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Make More Money With Your Online Advertising - a Three Pronged Approach

I’ve been making money with advertising for about 5 years now, and my income continues to grow. I believe I’ve found a strategy that works well, is very doable, and one that will work for you too.  All you need to do is follow some very simple steps and you will be on your way to a nice online income. 

 

I am not saying it is easy...in fact there is work involved, and as with most things the harder you work the bigger the reward.  Building a website can be done quickly, but obtaining a good enough position in the search engine results pages to bring a significant amount of traffic takes time.  If you’re willing to spend money on PPC ad campaigns or paid links you can get rapid results, but you really need some compelling content to make money from advertising if you are going to pay for advertising to get visitors to your site.

 

If you already have websites and you have visitors, then you should be advertising because you make money when you do.  It’s a numbers game.  The more visitors you get the more money you make.  There are a variety of ad programs out there…and I suppose you could include affiliate links as ads too. I joined some affiliate programs, and I made some money, but I prefer advertising revenue.

 

I’ve found that by having good content, ultra-simple layouts, basic good SEO practices including link building, and lots of pages of great content, I can get a lot of search engine traffic. However, be prepared to tough it out for usually at least a year or so.  Your site navigation needs to be easy for the search engine spiders to navigate.  You need at least 500 words per page, and I typically try to create 100 pages for a site.  The more words you have the more opportunity for a search engine to find your page.

 

Design your site for humans. Make it easy for your visitors to find what they are looking for.  Make sure your spelling is perfect and your grammar impeccable.  High quality sites do not have poor spelling and grammar.  The engines can check the spelling and grammar, and if they can they probably do.  It’s just one more way they can use to help figure out how good the site is.  Use formatting to help the engines figure out what is important by using headings and bold text etc.  Do not forget punctuation either.  Poor punctuation does not reflect well on a high quality site.

 

Include a strategy to obtain links from other sites.  Since the information available on your website that the search engines can use to rank your site is limited, they use other indicators as well.  They can use bounce rates, and other indicators to help them determine how to rank your site.  One of the more important ways they can determine your sites importance is by counting the number and the quality of the links to your site from other sites.  So obtaining links with good link text from other quality sites is important.

 

The three pronged approach I use for my advertising revenue stream consists primarily contextual based ads such as Adsense or others. Search engines can easily determine if your site is cluttered up with ads and links, and they most likely reduce the importance of pages that are teeming with ads and affiliate links.  I put my navigation links on the left side of the page, a context based ad across the top of the page, another tall skinny contextual ad on the right hand side. Then finally across the bottom of the page I have another contextual based ad.  Contextual based ads are the first prong of the three pronged approach.

 

The second prong of my attack is using impression based ads.  At the top of each page I have an impression based ad.  These ads pay me 50 cents for every 1000 impressions.  I’ve tried various combinations of CPM vs. PPC ads, and I make a lot more with the pay per clicks like adsense, but then by adding a single CPM ad at the top of each page my earnings from the pay per click ads did not go down, and one of my sites that does about 10,000 page impressions a day makes me an additional $5.00 per day…an extra $150.00 a month.

 

The third prong of my advertising income is in its infancy, and I believe that in time it will prove to be hugely successful and I intend to be there and benefit from it when it happens.  What is this baby internet advertising program? It’s called NetAudioAds, and they are 5 second audio ads that play when a visitor lands on your site.  Like the CPM impression advertising it pays you for each play. Your visitor does not have to click anything.  Like with the other programs, you just place a snippet of code on your web page and they do the rest.

 

This program also allows you to sign up other webmasters to play the ads on their sites, and when they do you get a portion of the ad revenues for those ads.  If you can sign up lots of new publishers you could make a nice income just from their ads playing on their sites.  The ability to sign up new publishers and receive a percentage of their ads is permanent, however once Net Audio Ads has decided it has enough publishers signing up converts, it will stop letting new publishers do that.

 

This 5 second audio ad program, sometimes referred to as 5 second audio ads, and sometimes as GetAudioAds, has lots of interesting things going for it.  For one thing, it will only play once every three minutes to any particular web surfer.  It does not take up any room on your web page.  It’s free to join and doesn’t cost you a nickel.  For advertisers it’s great too. No other form of advertising such as radio or TV has the listener sitting with full attention on the computer when the ad plays.  With TV and Radio the listener might be in the bathroom, the kitchen, or driving down the freeway.  With Net audio ads you know the listener is there because for the ad to play the listener must have just clicked on a link to go to your page. Very powerful stuff. 

So there you have it, my three pronged strategy, which includes a potential gold mine in the form of the new 5 second audio ad program.

About the Author

Learn more about the GetAudioAds Pay-Per-Play 5 second audio ads advertising program at Mr. Lund’s website: 5 second Audio Ads

Mr. Lund also has a blog: Pondering Everything

Fire Place Tongs

Fireplaces are highly regarded utility and inside decor items these days. In actual fact, they are thought-about extra an embellishment than a utilitarian merchandise by many. But, like any other product, fireplaces also require correct maintenance. This purpose is served by the hearth tools which might be both helpful and likewise complement to the great thing about a fireplace. The contemporary designs of the fireside tools make them best for upkeep of the fireplace and its adornment as well.

