Comments on: The AdSense Revenue Tricks That Sites Don’t Tell You About. – With Marc Phillips http://mixergy.com/adsense-phillips/ Entrepreneurs you respect teach how they did it. Mon, 21 May 2012 08:08:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: VoxModeri http://mixergy.com/adsense-phillips/comment-page-1/#comment-12370 VoxModeri Tue, 28 Jul 2009 04:39:02 +0000 http://mixergy.com/?p=1786#comment-12370 Passion doesn't necessarily translate into best practices. This is what I see as the difference between a real entrepreneur and just some schmoe with a dream. We're on here to learn from pros that know their stuff about certain areas that we could learn from to follow our passion in a way that can make it more likely that we can profit from it.<br><br>If crappy sites make more money by using certain techniques, learn from them and beat them by making good content AND using their tricks to make money doing it. Also, they're goal is the same, and if you're going to complain that you're not making as much money, when you're not willing to (for example) trick your visitors by making ads look like a part of the site, then you need to decide which it is you care about more. Passion doesn't necessarily translate into best practices. This is what I see as the difference between a real entrepreneur and just some schmoe with a dream. We're on here to learn from pros that know their stuff about certain areas that we could learn from to follow our passion in a way that can make it more likely that we can profit from it.

If crappy sites make more money by using certain techniques, learn from them and beat them by making good content AND using their tricks to make money doing it. Also, they're goal is the same, and if you're going to complain that you're not making as much money, when you're not willing to (for example) trick your visitors by making ads look like a part of the site, then you need to decide which it is you care about more.

]]> By: VoxModeri http://mixergy.com/adsense-phillips/comment-page-1/#comment-6350 VoxModeri Mon, 27 Jul 2009 21:39:02 +0000 http://mixergy.com/?p=1786#comment-6350 Passion doesn't necessarily translate into best practices. This is what I see as the difference between a real entrepreneur and just some schmoe with a dream. We're on here to learn from pros that know their stuff about certain areas that we could learn from to follow our passion in a way that can make it more likely that we can profit from it.<br><br>If crappy sites make more money by using certain techniques, learn from them and beat them by making good content AND using their tricks to make money doing it. Also, they're goal is the same, and if you're going to complain that you're not making as much money, when you're not willing to (for example) trick your visitors by making ads look like a part of the site, then you need to decide which it is you care about more. Passion doesn't necessarily translate into best practices. This is what I see as the difference between a real entrepreneur and just some schmoe with a dream. We're on here to learn from pros that know their stuff about certain areas that we could learn from to follow our passion in a way that can make it more likely that we can profit from it.

If crappy sites make more money by using certain techniques, learn from them and beat them by making good content AND using their tricks to make money doing it. Also, they're goal is the same, and if you're going to complain that you're not making as much money, when you're not willing to (for example) trick your visitors by making ads look like a part of the site, then you need to decide which it is you care about more.

]]> By: RedBoy1 http://mixergy.com/adsense-phillips/comment-page-1/#comment-5778 RedBoy1 Tue, 16 Jun 2009 12:23:17 +0000 http://mixergy.com/?p=1786#comment-5778 Another great interview Andrew! <br><br>Loved the talk about "Mousetrapping"... a quality banner and a low price pulling people to a crappy site just to get them to click awayit's low, it's dirty, but there's no denying it's clever. I presume that mousetrapping and blending the ad into the content maximise short term revenue in a one-shot environment, rather than when you're trying to develop a community with repeat traffic. You mentioned above that “ugly sites have incredible sales numbers”... how did you find that out?<br><br>What were the names of the other competitive intelligence websites Marc mentioned? Recession Marketing Monkey commented on spyfu (which is really interesting), but I beileve Marc also mentioned a "pivotal" and a "trellion"? Another great interview Andrew!

Loved the talk about “Mousetrapping”… a quality banner and a low price pulling people to a crappy site just to get them to click awayit's low, it's dirty, but there's no denying it's clever. I presume that mousetrapping and blending the ad into the content maximise short term revenue in a one-shot environment, rather than when you're trying to develop a community with repeat traffic. You mentioned above that “ugly sites have incredible sales numbers”… how did you find that out?

What were the names of the other competitive intelligence websites Marc mentioned? Recession Marketing Monkey commented on spyfu (which is really interesting), but I beileve Marc also mentioned a “pivotal” and a “trellion”?

]]> By: AndrewWarner http://mixergy.com/adsense-phillips/comment-page-1/#comment-5767 AndrewWarner Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:14:12 +0000 http://mixergy.com/?p=1786#comment-5767 Making ads look like content is important to talk about on Mixergy because<br>it's being done so much. I want you see what's out there. Then you can<br>decide what makes the most sense for your company.<br><br>Thanks for the comment Jaremy. Making ads look like content is important to talk about on Mixergy because
it's being done so much. I want you see what's out there. Then you can
decide what makes the most sense for your company.

Thanks for the comment Jaremy.

]]> By: Jaremy http://mixergy.com/adsense-phillips/comment-page-1/#comment-5761 Jaremy Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:59:36 +0000 http://mixergy.com/?p=1786#comment-5761 I go back and forth with advertising. Especially when it comes to the CPC model. By disguising the look of Adsense advertisements, in many ways, it's openly deceiving your users. Though it's important for a company to serve ads if that's their only stream of revenue, I have to imagine that there's a better way to do it than though deception. And essentially, this is what we're talking about here: making an advertisement seem like it's a part of your site's content, so that a user trusts that it's a reliable source -- *even if it's not*.<br><br>I do serve ads on my own blog (<a href="http://www.techshots.net" rel="nofollow">http://www.techshots.net</a>), but I don't leave them inline with my posts. Honestly, I don't generate the pageviews to drive significant revenue, but that's not the goal of my blog. Just wanted to give my 2 cents :-) I go back and forth with advertising. Especially when it comes to the CPC model. By disguising the look of Adsense advertisements, in many ways, it's openly deceiving your users. Though it's important for a company to serve ads if that's their only stream of revenue, I have to imagine that there's a better way to do it than though deception. And essentially, this is what we're talking about here: making an advertisement seem like it's a part of your site's content, so that a user trusts that it's a reliable source — *even if it's not*.

I do serve ads on my own blog (http://www.techshots.net), but I don't leave them inline with my posts. Honestly, I don't generate the pageviews to drive significant revenue, but that's not the goal of my blog. Just wanted to give my 2 cents :-)

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