August 25, 2009

Beware Of Using Google Adsense With Any Other Link Exchange Program

I recently ran across a post in the LinkReferral Program I currently use. Apparently Google does not allow you to place any type advertisement banners or links from any link exchange programs on your site while displaying any of the Google Ad-sense banners and links on your blog or website. This member’s blog was removed for violating Google’s “Terms of Service Agreement”. Seeing as you need to be a member to view the forum posts in the LinkReferral Program, I’ve included the forum post and the letter received by this user.

Forum post: “I received the following email from google today and will be removing the ads from my site. I’m sure adsense can be successful but it’s really not necessary for this site and definitely not worth a few pennies a day.” If you happen to be a LinkReferral member, the direct link to this post is HERE.

Email that was received by this member from Google:

"It has come to our attention that invalid clicks or impressions have been generated on your Google ads, posing a financial risk to our AdWords advertisers. We’ve found that users of third-party programs have been paid or provided with other incentives to visit your site. Such programs include, but are not limited to, auto-surf, pay-to-surf,pay-to-read, or pay-to-click sites. Please note that any method that artificially generates click or impressions on Google ads is strictly prohibited by our program policies, as such activity may artificially inflate an advertiser’s costs or a publisher’s earnings. We understand that you may want more information about the activity we detected. However, because we have a need to protect our proprietary detection systems, we’re unable to provide our publishers with any details about their account activity, including any web pages, users,or third-party services that may have been involved. Thank you for your understanding.We recommend reviewing these references to learn more about invalid click activity and other activities that could endanger your account standing:

https://www.google.com/adsense/policies?hl=en_US
https://www.google.com/adsense/localized-terms?hl=en_US
http://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/topic.py?topic=8426&hl=en_US

If you need help logging the traffic on your site to determine the source of your visitors, we recommend trying these Google search terms: Webmaster resources Website tracking and logging Site traffic analysis In addition, because we credit advertisers for any invalid activity we detect, we may adjust your account earnings for any days during which such activity occurred. Lastly, please note that if we continue to detect invalid activity from these services on your Google ads, we may take further action on your account in order to protect our advertisers’ interests, and payment may be withheld. Thank you for your understanding.

Sincerely,

The Google AdSense Team"


New UPDATE: I recieved this email from the Google Team this morning: 07/27/2009

Hi,

We're writing to let you know about an upcoming update in your AdSense account designed to help you generate the maximum revenue from your ad units. You'll soon be able to allow multiple ad networks to show on your pages, which means that advertisers from external Google-certified networks will be able to compete with AdWords advertisers for your ad space.

If you're unfamiliar with what ad networks are, they're companies that partner with advertisers and publishers to buy and sell ads on sites they don't own themselves, similar to AdSense. Ads from these networks will compete with Google ads to show on publisher sites, and the ad generating the highest revenue for publishers will be displayed.

To ensure the quality of the ads appearing on your sites, we're certifying all participating ad networks for adherence to our standards for user privacy, ad quality, and speed. You'll also have control over which networks can show ads on your pages -- you can choose to opt out of receiving ads from specific networks, or all networks completely. This means you can continue to show ads from only AdWords advertisers if you'd like.

Finally, some ad networks use tools similar to Google's interest-based advertising to show more relevant ads to users on the sites they visit. These ad networks won't be permitted to collect data from your site for the purpose of subsequent interest-based advertising, but we'll allow those who comply with user privacy guidelines to show ads using these tools. You'll have the ability to opt out of showing ads based on user interests from these ad networks, and we've changed our requirements for third-party ad serving to reflect this. More information is available at http://adwords.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=94230 .

These new capabilities will automatically be enabled for your account, and you'll see a new section in your Ad Review Center where you can allow or block specific ad networks. Please note that we'll gradually be adding new ad networks to AdSense accounts over the next few months, so you won't see any immediate impact on your ads or your earnings.

To learn more about this launch and managing the ad networks appearing on your pages, visit the AdSense Help Center at https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/topic.py?hl=en&topic=13522 and watch our video demo at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HyJPOVLd3I .

Sincerely,

The Google AdSense Team
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August 23, 2009

$30 Skin Free Gift Certificate Giveaway At Night Owl Mama's Ends 08/29

Head on over to Night Own Mama to enter her fabulous giveaway as Skin Free has generously offered a $30 Gift Certificate to one of her readers! Enter giveaway HERE.
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August 18, 2009

What Are Affiliate Programs? How Do Affiliate Programs Work?

An affiliate program is simply a way for companies to use online advertisement to boost their product awareness and sales. Traditional door-to-door sales, the use of product fliers, telephone solicitation and billboard advertisement remain vital and continue to be very affective in boosting company sales in today’s society. However, Affiliate programs are economical and have been shown to be quite successful.
Companies are able to attract and accurately target sales of their product to an audience more likely interested in their product. Additionally, they are more likely to attract more return customers.

