Countless Internet website owners use Adsense to monetize their websites, earning hundreds and even thousands of dollars monthly. Because Adsense is owned by Google, it is the most popular advertising network on the web. When webmasters consider placing ads on their websites, Adsense is often the first network that comes to mind because of its popularity. While the Adsense network is a great way to generate website profits, it is important for website owners to become knowledgeable about the other ad networks online.

If your application was not accepted by the Google Adsense program or if your website was suddenly banned from using Google’s advertising network, here are the top 10 Adsense alternatives that many website owners use to generate monetize their websites (in no particular order):

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What makes a good post headline? The best headline is one that attracts most readers. In order to grab attention you first have to know what your readers respond to. What makes them tick. What they like or dislike.

One way to do that is of course to see what other successful blogs in your niche do, what headlines get most readers and comments. Then use those ideas on your blog as well.

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This is a guest post by Daniela Baker

As technology advances, so does the Internet marketing industry. Each year, our tools are becoming increasingly better, allowing us to zero in on our prime marketing targets so we can improve our ROI while continuing to tighten our budget. This is especially true with the advent of behavioral targeting.

Behavioral targeting is no longer a thing of the future. It’s actively being used by thousands of online marketers. The practice took off in 2007, as shown by Google Insights keyword statistics. And back in 2009, already nearly a quarter of online marketers reported utilizing the method for their online advertising, as reported by Internet Retailer. More recently, Internet Retailer reported that nearly 50 percent of small businesses responding to a survey indicated behavioral targeting techniques have increased conversion rates.

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There are plenty of experts that will tell you why you should do keyword research for every blog post you make. You get better SEO, they say, more potential search engine traffic, and what not.

But let me ask you something. Is it fun to research keywords when you just want to make a post? If it’s fun to you then disregard this post. But if you’re anything like me, you hate doing keyword research when you just want to have fun blogging. But how big is the sin of ignoring SEO when making blog posts?

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Everyone talks about how cool the Facebook comments plug-in is and what viral opportunities it opens for bloggers. Add the plug-in and when people comment on your blog their status is updated and their friends see that they’ve commented on your blog. Those friends would then follow through to your blog, comment on it as well, and then the friends of friends would see it, and so on and so forth.

Sounds great but what do have you to lose? Well, how about all of your blog’s comments?

Did you know that…
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The other day I talked about SEO friendly URLs, but there’s also the other side of the coin – the efficiency of WordPress permalinks.

The default permalink structure, /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/, is often replaced by bloggers with /%category%/%postname%/ or just /%postname%/ due to various assumptions, such as that it’s more SEO or user friendly. But the way WordPress works, affects the performance and under certain circumstances (a large number of posts) it can become a problem. That is because of the way WP finds the post in the database.

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The top buzz word for the past couple of months is “Panda”. Google did it again. And the web world reacts passionately, as usual. Many an “expert” is using it to get attention, what with their doomsday proclaiming and solutions to the problem.

No doubt, those who have been hit by the update feel bad and take it very seriously. Others rejoice in their newly found traffic, and yet others are indifferent.

What does Panda mean to blogging, though. How does it affect your blog and what should you do to prevent any possible penalties?

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There are always debates on various forums and blogs about what URL is an SEO friendly URL. In other words, what permalink format should your blog have to get the best SEO results.

In turn, there are a lot of misconceptions and myths around the subject. Some “experts” say your blog should have /%category%/%postname%/ format as the best optimized URL format. Others say it’s /%postname%/. And yet others say you should never have dates or IDs in the URL.

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Whatever goal you have it’s always worth breaking it down into simple actionable steps. It just adds that necessary clarity to it. It’s always easier to tick off tasks in a to-do list than contemplate big goals and trying to figure out what you need to do today to move closer to achieving it.

So how can we break down blogging into steps? What does it take to make your blog succeed?

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This is a guest post by Sachin

SEO isn’t just about search engines. It’s about the ability of search engines to access your content. It really is that important. Search engine optimization is really about making yourself and your website materials findable. Despite the almost infinite amounts of information available about SEO online, there’s nothing “mystic” about this process.

Search engines, basics

Search engines are basically live databases. To operate a database, you need structure and organize data you also need structure. These structures are used by search engines to produce search results. Obviously, the more search engine friendly your website is, and the better organized your data and keywords, the more accessible to a search engine your website will be.

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