Archive for July, 2008


Adsense Conversion Difficulties

Author: SEO Firm Guru
 
July 29, 2008

Here is a new little series of posts I am starting, best of Yahoo answers.   When I have a bit of free time I try and answer some questions there, I will post some that recieved ‘best’ answer.

Question:

I have run google Ads. sense on my site for 10days, and this is the result?

Page impressions 11,785
Clicks 5
Page CTR 0.04%
Earnings 0.31

is this normal? if not what is wrong and what should I do?

Answer:
You could have a few different problems, a poor looking site (so folks are not staying more than a couple seconds), non-relevant ads (check to see that the ads are relevant to your visitors and content), poor ad placement (make sure your ads are in a good visible place, but don’t plaster your page with them).
Making money with adsense is very hard, you will read all types of lies on the web - especially in forums.  People claiming to make $10’s of thousand dollars a month via adsense.  The truth is pretty ugly and it is that a large percentage of adsense in the past has been paid to scam sites and MFA sites.

Google making ‘nice’ with SEO’s

Author: SEO Firm Guru
 
July 6, 2008

I read a good informative post by Doug Caverly at WebProNews.com, it talks about some changes Google has recently made to their section on “What’s an SEO?  It seems Google has taken down their warnings about SEO’s a few notches.

The old version mentioned “a few unethical SEOs” in the fourth line and then jumped into a list of warning signs.  The revised help page introduces a negative in line three, but uses the gentler term “irresponsible.”  From there, it names a lot of possible benefits.

“Many SEOs and other agencies and consultants provide useful services for website owners, including: Reviewing and providing recommendations on your site content or structure . . . Technical advice on website development: for example, hosting, redirects, error pages, use of JavaScript . . . Content development . . . Managing online business . . . development campaigns . . . Keyword research . . . SEO training.”

Relatively neutral, background check-type questions follow, and then the same warnings eventually appear.  It seems Google now has fewer qualms about nudging people towards SEOs, though, or has at least decided that its old description came off as too harsh.

Barry Schwartz deserves credit for unearthing the less-than-sweet version.  And perhaps as another way of saying “sorry,” Google’s asking people to contribute their own SEO-related recommendations.  Google has upset so many folks with it’s seemingly non discriminate penalties that it want to make nice with a portion of their professional user base?