Want Higher Adsense Earnings? Then Optimize Site Navigation

Written by Bas de Baar


Webmasters know that Adsense generates a sizeable source of additional advertising income. That’s why they’re using it to go afterrepparttar “high paying keywords.” They’ve boughtrepparttar 102135 lists that tell them what these keywords are and they’ve used various other methods of identifying them. And yet, after putting up these “high paying” pages on their websites,repparttar 102136 advertising money they expected to see isn’t rolling in. What’s wrong?

Well, having those pages is one thing. But driving visitors to those pages is an entirely different thing and is often what’s lacking. To get visitors to your high paying keyword pages, you’ve got to optimize site navigation.

Take a moment to think about how visitors use your website. After landing on a certain page, they’ll often click to another page that sounds interesting. They get there by way ofrepparttar 102137 other links that appear onrepparttar 102138 page they landed on. How you enable visitors to move about your website is what is meant byrepparttar 102139 term, “Site Navigation.”

A typical website has a menu of links on each page. The wording on these links is what grabs a visitor’s attention and gets them to click on one ofrepparttar 102140 links that will take them to another page of your website. Links labeled “Free Resources” or “Download ebooks” are generally good attention-grabbers.

This same site navigation logic applies to driving traffic to your high paying pages. I have some pages on my website that get a lot of traffic from search engines, butrepparttar 102141 earnings on these pages are very low. I use cleverly-labeled links to get visitors off these pages and onto my higher earning pages. It’s a great and inexpensive way to turn cheap clicks into real dollars.

How to Booost Your Affiliate Commissions by 30%

Written by Satyajeet Hattangadi


Affiliate marketing is one tough business. Everyone online today is looking to make or save money in any way they can.

Inrepparttar good old days when internet marketing was in its infancy, most ofrepparttar 102134 people who clicked on your affiliate links used to purchase without a second thought... but, now as times are getting tougher, and visitors getting more cynical, you'll be amazed atrepparttar 102135 number who won't!

Just one flaw in a system and you will find dozens of unscrupulous people waiting to exploit it. Same goes for affiliate commission tracker systems. People who know how to manipulaterepparttar 102136 system will replace your affiliate ID with theirs and "hijack" your commissions.

Most affiliate links are some form orrepparttar 102137 other of http://www.thesite.com/?YOURID

Where your affiliate id is passed as a parameter. A thief has to simply changerepparttar 102138 "YOURID" part to "THEIRID" to put your money in their pocket.

In other cases, there are visitors to your site who simply can't standrepparttar 102139 thought of you "making money off them" so they bypass you by simply chopping offrepparttar 102140 end of your affiliate link that contains your ID.

Instead of buying from http://www.thesite.com/?YOURID,repparttar 102141 bypasser will simply "chop off"repparttar 102142 affiliate ID atrepparttar 102143 end and simply buy fromrepparttar 102144 plain URL http://www.thesite.com/ --without your affiliate ID attached!

Bam! you just got cheated out of your rightful commission.

Studies have shown that this phenomenon causes about 30% lost sales.

By following some of these simple tips you will be able to at least confuse most hijackers and, in many cases, often disarm them completely.

You might notice I said most and not all. This is because ifrepparttar 102145 hijacker is well versed at html and javascipt he will be able to eventually get to your affiliate link. However, most hijackers are just opportunists who will only act if they see an easy buck and its this segment that we can beat.

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