But in my opinion, they have made some good changes. At least from an Affiliate Marketing standpoint. They’ve upped the minimum word count to 400 words. The old word count was 250 words. I guess they figure Google will like their articles better if they’re 400 words of How to Bake A Cookie rather than 250 words.

But the increase in the minimum word count should turn away some spammers no doubt. Especially those that were getting spun articles past the editors…and there was quite a bit of that!

Another change they’re looking into is to block articles on niches that they feel are over saturated. In a recent blog entry, they asked members how they should handle these over saturated niches.

Some of the niches they consider over saturated right now are penis enlargement, get your ex back, acai berry, reverse cell phone look up, credit card debt relief, male enhancement pill and TV to PC.

Some of the ways they expect to deal with this is a lottery system where only a select number of articles in these niches are approved, a blanket ruling where the prevent any articles covering these niches to be accepted or develop guidelines on trending topics.

I’m not 100% sure that blocking these niches is going to help EzineArticles get back in the good graces of Google, but hey, who am I? Perhaps this was  a suggestion from Google itself?

Other Editor Guideline Changes At EzineArticles

If you’re using EZA and using one Author Profile for several different niches, they’re going to be watching you real close. They’ve done said that they feel one person can not be an expert in many fields. This decision won’t affect me, as I have had Author Profiles for each of my Niches for a long time.

Tip: Since I brought this up, I’ll let you in on a little secret. The Author Profile pages are do follow. They can also achieve PR if they are backlinked properly. And all those articles listed on the Profile pages will receive some link juice from the page if you build backlinks to them. Better hurry though, no telling if EZA will stop allowing do follow links on Profile pages or not in the future!

EZA will not only make sure that the Author’s articles are all relevant, but they’ll also be checking the links in your Resource Box to make sure they are relevant to the article. So if you’re going to write an Article over how to rebuild a 350 Chevy engine and put links in the Resource Box pointing to your Acai Berry site, well friend, they’re going to start rejecting your articles. Don’t laugh, there are many so called “Guru’s” that claim you don’t need relevant links to rank pages….really….

How This May Affect EzineArticles

As I said before, I believe many of the changes at these Content sites are knee jerk at best. They’re scrambling around to try and please Google and end up shooting themselves in the foot.

I’m not sure if the folks at EZA really believe that a 400 word minimum and some relevancy for resource boxes will please G. EZA claims it’s going to give its editors more time to look over articles. They’ve warned us it may take twice as long for articles to be accepted or rejected. My last few articles after the Slap took nearly two weeks to be approved.

Will Internet Marketers stay with EzineArticles? I don’t think so. At least not in the huge numbers they have in the past. I myself stopped writing for EzineArticles for nearly a year because their Editors were getting ridiculous on what they would reject an article for. Then the for about the last year, it seemed they got better and would accept well written articles in a timely fashion.

Are you willing to wait two or more weeks for your articles to be approved or denied?

Also, if they keep adding niches that are “oversaturated” in their opinion, will you still write articles for them?

Right now, they say they’re still getting over a million views per day. That’s pretty darn good. The month previous to the Google Slap, they had approximately 57 million views.

For my money, there are other places where I can write an article and get the benefit of a backlink quicker than at EZA. Hubpages, InfoBarrel, Snipsley and others all offer quicker approvals and they can be ranked just as fast as a EZA article, sometimes faster!

So, is it worth my time to submit an article that may not be accepted for up to two weeks or more? Remember, this is an article with increased requirements. If you’re just starting out, then you may have time for all the hoops. But I can get double or even triple the amount of quality backlinks from other places in the same amount of time that it will take me to write, and hopefully get approved, an article submitted to EZA.

I’m thinking that EZA will see a huge decrease in articles submitted to them. At least article that have a good Adsense CPC.  Of course, since they already have hundreds of thousands indexed articles on high paying CPC niches, I’m sure they’re not that worried about it…yet.

I’m sure that their highest earning Adsense dollars are from pages that have a high number of Internet Marketers trying to rank for those keywords also. So if all the Affiliate Marketers leave and go to alternate sites for their links, can EZA continue to make bank with articles on how to bake cookies or 10 tips for watching your grass grow? Me thinks not. It will be interesting to watch the events unfold!

Personally, if they want to continue to attract quality writers, I think they should develop a profit sharing plan similar to Snipsley or Hubpages. But I realize they’re not going to do that while the hundreds of thousands of article they already have are making them cold hard cash!

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Having said that, a while back I bought The Keyword Crash Course. This is a course that Mark Butler and Courtney Tuttle have developed. The whole course was about starting Niche sites, monetizing them and getting free traffic from search egnines like Google. Although I was sure I knew 99% of the stuff they were going to teach (afterall, I make a good income from this stuff already!), I was hoping to learn a few tricks that would make me more money or save me time. I wasn’t disappointed in the course. In fact, I felt like the Course paid for itself within the first 30 minutes of watching the first video. By the way, the course cost $597. I’ve spent a lot more on courses that didn’t have near the amount of information in them.

If you know Court and Mark, then you know that they are honest and helpful. In fact, they’re some of the most honest and helpful people I’ve ever met on the Internet. Everything is laid out for you and they don’t hold anything back. (unlike a lot of courses I’ve bought!) In fact, I’ll go as far as saying the Keyword Crash Course is the most legitimate and easy to follow course I’ve bought. It’s a nuts and bolts Course that nearly anyone can follow and make money with. You can take a look at it by clicking here.

Within the first 30 minutes of the first video, Court describes how to find profitable keywords using “The Formula“. This was the bombshell that I had been looking for. Every once in a while, something will come along that makes you set back and take a deep breath, all the while thinking “Damn, this is what I’ve been searching for!” That is how I felt when Court showed me The Formula for evaluating profitable keywords.

I’ll tell you this also, when you start finding those little Gold nuggets of Keywords, it won’t take you long to figure out that you can use them to build Affiliate Sites rather than Adsense sites if that is what you want to do. If more people would use The Formula, there would be a lot less people failing at this game.

Before this, I had my own system for finding good Keywords, but it was hit and miss. Some keywords paid very well, while others fizzled. I still get some keywords that don’t pay when I use The Formula, but a lot less. By using Court’s Formula, I’ve been able to amass about 90 keywords that will turn into some very nice Niche sites.

Now Court and Mark have opened up the site to the Public and you can see everthing in the original Course for only $1 (yeah, the same Course I paid $597 for!)

