Saturday, December 19, 2009

Personal Review #7 AdSense

Google AdSense is one of the best CPC (Cost Per Click) ad networks available on the market. AdSense is the first mayor contextual advertisting program and one of the most successful, gaining publisher's trust all over the world. As the ads are related to the content of the site and are more targeted they are more likely to get clicked, thus generating more revenue for the owner of the website.Adsense is mostly a PPC (Price Per Click) network but sometimes it ads the CPM method, which means you get paid per click or sometimes paid per 1000 impressions that you serve those ads. The cost will differ depending on the ads shown or to be more precise, on the content of your website, due to the contextual nature of the program. The strength of the program is the contextual CPC side, you get highly targeted related contextual ads on your website which are more likely to be clicked by your visitors. Recently, a CPA (Cost Per Action) ads were introduced to the publisheres called referrals.

Supported languages for publisher sites

Displaying ads (AdSense for Content) is allowed only on sites with content primarly in: English, French, German, Spanish, Chinese, Italian, Japanese, Croatian, Korean, Czech, Norwegian, Danish, Polish, Dutch, Portuguese, Romanian, Finnish, Russian, Slovak, Greek, Swedish, Hebrew, Turkish and Hungarian. In addition, AdSense for search is available in Arabic and Bulgarian. These languages are not supported for AdSense for Content pages. For more info on supported languages click here.

Ad formats and types

AdSense offers the following ad formats for text ads: banner (468x60), half banner (234x60), leaderboard (728x90), button (125x125), skyscraper (120x600), wide skyscraper (160x600), small rectangle (180x150), vertical banner (120x240), small square (200x200), square (250x250), medium rectangle (300x250) and large rectangle (336x280).
You can also display image ads on your site: banner (468x60), leaderboard (728x90), skyscraper (120x600), wide skyscraper (160x600), small square (200x200), square (250x250), medium rectangle (300x250) and large rectangle (336x280).
Video ads are available in these formats: leaderboard (728x90), skyscraper (120x600), wide skyscraper (160x600), small square (200x200), square (250x250), medium rectangle (300x250) and large rectangle (336x280).
You have an option to place various sizes of link units on your sites and AdSense for Search on your web sites, for more info on the available ad formats and sample placements click here.

Google AdSense publisher interface review

When you login to your publisher account the first thing you will notice is everything is well organized and everything is where you want it to be. Google AdSense has the best publisher interface I have ever seen, it is simple, usefull and full of features which make the process of ad placement, monitoring the statistics and tracking your payments status incredibly simple and easy. You can easyly create customizable reports, e-mail specific reports daily, weekly or monthly. The payment history is just amazing, there is all the information you need, from how much you have earned, when was the payment sent, when you can expect it to arrive, the number of the check and much more.

Customer support

Google AdSense has a large database with almost all the questions (FAQ) you might want to ask, well organized with integrated search. I was able to find all the answers I needed in just a few seconds. If you have a more specific question you can easily post a support ticket and you usually get the answer up to 48 hours.

Payments and payment options

Google AdSense offers payments by check (standard or secure express delivery, $24 processing fee) or by EFT (Electroic Funds Transfer available for certain countries only). Payments are made on a NET 30 basis and one thing is for sure, they always pay on time.

Earn money from blogs or websites

The most common form of genarating income online is by creating your own blog or website and adding some ads to it. As you can see I have several ads on my blog too and everytime someone clicks on them I earn some money. The ads program I am using to monetize this blog is called Adsense. It is the most popular one and it belongs to Google.

Lets continue with my Personal Review #7 :  AdSense

Sunday, December 6, 2009

Personal Review #6 Share Cash (Pay Per Download)

Along with my #5 review I highly recomend this one too. After you finish all the offers availble at Cash Crate you should have made some good money but after completing all offers you have to wait a while until others are available. The site I am gonna introduce you today has no limit to how much you can earn depending that you use it in a clever way.

At this site you upload files like you do at rapidshare and you earn money when other people download them. You will be probably wonderig how the site earns money to pay you. The answer is simple, every person who wants to download the file has 2 options:

A) To pay to become a member of  the site in order to gain unlimited downloads.
or
B) To complete a free survey everytime he downloads a file.

How much do you get paid? 0.20-0.60$ per download (depends on downloaders country) and much more when someone becomes a member (when I get my first member I will inform you about the exact amount).

The site is called Share Cash and you can find it here

Tips:
  • Post at various forums popular files like cracks,serials or guides you uploaded at sharecash. Alternatively you can upload "naughty videos" and post your sharecash links at porn forums,blogs etc. 
  • Use a url shortener (like tinyurl.com) to hide your sharecash links.
  • Remember that all offers at the site are legal and you don't do anything bad, you just force your downloaders to complete a free survey each time they want to get a file from you. Both the site and you earn money!

Personal Review #5 Cash Crate (Complete free surveys and many other stuff)

Ok, PTC sites are ok for starters from countries that have a low living cost. But what should you do to earn money if you need 600$+ per month just to make a living? I haven't written for a while because I was testing out some methods to scale up my earnings. After investingating a dozen of sites I found one that pays well, you can earn your first 50$ in one hour (depends on your country and how many offers your can do in one hour).

You have to do simple things like adding a facebook game at facebook (takes 1 minute to do) to completing free surveys or completing free trial offers. Simple tasks pay less than completings surveys but it is a nice additional source of income.

The only site that I have found that paid me and did so in a week upon requesting payment is Cash Crate

Join Cash Crate here for free and don't forget to come back to my blog to tell me your experiences.