The major role of the internet marketer cannot be overemphasized these days, and is high in demand. Now more than ever, the internet remains to be the best and fastest way to advertise your latest product, business or promotion. From banners, email campaigns and affiliate marketing, there are endless ways for the internet marketer to be successful. So you’re an internet marketer? Wondering how to best represent yourself and be more productive than ever? Here are the 10 best tools out there (both software and advice) to promote, excite and handle your job better than you ever have.

1.    Don’t work harder, but smarter. Like many other freelancers, internet marketers need to manage their time extremely well. Forget about that micromanaging boss hanging over your shoulder. If you want to make a higher income, have a ‘work smarter, not harder’ mentality.

2.    Invest in a new computer if yours isn’t up to par. Don’t panic about the cost of a new computer. Instead, invest in one that will help you to become as productive as you need to be with the latest equipment available.  Make sure to have the right amount of RAM, power, software and disk drive space for you or your clients needs.

3.    PPC tools. Discover which keywords your competition is betting on, export your ad campaign straight from Adwords into Adwords Editor or create your own master list of the best keywords for your business.

4.    Invest in SEOmoz software.  Just as important as the right attitude is SEO software to improve your visibility on the web. Consider investing some time learning about SEOmoz and install it as your top SEO software. It costs $99 a month, but gives any internet marketer valuable tools such as rank tracking, page recommendations and monitors your competition.

5.    Focus on client relationships. Do your interpersonal skills need a tune-up? If you work from home and rarely interact in person with clients, you may need to focus on connecting with your clients more often. Don’t disappear in cyber space! Instead, focus on getting to know your clients and how you can best serve their needs. What may result are new leads, and a great recommendation!

6.    Have clear expectations. Don’t just assume your new customer understands where you’re coming from, what you can do for them or the results you can produce. Tell them (over and over again!) It’s also important to have a clear understanding of what they want. Then, you can rest assured you’re delivering results by being the most productive internet marketer out there.

7.    Multitask. As an internet marketer, you battle with managing and updating your social media platforms all day long, answer phone calls and promote yourself to potential customers. Now that’s multitasking like a true pro! Don’t get sidetracked with the work your staff can do. Delegate where you see fit and stay on top of your most important assignments.

8.    Passion. Focus on the passion for what you do. You no doubt became an internet marketer because you love what you do. So, focus on that emotion anytime your productivity feels like it’s at a stand-still. Make a list of what unique skills you have, what makes you so successful and ways to improve your craft.

9.    SEO Tools. Invest in learning about some of the best SEO tools on the market and see results. SEO Toolbar for Firefox can help internet marketers track SEO and PPC ads, create backlinks and overall make more money with their websites.

10.  Prioritize. Take care of the most pressing tasks first. Afraid to tackle that time sensitive project that’s due tomorrow? Don’t hide from it all day, procrastinating about it during your lunch break and stressing over how behind you are. Instead, wake up early, get it done and have a great rest of your day.

Author Bio: Ethan S. writes for Amazing Domains, a UK-based site offering a wide selection of valuable domains, where you can browse, compare, and buy domain name.

About Google Adsense

Google Adsense is an affiliate model known as CPC or PPC that pays publishers for clicks on ads they run on their sites. This is one of the easier ways to make money online because the visitor does not have to buy anything, they only need to click and that is why Adsense is considered to be one of the most powerful tools in the online business and affiliate arsenal. There are hundreds and thousands of advertisers over at Google in just about every type of niche you can imagine that yields an abundance of affiliate revenue opportunities for webmasters. Adsense allows for very easy monetization of websites and blogs in any topic. When used correctly, it can generate a very nice income.

• Apply to the Google Adsense program and don't get anxious if they don't reply right away. Sometimes it can take some time to get approved.  The website you submit with your application should be high quality with lots of content.
• Once approved, the very first thing you need to do is carefully read, understand and follow the Adsense Terms And Agreement. This is essential to you not getting banned by Google and keeping your account in good standing. They have specific rules and once you are banned you will never be allowed back in. Some rules include acceptable content, ad click behavior that is forbidden, limits to the amounts of add you can place on a page and much more.
• Avoid creating mass amounts of MFA's, Made For Adsense sites. Adsense does not like these and even though you can start to make a lot of money with Adsense and MFA sites, many webmasters have reported being banned when a manual review of their account was triggered by the high earnings.

