A post on the Inside AdSense blog states, “[T]his week, we’ll be rolling out a series of enhancements to AdSense’s contextual targeting capabilities, which will more accurately match relevant ads to webpages.  You won’t need to update your AdSense account or ad code, as these changes will be applied automatically.  In many ways these types of improvements are par for the course at Google – but I wanted to let you know about the kinds of improvements we’ve been focusing on.”

The post then continues, “Please keep in mind that these changes won’t affect how other types of ads are matched to your sites; for instance, you’ll continue to see placement-targeted ads when advertisers bid to appear specifically on your pages.”

Google’s interested in hearing your feedback if you notice any differences.  And hopefully you will, because misplaced ads of the sort we mentioned earlier really don’t do anybody much good.

This might be a good time to do a little research and make sure (if you haven’t already) that your keywords don’t have multiple meanings, too.

However, if you want to get links from authority sites, you have to send link exchange requests. The secret of successful requests is to write link exchange messages that aren’t spam.

Get the reader’s attention

If you want people to read your link exchange message, it should not sound like the dozens of other emails that the webmaster receives. Use the recipient’s real name throughout your message. If your message starts with “Dear webmaster” then it’s likely that it will be moved to the trash. Be personal. Write a personal message for each recipient.

Use a real email address with a real name as the sender address. Free email addresses and email addresses with numbers look spammy.

Get the reader’s interest

What’s in for me? You should answer that question as soon as possible in your email.

Do not list any features. Focus on benefits. First, nobody is really interested in the great features of your website. Tell the recipient how your website solves his problems or the problems of his readers.

Appeal to the ego of the recipient. Tell the recipient that you list only 10 websites in this special category and that he is in that top 10 list. It’s easier to convince people if you appeal to their ego.

Create desire

The recipient of your link exchange message won’t react to your request if you don’t create desire.

To create desire out of interest, you can tell the recipient that you downloaded his ebook, subscribed to his newsletter or RSS feed, etc. The other webmaster is more likely to reciprocate if you have done something in advance.

Give the recipient the feeling that he’s special. Include your phone number in your email message. Summarize why the recipient benefits from linking to you.

Make action as easy as possible

Don’t make the recipient think. Make the linking process as easy as possible by giving him copy/paste HTML code with your link information. Of course, the code should only be an option and you should not insist on that code. If the webmaster want’s to use another code to link to your site, that’s okay.

In 3 weeks I am finished with my 5 month during internship at a mortgage / insurance company. This internship took most of my time last 4 months which is the reason I didn’t blog much.

At the end of 2008 I found some time to make new business plans for 2009 and setted up some goals I want to achieve! One of the goals is to gain at least 200 rss subscribers in 2009 and make this blog worth reading.

I will mainly blog about news in the seo area and about projects I am working on. I will also reveal strategies how I make money online. Currently I am working on a few newly sites, I started these last month to make a good begin to work with when I am completely finished with my internship.

My newest website purchase is HQ Wallpapers! A site that provides high quality wallpapers.

Also, my new ecommerce site: Xbox Live Subscriptions, is doing a great job, sold 5 cards in the last 2 days. The profit is not much, but it is a start! If this site can sell 10 cards a day, it will be a nice earner. Currently working hard on SEO on this website, which will be hard I guess.

Planning to use adwords to in the next month, I will share the details with you, also when I fail!

Make sure you subscribe to my feed to stay up to date!

As I am getting more active again lately to earn some nice cash, I am going to transform this blog into a good looking, monetized blog about Halo Wars!

Will keep you guys updated on what I change and how I build more links for this one! Make sure you subscribe to my feed to stay updated!

Unfortunately I failed to get 20 subscribers at the end of October, that is why I give away $10 to the first commenter of this post as stated in one of my previous posts! Comment and claim this $10

The earnings of this blog in October were $20 by the banner that is sold for the length of one month! Hope to get more success in November and really break into the 20+ subscribers! I will hold a money contest upcoming week so stay tuned and subscribe to my rss feed!

Today my friend Anand and I also started a little motivational contest. We are going into the same niche at the same time and the one that will be earning the most with that single site on adsense after three months will get a free review + $1

Heck, that $1 dollar will be mine (I hope)! nahh.. kidding.. doesn’t matte who will win, it’s about the motivation we get out of this to make our own site a good earner! Will keep you update about my other adsense sites, and will also share the niche’s I am in and what I do to build links!

Make sure you subscribe to my feed to stay up to date!

The banner is actually for the “Reverse Funnel System”, what the heck it is, I don’t know, but I saw it a lot on other blogs to, maybe it is time to find out what it does exactly! Must be making money for some guys!

I’ll keep you updated on it!

Currently my feed counter is at 8! Means 8 people are interested to read this blog and I am happy with these people! If you are one of them, make a comment so I can check your site out to

Recently I found out everything in life comes with planning! This is something I barely did. Now I start with small goals on this blog! currently I set my number one goal to get 20 RSS readers at 31th of October!

Going to do everything to reach this! Will put a button online so you can see it to!

What if I fail? I will give away $ 10 to the the first commenter on my fail post!

Why subscribe to my feed? Because I am going to share my money making strategies!

Also getting back into the adsense scene! Lately I sold one of my adsense site that I had together with a partner, brought in around $ 150 monthly on adsense. Can’t tell you guys more details on the sale, sorry for that! But getting back into it and I want to create 20 sites that generate money on adsense! Having the first one ready now, all with unique content! It is a dutch site though, about mortgages (hypotheken). 80% of my 20 sites goal will be in English though.

Also started a simple web directory again, just for creating some value and hope to be able to sell it for a few hundred in time! It is Sync Directory which had a pagerank 1 but is currently at 0 again.

Am going to update this blog more often to from now on! Stay tuned and subscribe to my feed if you want to stay up to date on my websites!