5 QUICK ADSENSE APPROVAL TRICKS

BY ZEESHAN KHAN·  · 78 COMMENTS

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Although great Google can’t be tricked, still there are some important practices which can help you in getting an approved AdSense account quickly. Several bloggers and website owners face difficulty in their AdSense account approval, so I decided to share some important tips which will increase the chances of AdSense account approval. Before reading this article, please keep this in mind that we don’t know and share any secrets related with AdSense and this article is based only on personal experience and observations. 

Site Theme / Topic Comes First 
Your blog’s niche, theme or the topic is most important in deciding either Google approves your account or not. AdSense is a serious business and it promotes products of companies and individuals on targeted websites and blogs. If your blog or website doesn’t have a well defined theme, then AdSense is most likely not going to approve your account. So before applying for AdSense, ensure that your blog defines a topic clearly. For example you can create a blog about health tips and share content only related to health on your blog.

Sometimes, even blogs and websites with well defined theme are not accepted by AdSense. It happens when the topic of the blog is not much popular or doesn’t have any business scope. If same is the case of your blog, you may need to change the entire niche of your blog or website if it is in its initial stage or try any AdSense alternative.

Site Structure 
The second most important factor, which may prevent AdSense to approve your account, is bad site structure. Sometimes blogs and websites are not designed well. Both navigation and internal linking are important. To ensure that AdSense approves your account quickly, first design your blog cleanly. i.e. develop a good and easy navigation and build a good internal linking structure. Once your site is easy for bots to crawl, AdSense crawlers will get maximum details about your blog’s content, thus your account will get approved quickly if the content satisfies the crawlers.

Organic Traffic 
If your blog doesn’t receive good traffic from search engines, then AdSense may not accept it in its program easily. AdSense loves organic traffic and if your blog receives good flow of traffic from search engines, then your account will get approved easily. Otherwise you may need to work for bringing more visitors to your blog.

Content Quality and Quantity 
You can’t get AdSense on crappy blogs and websites which are full of copied/pasted content. To get and retain AdSense, your blog must contain good quantity of quality and unique content. Usually, AdSense approves blogs when they contain more than 15 or 20 unique posts. So before applying for AdSense, ensure that your blog contains enough quality posts.

Blog / Website Age 
AdSense hasn’t defined anywhere about the blog or website’s age but it is believed that very young blogs and websites are not accepted by AdSense. Before applying for AdSense, wait for a few months (normally for more than 3 months) and then apply for AdSense. During this time, you must work to grow your blog by building content and traffic on it.

Important: Sometimes, AdSense doesn’t approve blogs and websites when they don’t contain a privacy policy page. It has been stated in TOS of AdSense that each blog or website promoting AdSense must contain a privacy policy page. If your blog or website doesn’t have a privacy policy page, add it now. This AdSense privacy policy generator will help you in generating a privacy policy for your blog if you are facing challenges in writing a privacy policy.

Additional Guidance 
Google has disclosed TOS of the program and needs the publishers to follow them, so you must read each and every line of these terms carefully. If you understand and follow these terms, then you will not only succeed in getting an approved AdSense account, it will also help you in retaining the account in long run which is a difficult task. Need any specified help? Just leave a comment below.

Make Money Online with the Top 25 Affiliate Networks

 by ZEESHAN KHAN

The first step in locating good affiliate programs is via the large established affiliate networks. If you are an existing affiliate then it would not be a surprise if you have a bias towards the network that is making you the most money. When I first started doing affiliate marketing, Commission Junction was my top earning affiliate network. A couple years later my top earning network became AzoogleAds. It is now One Network Direct. The point being is to expand your horizons into other affiliate networks because that affiliate program that works well today may not work so well tomorrow. Why? Here are a few examples…

1. The merchant may either shut down the affiliate program, significantly lower payouts, or even get purchased by another company.

Several years ago, I used to successfully promote a spam blocker called Giant AntiSpam. They were later purchased and turned into a product called Qurb. Then Qurb was purchased by Mcafee and the same piece of software is called Mcafee AntiSpam. Mcafee’s affiliate commissions per sale is significantly lower than the 50% commissions originally offered by Giant and Qurb and it now makes me very little money. By joining other affiliate networks I’ll know what other similar programs are available and their payouts.

