Cary Bergeron of Snap In Media and CaryBergeron.com has written a report called The Adsense Report.  In it, Cary outlines the tools, tips and techniques he uses to make money online with Adsense.

The Sale

Now, I know some folks might have given up on Adsense but with Cary’s recent sale of one of his Adsense sites, there’s proof that “it still works”.

Cary recently sold his School Grants site for $80,000.00 at Flippa.com.  Flippa is a site for buying and selling websites.

The Interview

I was lucky enough to grab some of Cary’s time to talk with him about making money with Adsense and related topics.  I was also lucky enough to view an early copy of his report.

Cary has also been interviewed by eTycoon.net where he talks about the sale of his School Grants site.  So make sure you check that interview out as well to get a more complete picture of how Cary makes money with Adsense.

Here’s the 32 minute interview.  You can listen to it here on my blog or download it as an mp3 and listen to it using your mp3 player.

One caveat: I’m not a professional interviewer!!  

Download the MP3 [32 minutes]

The Questions

Here are some of the questions I asked during the interview as well as questions that are answered in the report.

1. When did you get started with IM (Internet Marketing) using Adsense?
2. Had you done any other IM before using Adsense?
3. How long had you been on the Internet before getting into IM?
4. How did you make your first dollar online?
5. Was there ever an “Ah Ha” moment or moments that indicated to you that you were on the right track, doing the right thing to get your IM sites to make money?
6. Was there ever a moment that you went, “Oh shit I can’t do this anymore, I can’t make money at this?”
7. Who influenced you as an IM?
8. How many IM sites are you running?
9. How long did you do everything yourself, if you did do everything yourself when you started out in IM?
10. How many of your IM sites are making more than $100.00 a month, $500.00 a month, $1,000.00 a month, etc.?
11. How many sites have you started and then closed down because they didn’t do what you wanted them to do?
12. Knowing what you know about IM and Adsense, if you had to start over from scratch, what 1, 2 or 3 things would you focus on?
13. Is there anything related to the work you’ve done to learn IM that you feel like saying, “I wish I wouldn’t have spent so much time on…”
14. What would you tell beginning IMers NOT to spend time on?
15. Have you ever made money online with a blogger blog (blogspot.com)?
16. Do you use free blogging sites like wordpress.com, blogspot.com, posterous, etc., to create backlinks?
17. You’ve written a lot of articles on ezine.  Do you recommend article marketing/directories for backlinks?
18. Any rules you’d like to share like, “I only look at niches that have more than 1,000 searches a month and no more than x a month, etc.”
19. Are there any tips, tricks you’d like to share in this interview?
20. Did you have a schedule every day when doing your IM?
21. Did you have a “normal” day job when you started IM?
22. Do you use Google Keyword Search Tool?
23. Do you use any 3rd party IM tool for keyword research, etc.?
24. Are there any measurements about a niche that you’d like to share, that indicates to you, not to try that niche?
25. When did you start outsourcing and what was it that you started outsourcing?
26. What’s the future for IM’er Cary Bergeron?  Special projects for 2010, 2011, etc.?

The Report

What’s in the report?  Well besides answering some of the questions above, here’s a few items you’ll learn about in the report:

• 10 Thngs You Must Do To Make Money with Google Adsense Sites
• Wicked Awesome Tip for Getting High Quality Links Daily
• Cary’s Ninja SEO Tips
• Super Awesome Tip for Getting Repeat Visitors
• Website Design for 20%+ CTR (Click-Thru-Rate)
• Tools & Website Cary’s Uses on a Daily Basis
• Worksheet – This is not under-rated.  A lot of folks need a path, guidance on how to start and stay on track.  Well, the worksheet section of the report is absolutely necessary reading.  Why?  Because it gives you a clear path/plan to headed in the right direction with making money online with Google Adsense.

The Adsense Report is geared for folks who have online experience. It’s another way to make money online. It’s not a get rich quick scheme either. It will require putting time in for the long-term to get the results. It’s also based around creating quality content that will grow organically in the search engines.

In my interview with Cary, he talks about how he made time to create Adsense sites while having a family and working a day job. That’s a feat in and of itself.

You’ll learn the criteria that Cary uses to decide on whether a niche or keyword phrases might pan out for a good Adsense site.

He’ll also explains his technique to get visitors to come back and click on the Adsense on your website.

There’s tools galore in the report that you can start using for free to get going on keyword research as well as researching the competition.

