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anyone can put adsense on their site
anyone can write content
the research isn't that hard when you know where to look
the hard part, as with any site, is getting enough of the right sort of visitors
Example - imagine i have developed some software and I'm selling it for $1million, it may even be worth it too.
but, who's going to buy it? my conversion rate will be shit, there'll be 1000s of diggs about the million dollar software...i only need 1 sale and I'm set up for life but i'm not going to get it.
with adsense your call to action is the click, not the sale, so you're relying on the advertisers ability to write compelling ad copy for the CTR and your SEO skills to get the traffic
The concept is easy. to live off the concept is a bit harder. not able to do it at the moment - need to continue to build traffic, and have had a great idea for that too
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The traffic is the most important thing, but ad placement and colors takes a little experimenting. I find the rectangle box with the background and border the same color as the page works best for me, (placed above the fold).
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Northie, i recall a topic where Gypsy had a good plan... if not rough explanation of how it would work. Become black hat for a few months, make thousands of websites and make a sh#t of load of dough... .then move away from any ip that links to you and carry on with your life 
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Instant Targeting - Section Targeting
Geez I can't beleive no one got this. I guess there's not a lot of adsense writers here.
There's a tag you can add to parts of your text that gives that section of text more or less importantance to the adSense bot. It's called section targeting.
Be careful when using it though, if you don't include enough text in it - it can cause the adSense bot to display public service ads or have other indesireable results. It's kinda hard to screw it up though. Just read the instruions in google's AdSense Help section
Here's the help info from google:
What is section targeting and how do I implement it?
Section targeting allows you to suggest sections of your text and HTML content that you'd like us to emphasize or downplay when matching ads to your site's content. By providing us with your suggestions, you can assist us in improving your ad targeting. We recommend that only those familiar with HTML attempt to implement section targeting.
To implement section targeting, you'll need to add a set of special HTML comment tags to your code. These tags
will mark the beginning and end of whichever section(s) you'd like to emphasize or de-emphasize for ad targeting.
The HTML tags to emphasize a page section take the following format:Code:
<!-- google_ad_section_start -->
<!-- google_ad_section_end -->
You can also designate sections you'd like to have ignored by adding a (weight=ignore) to the starting tag:
<!-- google_ad_section_start(weight=ignore) -->
With these tags added to your HTML code, your final code may look like the following:
<html><head><title>Section targeting</title></head>
<body>
<!-- google_ad_section_start -->
This is the text of your web page. Most of your content resides here.
<!-- google_ad_section_end -->
</body>
</html>You can use section targeting to make suggestions about as many sections of a page as you like. However, please be aware that we can't guarantee results, and that it may take up to 2 weeks before our crawlers take into account any changes you've made to your site.
In order to properly implement this feature, you'll need to include a significant amount of content within the section targeting tags. Including insufficient content may result in less relevant ads or PSAs. In addition, please keep in mind that this feature should only be used to emphasize significant sections of your site's relevant content. It is against our program policies to manipulate the ad targeting to result in ads that are not relevant to the content of your pages.
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mkay, does it really work though? has anyone else tried this little bundle of apparent sunshine? 
Thanks for the info texx, can honestly say i haven't seen that one before
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Thanks Texxs. Great info.
In fairness, Nothie did make a brief mention of the tags, early in the thread.
I had a reply half written last night, but my dear wife tricked me off my computer chair so she could check her e-mails. When I got back on the chair, my several browser windows, with my post and reserch were gone. So I went off to bedibyes.
Having a great time studying the ads at EzineArticles for keywords I search their site for.
I see that the same words, in different order, can have widely varying bid amounts. This must mean that if I target what I think is a high paying keyphrase, on my page, I could easily get AU$0.09 ads, paying me about 3 cents when I get a click through. I'll be a while getting my check at 3 cents a time.
I can see that I'll need to put the ignore tags around my nav bar. That seems to be where the poor targeting is originating. Now I see why the MFA pages that one sometimes comes upon when searching, are orphan pages.
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In fairness, Nothie did make a brief mention of the tags, early in the thread.
I missed that - sorry Northie!
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texxs wrote:
In fairness, Nothie did make a brief mention of the tags, early in the thread.
I missed that - sorry Northie!
section targeting only works when you've got enough content.
adsense targeting works best when you target words that are actually being bid on
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It's all true!
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this whole topic is making my mouth water good times. I heard this a while ago but never looked further into it, if someone clicks on an add on your site and actually buys a product on the other side do you earn more for th click?
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Ryan_steyn wrote:
this whole topic is making my mouth water
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AdSesne is pay per click
nothing more, nothing less (unless you fall foul of the Gaddy)
you're not allowed to put other ppc ads on your site but you are allowed other pay-per-sale ads (ie - commission based). 2 good sources for these are amazon and clickbank
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Oh, well that makes sense i guess I like that thinking, no bs, this is what you sign up for this is what ya get good stuff, shot for clearing that up
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It's important to read the TOS carefully, you might get excited bvy your acct balance but not get paid. There's a few rules all there in black and white. No mp3's, no traffic exchanges, etc.
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Yeah but i wouldnt be inclined to try that, i would simply provide very informative sites for very niche markets and give no choice but to click on the amzingly interesting adds BWAHAHAHA
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Then you'll definately be a millionaire this month.
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lol, even though the signs arent obvious... the sarcasm burns....
It could work if i have enough of them, at least for a few hundred bucks a month
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no sarcasm intended, just exaggeration. 2-3 hundred a month is very realistic. I can do 2 hundred a month no prob. And my keywords are cheap:(
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Thats perfect, that will cover my adsl and some hosting easily What a lovely world we live in 
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except for the tax man. 
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what happens with the tax man... is adsense taxable? dont even joke 
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