Criteria to make his list of successful Adsense publishers:

• Has Adsense earnings of at least USD750 to USD1,000 per month.
• Has received cheques from Google routinely in the last 3 months.

Aranda added that almost all the people he contacted are Adsense veterans.

The list so far has 9 persons.

The latest in the list, added on 30th January, is Siswanto Muhtasor Muhammad, who at the moment has a full time job with a hospital in Kuwait:

• started on Adsense March 2006
• in first month, earned USD240
• now, monthly Adsense earnings are USD500-USD1,500
• everyday allocates 3-5 hours
• niche topic: health and medicine
• now he has 1 forum, 2 websites and 23 blogs
• traffic source: equally advertisement & search engines
• promotion methods: forum, mailing list, email
• last word: keep it up and tell the truth

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But this one guy posted at Usenet’s alt.gossip.celebrities on 28th Jan: “Why pay USD40 for the site membership, you can get all the content for free at www.parisexposed.org” That site turned out to be some kind of Made For Adsense (MFA) site. That domain probably cost him USD2 and he used domain redirection to point to either a free webspace or his existing webspace.

This could’ve made him quite a few clicks. Not bad huh? I’d call this “opportunistic click whoring.”

Tags: MFA, adsense, pay per click

According to johnchow.com, the world’s biggest Google Adsense earner is Markus Frind of plentyoffish.com, earning USD300,000 per month. That’s like winning Sports Toto’s Super 6/49 every month!

Markus Frind, a Canadian, programmed and runs the world’s biggest free online dating site from home. Plentyoffish.com receives up to 500 million page views per month and makes him over USD10,000 PER DAY.

Does even Malaysia’s richest people make RM35,000 per day?

The most amazing thing, to me personally, is that Markus only has one staff, which is his girlfriend, whose only job is to help him answer the emails. And the site surprisingly only requires 4 servers to handle all the traffic.

Some people said Markus lied about his income. But then he showed the following USD900,000 cheque from Google, which he said he got in 2 months. That’s more than RM3 million, and means almost RM400,000 per week. Hey, even David Beckham would feeling the heat!

The other big Google Adsense earners are listed in John Chow’s blog.

Here’s to a prosperous 2007.

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a. Strictly follow the rules mentioned in Adsense policies. You will always earn more revenue from Adsense by playing it clean.

b. Never modify the Google Adsense HTML code.

c. Don’t ask your friends or visitors to click on your Google ads. Do not include incentives of any kind for users to click on ads. Don’t label the Google ads with text other than “sponsored links” or “advertisements.“.

d. Don’t click on your own ads – Google is much smarter than you think. You should not reload your pages excessively. If you are testing your website layout with Google adsense, follow some precautions. Or you can use the unofficial Google Adsense Sandbox Tool that is accessible from Firefox, IE and other browsers to see what kind of Google ads will be served based on content (website address URL) or keywords.

e. Don’t place ads in pop-up windows, error pages or even empty pages.

f. Don’t start a “adsense asbestos” or “home equity loan rates” website merely to make money from accidental clicks (accidence). You will never make money out these “made-for-adsense-only” websites. Instead, write on topics what you are passionate about. Don’t waste your money on high-paying adsense keywords lists.

g. For short articles, CTR is best when ads are placed just above the content

h. For long articles, CTR improves if ads are placed somewhere in middle of the content – visitors read the long content and then they are looking for more resources.

i. Use Text Ads instead of Image Ads as users get more options. If you still want to display image ads, consider ad formats that support image ads – Choose either the 300×250 medium rectangle or the 160×600 wide skyscraper – or both, if you display multiple ad units on a page.

j. Google Ads without background color and borders always perform better. Make the border color and background color same as your page background color.

k. Always put ads above the main fold. Make sure that the ad unit with the highest clickthrough rate is the first instance of the ad code that appears in the HTML. Since the first ad unit is always filled before the rest, you want to make sure that ad unit is located in the best placement on your page.

