Now I have your attention! It surprised me when I started to get into doing SEO work for myself and others and looking at Addsense to make a few dollars (cents) how many sharks are out there. I use the IBP program to help me optimize sites and it is a good product. There is one option that allows you to submit your site to web sites automatically. Unfortunately, some of the websites are a bit suspect and I have been deluged with emails on how to get rich quick.
Take Addsense for example. Across all my sites I only have around 10-20 visitors a day which translates to around 40 impressions a day. Now could a person make a six figure salary from his websites. I think the answer is yes, but it would take a lot of work. A lot of work to get high in the rankings. Also, a lot of work to keep this many people happy and returning to the site.
It might be better to just get a job, unless the website also covers your own interests and hobbies then it would not seem like a job. Going by the Adsense forum, people from India seem to be interested. I can understand this, if they target the western world then they should make the same that I would and each cent goes a lot further. I don't know about India but in Bali, $50 per month looks is a decent wage for a local.
If you are interested, I am getting around a 4% click rate and around $11.00 eCPM. In other words for about every 1000 impressions I get 11 dollars.
Monday, July 28, 2008
Monday, July 14, 2008
From the horses mouth
Official Google Blog: Introduction to Google Ranking
There are a lot of words being written around how to achieve good Google results. I think that sometimes you need to go directly to the horses mouth and see what they say. This link is to the Official Google blog and is the first part of a discussion around ranking and is a reminder how you can be penalized for doing the wrong thing.
However, the thought crosses my mind that it is almost always better to just do the right thing and you will have a website that your customers will enjoy and link to as thus rank well. Probably, the only losers are possibly people that use a lot of graphics on their site.
To find out what Google sees on your site you can't beat the Google Webmasters tools website. This if nothing else will show you Google is not perfect (Some of my back links keep appearing and disappearing).
There are a lot of words being written around how to achieve good Google results. I think that sometimes you need to go directly to the horses mouth and see what they say. This link is to the Official Google blog and is the first part of a discussion around ranking and is a reminder how you can be penalized for doing the wrong thing.
However, the thought crosses my mind that it is almost always better to just do the right thing and you will have a website that your customers will enjoy and link to as thus rank well. Probably, the only losers are possibly people that use a lot of graphics on their site.
To find out what Google sees on your site you can't beat the Google Webmasters tools website. This if nothing else will show you Google is not perfect (Some of my back links keep appearing and disappearing).
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Problems recovering a HP backup
Further to my fan boy posting from yesterday. I tried to restore a HP image back to a new computer using Acronis Universal restore. The restore just froze. I tried backing up to another computer. I actually moved the backup to another hard disk and installed this as a second hard drive on the computer. These all failed to complete the reinstall.
Now HP put an extra partition onto their computer. This is the recovery partition and allows the computer to be returned to factory settings. Acronis seems to have a problem with this. I manually selected the C partition and the boot partition and the restore went fine.
One note on the HP recovery partition, it is the cause of a lot of accidents. Some people have been known to wipe their hard disk thinking that this recovery partition will return their computer to back before some failure happened.
Now HP put an extra partition onto their computer. This is the recovery partition and allows the computer to be returned to factory settings. Acronis seems to have a problem with this. I manually selected the C partition and the boot partition and the restore went fine.
One note on the HP recovery partition, it is the cause of a lot of accidents. Some people have been known to wipe their hard disk thinking that this recovery partition will return their computer to back before some failure happened.
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
I heart Acronis True Image Echo Workstation
On the recommendation of another tech, I have been using this product. Any computer that comes back to the workshop gets imaged to a 500Gb drive on my workshop computer. This means that I can play with the computer to my hearts content knowing that I have an image to restore. With Acronis I put a CD into a drive and get it to backup over the network. No removing harddrives, no mucking around with USB drives.
Better still, from my workshop computer I can mount the image as a drive and check for faults or load the registry hive on the workshop computers registry to check for issues. Any changes you make are saved as sessions.
So pop the disk back in and restore the image and you have a working computer.
The other neat feature is the universal restore. Often when we change a motherboard, we also need to run a repair restore on the computer and then restore the 94 odd updates and even then we may run into problems with the computer. The universal restore replaces the HAL with the appropriate one for the chipset of the new motherboard and hard drive. So you end up with a working version of the system. You will probably still need to run the drivers for the other hardware (video, audio) if you didn't give Acronis access to the drivers earlier.
Better still, from my workshop computer I can mount the image as a drive and check for faults or load the registry hive on the workshop computers registry to check for issues. Any changes you make are saved as sessions.
So pop the disk back in and restore the image and you have a working computer.
The other neat feature is the universal restore. Often when we change a motherboard, we also need to run a repair restore on the computer and then restore the 94 odd updates and even then we may run into problems with the computer. The universal restore replaces the HAL with the appropriate one for the chipset of the new motherboard and hard drive. So you end up with a working version of the system. You will probably still need to run the drivers for the other hardware (video, audio) if you didn't give Acronis access to the drivers earlier.
Friday, July 4, 2008
SEO Project part 2
Creating a domain with keywords in it set the site to the top of page two of the Australian Google almost immediately. This shows how important the keyword selection is over all searches.
The next part was to change the website. This was made more difficult by the fact that the web designer had used frames. I have heard that google gets confused by frames. As google had nicely indexed the site already, I decided to check the effect of frames by looking at the cache. It was blank, not a character of text was found.
I went through the effort of replacing the frames on each page. This was made easy with Microsoft Expression Web's Dynamic Web Templates. This is a nifty feature where you can define a template and create web pages from them. I know, templates have been around for ages, but the nifty bit is that when you change the template, all the children pages change.
Then, I did the keywords. To get an idea of keywords, I did a short adwords campaign, to see what was the most popular combinations. I then put the keywords into the web pages in the priority order of Title then Description then Keywords. The latter for the non-google search engines.
For the text bodies don't forget the importance of keywords in h1,h2 and strong tags.
I copied all the text from every other page onto the front page. Originally, there was almost no text on the first page. Well all we need to do is wait. Well no not really, there is still the links and the monitoring.
The next part was to change the website. This was made more difficult by the fact that the web designer had used frames. I have heard that google gets confused by frames. As google had nicely indexed the site already, I decided to check the effect of frames by looking at the cache. It was blank, not a character of text was found.
I went through the effort of replacing the frames on each page. This was made easy with Microsoft Expression Web's Dynamic Web Templates. This is a nifty feature where you can define a template and create web pages from them. I know, templates have been around for ages, but the nifty bit is that when you change the template, all the children pages change.
Then, I did the keywords. To get an idea of keywords, I did a short adwords campaign, to see what was the most popular combinations. I then put the keywords into the web pages in the priority order of Title then Description then Keywords. The latter for the non-google search engines.
For the text bodies don't forget the importance of keywords in h1,h2 and strong tags.
I copied all the text from every other page onto the front page. Originally, there was almost no text on the first page. Well all we need to do is wait. Well no not really, there is still the links and the monitoring.
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