PAULA NEAL MOONEY

by Paula Neal Mooney Much thanks to High Paying Keywords for leading me to this InternetBazaar posting about how to get your Google Adsense ads to make you more money by performing better . They are great tips that can translate to getting more money from Google Adsense -- and the thought-process can work for whatever other ads you run as well. You can read the full explanation of the tips over at the above-linked sites, but here's how I'm applying them: 1. Tear Down the Borders Check. I've been removing borders on the Google text ads -- don't think this applies to the image ads that I love. I also remove the borders on all my Amazon ads. 2. Use Matching Fonts Ehh...I can't always match the font of my site's content to my AdSense ads. 3. Use Matching Colors Ditto. But I do try to blend them as much as humanly possible. 4. Use Blue Links Love the blue links! 5. Use Big Ads I love this tip. Yesterday I switched to the Large Rectangle (336x280) that Internet Baza...

by Paula Neal Mooney For folks who advertise their websites using Google Adwords , the big news today is that Google is adding a cost-per-click, or CPC , bidding option that Google Adwords advertisers have long wanted. Until that point, Google Adwords advertisers had only the cost-per-thousand impressions, or CPM , to contend with. I started my first Google Adwords campaign to drive traffic to my dad's tax blog . Now I'm all over this new Google Adwords CPC Beta , which is letting some advertisers sign up now before it launches next month. I don't know if they're looking for the Google Adwords heavy-hitters to become a part of the new Google CPC Bidding Beta , but sign up anyway if you're a Google Adwords user . If you're not a Google Adwords advertiser and you want to be, just check out my sidebar to the left for the link to Join Google Adwords and start running a new campaign. But be warned, the minimum campaign is $30 per month -- read all their Google Ad...

by Paula Neal Mooney I love my blog's readers. The ones that don't cuss at me, that is. Like Scott Nance over at Life, The Universe... My e-conversations with Scott have inspired a couple of posts thus far, including the How to Get People to Read Your Blog one. And now here's another. Yesterday Scott unknowingly got me to thinking about the advantages to reading the ads on other people's blogs -- not your own. (Never, ever, blogging newbies, click on your own Google Adsense ads! This could spell doom.) It helps prevent ad blindness - I was so used to not clicking on the ads displayed on my own blog that I realized I was letting this fear translate to other websites I read daily. Lo and behold I had almost developed a case of ad blindness , an affliction that content writers try hard to cure their customers of, trying all sorts of tricks like placing topical pics near their Google Adsense link ads. (Which, by the by, the jury is still out on whether this is okay or not...

God bless those folks over at ProBlogger for this post about using AdsBlackList to block "made for adsense" sites created just to pay out pennies per click. I'll let you know when I earn more than the .21 cents my Google Adsense account is sitting at right now. I can just smell the big bucks rolling in! Thanks for reading! Bookmark or blogroll me at http://www.paulamooney.blogspot.com/ and drop back in some day to see what I'm up to next. Blessings and love, Paula Tags: make , money , blogging , earn , more , pay , per , click , addicted , to , a , blog , just blog it , do , it