Learn How To Make Money Online With The Keyword Crash Course

Whether you’re a beginner just starting out, or an advanced marketer, The Keyword Crash Course has something for you.

What You’ll Get For $1

You’ll be able to see the original course including the 10 training video’s. These video’s will take you step by step and show you how to pick profitable keywords for your niche site (using The Formula), setting WordPress, how and where to find backlinks, how to obtain content for your niche sites and how to set up Adsense and other advertising to make money from your sites.

Plus there is a little video at the end that will show you how to flip your new sites for Money. I found this one to be very interesting and something I may try down the road.

Why Are They Only Charging $1?

Court and Mark feel that once you’ve seen the quality of the training material, you’ll want to subscribe to their monthly service where they’ll be bringing you more information about building and ranking websites, live Webinars and live Q&A sessions. This subscription is $29 per month and totally optional. You can sign up for $1, get all the information that was in the original course for $597 and forget about the rest if you want to. They’re fine with that. They only want people who are serious about making money online.

People, if I could stear you to another course that I thought was better, one that taught you how to make money online with Niche sites, I would. But there is simply nothing out there as thorough and easy to follow that Court and Mark’s Keyword Crash Course. If you’re serious about learning how to make money online, this is one course you need to take. If after the course, you can’t make money online, then this business is probably not for you. That’s how good I believe this course is. And for only $1, you sure as hell won’t find a better bargain. Click here if you want to learn more and take advantage of this opportunity.

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These illusions are quickly shattered when they see their Adsense accounts with .05 and .20 cents per click and a CTR of 1%. It doesn’t take the newbie blogger long to realize that their dream of living of off Adsense income isn’t a reality.

Is Adsense Still a Good Choice For Monetizing Blogs?

The quick and easy answer is Yes and No. In order for Adsense to be a viable option to monetize a blog, you need large amounts of traffic. And not any old traffic will work!

Many bloggers love to talk about Social Media and they spend a good amount of time writing articles and submitting them to the popular Social Networks like Digg and StumbleUpon in order to bring the masses of Social Networkers to their site. While this may increase traffic to a blog, it rarely translates into clicks on their Adsense ads.

Why Social Traffic Isn’t Good For Adsense

If you’re one of these bloggers who’s chasing traffic from Social sites and still wondering why your Adsense account is empty, listen up, I’m fixing to let you in on a little secret.

Social traffic doesn’t convert for squat. Of course, you already knew that didn’t you!

Why?

Because people who use the Social networks are pretty ‘Net savvy and they don’t click ads. They read blogs more for entertainment purposes than they do for the informational value. Sure, they may read a post about whether or not Adsense is still a good choice for monetizing blogs, but if there’s an Ad block on how to monetize a blog with Adsense next to the post, they aren’t likely to click on it.

Another reason Adsense is a poor choice for Social blogs is because the Click Through Rate (CTR) will be in the dumps. This will cause  your Adsense ads to be Smart Priced.

This is how it works. Google Adsense works of off the principle that a targeted Internet searcher is more valuable to the advertisers than a browser just clicking around the Internet.

So when your Social Network browser comes to your site, Google does not consider this a targeted user. If the advertiser is paying $2 per click, and a Social Network user comes to your Social blog about making money on the Internet and actually does click on a Adsense ad, you’ll receive a lower per click price than if that user had went to Google and typed in “how to make money online” and came to your blog and clicked an Adsense ad about ‘how to make money online’. Google considers this targeted traffic and will pay you the most for this type of Internet users. 

Why Organic Traffic Pays Off With Adsense

Stop and think about this one for a minute.  When an Internet user is searching for some knowledge, they want it and they want it yesterday! Many of us will not stop searching the Internet until we find the useful information we need. We’ll click on this or that, we’re frantic searchers and we need that information!

Let’s say you’re bills are piling up because gas is at $4 a gallon and food prices are skyrocketing. You need some debt relief. So you go on over to Google and type in ‘debt relief’. You then click on the first result that promises you quick and painless debt relief. After you browse the site for a few minutes, you realize this site can not answer your questions and you’ll have to go elsewhere. There’s an Adsense ad block to the upper left with an add about instant debt relief. Hmmm, that’s just what you need right now, instant debt relief.

What do you do?

Click the Adsense ad promising instant debt relief or hit the back button a half dozen times to get back to the Google SERPS page?

Yeah, me too. I’ll hit the Adsense link every time if it will lead me to what I’m looking for.

And you know what?

The Webmaster or blog owner gets the maximum payout for your click because you found his site by searching for the term ‘debt relief’.

If I had gone to his site looking for ‘Ways To Make Money Online”and then clicked the same ad, chances are good he would not have received the maximum payout for that click. That’s why you’ll see some of your Adsense ads paying out .20 cents for one click and the next it gives you $2. It’s all about how the Internet user got to your site.

So What Type Of Blogs Are Best For Adsense?

It’s not really what type of blog is best for Adsense, the question should be “What type of traffic is best for Adsense?”

And that question is an easy one to answer. It’s organic search traffic. Plain and simple.

Now having said that, you’ll see that many of the so called Social media blogs do not rank well for anything of value.

Ever see John Chow or some of the other popular social bloggers rank in the top 10 for terms like “how to make money with Adsense?”No, you don’t. That’s one of the biggest reasons you don’t see Adsense on their sites. They can’t bring in the organic search traffic they need to convert browsers into ad clickers and their social traffic sure as hell won’t click the ads. So they end up with a crappy CTR and get Smart Priced. The few clicks they do get, Adsense pays out a few cents here and there. Then the Social bloggers will proclaim to the masses about how Adsense doesn’t work any longer!

Adsense Can Be a Steady Income Producer For Blogs and Websites That Pull In Organic Traffic

This is the real secret to Adsense and how to make it pay the most for every click. If you have a blog or website that ranks well for a number of keywords and your pages are optimized to bring in targeted search traffic, you’ll do well with Adsense.

Your blog doesn’t have to be a custom made WordPress blog nor does it have to be fancy. In fact, you can start with one of these Adsense optimized themes. It does have to be SEO optimized with lots of backlinks to rank well for your keywords.

Forget about the Social traffic and getting your post Dugg and Stumbled. Sure, it’s nice to see all that traffic, but why bother when you know it’s not going to convert plus it’s going to ruin your CTR. And to top it off, it will get you Smart Priced with Google Adsense.

