it’s a good business investment. If your web site is not a business related site, the listing is free, however, it will take a lot of follow up and time to get listed. The Open Directory will give you a free listing regardless of what kind of web site you have. Unfortunately, “free” has its price. The price is “time”. It can take many months and many follow up inquiries before your site actually gets listed.

Your objective should be to get your web site listed at the highest level of the most appropriate category. In order to achieve that goal, you need to think things through. For example, if your site is in the business of shipping auto parts from a small town out in the boondocks, DON’T submit your listing request to “Auto Parts in the Boondocks”, that can be a fatal error. Think a little! Submit your web site to “Worldwide Auto Parts”. You will not only associate your web site with the big boys, but you’ll also get your web site listed in an International Directory

Sure ways to make Money with your Website

I think most legitimate work from home/online money making method is designing your own website and then turn it to a host of money making activities. Web site is ultimate money making machine, it earns even when you are sleeping. Today, the Web is an intensely commercial medium, offering plenty of ways to make money. So your best strategy is to earn as much money as possible.

I have enlisted simple & sure ways to earn cash with your website.

ADVERTISING ON YOUR WEBSITE : The best and most proven method of making a profit out of your website is using advertising. Internet advertising is on an ascending trend, which shows plenty of potential for the near and distant future.

1. Contextual Ads : The popular search engine - Google has introduced a dramatic new contextual advertising service called AdSense which allows virtually any website owner to make money without having to do too much. AdSense is a program in which you get paid for targeting your readers to another websites product or service. Google AdSense simply requires the host site to paste in a few lines of HTML code on their pages where they want those ads to appear. This code creates the ads that you see and when someone clicks on one of these ads they go to the advertiser's site. The advertiser is then charged for the click by Google and Google shares the money with you.

Sign up for Google Adsense and place Google ads on your site. Google will display the most appropriate ads according to your content and you will get paid for every click on an ad. People are making thousands a month with this.

2. In-Text Ads : When you mouse over one of these doubly underlined sponsored links you will be presented with a Tool Tip describing an advertiser's product or service. If someone click on the key-word and it will act like an ordinary link taking visitor to a page belonging to the advertising company. For every click on a highlighted key-word, you will receive a small payment.

In-Text Advertising solution lets you monetize your content in real-time, enabling an incremental increase in ad revenue by providing a new source of untapped ad inventory that does not compete with the other ad programs running on the site. Thereby providing you with a new revenue stream from the content within your site. Intellitxt and ContextWeb provides in-text ads to websites.

3. DISPLAY AFFILIATE PROGRAM'S LINKS & BANNERS : Another method of monetizing your traffic by putting links/banners of affiliate programs on your website. Concept is really quite simple. Every thing is based on paid referral system. Visitors come to your website, you introduced them to product or service from a third party vendor through a banner or text link and you get paid a commission by merchant in various way: a. Paid per click, b. Paid per lead, c. Paid per sale. You can choose affiliate networks where different advertisers offer their banners codes and links that will display their banners on your site along with tracking of your sales and leads. Best affiliate networks to get affiliate programs are :

a. Commission Junction
b. Clixgalore
c. Linkshare

4. SELL AFFILIATE PRODUCTS : Another profitable way to earn money is to sell affiliate products. You simply direct traffic to their Web site and earn commissions when people buy products.

a. A good way to start with affiliate products is to sign up with ClickBank. There are well over 10,000 different Digital info products. Write up some reviews and recommendations and send traffic to the ClickBank merchant, and if the product sells, you get commissions sometimes as high as 75%. This type of Web site is very simple to setup, however, it requires a large amount of visitor traffic to earn significant money. It's easy to complement an existing Web site with affiliate links for offering related products to your visitors and, at the same time, earning money.

b. Make money selling other company's products through affiliate programs. They'll give you a link to track your sales. Amazon.com is great place to get HTML codes for various products to promote and earn commission. Thousands of people are making a full time income just by driving traffic from their site to merchant sites, never touching or shipping a product.

5. Charge a fee to access a section of your site : Provide free access to main sections of your website, but you can charge a fee for an access to members lounge where more lucrative information is often available. If your content is unique and valuable, you can make money charging for it online. People will pay for access, if it's useful to them. Your members lounge could be a forum, downloadable software, eBooks, listings, etc.

6. Collect and Sale Information : Creating a information database isn't just a good idea - it´s good business. e.g., you can compile listings for free classified websites, ezines, directories, work at home websites,etc. Put a price tag to download them.