2. The company may change their PPC policies or other affiliate program terms.

I used to do very well with the GoToMyPC affiliate program through Commission Junction. Not to long ago, they decided to restrict bidding on their trademarked terms (including all variations) in the PPC search engines. I can understand some reasons why they might want to do this, but it gets worse. Then they started going after all domains with the trademark in it or variations. It was either hand us over your domains or get disapproved from our affiliate program AND the legal team will be calling. I personally had to hand them over my go-to-my-pc.net, gotomypcblog.com and gotomeetingblog.com domains.

Needless to say, with their change in PPC policies and taking of my domain names it put a big dent in my commissions from the program. I do pretty well with affiliate marketing but it was not worth being kicked out of the program and the cost of a legal battle with a huge company. It has still left a pretty bad taste in my mouth. It’s another reason why I do less buying of domain names with trademarks in them even if they allow it today. You don’t know what they will do tomorrow.

3. The same exact program you are promoting may be offering a higher payout in that other affiliate network!

You may be surprised to find out that you could be making a lot more by switching to thatother network that offers the exact same program with higher payouts. The other affiliate network might also offer better tracking capabilities or provide higher converting landing pages. One example would be the Sunrocket (now closed) VoIP affiliate program which had an $84 dollar payout via AzoogleAds and a $60 payout through Linkshare. One reason they can offer these higher payouts through some networks because their merchant fees may be less.

The Top Five CPA Affiliate Networks I Recommend Are:

Market Leverage: www.marketleverage.com

NeverBlueAds: www.neverblueads.com

Copeac: www.copeac.com

AzoogleAds: www.azoogleads.com

Here is a list of additional large and small CPA affiliate networks. These CPA networks offer primarily pay-per-lead programs with some pay-per-sale and pay-per-click.

PepperJam Network: www.pepperjamnetwork.com

AffiliateFuel: www.affiliatefuel.com

MaxBounty: www.maxbounty.com

CPA Empire: www.cpaempire.com

ClickXchange: www.clickxchange.com

DarkBlue: www.darkblue.com

Kolimbo: www.kolimbo.com

OneNetworkDirect: www.onenetworkdirect.com

LeadHound: www.leadhound.com

Websponsors: www.websponsors.com

OffersQuest: www.offersquest.com

Cyberbounty: www.cyberbounty.com

OfferWeb: www.offerweb.com

Link Connector: www.linkconnector.com

MyReferer: www.myreferer.net

RegNow: www.regnow.com

One major advantage to using a few of the lesser known networks is that there may be less competition for some of the affiliate offers.

The Top 5 Per-Sale Affiliate Networks I Recommend Are:

They offer primarily pay-per-sale programs with some pay-per-lead. They will have plenty of affiliate offers you probably will not find in the CPA networks mentioned above.

1. Commission Junction

Number of Advertisers: 1,966 as of early 2007

With that many advertisers in their network, it means that no matter what your site is about, you are likely to find a merchant affiliate program that is a good fit for your website. These 1,966+ Commission Junction (CJ) advertisers are spread throughout 28 main categories including computers, finance, health, travel, and web services among many others.

Go To CJ.com

2. Linkshare

Number of Advertisers: 600+

LinkShare was established in 1996 and now boasts Fortune 500 clients and other prominent companies including J.C. Penney, 1-800-Flowers.com, American Express, Avon Products and Dell. Linkshare claims to have created the largest network of affiliates of any program provider – over 10 million partnerships.

Go To Linkshare.com

3. ShareASale

Number of Advertisers: 1700+

Shareasale.com was established in June 2000 and has grown to have a large network of advertisers mostly due to their lower merchant entry costs. The ShareASale network hosts many large and small companies that you will not find elsewhere.

Go To ShareASale.com

4. Performics

Number of Advertisers: 200+

Performics, acquired by DoubleClick in 2004, is a fairly small affiliate network with some big name advertisers such as America Online, BOSE, CompUSA, HPshopping, Verizon Wireless, and more than 200 others.