How Adsense Works

Google Adsense is an intuitive add program. When the Adsense add codes are placed on a website, either text or image, or alternating (depending on your preference when setting up the ad) the adds that appear on the page will be relevant to the page's content. This is brilliant and converts very well enabling publishers to make money with Adsense with ease. So, if my website is about laptop computers, the Adsense adds that run on that page will be related to laptops and computers.

Another brilliant aspect of how Adsense works is that it will show adds to the traffic coming to your site, based on the searches that Google has recorded them doing in recent times. Another great way to make money with Adsense by showing truly targeted adds to each and every person that comes to your site based on what their looking for.  The amount paid per click of each add will vary by niche, some pay as much as $20 per click and others pay pennies. There are other variables like CTR, click through rates for adds you run, conversions and other factors that are determined within your own account.

How To Make Money With Google Adsense

A lot of money can get left on the table when Adsense is not used properly, just following some simple guidelines you can make more money with Adsense and enjoy a nice income. Of course, it is important to understand a site that is built to attract the search engines, supported by proper link building strategies and therefore, getting traffic will enjoy the most earnings, and in fact, this is an essential part of making money with any program, including Adsense.

Building Quality Sites

Keyword Research
The first step to making money with Adsense is doing proper keyword research for your niche site and adding great content. While Adsense does not disclose, nor do they allow publishers to disclose what they make per click for any niche, you can get some idea how much you might make per click with particular niches by using Micro Niche Finder keyword research tool, that is one of the parameters it displays when doing keyword research. This is a great tool to do keyword research and it really hones in on the micro niches that are known to be very successful in making money with Adsense. Micro niches are also easier to rank for and are a good option for Adsense earnings.

Content
Since the Adsense adds that run on the site are based on the content of the page it is important to make sure that a 3-5% keyword density exists on the pages so that relevant adds are generated. For best results, in terms of ranking and earnings, the site should be filled generously with well written, at least 500+ word articles based on the niche. Most of my sites have articles that are more than 600 words, I find that works best.

How many pages do you need? This is a tough question to answer as it will vary. Overall, since the Google Panda update, thin sites are not ranking too well, so the more content pages you have the better. With Micro Niche finder you can usually find many keyword phrases for any particular niche that can be used to create many pages for the site, and remember the more pages your site has, the more opportunities for traffic, which means you can make more money with Adsense.

Content Resources
It can be overwhelming to write content on a regular basis, especially for several sites. Outsourcing your content is what most of us do, and 99 Cent Articles offers great content options and packages for less.

Positioning of Adds
Positioning of your ads can greatly impact how much money you can make with Adsense. Above the fold is usually best, that is in a place on your website that is readily seen by visitors without having to scroll up or down. Placing ads in a visible place is where the visitors will most likely to click on them.

Most of the world's population reads left to right, so following that logic, ads are best placed on the left side of the content, in fact there have been studies that showed that most of the clicks received on a page were from the top left. The chart below shows the hot zones in red where Adsense ads are known to perform best for most people. But it is critical that you test ad placement on your own sites to be sure of what works best for you.

Below Content: Many people also find it optimal to place Adsense ads after post/page content, giving people something to click on when they are done reading.

Mid Content: When you have a long article mid content ads are also a great idea and can convert really well.

Optimal Adsense Placement

HTML Code To Make Ads Align Left And Right To The Content

Left: 

Right:

Ad Styles And Colors
It is a fact that Adsense ads do best when they blend in with the general design and colors of the site, so the link colors of the Adsense ads should match the link colors of the site. For me what works best is to the Title of the Ad is colored with the link color at my site and the rest is black.

Testing Placement Of Adsense
Some of those who are just starting in this business may think they are doing pretty well and that their click through rates and CPM figures are optimal. However, there are more techniques and styles to generate more clicks that can allow you to make more money with Adsense. By knowing what works, and testing you can make more, and tweak your sites and create new ones with this knowledge to grow income over time.

