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Lots going on today. I started to look into the issue of smart pricing because of the relatively low earnings I am receiving on adsense clicks.

Smart pricing may be due to perceived conversion rates after a click on your site. It may be based on how targeted the traffic is perceived to be on your site. It may be based on a whole bunch of things that nobody but Google knows for sure.

As a result I decided to take the adsense blocks off a number of my sites, the ones that I have promoted the least. Instead I added Omakase ads from Amazon. That should work out okay, at least in the short term. I applied for Azoogle Ads which, as I understand it, is a CPA network. I also applied for the Yahoo! Publishers Network. Approval is pending on both of those.

Another replacement option that I already have is CBadbox, which is clickbank ads in a contextual sort of format. I’ll play with those a little tomorrow.

It’s great to be aware of so many options — and I know there are many more.

I’ve also been checking into a couple of options for earning some income off of parked domains. I’ll write more on that once I get more information and make some decisions.

Thanks for visiting! Have a good one…

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Fun day today. I learned a lot.

In my coaching program we’re creating blogs to build high PR for the purpose of selling links. I like the process and how familiar I am getting with navigating wordpress. It’s actually amazing that I blog here on a wordpress blog almost everyday, but I hadn’t felt comfortable with the navigation until now. Very cool. I’m going way past the basics.

Started playing with some new software for a few minutes this afternoon. It’s called Amazon Hunter and it interfaces with Adwords Editor. It searches Amazon.com and comes up with products based on your keyword and price range, then formats adwords ads and adgroups. You paste this info into Adwords Editor and you’re ready to go! I guess I’m going into promoting Amazon Products with adwords.

That seems to be a quicker way to earn some money than building niche content sites and article marketing, at least as evidenced by the folks on the 5 Bucks a Day forum. It’s another forum I really appreciate. There are some fairly experienced marketers there, but mostly people are experimenting and sharing what they’re learning. Very supportive group.

Dennis Becker, the creater of the 5 buck concept and forum, got us a great deal on the Amazon Hunter software.

Check it out if it sounds interesting. Also, I’ll mention the Keyword Avalanche membership opening one more time. If you haven’t checked it out, I recommend it. The opportunity will go away fairly soon.

Again, click here: KA $1 Trial Membership — and use these to get in — user: kashe — pw: vault.

I hope everyone else is having as much fun as I am at this game!

Have a good one…

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A little over a week ago I wrote about trying Auction Ads, which puts a block of eBay ads on a webpage. I haven’t paid a whole lot of attention to the ads over the past 10 days, but did check them out yesterday. What I found was a bunch of ads that have nothing to do with my site content. Not cool. I guess if you’re not getting keyword specific auctions you are getting very popular auctions. Still didn’t cut it for me.

Now I am trying some Amazon Okamase ads on one of the sites instead. Let’s see how that goes. So far, they are more keyword specific. Amazon is frequently criticized because of the low commission percentage, but I’ve been reading more positive comments lately. Like, people don’t buy one thing when they go on Amazon, they buy $100s worth of products. So it’s worth a try.

One on my site is showing Auction Ads that are appropriate and I’m keeping those there for now. It’s a good idea to try a number of options, right? CBAdbox is another option, although it reminds me quite a bit of adsense. It uses Clickbank products. Maybe that’s next.

Has everyone been seeing the “2007 Authority Black Book” being promoted everywhere? I’m surprised by who is coming out with it! It’s by Jack Humphrey of Content Desk fame, and it’s free. Sorry, I don’t have a link. I wonder what it is leading up to? There’s gotta be something!

That’s it for now. Have a good one everybody!

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Sort of a fun day. I continued to load content onto blogs that compliment my adsense sites. It becomes sort of mindless but I have a solid sense of satisfaction for completing the task. Then I claimed them all in Technorati too.

Now it’s back to preparing some original articles to spool for Article Post Robot and get them submitted to a whole bunch of smaller directories. I’ll announce all of the pages on the websites through Article Underground again, and it’s time to submit fresh articles to the major article directories all over again. Keep promoting! That’s how it will pay off.

Well, that’s my day. If you didn’t catch that Keyword Avalanche is open to new members on a trial basis for a short time, take a look now. It won’t last for long. Use this link — KA $1 Trial Membership — when you check it out.

It’s password protected because not everyone gets access to it. Use these to get in — user: kashe — pw: vault.

Have fun with it! I sure do.

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Continued with the article submission process today. Had a couple bugs to work out, but over all it went very smoothly.

In order to understand and track the traffic that comes to my sites better, I signed up for Google Analytics awhile ago. I feel a little uneasy about being so close to Google, but the service is valuable and it was recommended in the Keyword Avalanche forum. (I obviously pay a lot of attention to what some of the KA members recommend.)

Looking at the data today, I see that my traffic is picking up for a number of my adsense sites and it’s coming primarily from Google, MSN, Ezine Articles, some social bookmarking sites, and the Article Underground blogs. So a variety.

What’s the deal with Yahoo, though? I seem to have the hardest time getting indexed by them. Any ideas?

I’m feeling really good about my focused efforts lately and the direction I’m headed. Very cool.

Have a good one!

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