Go after the money. And in this case, the money is in ranking well for your keywords and driving crowds of targeted organic search traffic to your blog or website.

Your blog or website should cover one subject, such as ‘debt relief’. Don’t try to make a blog or website cover everything under the sun. Each page of your website should have an article or post covering one keyword.

For example, if you had a blog over the main keyword of ‘debt relief’, then you’d probably want your interior pages targeting keywords such as ‘bankruptcy’, ‘debt consolidation’, ‘how to pay off your bills early’ or ‘debt consolidation loans’.

While you’re at it, make sure your blog or website is optimized for Adsense. Don’t cover every page in Adsense ads. The top paying ad block is normally a 350 block at the top. You might also want a Tower block in the sidebar, but that’s where I’d stop.

In the past, I put those little Adsense link blocks on my sites, but have always done poorly with them. I’d rather someone click on one of the Adsense ads in the body so I’ll make more money per click. That’s why I’ve started putting only two Adsense ads on my content sites. More ads normally dilute your per click payout.

To wrap this up, if you want to make money with Adsense, forget about those cool social blogs, go with a keyword targeted blog or website. SEO optimize it, build backlinks to make it rank well for your chosen keywords and then sit back and watch the Adsense money roll in. You can still monetize a blog with AdSense, you just have to go about it wisely.

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I’m not sure why that post is so popular, but it still brings in a lot of traffic.

This post will be about how to get your Google Adsense Account unbanned!

First off, let my start by saying that if your Google Adsense Account was banned because you violated the Google Adsense Terms Of Service (TOS), your up the proverbial creek without a paddle. Chances are you’ll not get your Adsense account unbanned.

However, if you feel the Google Adsense gang unfairly banned your account, here are 5 simple steps to follow that may help you get it unbanned. (this means you have read the Adsense TOS and have determined without a doubt you did not violate their terms)

Remember, most bans come from an automated machine. Something went wrong and it caused a Red flag to pop up at G Headquarters. Your goal now is to to have a human review it.

1. Try and determine why your account was banned.  This is important because you need to know what happened before you can gather evidence. Google will not always tell you and many times they’ll tell you it’s because of “Invalid Clicks” which can mean anything under the moon. I’ve heard of accounts being banned because of a sudden increase in clicks due to a site hitting the front page of Digg and because a previous owner of a domain had his Adsense account banned.
2. Contact the Google Adsense team and be nice about it. If you’re email starts with “You Jerks at Google Banned My Account For No Good Reason,” then you’ll not likely get it unbanned before Hell freezes over. Your emails should be very nice and non-judgemental. Assume it was an honest mistake by Google, because it may very well have been.
3. Provide Proof Of Your Innocence.If you have a good idea of why your Adsense was banned, offer to give it to Google. This could be everything from server logs, a letter from the webhost or a WhoIs file. Be nice and politely show Google where they went wrong.
4. Have some patience.The folks at Adsense won’t be tripping over their self to get to your case. I’d be sending follow up emails every other day or so and checking on the status of the human review. Remember to keep them nice and polite. You may also want to keep offering to give them evidence. Try and show you really want to help in the investigation.
5. Persistence pays off. If you give up only after an email or two, then chances are you may never hear from them again. Stay with the follow up emails! Eventually they’ll get tired of you and either give you a Yea or Nay. Remember, the squeaky wheel gets the oil!

There is no guarantee that these tips will help. But if you’re going to fight to get your account reinstated, this is the way to begin.

I can’t stress this enough, read the damn Adsense TOS before you cry about getting banned. After you get your account banned is not the time to familiarize yourself with the Google Adsense TOS.

You’ll be surprised at the type of things you account can be banned for. I’m always amazed at people in the forums who’ve had their account banned because of something they did that was against the TOS. Then they proceed to tell everyone they “didn’t know.”

And if you can’t get you Adsense account unbanned, you can always use one of your other Adsense accounts…right?

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Smart pricing as Google calls it, was allegedly an attempt to increase “value” for advertisers. From what I can tell, no one can tell exactly how “Smart Pricing” works. From the discussions on many of the forums lately, Adsense revenues are falling further and further for site owners.

Yesterday I was reviewing my Adsense revenue, which by the way is down across all my sites, and notice there was one ad that received 10 clicks. I got 26 cents for those 10 clicks. Not 26 cents per click, 26 cents for all those clicks! That comes out to a whopping 2.6 cents per click for that ad!

As far as I can tell, and many other website owners as well, Smart Pricing is an excuse for Google to keep more of your money.

Adsense Alternatives To Help Boost Your Website or Blog Earnings

Here’s quick rundown of some alternatives for replacing Adsense on your site.

• AdBrite - AdBrite advertises that it serves 727 million impressions to 33,534 sites. The income is a 75/25 split in the site owners favor.
• Advertising.Com – They have a wide range of advertisers to choose from. They have CPA and CPC programs with a net 15 payout.
• AzoogleAds- Azoogle has many companies to choose from with many different ways you can apply those ads. This is a popular Affiliate Network for credit card offers, debt relief, car loans and insurance offers.
• BidClix- This is a model where advertisers bid for the highest placement. BidClix advertise that they serve over 30 million ads a day for their advertisers. They pay every 15 days.
• Bidvertiser- Bidvertiser serves up ads that look like Adsense ads (as does many of these other companies).  They also will pay your through PayPal, which I like!
• Burst!- Burst has over 4200 specialty content websites currently on over 400 channels. Some of their recent advertisers include John Deere, Weight Watchers, Vonage and State Farm just to name a few.
• Chitika – Let’s face it, they have the best looking contextual ads on the Web. But a wise publisher will do their research before joining up. Read the Internet Marketing forums and ask questions.
• Claxon- Claxon pays on the 15th and the 30 or 31st of every month. At one time Claxon payed 85% of the gross. I’m not sure if that’s still the case since they were bought by Human Ingenuity International. You’ll have to contact them or join their program.
• IntelliTxt- Another inline text contextual advertiser. They advertise that they serve over 250 million user-initiated video ads per month.
• Kontera- Kontera offers inline text ads. Personally, I’d do more research on them before joining. They advertise that they’ll get back to you within 5 business days of submitting your application, but it took them over 2 weeks to get back to me the fist time and they denied 5 of my sites. Oh yeah, the denial email was a form letter that said they denied my claim because my “site” was offline (remember, I submitted 5, not 1). Ummm…yeah. So I recently submitted them under Joel Comm’s link and its been nearly 3 weeks and I haven’t heard a peep. They don’t seem to be real big on answering emails or applications!
• Miva- They offer pay-per-click ads (resembles Adsense ads) along with inline-pay-per-click ads.
• MSN Adcenter- Another Adsense type contextual program from the good people at MSN.
• TribalFusion- TribalFusion says it serves up 19 Billion impression…yes, that’s Billions as in starts with a “B” plus some of the highest payouts on the Web. They pay 55% of ad revenue with a $50 minimum. You’ll have to wait 45 days for you money though.
• ValueClick - They pay by the 25th of each month for the previous months clicks. They also pay by PayPal.
• YPN- This is Yahoo’s version of Adsense. Trustworthy and their ad blocks resemble Adsense.