Conflicting Adds
One of the issues that can hinder making good money with Adsense is to over monetize a site, too many banners, links and other distractions can decrease Adsense. So, once again test and see what makes you more and stick with it.

Tracking And Testing
Last but not least, Google Adsense offers a few outstanding tracking statistics that allow publishers to track their results on a site by site, page by page, and other parameters. It's a good idea to make the most of this and do the proper testing using the powerful tools that are offered. This way, you can fine tune the ads and use that data to also increase the money you make on other Adsense sites.

Best WordPress Plugins to Make Money With Adsense

There are many free plugins for Adsense, mostly these have to do with ad placement automation. I have used many of these, but I found these most useful:

Quick Adsense - This one, in my opinion is the best. It allows you to easily place Adsense or any other ads for that matter anywhere on your sites. There are options for before, middle and after content,  there is even an option to place ads after paragraph 1, 2, 3, etc... you simply place you ad codes into the plugin settings area, then designate where those ads should show up and click save, BAM your done. You can also use shortcode for custom ads, you can choose to NOT show ads on certain pages and posts and many more useful features.

Smart Ads - Similar to the above with various ad placement options, but a bit more limited with only choices of before and after content. But, it has other features for Adsense ad placement parameters:

• Choose Minimum Post Word Count
• Only show ads on posts older then -
• Category Exclusions
• Disable Top Ad if Post Begins with an Image
• Disable Ads For Registered Members

Alternatives to Adsense

For those that have lost their Adsense accounts, or are having a hard time getting approved, here are some alternatives to Adsense. These are basically the same types of pay per click programs, and intext links advertising programs.

Chitika
Chitika is the next best solution after Adsense and is a premium CPC network.

• Displays adds ONLY to search traffic and those relevant to their original search terms, which is the optimal traffic and targeting solution for effective CPC campaigns.
• Offers your choice to collapse adds entirely for non search traffic without blank space or to serve ads from other networks, another big perk.
• Also the minimum payout is $10 with Paypal or $50 with check payment, which is really nice for those who want to get paid quickly.

In-Text Ads CPC Networks

These are the contextual ad networks that serve content relevant ads that appear when a visitor mouses over a particular keyword in the content.

• Infolinks
• Kontera
• AdBrite
  Offers a variety of ad options including and pays on a CPC and CPM model with Text ads, Banner ads, Rich Media ads, Full Page Ads, Inline ads and others. The In-Text ads pay on a cost per click basis and banner and other ads on a CPM basis. Their Full Page ads pay on a CPV ( Cost Per View) model.
• Clicksor
• Vibrant Media
• Admedia
• Adengage
  Payout 75% of all add revenue, which is a high amount for the industry. Also offer an easy user interface than some of the other networks.

I hope this is helpful for those that want to make money with Adsense and maximize their earning potential online.

How do you guys do with Adsense?

Anybody have any tips to share for making money with Adsense?

Have you been blogging for half a year or more without any measurable success? You aren't alone. Most blogs don't end up going anywhere, because most people give up when they don't see anything happening. But if you don't see anything happening, it's not because blogging doesn't work. It's either because you haven't been at it long enough, or because you've been doing something wrong. We'll assume the latter. What could the problem be? Read on for the best blogging tips if your blog is failing and struggling.

Blogging Tips for Struggling Blogs

Are You Indexed?

Take some steps to make sure that your content is getting indexed by the search engines. If it isn't, you've got a major problem on your hands. If people can't find your site in Google at all, chances are low that you'll reach the kind of audience you need.

If you are a news site or freshness is an important factor, you've also got a problem if your content isn't being indexed within seven days. If people aren't finding your site until after the buzz around a particular topic has faded, you're missing out on a huge portion of your audience.

If your content isn't getting indexed, check to see if it has problems with duplicate content. Sometimes the link structure of the site and other issues can create multiple copies of the same text, which encourages Google to avoid indexing it, ie: duplicate content. Use experts in WordPress home page and archive pages to avoid this.

You may also want to make sure that your content is "public." Just go to your WP admin dashboard and go to Settings - Privacy - and make sure Allow Search Engines To Index is checked. Blog software such as WordPress doesn't allow your content to be indexed unless you change the settings.

