So How Does It Work

If you’re already familiar with PaidPerPost service, you won’t have much problem understanding ReviewMe as both have almost similar concept. Well, to make a long story short, ReviewMe is a bridge between advertisers and publishers (read: blog owners) where the advertisers can “buy” review from publishers for specific product, website, etc. They choose one or more blogs from the blog inventory list which already divided into category, and once the payment is done, the blog owner is notified about the new order.

Each review must be made within specific time frame, which is 48 hours, and contains at least 200 words. Critism is alright, but obviously, no negative review allowed. But don’t worry, publishers have the right to reject the order, so you don’t have to write about something that you don’t really understand or you don’t like. Me for example, I won’t accept any review for women underwear…

Benefit for Advertisers

Of course, the buzz. Buzz marketing always works, especially when buying a review from an active high-traffic blog. The fee can hurt the budget, but the result is worthed the money. In addition, an extra natural one-way backlink might a little bit improve your SERP.

And for Publishers…

It’s all about the money. Like TLA, publishers get half of the review fee. The $250 minimum payout sounds a little high to climb, but publishers could get at least $10 per order, depend on the quality of their blogs (PR, Alexa rank, Feed subscribers, etc). I already saw one blog that lucky enough to be priced $500 per review, which means, the owner can reach the payout in one single review.

Final Words

While ReviewMe brings another income source for blog owners, I’m not sure whether all bloggers could get the benefit out of it. Advertisers might prefer an active blog with lots of subscribers, and that would left those unlucky inactive blogs away, even if they do have more traffic. However, I might be wrong, so if you’re a blog owner and you haven’t join ReviewMe yet, stop reading and sign up ReviewMe now

Just between you and me, especially if you’re new to “making money with AdSense” scheme, do not make a site just for the high paying keyword. I think that’s the biggest mistake most newbie have ever made. Create a site with the topic that you interest of, or the topic that you’ve mastered. Build a site (or several sites) with high quality original content first. It would be a good foundation for your other sites. I’ll write more about this later.

Anyway, I put the high paying keyworld list in here because my next blog will have something related with it. What is it? Just wait and see

[ Google AdSense Top Paying Keyword List ]

PS: The list is not complete yet. I haven’t put the keyword list for Avg CPC under $10. I’ll finish it as soon as possible

• AdSense ads doesn’t appear on the site.
• AdSense ads display PSA (Public Service Ads).
• How to improve relevancy of AdSense ads with the site content.
• How to filter specific competitors from advertising on the site.

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On a side note, it seems that their code generator is now generate non-contextual code by default. This is of course, a good improvement. Nice job, Chitika!

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Whatever you decide, and we do suggest that you test and track your results, you can take advantage of both static and animated image ads. We accept image ads (.JPEG, .PNG, .GIF), as well as Flash (.SWF), which is a new addition.

Personally, I don’t like it. Not that I hate Flash animation. It’s just, I don’t want to waste my bandwidth for downloading any Flash-based ads.

What about you?

[ Via Inside AdWords ]

http://www.rioner.info/electronic/

http://www.rioner.info/furniture/

And some more:
http://www.rioner.info/student1/
http://www.rioner.info/affiliateprograms/

Even his main site (http://www.rioner.info/) also against AdSense TOS since it only contains affiliate links, without real content.

Previous bad AdSense publishers: (1) (2) (3)

LiewCF also found another bad AdSense publisher here.

1. Format is important for multiple ad units
2. Display your ad units where repeat users will notice them
3. Place a leaderboard immediately after the last post
4. Use horizontal link units
5. Opt-in to image ads
6. Be sensitive to your forum community

Head to Inside AdSense for the detail of the tips.

The update demo now include a guide for EFT signup process which has been out of beta couple days ago. Other than that, this AdSense demo will walk you through the steps you’ll need to take to receive payments, including submitting your tax information, entering your PIN, and selecting a form of payment.

[ View Google AdSense Payment Demo ] [ Via Inside AdSense ]

Well, I found another one today. The site (or blog, using WP) is offering cracked software and illegal script download. He’s kind enough not to charge people any money or donation to be able to download, instead, he asks them to click on the ads :p

And this is the only ads on the site.

Well, I hope the owner of the site read this and remove his post before he get banned by AdSense

Update: The site owner already “fixed” the message. Good move

From the AdSense Optimization Tips page:

You may find that colors that stand out without overshadowing your content are better for your site than colors that blend in so well, the ads are practically invisible. However, you may find that colors that blend in completely perform better. However you choose your color palettes, make sure that it complements the color scheme of the page. Also, rotating color palettes is a simple way to add variety and freshness to your ads. All you need to do is hold down the Control key and select up to four color palettes when generating your ad code in the Ad layout code page of your account.

You can read my other article here for tips on selecting a good color combination for your AdSense ad.

Back to the ad-blindness problem. Other than using the color rotation technique, you can also try to randomly display different AdSense ad layout. I already use it on this site for couple of weeks, and I got significant increment in CTR (and earning, of course).

In my site, I use three different AdSense ad layouts. Well, actually two. First, the banner layout, 468×60. Second, the rectangle, 300×250. And the last, the same 300×250 rectangle, but with an extra image on the left side. To accomplished this, I only use a simple PHP script to randomly select which ad layout to display.

There’s nothing special with the technique. I just put each of the three AdSense ad code above on different file, then create a PHP function to automatically select on of the script and display the code inside (using PHP include statement).

Here’s the step-by-step instruction:

1. Choose the ad layout you want to randomly display, copy and save each of them on a different file. For example, we’ll create two files. First, ads_1.inc, which contains code for AdSense 468×60 ad unit. And the second, ads_2.inc, which contains code for AdSense 300×250 ad unit.
2. Create a new file. Write down the following PHP code.

   < ?php
$x = (rand()%2)+1;
if ($x == 1)
include ('ads_1.inc');
else if ($x == 2)
include ('ads_2.inc');
?>

   Save the file as random_ads.php.

3. Now everytime you wan to display a random AdSense ad layout, you only need to write this:

   < ?php include('random_ads.php'); ?>

   Done.

Of course, this is not the best or the most effective technique to obtain a random AdSense ad layout. But I think this is the easiest one :d

If you don’t want to use it to display random ad layout, you can use it to rotate your ad color palette. Remember that AdSense ad code only support up to four different color palette to rotate. If you want more, for example six different color palette, you can first create the code for four different color palette and save it to ads_1.inc. Next, create the code for the last two different color palette and save it to ads_2.inc. Now with the same random_ads.php code above, you can get six different AdSense color palette rotation.

Have fun with AdSense :d