[John21]

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Home Page - More info.

Article Pages - Try a box shaped adsense block within the article. Try out other ad positions. Banner shaped ad block between the page title/photo and article. See which works best.

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I'll work on those.

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Books Page - Get an Amazon, Alibris & Ebay affiliate accounts. Put some products on visitors can buy.

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I have a question here. A mod on a large golf forum will give me a sticky for my site as long as I don't have any "buy it now" type ads on my site - they have 50k+ registered users, so I'm not sure if it's worth giving up the potential traffic. Any ideas?


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Fix your Meta Title: Different title for each page. Include Ernest Jones.
ex. Books Page Title: Ernest Jones Golf Swing Books

Fix your Meta Descriptions: Different description for each page. Include Ernest Jones.

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I'm having a problem here also. There's a major jewelry site called "ernest jones" and whenever I put that name in the tags it pulls up a whole host of jewelry ads from adsense. I changed all the title and description tags to "golf swing" but I'm not aware of how I can filter the ads by keyword from my tags. Can I do this with tags? I tried filtering the urls on adsense, but it just kept feeding new jewelry ads in. Am I right on this?



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Not sure why you would need PPC. You already rank well for Ernest Jones and many variations. Your time would be better spent creating more sites with a similar narrow focus. Its not as exciting as PPC arbitrage but a slow steady cash flow from a bunch of sites that require little maintenace still pays the bills.

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I have a couple other ideas where I think I could get a higher CTR; higher returns and much more traffic. I'm just treating this as a test market to learn the game. Like I said, it's my first venture into IM. But I appreciate the help. Thanks.