How to maximize your Google Adsense earnings?

Why do you need to maximize your Adsense earnings? Why should you care about multiple sources of income? Why bother about creating sister articles?

These are the most important questions that will ultimately lead you to a successful earning stream, but only when you find the right answers for them. Just like you work part-time on multiple places to gain every extra penny that you can, you must also work for other websites, who pay via Adsense to maximize your overall earnings. So… let’s discuss about it… list style.

 

• Adsense has a payout limit (without self-holds) of $100, which cannot be attained very easily or sitting idly. You need to work more for generating visitors who would finally click on your Google Adsense ads and help you generate some revenue.

• I have been working with HubPages for the last six months and last month (February 2011), I generated $181 from HubPages alone. This is well over the payout limit, but still not enough to make a living.

• Now… potential of HubPages is very great but you can’t just sit on your butt and hope for a fortune via HubPages. You need to diversify! That is what many top business man would say to what we are discussing here.

• So… apart from HubPages, there are some other article publishing websites who pay through Google Adsense, thereby making more revenue in your Adsense account.

• What this will do is other sites will also display your content for the same time (while HubPages is doing the same). Some sites pay 100% Adsense revenue and allow publishing the same content that you have published elsewhere. However, do not try this on those sites whose publishing policies are strict and allow only original and unique content.

• Here are some websites to start with:

• Triond - Publish Writing, Poetry, Music, Video & Content Online
  Triond publishes user generated content on a network of websites, enabling users to reach a wider audience, gain more recognition and earn more revenue.
• Bukisa - Share your Knowledge
  Bukisa - Share your Knowledge - How To Guides, Tips & Instructions & Invite your Friends to join.
• InfoBarrel - Crowdsourcing Information | Earn Money Writing
• Xomba : A Writing Community
  Xomba is a writing community where you can post your own original content, network with other writers and get paid to write.
• SHE TOLD ME : NEW STORIES EVERY DAY! - DIGG-LIKE 100% ADSENSE SHARING REVENUE
  She Told Me is a Digg-like with a 100% AdSense Revenue Sharing program.
• ShoutMeLoud Blogging | Make Money Online|Wordpress|SEO
  Make Money Online, wordpress, seo, tips and tricks.
• Squidoo : Welcome to Squidoo
  The popular (free) site for creating single webpages on your interests and recommendations.

1. Triond – 150 word limit – pays through PayPal and Adsense - $0.5 minimum payout (for PayPal account)
2. Bukisa – 250 word limit – pays through Adsense – When $100 accumulates in your Adsense account (in total, means if you work for blog and HubPages, etc., and earn Adsense revenue from them as well).
3. Infobarrels – 400 word limit – Adsense – Total $100 in Adsense account – Very reputed with strict publishing guidelines – High Visibility.
4. Xomba – 100 words Xomblurbs (bookmarks) and 200 words articles – pays via Adsense - $100 in Adsense account
5. Shetoldme – Bookmarking website – 50 word limit – 100% revenue share – pays via Adsense - $100 in Adsense account
6. Shoutmeloud – No word limit (but 200 would be nice) – 100% revenue share – pays via Adsense - $100 in Adsense account
7. Squidoo – No word limit – pays via PayPal - $1 minimum payout (PayPal account)

 

• You don’t have to work very hard on these websites, just two or three articles a week should be enough. You can post bookmarking articles on Shetoldme and Xomba as soon as you publish your original articles on HubPages, Infobarrels, Triond, Bukisa and Squidoo, separately.

• It may seem a lot of work but your efforts will not be in vain. I also mentioned some PayPal paying websites, because sometimes your Google Adsense’s check takes a little too much time to arrive. However, these websites pay instantly in your PayPal account and then, you can withdraw funds from PayPal in two days in your bank account or your credit card (that you have attached with Paypal).

• So… give them a try and see if it works out for you. What I mean is carry them along with you for a couple of months and drop those who don’t perform great for you and keep only two or three websites to work with. This way, there would be no pressure to work on tens of sites and you would publish articles at your ease.

Connect with your website visitors on Yahoo! Messenger Pingbox

One of our lesser known but very useful products is the Yahoo! Messenger Pingbox. With a copy and paste of some code, you can embed a chat window into your website, blog or social networking page. Then when visitors come to your page, they can see when you’re online and initiate a private IM conversation with you.

My friend Jim has a Pingbox on his neighborhood blog. While he’s on Yahoo! Messenger all day, his status says “Available” in his Pingbox. When visitors come to his site, he can see the counter change next to the Pingbox in his contact list. If someone wants to chat with him, they simply start typing in the Pingbox on the website, which in turn opens up a new IM conversation for Jim. His visitors can remain anonymous or give themselves a nickname while they chat.

One of the greatest things about Pingbox is that there is no need for anyone to know your Yahoo! ID or for you to know theirs. In fact visitors to your site don’t even need a Yahoo! ID to start chatting with you. You can also turn your Pingbox on or off right from your Yahoo! Messenger 10 contact list, so if you find you’re being interrupted too often by chatty visitors, you can go dark for awhile.

Jim says one of the things he really likes is that when he hovers on the Pingbox visitors in his contact list, it will show him what page on his site that visitor is on. But mostly he likes to see the number of people that are passing through his site all day and be available to them. He says he’s gotten some good tips about neighborhood stories from his Pingbox chats.

If you have your own blog, website or social networking page, it’s easy to add a Pingbox.Just visit the Yahoo! Messenger Pingbox Studio and click the “Create a Pingbox” button. You can customize your background, text size, display name, and whether or not you want to show your display image. You can even put in a custom message that users will see in the Pingbox when you’re online, or when you’re offline. Once you’re done, you’ll receive some code that you can copy and paste into your site.

Then just login to Yahoo! Messenger using the same Yahoo! ID under which you created your Pingbox and voila – you’ll see a new group in your contact list and if you have visitors, a count next to the group name. Note that in order to appear online and receive messages from your Pingbox, you need to be signed in to Yahoo! Messenger 10 or Yahoo! Messenger for Mac. However unlike version 10, the Mac version does not display your Pingbox visitors in your contact list.

Do you use a Pingbox on your website, blog or social networking page (e.g. Facebook, MySpace)? Tell us about your experience in the comments.