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Stay On Google’s Good Side – Learn New AdSense Policies

Nomar — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 21:15:58 +0000

The times, they are a-changing, and AdSense users should know that it also isn’t the same anymore. Yesterday, there were some new policies introduced with which people who depend on AdSense for income probably need to become familiar.

Now, don’t panic – the world hasn’t been turned upside down (or even, in contrary to what some news reports might lead you to believe, overrun by swine flu-bearing sickies). The fresh policies mostly amount to some tweaks and clarifications.

As explained on the Inside AdSense blog, “[A]ds may not be formatted in a way that makes them indistinguishable from other content on the page where they appear.” Also, “Google ads, search boxes, and search results may not be placed in emails, as well as alongside emails.”

Another thing: “With this new policy, publishers aren’t permitted to place ads, search boxes, or search results on, within, or alongside other Google products in a way that violates the policies of that other product or service. For instance, this would include placing ads on sites which allow users to download YouTube videos, which isn’t permitted by the YouTube Terms of Service.”

And finally, Google would continue to appreciate it if you don’t use the company’s logos and trademarks.

Easy enough, right? So do some fine-tuning if need be, and then go back to business (and/or buying surgical masks and hand sanitizer) as usual.

Paypal Fees are to High

Nomar — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 07:18:13 +0000

What do you think? Yesterday I received a payment of $132 for a site I putted up for sale that was collecting nothing more than dust. It received some SEO traffic, which will explain the $132 sale I guess…

After 12 hours I was happy to have a buyer at a price that was suitable for me. Lets handle the payments!!! Guy sends me the money and guess how much fee paypal took?

$5,45

That is 4.1% fee! Isn’t that way to high? I changed some settings in the past when I was looking to get cheaper paypal fees, after that I have the strange feeling my fees gone up!? Check in your paypal and share how much % fee they take from you. Would appreciate it if you comment it in here so we can compare! My account type is premier if that makes sense.

I don’t want to know how many dollars paypal took from me from 2005 till now, bet I can pay my vacation from it!

New Blog Design

Nomar — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:38:46 +0000

It was definitely time for a new blog design. I feel like this blog is currently a nice beginning to make things really big. I runned several blogs in the past, and still run some, but never had a blog with more than 150 rss readers. I got the feeling that this blog can become one!

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.

Pagerank Update

Nomar — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:03:28 +0000

There was a small pagerank update last week. Two of my sites that I hold with my partner got both a pagerank of 2

Vista themes and Nokia Themes

This motivates me and hope these sites can make some dough in 2009!

First Ecommerce Site – Xbox Live Cards

Nomar — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:37:28 +0000

This week my bisuness partner and I started a new ecommerce website: Xbox Live Subscriptions! The site is offering live gold cards for your xbox to play games online with friends. These cards are offered at really low prices to get the site started!

The site only offers 3 types of cards:

The mission of this ecommerce site is making money obviously. It will be an interesting project for me because it is the first ecommerce site I ever made. I will give you guys update on the progress!

The first thing we have to work on are SE rankings! Subscribe to my RSS feed to make sure you don’t miss new information

Halo Wars Blog dot Com

Nomar — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 17:31:31 +0000

This is a domain name I hold for quite a long time now, I putted a cheap looking blog on it some time ago and it actually gets some traffic and clicks, it is currently making around $1 monthly, which is nothing to be honest!

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!

Portable Oxygen

Nomar — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 17:10:54 +0000

You must think: “What the hell?” What is this guy doing with portable oxygen… well… I created a site about it! Because Jon Waraas told me so!

He told his readers (ya, I am one of them) to create a site around the following subjects:

Portable Oxygen
Structure Settlements
Payroll Software
Adjustable Bed

I chose the first one If you are looking to create sites for adsense, take one of these topics, but stay away from the first one please, hehe!

Also doing a site about Foot Health, but not linking to it as it is a contest with Anand, I will make the text link to it later (once the contest is over and the text is indexed by the big G, who knows, it might help).

New Windows Vista Themes Site

Nomar — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 17:05:21 +0000

I had a site of this before and sold it for a very nice amount, but decided to make one more with a good friend of mine! We got a very nice domain name for it: i vista themes.com! Our main focus is to rank high for the term Vista Themes. The site is fairly new and need a lot of themes added! But we are working on that currently! I will keep you guys updated on how the rankings develop by time!

Make sure you subscribe to my RSS Feed to stay updated on my work!

Getting into the Travel Niche

Nomar — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:57:14 +0000

As the title says, I decided to get into the travel niche seriously. Currently I have 2 small travel sites running with not much information, but when I pay attentiont to them I am sure they can work and make some good cash on adsense (daily).

The two sites I am working on currently is about Florianopolis Brazil and Limassol Cyprus. My goal is to have 10 of these sites at the end of 2008 with at least 5 posts for each! This is a very reachable goal in my eyes! If I fail, I will give another $10 for the first commenter in my fail post like I did before with not reaching my 20 RSS readers. (Subscribe to my feed if you don’t want to miss out on this)

Stopped user registrations on vBulletin

Nomar — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 15:35:49 +0000

Today I decided to stop the user registrations on my webmaster forum. This because there are a lot of spammers lately that are cruising around on the web dropping hundreds of spam threads everyday on vBulletin boards! Almost everyday I am losing 15 minutes of time to delete these threads, which is a waste! I am going to wait till the next vBulletin update and than upgrade my forum and open the registrations again. Currently this project is on hold!

For the webmasters reading this, I invite you to submit your link to the web directory added on this webmaster community! Free submission for regular links. The design is not smooth, I know, but soon there will come a new theme for that (also for the forum)

Till now I had 1 featured link added at this directory bringing in a $7 revenue! These featured links will stay forever featured. Once this forum is bigger and more popular the price will go up! So get in quick for cheap is a smart thing to do!