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Keyword Research Tools

Published on 21 August, 2006 in affiliates, sharing experience and tools & resources. 1 Comment

seekingrevenue-com51082.pngWhat are Keywords?

Keywords are the cornerstone of the successful revenue seeker. Having the right keywords can have a huge impact on your bottom line. Whether you are targeting search engine keywords or using keywords in your Adword or Overture campaigns.

There are some great keyword research tools for finding massive keyword lists and gain insights from them. Here are some research tools:

  1. Adwords Analyzer
  2. Overture Search Suggestion
  3. Googles Sandbox
  4. Wordtracker

Once you have a list of keywords, you take it a huge step further with variations. Keyword variation generators can help you generate different variation of keywords:

  1. Keyword Toolbox
  2. GoodKeywords

What keyword research tools do you use?

Review of week 29 – 30

Published on 6 August, 2006 in review. 2 Comments

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Review of week 29 – 30 (17 Jul – 30 Jul)

No site lanuched in the last 2 weeks. The focus had been on increasing the performance of existing sites.

Result are mixed. Overall however, July is positive.

Revenue for July. Revenue grew by 40% in July. Doing a goal seek in OpenOffice Calc, I work out that the average revenue growth rate until the end of year must be 49% to reach my goal.

In terms of Adsense, revenue grew by 83% more than the 59% target set last month.

Looks like things are on target!

Traffic. No major improvement in traffic. How do I improve traffic? This will be my focus this month.

Continue reading ‘Review of week 29 – 30′

The end of AdSense sweatshop?

Published on 4 August, 2006 in learning process, on the net and sharing experience. 2 Comments

Increasingly publishers are turning away from what they feel is the “Google’s AdSense Sweatshop“.

And it is not that they are not making money. They are making as much as $10,000 a month. A figure many of us revenue seekers wouldn’t even dream of making.

What is happening? I hate to see the bubble burst, since I myself had just jumped on the bandwagon. But is this really the end?

The arguments are centered around 3 major points

  1. Publishers can make more money with the visitors then sending them away.
  2. Publishers are at the mercy of companies like Google.
  3. Publishers has to do lot of work and even resort to trickery. Even then they cannot control factors like search engine ranking.

Join the conversation.

  • Do you think it is wrong to make money from Adsense?
  • Are there more money to be made elsewhere?
  • How do you decide to use Adsense or create products?