Many bloggers are seeking ways to bring traffic. This technique will not give you any new traffic, it will do something much better.
All it will do is keep a visitor on your blog for much longer, making him read not one, but many posts.
Eventually - this will increase the quality of your blog traffic, which might be even more important then quantity of traffic - after all, a visitor that stays for half an hour is much more likely to click an ad then a visitor that stays a few minutes.


The method is quite simple, and many bloggers use it. It’s called the domino effect.
What you do is make sure each post has a link to a previous post, this way you build a chain of posts leading to the first posts of your blog. The reader will read more and more, since he wants to fully understand the issue your articles deals with, and the only way to do that, is to read the next article in the chain.
Together with the Techniques I gave you to increase Adsense CTR, You might eventually convert each and every visitor into a click. Just make sure he stays on for enough time to click something, and you are sorted!

Once you have mastered the Techniques I showed you yesterday, it’s time to move on to an advanced technique.

Here’s what you do:
You post your item to many different categories, with many different sales letters, implementing Yesterday’s technique to achieve at least 30% sales on one single category, with one single sales letter.
You should sell the eBook for a solid price, such as 4.95 or 9.95(Or higher if possible). Don’t be afraid of competition that sells the book for much cheaper. If marketing properly, you are likely to sell more, since people have a notion to trust a seller that believes his product is worth more then a few cents.
Anyway, once you hit the 30% barrier, put a dutch(multi-item) auction(but with a fixed price), for as much copies of the eBook that you can.
Make that auction featured, so that many people will be able to see the ad.

If done properly, you will sell a few dozens of the eBook from that one dutch auction. That will definitely cover the listing costs, and will put some good money into your pocket.

Stay with me. because tomorrow I am going to post another great technique, that will skyrocket your sales even higher.

Ebay is a very comfortable site to sell eBooks.
It’s really easy to grab an eBook with Resale Rights for a few bucks, and it’s possible to sell it for a great revenue on eBay, but it’s not as easy as it seems, mostly because of huge competition.
To fight off competition, here are 7 great tips to improve your revenue.

• Never be afraid of eBooks that are sold for a few cents. With the right marketing, you can sell them for 10$ and even more.
• Remember - 80% is marketing, 20% is product. Don’t waste too much time searching for the right product to sell. You can sell practically anything with the right marketing, and you can sell nothing, even if it’s worth much more then you ask for it, if you do not market it properly.
• Never look the same as others - don’t call your product by it’s name. Sell it under another name, and make it look as though it’s a unique item, this way, you’ll receive much more sales.
• Experiment - push your item in as many categories as possible, write different sales letters, and see which works best, once you find a set of 3-4 best sales letter stick with them.
• Always use Fixed Price. This way you can list many auctions at the same time, and people will buy by the price you are asking for. If you list an online auction, you’ll either have to list the item once at a time, or potential buyer will find all your auctions, and bid on the ones with the lowest offer - over all you will make less money
• Guarantee everything - Offer 100% no questions asked money back guarantee. Offer 200% money back guarantee if the customer can prove he followed the instructions in the eBook and did not achieve the promised results.Money back guarantees create confidence. On the other hand, if you offer a decent product, there will hardly ever be returns, and most eBooks give quite complicated instructions, the chances a buyer will fulfill them precisely are so slim, that you should never worry about anybody asking for a 200% refund.
• And Finally - build up good feedback. If you don’t have at least 50 feedback, nobody will ever buy from you. To build feedback quickly, you can buy informational products that cost nothing.
  Go to eBay advanced Search, select Listing ending withing 1 hour. It will probably ask you to select a category, so select Information Products.
  Sort the list by price:lowest first, and you will have quite a few items, that end within an hour, and cost 1 cent. Buy all those items, leave positive feedback, and ask seller to do the same.
  Repeat the same operation a few times a day, and within a week you will have at least 100 positive feedback, 1 cent per point.

Hope these tips will help you generate more sales, more revenue, and better eBay experience.
Tomorrow I will talk about some advance eBook selling techniques, so stay with me.

