The month is not over yet and I’m quite happy to see that my online business revenue is the highest ever!

Last month I’ve had also the best month so far, but considering the whopping 38% increase I see in November, I have to be happier than ever before with my online ventures.

I won’t be disclaiming any ammounts until the end of the year, but expect me to put down some numbers as soon as I have my 2008 online business budget ready!

Do you have your own online business budget? Do you create one?

Well, you should, at least if you’re taking this business seriously. It’s like running a company, you must keep track of your income and your expenses.

During December I’ll try to make my online business budget public, for now I just leave you with this idea.

Get a piece of paper, excel, Google Docs, whatever and starting categorizing your expenses and income.

From the top of my head I remember the major numbers:

Expenses:

• Hosting (remember to check if your hosting is enough or if somehow you need a larger number of servers, or hosting accounts)
• Advertising
• Link Buiding
• Design (include both new pages, websites and banners)
• Writers (if you outsource your article and post writing, remember to check if you’ll need more or less writers)

Income:

• Direct Product Sales
• Affiliate Product Sales (include programs like Clickbank, Chitika, Comission Junction and others)
• Advertising (include programs like Google Adsense, Valueclick Media, AdBrite, ZangoCash and many others)
• Direct ad Sales
• Link Sales
• Subscriptions
• Other Services you provide (writing services, design)

This is really nothing very new that I’m telling you, but trust me, most people don’t do it. In fact 99% of webmasters don’t, the other 1% are probably the ones that take this seriously and really profit from this business.

To be 100% honest with you I’ve never done it before either, but I intend to do it for 2008 (in fact I have already started).

I ain’t gonna split all my sites (over 80 atm) 1 by 1 and start budgeting $100 sites, I’ll do it globally and maybe create a budget for the major categories. (vehicles, travel, celebrities, gaming)

Keep in touch! I’ll have more updates really soon.

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Google has announced a few hours ago that adsense will go mobile!

This is fantastic news for all the webmasters that run or plan to run websites specially designed for the mobile market.

Adsense is probably the best and most profitable PPC plan one can join, and I can now imagine how all this will work, considering the rumours about the GPhone and other mobile devices everyone is expecting from Google.

Adsense for mobile will be available in a few weeks in 13 countries - England, Italy, France, Spain, Ireland, Russia, Germany, Netherlands, India, Australia, China, Japan and of course USA.

Since mobile advertising is expected to grow from $3 billion at the end of 2007 to $19 billion at the end of 2011, you’d better grab your spot and start working quickly, as the trend is there and the trend is typically your friend.

I’ll announce more details on adsense for mobile as soon as I put my hands on them.

More information can be found at: http://adsense.blogspot.com/2007/09/here-comes-mobile.html

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After using AdSense for a while you must have begun to ask yourself if there’s anything you could do to improve your AdSense based earnings. But before you go on experimenting with this and that setup you have to realize a couple of things about positioning.

The first thing you should know is that there is no universal position that is guaranteed to improve your earnings. That being said, the part above about experimenting is meant to be taken literally. You have to try as many setups as you can to find the solution with the greatest benefit. Continue Reading »

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If you’re using AdWords or AdSense you must have heard about an emerging practice in the underworld of computing called “click fraud”. But what exactly is click fraud and how is it accomplished?

Well AdSense uses a payment mechanism that awards a certain amount of money to a publisher (someone who holds an AdSense banner on their page) every time a person clicks on the said banner. So click fraud is the attempt to have people clicking the ads just so that they can earn a greater income.

There are people setting up sites for the sole purpose of fraudulently generating revenue through Google’s AdSense program. These users achieve an incredible number of clicks through many methods, some complex and sophisticated and some rudimentary and simple. Continue Reading »

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Adsense is really making a huge impact on the affiliate marketing industry nowadays. Because of this, weak affiliate merchants have the tendency to die faster than ever and ad networks will be going to lose their customers quickly.
If you are in a losing rather than winning in the affiliate program you are currently into, maybe it is about time to consider going into the Adsense marketing and start earning some real cash.

Google is readily providing well written and highly relevant ads that are closely chosen to match the content on your pages. You do not have to look for them yourselves as the search engine will be the doing the searching for you from other people’s source.

You do not have to spend time in choosing different kind of ads for different pages. And no codes to mess around for different affiliate programs.

You will be able to concentrate on providing good and quality content, as the search engines will be the ones finding the best ads in which to put your pages on.

You are still allowed to add Adsense ads even if you already have affiliate links on your site. It is prohibited, however, to imitate the look and feel of the Google ads for your affiliate links.

You can filter up to 200 URLs. That gives you a chance to block ads for the sites that do not meet your guidelines. You can also block competitors. Though it is unavoidable that Adsense may be competing for some space on web sites that all other revenues are sharing.

Owners of small sites are allowed to plug a bit of a code into their sites and instantly have relevant text ads that appeal to your visitors appear instantly into your pages. If you own many sites, you only need to apply once. It makes up for having to apply to many affiliate programs.

The only way to know how much you are already earning is to try and see. If you want out, all you have to do is remove the code from your site.

The payment rates can vary extremely. The payment you will be receiving per click depends on how much advertisers are paying per click to advertise with the use of the AdWords. Advertisers can pay as little as 5 cents and as high as $10-12, sometimes even more than that too. You are earning a share of that money generated.

If your results remain stagnant, it can help if you try and build simple and uncluttered pages so that the ads can catch the visitor’s eyes more. It sometimes pay to differ from the usual things that people are doing already. It is also a refreshing sight for your visitor once they see something different for a change.

Publishers also have the option of choosing to have their ads displayed only on a certain site or sites. It is also allowed to have them displayed on a large network of sites. The choice would be depending on what you think will work best for your advantage.

To get an idea if some Adsense ads you see on the search engines has your pages, try to find web pages that have similar material to the content you are planning to create and look up their Adsense ads.

It is important to note that you cannot choose certain topics only. If you do this, search engines will not place Adsense ads on your site and you will be missing out a great opportunity in making hundreds and even thousands of dollars cash.

It is still wise to look at other people’s information and format your Adsense there. Just think about it as doing yourself a favor by not having to work too hard to know what content to have.

Topic to be avoided includes gambling, firearms, ammunition, tobacco or drugs. If you are being offered more cash in exchange of doing Adsense with these kinds, it is just like signing your own termination paper.

With all the information that people need in your hands already, all you have to do is turn them as your profits. It all boils down to a gain and gain situation both for the content site owners and the webmasters or publishers.

Make other people’s matter your own and starting earning some extra cash.

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