Okay, there you go. 15 alternatives to Adsense. Sure, there are other advertisers who you can sign up with, but these 15 seem to be the big players in the industry.

 Many site owners have got complacent and have failed to test other Contextual Advertising Programs. (myself included) I’m sure we’re leaving money on the table. It’s time we all put Adsense aside and tried out some of these other networks.

Also, you need to know that I’m only an affiliate for a few of these companies and I’m certainly not an expert on any one of them. I’ve provided the link to their sites so you can do your own research to find your Adsense alternative!

If you’ve tried any of these networks, let me know how they worked for you!

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First off, for those of you who are screaming that Adsense only allows one account per person, pipe down, you don’t know what you’re talking about. Sure, Adsense would like for you to only have one account, but wanting something and requiring something is two different things.

Why You Should Have Multiple Adsense and Adword Accounts

To set up multiple accounts, you need the mindset of an Entrepreneur. Think like a business owner.

I have a couple companies that I own and run. Each company has it’s own Checking, Savings and Credit account. Do you know what nightmare it would be to try and run these companies from one checking account? Do you think Donald Trump runs his empire from one account? No and neither should you, especially at tax time.

Come tax time, you’ll be thankful that you had one Adsense and Adword account per company. It’s a real bitch trying to sort out income streams from several companies with one Adsense account.

Setting Up Multipe Adsense and Adword Accounts

Fist off, you’re going to need a P.O. box. I prefer to use mail companies like The UPS Store. By using a mail company, your address can say “Suite 101″ instead of P.O. Box 101. Which address would you rather do business with?

So to get started, you ideally want one Adsense and Adword account per company. So you’ll start off by filing a DBA at the county seat (for U.S. Citizens) if you don’t already have a tax id number.

Once you have you DBA paperwork finalized (depends on the state/county you live in) you can then go to the IRS and obtain a tax i.d.

The IRS really discourages an individual from having more than one tax i.d., but it is possible. Ask your accountant or attorney about the pro’s and con’s because I’m no expert when it comes to taxes. That’s why I hire professionals to do it for me and you should also.

Now that you have your tax i.d., go to Google and sign up for an Adsense and Adwords account for each company you own. I also use a different email address for each company. Each company will naturally have a different mailing address if you’ve done your work right.

Yeah, it’s that simple!

Some have worried about using their Adsense and Adword accounts from the same I.P.  I haven’t seen this to be a problem. If it were, every SEO company out there who had multiple Clients using Adwords would be in big trouble. Set your accounts up legitimately and don’t worry about it.

This is the legitimate way of setting up multiple Adsense and Adword accounts. There are many ways to do it non-legit

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From what I’ve been able to tell, there are two types of people who get their Adsense accounts banned.

1. Those who deliberately push the limits. They know there’s a chance of getting their accounts banned and they’re not surprised when they get the notice.
2. Those who do not take the time to read the TOS and are crushed when they get their banned notice from Google Adsense

Group #1 is understandable and most of them know the risk. There is no excuse for Group #2. It’s your responsibility as a Google Adsense Publisher to know the Google Adsense Terms Of Service (TOS).

Here’s a quick list of the ways you can get your Google Adsense account banned.

• Click on your own ads. Sure, accidents happen. But if you’re so “clumsy” that you click on your ads 20 times in 10 minutes, you probably need to be banned. If you do accidentally click on your ads, contact Google Adsense immediately and let them know what happened.
• Put Google Adsense on websites that have questionable or banned content such as Hacker, Warez, Porn, Drug and Gambling sites.
• Showing Adsense ads on Registration or “Thank You” pages.
• Sticking ad relevant images next to your Adsense blocks. For example, tricking people to click on your ads by putting pictures of cell phones next to an Adsense block showing cell phone ads.
• Registering multiple accounts. I’ll just say it’s possible to have multiple accounts legitimately. However, for most of us, one account is all they will let you have.
• Registering an account after you have been banned. See above.
• Taking part in a “Adsense Click Ring”. These are groups of people who click on other members ads. Google is smart enough to figure this out folks!
• Putting Google Adsense on Pop Ups that keep generating other pop ups when a user tries to close them. This gets a lot of Adsense Account holders. This increases your “impression rate” thus messing with your data that Google uses. The best thing to do is to not put them on pop ups anyway. Google also does not want their ads on Pop Unders.
• Asking other people to click on your ads. Google says not to do it, so don’t. Simple as that. I’ve seen video’s and other forms of advertisements where goons asked people to click on their ads. It’s my opinion these people need to be banned!
• Disclosing click through rates, earnings per click and impressions. Although I don’t agree with this one, Adsense TOS says not to do it, so I don’t. Their money, their rules.
• Using malicious automation software such as ‘bots’ to click on your ads. Again, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know this is bad. I don’t feel sorry for these types of people either.
• Putting Adsense on pages with no content. Some people will put up pages with nothing except ads on them.
• Hiring overseas workers to click on your ads. There are companies/individuals who do nothing but click on Adsense ads. Do you really think Google can’t figure this one out?
• Creating Made For Adsense Websites. Google is beginning to really crack down on websites that are made just for Adsense.
• Putting Adsense ads on Hate websites. Bad business, don’t do it.
• Keyword stuffing pages. Google considers this a No-No and may yank your account for it. I use to see this a lot with Mesothelioma pages. (FYI, Mesothelioma use to be one of the highest paying keywords on the Internet)
• Putting Adsense on websites that promote guns & ammo, beer or hard alcohol, tobacco, prescription drugs, copyrighted infringement content, knockoff clothing or goods and sites that distribute term papers or essays.
• Using excessive profanity. I’m not sure who decides what “excessive” is, but Google will ban your Adsense for it damnit!

