Well this was the exact case in with our site. I had been reading and listening to so many others when it came to recommendations as to what AdSense ad is the most profitable and for many they are placing the ad within the post itself. I had been using this method for many months without success and basically I was just under the impression that our site was not receiving enough page impressions to reach higher profits.

Starting in March I decided to make a few changes on our site; I figured out how to ad background color to the side bar section and I changed our AdSense ad size to the (160 x 600 side bar) (300×250 side bar). The results: average 600% increase in daily profits with a round about estimates of CTR 3.25% and eCPM $5.42. The morale of the story here is do not listen to what works best for these “A List” bloggers keep testing your site and then test some more because what’s successful for them will not always be the case for your site.

MARCH 2008 BLOG REVENUE REPORT:

Private Ad Sales: $2050.00
Google AdSense: $2193.54
Affiliate Sales: $124.47
Site Reviews: $525
Text Link Ads: $542.45
Total Revenue: $5435.46

Blog traffic for March was 165,926 page views from 75,421 unique visitors, according to Google Analytics. The operating costs for the month of March came in at exactly $11.03. The breakdown of operating costs: Hosting $3.33, Café Press $6.95, Domain $0.75. The Café Press online store is the biggest monthly expense and it’s not a money maker but I keep it open for when readers feel inclined to purchase some JKD souvenirs.

Many of the regular readers have noticed a drastic decline in the amount of posting that the “GeekTalk” section actually gets updated and I wanted to note on this while I’m at it. In the beginning of March I’ve moved my efforts and time towards Affiliate marketing mostly due in part that the success of the “GeekTalk section is near to none existent, only accounting for 10% of revenue and traffic for JKD and an astonishing 90% comes from celebrity/fashion related searches.

Readers do you want more posting? Then I would like to see an increase in the stats of “GeekTalk” so start linking to the information that you’ve found useful and spreading the word about this site.

Yes, of course they’ll deliver the targeted hits you’ve purchased, but the reality is that the actual traffic either doesn’t exist at all or it’s generated by software to create an illusion of unique visitors that comes from sources like auto surf sites. The truth is that it is near impossible to monitor & evaluate this bargain traffic to know if it’s real or not, and the fact is you have no way of knowing whether it’s targeted or just garbage hits.

What is the guarantee for putting your trust into these sites offering traffic that will supposedly bring you sales? I would have to say in my opinion 99.9% do not have any guarantee whatsoever that their traffic will result in more sales.    

Let’s think about this for a moment; say you have at your disposal my hypothetical offer above offering 100,000 premium visitors at the bargain price of just $39.95 would you actually be willing to sell your traffic off? Of course not if you actually have any sense at all because say you have just one product for sale on your site and you received a 1% sale ratio that would equal 1000 sales times lets say $19.95 for a grand total of $19,950. 

Bottom line if it sounds too good to be true then more than likely it’s not.  So do yourself a favor – If you’re thinking of purchasing traffic from one of these services, keep your money to invest in more reliable and proven options such as Google Ads.

I’ve decided to address this after receiving many emails asking how we make money blogging and basically having writers block from being away for the past month. November profits were: $2033 (sponsored ads, links & reviews). Direct sells is the method that works best for our site; loads of daily emails to smaller companies offering our advertisement package (not spam or database email lists - companies are individually search for via Google).

Other advertising methods we’ve used or are using now: AdSense, Text-Link-Ads, Azoogle Ads, Intelli Txt, DoubleClick, Tribal Fusion, Adbrite, Clicksor, AdHearUs, Kanoodle, Pheedo, Yahoo-Ads Bidvertiser, Fastclick SponsoredReviews, ReviewMe, Textlinkbrokers and Value Click.

There are literally millions of blogs already and several thousands starting every week all wanting to make money online. What does it take to get to the level that we are at now? There are three fundamental areas to blogging and the rest will fall into place.    

Content
Well, since starting Ja Kel Daily in February 2006 the Entertainment section has 3417 posts and comments are closed due to obsessed crazy celebrity fans, the Sitepro section started December 2007 and I have posted 224 articles with 33,361 spam comments and 2,291 actual comments.

Determination
Self-determination theory (SDT) is a general theory of human motivation concerned with the development and functioning of personality within social contexts. The theory focuses on the degree to which human behaviors are volitional or self-determined – that is, the degree to which people endorse their actions at the highest level of reflection and engage in the actions with a full sense of choice “wiki defined”.

Time
One view is that time is part of the fundamental structure of the universe, a dimension in which events occur in sequence, and time itself is something that can be measured. wiki defined”

In plan English just keep trying and in time you may actually achieve your goal!

Regrettably, this is something that continues to take place everyday. So why is it some articles do well while others fail? Some may say it’s due to their lack of knowledge of editing.  When in fact what successful blog editors do is follow a strategic plan of writing effective articles the pre sell the advertisement (affiliate).

There are many important aspects that go into producing an effective blog post. Before you begin writing any pre sell article take a few minutes to ask you’re the following questions:

• Is the article targeted to the reader?
• Does the article have a unique factor?
• Is there a motivation (urgency) incentive?
• How does article compare to competitors?
• Does it generate curiosity?

