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Is your online business adding value to the internet?

The more I think about it, the more important I think it is to create something of value, if you want to make money.

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If you are an AdSense publisher, you need to know about this! Google has started allowing people to link their AdSense accounts to a Google Analytics account. They are rolling it out slowly, and I just got mine hooked up a couple of days ago.

Wow! Is it great! It will tell you exactly how much each page on your site is earning in AdSense revenue. Before this, the only way to find this out was to set up a channel for each page, and if you have a lot of pages on your site, forget it.
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Is My AdSense Being Smart Priced?

Ever since I read that Grizzly had doubled his income by eliminating Smart Pricing from his AdSense, I decided it was well worth my while to see if I had been smart priced too.
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As I mentioned in my last post, I am moving away from creating AdSense-monetized blogs just for the money. I am beginning to see this as a dead end.

Sure, you can make some money this way, but it will be a constant struggle to keep your sites ranking well in Google, and meanwhile you are wasting your life writing articles about subjects you care little about. Didn’t you want to quit your day job so that you could QUIT doing the things you are not passionate about?

So, what should you choose as a niche or market for your business?
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Google Will Be Tracking Surfers Who View AdSense Ads

From time to time, I question the wisdom of making most of my money online from AdSense. I had cause to question it again this past week after seeing Barry Schwartz’s post on Search Engine Land, Google To Add AdSense Features With DoubleClick Cookies Technology.

Basically, Google is now going to be tracking which sites you visit on the net (at least the ones that have AdSense), using the technology they got when they bought the DoubleClick ad network. They are going to use this capability to control how many times you see certain ads, among other things.
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Do you use AdSense to monetize your site? If so, do you have a privacy policy?

Google recently updated their terms of service for AdSense. When you signed in, you had to agree to these new terms of service. But how many people actually read those things?
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Once in a while you need to take a look at your business and the different things you spend time on, to see if these things are really furthering your goals.

I am at this point right now.
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AdSense Ad Format

What is the best performing AdSense ad format for you?

For me, no matter which blog it’s on, the best format seems to be the Large Rectangle, size 336×280.

I put it at the beginning of the post, just under the title. It works best if there is room on one side for the post to wrap around the ad.
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Happy New Year to everyone! I hope your holidays were great, and I hope that 2008 will be a lucky and prosperous year for all of you!

Today I want to talk about PLR (Private Label Rights).
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I have been doing a case study of improving the earnings of a boring blog that I had neglected for a long time. Here’s an update on my progress.
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