I recently had a obsession with MFA/Made For Adsense websites, I even purchased some just to cure my curiosity, I purchased mine from an auction though and they were very cheap, but I never set them up, I would like to know if anyone has ever made much money off them, apart from the people who sell them of course, to tell the truth I have never actually ran into a MFA website that's full of these article reproductions ? Is this because they simply are not getting in the search engines ?
I have set up a few pages to give them away, the Free Articles available are here, they do get a few hits, but they're not set up as an MFA or article site.
So are they a legitimate business ?
Instead I have opted for a eBook store, to see how that goes, I have built in Adsense, Click Bank and Amazon for Advertising.
Well anyway I gotta go.
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
Sunday, June 04, 2006
Advertising "Click Fraud" Rampant Online?
Advertising "Click Fraud" Rampant Online?
by: Jim Edwards
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All Rights reservedhttp://www.thenetreporter.com
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"Pay-per-click," by far the most popular form of online advertising, recently came under fire as charges of rampant "click fraud" gather steam on the Web. Google and Yahoo! earn the majority of their money through sales of advertising to tens-of-thousands of online merchants, companies, and professional.
In fact, some estimate that 99% of all Google's revenue comes from advertising sales. Unfortunately, allegations of click fraud may well rain on Google's otherwise sunny parade and cause a whole scale revamping of current online advertising practices.
Pay-per-click advertising does exactly what it sounds: advertisers pay for each click on their ad, usually mixed in among search engine results or displayed on relevant websites. "Click fraud" occurs when, for whatever reason, an ad gets clicked by someone or something (usually an automated "bot" that simulates clicks) with no intention of ever buying anything from the advertiser.
The sole intention of click fraud is to simply drain an advertiser's budget and leave them with nothing to show but an empty wallet. Who commits click fraud? Usually an unscrupulous competitor who wants to break a rival's bank, online "vandals" who get their kicks causing other people grief, or search engine advertising affiliates who want to earn fat commissions by racking up piles of bogus clicks.
Regardless of who does it or why, click fraud appears to be a growing problem search engines hope stays under their advertising clients' radar.This problem isn't exactly news to the search engine giants. In fact, on page 60 of their 3rd quarter Report for 2004, Google admits that they have "regularly refunded revenue" to advertisers that was "attributed to click-through fraud." Google further states that if they don't find a way to deal with this problem "these types of fraudulent activities could hurt our brand.
Bottom line for Google and Yahoo! (which owns Overture, the Web's largest pay-per-click search engine): as word of click fraud spreads across the Web, they must act quickly to calm the nerves of advertisers who could well abandon them over doubts about the veracity of their advertising charges.
The search engines all claim to carry measures that identify and detect click fraud, but details about how they do it and to what extent remain sketchy. They claim revealing details about security would compromise their efforts and give the perpetrators a leg up on circumventing their defenses. This sounds good, but affords little comfort to advertisers who feel caught between losing out on their best traffic sources and paying for advertising that won't result in revenue.
One way to protect your business against click fraud is to closely monitor your website statistics. Look for an unusually high number or regular pattern of clicks from the same IP address. If you need help, enlist the aid of your hosting provider to aid you in spotting suspicious trends in your website traffic.
Also, a number of services such as ClickSentinel.com have sprung up online to help advertisers spot and quickly analyze and compile the data necessary to effectively dispute fraudulent click charges with the search engines.
About the Author
Jim Edwards is a syndicated newspaper columnist and the co-author of an amazing new ebook that will teach you how to use fr^e articles to quickly drive thousands of targeted visitors to your website or affiliate links... Simple "Traffic Machine" brings Thousands of NEW visitors to your website for weeks, even months... without spending a dime on advertising! ==> http://www.turnwordsintotraffic.com
by: Jim Edwards
© Jim Edwards -
All Rights reservedhttp://www.thenetreporter.com
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
"Pay-per-click," by far the most popular form of online advertising, recently came under fire as charges of rampant "click fraud" gather steam on the Web. Google and Yahoo! earn the majority of their money through sales of advertising to tens-of-thousands of online merchants, companies, and professional.
In fact, some estimate that 99% of all Google's revenue comes from advertising sales. Unfortunately, allegations of click fraud may well rain on Google's otherwise sunny parade and cause a whole scale revamping of current online advertising practices.
Pay-per-click advertising does exactly what it sounds: advertisers pay for each click on their ad, usually mixed in among search engine results or displayed on relevant websites. "Click fraud" occurs when, for whatever reason, an ad gets clicked by someone or something (usually an automated "bot" that simulates clicks) with no intention of ever buying anything from the advertiser.
The sole intention of click fraud is to simply drain an advertiser's budget and leave them with nothing to show but an empty wallet. Who commits click fraud? Usually an unscrupulous competitor who wants to break a rival's bank, online "vandals" who get their kicks causing other people grief, or search engine advertising affiliates who want to earn fat commissions by racking up piles of bogus clicks.
Regardless of who does it or why, click fraud appears to be a growing problem search engines hope stays under their advertising clients' radar.This problem isn't exactly news to the search engine giants. In fact, on page 60 of their 3rd quarter Report for 2004, Google admits that they have "regularly refunded revenue" to advertisers that was "attributed to click-through fraud." Google further states that if they don't find a way to deal with this problem "these types of fraudulent activities could hurt our brand.
