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| | | | became too popular and Google became ticked off |
| "Get Started, Make Money! It’s Easier than you | | | | with the degradation of its search results from |
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" talks to the ise of pre-packaged AdSense | | | | constantly repeated content. They have tried to |
| sites as a learning opportunity. These sites - once up - | | | | strangle the concept, but that is frankly impossible. |
| are immediate potential money-earners; but they are | | | | VRE sites are all about content and so is Google! |
| also prototypes that allow you to improve them and | | | | Indeed, the bulk of Google's profits come from this |
| learn. It's always easier to improve something than to | | | | source. |
| imagine and create it from scratch. There's something | | | | But, enough background. From the newbie point of |
| about actually seeing it, complete, that affects the | | | | view, pre-packaged AdSense Sites are a huge |
| human mind, releases tension, and stimulates ideas for | | | | learning opportunity. The idea is simple. |
| improvement. | | | | You find a package. And install it. For an example of a |
| We've all experienced it. | | | | site in its more or less raw form go to . You now |
| The cook who invents a new cake and instantly has | | | | publish the site — or a whole slew of them |
| everyone telling her how it could be better
if she | | | | either under different domain names or in |
| only did this! The engineer who designs and builds a | | | | sub-directories of one domain. Your web host will tell |
| new bridge and has a hundred imitators (all with their | | | | you how to do that. |
| own variants) within weeks. | | | | You now have a site with income potential and you |
| In the world of regular business, this is the role of | | | | start classic traffic building. So far, so typical
But, you |
| prototypes. To *show* everyone what can be. In the | | | | don't have to leave it there. |
| world of Japanese manufacturing, the concept of | | | | So far we have used some simple techniques |
| *kaizen* (that drove them to world manufacturing | | | | — taking a bunch of web pages, uploading them, |
| dominance) depends on the same phenomenon | | | | introducing them to the web site etc. But there are |
| — invent a process then continually improve it. | | | | endless things you can do that may leave your site |
| If this is embedded in the human character why go | | | | looking totally different in a short time - though it will |
| against the flow? Yet, newbies to the web do it all the | | | | never stop potentially earning money. |
| time! They either try to learn all the skills first (taking | | | | You are using the site as a prototype. Improve the |
| months and months to come to any income) or they | | | | graphics. Add your own content (Google will love you!). |
| hand over the bulk of the profits to some guy with a | | | | Change the layout. Add other providers — for |
| pre-packaged opportunity that promises to take away | | | | example Yahoo! Publisher Network. Add Affiliate Links. |
| the pain — usually of technology. | | | | Add all kinds of stuff. |
| Well, it may not suit everyone, but there is a third way. | | | | As you play, you learn! In the teaching trade it is called |
| Pre-packaged AdSense sitesAdSense is the Google | | | | "experiential learning" or "learning by doing", and it's the |
| advertising program that places those tiny, clickable | | | | way the vast bulk of us learn — particularly |
| advertisements on sites all over the web. AdSense is | | | | adults. |
| really the other side of the coin from AdWords. | | | | The risk associated with this is small. You need a |
| AdWords are the ads that appear in the top right of | | | | domain, a host, a package, and some web site |
| Google sales pages. Well, in AdSense the ads are | | | | creation software. Total cost a few hundred dollars, if |
| placed on private sites and Google splits the proceeds | | | | you buy it all yourself. |
| with the owner. | | | | But you get a huge amount for it. |
| AdSense is a well-established way to make a steady | | | | A potential money-maker, a search engine optimized |
| — mostly passive — income on the web. | | | | site, a learning opportunity and something else
a |
| The idea is simple: you set up a site, stuff it with | | | | sense of accomplishment. Remember, the toughest |
| content (usually articles), optimize every page to its | | | | thing in web home business is the loneliness. When you |
| keywords, introduce it to the search engines and other | | | | start from scratch you condemn yourself to months of |
| drivers of traffic and then sit back and collect the | | | | lonely learning and frustration. Learning by doing - when |
| checks!There's a whole crowd of industrious e-book | | | | the site is always potentially earning, and eternally |
| writers churning out instructions on how to do this. The | | | | *complete* - takes away a huge amount of the |
| most famous is John Reese, an internet guru's guru, | | | | pressure and frustration. |
| who named these sites virtual real estate'. | | | | AdSense pre-packaged sites make almost perfect |
| Snappy!The problem with VRE's is that the concept | | | | learning tools. |