Title: AdSense Secrets 4; What Google never told you about making money with AdSense
Author: Joel Comm
Filename: adsense_4.pdf
Website: http://adsense-secrets.com/
Price: Free
Subject:
Quote: "In this book you will find hands-on solutions to many of the concerns and challenges faced by content publishers in their quest to attract targeted traffic, improve content relevance and increase responsiveness to AdSense ads — using easy and legitimate techniques that have worked for me and many others."

Contents:
Part 1: GETTING STARTED WITH GOOGLE ADSENSE
ADSENSE — MAKING THE MONEY!
HOW TO "TWEAK" YOUR ADS TO MAKE THEM "CLICK"!
USING COLORS TO INCREASE YOUR CLICKS
HOW TO MAXIMIZE VISIBILITY AND RESPONSE
CONTROLLING YOUR ADS
QUICKSTART ADSENSE: A STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE

PART 2: BEYOND BASIC ADS
CATCH FICKLE VISITORS WITH THE GOOGLE SEARCH BOX
GOOGLE’S REFERRAL PROGRAMS
USING MULTIPLE AD BLOCKS
BUILDING CONTENT

PART 3: FOLLOWING THE FIGURES
RESPONSE TRACKING: YOUR HIDDEN POT OF ADSENSE GOLD!
SMART PRICING AND WHAT IT MEANS FOR YOUR INCOME.
HOW TO MAKE ADSENSE WORK WITH INTERNET COMMUNITIES AND COMMERCIAL SITES
HOW TO READ YOUR VISITORS LIKE A BOOK
WHAT TO DO BEFORE YOU APPLY TO GOOGLE ADSENSE

PART 4: ADVANCED TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES
RECOMMENDED RESOURCES: TRY THESE TOOLS AND ADSENSE UTILITIES (SOME ARE FREE!)
KEEPING TRACK OF WHAT WORKS — AND WHAT DOESN’T WORK — FOR YOU!
OTHER CONTEXTUAL ADVERTISING PROGRAMS AND HOW TO USE THEM WITH ADSENSE
GETTING TRAFFIC TO YOUR WEB SITE
SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION

PART 5: QUICK TIPS
ADSENSE PROHIBITIONS, MISTAKES AND PROBLEMS
TROUBLESHOOTING — WHAT TO DO IF YOU’RE NOT GETTING THE RESULTS YOU WANT
STAYING UP TO DATE AND LEARNING THE LATEST ADSENSE TIPS
CASE STUDIES
CONCLUSION
GLOSSARY

My opinion:
A good, thourough manual for using AdSense ads on your page in the right way. It can in most cases double or even triple your AdSense income (if that’s your way of making money).

Did I mention it is free? Be aware though:  it’s a Free Trial, so you have to cancel, otherwise you will be billed $29.95 every 30 days.

You can get the product here: AdSense Secrets 4

Title: The 7 Critical Steps To Internet Marketing Success.
Author: Tracy Repchuk
Filename: 7SuccessfulSteps.pdf
Website: http://www.internetmarketingnewbieclub.com/newbie.php?code=S01
Price: Free
Subject:
Quote: "Discover How I Went From Newbie To Best Selling Author To New Internet Marketing Success of the Year and Platform Speaker in 8 Months… And How You Can Do It Too!"

Contents:
I like her statement:

“ When I discovered Internet Marketing I had never seen an industry that could give so much, so fast, yet for some, could practically swallow them whole. “

“ It would overwhelm with information, allow them to buy things they didn’t
need, cause them to lose focus, waste time, and get frustrated never
being able to make it work like everyone else did. “

I totally agree with this. I think she is sincere in her desire to take newbies by the hand and teach them step by step.

The content of the pdf is about the 7 Critical Blocks to Building Your Internet Marketing Empire.

The seven building blocks are:
1. Identify a niche market
2. Test the idea to see if it will be profitable
3. Create a Landing Page.
4. Write the sales Page
5. Create the Product (usually an ebook – or a membership
site)
6. Create a Traffic Hurricane
7. Maximize Your Marketing Funnel

My opinion:
I think it’s a good manual to get started with internet marketing.