7. Sell your own services to your target audience : Like if you have a web site on "making money online" and you are a web designer, you can make an offer to design web site to your visitor, so that they can make money from website. You want to be able to take credit cards (at least with PayPal if not otherwise) on your site and deliver your product to your customers as fast as possible.

There are many more methods to make money, but above enlisted methods can generate substantial amount of money for beginners and let us leave rest for expert guys.

Lastly, when your website is up and working, invest your 75% time in promoting it. Remember most important factor is amount of traffic on your website.

Site Promotion Tools

Metatag Generator

This free online tool is one of the most complete meta tag generators you'll find on the web. It's designed so that even a beginner can optimize their meta tags to achieve a higher search engine ranking, complete with explanations, suggestions, and tips. A good set of meta tags helps to ensure that (most) search engines will crawl and index your site the way you'd like and that all of the data they may require for your site to achieve a higher ranking is made available to them.

The Following is a Meta Tag SAMPLE:
REPLACE BOLD LETTERS with your own Keywords, words and sentences:

Copy the following lines of code and insert it after the tag in your HTML document.

Do-it-yourself search engine submission! List your site with all of the major search engines and get traffic!

Some search engines have now begun charging a fee to submit your site to them. However, rest assured that most of the popular search engines, such as Google, still allow you to submit free. I've done all the footwork for you and compiled a comprehensive list of direct links to all of the Add URL pages for the search engines and directories that allow you to submit your site free:

Direct Links to Search Engine
"Submit Site" or "AddURL" Pages: CLICK BLUE COLOR
Google Alexa dmoz Open Directory
This is not a search engine, but is actually a directory for some of the biggest search engines, including AllTheWeb, AltaVista, Google, HotBot, Lycos, Northern Light, Yahoo, AOL Search, DirectHit, Netscape Search, Alexa (powered by Google), Anzwers (powered by Google & Yahoo). Read the entire page and follow the instructions carefully. You'll need to narrow down your site category by clicking on subcategory after subcategory until you find one that suits your site. Then click the ADD URL link at the top of that page. (If an ADD URL link is not available, you'll need to narrow down your site categorization more.) Zeal (This is the Looksmart directory for non-commercial sites only. Site listings will be published throughout the Looksmart network, including Microsoft's MSN, Excite, Prodigy, CNN.com, and more. This is kind of complicated, but well worth the effort.) Yahoo/AltaVista/AlltheWeb ScrubTheWeb SearchIt SearchHippo Jayde EntireWeb InfoTiger Subjex National Directory WebSquash SearchEngine SurfSafely whatUseek Turnpike

Probably the second most common dilemma webmasters face, besides designing their website, is how to optimize it for the search engines to improve their ranking and promote it in order to increase their website traffic. The task may seem almost overwhelming, but rest assured, it's easier than you think. And you can achieve excellent site promotion results absolutely FREE with the easy free online tools and tips contained in this section of Creating Online. Need some tips to begin? My SEO / Website Promotion Tips Page contains a list of proven tips and ideas for ways to promote your site, improve your search engine ranking, and attract visitors. They are all absolutely free, are very easy to do, and do not require a significant time investment. I am here to tell you that you can indeed promote your site yourself in your spare time very effectively without spending a penny. I personally have done it and have achieved excellent results just by using the tips and free online tools I am sharing with you. Website Monitoring - As a webmaster, you want to know where your traffic is coming from, so setting up a system to monitor this is in my opinion absolutely essential to determine which of your site promotion efforts are working and which are not. On my Website Monitoring page, you'll find everything from free hit counters, detailed site stats, and live doorbells to live chat buttons. WIth these tools you will see the actual search engine results page that sent your visitors to your site, which keywords were used to find your site, and your position in the search engine for those keywords relative to your competitors. Actually see the links at other sites on which your visitors clicked to arrive at your site. Learn info about your visitors (browser, OS, nationality, screen resolution, etc.), which can be extremely useful when designing.

Try Yahoo Answer to increase traffic to your site

To increase online traffic is the most important factor for any webmaster to make money, it is also the most important skill to learn for any online business to survive.

There are many FREE ways to drive traffic to your website, online business owners without a huge advertising budget will be able to take advantage of it. The only question is how to do it and what strategies to apply. There is a common misconception that many webmasters have, they think that free forms of traffic are low in quality. In fact it is not! It's all depend on what kind of sources you are using.

In this article, I am going to talk about using Yahoo Answer to increase online traffic to your website. Will you be interested?

