Yieldbuild to Help Adsense Users Increase Their Earnings
Techcrunch recently posted an article about a new program that is still in beta called YieldBuild. What is it exactly? Its a computer algorithm to “automatically optimize your site’s ad spots with the most profitable combination of ad layout, style, and network”. Also the program isn’t just for Adsense users, but includes people who advertise via Yahoo Publisher Network, and Ebay adContext accounts as well.
How does this relate to me making money online? Basically its the lazy man’s advertising network, and needless to say an idea that I absolutely love. This program itself would give bloggers or other webmasters, who are still new to advertising placements, the ability to monetize their sites better. It also allows webmasters who don’t update their layouts often a little change of scenery in ad placements. The idea is that as your readers get used to your ad placements, your ad revenue goes down as they learn to skip over your ads without reading them anymore. With changing of placements they claim to be able to increase your epm by 50-100%(this percentage based on beta trials at Hubpages).
One concern of mine which I did leave a comment about was the part of faq that states that it takes the YieldBuild algorithm about 100,000 impressions to train it. That is an awful lot of page impressions for many webmasters, especially new ones like mine.
Now whats the catch of this program? I’ll tell you now. “YieldBuild is free to try for 30 days. After 30 days, YieldBuilds share is 3% of impressions. You can stop at any time.” If you are interested in participating in the beta program go ahead, and visit their website YieldBuild.com. Let me know what you think about it if you do use it so we can get some feedback about their product.
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Bye Bye BlogRush – No Hits For You
So after accumulating a bit of credits on Blogrush, and only getting maybe 2 hits in return I’ll be taking down the widget shortly. I even made them a complementary going away present with my 2nd grade MS paint skills.
Here’s the latest word about Blogrush’s update from the Blogrush Blog:
UPDATE: Tuesday, October 16th: We’re experiencing a delay with some minor server issues. We are working on them and will start releasing Phase 2 piece-by-piece very soon. Thanks for your patience.
So long, and thank you for all the fish. (from Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy if you didn’t catch that.)
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Whypark Day Day 30 – Adsense Revenue Slowing Down?
Well I have good news, and bad news about my Whypark trial site. The good news is that I now have about 800 pages indexed, with a little bit of extra traffic trickling in. More traffic means more chances for people to click on some ads, which also happened to be part of the good news.
However the bad news is that the revenue from each click has gone down significantly compared to September. I got worried about that, and checked around to find out that I wasn’t alone. It seems like this month there are many people who are complaining or noticing a substantial drop in Adsense revenue. I have more clicks into this month from the site, but haven’t even hit $1. Has anyone else noticed a decrease in Adsense revenue for this month as well? My sites are all too new to make any determination.
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Whypark Day 19 – Type of Searches I’m Ranked Top In
Its day 19 of the Whypark trial, and I’ve been checking out Google’s webmaster tools to see what type of searches my site ranks in. Also including from Statcounter what type of keywords are showing up to get to my site.
So after 19 days of being indexed
Rank 9: problems filling your car with gas
Rank 10: succession plans private equity
Rank 30: what to do when your girlfriend is broke and needs money
Interesting searches, and I have to note that I’m not sure how they are related to the keywords I put in. I also want to point out that the money that the Adsense revenue shows different keywords from Statcounter.
Rank Search
| #10 | how much money do car dealers make | ||
| #10 | how much should a dealer come off msrp | ||
| #7 | www.how much will it cost | ||
| #8 | talentdrive scam | ||
| #? | promoting your grocery store | ||
| #9 | do i replace the whole toilet | ||
| #? | key to a successful entrepreneurial venture |
Please note that these results are from using articles that are pretty broad. If one were to setup a niche site with targeted keywords, you would definitely do better with the Click Through Rate(CTR) on the ads. I’m not complaining though so far with what little traffic I’ve gotten Its been averaging around 3-4% CTR.
I’m not sure how your parked domain is doing, but if these stats sound better that what your making from sedo/namedrive etc try out Whypark for yourself and see the difference.
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Whypark Day 15 – My First Dollar Earned From Adsense
Well today I’m just following up on my post about setting up Whypark on my site. Today is day 15 on the Whypark test, and I can say that I earned my first dollar from it. Google so far has indexed about 100+ pages so far, and still going. I’m not ranked on the first page of any keywords yet, but I picked some pretty broad terms like ‘money’.
The visitor experience? I have Stat counter installed so I was able to see the what keywords this person came in from. Apparently this visitor found a page that was newly indexed so it ranked fairly high in Google for ‘Entrepreneur‘. After that the visitor moved on to read about 6 more articles on the website before clicking on an ad to exit the site. Overall time spent on site was about 4 minutes. So far so good, and I hope to be bringing more good news as time goes on.
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