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This month has been a inspirational month cause I’ve received my first AdSense payment. You get the feeling of earning money online when you start spending it. I’ve received my first AdSense payment after six months so now I have to set up my goals to receive AdSense payment each month.

My main source of income is Hubpages again. I’ve created a few more Hubs this month and I’m experimenting with different niches. I’ve created AdSense channel for each of my Hubs and I’ll develop more Hubs in high paying niches. I’ve got some Amazon sales also but my Amazon earnings are just depending on pure luck. I have to find some time from my day job for creating some time for my Amazon Associates Store. Here are the numbers for May:

Earnings for May: 42,83$

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Google AdSense Team sent an e-mail yesterday informing the publishers that AdSense have enabled third-party ads from now on which means that we won’t only publish Google AdSense Ads but also ads from other Google approved ad networks. The third-party ads will be in English and only in image format for now. The official announcment from Google AdSense Blog : http://adsense.blogspot.com/2008/05/introducing-third-party-ads-on-google.html

You have to set you ads to image format from AdSense Control Panel : Manage Ads section. If you don’t want to display the third-party ads you can change the ad settings to text only and go on with the AdSense Ads. I have set up the ads at my main page to image only to see the performance of the new third-party ads. The bloggers aren’t sure about the outcomes of introducing other ad networks to Google AdSense because now they will be in control of CPC.

I think that Google knows the best and they have probably taken their precautions to protect their publishers. They are now offering limited number of third-party networks only from America. Here is a list of approved third-party publishers:

North America: Ad servers

• DoubleClick DFA (www.doubleclick.com)
• Mediaplex (www.mediaplex.com)

North America: Rich media

• DoubleClick Rich Media (www.doubleclick.com)
• Eyeblaster (www.eyeblaster.com)
• EyeWonder (www.eyewonder.com)
• Interpolls (www.interpolls.com)
• Pointroll (www.pointroll.com)
• Unicast (www.unicast.com)

North America: Research

• Dynamic Logic/Safecount (www.safecount.net)
• Factor TG (www.factortg.com)
• IAG (www.iagr.com)
• InsightExpress (www.insightexpress.com)

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Once more beginning of a new month and time for monthly earnings report. After a boost up at earnings in March, I was a little a fraid to see the earnings go down and lose my excitement. Actually my earnings are nearly the same when compared to March. Last month I had very good eCPM results from Adsense. Smartpricing is a serious issue in Adsense and I got smartpriced as expected. I have to admit that my Hubpages traffic is less when compared to last month but the Adsense earnings are nearly the half. Surely I have to increase the number of my Hubs and increase traffic. What came to my surprise is it’s been a great month for Amazon Associates program. I’ve sold 10 products this month and I can see some of my Amazon capsules at Hubpages is working good.

The important thing is I finally made the 100$ milestone at Google Adsense and I will hopefully receive my first paycheck from online business. This month I’ve also seen the importance of Amazon Associates and I am working on an Amazon Store Project right now. (I will give the information about the on going project but my main purpose is to build an Amazon Store with it’s own shopping cart.)

Here are the numbers :

Earnings for April: 49,72$

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After 5 months of BloggerDollar’s birth Google Gods have awarded BloggerDollar with a PageRank of two. This blog has been built from scratch and I don’t have any previous blogging or online money making experience and seeing that this blog has been given a PageRank in such a short time is great inspiration. The Pagerank doesn’t stand for any value itself because it doesn’t just boost up the traffic. It’s just a rating of your blog in terms of number but people believe in numbers so high PR usually returns as more traffic and more ads.

I am making the most of my money from Hubpages and this blog stands for logging and sharing the ways of making money from Internet. The PageRank increase is a good award and I hope the good effort converts as more online bucks.

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I am a supporter of Google Adsense for bringing quality to the online ad services and they have set the standards higher for advertisers and publishers. I am using adsense units because of the confidence and believing in their good intention to provide a good experience for both advertisers and publishers. I can understand their tendency to look out for advertisers because they are the source of money. The latest news already created some buzz for publishers even before officially announced.

According to Problogger’s news Google will announce shortly the new ad click system which disables the clicks to background and texts, making clicks only available through title and url. According to Problogger Google is explaining this situation by telling :

“We’re rolling out a change to our text ad formats to help reduce accidental clicks and increase value for advertisers…..This new format will match the changes we’ve implemented on Google.com to help decrease the number of accidental clicks and increase the number of ad conversions. A reduction in accidental clicks will keep users on your pages, interacting with your content until they choose to click on an ad. This change will enhance the user’s overall experience with your websites and improve advertiser campaign value, but it’s likely that your click-through rate will decrease.”