Are You Implementing Social Media To Promote The Blog?

Networking is a vital piece of the puzzle. If you aren't receiving any traffic from Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn, you may need to alter your strategy. Make sure that your content is easy to share, and that people will want to share it. Stay active on the social networks and regularly interact with people in your niche.

Develop a set of strong relationships with influential people in your niche. These may be popular personas, other bloggers, or just people with a lot of friends who love sharing interesting content in your niche. These relationships should be all about give and take, and success requires you to start with the giving. Learn more at viral marketing and social media marketing strategy.

Search Engine Optimization for Blogs

Your site should be optimized for discovery in the search engines. Be sure to include some posts on your site with a title centered around a popular keyword. Social also intersects with SEO because links to your site are a strong indication of relevance. Getting these links requires relationships with people in your niche. Once you get a few guest blog posts out on powerful blogs, you'll start to see some striking results.

Overall Blog Setup

Make sure that the blog is easy to use and pleasant to look at in all major browsers and mobile platforms. Ads may be an important part of your monetization but don't let them overpower your site. If people are only clicking on your ads by accident you'll get low conversions which will drag down your score and reduce your profit. Make sure that your on-site SEO is fleshed out. Include keywords in titles, in posts, and in links between posts. Don't design a site that will confuse the search engines.

Set Goals and Stay on Top of Them

One of the best things that you can do for yourself is set a schedule and stick to it. Devote a certain amount of time each week to brainstorming new ideas, building relationships, doing keyword research, writing guest posts, and writing articles.

Your schedule doesn't need to be overwhelming or extremely rigorous. It's more important that you're able to stick to your schedule than anything else. Eventually you'll start to realize which strategies are working best for you and your niche, and you can adjust your schedule accordingly. Rather than setting traffic goals or income goals, set tangible goals that you know you can accomplish. Set goals like numbers of articles written, amount of time brainstorming, number of emails sent, number of comments written, and number of social media messages sent.

These are realistic goals that you can meet every week, and they will guarantee steadily growing success if you stick to them.

About the Author: Jeff has been blogging since 2007 & contributing on many websites since that time. He is a professional internet marketing and blogging consultant. Jeff is also co-owner of  nPromote, SEO firm from Long Island.

The product I reviewed recently, Jiffy Articles to create unique content is now live and the official launch discount of 40% off is good from now to midnight Friday, November 25th! Also, there is an option to pay quarterly, instead of the year in advance so you can pay less upfront.

What Is Jiffy Articles And How It Creates Unique Website Content And Articles

Jiffy Articles is a great tool to create unique content fast, I can write 600 word articles in 5 minutes with it.

Basically it gives you an article template based on the category you select and keywords you may enter, that is filled with snippets that you can then rewrite and add more info to. This is much easier than writing content from scratch because Jiffy Article writers have done a lot of the research and all you have to do is build on it, so easy and much more fun than writing from scratch.

Check out the video of Jiffy Articles in action, it really is amazing and very unique from any other content software on the web

There are thousands of templates in the software so you can create unique content for these niches:
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The other day I noticed one of my sites suddenly had a ton of new backlinks and when I went to check them out I realized that these were some spammy crap sites that were not only giving me useless links that I DO NOT want, they were actually image links, which meant they were also stealing my hosting bandwidth as well.

Basically what happens is that thieves go over and Right Click on images, select Copy Image Location and then use that link to place the images on their own sites. This means that YOU are hosting your own images on THEIR site, and so your bandwidth is being used.

Also, using the Right Click on images function they can steal your images by selecting Save Image As or Copy Image.

To protect your images on WordPress blogs from theft and protect your precious bandwidth on hosting use the No Right Click Images plugin!

This great plugin is easy to use, just activate and it's done, no settings to play with, all it does is disables the Rick Click MENU from images on your blog.

VERY COOL!!!

In case you guys haven't noticed I have redesigned the blog again and found the most amazing free premium WordPress theme, and it is really the best free premium WordPress theme that is available to date. After scouring for days and looking at hundreds of themes I happened upon the Atahualpa theme and instantly I knew this was the one.