I properly don't have to tell you that Yahoo Answers works in a very simple way, any users will ask questions and any users can answer their questions. Yahoo Answers seems to be the perfect solution for most people. When they need help, they will post a question at Yahoo Answer and people around the world will provide them with an answer to solve their problem. So what does this have to do with increase online traffic?

Go to Yahoo Answer and look at the people answering the questions, you will realise that many of them aren't utilizing it to their advantage of driving traffic to their websites! When you help someone out, you build direct trust, and when you take the next step to offer a greater solution to help them even further, you increase your sales. This is very similar to Forum marketing.

There are so many different niches and markets to choose from so you are bound to be an expert in a certain area. Go to Yahoo Answer and look for questions that are posted on your niches. Help them by posting a good Answer and provide them with a link to your website. You got it. People will always have problems, your products and services will help them to solve their problems. Once you build trust with them, they will click on your link to see what you can offer to help them. Remember that solving a problem equals a higher conversion in sales or commission.

It is a great way to increase online traffic using Yahoo Answer, because visitors that click on your link are very targeted traffic and they are also very potential customers. It is a waste if you do not make use of this source to drive traffic to your website.

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5 Worst Search Engine Optimization ( SEO ) Stratigies

1.What are Doorway Pages?

There are many SEO strategies still being used by webmasters that were discarded a long time ago. In many cases, these SEO strategies are ineffective and considered Spam which often has negative effect for rankings.

Doorway Pages are defined as “multiple web pages that are devoid of useful content but heavily optimized for search engine rankings. Each page is optimized for a variation of a keyword phrase or for completely different keyword targets. The essence of this concept was to fool the search engines into thinking that these pages were highly relevant and provide top rankings for them under their targeted phrase.

Once among the most popular methods of attaining multiple search engine placements, doorway pages were widely used until 2000 by many webmasters. Since then, Doorway pages have become the most obvious form of Spam that a search engine can find and penalize you. Please don’t go for such tactics.

2.Invisible Text

There are many SEO strategies still being used by webmasters that were discarded a long time ago. In many cases, these SEO strategies are ineffective and considered Spam which often has negative effect for rankings.

Invisible text is implemented in a variety of ways in an effort to increase the frequency of keywords in the body text of a web page. Some of the implementation methods are: making text the same color as the background of the web page, hiding text behind layers, placing text at the very bottom of over-sized pages, etc.

This tactic is perilously old and obvious to search engine spiders. It constantly amazes me when a web site utilizes these methods for placement. Invariably, placements are the last thing that a webmaster will get when using this tactic. Invisible text had its heyday from 1995 to 1999. This not to say that invisible text didn’t work after 1999 but the majority of web sites were not using it by this time as the search engines began implementing automated methods of detection and penalization. Please don’t go for such tactics.

3.Content Misrepresentation

There are many SEO strategies still being used by webmasters that were discarded a long time ago. In many cases, these SEO strategies are ineffective and considered Spam which often has negative effect for rankings.

Misleading search engines into believing your webpage is about topic ‘Apple’ when it is in fact about ‘Babies’. This tactic was used primarily for the promotion of adult, gambling, and other extremely competitive search markets.

Unfortunately this tactic is still in use; you are likely to find one or two every time you search! The fact is that this tactic is the simplest for a search engine to identify and the result will be swift and complete; banishment from the search engine index indefinitely. The worst offense in the realm of the search engines is to try to fool them. Please don’t go for such tactics.

4.Redirects

There are many SEO strategies still being used by webmasters that were discarded a long time ago. In many cases, these SEO strategies are ineffective and considered Spam which often has negative effect for rankings.

Redirects are also used to mislead search engines by making them believe that the page they have indexed is about ‘Apple’. When a surfer visits the page, however, they are redirected to an entirely different site about ‘Babies’.

In most cases search engines have advanced enough to see this technique a mile away. In fact they usually ignore any page with a redirect (assuming correctly that the content is useless) while crawling the redirect destination. Redirects, unless blatantly Spam-related do not directly result in intentional ranking penalties, however, they have no positive effect either. Please don’t go for such tactics.

5.Heading Tag Duplication

There are many SEO strategies still being used by webmasters that were discarded a long time ago. In many cases, these SEO strategies are ineffective and considered Spam which often has negative effect for rankings.

Definition: Heading Tags, by definition, were created to highlight page headings in order of importance. Thus the Heading Tags that are available: H1, H2, H3, etc. This duplication technique involves implementing more than one H1 tag into a webpage in order to enhance a particular keyword or phrase.

This tactic is still very prevalent and likely still works on some search engines; however, none of the major search engines will respond well to this technique as it has been identified as a common manipulation. Please don’t go for such tactics.

