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Any experiences or legalities/technicalities with regards to adsense?
5 years ago, I clicked to receive clicks. No idea, thinking it might be a good way to show the products we sold at the time. Nobody bought. It was the wrong product in that instance, it would still be the wrong product for short terms agendas, in today's marketplace. But, not in long term.
At that time, I had a narrow agenda. Drive traffic today, that will buy today. For the product I was selling, it was a short term disaster. In that time in emarketing history, it was a long term disaster. If I sold that same product today, which I do not, I would do it again, knowing now, what I didn't know then, and wasn't applicable then ... and I would do it on a non-Adsense site. It is not about Adsense, it is about earnings, period, no matter what widget you sell, and how the income is generated.
Who is clicking to get clicks? Business owners. They own a website, want traffic, and click twice to get one click. In a good system, they can not put it on the task bar, and must click a button to get credit. If they are not viewing the page, they can't get credit, and the page has been shown for 30 seconds. That is a 30 second shot to convince that webmaster you have something they need to look at. (had I been known that then, I WOULD already be retired)
Are you going to tell me that business owners do not buy for their business, themselves, or their family? They are very much a target market, and you can target them, personally and b2b, and convert them to sales, for almost ANY product or service. They are for the most part, the most valuable target market on the web... they have money, no matter what country they come from. We heavily target over 25 countries, which is obvious by browsing our website. Our clients target over 100. We get visitors from over 100. When I was in the product business, I shipped around the world, and some of my best customers were from non-english speaking nations. I used translator programs to close deals. To date, I still have visitors coming to the site via a translator program. I don't turn my nose up at them, I embrace them.
I am about to retire. Not today, not this month, not this year, but soon, and I have no heirs. I must sell this business at some point in time. I come to WW. Here, there is NOBODY who comes here to shop. They come to learn, to share, and kill some time ... anything but shop... there is NOTHING to buy here. This is not a shopping edestination.
However, I could jokingly post here that I am retiring, and that I would take any 'reasonable offer' for my Adsense website that earns $2000 a month (hypothetically), with 25%-50% natural growth each month, and I would be flooded with people wanting to make me a 'reasonable offer'. These would be people who have money, and just haven't been able to use their money to make a nice income at Adsense, and would take the fastlane to full-time income. (don't email me - I'm not selling)
How do I know? Because I have seen posts here where webmasters did just that, to another WW user. They jokingly alluded to the fact that they had an Adsense site making money, OT , and buyers lined up.
It is a matter of having a product of interest to the people who visit your website, no matter who they are, and how they got there, and presenting in a way that makes it hard to pass it up. You CAN convert anyone, if you know how to market the product, as long as you are dealing with a human.
Sarcastic comments about particular nations, in a heavily multi-nation forum, such as WW, is very poor business behavior. If you want to think it, nobody can stop you. To say it an international marketplace, is uncalled for.
"A bright person thinks garbage and quickly forgets, what an idiot passes even quicker, through their lips."
You do not get instant results. The results of any traffic, in large volumn, from any number of providers, will all 'work' for any website that is 'marginal' or 'weak', and it is noticable, long term. The only problem with this long term developed plan is finding a provider who can reliably and consistently provide large volumns of human traffic. Once you accomplish that, you sit back and let time work the magic.
As I've said before. The problem is not giving it enough time. The average webmaster quits buying traffic, calls it a failure, right before the positive results would be noticeable. He wants instant ROI. The ROI is not instant. You don't look at the daily and weekly revenue. The resulting revenue increase you are looking for, is not there. You plant the seed today, for example, to increase revenue in September. It requires patience.
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In all honesty, it requires a brain. You have to be able to use yours to watch every level of statistics related to your site, diligently, and come to logical conclusions. You have to be able to notice trends, even when they are weak initially. You have to know all the tools that exist to help you, use them, and use them correctly. You have to understand all the concepts that relate to your traffic, and why things happen, as they do.
Otherwise, I would bet, you would see success, have no idea at all how it happened, and that is dangerous. It means success can slip right through your fingers, and you will be back to square one, only much more broken emotionally.
I could give a crack head a million dollars today. Within a year he will be flat broke. You have to know how to maintain success. That is far more important than initially achieving it.
I'm just throwing a few breadcrumbs on the trail here, not handing you a full loaf of bread at the start. Follow them and see where the trail takes you, learning along the way.
However, there are reputable places to buy traffic. Admittedly, it is hard to tell the bad ones from the good. Mostly, because there are so many bad ones and only a few good ones.
The best one have I have found is Microsoft Small Business.
[microsoft.com...]
The prices are reasonable. They have excellent support. But most importantly, you know they aren't sending fake traffic.
Hope it helps.
Ann
If you decide to use a traffic-generating service, I recommend exercising caution to ensure that you do not violate the AdSense ToS. You should also be careful not to inadvertently disclose sensitive personal information or information about your site through the use of such services.
-ASA
I read your messages and it is really great. I appreciate for sharing your thoughts. I would like to know from which website I should buy traffic? There are hundreds of websites. I sent millions of optin emails from a website but not much of luck. Please share the website names so that I can try.
regards,
paul
I sent millions of optin emails from a website but not much of luck.
millions of optin emails? I'm intrigued? You're not one of those people are you? If so I have some friends with very large, friendly but hungry dogs who positively love canned luncheon meat who would be very happy to visit your place of residence unbidden, but purely on an optin basis, of course.
Please share the website names so that I can try.
the website does not have adsensse in it. I used optin email for my other website but no luck at all.
paul