I have no objection to increasing targeted clicks but doing this by disabling click-able areas doesn’t seem okay with me. Google will also cancel some targeted clicks by the way. I tried to figure out the effects by making an experiment myself. I looked at some ads in various pages and I realized that I was trying to click the ads through backgrounds mostly. That’s because Google Ads has been a brand itself and our eyes are perceiving whole ad unit as a block. You can argue that people would find a way to click ads somehow but this is ads we are speaking of and people won’t be so persistent to click ads.

There’s an opinion that advertisers are going to increase the rates and the changes won’t effect publishers but I think that it will create bad results in short term and will push publishers to look out for new sources.

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You know all the buzz going about Google Pagerank penalty for text link ad users. There is still too much discussion going about why and how but marketing people stopped discussing and provided a solution which is approved by Google Judges.

 ScratchBack is a new widget developed by text-link-ads to provide a solution for the Pagerank related problems. The problem with text link ads was Google started to see that as a fraud which provides people high pagerank links for money. ScratchBack solves this problem by creating this javascript widget which provides nofollow links. Which means that Google spiders won’t follow those links and it’s not a danger to pagerank system. ScratchBack says that they got approval from Google for this new system.

Google created such a fear for text links that ScratchBack use the term “tip” instead of “ads”. The system works as follows:

You place the widget on your blog and people can place their links for ad purposes or just for tipping the blogger. You choose the cost for links which starts from a minimum of 1$ and going up. (1$ can be considered as a tip) When a person tips you the link moves to the top position in your link list and goes one step down each time new ad is displayed. (You can disable this feature and enable a limited time display)

The system is in beta phase now and I hope they improve designs and provide a custom design option for selecting color patterns and let you give a title to the list.

The system seems like good to give it a try. You can try by giving me a tip (or scratch my back:) for just 1 $ or just follow the link “Get Your Own Top List”.

Edit: I’ve sent my own design to scratchback team and trying to change design but could’t find an easy way to do so I am removing the widget until they provide an easy color selection tool like adsense products.

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I know that reading long program policies may be boring. Don’t worry, BloggerDollar is here to let you skip the boring part and dive in to earning cash.

However there are some facts you need the know about your most reliable source Adsense. If you don’t want to get banned from Adsense and spend rest of your life looking for a subsitute, keep some important facts about Adsense in your mind:

1. Invalid Clicks

Google has a strong policy to prevent invalid clicks to keep their advertisers pleased. Don’t forget that Google guys are propably smarter then you so don’t even bother creating artificial traffic/clicks.

2. Own Clicks

Don’t ever click your own ads. Even if the ad actually interests you or you just wanna check out if the ads work. Google has the magical powers to sense you clicking your own ads so be careful. If you click your own ads by mistake inform Adsense about the situation. 1 or 2 clicks won’t get you rich so it isn’t worth the risk.

3. Encouraging Clicks

Don’t ever use terms like “click my ads, visit my sponsors, make me rich, i will die if you don’t click those links”.  (However you may use the term “Sponsored Links”)

Don’t try to trick users by hiding ads, showing as part of text etc..

Don’t point out ads by arrows, images etc..

In this situation Google magic works again and you will be caught.

4. Contextual Ads

This one is a little confusing. Google allows other ads and PayPerClick programs to be placed on your website but other ads shouldn’t be resembling google ads. So placing an ad linking to dirty sites is damaging google’s reputation so that is prohibited (That’s understandable).

Google also doesn’t want competition so ads resembling Google Ads isn’t allowed. That one is a little confusing. This term may be to prevent Yahoo’s affiliate service (which looks like Google ads in a sense). So be cautious before placing other ads to your site.

5. Illegal Content

I think I don’t have to mention mature content, hacks/cracks are illegal. You have to be careful with the material you publish because sharing a mp3 you like with your community may seem innocent to you but that is illegal.

6. Site Behaviour

If you have got a free hosting you should check if your service is no pop-up. Many free hosting companies force their pop-up ads with your site and this will ban you from Adsense.

7. Ad Placement

You can’t place more than 3 ad units and 2 search boxes. Even if you do place more than 3 ads they won’t be displayed. There is no penalty for that but broken links in your website is a bad impression for your community.

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