One of the questions I ask myself since I started my quest to earn money on the internet:
   "Which money making site should I join?"
I found a few answers. Here they come.

Investigate the website
One thing you have to look out for when buying a product is "scams". If you don’t know what scams are, read this: http://www.squidoo.com/mlm_scams

You’ll need some sherlock holmes qualities and common sense for these.

- Google the website. Example: let’s say you see an interesting website.
Search in google: interestingwebsite.com scam
You might find information from people that complain about the website, but also people that have had bad experiences with the site.
- Do they sell a product?, or are they only selling you an opportunity to get other people join you?

Check scam information sites
Here’s a few good sites that tell you if programs are legitimate or not. Hover over the links to see a description.

http://www.ratingshub.com/review
http://www.scambusters.org

Check the internet marketing forums
These are forums about making money on the internet in various ways.
Some of the forums have members that are successful internet marketers / enterpreneurs themselves.

http://www.warriorforum.com
http://www.talkgold.com/forum/index.php
http://www.scam.com
http://www.scamfraudalert.com
http://www.wickedfire.com
http://forum.abestweb.com
http://netmarketingforum.com/forum
http://www.rolclub.com
http://www.dreamteammoney.com
http://www.im4newbies.com/forum
http://www.moneymakergroup.com
http://www.ewealth.com
http://www.netbusinesstalk.com

This is the first in a series of articles I want to share with you about my experiences in making money on the web. For the other articles, see:
My online internet marketing experiences Part 2
My online internet marketing experiences Part 3
My online internet marketing experiences Part 4

At august 9, 2008 I set my first steps in the internet marketing world. A friend of mine tipped me about MLM. I was interested. I started reading and reading and reading.

I bought my first product a month later;

- Adsense Secrets 4: "What Google Never Told You About Making Money With AdSense", 4th edition for $9.95.
Right now, it’s for free… I bought this product because the number of pages of the book was quite large (234).

I used TiddlyWiki to keep all the information I found. (See my previous post about TiddlyWiki: Keep track of information with TiddlyWiki). I tagged the information, organised it, reorganised it. I kept all the links to the websites I found, and for every site I wrote a little description so that I would know what it was about later.

From the beginning, I was very careful about starting something that wasn’t going to live up to its promise. I quickly found out that the internet was full of sites that promise you lots and lots of money in a short time.

I read about all kinds of ways to make money:

• Affiliate marketing (sell products for others)
• Article Marketing (write articles to sell products)
• GPT (Get Paid To = review products, fill in surveys, watch advertisements while surfing)
• Forum Marketing
• MLM (Multi Level Marketing or Network Marketing is a business-distribution model that allows a parent company to market its products directly to consumers by means of relationship referrals and direct selling.)
• PPC (Pay Per Click = If someone visits an advertisement on your site, you get paid)
• AdSense (Advertisements from google, if someone clicks on them, you get paid)
• AdWords (The advertisements of the advertisers from Google)
• Auction Stuff on eBay
• Blog for $$$ (put advertisements on your blog that people click on, or sell products, so you receive money)
• Stock market
• Troubleshoot PCs online
• Ponzi schemes (make money because people who join after you pay you)

I also read a lot of stories from people that were disillusioned in some way. People that spent hundreds or even thousands of dollars to find the latest and best way to become rich.

I further found out that a lot of products that are sold on one site for dollars, on the next site are being offered for free.

I quickly got tired with the screaming marketing sites, using all kinds of different font sizes, pictures of dollar bills, expensive cars, happy looking people, pictures of their profits. I didn’t know whether I could trust any site.

Right now, I’m setting up my website. I bought this domain at bluehost.com, installed Wordpress, added some plugins. I also want to make my website enjoyable, and offer good quality stuff, free or not.

A few plans that I have with this website:

• Offer products, free and paid
• Offering product reviews
• Offering MLM site reviews
• Joining a good MLM company that has a good mentoring program
• Make money as an affiliate