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If you have been following me for some time now, then you should have noticed that i am a guy that likes to experiment and commit mistakes.

It is how we learn right? At least that’s what i hope. lol

Well, i have a forum with over 1000 members and a very decent traffic count each day.

I am using Simple Machines to power the forum and i was using the version 1.1.4 with a great looking template with ads very well placed, specially the adsense link units.

I arrived from camping yesterday, but i was so tired from the 8h trip that i fell a sleep.

Every year, all student nurses, and nurses from the all country gather to do what we call the National encounter of nursing students. This was my second one, and this time the weather didn’t helped. IT rained all the 5 days, and the sun only appeared for a few hours, but i still managed to go to the beach and get a sun burn! ouch! lol

The worst part, beside the bad weather, was the trip… 8h to arrive my destiny, and i had to took 3 different transports.. really boring….

If you haven’t heard, and if you use google adsense, then you must know that google changed the adsense TOS. Now, all publishers are required to have a privacy policy. And many of you will search for a free privacy policy generator. I sure did searched :p

Here is a short paragraph regarding this:

“You must have and abide by an appropriate privacy policy that clearly discloses that third parties may be placing and reading cookies on your users’ browser, or using web beacons to collect information, in the course of ads being served on your website. Your privacy policy should also include information about user options for cookie management.”

A few weeks ago i found an interesting post about “Anti marketing design“.

Anti marketing design are sites that use ugly designs, but manage to be very successful.

The example used was Plentyoffish.com, a site that makes more than $10000 each day with google adsense. According to the founder, Markus Frind , one of the main reasons of this success is exactly the ugly site design.

He evens gives examples of other ugly sites that are very successful such as myspace, craiglist, google.

Markus Frind says that sites with an ugly design tend to generate more revenue, build better brands, and are more fun to participate.

One thing that a webmaster needs to keep in mind is not to concentrate all his revenue sources. The key is to diversificate and experiment. If a webmaster concentrate for example on google adsense, someday he may have a really bad surprise with an email from google telling that his account was suspended…. From a day to another the only source he had was gone! Finding and making profitable the new source of income can be hard.

A long time ago, i have mentioned an opportunity to have free text advertsing like google adsense or bidvertiser on your blogs. I have been using adgridwork on this blog, but unfortunately, with poor results.

Let me show you:

As you can see i had almost 15000 displays of my ad on other websites, but only generated 15 clicks to my site! this represents a 0.07% CTR, it is very very low. IT’s a terrible waste of space in my honest opinion.

Although, i had poor results, it doesn’t mean it won’t work for you. You need totry, create a campaign with good words to cath the atention.

I decided to let you know what wordpress plugins im using in this blog.

1 – All in one SEO and Headspace 2 : these two plug ins allow you to turn your blog a little bit more friendly. Both help you creating tags for your post so that you can have your post easily spidered by search engines. Google indexes my post in a matter of an hour!

YOu can download them here:

All in one SEO

Headspace 2

I prefer Headspace2 but, the two complement wach other. I did a review of headspace here.

Google changed the area that users can click in the ads. Now, you can only click on the title or the address. the body not clickable now.

(credit for image: tolnetwork.com)

Is this any good? well, for advertisers it must be, the acidental clicks ratio will decrease substantially, and what about publishers? where, Tolnetwork, said, since google changed this, his results increased a lot.

What happened to your clicks? Have they increased or not?

Today im gonna mention Jim carter’s blog. Jim carter made last month $41900!!! This result is amazing!!! If i made $100 a month i would be astonished!! lol but with $41900 is more than an average portuguese makes in one month!

Also, Jim carter wants to cut down his google adsense earnings in his overall profit from all programs. he doesn’t want to depend that much on adsense. And i totally agree with him. I see many wemasters that the only source of revenue is google adsense, and if someday they have a bad surprise  a lot can be in jeopardy.

Finally, we can change the code directly from google adsense account! I tell you, this is one of the best moves that adsense made. Now it is a lot more simply to edit our codes. No more logging into our hosting account from our multiple websites, looking for the code that we needed to update. Now we can simply edit it directly from our adsense account.

Just make sure you name all the ad blocks you create so that you don’t get confused when you need to edit them, and if you have a lot of blocks.