There are more, but the ones listed above are the ones I see violated the most. Here’s a link to Googles policy terms. https://www.google.com/adsense/policies and here is their Terms and Conditions page https://www.google.com/adsense/static/en_US/Terms.html

Long story short, if you value your Google Adsense account, play by the rules!

I don’t agree with all of the rules above, but like I say, it’s Google’s money, you have to play by Google’s rules. All the more reason all website and blog owners should diversify their sites income generating streams. If you live by Google Adsense, you might find yourself dying by them.

Update: Although not the reason I originally wrote this article, I decided to include it in eMom’s Group Writing Project, go and check it out, you’ll find a whole host of great articles.

If you’re like most of us, you want to know how to make the most money from Google Adsense, I can’t recommend the book “Google AdSense Secrets – 3rd Edition” enough. The tips and tactics I learned from this book helped my Adsense earnings increase far more than I thought they ever could. Give it a try, I know you’ll find it profitable.

Once you have the book, use an Adsense Ready Theme from my list and you’re on your way to creating wealth through the Google Adsense system.

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Adsense can be like the Golden Child we all dream of having. It will mind our every wish and will try hard to meet our every expectation.

On the other hand, it can be like the red-headed rebel step child all of us fear. It won’t behave at all, sending us such un-relevant, low paying ads that we wonder if it’s not some bad joke someone is playing on us.

Before you undertake any Adsense tweaking in your Blog, make sure you know how to add your Adsense Publisher ID to your Adsense Ready WordPress Theme if you’re using one.

Well, I’m not Nanny 911, but I’ve had a few of those unruly Adsense children. Heare are a few tips to make that misbehaving Adsense child of yours behave. Follow along.

1.  Make Your Site ‘Adsense Friendly’ - Your site design can play a big part in the way your Adsense ads behave. Just as with any small child, keep things that you don’t want Adsense to play with out of reach.  Don’t go putting images that have nothing to do with our content near Adsense ads. The same goes with unrelated text. You don’t want Adsense reading garbage. Only related content, images and other files should be near your Adsense baby.

2. Make a Section for Adsense To Play In – Try and restrict where Adsense plays. You wouldn’t want you baby wandering all over the house and you don’t want Adsense wandering all over your site. Use ‘Target Sectioning’ to control Adsense if it’s throwing some goofball ads back.

Section targeting consist of  using some HTML tags to “section off” areas of content you want your Adsense to read and pull relevant ads from. Google says they can’t guarantee that the Adsense ads show will be relevant if you use ‘section targeting’, but if Adsense is not showing relevant ads already, you have little to lose by using ‘section targeting’.

You use section targeting by picking some content and using the HTML tags to “suggest” to your Adsense ads to pick the relevant information for the contextual ads from this ‘section of content’ you’ve chosen. Make sure it’s a section with lots of content. Don’t try to ‘target section’ just a paragraph or two.

Use the following code to ‘target section’.

<!– google_ad_section_start –>

<!– google_ad_section_end –>

Obviously, the <!– google_ad_section_start –> goes at the start of the section you want to target and the <!– google_ad_section_end –> goes at the end.

The code for your Adsense page might look something like this:

<html><head><title>Section Targeting My Content to get Adsense’s Attention</title></head>
<body>
<!– google_ad_section_start –>

This is a section of content in my new spiffy blog. This is a section of content that I want Google Adsense to pull contextual ads from. Blah, blah, blah, blah.

<!– google_ad_section_end –>

</body>
</html>

You can also tell Google Adsense what areas YOU DO NOT want to be read by Adsense by using(weight=ignore) in the starting tag, like this;

<!– google_ad_section_start(weight=ignore) –>

Google says it may take 1 to 2 weeks for ads from the sectioned areas to show up, so be patient. Remember, the don’t guarantee nothing!

3. Other tricks to reign in an unruly Adsense chid – Use title tags in all your links. 

• Add title tags to your links – The title tags go into your link structure like this <a href=”http://www.myspiffynewblog.com” mce_href=”http://www.myspiffynewblog.com” title=”this is the title area”>My Spiffy New Blog</a>

• Add title tags to your images – Be sure to add a relevant title to your images like this <img src=”piconmyspiffyblog.jpg” title=”relevant info goes here”>. Adsense sometimes uses this title to decide what ads to show. Adding a relevant title to your images will also help SEO your page.

I have a 7 year old Real Estate site as the website for my B&M business. On some of the pages I could never get Adsense to show ads that were relevant to the content on the pages until I changed my title tags on links.

On a few rare occassions, Adsense actually followed and read the title of the page where the link was pointed!

Here are more Adsense tips:

• Use descriptive <Heading> tags - You should also carefully consider what is inside your <H1>, <H2> and <H3> tags. Adsense will sometimes pull info from there as well.  

• Use relevant names for your images - Another area I’ve seen Adsense use to pull information from is the names of images. I always try to make sure that my images have names that reflect the content on the page. If I have a web page on Big Blue Widgets, then any image I might have will probably have names with ‘blue’, ‘big’ and ‘widgets’ in them.  

• Use descriptive Meta Keywords and Meta Descriptions – I’ve also seen Adsense pull information from your <meta keywords> and <meta description>, so make sure both of those tags, (generally located in a header.php file if you’re running a blog, or at the top of an HTML page), reflect information about the content page and information you want Adsense to pull ads from.  

• Use Bold and Italics for relevant keywords – If you’re still not getting the results you want, try Bolding and Italicizing keywords inside the ’section targeted’ area. 

There’s only so much we can do with Adsense if it doesn’t want to behave. There are coding tricks to use that will force Adsense to display very specific ads, but messing with the Adsense code is against the TOS and can get your account banned so I’ll not even post those here.

The above tricks and tactics have made my Adsense Ads show relevant ads about 98% of the time. That’s about as close as I can hope with any contextual advertising, so I’ll take it.
Remember, you don’t have to put up with Adsense ads that misbehave. These tricks above should get them walking the line. Just give it a week or two and you should be fine!

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The Host’s name is Michael Garfield, better know around these parts as the High-Tech Texan. Michael also has video conferencing enabled while doing his morning show for those of you who like doing such things.

