Oh, yeah, that’s English, all right in the headline. These are just some words you might never had heard before.

I’ve just created my first lens at Squidoo, and you can make one too. You can even get paid for it.
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Some wannabe-gurus have presented monetizing – especially when dealing with Google AdSense – as though there are single solutions to any problem. The main issue in that debate has been whether blending or contrast works best in relationship with CTR. However, many don’t consider the other elements surrounding visitors and their exits through ad clicks. Let’s go through this.

Visitor Exit – What You Should Know, and what To Consider to Optimize Much Better

Let’s talk straight with one another. We KNOW that some will leave your site anyway. The art in monetizing is to ensure that instead of using the address line to visit another page that we would like to bring them to click one of the ads on a site. The best way to provide that service is to have relevant ads on ALL your pages. That one single point is agreed among most “experts”.

Much less agreed upon is the fact that we don’t want people to only click on our least-paying ads. Of course we either want them to click on a better paying ad or in fact stay long enough so something else grabs their attention. One single element that is totally overlooked is the concept of “sticking to text ads” – totally wrong CTR-wise. In fact some image and video ads perform so well I could have chosen only to have one ad on sites that work well with this and totally leave out the text ad(s) in other window(s) or table areas.

What happens is people are sometimes rather bored by text ads and relevant graphic ads will play well with graphically minded people. Face it: people leave your site when they click your ad, and you need to optimize your site in accordance with that.

Blending vs. Contrast

In much the same way, blending will work well, but on some sites contrast will work even better. Don’t listen to the gurus who preach as though they had the only solution. Much rather test everything that’s being said so you can perform well CTR-wise etc. Check your statistics constantly and do what needs to be done to optimize.

YOUR choice…

Again: there are no easy answers to every problem. What works best for your sites may be total baloney on other pages and what works for me may indeed not work for you, but with the right tools you can optimize your income.

Good luck and have a nice weekend.

You can attract commends and readers in many ways.

John Chow often uses contests – even though he actually always gets a huge amount of comments to his posts. This is probably due to his very special personality, which you most likely either hate or love.
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Books are written about making spreading your own movies like wildfire through services like YouTube and Google Video and thereby selling tons, or GigaBytes, of products, and getting billions of visitors on your homepage.

This is not the subject for this posting. Have you ever considered making money from YouTube and Google Video, without recording the slightest milimeter of movie?
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In order to get more trafic to your site, you should be writing articles and sharing the with others through an article database. The latest one seems very interesting and has the following advantages:
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A Danish radio station had learned that I’ve published a book about making money online in Denmark, so they wanted to do an interview with me to learn more about this “earn money on the Internet stuff”.

It is not the first time I’ve been interviewed to a Danish radio. The last time it was about making money from blogs, and it was the official Danish radio (Danmarks Radio) that did the interview.

This time I felt more at easy. The journalist asked some good questions, and the listeners also got a little tip about where to put AdSense ad units (of course, you know that)

I anyone should understand Danish, you can listen to the interview here: My Danish blog: I was on the radio

There are so many people out there selling stuff – this ebook will bring you millions of dollars, this video will send thousands of visitors to your site. And what if it doesn’t work?

This is the question every potential buyer asks him self: What if it doesn’t work? Who takes the risk?
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When you get a domain it is very important to choose the right webhost. I have one. Here in France. Recently, there was a script I couldn’t get to work there, and the programmer recommended his webhost. The webhost, Good Deal Hosting, promised a 30 days trial period, so I thought: What is there to loose?

Actually, a Good Deal!
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You are probably thinking like me: It must be cheap!

But what seems to be cheap now, could very well end up with costning much more. Read on, to learn from my mistakes so that you will not make the same.
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