Google is soon coming up with a feature called “Ad Review Center”, which is especially designed for giving more control to the web publishers who monetize their web sites with Google AdSense. The feature might be out in next few months. It will allow web publisher review ads placement-targeted to the website that will make sure those ads are relevant to your site’s users. When you pick up the option for Ad review center, initially you will see all placement-targeted ads presently targeted to your site and after few days you will be able review placement-targeted ads that have previously run on your site. On the other hand, you have an option of blocking the ad from appearing again if the ads are not relevant to your users.

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I’ve introduced Google AdSense to almost all my friends. Simply because Google AdSense is the easiest way to start making money online but at the same time it’s not that easy to generate earnings as it depends on the amount of traffic as well as its quality. If you introduced AdSense to some one else then I’m sure that the first question most of them ask about this Pay Per Click program is of course "So I can make money by clicking my own ads. Right?". I say "Wrong". But then they ask more questions like "What if I click from different computers which have different IP addresses?" Again I would say "No! you cant". So let me tell you why you should not click your own Google AdSense ads.

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Google AdSense introduced a Validation Period for their Non Google Referral Ads. According to Inside AdSense for some publishers the earnings from Non-Google Referral products may now be less than the maximum displayed value for that product.

It’s because Google holds the earnings for some time to check the validity of the conversions. Once that validation period is over publishers will receive the maximum value itself.

Google says "We can’t say precisely how long the validation period will last, but will make every effort to ensure that it’s as speedy as possible. It will vary by publisher since site activity is different for everyone, and we anticipate that the majority of you will be minimally affected. However, advertisers will only be charged the maximum referral value once a publisher has completed the validation period."

Source: Inside AdSense

Making Money Online

Assuming you took my advice, had a great idea, created and hosted your blog, you want to start making some money with the traffic you are beginning to receive. Next comes the exciting part, making money. The first thing, I always do when making a web site, is look for keywords to describe it. That way I can better identify the site to my potential users. This process usually means making a list of keywords on a piece of paper and refining it until I am down to about five to six quality keywords. Quality keywords would be described as a word that is specific yet ambiguous enough to attract visitors outside the realm of a normal keyword. An example would be boating, if your site is about boating, you could use only that keyword, but you may want to include sailing. Even though you are getting more specific, you are still ambiguous enough to grab the attention of someone who might not consider boating, sailing. This is a hard concept to understand, and takes time and patience to master.

Once your keywords are in place, make sure they are meta tagged within your web site (Meta data is essentially data about data. It describes your site search engines, and more importantly advertisers who advertise content based ads), you can find tons of information regarding this all over the net. I personally use Submitnet; this lets me input the exact meta tag keywords quickly and easily. It’s not a FREE service but it offers a 90 Day Free Trial (A $47 Value). You can signup and then cancel that service after your blog is setup or you can continue with the service, it costs $47 for three months. Or you can use a Free Tool. I recommend SEO Chat’s Meta Tag Generator or Advanced Meta Tag Generator.

Here’s a Sample Meta Tag:
<meta name=”keywords” content=”google, microsoft, yahoo, internet marketing, web hosting, blogging, make money online, wordpress, lifestyle, webmasters”/>

I identify my meta data in the <head> tags of my html, most people do the same. You do NOT want to put keywords in your tags that inaccurately describe your site. If you were to add something you thought was going to drive more traffic, and it has nothing to do with your site, you will be found out and ultimately your site ranking will fall. Site ranking refers to the ranking a site gets by a search engine such as “Google”, or “Yahoo!”. Ultimately site ranking optimization is part of search engine optimization, also known as SEO. Meta tagging is very important when optimizing your site for search engines.

Generally after your meta tagging is done and you have firmly established your keywords, it is time to start putting up ads. To do this, there is only one site I would recommend using, that is Google. They are the only ones who will approve just about anyone, other than adult content sites, and will pay when they say they will. That is why the majority of online advertisements are through them. Their service is known as Google AdSense. AdSense, allows you to offer your users targeted ads that are relevant to your site. It would be bad if your site was about Home Ownership and your ads were about Foot Massagers. Google has come up with a unique method of targeting your customers based on what it identifies as content on your site. It does most of this through the use of meta tagging.

In the next part I’ll tell you more about Google AdSense (Is it possible to earn $100,000 a year from Google AdSense?) and also about how to drive traffic using Google AdWords to your blog.

Related:
How To Make Money Online Blogging (Part I)
How To Make Money Online Blogging (Part II)

Google AdSense earnings calculator is a tool developed by SEOChat which allows you (Google AdSense Affiliate) to estimate your earnings from Google AdSense. You can try this tool by experimenting with different values.

The Google AdSense calculator is designed only to estimate your earnings and it doesn’t help you to increase your earnings from AdSense. It gives an estimate of how much impressions you should generate in order to achieve your target.

It predicts the changes in your earnings from Google AdSense depending upon your Page Impressions, Click Through Rate and Cost Per Click. Suppose your current traffic is 1000 page views a day then Google AdSense Calculator helps you to estimate your future earnings using your current Click Through Rate (CTR) and Cost Per Click (CPC).

Daily Page Impressions
Daily page impressions indicate how many times ads are shown per page. You can use your average, anticipated, or current daily page impressions for this

Click Through Rate (CTR)
This figure represents how many visitors actually click your advertisements. You can find this easily on your Google AdSense stats page labeled “CTR.” The average rate is estimated to be about 1.5%.

Cost Per Click (CPC)
Your CPC is the average of how much you get paid for someone clicking one of your advertisements. To find your average CPC take you’re the amount of money you have earned from AdSense (daily, monthly, or all time) and divide it by your total clicks (daily, monthly, or all time).

You may also try Google AdSense Calculator by AdsenseCalculator.com.

What is Allowed Sites List?

Allowed sites are sites or URLs on which AdSense publishers allow or wish to have their Google ads displayed. It can be accessed from the AdSense Setup tab of your Google AdSense Account.

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Let’s say you have a goal of earning $100,000 a year from Google AdSense alone. Is that really possible?

Let’s see …

$100,000 divided by 365 = $274 a day. So your goal is to produce either:

274 pages which earn $1 a day
OR
548 pages which earn 50 cents a day
OR
1096 pages which earn 25 cents a day

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