One of the best sections I like is the Worksheet section. Cary lays out the schedule for exactly what you need to do to make your sites successful.

The only downside to the report that I can see is that it is not for beginners. Cary tells you that in the beginning of the report that he’s not going to teach how to setup a website or use ftp, etc.

Now the upside to that downside is that Cary or someone could start a “pay for” forum where people could learn the details of setting up Adsense sites as well as become part of a supportive community while building Adsense sites.

Want the report?  Go get it at The Adsense Report.

Don’t want to use Adsense? You can still benefit from the report because it provides tips, tricks and techniques on how to build traffic to your website or blog.

Did you see Google Buzz in your Gmail account?  Couldn’t miss it, right?  Well there’s been a bunch said about Google Buzz, and whether good or bad, here are 7 takeaways to using Google Buzz.

1. Early Adopers – Early adopters enjoy more followers.  When a new technology or tool is introduced, everybody’s checking it out.  In the beginning, it’s a good time to jump in and follow people, most likely those people will end up following you.

2. Gmail Integration – Google Buzz is part of Gmail.  It’s a link that displays your stream of buzzes, buzzees and buzzers.  This makes it kind of awkward at first because if you’ve had experience with other social networks, there is no real separate entity called Google Buzz to go to.  However, since a lot of folks spend a lot of time in Gmail, Google Buzz is right there.  Comment on someone in your stream and it becomes an email that you can find in your inbox as people comment.  This doesn’t feel too good either if you’re trying to keep your email to a minimum.

3. Google Buzz Button – Are you a blogger?  Do you want more ways for your readers to share your blog posts?  If so, you can download the WPBuzzer WordPress plugin.  You can find more ways to provide a Buzz button on your blog at 11 Fresh Google Buzz WordPress Plugins, but the WPBuzzer button provides a counter based on your bit.ly account to display how many times an article has been Buzzed.  WPBuzzer will place a button like the Digg button or Twitter button in your blog post for readers to share on Google Reader, which gets shared on their Google Buzz stream where their followers will see it and hopefully click on it and come to your blog.  WPBuzzer is the closest button that resembles the one at Mashable with a counter.

4. Buzz to Twitter – Want to send the messages you enter into Google Buzz to show up on twitter?  Head on over to Read2Twitter and login using your twitter login (which uses OAuth), then provide your Google Reader Number ID and your optional bit.ly information.  Now, everything you enter into your Google Buzz stream natively, will show up in your twitter feed.

5. Opt-Out – Don’t like Google Buzz?  Feel like they’ve infiltrated your inbox without asking you?  Well, you can opt-out.  Go to your settings in Gmail and look for the ‘Buzz’ tab.  There, you’ll find a few options that allow you to control the way Buzz is integrated into Gmail.  You can make your list of followers public or private as well as hiding Google Buzz in Gmail.  To completely remove Google Buzz, you can disable it.  However, this action also deletes your Google profile as well.

6. Blog Promotion – With every new social network comes the opportunity to promote your blog post if you’re a blogger.  One way to do that is via your blog’s feed.  At Feedoor, you can connect your feed with Google Buzz.

7. Tips and Tricks – There’s always neat little tips and tricks that are undocumented or hard to find.  Google Buzz is no exception.  Check out 12 Undocumented Tricks for Google Buzz to improve your buzzing.

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Daniel Scocco of Daily Blog Tips has written a free eBook titled Make Money Blogging.

For those of you who don’t know Daniel or his blog, he’s been around for a few years providing valuable blog tips that include a wide range of topics; everything from blog content to blogging with WordPress to making money blogging to blog traffic to blog SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and tons more.

I started reading Daily Blog Tips in 2007 and still do.  The range of blogging topics that Daniel writes about makes you feel like you’ve struck gold in each blog post.  Check out his archives.

One of the things that sets Daniel apart from a lot of the top bloggers is his explanation of why and how things work with your blog.  Not only does he provide the ‘how to’ information but also the ‘why’ side of blogging that answer the many questions bloggers face during their blog’s journey.

When you start blogging, you have lots of questions, including naming your blog, technical aspects of your blog, gaining an audience, and how to make money with your blog.  Well, Daniel has written an eBook that guides you through many of these topics.

