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Monetizing A Built Up Personal Page For Search Engine Traffic

If you have several personal pages talking about several issues well ranked in Google for defined keywords being researched, then you have potential visitors entering in to your personal sites searching for specific items, your keywords. This is the main condition you must accomplish to get money online

Let?s think about the internet buy-sales process and let?s imagine an internet surfer searching for cheap widgets. He types cheap widgets in the search engine; Google does its work and displays Top 10 results which include your blog. If your blog is in the Top 3 places you will surely get clicked by a surfer searchinglooking for cheap widgets.

Your personal site may be ugly; your information is vague even though you talk about cheap widgets. He[spin] does not think [spin]to read all your stuff and screens the page for a way out: You must provide him a way back in form of an advertisement that leads him to cheap widgets. Otherwise the visitor will click the back arrow in Internet Explorer and go back to results list and click the next page.

Here is the moment to include Adsense, the program Google uses to sell publicity. If you are using blogger.com then it is juts a matter of including Adsense ads from Configuration menu.

You will need to apply for and Adsense account, it is free and you just need your Gmail account. Once you do it you can use the Adsense code and insert it as a HTML widget in such a way that you can modify it at your taste.

Either way you do it, by adding Adsense from blogger menu or HTML code, you want to place the advertisement in the preferred location for your visitors to click, and that is the upper part of the personal site, because it will be in the mouse trail when looking for clicking the back button. Also that is the place that people pays more attention to when screening a web page.

Here you are with a blog positioned in search engines top spots for a defined keyword being typed at Google. You have added Adsense ads that will give you money for every click your visitors make.

Do not click your own ads, that is highly banned by Google and you will loose your account. You may imagine that if Google has earned billions of dollars, they have money enough to recruit the most skilful applications developers for internet. They have made it and they will catch you clicking in your own ads.

You need to play around with your ads placement, color, size and others characteristics in order to find the placement, size and color that attracts clicks from your traffic. You can review CTR (Click Through Rate) for a period of time when you experiment with your ads and make a comparison to choose the highest one. Google Adsense delivers you those analysis.

You have an advantage anyway, as your personal site is optimized for one topic; you will probably be conveying traffic that will acquire something from the sites advertising in Adsense. Google Adsense bots, will give you better converting ads, meaning those that sale the higher.

Those ads are from sites that are also designed for keywords that people search on search engines and offer products and services those users are searching for. Those websites may not be able to rank high, mainly because the lack of backlinks. And also they may not have dedicated resources to rank high in SERPs. They choose Google Adwords for publicity. You are the chain link they utilize to get the traffic.

As everything is aligned through buy-sale flow with your keywords, then you are fitted in a high money making road. You are a search engine

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Social Bookmarking (Web 2.0) Using Old Web Technology

I have an old Linux server that sits, sad and muted, unused in a corner. I decided to blow the dust off of it, and see what I can wrangle out of it.

So, in deciding what to do with the machine, and the software installed upon it, I re-acquainted myself with one of the little software gems installed — a lovely Web application server called SkunkWeb. It seems to have died a death of neglect, more so than lack of functionality. It’s ability to cache various parts of the rendered web page, along with caching the application’s data are very powerful. And, it’s almost all written in lovely Python, with only a small handful of parts that in C (for example, the hashing code for the cache engine is in C for ultra-performance concerns.)

It didn’t take long to remember how to work with it — I spent a little over a year working with it when it was a closed-source project (I worked for the company that originally developed it). After trying to figure out a project that all the little lovely caching bits of the system would work well for, I settled in on trying to make one of those fancy Web 2.0 social bookmarking sites that everyone’s always raving about.

Since Reddit’s code was already open-sourced, I opted to nick their look & feel. Unlike some of the others that used the vote up/down concept (Vinefire…I’m looking at you), I also implemeted a large amount of the functionalilty. Not just the posting of links to your site, but also the ability to have discussions, and even have group moderation of those discussions.

I have no illusions of success based on the site, but I’m curious how much of beating the server & the software can take before their age becomes apparent. The machine is from 2002, the version of SkunkWeb I’m using is from 2004, and the database backend is an older Postgres (since I can no longer use Yum to update and I’m afraid of breaking things if I try to build from source).

It does a lot of “neat” things — you can post a link to a site, for example. It’ll give you a “do follow” link to whatever you submit. You can vote a given submission up or down, helping to influence what will show up on the first page of the site — and therefore what Google or another search engine sees. And, because it’s all an experiment in stressing out the server, the “proceeds” of the service are shared back with the users. The more links you post, the more you vote, the more you make. Payouts are monthly and via PayPal. (That’s a whole different project that you can read about as I %LINK% that subsystem.)

Along the way, I also learned alot about AJAX, which was a topic I had been hesitant to learn. Start to share links with others and see what social bookmarking can do for you.

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