Bottom line for Google and Yahoo! (which owns Overture, the Web's largest pay-per-click search engine): as word of click fraud spreads across the Web, they must act quickly to calm the nerves of advertisers who could well abandon them over doubts about the veracity of their advertising charges.
The search engines all claim to carry measures that identify and detect click fraud, but details about how they do it and to what extent remain sketchy. They claim revealing details about security would compromise their efforts and give the perpetrators a leg up on circumventing their defenses. This sounds good, but affords little comfort to advertisers who feel caught between losing out on their best traffic sources and paying for advertising that won't result in revenue.
One way to protect your business against click fraud is to closely monitor your website statistics. Look for an unusually high number or regular pattern of clicks from the same IP address. If you need help, enlist the aid of your hosting provider to aid you in spotting suspicious trends in your website traffic.
Also, a number of services such as ClickSentinel.com have sprung up online to help advertisers spot and quickly analyze and compile the data necessary to effectively dispute fraudulent click charges with the search engines.
About the Author
Jim Edwards is a syndicated newspaper columnist and the co-author of an amazing new ebook that will teach you how to use fr^e articles to quickly drive thousands of targeted visitors to your website or affiliate links... Simple "Traffic Machine" brings Thousands of NEW visitors to your website for weeks, even months... without spending a dime on advertising! ==> http://www.turnwordsintotraffic.com
Friday, May 19, 2006
Which is better Clickbank or Adsense
Which do you prefer Clickbank or Adsense (question marknot working)
I have tried clickbank without much success, I have had over 60 000 visitors in the last 2 weeks and have had a few cb sites running and I have a feeling my site I was referring to was steeling the referrals, I was so tempted to buy through my own link just to see if it would work!!
Is this common practice from Click bank sponsors (question mark)
At least with adsense I am getting steady income each day, I get between 5000 and 10000 hits a day and on average earn $5-$6 a day, not much I know but at the end of the month that's an extra $200. My average click is 10cents, some vary though as today just one click was $1.25, but some are as low as 3cents.
So what's better Clickbank or Adsense (question mark).
I have tried clickbank without much success, I have had over 60 000 visitors in the last 2 weeks and have had a few cb sites running and I have a feeling my site I was referring to was steeling the referrals, I was so tempted to buy through my own link just to see if it would work!!
Is this common practice from Click bank sponsors (question mark)
At least with adsense I am getting steady income each day, I get between 5000 and 10000 hits a day and on average earn $5-$6 a day, not much I know but at the end of the month that's an extra $200. My average click is 10cents, some vary though as today just one click was $1.25, but some are as low as 3cents.
So what's better Clickbank or Adsense (question mark).
Wednesday, May 17, 2006
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Friday, May 05, 2006
Home Business with Affiliates, ClickBank and Adsense - Blog -
Home Business with Adesense, ClickBank and Adsense.
I would like to cover these three subjects, adsense is one of the easiest yet complicated, clickbank is one of the biggest and reliable, affiliates covers many sites and oportunities.
These are the most popular in my opinion and easiest, while costing next to nothing to operate and install, personally I use them all, but like most online opportunities there are some rules to follow and adsense has some of the more strict guidelines to follow.
When adding adsense to a site you are actually adding value to your site, a: you will be making more money as a side income or primary income and will also have your site indexed faster in Google, forget the short cuts to Google and back door entry, the simplest way to get googled is adsense, although your site may need to be accessed by you as admin and you most likely will need to add HML to your site for the adsense code / HMTL to be installed and proof of ownership which only requires that you enter another small piece of HTML a meta tag for google. The draw back being that many affiliate sites are not accessible by you the affiliate.
Click Bank is good as this simple to install or act as an affiliate with no website or money investment required, you simply earn by promoting and selling your click bank products, with a selection of thousands is a nice start for any entrepeneur, the drawback being the amount of affiliates using clickbank and the obvious clickbank product or URL.
Affiliate just refers to many sites that offer you cash for promoting and selling there product, the drawback being tracing all your affiliate sites and memberships, trying to remember all the passwords and the reliability of the affiliate site.
I will add more soon, please add your comments, success stories and recommendations.
I would like to cover these three subjects, adsense is one of the easiest yet complicated, clickbank is one of the biggest and reliable, affiliates covers many sites and oportunities.
These are the most popular in my opinion and easiest, while costing next to nothing to operate and install, personally I use them all, but like most online opportunities there are some rules to follow and adsense has some of the more strict guidelines to follow.
When adding adsense to a site you are actually adding value to your site, a: you will be making more money as a side income or primary income and will also have your site indexed faster in Google, forget the short cuts to Google and back door entry, the simplest way to get googled is adsense, although your site may need to be accessed by you as admin and you most likely will need to add HML to your site for the adsense code / HMTL to be installed and proof of ownership which only requires that you enter another small piece of HTML a meta tag for google. The draw back being that many affiliate sites are not accessible by you the affiliate.
Click Bank is good as this simple to install or act as an affiliate with no website or money investment required, you simply earn by promoting and selling your click bank products, with a selection of thousands is a nice start for any entrepeneur, the drawback being the amount of affiliates using clickbank and the obvious clickbank product or URL.
Affiliate just refers to many sites that offer you cash for promoting and selling there product, the drawback being tracing all your affiliate sites and memberships, trying to remember all the passwords and the reliability of the affiliate site.
I will add more soon, please add your comments, success stories and recommendations.
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