A high traffic web hosting plan is a plan that offers a very large amount of bandwidth and disk space and is suited for very busy sites where a lot of data is being added and retrieved.
A site with a lot of videos or high resolution photographs or a very active forum where messages are being posted all day long are prefect examples of web sites that could benefit from a high traffic hosting plan.
A hosting plan with high allowance for space and bandwidth will also prevent that shock of logging on to your web site and realizing that your site has been suspended for going for a bandwidth limit.
If that happens you either have to upgrade your account or pay extra to get the site online again or wait until a new month begins. Either way, visitors to your site will be turned off and may never return if they see your site is down.
What sites are appropriate for a high traffic plan?
A site offering videos or high resolution photos.
A very active message forum
Any site that with a large number of daily visitors and pageviews
Any combination of the above!
Friday, December 4, 2009
Simple Changes Doubled My Adsense Revenue
Several simple changes in my Adsense approach and layout have almost doubled my blog’s revenue. The results were so drastic and eye opening that I convinced a friend (www.oneprojectcloser.com) to make the same changes to his blog with even better results. The changes involve two simple ideas that can be easily incorporated into any Adsense monetized website or blog.
I’ve been blogging for over two years now and growing traffic, authority and readership slow and steady. Along with the steady increase in traffic the site has continued to increase it’s Adsense revenue at a similar pace with no sudden increases regardless of all the changes and adjustments I’ve made. That was true until I took the time to study many different published Adsense approaches. As I read all of these different approaches three distinct ideas came to the forefront.
Three Important Adsense Approaches
Less is More – This concept is really simple yet I hadn’t really given it much thought before. First off the top ad is the highest paying ad and you want that in the best possible position.
Secondly, if you’re using all three of the allotted Adsense units on a given page then there are quite a few ads all competing for attention or a click through. However, if you only use one Adsense unit then you’re limiting the number of ads served and improving the likelihood that one of those ads will get clicked. Therefore, the theory is that an advertiser will be willing to pay a higher rate for less competition.
Size Matters – If you read enough Adsense guides you’ll find that the 336 x 280 Large Rectangle is the most effective Adsense unit. It typically offers four ads and they are likely to be very related to the topic based on the position between the post title and body.
Position, Position, Position – Placing your Adsense unit above the fold is imperative for success. This makes sense to me for one reason. Every day my site (and I assume most sites) gets a majority of it’s traffic from search engines. This traffic is generated from people searching for something. So when they land on my page and they decide that it’s not the content they were looking for then I want them to see the Adsense unit right where they land so that becomes an “outclick” option.
How I Doubled My Adsense Revenue
In order to understand the approach I used to double my Adsense revenue I’ll use two graphics that show the same post before the changes and after the changes. First – the before shot:
My Old Adsense Layout Included:
468 x 60 Text Only Unit located in the header area of my page.
468 x 60 Text Only Unit located between the post title and the body of the post.
468 x 60 Text Only Unit located at the end of the post before the comment section.
Revised Adsense Layout Includes:
Remove the old 468 x 60 Text Only Unit completely and replaced with an affiliate banner. The idea here is to remove some of the units in order to address concept #1 of Less is More.
Replace the old 468 x 60 Text Only Unit with the 336 x 280 large rectangle unit. This unit is above the fold between the post title and body which makes it a very prominent position. This change addresses both of concept #2 and #3 for Size Matters and Position.
Remove the old 468 x 60 Text Only Unit completely. I actually replaced this with the new Chitika Jumbo unit which is also performing quite well. Again the removal helps address the Less is More concept.
I’ve been blogging for over two years now and growing traffic, authority and readership slow and steady. Along with the steady increase in traffic the site has continued to increase it’s Adsense revenue at a similar pace with no sudden increases regardless of all the changes and adjustments I’ve made. That was true until I took the time to study many different published Adsense approaches. As I read all of these different approaches three distinct ideas came to the forefront.
Three Important Adsense Approaches
Less is More – This concept is really simple yet I hadn’t really given it much thought before. First off the top ad is the highest paying ad and you want that in the best possible position.
Secondly, if you’re using all three of the allotted Adsense units on a given page then there are quite a few ads all competing for attention or a click through. However, if you only use one Adsense unit then you’re limiting the number of ads served and improving the likelihood that one of those ads will get clicked. Therefore, the theory is that an advertiser will be willing to pay a higher rate for less competition.
Size Matters – If you read enough Adsense guides you’ll find that the 336 x 280 Large Rectangle is the most effective Adsense unit. It typically offers four ads and they are likely to be very related to the topic based on the position between the post title and body.
Position, Position, Position – Placing your Adsense unit above the fold is imperative for success. This makes sense to me for one reason. Every day my site (and I assume most sites) gets a majority of it’s traffic from search engines. This traffic is generated from people searching for something. So when they land on my page and they decide that it’s not the content they were looking for then I want them to see the Adsense unit right where they land so that becomes an “outclick” option.
How I Doubled My Adsense Revenue
In order to understand the approach I used to double my Adsense revenue I’ll use two graphics that show the same post before the changes and after the changes. First – the before shot:
My Old Adsense Layout Included:
468 x 60 Text Only Unit located in the header area of my page.
468 x 60 Text Only Unit located between the post title and the body of the post.
468 x 60 Text Only Unit located at the end of the post before the comment section.
Revised Adsense Layout Includes:
Remove the old 468 x 60 Text Only Unit completely and replaced with an affiliate banner. The idea here is to remove some of the units in order to address concept #1 of Less is More.
Replace the old 468 x 60 Text Only Unit with the 336 x 280 large rectangle unit. This unit is above the fold between the post title and body which makes it a very prominent position. This change addresses both of concept #2 and #3 for Size Matters and Position.
Remove the old 468 x 60 Text Only Unit completely. I actually replaced this with the new Chitika Jumbo unit which is also performing quite well. Again the removal helps address the Less is More concept.
Thursday, December 3, 2009
How to increase traffic to my website
1) Content is king. This is the main key point in getting traffic to your website. If the content you are providing through your website is original ,unique and framed well then no body can stop you from getting traffic to your website.
2) Trends in search engines : Keep an eye on what people are searching for on search engines. It needs a research for a few days. Analyse and plan about the topic on which you are going to create the content.
3)Improve your ranking. You need to create backlinks to your website.You should get backlinks from websites which are having higher page rank.This would help you in highering your page rank.
4)You page must be having a lot hyperlinks.Try to avoid pictures and divs for desiging. Use para and header tags.
5) Create more css friendly website. They are easily crawled by google.
6)Promote your website through ads and articles in good websites.
2) Trends in search engines : Keep an eye on what people are searching for on search engines. It needs a research for a few days. Analyse and plan about the topic on which you are going to create the content.
3)Improve your ranking. You need to create backlinks to your website.You should get backlinks from websites which are having higher page rank.This would help you in highering your page rank.
4)You page must be having a lot hyperlinks.Try to avoid pictures and divs for desiging. Use para and header tags.
5) Create more css friendly website. They are easily crawled by google.
6)Promote your website through ads and articles in good websites.
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