I like creating websites. And I like making money from my websites and telling people how I do it. Until now I have shared posts relating to this on Pingable. From this point forward I will no longer have posts about making money online on here, I will put them on my new site Make Money Online, which is a site dedicated to this topic, with a particular focus on things relevant to New Zealanders. Small market I know… but a nice domain I think.

The focus of Pingable will now primarily be on creating information and resources for Web Developers and Designers. If the stuff about making money is more to your interest jump over to Make Money online, and subscribe. If you want more lists, resources, and content for web design in particular WordPress, then here is the place to be.

Some interesting stats about this blog:

I am in the Alexa top 100,000 sites for the first time…and I achieved this by posting only once a month for the last few months. My rank is 86,000 right now.

I have passed 50,000 spam messages on this blog. Do follow blogs are fun aren’t they? At the same time I have had just over 1200 legit comments.

My post 25 Amazing Free Photoshop Graphics has been viewed more than 31,000 times. A record for me.

Cheers for reading.

This is a basic Adsense tutorial for beginners. I have added it as a video on Youtube. The full text from the video is below.

So you’re only making a few cents a day from Adsense and you don’t know why?

What are the biggest mistakes?

1. Not having a defined niche

Adsense clicks pay out based on keywords relating to your content – if it isn’t clear what keywords relate – you won’t make money.

2. The wrong traffic

Visitors from social sites don’t click ads. Visitors from search engines do.

3. Not researching your keywords

You must research keywords if you don’t want to leave your search engine traffic up to luck.

4. Not having unique content on your sites.
5. Poor ad positioning

Get your Adsense ads in front of your readers’ eyes if you want to make money.

What can you do to get more search traffic?

1. Pick higher traffic, lower competition keywords in higher paying niches.

Yes…yes, it’s easier said than done…but research!

2. Get anchored backlinks to your content .i.e links that have your keywords in the hyperlink.
3. Write content optimized for those keywords .i.e. have your keyword in the title.

New content about Making Money Online is now on my new Blog Make Money Online.