Due to the holidays surrounding this weekend, I felt it was necessary to do a long weekend round up, to catch up on what I have posted over the last few days to keep everyone up to date with things. Below I will list each topic, and give a brief over view, basically to make your life simpler. I hope it helps. Just click on the headings to read the articles. I have included a rating out of 10 in brackets after each article, to give you an idea of which posts I feel are most useful.

Adsense Increase With Naming Conventions (6/10)

Techniques and tricks when it comes to naming conventions in order to increase your adverts adaption to current content.

Webtrepreneur Is Giving Away A Free Paid For Advert (6/10)

The Webtrepreneur has decided that he will be giving away a free advert placement on Webtrepreneur.co.za, under the Paid Adverts block, located at the top right of the sidebar on this site. Currently there are two adverts residing there, which have actually proved to be very popular click through links.

Bidvertiser Review (7/10)

A jam packed review of another affiliate company worth looking into. The review was prepared for Tyler Cruz.

Black List Cheap Click Through Adverts (8/10)

Filter out Made For Adsense and Low Cost Per Click adverts using a wonderful website.

Ten Excellent Wordpress Adsense Plugins (9/10)

Probably the best list of wordpress adsense injection plugins.

Tagspage South Africa Review (8/10)

A Review of a website offering easy, fast and free back links. A must see.

So there you have it, a nice simple layout of all the posts over the last several days, with ratings to make your browsing and reading right to the point!

Getting your site well known, and highly ranked on search engines seems to be the aim of the game these days. Back links and search engine optimization are two of the most concentrated on topics floating around the blogosphere, and between website authors.

Today, I bring you another free advertising medium. Within two minutes, you will have another back link to add to your collection. I talked about Blogvertise not too long ago, and it has proven to be successful in increasing peoples traffic. I have received a good collection of emails from people thanking me for the free service. So, without waiting any longer, let me get onto this fantastic new service.

Tagspage is a great place to get an easy, quick and free back link to your website. There are many advantages for this:

• the tag (for the exclusive type) or the title (for the shared type) links directly to your website. This is great for your Search Engine Optimisation and will improve your ranking with search engines
• high exposure
• high traffic
• affordable and creative advertising

Tagspage offers free and paid for tags, both revolving around the same concept of choosing your tag name, and having it displayed on a board with other tags. The Webtrepreneur decided to use the paid service, as the prices were really cheap, and the traffic to the website is high, and I don’t believe in only ever using free advertising to get traffic. The cost of my tag was R336.00, as I received a discount of R144.00 for doing this review. So, all in all, it would have cost R480.00, which relative to the service offered is virtually nothing. I have already seen an increase in the traffic to this website, and the tag has only been on the website for a couple of days! You can see my tag by clicking here - Big red font on a mustard background saying ‘Web Entrepreneur’.

When purchasing tags on Tagspage, there is a wonderful pricing system, where the price changes on the fly while you choose your colours, words and sizes of the tag. I played around for a good 5 minutes until the look and price suited me.

I am very happy with my purchase, and would suggest that you head on over, and take a look for yourself, even if it is to grab a free tag while it’s still available!

These days, most people use Wordpress for blogging, it seems to be the easiest blogging software to set up, and with the large number of themes, plugins, and support websites, there is no reason to look anywhere else. Setting up a wordpress based blog takes around 5 minutes if you have an idea of what you are doing, finding a theme takes some time, and installation takes a few minutes. All in all, the process does not take long at all. What happens now when you want to monetize your blog, and you are unsure of how to do with by editing the files manually? Plugins. Plugins are amazing modules, which add great features to your website, and there are plenty of plugins available to help you inject advertising into your template.

Ten excellent Wordpress plugins for Google Adsense:

1. Adsense Delux
   AdSense-Deluxe is a WordPress plugin offering advanced options for managing the automatic insertion of Google AdSense or Yahoo Publisher Network (YPN) ads to your WordPress posts.

2. Adsense Injection
   My new Adsense Injection plugin just takes a random paragraph (or br tag) break in your article and inserts adsense code. It does one per story on multi-post pages (home, archive, category) and let’s you pick how many to show on single post pages. It lets you pick how many total ads to show at any time as well (0-3) and it lets you set the formats and colors you want it to randomly select from.
3. Adsense Inline
   Places Google adsense in blog posts.
4. Mighty Adsense
   Place code in wordpress without having to change templates. Ads are displayed in posted items, with the option to choose how many blocks its going to show up in a page.
5. Adsense Sidebar Widget
   An adsense sidebar widget.
6. Adsense Beautifier
   Helps with placing of images next to adsense. (Illegal)
7. Wordpress Adrotator
   Allows you to rotate your affiliate programs.
8. Earnings Plugin
   Shows you your adsense revenue in your admin area.
9. Adsense Profit
   Displays your adsense revenue to the public. (Illegal)
10. Author Adsense
    Enables blog authors to enter their Google Adsense Publisher ID and have ads displayed on their own posts generating revenue.

These are ten of a greatest plugins, which any Web Entrepreneur would die for. Take a good look and read at all of them, and decide which one will best suite what you are trying to acheive.

There are many ways to go about increasing your adsense revenues; These techniques range from correct placement to correct colour usage to a myriad of other things. All of these techniques are very standard, and almost every blog, which talks about adsense, will mention these factors which contribute to maximizing your adsense revenue. With a simple google search, you will be presented with 67 pages of results, which is around 670 articles on the Internet talking about these two fators, so basically what I am saying is that if you have not dealt with these two topics, I would suggest you go back to my three articles on getting started with adsense, and setting up adsense, etc. If you have read these topics, or you have done the basic colour matching and placement tasks, then it’s time to look a little deeper into increasing your adsense.

Inside your adsense control panel, there is a tab called ‘Competitive Ad Filter’, which is a sub tab of ‘Adsense Setup’. This advert filter system, if used properly can be highly effective. When looking at filter out various adverts from your website, there are two types of adverts, which you want to avoid: Made for Adsense (MFA) and Low Cost Per Click (LCPC).

MFA websites where authors purchase google adwords for tiny click through amounts of $0.01 - $0.05, to attract traffic to their website, which then houses more expensive adverts. It’s a clever idea and all, but for publishers who are running blogs hoping to make some supplementary income, it’s the worst thing possible. Think of it this way, if you are getting a decent amount of traffic and see between 50 and 100 clicks per day on your adverts, then you are doing well. But if these clicks consist mostly of MFA website adverts, your 50 to 100 clicks will be transferred into only $1 - $5! If your website could block these terrible low paying adverts, and you averaged around $0.20 - $0.50 per click, you would be earning around $20 - $50 a day! That’s an increase of 2000% simply by blocking these MFA adverts.

The whole point of the Competitive Ad Filter panel is to phase out these MFA and LCPC adverts, but how do we go about finding out which ones they are? We cannot click our own adverts and study the revenue pulled in, as this is against Google’s Terms and Conditions, although one sneaky way would be to move from one computer to another (avoiding the same IP Addresses and hardware serial numbers), but the amount of petrol and effort to do this, it really would not be worth it, so we need a better way.. (more…)