Features

• 200+ options without coding
• Easy header images install/rotate images/customize transperancy and appearance of header images
• Easy logo add and editing
• Left sidebar/Right sidebar/Left and Right Sidebar or No sidebar
• 3 column or 2 column
• Easy customization of colors for the entire site, header, sidebars, text, top menu bars and more
• Style Widgets
• Style Sidebars
• Style Comments
• Style Footer
• Customization of the sidebar widths and layout
• Top Page Menu Navigation with exclude option
• Top Categories Navigation Bar with exclude option
• Fluid of Fixed Width Layout
• Clean display
• Full customization WITHOUT ANY coding all changes are made within an easy to use admin interface
• Users forum
• and much more
• and it's free!!!!

I love this theme, this is truly the best free premium wordpress theme and one of its most incredible features is that you can use the Export/Import option so once you have your settings as you like them, you can import this theme along with all settings to any number of blogs in your arsenal! Brilliant, cuts down on new blog design time by hours!!!! Check it out at Atahualpa Themes by Bytes for All.

Okay, a quick post here to refer you to a new site that is all about networking with bloggers for guest posts. Guest posting on other blogs and allowing them to post on yours is a fantastic way to build authority, and get precious backlinks and to alleviate some of your own workload by getting fresh, unique content that is NOT written by you, whew!

The site is My Blog Guest and it really is the perfect solution to finding blogs to post on and getting fresh content for your sites. There are lots of members all ready and they just launched recently and new members joining all the time.

Highly recommended by the authority SEO site, Search Engine Journal, My Blog Guest is a sure winner.

Features of My Guest Blog for Guest Posts

1. All niches included.

2. The site uses a rating system (blog power) to rate members sites, based on PR, subscriber numbers, Twitter followers, Facebook fans and age of the site.

3. Also has a rating system to rate members social media power, based on various social media site activity for the individual.

4. Shows how many guests posts members have done.

5. Search for blogs to post on by keywords and categories.

6. Add all or one of your sites to accept guest posts on

My Blog Guest is really a great place to network and build up your sites.

Also, if you are looking specifically for SEO niche sites that accept guests posts then check out:  10 SEO Blogs accepting guest posts.

You also get the chance to guest post on Blogussion, a high traffic, quality blog.

If you really want to learn about guest posting and get a super opportunity to guest post, Ramit Sethi, best selling author of I Will Teach You To Be Rich not only accepts guest posts, but has the most comprehensive, helpful guide I have ever seen on how to write effective posts, and how to get published by big name bloggers, check it out: Write Guest Post on I will Teach You To Be Rich, really a must read!

If you have a blog then you can get lots more promotion, links, exposure and traffic by adding your feed to the many blog and RSS feed directories that are out there. The RSS directories aggregate blog feeds from around the web and list those blog posts on their sites as they are updated, since these sites get their own traffic, they are great places to promote your blogs, as I previously mentioned in my post 100 + RSS Submission Sites. That list is very long and it's a pain to submit your blogs to these sites manually, so I came across this gem of a software that is free and submits your feed to various directories within one simple interface automatically.

Allscoop RSS submitter Pro (safe and clean download link, I added it here because the one on the developers site is down) is a fantastic free tool from Allscoop Tools that will submit your feeds to many of these RSS directories with an easy to software. It's light on system resources, really fast and submits to many of the best and top RSS submission sites. All you have to do is enter your information into the interface, your name, email, blog name, blog description, url and feed url and then select which RSS directories you want to submit to, I always choose them all. The software then runs the submission  process. Most of the sites allow for easy submission, but those that ask for registration and login and captcha are neatly displayed in the Allscoop RSS software interface and you can register and submit right from the software and then go to the next site. I highly recommend this software, it's fantastic, easy to use and and the most effective way to submit your RSS feeds to the various directories. Download the free RSS feed submitter tool and try it out today.

Create a Feed For Static Websites

By the way if you're website is static and not a blog platform like WordPress that automatically generates a feed, you can still generate a feed for your static sites and use RSS feed submission sites for promotion, just go to HTLM2RSS or FeedForAll (both tools work great) and create feeds for static sites, and then submit them those to these RSS directories.