Advertisement online is as diverse as it is offline. Billboards are replaced with company banners. Posted product reviews, newsletter sign-up and email solicitation replace word of mouth, door-to-door sales and company fliers.

Affiliate programs work because companies are willing to pay a portion of their sale revenue to anyone willing to effectively advertise their product online. Rewards received may arrive in any form or combination. Most often rewards are given as free product, discounts, prizes and / or cash.

Most affiliate programs are free to join, open to most everyone and very easily managed once setup is completed. The list is endless. If you are new to this concept and would like to participate I would suggest first joining the better-known online giants: Google, Ebay, YouTube or Amazon. They offer detailed setup guides, online help and strategies to effectively manage the program. I love comments and input. If anyone knows of some great affiliate programs, tools, tips or has any advice, please share!
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August 14, 2009

Advice And Tips To Boost Your Sites Usability

We all can use some great tips on how to boost our sites usability. Can my visitors navigate around my site well? Are there too many Ads? How should I place my graphics, widgets and Ads?
Site Sketch 101 has written a really great post on this topic. "10 Killer Ways To Boost Your Site's Usability". He is also holding a contest but hurry, it ends 08/18/2009. " I’ve decided to give away 3 prizes to 5 random winners here at Site Sketch 101: A one-year membership at Elegant Themes, a copy of Darren Rowse’s Problogger: The Book, and $15 cold, hard cash! If you’re one of the five winners then you get to choose which one you want!" All you have to do is sign up for his news letter which which is filled with great tips and advice for newbies as well as seasoned blogger's. Enter contest HERE.
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August 13, 2009

Huge List Music Sites For Online Listening Or Downloads

Really great list of free music downloads and free online streaming music. Courtesy of Mashable. A must visit site! There is so much really great information here on a wide-range of topics. I visit often as just about anything I am looking for is here. For detailed information and links to each site click HERE. Continue...

August 11, 2009

How To Increase Page Rank

This morning I ran across a post with some very good information to increase your "Page Rank". The higher your page rank, the more traffic you receive resulting in more reads to your articles. I have been working on this for some time and I am sure that it takes time but if your want to speed things along here are some great tips.

Nicholas Z. Cardot has shared his list of "40 Ways To Build An Army Of Inbound Links".

"1. Write amazing articles
2. Write a huge list post
3. Offer something for free.
4. Put on a fun contest.
5. Write a critique of something.
6. Demonstrate authority on a subject.
7. Write great link bait.
8. Link to other people’s articles.
9. Talk positive about other bloggers.
10. Thoroughly revise your articles.
11. Have an amazing design on your blog.
12. Think outside the status quo.
13. Write a tutorial.
14. Submit your site to free directories.
15. Submit your site to paid directories.
16. Publish an interview with a leader in your niche.
17. Publish an article about a leader in your niche.
18. Guest blog on other related blogs.
19. Buy a link from another blog owner.
20. Sponsor a post on another blog.
21. Hire someone to build links for you.
22. Post your link in your signature in a forum.
23. Comment on dofollow blogs.
24. Exchange links with a peer.
25. Sign people’s guest books.
26. Ask for a link.
27. Leave your reviews of products you use.
28. Ping Technorati and others with your new articles.
29. Get involved at Yahoo! Answers.
30. Make friends with other bloggers.
31. Create and use a del.icio.us account.
32. Create an about page.
33. Create a contact page.
34. Only post original content.
35. Stay with it for the long haul.
36. Ask your readers to link to your articles.
37. Link to articles that have trackbacks enabled.
38. Make friends with some other bloggers.
39. Don’t be a spammer.
40. Buy a review from another blogger."

Visit the author's post HERE as he has written several more amazing articles! Be sure to to leave a comment to thank him!
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August 10, 2009

Shareaholic Multi Social Network Tool Supports Sharing Among 60+ Networks

With all the social networks these days, everyone joining a different one, installing multiple chat engines. Who can keep up? Social networks are becoming more and more popular. That is why I was so happy to find this great tool that supports sharing in 60+ social networks, "Sharaholic".

I love to enter blogger contests but by the time you tweet, mention on Facebook, Post to your blog, Stumble it ect... Your exhausted! Interested? Follow the link below and make your life a little easier! Shareaholic for Firefox - The browser add-on extension to share, tweet, bookmark, save and e-mail web pages quickly
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August 4, 2009

Movie Lovers Will Love This Post! My Collection Of The Very Best Sites Offering Free Full-Length Online Movies & TV Shows. Downlaods & Live Stream.

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I am forever in search of great deals, finding freebies and entering contests. I love to test all the newest freeware programs, software utilities, and services. I created this blog to share my links. I love to read, watch great movies with my daughter, go boating, scuba diving and fishing (with my hubby because my daughter hates to fish!) and; I chat online or play yahoo games with my son who is in the navy and stationed in Japan. I am always busy, more likes then dislikes and there is never, ever enough hours in a day to enjoy it all!

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