Friday, March 31, 2006

Make Money on Your Site with AdSense

Hi,
I've been reading & implementing Joel Comm's 3rd edition of What Google Never Told You About Making Money with AdSense I have a number of websites that have quite a bit of AdSense on them. Joel has been helping me sort through all the possibilities. I am still working on my web sites to improve the AdSense based on his ideas. He shows numerous ways to make your Adsense ads blend in with the surroundings to help improve your click through rate & your earnings.

I certainly don't claim to be an expert but I found lots of ideas in this 3rd version of his ebook that individually will make the purchase worth the money. Actually I had his 2nd revision already & found it high enough in quality to decide to upgrade to the new version. I'm not sorry I did. This is a 199 page book packed with good info. Lot's of screen shots too.

Joel covers optimum placement on the page for AdSense ads as well as colors, backgrounds etc. Some of these ideas were common sense others were counterintuitive.

You owe it to yourself to check it out for yourself at "Making Money with AdSense"

Monday, March 27, 2006

1Shoppingcart not without flaws

Hello,

Well I am finding life is still not perfect in paradise. I have implemented the double opt-in with my shopping cart system. It gave me a go of it though. There are so many features in this software that setting up the autoresponders from the START is a big deal. Moving your database from one system to another has pitfalls. So far I've stepped into a few of them.

I put in 4 customer service tickets this weekend asking questions. Unfortunately the ticket system combined 3 of my tickets into 1 so things got confusing, so I simply called them. I was on the phone with a real live person in about 5 seconds. WOW! He was courteous & able to answer all of my questions except one that one of the other tech support people was working on.

All the big boys seem to use this system, but I found several chinks in the armor within 24 hours of setting up shop. I think I have a work-around for everything so far even though I didn't like the original answer. But best I can tell this system is the best out there. I am open to anyone else who know of a better one, but I know many of the biggies who use this or Salesautomator which is just Frank Kern's reselling of 1shopping cart. So it is the same thing. So is Marketer's Choice. It's still just 1shopping cart.

Well that's about it for today. I am determined to keep this up better than the past.

So I'm sure by now you've figured out that you will probably hear more stories about the transition to 1shoppingcart. Hey so far I am still a fan. I was so confident of it I signed up for a year already. You might try the 30 day trial for $3.95. Click on the banner at the bottom of the page to go try it out for just $3.95. Just like me you have to ask are you going to kick it up a notch or just sit there?

Best of success.
Rex Turner
www.megamarketingreviews.com

Sunday, March 26, 2006

The Double Opt-in is NOW WORKING (I think)

Hello everyone,

I am starting to get the hang of the 1shoppingcart.com dashboard. I think I have the double opt-in process now working. I got the main drop box working last night & realized I forgot the banner across the bottom of each page. I got that working this morning.

Soon I will redo the video for the one time offer to not have it autoplay. I want to give the person the option to watch it or not. Also if someone has dial up (God help them) then the system probably locks up while they are waiting for the video to load.

I also want to redo the one-time offer screen to make it more obvious that it is a one-time offer. I think some people just blow on by the video to get to the freebie without thinking.

More to come later.
Rex
www.megamarketingreviews.com