You can either catch it live or wait a few hours after the show and catch the podcast. It should be interesting, I’m sure they’ll discuss “The Next Internet Millionaire.”

For those of you who do not know Joel, his nick-name is “Mr. Adsense“. He’s published what is probably the most popular eBooks and video’s on making money with Adsense.

If you’d like to get started making money every month with Adsense, be sure to download a Adsense Ready Theme and pop in your Adsense Publisher ID.

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Are you satisfied with the money you’re making off of your Blog? Are the Adsense dollars pouring in? How about those Affiliate links? If so, stop reading, this post is not for you. Now if you’re in the group that is not satsified with your Blog’s earnings potential, I have on technique that will likely be more profitable than Adsense and Affiliate links combined.

To maximize your Blog’s earnings, you should offer your very own information in the form of an eBook or Special Report. Yeah, for some of you that may sound corny, but it happens to be a fact. Why else do people visit your blog other than to obtain information you have to offer?

What is a niche blog? You should already have the answer to that, if not, here is the definition of a niche blog in a nutshell.

A niche blog is a very focused blog about 1 aspect of a subject. Let’s say you have a Car blog. A niche blog would be a blog about Muscle Cars. No VW’s or Pontiac Sunbirds. Muscle Cars from the late 60′s and early 70′s and that’s it. That’s a niche blog pure and simple.

I have two niche blogs that I’ve been experimenting with. Both were ho hum performers with Adsense and Affiliate links. I then had an idea to write a small ebook (well, more like a Special Report) on one aspect of the niche. I wrote one 24 page report and then I hired a writer from eLance to write the other (16 pages). Needless to say, the one I had written was a lot more professional looking but it did take longer to pay for itself. The one I wrote was making money on the very first sale.

Both eBooks were sold for $10 each on their respective blogs.

I ratcheted up my marketing efforts for these two niche blogs over a period of 1 month. These two blogs made anywhere from $3 to 7$ per day with Adsense and Affiliate links prior to adding the eBooks.

After the eBooks were added, the Adsense and Affiliate link income remained basically the same, however I was selling between 2 and 5 ebooks per day. Now I know that’s not earth shattering, but then again, neither was the traffic to these sites. These sites only average about a couple hundred hits per day. The conversion rate was extremely good I might add (no pun intended ). One benefit of traffic to a niche blog is that your traffic is interested in what you have to say or they wouldn’t be there in the first place!

Is this really a “secret”? It must be. Have you ever visited a site that you were interested in and spent hours, if not days or a week clicking around looking for more information and caught yourself thinking “Damn, why don’t they just put all this information in one place that is easy to get to?” I have and I bet you have too. But they don’t make that info easy to get at. Click here, click there, follow this link. I want my information in one place that is easy too get and I’m willing to pay for it! Guess what, so are your readers!

If you’re looking to maximize your niche blogs earnings, seriously look into offering your own informational product. You don’t have to be a great writer to do it. You can hire your own great writer to do it for you. Do you think all the Guru’s write every single eBook or all the content for their websites? Not at all. They all use paid writers to leverage their time and their site’s earning potential, at some point you’ll have to consider hiring your own as well.

But for the mean time, write down several ideas for an information product that you can include on your niche blog. Begin the research and start writing. Give yourself a time line of one week to finish this project, otherwise it may be one of those projects that never get done. I finished one eBook in about 3 hours working on it part time for 3 nights after getting home from my “real” job.

Good luck, go out there and make some money with your blog!

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It goes without saying, I hope so anyways, that you’ll need an Adsense account. If not, go get one first before trying this.

I’m going to try and explain it here, step by step.  For this example, I’ll be using the Ads Minded Theme.

1. Choose an Adsense Ready WordPress Theme. You can get one by cliking the link above.

2. Download the theme, choose it in your WordPress control panel under “Presentations”.

3. Once you’ve selected the theme you want and it shows up on your site, go to “Theme Editor” under the “Presentations” button.

4. The Adsense Code can be in different files depending on which Theme you choose.  The Theme developer will tell you which files contain the Adsense code. You normally find this either on their website or in the readme.txt file. This is what it looks like.

5. Once you find the Google Adsense code in the file, highlight the existing code and replace everything between the <script> and </script> tags with your own code. Now save the file. That’s it. The code in the WordPress Theme should be your own.

DO NOT CLICK ON YOUR OWN ADS! It’s against Google Adsense TOS and can get you banned. I know it can happen sometimes when you’re working on a site and you do it without thinking. If that happens, you might want to contact Adsense and let them now what happened.

To make sure that the correct ads are showing, I monitor my Adsense ads in my control panel and make sure impressions and clicks are showing up.

Let’s say you have www.123abcdef.com with adsense on it. You’ve just used a new blog theme and inserted your adsense code into the theme. Let’s also assume that you’ve been receiving impressions and clicks so you know you have traffic. If you stop receiving impressions and clicks after inserting the code, you may want to redo it. Chances are it’s not counting.

Good luck and have fun with these WordPress Themes and Google Adsense!

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Let’s face it, Adsense is the simplest affiliate marketing program there is. (although technically Adsense is not an affiliate marketing program, but don’t tell anyone)

The easiest way to incorporate Adsense into your site is an Adsense Ready WordPress Theme. I use a variety of WordPress Themes for Adsense. The one I choose depends on the type of blog I running. I’ve compiled this Ultimate List of Adsense Ready WordPress Themes for your enjoyment. I have to be honest and say the idea for this list came about when I saw Dosh Dosh’s list of 17 Adsense Ready WordPress Themes and realized I had those plus a few more in my folders and bookmarks. I just didn’t realize how long it would take to put this list together!

Even though I say it’s the “Ultimate List” we both know it’s not. 5 minutes from now someone else will come out with one. Also, if you know PHP or use the Adsense-Deluxe Plugin, you can turn just about any WordPress Theme into an Adsense ready blog.

If you want to learn advanced Adsense strategies, I highly recommend “Desktop Adsense Cash Machine”. I learned many good tips and tactics that increased my adsense earnings by double on most of my sites. And if you haven’t yet, take a look at “The Next Internet Millionaire“. This reality based show will be sure to teach you some Adsense tactics that the Guru’s keep under wraps.