l. Try setting the ad link URL color to a lighter shade. If your text is black, you may make the adlink as light gray.

m. Go Wide – The large rectangle is the best paying adsense format (336×280) – The Google Adsense Publisher team also feels that the best formats are the wider ones – the ad formats that contain the widest individual ads. Try using the 336×280 large rectangle, 300×250 medium rectangle, or 160×600 wide skyscraper.

n. Placing images next to ads or above ads does help in attracting user attention.

o. Blend AdLinks with other navigation links or place horizontal adlinks at the top of your webpage. AdSense publishers are permitted to click on link unit topics on their web pages, provided that they do not click on any Google ads on the resulting page.

p. Organize an Adsense Party for your friends and colleagues – Request them to navigate your website, watch their activity – it will provide vital clues about which regions on your website draw more user attention. Try putting ads near those areas. (Thanks Darren)

q. You can put upto 3 adsense units on a page. Try putting a large skyscraper on the right navigation sidebar of your website. That area is close to the browser scrollbar. You can also add 2 AdSense for search boxes, 1 adlink unit and 1 referral button per product (i.e., 1 AdSense referral button and 1 Firefox plus Google Toolbar referral button).

r. The first few lines of your content are an important factor for determining what Ads are served on your webpage. That’s the right place to put keywords in bold (strong or &ltb> tags) or header tags (h1, h2, etc).

s. Always select the setting to open Google Adsense search box results in a new browser window, so you won’t lose your visitors. Click the Open search results in a new browser window checkbox and this add target=”google_window” to your form tag.

t. Maximum people think the search box is on the top right corner. So you know where to put it.

u. Don’t syndicate full content. If people can read everything from the newsreader window itself, why would they visit your website where your ads are.

v. Use URL channels to determine performance of individual pages. I track my most popular pages with Google Analytics, Statcounter and create a channel for each of the URL. You can even track Adsense Clicks with Analytics

w. For low CTR pages, try changing titles or adding more content to get better focused ads

x. Block low paying advertisers with Filters. Why to loose a visitor for 0.01 cents. Use Overture or Google Adwords Keywords tool to discover keywords that are less popular with advertisers.

y. The AdSense for search Top Queries report shows you what your users are looking for, by listing the 25 most common searches conducted through your AdSense for search boxes. Use this report to identify additional topics to add to your site, or to keep track of your most sought-after information. Focus and improve that content.

z. Not everyone has a RSS reader. Use RSS to Email services like FeedBlitz, Bloglet or Rmail to let users subscribe to your blog by email.

Remember, you are the best judge when it comes to choosing ad formats. Even Google doesn’t offer the best advise always. For instance, in the visual heat map, Google suggests that webmasters are best served by positioning ads on the upper left-hand side of a Web page. But on the Google homepage, you will find ads on the far right.

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In the bigger picture Plentyoffish.com is neck in neck with yahoo personals and still a ways behind match.com. It amazes me to think that my 1 person company is able to compete at a level where all the competitors have 600+ servers, and 300+ full time staff. I feel like I am ahead of my time, and when I look around at the companies out there today I have a hard time seeing them existing in a few years. I believe that in a few years 2 or 3 person companies will replace companies that have 40 or 50 employees.

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Tags: frind, adsense, money, markus frind

In his personal blog, Markus shares some ideas on how to achieve our dreams.

One great tip from him is this:

There are many affiliate networks out there that will pay you to promote products and services. My favorite networks are ones that pay per action, ie someone just has to give their email address or phone number. This lead pays out $5.10 for anyone that fills out the form. This singles Cell phone offer is a offshoot of a ring tone offer, you get paid $12.00 for every person that enters their cell phone number.

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Tags: frind, markus frind, adsense, money, affiliate, affiliates

At his personal blog, he shares his thoughts.

In essence, he’s saying: “the trick is to pick an area where you can grow virally.”

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The interview

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Markus Frind probably is the standard bearer, at USD300,000 per month (that’s more than RM1 million!)

Others at the top

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