The eBook is chock full of gold nuggets that span 5 chapters including:

• Picking a domain name
• Hosting your blog
• Blogging software
• Types of blogs
• The truth about making money blogging
• 3 blogging mistakes to avoid
• Blog content: types of content, examples, and ideas
• Blog design
• Networking with fellow bloggers
• Commenting, Linking, and Guest Posts
• Social Bookmarking and Social Networks
• Monetizing your blog: Choices, Explanations, and Definitions
• …and tons of links to valuable resources

Overall, a concise and informative eBook from an excellent blogger.

This is not a beginners, hold your hand and I’ll explain every detail eBook.  You’ll need a bit of knowledge about blogging and blogging terms to better understand some of the concepts in the eBook.  But guess what?  If you’re an absolute newbie to blogging, you can find most of your answers in the archives of Daily Blog Tips as well as using the search box to find the information you’re looking for.  Download Make Money Blogging and Get Readin’!!  

Here are seven twitter tips, tricks and tools you can use to help with your twittering.

1. Custom Twitter Feed – Not so much a tool, but a tutorial on How To Make A Custom Twitter Feed For Your Website.  This article walks you through the css, javascript and html code you can use and customize to create your own look and feel for your twitter feed.

2. Socialping – “Serious Twitter monitoring, for serious people and serious companies” is the tagline for Socialping.

“Socialping is a powerful solution for monitoring, receiving instant notifications, and responding to anything that matters to you on Twitter.”

3. post.ly – “The dead simple way to post everything everywhere.”

post.ly is from the fine folks at posterous.  “post.ly is your one stop shop for posting everything to Twitter (and beyond).”

Not only can you tweet, you can attach a file to your tweet.  Your post goes to your posterous blog as well as other social networking services such as twitter and facebook.

You can add more than a 140 characters of text to your post as well.

4. Epics3 – Epics3 is a way to share photos on twitter while making money with Google Adsense using your GA account.  You can also link Epics3 to your Amazon S3 storage for your photos that are used with Epics3.  Check it out.

5. Seesmic Look – Seesmic Look is the new twitter client from Seesmic that’s been optimized for Windows 7.  Look has an amazing UI that makes it fun to use.  It offers the typical twitter actions like sending a tweet, searching, trending topics, as well as twitter lists.  You can set your view to display a typical twitter timeline as well as a playback mode that fades messages in and out.

6. Twitter during Office Hours – In his article How to Use Twitter During Office Hours, Amit of Digital Inspiration discusses the different ways you can get your tweets out when you’re not allowed to tweet during office hours and how to use twitter without letting anyone know. Find out what tool will allow you to get tweets directly into your Outook inbox.

7. SocialVisor – SocialVisor runs as a twitter and facebook ticker across the top of your screen.  Dubbed as “The Twitter and Facebook application for people who have a life”, SocialVisor allows you to view conversations as threaded chats, create groups that combine your twitter and facebook friends, and other tasks.

Have fun!!

Windows 7 is here and there are plenty of reasons to move to it.  Whether your an individual or in the corporate world, jumping from Windows XP is now justifiable.

1.  Loads Fast – Yes, Windows 7 is about the fasting loading Microsoft GUI operating system I’ve seen since Windows 3.1.  I’m trying to remember Windows 95 and Windows 98 but Windows 7 just loads fast, and that’s good.  You’ll be looking at your disk light on your PC (if you have one) declaring, “Did it really already load?  Yikes!!”

2.  Find My Devices – While upgrading from Windows Vista to Windows 7 which took a long time for the upgrade to finish, somewhere around 45 minutes to one hour, but guess what, it found all my devices and it’s faster loading, even on an upgrade.  Caveat: Some folks out there are still having driver problems in Windows 7 who also experienced drivers issues in other Windows operating systems.

3.  It Runs on Netbooks – You might have to do a bit of fanangling, but people have been installing Windows 7 on Netbooks.  If you have a Netbook, find out how to install Windows 7 on almost any netbook.

4.  Upgrade Process – Yes the upgrade process might take some time, but it does everything you’d expect it to do during an upgrade without a hitch.  ”It just works!!”

5.  Aero – Although Aero was introduced in Windows Vista, it is part of Windows 7 as well.  Aero is the display feature that is just plain cool and allows for new ways to manage your desktop experience.  Check out The Windows Vista 3D Task Switcher for an example of what Aero provides.

6.  Migration Season – While many larger organization analyze what it will take to migrate from Windows XP to Windows 7, I would say now is the time to do it.  Migrating an organization of any size into Vista just plain sucked.  However, besides the ills of migration experienced by organizations of any significant size, I’d say Windows 7 is the time to seriously look at migrating out of Windows XP and into Windows 7.  Check out the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor for help.