Google AdSense: 7 Tips For Creating Sites That Make Money

Having a Google AdSense site is a great way to make money. And to create an AdSense site, all you have to do is have a Google AdSense account (which is free), a website or a blog (which is free), and some articles (which are free if you write them yourself). Once you get your site up and running, the AdSense ads will be targeted to your content.

Therefore, those looking for your content will come by, read your articles, and have a high probability of being interested in the targeted ads. Every time someone clicks an ad, you get paid! That is, as long as you have designed your site to maximize AdSense clickthroughs!

Let's look at seven tips for creating AdSense sites that create money.

#1: Keyword Density

Before you place ads on your site, be sure your keyword density is good. You will want to be sure that the right kinds of ads are placed on your site. A free way to determine what the ads will look like on your site is to go to http://www.resultsgenerator.com/adsense/ and type in your keywords. You will then be able to see exactly what ads would show on your site.

If you don't like what you see, then you know that you need to make changes to your keywords! You can get keyword suggestions from Results Generator from Overture or from the free trial version of Word Tracker.

#2: Focused

Not only will the ads be based on your keywords, but they will also be based on your content. You definitely want your keywords and your content to match as closely as possible.

#3: Write Often

The more information you have the better. Why? Because the more content you have, the more visitors you get. Many people suggest that you write a new article every day since no one wants to come back to your site to find the same old messages!

#4: Choose The Right Format

AdSense allows you to choose many different ad formats. Research has shown that wider ads are more successful. The top three formats are:

" 336x280 large rectangle
" 300x250 medium rectangle
" 160x600 wide skyscraper

Additionally, the 468x15 horizontal ad link under the navigation bar is also a good bet.

#5: Color Counts

You have the option to create a Google AdSense ad in any color of your choice. The best thing to do is to make your ad blend well with your site color scheme. You should make the border color and the background color the same color as your web site. You will want your text color to either be black or the color of your main content.

When creating your Google AdSense ads it is recommended to use the color scheme and style of your website so that the ads blend in well. Ads without background color and borders perfom better than ads within borders with background color.

#6: Position Counts, Too

It is well known that visitors to a website scan the site to determine if it is worth reading. You definitely want them to see and scan your AdSense ads. Therefore, the best place to put them is in the top left part of your page or directly under your headlines.

#7: Increase The Number

AdSense allows you to use up to three AdSense units on a page, two AdSense search boxes, and one unit of ad links. Using all that you can increases the chances of earning money.

Keep these seven tips in mind when creating your AdSense site and you will find that your clickthrough rates increase, thus increasing your money making potential.

6 Steps To Picking Profitable Adsense Keywords

Knowing how to find the best keywords for use in your Adsense ads is
not a straightforward process. Finding and implementing high profit,
low competition keywords in your ads really is the trick for making
Adsense payoff big.

The following process should yield profitable, low competition
keywords for your Adsense ads. This process is not perfect, but when
you analyze it and try it for yourself, you can see that it makes
sense. Adsense that is.

Step 1: Research some keywords for your niche that have a high CPC
value. To do this, first find your keywords using the Google Adwords
keyword tool or another tool that will give you niche specific lists
of keywords. Save those keywords into a spreadsheet program as a csv
file. Copy and paste those keywords into Google's Traffic Estimator
(you will need an Adwords account). The traffic estimator will give
you the estimated clicks per day and the average cost per click (CPC)
for each keyword. Copy and paste this information back into your
spreadsheet file for later reference.

Step 2 Multiply the average CPC by 30% to get an estimate of your
maximum earnings per click. The higher the average CPC, the more
likely the CPC for the 2nd - 8th positions are high as well. You want
this higher average CPC to start because if the CPC starts to drop off
significantly after the 3rd position, your chance of getting high
click earnings as an Adsense publisher will be diminished.

Step 3 Use any one of many tools available on the internet for helping
to estimate the 1st - 8th position CPC values. These tools will
estimate the CPCs for each position and allow you to see how much the
CPCs drop off after the first position. This dramatically helps your
analysis for picking the most profitable keywords. If the CPC values
stay close to the each other and to the value of the first position,
then you will more than likely have a profitable keyword.

Step 4 Now determine which Adsense ads occupy which positions. You can
do this by searching on Google for your keyword and looking to see
which Adsense ads are generated in the search results and in which
order they are. Another way to estimate this is to use the Adwords
Accelerator tool. It has a feature whereby Adwords ads are dynamically
displayed for a given keyword you input into the tool to check. If the
Adwords advertiser has used "Adwords for Content" in his advertising,
these ads will be the Adsense ads someone else is displaying on their
website.

