Here are some of my recommendations to make your website more successful.

1. A website should give the main idea of what the business does in the home page and as clear as possible.

2. The Contact Information of the business should be accessible from any page within the website.

3. I have heard that you have just a few seconds to get the visitors attention when they visit a website. That is why I do not recommend flash animated introductions (unless you and your website designer can decide to use them after carefully thinking about it).

4. If you hire someone to develop your website, ask them about any website marketing plan they offer. I recommend that you work with a web designer that has at least basic knowledge about website marketing and search engine optimization techniques. A website should be designed thinking about a marketing plan from the beginning.

5. The website should be “search engine friendly”. Search engines have some guidelines that are recommended. Following these guidelines will help search engines find, index and rank your site . It may be difficult to implement a marketing plan in the future if the website was not properly designed and according to the search engine guidelines.

6. Unless you are a musician or have an specific need, I do not recommend using sounds or music in your site. It may bother the visitor and it can also slow down your site's performance.

These are just some of many recommendations. A great way to obtain good results when creating a website is to take enough time to plan it properly according to your main objectives.

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The Google Adsense program is different in that one does not need too much traffic and neither do you need to sell to make money. This is by far the most attractive aspect about the Adsense program.

Actually all you need is for some of your current visitors to click on your Adsense ads and you would immediately start to make money. The amazing thing is that you can even easily increase on your earnings without a significant increase in traffic by simply targeting high-paying Adsense ads. The way to do this is to use keyword phrases that have a high value placed on them as a result of bids placed by advertisers.

This is not too difficult to accomplish and is further proof that Adsense is a pretty fast way to make money online.

Remember that even a topic you are deeply interested in will have its’ highest paying keywords. Many times you will find that the very content lying on your site currently and paying something like 1 cent per click can earn you $2 per click or more by simply changing a few keyword phrases here and there.

The value of Adsense keywords is so important that it cannot be taken for granted. For instance 20 clicks a day paying 1 cent will earn you 20 cents a day and $6 per month. Yet the same 20 clicks paying an average of $2 per click will give you $40 a day and a whopping $1,200 per month. See the huge difference!!

The problem is that too many people try to make money with Adsense without understanding this simple calculation.

Extra graphics and extra ads take away from Google Adsense. The reader’s focus can be distracted. But a Commission Junction advertiser fits the theme of your website and promises to pay well. Where do you place the ad, and what kind of ad do you use? Will your Adsense revenue go down? Will your CJ revenue offset the Adsense loss?

I’ve been working with web sites since the graphical Internet first started back in 1993. I certainly don’t have all the answers or I would be a millionaire by now, which I am not. But 14 years of trial and error taught me what to do and what I should not do. I’ll give you some examples and hopefully you can incorporate some of them. Your Adsense revenue and your Commission Junction revenue should both increase.

Everyone says your best click-through rate is above the fold, or the part that visitors see first on your site. Have you ever considered making the part above the fold just a little wider? Obviously you don’t want to make it so your screen is wider than the browser window, otherwise it looks bad and people will not scroll left and right. The answer is to use a button that will push the content for you. Here is a help button example: http://allvoipsearch.com When that area opens, as seen in my example, you have the visitor’s full, undivided attention. Since it against the Google Adsense TOS (terms of service) to put Adsense ads in that area, try putting your Commission Junctions text links in that area. You can use button ads, text links, and HTML. I use a help button to open the side band, but you can use a different graphic or a text link. I guarantee it will not take away from your Adsense revenue, and will not overload your pages by trying to cram too much above the fold. Make sure you open the side bar links in a new window.

Another idea to boost your Adsense revenue is retention. The longer the visitor stays the more your website will produce. This is also referred to as the ‘bounce rate’ or how ‘sticky’ your site is. I discovered that people will interact with web sites if you make it easy for them. Free things also make your site sticky. I have a widget that makes it easy for people to send me a text message about my articles. I can put it anywhere including Facebook, MySpace, eBay and Craigslist. Of course I use it on my own web sites. Actually I can use it here, just like I do in my email: http://www.jaxtr.com/allvoipsearch

You can see a full-sized widget here: http://pc-calls.com No matter how you do it the more visitor interaction you have the more your visitors will see your revenue generators. Whether they see Google ads or Commission Junction ads is entirely up to you. What I discovered is that my widget does not take away from my Adsense focus. You can test the theory by using a text link or a click-to-call button instead of the full sized widget. Monitor your Adsense revenue for a week or two under both conditions.

An additional benefit is free text messages from your web site is that people will send you new ideas that help you write more content. Bloggers get input from a comment form attached to every blog article. Static pages or content management systems usually generate email comments. I don’t know about you but I don’t need any more email, and my filters trap some comments. I like the text messages and voicemail.

In spite of what you read, it is not the quick way to buckets of easy money. In my experience, when people tell you they have some special secret to for making fast easy money they are always trying to sell you something. More often than not, the product for sale is usually worthless information. I am selling nothing, so I will be frank and honest and tell you the honest and real truth. Yes, AdSense is truly a great opportunity, especially if you own an already popular website.

On the other hand, the days of throwing up a low quality web site made of material copied (often illegally) from other sites and making easy money are gone. What few of these junky MFA (Made For AdSense) arbitrage sites that remain are under attack from Google. Advertisers find these sites undesirable places to put their ads. Google does not like their business model (nor the fact that they make advertisers unhappy), and is actively seeking to find such low quality sites and remove them from the AdSense program. The minimum acceptable quality bar for MFA sites keeps being raised all the time, so why build a junk site and constantly have to fight to keep it above the minimum standards?