The main reason Affiliate Marketers fails is because they are poor Marketers.
However, success in Affiliate Marketing does not start with being a good Marketer, not at all.
The first thing you’ll need before you can become a successful Affiliate Marketer, is the right product.

Many people grab the first product they think they can sell, and run forward, advertise it, see no sales, and eventually drop the idea.

The most common mistake I have seen, is picking a product the affiliate himself would not buy.
After all, if you yourself do not believe the product is worth the money, how will you convince your customer that it is?
Yes, there are marketers who can convince you to buy anything, you can see them on shopping TV every day, but as a starting Affiliate Marketer, you may want to sell something that you yourself believe in.
Beside that, telling your customer that you are using the product yourself does build confidence.

Another point you should be aware of is competition - here things are a bit more complicated.
On the one hand, if there is competition, then you can see there are people who are making money in the specific industry. On the other hand, too much competition and you have nobody to sell to, because everybody already bought the product.
So, here you have to find the balance. Don’t go towards widely explored niches, most probably you’ll have to fight Marketers with much more experience then yours, and then you are doomed. On the other hands, unexplored niches might be too risky.
You should find newly discovered niches, where you can see a few people making their money, but not devouring all the target market.

Finally, you should pick a product that will pay off.
Pick a product that will pay you at least 30$ per sale, research it, make sure you will be able to sell it, and then stay with it.
Even if you do mistakes in the beginning, and loose money, eventually, when you begin making money(And you will, because you researched the product, and made sure you will, didn’t you?) you should make enough of it, so that you can cover your losses.

It has been all over the net. They promise you that all your traffic problems will be solved if you just buy a few domain names with existing traffic.

The logic is perfect - a webmaster with lots of traffic abandons his site, leaving behind him a domain that has lots of backlinks, pagerank, and most important - traffic!
Maybe hundreds of people had that site bookmarked, and they’ll be checking it out every day?

Unfortunately, the truth is not that bright.
As stated this grate article domain name do not become available to the general public the moment their owner forgets to pay.
Actually, the domain is put on hold for 40 days, during which only the original owner can renew the domain for the original fee.
When these 40 days pass, another 30 days the domain is in it’s redemption period, during which still, only the owner can renew the domain, but for a much higher price then before.
After that the deletion process takes place, during which nobody can register the domain. The deletion process takes 5 days, and then, anywhere between 11 pm to 2am PST, the domain will become available to the general public.
During all this time the domain will be inactive(A.K.A. will not show any web page).

That’s 75 days, 2 and a half months of domain inactivity.
99% of people who had the domain bookmarked will remove the bookmark till then.
Most back linkers will already see that the site is down, and will remove their back links.
Search Engine Spiders will see more then once that the page does not exist, and will mark it as such.

And most important of all - Google deletes a domain’s PageRank the moment the domain is deleted. So even if 10 minutes before domain deletion it had PR6, after the deletion the PR will be 0.
Actually, that’s not true.
You will still see that the PR is 6, since the Pagerank does not update every day, but after a few weeks, your PR will drop to 0, and what then?

P.S.
I’m not saying that looking through expired domain lists is not worthwhile. You can find very rare domains that are deleted every day, and the only way to grab them is to backorder (A.K.A. tell the registrant that you want this domain, and the registrant will try to grab it the moment it’s released to the general public).
What I’m saying is, that you can not build massive traffic through expired domain names.

Today’s review will be about The Estimated Value of Affiliate Marketing Industry Websites

The post is talking about an interesting site the author has found - dnscoop.com
This site checks different off-page parameters, such as Google PageRank, Domain Age, Inbound links, Alexa Rank, and so on and so forth, and then gives you an evaluation of how much the site is worth.

It also gives you an evaluation of how much a text link will costs on your site by Text-Link-Ads.com, and an evaluation of how much you can make with Adsense.

Later on The Post gives some interesting statistics about different sites check on dnScoop.

Anyway, I would like to talk about what dnScoop told me about my sites.
Lets forget large sites, with which it’s hard to evaluate anything, and center on my smaller sites - cashcook.info , and www.petcareinfo.net.
First of all, I can already see that the information is a few days old.
cashcook.info is a really new site, and was indexed by Google only yesterday, however, dnScoop says no pages are indexed at all.