Go To Performics.com

5. Clickbank

Number of Advertisers: 1,000+

Clickbank has over 10,000+ digital product vendors with many merchants offering huge percentage payouts as high as 75%.

Go To ClickBank

So there you have it. These affiliate networks contain hundreds of profitable affiliate programs (a.k.a. hidden gems) just waiting to be found.

I’ll begin writing some more in-depth reviews of specific networks shortly. Until then, all the best towards your success.

The 4 best ways to make money from homE

BY ZEESHAN KHAN

Chris Langer / for NBC News /

Tutor Ivonne Pinera explains a section of math problem in Spanish to the students preparing for the test to earn their GED in Ohio.

Have you seen those ads that seem to be all over the Internet these days? They say something like "make $1,000 per week from the comfort of your own home." Now it should go without saying that such schemes are not very reliable and should be avoided in most cases. But that still leaves the question: Can you really make money from home?

The truth is, you actually can. But you first have to understand what your skills are and how to market them effectively.

With the economy still struggling and many people faced with underemployment or unemployment, it's understandable that many would show an interest in building an income on their own terms. And even those who currently have work would often prefer to create a career that would allow them to work from home.

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So for anyone in those circumstances, here are four of the best ways to make money from home:

1. Become a virtual assistant

What does "virtual assistant" mean? Well, it can refer to any person hired part-time or full-time to provide remote assistance -- usually in a role similar to a traditional administrative assistant. Often, you will work for one person who is very busy -- too busy to handle it all on their own.

And that's where the opportunity is for you. The tasks of a virtual assistant will often include things like screening your boss's e-mail, booking travel, making appointments and phone calls on behalf of your boss, managing his or her calendar, and taking care of other things that come up.

This is a field that is growing surprisingly quickly, and there are many websites where you can find work as a virtual assistant, including Indeed, WAHM and Elance. In most cases, you will need to present a resume and/or show some experience that would prove your ability to handle these types of tasks well.

2. Tap into your creative strengths

Many people enjoy some type of creative outlet, and with the wide availability of opportunities on the Internet, you can frequently turn your creative streak into a source of income. For example, if you like to make crafts then you can use Etsy to build a devoted audience of customers who are willing to pay for your handmade items.

Another obvious option is for people who enjoy writing. There are countless requests on sites like Elance for all different types of writing. Polish your writing ability and then start bidding on some of these writing jobs. At first, you'll be doing this a few hours a week, but over time, you can build up a dedicated clientele and make a full-time living off your writing.

There are some really unexpected ways you can use your creativity to make money from home. One of the more surprising ways to make money would be to look for work as a voice actor -- meaning that you would lend your voice to narrate videos, radio ads, or any other type of media. These freelance jobs can actually pay pretty well. And there are countless other surprising ones like these listed at the sites above.

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3. Share your skills locally

Sometimes it is necessary to change your perspective in order to see all the skills that you truly have. Do you play an instrument? If so, you could no doubt teach music lessons to young people (or anyone) in your community. All you'd need to do beforehand is a bit of lesson planning. You can even offer a discount for the first 10 people who sign up in order to get your name out there and help spread the word.

Along the same lines, if you have patience and basic knowledge of high school math, science or literature, you could easily work as a tutor for students in your community. If so, that can be a great way to make money from home. And remember, you can always get the textbook and brush up a little before you do your tutoring!

4. Use the assets you have

This last possibility will seem like the easiest or the hardest way to make money from home, depending on your particular circumstances. Do you have things laying around your house that you no longer need? If so, then you can make extra money by selling them on eBay!

And these days, it has become much easier to make money by renting out a spare room in your house -- or even renting out your car. If you want to rent a room, AirBnB is probably the first place you'll want to start. And Getaround is a great site for renting your car, although it's only available in certain cities right now. Of course, there is always some risk with letting a stranger stay in your house (or use your car) but if you are looking to build your income from home, this is one of the quickest ways.

No matter what you decide to try, give it some time and ask for advice from people who have some experience with it. And if you want more insights, check out our Career Tips resource center. Good luck!

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