Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Blog

In this lesson we will talk about building web pages with good content and why they are an important part of making money with Adsense.

This lesson assumes that you already have a website or at least a basic theme in mind for your Adsense pages. There are two ways that you can get started using Adsense.

The first and easiest way is to put Adsense ads on existing pages that you already have in place. You can do this by following the steps inside your account under the "Adsense Setup" tab.

With this method you can start earning money with Adsense fairly quickly. In fact you'll be amazed at the results you will be able to achieve in a very short period of time.
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Originally posted 2007-02-18 04:17:22.

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Backlinks is another way of saying "links into a page".

When you check backlinks in Google (link:www.whateversite.com,) it only shows a small sampling of your total backlinks. Many links that do not show up when you use the "link:" function in Google still count for your relevancy scoring. In addition, there is a time delay between when links are created and when they will show up in search results.

To get a more accurate picture of links, you will also want to check backlinks using Yahoo! or MSN. Yahoo! typically shows many more backlinks than Google. The code to check Yahoo! backlinks to a site is "linkdomain:www.site.com."

Originally posted 2008-03-11 02:14:43.

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Google Adsense has many ways that they filter the ads that are shown on your website. It is a good idea for you to become familiar with each of them so that you can have a better understanding of how the ads are displayed on your site.

Why is this so important?

Because, if you know how the filters work you will be better able to edit the content on your site to get the highest quality of ads on your pages. The higher the quality of the ad the bigger the payout on your click through's.
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Originally posted 2007-02-21 04:32:55.

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Let's talk about getting traffic and tracking it to improve your results. Now, realistically there is no way I can go into every aspect of getting traffic to your site and converting it to clicks, but what I can do it go over the basics with you and hopefully give you some ideas that you can use.

There are many different strategies that you can use to make sure you squeeze the maximum amount of profits out of the Adsense program.
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Originally posted 2007-02-22 04:43:46.

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At WebmasterWorld forum, a hot debate about the possibility of Google removing the PageRank score from the Google Toolbar.

This is because of a few reasons:
- Toolbar PageRank numbers are always out of date…usually 3 months or more
- There are cases of 'buggy PR updates' that seriously misrepresent a sites or page's real PageRank.
- Matt Cutts (from Google) has frequently blogged that PageRank updates are a non-event around Google
- A flawed economy of massive link building and trading to increase a certain sites or page's PageRank.

Google is keeping an eye on this situation seriously despite the rants that go on and on in forum threads.
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Originally posted 2007-10-08 09:56:37.

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Yahoo! has a tool called Yahoo! Mindset that allows you to place greater emphasis on commercial or informational results.

By default, Google tends to bias the search results heavily toward informational resources. This makes business sense for them for many reasons:

Originally posted 2008-06-09 08:21:20.

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Jeff Dean, a Google engineer, also talks about Google's technology a bit in this video at:
http://www.uwtv.org/programs/displayevent.asp?rid=2459

Since Google has the broadest distribution, people also work the hardest to game their system.

Google tends to take the view that any relevancy manipulation is inherently wrong and the SEOs are the enemy. In doing this, Google often prevents many quality resources from ranking and ends up having substandard relevancy. It seems they would rather make their own results slightly substandard than allow others to manipulate their index.
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Originally posted 2008-06-04 23:35:05.

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Some ex-googlers who are well versed with the programming and functioning of Google have formed a team to create a new search engine by the name of Cuil.com. This is an old Irish word and pronounced as 'cool'. This team is proclaiming that Cuil is a better and effective search engine than Google.
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Originally posted 2008-08-18 03:59:29.

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A recent post at the Google Webmaster Central Blog by Raj Krishnan is definitely getting a lot of webmasters attention.

Google are recommending sites to write a good Meta Description for a higher click-through-rate (CTR). Usually for sites that don't have a meta description Google selects snippets by using a number of different strategies for the benefit of the webmasters.
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Originally posted 2007-10-07 10:06:14.

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