In order for your article to be effective it must be more than just creative.  Think of reasons why you would buy (or did buy) this product/service and start listing those reasons. When listing these reasons for purchase what you are doing is adding more value to the Why factor, it serves as the driving force behind the readers response.

Headlines
One of the most important essentials in creating an effective article whether it is for selling or just informative.  The headline is sometimes referred to as the voice of the article. It pulls the reader into the article (get to readers to keep reading): “Get 120 Back Links in 24 Hours!” Rather than using: “Blog Network Get Backlinks” 

Keywords
Consider these keywords when writing your headline: How, Get, Do, Why, Save, Fast, Limited, Guaranteed, and Now.  Those keywords are just a few that work well in headlines and just keep your eyes open for the next time a headline grabs your attention!   

Visual
There are no set rules of where images must be placed in your articles.  However, when selecting images (screen shots) relevant to display the product/service I recommend that they be placed at the top of the article or in the middle.  My experience (as well as others) shows placing images in articles will enhance your message as well as grab the reader’s attention into the article.
Body  
Ok, you’ve accomplished getting the reader past the headline into the body of the article, the energy must continue throughout the post with each written word satisfying their every desire. Things to remember; keep words simple and to the point, make lists (bullets), offer benefits, testimonies, keep paragraphs short and avoid over writing.     

Ask
Create a sense of urgency, but remember to give a valid reason as to why they should act now.  Remember people love deals/bargains! If a discount is available take advantage of it and let the readers know that there is an expiration date to the offer and it will not last.  Remember to ad details of how the service/product can be obtained and then ask the reader for the sale!

For a limited time (expires 23 July 07) Get 120 Back Links in 24 Hours – For $15 (a savings of $10) just email jason@jakeldaily.com and mention this article!!!  A Technorati Authority Increase of 40 Over Night!!! 

If you are using AuctionAds on your site have you optimized them yet?  Are your AuctionAds showing a load of items for .99 cents?

The Code:
auctionads_ad_kw = “your keywords minprice:50”;
What I Use:
auctionads_ad_kw =  “Apple iPod MP3 minprice:50″;

If so the procedure to correct this is simple just use the minimum price attribute to eliminate low-price ads (example above) and then your ads will only show bids that are equal to or higher than the amount entered. If you want a higher or lower amount just changed the number to that amount. 

There are two other methods for AuctionAds optimization that I do not recommend due to inconsistency of them working internationally and I haven’t had personal success with them. Stop words (negative keywords) and ad rotating by use of multiple keywords.

Negative Keywords Code:
auctionads_ad_kw = “iPod -case -armband”;

Rotating Ads Code:
auctionads_ad_kw = “keyword1; keyword2; keyword3”;

After you have made any changes it will take few minutes for it to kick in because of the cache on the AuctionAds servers – just be patience.

Today I was thinking why not share this opportunity with my readers and give them the opportunity to offer it on their sites so they can make money online from the blog network with out charging a future for the service!  

To offer this product on your site is really simple just copy below and just change my Paypal button to your own!  If you are unsure of how to setup your own Paypal button in a post you’re in luck because I have already figured it out and posted the info on how to do it here – Insert A Paypal Button In Your Post.

After you have posted your article and inserted a working Paypal button follow theses steps after a sell:

• 1. Paypal $20 to admin@jakeldaily.com
• 2. Email me the article following the rules provided for submission.
• 3. You’ve just made $5 profit for just emailing an article.
• 4. More than likely this is more than you’ve made all week with AdSense if you are a new blogger!
• 5. Good luck on making more money online!

My success is included in the copy section below but if you would like to add your own success then submitt your article to me keep your $5 profit and paypal me $20 and your article following the submission rules.  Then add your success story to your post in 24 hours time. For more success stories check out the comments here!

============Copy Below and Change the Paypal Button==========  

The Rules for Submission:

$25 – an article written by you will be posted on all 40 blogs (maximum of 500 words)

• a) no more than 3 links per article.
• b) no porn, no warez, no illegal content.
• c) no more than 500 words.

1) Send payment to my Paypal account: your email address
2) Paypal not required major credit cards accepted click buy now!
3) Email me the HTML as an attachment for the article(s) meaning included URL(s) and anchor texts in article.
4) I will then verify your payment by matching it to your email.
5) The turnaround time is an estimated 24 hours.

Ja Kel Daily Dot Com site results after article submission:

• One day submission
• Technorati Authority: 249 to 289 overnight
• Technorati Rank: 18,616 to 13,483 overnight
• Alexa: Yesterday: 61,596 1wk.Avg: 105,471 3 mos Avg: 131,179
• Backlinks: 120 increase overnight

==============Copy Above Change the Paypal Button============

Just today I found an SERP tool on Shoemoney that allows you to check position rankings for keywords in; Google,Yahoo, MSN, and AltaVista. 

• make money review (1st page)
• make money blogging (5th page)
• make money online (11th page)

To my surprise my position is not too bad considering that I have not even been trying for the past two weeks for the keyword “make money online”.