☞☞How to Qualify for Google Adsense (Part II)

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Those sites that exist for sales of their own product or service absolutely SHOULD NOT participate in Adsense contextual advertising because their site content will always show Adsense advertising for competitors! That's the part that strikes me the most. Why would you give away your potential costumer for just a couple of cents? Hm..

While Google has a filtering method that allows those showing Adsense ads to keep direct competitors advertisements from appearing on their site, that method would filter most of those advertisements and leave those sites with no ads at all! When all of your content is about what you sell, you should probably keep your attention focused on those sales and off of contextual ads.

Who should participate in Google Adsense then? Content sites - that is those that see themselves as sort of online magazine that discusses, analyzes, comments, reviews or editorializes. Those who have extensive CONtent, not those who are conTENT.

A client contacted me recently after hearing of the Google Adsense program. He has about three articles on his web site that discuss and analyze issues of interest to those who might buy his products. He'd done his homework by reviewing his site visitor statistics and had discovered that those articles were responsible for the majority of referrals to his site from the search engines. I basked in the warm glow of his praise as he excitedly told me how these pages (that I had recommended he add to his site) were drawing fully a third of his web site traffic!

It always pleases me when clients see the positive results of implementing strategies that I've recommended to them. These pages increased traffic and sales of his products.

This client then leapt to the conclusion that if those articles were drawing most of his search engine traffic, then we should place the Google Adsense code on those pages and capitalize on that traffic with contextual advertising!

I had to let him down easily, explaining that three articles don't constitute significant content. When he asked me what WOULD constitute substantial enough content to qualify for the Adsense program, it made me stop and think.

My answer to him is likely to dismay many web site owners who believe their site might qualify for contextual advertising. After a brief pause, I responded that I thought it would take about fifty articles of 500 words or more to qualify for Adsense advertising.

As he silently digested that admittedly daunting number, it was suddenly crystal clear to me why so many web site owners that don't write, don't qualify for Google Adsense. Web site owners that do write their own articles, opinions and analysis on subject matter that is important to them will have that much content on their site already. My client had struggled for weeks to research, distill and edit his thoughts into those three articles on his site.
During that pregnant pause, I digested the ramifications of my own words, my client gave up immediately and said simply, "I can never write that many articles, so I'll never qualify for contextual advertising on my web site.

Oh, you may not write, but you are wrong about qualifying for contextual advertising-if you really want to. And, by the way, your search engine ranking will go through the roof if you reproduce 50 articles on that topic on your web site. On top of that, your web site traffic will increase dramatically, your sales will go up and you will qualify easily for Google Adsense.

He paused as if I had spoken to him in a foreign language and said, "If I don't write those articles to put on my site, who will?"

I immediately responded with my favorite sources for free web content, one of which I've operated myself for nearly four years.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aabusiness/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/free-content/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/article_announce/

There are also literally hundreds of web sites that collect and distribute articles. Their policies and practices vary widely so I'll leave it to you to find those appropriate to your site subject matter, but here a few that immediately come to mind.
Publish101 GoArticles
MakingProfit
Amazines/
IdeaMarketers

Web publishers and authors regularly join these lists to exchange content on popular topics. Writers make their articles available to ezine, newsletter and web site publishers in exchange for that publisher running a small bio at the end of their article with a link to the authors web site. This exchange offers value to both parties. The publisher gains content, the writer gains a web link and that link increases her visibility and her web site search engine ranking goes up due to link popularity.

The content is out there, you simply need to gather it, publish it and then apply to Google Adsense for contextual advertising. You are benefitting those authors by linking to them, your search engine ranking by increasing your own site content and relevance, and finally your bankbook by qualifying for contextual advertising and making all of that content pay.

Don't be conTENT, have CONtent! Then apply for Google Adsense.http://google.com/adsense/

Usefull Links:
Michael Cheneys AdSense Videos - Step-by-step AdSense Videos.
Wordpress Adsense System : Blogging For Profits - EBook(R) Reveals How To Set-up And Optimize Your Wordpress Blogs To Create Profitable Niche Google Adsense Websites.
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