The reliable way to make money on AdSense is to create high quality pages of unique information that are of value and interest to readers. Create a website which is the proverbial “better mousetrap” and in time you will generate the necessary interest, traffic and ad revenue. Publishing a website is much like publishing paper and ink magazine or newspaper – in that readers want a quality publication that is interesting and entertaining. Like the older media forms, advertisers like high quality attractive publications – and they don’t like slapped together junk that no one finds interesting or useful. If you are going to build up a business this way, its worth your effort to take your time and do it right. Never forget that in the end, the essence of your AdSense business is selling advertising space and your publication must be a place where your advertisers want to put their ads.

Here are some of my essential secrets for starting and operating a successful web based business using AdSense:

1. Don’t bother to chase high paying keywords – it’s a waste of time. More than 100,000 folks have already bought the e-books and other materials that say this is the way to go, and its all bogus information. The payment per click numbers presented are the maximum you might be paid, but there is nothing that requires Google to pay you that amount. If Google decides your site is of a low quality, and the sales leads you generate are of a poor quality as well, instead of paying you $10 a click for asbestos cancer clicks, they can pay you 2 cents – its called smart pricing and is done all the time. In addition, there are already thousands of sites competing for these high dollar keywords – and you will be fighting thousands of others who already have a head start on you to get to the top of the heap. Instead, select a topic that has less competition and still has plenty of advertisers wanting to sell goods related to that topic. If possible, it is best to select a topic you know about and are interested in yourself, as you may be writing quite a bit about it while building your site.

2. Research and choose your website topic carefully. Some topics just don't lend themselves well to profitable ads. A Brittany Spears or Paris Hilton site may attract traffic, but you probably wont have good advertising to go with the topic and the traffic probably will not be folks who are interested in what advertising may be on your page. Ask yourself what are companies advertising out there? Not so much on TV, but in smaller media – yellow pages, newsletters, magazines, etc. These are your competition. There are literally hundreds of small niche hobby and special interest magazines – consider their topics as potential areas of interest for a web site. Take a look and see what kind of advertisers they have.

The goal is to pick a topic where people are actively looking to purchase things and the ads become just as important as your content, so they're clicking around all over the place to find what they're looking for. If you've got a site providing information for people who are looking to buy something, they're much more likely to click your ads. Pick a topic where people are looking to buy goods and services, not hobby chat, humor, celebrities or other less profitable topics. Anything can make money but when people are in a buying mood those ads are as good as gold and your topic can make all the difference.

The motivation of visitors coming to your site really matters quite a bit. If someone is looking for a recipe they will find it and continue on. If your reader is looking for information on the latest misadventures of Lindsay Lohan or some other celebrity, they will also find it and move on. On the other hand, if someone is looking for a information on hotels and places to visit in a certain city, then they are more of the mindset that they will look at your ads and visit the advertisers with the intention to pull out a credit card and make a reservation or purchase. This type of mindset in your visitors is good for you as well as the advertiser.

3. Focus on building a high quality site. Map out a strategy for what you will have and the site you intend to build. Your content matters to your readers! Sites that have a couple hundred words of meaningless drivel on every page are shallow and of little interest. Those sites that rely on a shallow rather than deep content model are more vulnerable to competition than more authoritative deeper sites are. Google knows that the web is overloaded with sites built of pages that are shallow, rather than deep, and on the Google search side, they know the difference. Sites that are designed purely to benefit the publisher aren't likely to prosper indefinitely. What useful information will your website provide to your visitor? Sites with shallow content are also not likely to attract repeat users, which means they're throwing away revenue opportunities from return visits.

4. For AdSense to work you need traffic, and a boatload of it. If your site cannot generate traffic, you wont be able to make much of a profit. AdSense is all about selling interested traffic to the advertiser – and if you don’t have much traffic, you don’t have much to sell. It is important to concentrate first on a positive, quality user experience for your readers. Good content generates interest and clicks, professionalism and quality generates clicks, relevance generates clicks: all these are the things you need to be successful. Well organized and laid out sites, with good honest SEO will bring the right kind of traffic. Building a quality site is like building a building: brick by brick it goes together to form the intended finished product. In time you will get the bookmarks, the good incoming links, the high positions in the search engines and the traffic that all those things bring. Once you have that traffic coming to your website, if your website is well optimized with AdSense, then the money flows.

To read more of my Essential Secrets of Making Big Money with AdSense, or to sign up for yourself to become a part of AdSense, check out my webpage and the links below.

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Let me come at you through this way. You remember Google AdWords? If yes, then you would know that to have such ads placed on the internet, you would have to bid for some certain keywords related to the information/product you are posting/promoting/selling on Google. Some keywords are more expensive than others as they are searched more times by internet users.

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Back to AdSense. By now you should have known the KEY to increase your revenue in AdSense; KEYWORDS. Keywords with low bid price in AdWords will produce low pay in AdSense while, those with higher bid price will produce higher in AdSense.

Now all you have to do is incoporate these high paying keywords into the articles/information or whatever is on your blog/site and they will attract those ads which will generate high pay when clicked. Thats all. This is just the simple trick been used by all those who earn high from the AdSense program.

So go ahead and find these high paying keywords and use them.