My criteria for a WordPress Adsense Theme is:

1. Easy to use – I don’t want to spend hours upon hours modifying a theme. I don’t know PHP or CSS so I need a simple plug-n-play theme.
2. Easy on the eyes- You don’t want an ugly WordPress Theme! I know, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but an ugly theme will cost you money!
3. Widget Compatible- A WordPress Theme for Adsense should be widget compatible, although some in the list are not. Not that I will use them, but I prefer to have that option if I find myself wanting to use a widget.
4. Optimized Adsense Placement – Preferably the WordPress Themeyou choose will already have the Adsense blocks placed in the theme and all you have to do is ad your AdsensePublisher ID code. Not all the themes that are listed are like that. The ones that aren’t designed that way are still easy to set up by adding your code to the PHP files. All you have to do is replace the developers Adsense Code with yours. It’s easier than it sounds.
5. SEO Friendly- I want organic traffic! The WordPress Themes in the Ultimate List are SEO Optimized and Friendly or they are darn near close!
6. Customizable- You don’t want your blog to look like everyone’s else. While not all of the WordPress Themes listed are easily customized, many are and that goes a long way in my book (remember when I said that I didn’t know PHP or CSS?)

The pictures of the themes are either from the developers website or taken from screen shots of blogs running these WordPress themes.

If you use any of these WordPress Themes, please visit the developers website and donate some green to their tip jars (if they have them) and always link back to their site. Also, should you have technical problems with any theme on this page, (although I can cut and paste with the best of them ) go to their website for help, I’m not a techie and I won’t be able to help you.

Some of these WordPress Themes require you open a file and replace existing Adsense Pub-ID with your own. If you don’t know how to do that, here’s a quick tutorial on how to add your Publisher ID to an Adsense Ready WordPress Theme.

Also, some of these Adsense Ready WordPress Themes walk a fine line in the grey area concerning Google Adsense TOS. Always check with the Google Adsense folks about any concerns you have with any theme, whether they are these or not. And always save your emails from them!

#1 – Ad Flex Blog & Niche Themes

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AdFlex WordPress Theme Review

I use this theme on several of my blogs. It’s my favorite theme for Adsense because it is so customizable. In fact, I don’t know of another Adsense ready WordPress Theme that is more customizable than Ad Flex.

In addition to that, this baby comes SEO ready!

This theme has Ad Links at the top and an ad block above the content and an ad block below the content. In the screen shot of the blog above, the blog owner used the 468 x 60 ad block, but I’ve used all sizes. I’ve also used other affiliate program codes in the ad blocks (for example, Azoogle ad code) and all have shown up wonderfully.

While the screen shot above doesn’t show it, you can also put pictures above the Adsense. Whoa there buddy, I know what you’re thinking “It’s against Adsense TOS to put pictures next to Adsense ads”Well, not exactly. I have several websites and blogs with pics near Adsense ads. What Adsense doesn’t want for example, let’s say, images of cell phones next to Adsense ads about cell phones so that the surfer thinks he’s clicking on a link to a particular cell phone. In other words, don’t try and fool a surfer into clicking on an adsense ad.

I have a travel site using this WordPress Theme and have put images of tropical get-a-ways and other vacation looking pictures next to Adsense ads. I then followed up with the folks at Google Adsense to ensure that these were not in violation of the Adsense TOS. I received a reply that they were acceptable. The neat thing is, if you’re concerned about the Adsense TOS, you can turn the pictures off and on with a simple tick in a check box in the WordPress dashboard.

Neat. But that is how this whole theme is. Everything is so easy. If you don’t want certain items such as the Category section to show up in the Nav bar on the left side, just check “NO” in the field. Want the Nav bar on the right? No problem, there’s an option for that.

Here are some other features you get with this theme.

• Meta tag description that is based on the content of the page
• Non duplicate content prevention feature
• Adsense Banner Management
• Blocking Cookie
• Theme can be switched between wide and narrow
• Approximately 150 controllable features

Try this them with some of your blogs. You’ll be amazed at the results!

#2 AdsMinded Adsense Theme

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AdsMinded WordPress Theme Review

I use the AdsMinded theme on 2 of my blogs. This is a great WordPress theme for Adsense with high CTR due to the adlinks at the top. Tip: If you’re not taking advantage of adlinks, you’re losing money!

This theme is SEO optimized plus you can customize the layout and ad placement several ways. On one of my blogs, I left out the 2nd column with the Adsense ads on the main page. They’re only visible once a surfer clicks through to read the entire post. Also, there are several other areas where you may put other affiliate codes from other companies. This really maximizes your earnings potential!

This 3 column layout comes with an optional square ad placement on top of the sidebars. It comes with some very useful WordPress plugins.

You can get this WordPress Theme in a narrow or wide version.

#3 Merah Putih

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Merah Putih WordPress Theme Review

This is a nice clean and simple WordPress Theme I found. It needs some customizing, such as a logo in the upper left corner if you want one and you have to insert your Adsensepublisher ID into the sidebar.php, header.php file and single.php file which is pretty easy to do. All you do is open the PHP files with an editor like Notepad ++ and replace the existing Adsense Publisher ID’s with you own, save the files and upload them to your template folder or modify them in the Theme Editor of the Dashboard and BAM, you’re off and running. It takes me about the same amount of time to do it as it did to type this.

I’m a sucker for clean and simple WordPress themes such as this one. I like the ad placements and an added bonus is that once a surfer clicks on an article heading, the article page has the 300×250 Adsense block in the upper left of the article. That’s the sweet spot and heat maps provided by Googlestates this is the best place to put an adblock in an article.

The side bar has a 300×250 and a 160×600 ad block plus an adlink block at the top of the pages.

#4 SEO Adsense

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SEO Adsense WordPress Theme Review

This is another clean and simple Adsense Ready WordPress Theme. I like this theme for my review type sites. It’s laid out very well and Adsense code is easily added. This theme loads quickly and is designed to accept three ad blocks and one ad link per page, the maximum allowed by Google Adsense TOS. You can also use Google Adsense for search for some additional income.

The advantage of this WordPress theme in my opinion is that it is SEO optimized out of the gate. The title and H1 tags contain most of the information. Category pages carry the category name as the title and on post pages, the post name is carried as the title.

The Adsense code is in three files with this theme. The header.php, the sidebar php and the footer.php files. You also have the advantage of using Google Adsensefor search in the searchform.php

Sometimes less is more when you’re trying to get surfers to click on ads. With that being said, SEO Adsense gives you a great advantage over other WordPress Themes when it comes to the layout and ease of using Adsense to it’s maximum potential.

