Cash Keywords

It's not Just AdSense Anymore - Highest Paying Keywords for Chitika eMiniMalls

This is just a superficial list, but already people are asking for Highest Paying Keywords for Chitika eMiniMalls.  Kristeen Timothy posts some keywords she feels are potentially good as high paying keywords for Chitika. 

From what I have read in other reports, Chitika works best for retail products.  In fact, Marketing Defined has a link to Chitika's recommended keyword list, and recommends looking at the top products in Amazon or Shopping.com for ideas.

Despite the fact that Cash Keywords data is based on Google, our most popular reports and keyword phrases in our Mega Report cover thousands of retail products and brands.  I know, because I have personally spent alot of time on our reports creating lists and getting the updated ones ready every month.

We'll certainly look into obtaining data for Cash Keywords' reports that more closely matches Chitika's Ad Network in the coming weeks.

Very Interesting Tips and Insight on Building AdSense Sites

There's a very interesting thread from a publisher who sounds very successful in Adsense after only 1 year on Digitalpoint AdSense forums called my tips.  Pretty generic title for an interesting thread started by Shoemoney on how he recommends putting together sites for Adsense. He shares some real insight, and answers questions straightforwardly.  Definitely worth a look - 15,000+ pageviews can't be wrong!

Jensense Reports One Site Can Affect Entire Adsense Account

We've only been able to speculate on how Google "smart pricing" affects AdSense revenues, but Jensense reports that one AdSense Support team member gave some interesting details about smart pricing including:

Smart pricing affects the whole account (not just a page or one site individually).

One poorly converting site can trigger smart pricing even if the site is unrelated to other sites in your account.

Smart pricing is tracked with a 30 day cookie - which might account for reports from some publishers of smart pricing "kicking in" 3-4 weeks after making major changes to their sites/pages with Adsense.

It's nice to know that it's possible to reverse the effects of smart pricing by removing poorly performing sites, but again this idea needs testing to see what effect removing poorly performing sites. 

And anyway, what _is_ a poorly performing conversion?  Do we gauge poor conversion using CTR? That's not the same thing as conversions.  From the AdSense Publishers perspective, we don't have the tools to know if our ads are converting well.  What if someone clicks thru fine, but doesn't buy a thing on the Adwords' Advertisers sites?   I have no way of knowing that information except to rely on Google - who has the data on conversions to some extent - to make the call (and hope it's fair).

Guess if my revenues drop noticeably then I am to assume that my sites aren't converting....?  Not an easy way to figure out what's wrong and try to fix it.

Web Traffic Ideas Coming Soon From TrafficGeni.us

Adsense Publishers have some control over over creating more revenues by tweaking ads for more CTR, or adding more pages of content.  But when it comes to getting fresh traffic, it's an uphill battle expecting kindness from the SEs - unless you don't mind shelling out a mountain of credit card debt for paid advertising.  Getting more traffic is definitely the biggest block to making more money for any webmaster.

Starting today, Trafficgeni.us is providing a peek into the possibilities by compiling all kinds of traffic ideas, some good, some downright crazy.  I am part of the TrafficGeni.us team (thought you should know) and the goal is to have people share their ideas, compile the best ones into a monthly newsletter, and letting the TrafficGeni.us newsletter members vote for what idea they think is #1.  The #1 Top Idea winner will get $100 for November and we'll have some great prizes in the months to come. 

What's more, everything is free - the newsletter is free, the membership is free and you can submit traffic ideas for a chance to win thr top prize for free.   As part of the TrafficGeni.us pre-launch, we are offering a free sample newsletter and we think you'll enjoy it, but I really think the future newsletters with submitted ideas will be even better.

The site itself is a bit tongue in cheek and we wanted to have some fun!  No sales letters, no AdSense Ads, and really no plans for advertising so far.