Step 5 Compare the ads you found in step 4 to the results of using a
keyword check function tool (available on the internet). If the
advertisers you find by doing this closely match those you found in
step 4, you will more than likely have a profitable keyword.

If the advertisers are not he same, then the advertiser is possibly
not using the "Adwords for Content" mode of advertising in his
campaigns. This means that the keyword may not be the basis for the
Adsense ads and may not be profitable.

Step 6 Now you must get the traffic. If you decide to get traffic
using the Adwords approach, then just use the keywords in your Adsense
ads that scored well from the above evaluation. Then, use lower cost
per click keywords in your Adwords ads. The difference between the
earnings from the click you get on your Adsense word from the cost of
the click you pay on your Adwords word will be your profit.

If you are planning to use search engine optimization techniques to
get traffic to the website where your ads are, make sure the keywords
you choose have the highest KEI possible. KEI is the ratio of the
number of searches for a keyword to the number of competing sites
having the keyword. The combination of a high KEI and a high score
from the above evaluation will yield the best profit results.

5 Reasons Many Adsense Sites Dont Make Money

With the huge success Google?s Adsense has been reaping, there are now
only a handful of sites you?ll see that doesn?t feature Adsense on
their sites. Everyone is hoping that they could make huge earnings
from this pay-per-click affiliate program scheme Google has launched.

While there are many success stories (they are true) of sites that
have generated good income from Adsense, there are still some sites
that couldn?t grasp the real way of making an earning from Adsense.

This is because many people have failed to generate the needed factors
to create a successful site that compliments the features Adsense
provides. Many webmasters just put up or create mediocre sites and
place Adsense on their site and just sits back and waits for the cash
to roll in.

If that is the mentality of a site owner, then he won't earn from
Adsense. Remember, a mediocre site will also get mediocre earnings.

To finally realize the Adsense dream, a webmaster must produce a site
that has the factors and characteristics needed to generate the
traffic and clicks it needs to be profitable. There are many things a
webmaster needs to do to achieve this and be one of the millions of
sites who have successfully done so. But there are so much more things
a site owner has failed to do to make their site more Adsense
friendly.

Here are five reasons why many Adsense sites don?t make money

1) There are no good keywords on the site.

Many sites have failed to do the very essence of search engine
optimization, Good Keywords. The internet has many websites competing
for the attention of the ?netizens? and many sites contain the same or
almost the same subjects, topics or niches. To date, Google is
searching at over three billion sites; good keywords can get you a
good lead above all the other sites.

It is essential that you research well on finding the good keywords
your site can use to generate the traffic and get a high ranking on
the search engines results. If many internet users are directed to
your site, you get a huge opportunity to get great traffic. With
traffic comes the profit.

In making money you must spend some. Invest in a good program that
searches good and proper keywords for your site. These keywords that
people are looking for changes and varies, a good keyword searcher is
an investment that just keeps on giving.

2) The site doesn?t provide a good niche.

To get the attention of the people, you must provide a site that can
perk up the interest of the people. Adsense works well if you maintain
a good number of traffic, you have to keep the people?s interest on
your site and have a group of people to keep coming back to your site
and have them recommend it.

You must also find a niche wherein these groups of people are
interested in. Find the right niche and you?ll find the right group of
people that are willing to spend some money.

3) The site owner doesn?t maintain or update their site.

You can only maintain the interest of a person for a short period of
time. Many websites have failed to keep up the traffic they generate
for their failure to keep their site updated. Immerse yourself in your
niche and try to find out what?s new and what?s hot.

You have to serve something new to the people or if not, try to keep
abreast with the developments of your niche or maybe add some sub-
niches on your site that still pertains to your niche to get new
traffic and keep the attention of your clients in your site.

4) Some website owners don?t provide the full attention to their
Adsense sites.

Many people just see their sites as a way to earn some extra money.
You have to treat Adsense sites as a full size business to make it
big. With the heavy competition you have, a good webmaster should
treat their site as if it is their main source of income but still
maintain a good schedule of their time.

5) Many webmasters have failed to devout time and research to their
Adsense site.

Many elements are needed to build a successful Adsense site. Good
keywords and the right niches can roll in the dough, but this takes
time and effort. It is imperative to devout a certain amount of time
in looking for ways to develop your Adsense site.

The internet is abound of sites that could help your own site. A
little time, money and hard work can spell the huge difference between
a successful Adsense site and a mediocre one.