#5 WP Colors

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WP Colors WordPress Them Review

This is a snazzy looking 2 column theme for WordPress plus it’s Adsense ready and is widget compatible. This WordPress theme is also SEO optimizedand ready to rock once you’ve added your Adsense Publishers ID.

One of my main gripes of other “Adsense Ready” themes is that the sidebar info comes before the main content info in the source code. This is not the case with WP Colors. They’ve coded this theme so that the main content info is read by a Search engine BEFORE the sidebar info!

There is a 728×90 block at the top of the theme below the header image and a 120×600 tower in the sidebar plus a 300×250 box at the top of the sidebar.

Personally, I’d like to see that banner be a 468×60 at the top of the post and a adlink at the top, but hey, with a WordPress Theme that looks this good and is easy to use, you can’t complain about much!

#6 030106 WordPress Theme

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030106 WordPress Theme Review

Okay, this is a mystery WordPress Theme. It has a number for a name! Call it what you want, I call it a high CTR Adsense ready WordPress Theme!

I love this theme for my tech review sites. Very professional looking and good-to-go right out of the box. You can use your Adsense Publisher ID or any number of other ad codes with this template (for example; YPN, Chitika, Azoogle, etc)

This WordPress themehas a place for a adlink banner at the top, a 300×250 box at the top of the sidebar and a tower in the sidebar as well as a place for a smaller box ad toward the bottom.

The single post pages has a place for a box ad at the bottom of the article. I’ve used these boxes for a pre-sell on offers after the article to snag some high paying commissions.

#7 Problogger Clean WordPress Theme

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Problogger Clean WordPress Theme Review

This 3 column WordPress theme reminds me of my #4 WordPress theme, SEO Adsense. However, there are differences.

This WordPress themehas a feature called the Adsense Click Safety (so you don’t click your own ads while working on your blog). Some have had concerns that this may violate Google Adsense TOS. Click here to read Googles reply to the developers question.

I haven’t used this theme in a while on my blogs. I did have some problems early on but I got my blog to work with this theme (don’t ask me how because I don’t remember!). I’ve since changed themes on that blog. Anyhow, just be forwarned that they were having some problems with this theme and I’m not sure they have them all worked out.

#8 MW WordPress Theme

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MW WordPress Theme Review

I absolutely love the name of this WordPress Theme. MW. MW stands for “Monetizing the Web”. That get’s a big “Hell Yeah” from me! Trust me, you can certainly monetize the web with this Adsense Ready WordPress Theme!

This is a 2 column, fixed width, left navigation WordPress Theme with a load of options.

This theme has a banner at the top with a 468 banner between the content about halfway down the page. You also have several options for Adsense and other code for different affiliate programs.

This is just a slick, easy to use Adsense Ready WordPress Theme with a professional look. Give it a try.

#9 Adsense Theme

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Adsense Theme For WordPress Review

This is a smooth, quick loading theme with Adsense blocks in all the right places. Very user friendly and it has basic SEO features. There are no images which contributes to its fast loading times.

I haven’t used this theme as much as some of the others (hey, so many blog ideas, so little time) but when I did use it, I liked it.

To get you Adsense Publisher ID to work with this theme, you’ll need to add your ID to the header.php, sidebar.php and footer.php. Not a problem. If you don’t know how to do this, there are instructions with most themes. It’s quite easy. All you need is an editor like Notepad ++.

Note: I’ve not used the following WordPress Themes so I can’t comment on them.

#10 Blue Sense WordPress Theme

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#11 Citrus Sense WordPress Theme

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#12 Adsense Ready WordPress Theme

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#13 TypoXP Reloaded WordPress Theme

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#14 Connection with Adsense WordPress Theme

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#15 Almost Spring SEO with Adsense Ads

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#16 Bubbles Adsense Theme (comes in 4 colors)

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#17 Blix with Adsense WordPress Theme

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#18 Elite Circle WordPress Theme

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#19 Adsense Bogpod WordPress Theme

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#20 Tigopedia Reloaded WordPress Theme

(there’s also the Tigopedia original but I won’t count that one)

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#21 Simple Corners

(this one seems to be down right now or my bookmark is bad, when I click to their site, I see a message from their host with a “suspended” message) I’m going to leave it up in case they are just short on their bandwidth.

#22 Adsense Ready K2 Theme

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#23 Rockin Newspaper Red WordPress Theme

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24. Activate WordPress Theme

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Okay, I give up! That’s all the Adsense Ready WordPress Themes I have or could find. I hope you enjoy them and again, don’t forget to throw a bone to the developers!

I’ll try and keep this list updated, so check back when you’re looking for a good Adsense Ready WordPress Theme!

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Jensense spoke with Brian Axe (the senior product manager on the Google Adsense Team) and he told her:

That is to say, publishers may now display other contextual ads on the same site or page as Google ads as long as they don’t have the same look and feel as our ads

To see what this could mean to you running two types of contextual ads on your site such as Adsense and YPN ads, click on over to her site and see her in-depth reporting on the subject.

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Competitive Ads and Services In order to prevent user confusion, we do not permit Google ads or search boxes to be published on websites that also contain other ads or services formatted to use the same layout and colors as the Google ads or search boxes on that site. Although you may sell ads directly on your site, it is your responsibility to ensure these ads cannot be confused with Google ads.

From where I’m sitting, it looks like Google is forcing publishers to choose between Adsense or YPN or MSN. Google knows they have a huge majority of the marketshare in this sector and that most of us will choose Google Adsense over the others.

This means no more testing Adsense against YPN or MSN contex ads. No more Adsense rotation with YPN or MSN contex ads. See where they’re going with this? Google Adsense could pretty much kill MSN’s plans for contex ads before they even get out of the gate! Smart move on their part but not in the best interest of advertisers or publishers.

Don’t be confused into thinking these changes go into effect on a single page. These changes go into effect for your entire site!

Even non-contextual ads that look like Google Adsense cannot be displayed!

I’d like to hear from Google to the reasons for this? From what I can see, it’s just a move to cut out YPN and MSN. Google….is this correct?

The only way I could possible see to work around the new Google Adsense TOS is to change the text, background and borders of your YPN or other contextual ads. However, I would ask Google if they’re fine with this before actually implementing it on your website.

JenSense has a very good in-depth post on her blog. For the how’s and why’s check it out.

Now go and change all the ads on your sites

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