The BEST Make Money Online Tip You Will EVER Read

06-14-2008

Written by Jean Harris on June 14th, 2008

Tip - Don’t Get Started! (just kidding, there really is a tip below)
MAKE MO' MONEY

Before I share this extremely effective and deceivingly simple make money online tip I have to knock the basics out of the park for you. Those basics are:

You need a blog with Google Analytics installed
You need to read my StumbleUpon Traffic Guide
You need a contextual advertising account like adsense or YPN
You need a plugin similar to adsense deluxe installed

With those four things done you can begin earning more money IMMEDIATELY by implementing them properly. Most blogs have the tools needed but they have NO clue how to improve results. This tip is simple, so simple in fact that it’s next to foolproof. Your EXISTING content will even make more immediately.

Step 1. Gather your blogs raw traffic data
- Log into your analytics account and find out which of your blog pages receive the most natural search engine traffic. Write down their URI’s for later reference.

Step 2. Create a money generating creative
- Log into your AdSense account and create a 300×250 or 326×280 rectangle unit, whichever will fit best inline with the main text of your template.

Step 3. Add the money creating unit to your blog
- Open the settings of your AdSense Deluxe plugin and insert your adsense code. Surround that adsense code with a little additional code to make it float either right or left so that text wraps around it. Here is the code to align ads left.

<div style=”display:block;float:left;padding:5px;”>AdSense Code Here</div>

Step 4. Very Important: determine which pages to place adsense on
- The adsense plugin allows you to place a unit within any article, or not to place one at all. Edit each and every page that receives steady natural search engine traffic and place your adsense unit on them up top of your content, float it right or left of course. Next, remove any ads from pages doing poorly in search results, especially pages receiving a lot of StumbleUpon attention.

Thats all you need to do! Here is why it works:
- People finding your pages via search engines are motivated, they are much more likely to click on a contextual ad if it describes exactly what they are looking for. The ad types mentioned above perform best on most sites.
- People finding your pages via StumbleUpon will not see ads and will find the page more attractive, which makes it more likely to get Stumbled.
- The combination results in your site getting great stats in places like Alexa, Technorati, RSS subscribers etc BUT you still monetize the better ranking pages well. A higher percentage of contextual ad clicks come from natural search visits.

The tip - don’t be like every other blog. Most blogs have the same template on every page - they complain about low ad clickthrough rates, they complain StumbleUpon traffic is useless, don’t be that complainer, make money instead. StumbleUpon drives statistic improving traffic, Search engines drive income generating traffic, when mixed you hurt both and raise your bounce rate.

Monetize search traffic, beautify for social traffic, enjoy the best of both.