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CTR Theme Review: Crazy AdSense Click Through Rates

Ajith Prasad Edassery — Wed, 16 May 2012 17:43:34 +0000

A few months ago, I had written about (in my ClickBump review post) how I use the ClickBump theme effectively on some of my low traffic niche blogs that promote affiliate products. I have been searching for a similar theme that is purely meant for High AdSense click rates and that’s when I came across [...]

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6 Unconventional Google CTR (Click Through Rate) Maximizing Tips

Ajith Prasad Edassery — Thu, 03 May 2012 19:20:31 +0000

Are you suffering from poor Google CTR rates despite making it to the top 5 ranks on Google Search Engine result pages? Here are some unconventional Search Engine Optimization tips that work mainly with Google though some of these techniques would just work with other search engines as well. The points that I am sharing [...]

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Big Traffic Change for Top URL: Webmaster Tools Alert

Ajith Prasad Edassery — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 10:35:54 +0000

A week ago, I got an interesting alert in my Google Webmaster Tools dashboard for my personal blog (Ajith’s Blog Reloaded). In fact, a similar alert was sent to my linked gMail account as well that I hadn’t cared to open. With all my excitement – thinking that I got a major traffic boost and [...]

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Page RPM in Google AdSense

Ajith Prasad Edassery — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 13:48:30 +0000

I got an email query from one of my readers asking What is Page RPM for my AdSense account and this blog. As I mentioned some time ago, I had removed private ads from my blogs (I even removed the Advertise page) and started putting a couple more AdSense units since January this year. Since [...]

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The Ultimate WordPress Theme Change Checklist!

Ajith Prasad Edassery — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 17:48:48 +0000

As I mentioned in the last post, this blog is now powered by the Genesis framework. The Theme installation – although not as difficult or troublesome as WordPress upgrade itself – can still land you in many unforeseen and difficult situations. For example, I ran into a compatibility issue between WordPress and the Genesis framework [...]

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Moving to Genesis Framework and New Theme!

Ajith Prasad Edassery — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 20:42:09 +0000

As you probably noticed, DollarShower.com has a new skin! It’s been close to three years with my previous theme that I had developed myself and to be frank I started getting bored of the same. Though it was an extremely fast loading theme, it was getting more and more difficult to maintain it with the [...]

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Google Analytics Bounce Rate – Is it your Actual Bounce Rate?

Ajith Prasad Edassery — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 10:48:58 +0000

We have talked a lot about bounce rate in the past (Bounce Rate = % of Single page visits, Read What is bounce rate and how to reduce it?). Many times, I have referred to bounce rate in the context of blog design, mobile device support, landing page optimization etc. This time, we are going [...]

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FrameBreaker Javascript to Deframe Your Site

Ajith Prasad Edassery — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 19:02:16 +0000

Recently a blog reader of mine notified me about a Make money site (http://qooooo.com/) that is embedding 1000s of blogs and high traffic blog posts using frames. Basically, they claim to provide a search site but all that they do is to store a lot of good quality pages using tags and allow a tag [...]

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Ultimate AdSense Myth-Busters

Ajith Prasad Edassery — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 18:40:27 +0000

Ok, so much has already been talked about Google products and Google AdSense in particular. After 8 long years of its operations and consumption, the AdSense publishers and fans still keep wondering how Google may be doing things internally, how much revenue they share, how they track accounts to be banned etc. In this post, [...]

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ManageWP Review – Manage All Your WordPress Blogs in One Place

Ajith Prasad Edassery — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 06:34:59 +0000

Managing the lifecycle and day to day maintenance of a WordPress blog can be a very tedious job. It is really a technically challenging job for even bloggers with some technical background and you can imagine the plight of non-technical bloggers. And what if you have to manage several WordPress blogs that you own? Well, [...]

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TimThumb and WordPress Blog Performance

Ajith Prasad Edassery — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:42:22 +0000

There is no doubt that Timthumb is an awesome piece of PHP script to help with on-the-fly resizing of images for websites and blogs. Originally written for a WordPress theme, it’s been already exploited by 1000s of magazine style WordPress themes. However, many theme designers are using the timthumb script quite negligently that the blog [...]

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Bye Bye Facebook

Ajith Prasad Edassery — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:49:09 +0000

It’s been two years since I stopped using Twitter as a medium to actively promote my ideas. At the moment, my twitter usage is restricted to tweeting about any relevant (not all) blog posts alone. And I must say that I never found twitter that interesting and hence didn’t really miss it. My facebook affair [...]

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Blog Private Ads: Are they any Good for Advertisers?

Ajith Prasad Edassery — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 19:49:16 +0000

Over the past two months I spent $285 on private ad spots alone on various blogs in order to drive my holiday season marketing campaigns. I was primarily using the BuySellAds network to buy banners. Most bloggers know that they can make money from BuySellAds as publishers. But are they any good for your own [...]

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Holiday Season Online Marketing Tips

Ajith Prasad Edassery — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 17:53:41 +0000

The US online spending this year’s holiday season (Nov – Dec) was at its peak with Americans spending $35 billion (Nov 1 to Dec 26, 2011). This figure has gone up from $30 billion from last year by 15% and the biggest online sale day this year was the Cyber Monday where $1 billion was [...]

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Top PPC Advertising Networks Comparison

Ajith Prasad Edassery — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 16:57:02 +0000

Over the past two years, I have spent close to $3,500 on PPC Advertising. Of course, that kind of spending resulted in decent returns but the reality is that, only 3 ad networks out of the 8 or 9 that I tried, actually returned anything significant. Based on my experience, here’s a table that contain [...]

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Social Trading in Online Forex gaining Momentum

Ajith Prasad Edassery — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 17:55:58 +0000

Online Forex trading, though very easy to get started, is not so easy to master. A lot of people who want to make instant money, directly start with the online forex tools without having done their homework and end up losing money. In the good old times, there was always a broker, market analyst or [...]

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(Not Provided) keyword in Google Analytics

Ajith Prasad Edassery — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 16:37:43 +0000

In the past month or so, you must have noticed something strange about your keywords search analytics data under your Google Analytics account! There is now a (not provided) keyword sitting right on top of your keywords data and probably, by now, it’s your top searched keyword. The number against ‘not provided’ basically tells you [...]

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How Photography can Help Bloggers?

Ajith Prasad Edassery — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 17:40:13 +0000

I finally decided to go for a DSLR (in fact bought one earlier this month) after realizing that I have been spending a lot of money on purchasing stock images for my content publishing purpose. The idea behind this investment is to check whether I get to take some good images that are worth publishing [...]

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Top SEO Tips from Practical Experience

Ajith Prasad Edassery — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 09:13:00 +0000

In the recent Google Page Rank update, this blog was upgraded to PR4. One could always argue that whatever numbers that you see on the Google Toolbar or PR checker tools don’t matter much. The fact, however, is that Google keeps updating these numbers and along with that a number of your internal page ranks [...]

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Social Media Optimization – A Case Study of Great Onsite SMO

Ajith Prasad Edassery — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 18:25:55 +0000

Social Media Optimization (SMO) is a rather new buzzword as compared to SEO or SEM. However, many of us – involuntarily or knowingly – already get involved in many of the social media optimization activities such as social sharing and promotion widgets, social login and discussion plugins etc. But, is that all what SMO is [...]

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