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I'm so excited that I'm nearly crying!

Make sure your site has a newsletter!

         

spaceylacie

5:02 pm on May 17, 2005 (gmt 0)

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I feel like I'm pulling the lever on a slot machine as my Adsense stats are updated today!

I sent out my newsletter to over 20,000 subscribers today, they must be worth a lot to Google! My EPC on the online version of the newsletter is showing some of the largest numbers I've ever seen.

Anyone else have the same experience?

Never_again

5:18 pm on May 17, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Our eCPM is up 30% in the last seven days after dropping over 50% this spring. Yesterday we had our first $100 plus day in months. Its nice, but “ups and downs” are to be expected and we don’t worry to much about the swings. We keep our income sources well diversified.

dauction

5:19 pm on May 17, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Anyone else have the same experience?

Nope , your newsletter hasnt helped my adsense at all ..

:)

xxxxxpp

5:23 pm on May 17, 2005 (gmt 0)



yeah, you newslettre helped me neither.
I demand you put more work in it! :)

seriously now, congrats spaceylacie!

7_Driver

5:25 pm on May 17, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Very interesting findings spaceylacie - since my newlsetter is frankly a waste of time and space, despite lots of work going into it.

Everyone says how great newsletters are, and I'm just not seeing it - I'm definitely doing something wrong.

Can I ask - do you include the full content of the newsletter in the emails you send out, or is it just a link to the newsletter online? (with AdSense).

I send the full content (text and HTML versions) - and it doesn't pull enough visits to the site, or make enough sales to be worthwhile. I need a new approach.

Edge

5:29 pm on May 17, 2005 (gmt 0)

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If they come, they will click.

wheelie34

5:38 pm on May 17, 2005 (gmt 0)

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spacey

I guess you will be sending newsletter every day then? ;)

moneyraker

5:41 pm on May 17, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Congrats, Spaceylacie!

By the way, were you the one who told us a story about your family having you committed to an institution after you gave up your business for Adsense? At the rate you're going, these same people will probably quit their jobs soon and start their own adsense site too! But maybe they should get themselves committed first too. Just kidding...:)

spaceylacie

5:48 pm on May 17, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Yeah, I'm the one who was committed by my family! I don't even talk about my work with them(family/friends) anymore, that's why I post here!

I sent the full newletter, but just a text version with no clickable links... The email newsletter says, first thing, "click here for the online version of this newsletter, with clickable links".

People are clicking!

benevolent001

5:52 pm on May 17, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Can i subscribe to it? or see it?

spaceylacie

5:53 pm on May 17, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Yes, my link is in my profile. Under 'site updates', there is a link to read the newsletter. Let me know what you think.

buckworks

5:54 pm on May 17, 2005 (gmt 0)

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That's exciting! :)

spaceylacie

6:01 pm on May 17, 2005 (gmt 0)

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I just added the 'sane' quilting part to the online version of the newsletter, LOL, the one post got me thinking!

"Along the same lines, quilting as an art form is continuing to progress into 2005. Crazy quilting has become quite popular. Unlike traditional quilting(or 'sane' quilting) which involves using basic shapes, crazy quilting utilizes random shapes to create works of art on fabric. Embellishments used on crazy quilts are as diversified as the quilters themselves."

benevolent001

6:06 pm on May 17, 2005 (gmt 0)

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wow website is really great

from where u find articles?
do you work full time for this?

must be doing lot of work to find those great things

:)

spaceylacie

6:09 pm on May 17, 2005 (gmt 0)

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I write the articles, I spent 2 days writing that one, after gathering data since January.

Yes, full time. I gave up my own business for Adsense late last year.

longen

6:16 pm on May 17, 2005 (gmt 0)

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here for the online version of this newsletter, with clickable links".

I assume those are links to content, not Adsense links:)

congrats

spaceylacie

6:27 pm on May 17, 2005 (gmt 0)

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The newsletter is full of links, in all 3 sections, that's what I was referring to. In the text version, the links that are listed in the newsletter are not clickable in some email programs.

Are you saying that it makes it sound like I'm encouraging people to click on Google links? I hadn't thought of that.

longen

6:29 pm on May 17, 2005 (gmt 0)

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I'im always cautious with Adsense, i can't afford to lose the account.

Freedom

7:00 pm on May 17, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Great Job! Nice Site.

You might want to set the search box to search your site by default instead of Google, keep em inside a bit more if you can.

spaceylacie

7:24 pm on May 17, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Good idea! Thanks!

TonysDesigns

7:25 pm on May 17, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Can we send our newsletters with Adsense in them? Is it against TOS?

spaceylacie

7:30 pm on May 17, 2005 (gmt 0)

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My mailing list only allows text, so I couldn't. But, it seems like I've heard of Adsense for email. Maybe someone will come along and enlighten us.

Andem

7:56 pm on May 17, 2005 (gmt 0)

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AdSense in emails is definately against their Terms of Service. There might be another program available from Google, but I've never seen it.

spaceylacie

8:00 pm on May 17, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Maybe I just heard that it was something they were working on. Probably just a rumor.

One of my suscribers wrote and said that my online newsletter looked like "bloody rodents had run all over it". Yikes!

Freedom

8:05 pm on May 17, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Can we send our newsletters with Adsense in them? Is it against TOS?

No, but you can use TribalFusion on your newsletters according to a thread comparing the two in the affiliates forum. Sorry no link, go to affiliates forum to read more.

Zygoot

8:06 pm on May 17, 2005 (gmt 0)

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I once heard on this board Google was running a beta test for some premium publishers to put adsense ads in newsletters.

david_uk

9:31 pm on May 17, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Nice site! Clearly you have spend a lot of time working on the site, and it shows. It's great to see an informative site, and you deserve your rewards!

spaceylacie

11:34 am on May 18, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Update:

Now that I've got a day's worth of stats in, turns out the money came from the links in one particular article, not clicks on the Google ads on the online newsletter page. Although this page started out having unusually high stats, maybe a glitch as stats caught up since it was a new page suddenly getting alot of visitors?

Anyway, point is, write articles for your newsletter that relate directly to the content on your pages(the pages with ads), then point people to these pages for more information.

This isn't the first newsletter I've sent, just the first that started out having Google ads in the online version, I had been just adding Adsense to archives, after about a month. I thought the high stats were directly related to this, but instead found out that it was just the particular article. The pages linked in that article got all the hits, and those pages are full of Adsense ads.

Well, good luck to anyone who wants to start a newsletter!

eyeinthesky

11:49 am on May 18, 2005 (gmt 0)

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spaceylacie, if you've a subscriber base of 20,000 on your newsletter, you'll do much better focusing a hot affiliate program with Adsense as a supplement.

That's my experience.

rfung

12:46 pm on May 18, 2005 (gmt 0)

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yes i tend to agree, have you tried affiliate sales?

i browsed briefly through your site, but didn't see any adsense, except the google search box at the bottom. Do you do AS full time from this one site only, or you have others as well?

either way, job well done! :) I've been living full time off AS/AM since around beginning this year too, and currently enjoying some 'vacations' in south of Spain.

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