Nowadays, fire tools are constructed from totally different supplies, out of which essentially the most typically used supplies are brass, bronze, wrought iron, and stainless steel. The first instruments used for maintaining and beautifying the trendy fireplaces include poker, shovel, tongs, brush, broom, stand, and screen. So, let's get aware of these fire gear:

Poker: Poker is a medium size, thin, and durable metallic rod having an insulated deal with on one finish and [two] prong like pointed iron items (normally one straight and one curved) on the other. It's principally meant for stoking up the fire and arranging the coal or logs within the fireplace. This software is often made from brass or wrought iron and is polished effectively to provide it with a sheen.

Shovel: Shovel is a tool with a long rod having an ideal grip picket handle on one facet and a broad and curved edged metallic blade on the other side of the rod. That is used for removing ash and chilly ember from the hearth. You will need to know that the fireside shovel is totally different from a backyard shovel in several respects, so both can't be replaced with every other.

Tongs: Tongs are thought of one of the crucial vital hearth tools, which are used for numerous purposes like transferring the logs, setting aside some object which may have by accident fallen into the fireplace, and stirring the fire. This software usually comes in [two] principal varieties, viz., scissors type and claw type. As the names counsel, the scissors sort tongs resemble a scissor in form whereas the claw sort performs a claw like function. Hearth tongs are usually crafted from bronze or wrought iron.

Brush: Fireplace brush instrument is once more fairly a purposeful and effective tool. It usually possesses a brief picket deal with and thick bristles made of bronze, iron, or wrought iron. This brush is mainly used for removing the ash and particles from the hearth (typically stuck ash) with ease. These fire brushes are designed to provide optimum utility and security to the user.

Broom: Broom also has somewhat comparable operate as that of a brush. It's used to brush away the particles from the grate and hearth. The bristles of the broom are longer than that of a brush tool and they're made to resist excessive temperature. The handle of the broom can be comparatively longer. One more difference between a fire broom and brush is that while a brush is more practical in removing the debris that is cleaved to the fireplace, the broom is appropriate for common cleaning.

Stand: These stands are tall and thoroughly designed pieces of artwork that possess a rectangular or circular base and have a glossy finish. They're principally used to store all the hearth instruments in a chic and systematic manner. These fire stands are so aesthetically designed that they're thought of more a decorative merchandise than just a utility tool. These stands are commonly made out of brass, bronze, or stainless steel.

Screen: Fire display screen serves each as an ornamental item, which enhances to the great thing about the fireplace, and a safety instrument, which prevents the sparks or ash to return out of the fireplace, together with retaining away babies and pets from the fireplace. These screens are like the fire guards, that are each purposeful and aesthetic. Screens are generally fabricated from materials like brass, bronze, stainless-steel, iron, and typically silver.

At Fireplacetongs.org you'll find products, information, and resources regarding fireplace tongs and outdoor fireplace tongs.

Is it safe to force a three prong plug into a two prong outlet?

So I'm in a college dorm, and my roommate took a three prong TV plug, and bent the ground prong so that it fits into a two prong extension cord. Is this unsafe, as in, am I going to wake up engulfed in an electric fire? Thanks

As an electrical engineer, I don't recommend doing that, but in all honesty, you're not that likely to wake up to an electrical fire. Ostensibly, it's to protect the user from possible electric shock when touching a metal chassis of the equipment, but even then you probably won't have that much worry.

Normal household current (assuming you're in the U.S.) is 110v AC. Normally, that's a range of 0v to 110v. But in some cases, it could be 5v to 115v, or 10v to 120v. In rare cases, it could be 50v to 160v. The neutral wire, instead of sitting at 0v, can actually be as high as 50v, but for the equipment, it doesn't matter since the end result is still a 110v difference.

What DOES matter is when the electrical case is metal, since the neutral wire is connected to the case. You COULD end up suffering an electric shock if you touch the metal case. But, again, it only matters if you're barefoot and touching earth ground. If you're wearing shoes, or standing on a hardwood floor, even then you won't feel any shock, or maybe just an electric tremor that will startle you.

The third (ground) wire is just a means of forcing the neutral wire to ground, or absolute 0v, for added safety, just in case something did go wrong with the household voltage AND you happened to be grounded, where you could experience a terrific shock. That's why I don't recommend bypassing the 3-wire safety system, but also why I don't worry much about it if you do. The 3-wire system is fairly new, only being around in the last 25 years. For decades, homes were wired only for 2-wire electrical service, and hardly anyone ever had a problem with it.

For added illustration, one day I was standing on a wooden ladder working on some 110v wiring in the ceiling. I'd been grabbing hold of the bare wire with my bare hand with no problem as I cut the insulation for reworking. It wasn't until I was done and everything was reconnected, I was on the floor and accidently bumped the switch to find that the electrician had never turned off the circuit breaker as he was supposed to. I had been holding a live wire several times in my hand, but being on the wooden ladder protected me. Had I grabbed hold of the other wire at the same time, I'd have been electrocuted. (Which is why I never touch both wires at the same time, even if I KNOW they're been disconnected.)

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