7.  The Command Prompt – Finally, in Windows 7 there is no command prompt.  I’m kiding.  It will be with us forever.  That’s just a minor slam to the folks who thought it was going to be gone years ago in some other flavor of Windows operating system. But what’s cool and built right into Windows 7 is the ability to browse to a folder, hold down the shift key and right click on that folder and you’ll see… “Open command window here”.  That was never built into Windows, you had to download it as a power toy.  It might for the techies of the world but it’s very handy for us techies.  I told you it was cool.  

There’s plenty more and I’ll list them in future articles so make sure you subscribe.  Have Fun!!

If you’re a business and haven’t integrated social media with your business, here are 10 steps to get you going.  You don’t have to do all of them. Grab a couple and get going.

1. Start a Blog – What do you do with a blog?  Your company blog should focus on the company’s expertise and knowledge and how that can help potential customers even at the blog post level.  Don’t just outline what you can do for them IF they become clients or customers, do it NOW in a blog post.  Give them something that will help them now.  Post to the blog on a regular basis if possibly.  Let people know you’re alive.

If a potential customer comes to your company’s blog, you want up-to-date blog posts.  Decide realistically how often someone can blog about your business.  An informative, knowledge-rich blog post once a week or two can go a long way.  I recommend 300-600 words if appropriate for your business.  Heck, give them your editorial schedule if applicable.  That way they’ll look forward to it.

2. Blog Posts – What type of blog posts to include on your business blog? Informative information about your product or service.  Not a diatribe that talks around your product or service but something that conveys your expertise.

What would you like to read about a product or service you’re about to invest in? Yea, we all like to visit a business website for a quick overview of what your business is about, but a “live” blog tells us your heart is beating.

Does it make sense in your business to provide case studies? How about lists that can help potential customers right away when they visit your blog: “10 steps you can take now to improve your _____.”

3. Who should Blog? – Who should write the blog posts in your company?  How about the people who work in the business and are excited about what they do and what the company does?  Can you provide an incentive for employees who write blog posts for the company like going home early to write a blog post?  Closer parking to the front door?  Jeans day, or two or three?  Find the champions of the biz, the “Go Doers”.

4. The Company Newsletter – Sure you’ve got a newsletter or everyday news that you update on part of your website, but how about cutting it up into 140 characters or less and get it out using Twitter.  Can you cut up your newsletter into small 140 character chunks of news that you can sprinkle out over twitter every 2-3 or 3-6 hours during the day.  Post to twitter a total of 12 times a day or 8 or 6, whatever makes sense for you.

Use HootSuite to enter all or some of your tweets for the day with links back to an appropriate page on your blog or website for more information about a specific tweet.  Use HootSuite’s scheduler to send them out over the course of the day.  Don’t spam by selling and selling and selling.

5. Twitter – Talking about twitter, create one account to get started and then over time consider adding more twitter accounts if you can manage them.  Ask the question, “Can we split the focus using multiple twitter accounts and how would that help us?”

Let’s say you have a business twitter account with general information and news, and a second account that just tweets the deals of the day, assuming you’re in an industry that has products for sale, etc.  Can you take that model and apply it to your business.

However, if you’re using twitter, try to remain active with one account before splitting it up into multiple twitter accounts.  Can you provide tweets 1-3 times a day?  I would set no less than 3 tweets spanned over your typical work day (8-5) to start.  Don’t tweet multiple tweets at the same time.  Ask your twitter followers to retweet by simpling saying, “Please Retweet.”  Don’t over do it though.  Make sure it makes sense.  Also, leave 10-15 characters out of the maximum 140 characters for retweeting.

Just like the blog posts, are there employees who are champions for the company that can setup the tweets for an incentive.  Also, do you email employees about contests and winners of those contests?  Let’s say you’re a sponsor of a local sports team and you’re giving away tickets to those games.  Get that news out of the company and congratulate the people who won the tickets out on twitter as well.  This is one way that lets people outside your company know what you’re doing for employees.  But don’t be fake about it, be real, there are real people watching and listening.

6. Videos – Can you create videos under 5 minutes to help your potential customers?  You can use Screenr for free to record less than 5 minute videos that you can then upload to YouTube.  While on YouTube, create a Channel that people can subscribe to and put a link on your blog that points to your YouTube channel, encouraging visitors to subscribe to your YouTube channel.