But lets leave it alone. Lets look at the final verdict:
Cashcook.info costs 50$, I guess that’s OK, if you consider the content, but alone, that’s just a domain 5 days old, with no inbound links, no Alexa Rank and so on and so forth(Actually I do have inbound links, but most aren’t indexed yet, so dnScoop can’t see them). A domain costs around 10$ to register. So where did the 50$ come from?
Let’s move to www.petcareinfo.net - First of all, for some reason it says the Pagerank is 0, although no matter where I check, it’s 3. That’s interesting.
Now - to the final verdict - 267$. I guess that’s an OK verdict. For some reason I sold that site on eBay for only 31 bucks, but on eBay everything goes cheap, so that’s understandable too.

Now let’s check out the text link and Adsense revenue potential.
Cashcook.info can sell a text link for 5$/month, and make 32$/month on Adsense.
www.petcareinfo.net Will make only 3$/per per text link, and 28$/month on Adsense.
That’s interesting. A 5 days old site with PR3 and lots of backlinks makes more money then a 1 year old site with no PR and backlinks. I wish!
And anyway www.petcareinfo.net never made 28$/month on adsense. 3-4 bucks is a more accurate estimate, but looks like they are Google affiliates, so there’s no way they’ll tell you that your earning potential isn’t that good.

As I said in my first post about Adsense, Adsense revenue = Click Through Ratio X $ Per Click.

In that post, I explained how to improve your $ Per Click, now it’s time to learn how do we get a good Click Through Ratio.

First of all, you need the ads to be targeted towards your content, this is easily achieved through high keyword density, and there isn’t much to explain here. Just make sure that you have enough keywords on your page, and Adsense will display targeted ads.

Next, is the hard part, you must attract the visitor’s attention towards your advertisement.
An easy way to attract visitor’s attention is to paint an arrow towards the add, but unfortunately Adsense Terms and Conditions disallow that.
However, there are still ways to achieve that. Think about something more complicated then an arrow.
A very good example is http://www.searchenginecollege.com/articles/.
See how the kids is pointing his ruler towards the add?
These are no arrows, the distance between ruler and ad is sufficient, but nevertheless, the visitor’s attention automatically goes where the kid points- towards the ad.

An easier, and much more common technique, is blending the add as part of your website.
First of all, as a rule of thumb, the ad block’s border and background color should always be the same color as the website’s background. This way the reader will actually have to read the ad before he identifies it as an ad.

Take a look at the ads placed on cashcook.info:
First, in each article page, we have a huge ad block placed on the left side of the beginning of the article, leaving quite a little space for the first few lines. While reading the first lines, the visitor’s eyes will always be partially on the ad unit.

Next is the Ad unit in the sidebar, Just between the “Latest Posts” and the Tags.
Look how it blends well with the content around it. While the visitor looks for the Tag list, he has to pass a look over the ads, and might as well find something that interests him, and click it.

Another technique I have learned not long ago is making your navigational links look the same as Adsense links.
Place a Link Unit with 4 links in the middle of your navigational menu. Make sure the navigational menu’s font is Arial and size is 11, that the categories are bold, and that all links are underlined. This way Adsense looks as part of your navigational links, and the interesting part is that Google approved that this is a legitimate method.

The last technique I’ll tech you I have actually used in this article. Trick your visitors to take a look at the Ad blocks, without asking them to actually click them.
In this article I have told you to take a look at my links, as an example for good ad placement.
But you looked at my ads, maybe you found something interesting there, and you might actually clicked it, without me ever telling you to click it.

At last I have upgraded my theme to something much nicer to the eye then the old theme.

This theme is called TypoXP, and you can get it from here.

I like it very much, and in my opinion the Adsense placement there is really great, plus the layout itself is much user friendly.
It’s easier to subscribe to the RSS feed and once I get some more traffic, It will be much easier to monetize this site.

P.S.
I know I promised an Article about Adsense placing to be published yesturday, but have been pretty sick, so couldn’t write a proper article.
Meanwhile you can read the my first Adsense article, dealing with finding the right keywords