When you upload your video to YouTube, make sure you put a link to your blog or relevant article back to your blog or website in the description area of the video.  Pick meaningful tags as well but don’t over do it.  Check out what other companies in your field are doing on YouTube and use that as an example.

7. Social Networking – Are some messages too short for email inside your company?  Can departments become more effecient if they use a tool kind of like twitter to communicate but not instant messaging?  If you have your own email domain, for example yourcompany.com, then consider joining your email domain to Yammer.  Yammer is just like twitter except it’s for inside the company only.  It uses your email domain to keep messages inside your company.

8. Research – Watch your brand.  Investigate your competitors.  Research what people are talking about that relates to your product or service.  Social media services like twitter allow you to search on specific words and phrases to alert you of any discussion that you’re interested in.  Use Google Alerts so you get emails or subscribe to those alerts in an RSS reader.

Subscribe to key blogs in your industry by using Google Reader.  You can read through the news in your industry quickly with an RSS reader like Google Reader.

9. Facebook – Facebook pages are all the rage.  Don’t just create a “normal” facebook account and think you’re done.  Create a page that includes some of the built-in facebook apps like videos, links, a full-fledged welcome screen, link your blog posts to your facebook page, discussions if appropriate, photos, notes polls, etc.

10. Time – Yes, it all takes time so don’t forget your main product or service.  That comes first.  Make your product or service killer and people will flock to it and tell other people about it.  No social media campaign will make mediocrity better.  There are ways to tweak your social media time and I’ll be exploring them here so make sure you subscribe.

Here’s this week’s Five Faves. Five favorite sites that offer an incredibly useful tool or two, a stunning design (eye candy) or some thought-provoking thinkery. Feel free to sprinkle some of your own faves that you’ve discovered recently, in the comments.

1. Springwise

Springwise is one of the world’s leading sources for new business ideas, powered by a network of 8,000 spotters.

Springwise scans the globe for the most promising business ventures, ideas and concepts that are ready for regional or international adaptation, expansion, partnering, investments or cooperation. We ferociously track more than 400 global offline and online business resources, as well as taking to the streets, cameras at hand.

Need ideas?  Want to see what’s new and upcoming around the world?  Springwise is brain food for entrepreneurial minds!  Subscribe to the newsletter, visit the site once a week or browse ideas by industry.  You’ll find something that’ll get ya’ thinkn’.

Check out their Top Ten Business Ideas for 2010.

2. AskCH

AskCH is a healthcare tool you can send a question about a healthcare cost or definition via a twitter direct message and receive an answer.

Imagine leaving the doctor’s office with your sick child and you need to pick up a prescription.  You send a direct message via twitter to askch in this format: Cost of [drug name] near [zipcode].

So for example: “d askch cost of lexapro near 37211″ would return your answer.  You have to follow askch on twitter.

Other questions you could ask via a direct twitter message include: What is [drug name] – Example: “d askch generic for plavix” and What is [health issue] – Example: “d askch what is diabetes”.  Check out AskCH for more exmples.

3. FoxFilter

Need to filter your own web browsing in Firefox?  Wasting too much time browsing the web?  Install the Firefox add-on FoxFilter to help you stay focused on your work.  Or use FoxFilter as a parental control to protect your family’s browsing on the web.

FoxFilter is a personal content filtering add-on for Firefox that automatically protects you from a number of websites as well as allowing you to include sites.  Can’t seem to pull away from Facebook?  Add it in the blocked list.  Need to add an exception?  You can do that too.

Check it out.  FoxFilter is free but there’s also a premium service with more features at $9.95 a year.

4. RescueTime

RescueTime is a tool that allows you to easily understand and optimize how you and your team spends their time and attention. One of the most important things about RescueTime is that there is NO DATA ENTRY. You install a small application on the computers at your company and we magically track what software and which web sites are actively being used.

Read more about RescueTime and watch the product tour.

5. How to use Facebook with a feed reader

I love stuff like this.  I use Google Reader for my RSS reading.  This article explains how to add your Facebook Posts, Notes, Notifications and Status message to your RSS reader.  Enjoy.

That’s it. Have fun!!

Darren Rowse from Problogger has a nice bundle of his 31 Days to Build a Better Blog program in addition to interviews with Leo Babauta from Zen Habits, Neil Patel from Quick Sprout, as well as additional PDFs that will help you with your blogging endeavors.  Here are 35 questions and the type of information you’ll learn.