Last year’s successful launch of FIFA 2008 News inspired me to try again this year. Through hard work and a lot of viral marketing (commenting on blogs and forum participation) I managed to make FIFA 2008 News one of the major FIFA blogs.

I’ve moved the entire blog to FIFA2009News.com and redirected the traffic to the new site as well. I’m really looking forward to this.

I just love the smell of a new blog in the morning…

Last year’s blogging experience taught me a lot. This time I’ve got some more attention an already a lot of loyal readers and contributors.

I’ve changed the theme and reduced the number of ads. I’m not sure it will make me just as much money as last year, but I can always give it a small ad-facelift.

I’ve got a lot of available ad-space, so if you have any suggestions on how to fill them out, please let me know.

I’ve tried with in-text ads, but I think they are more annoying than helpful.

I want to monetize the blog, I’m just not completely sure which networks I should use. I’m really hoping on some input from you my dear reader.

Who should I put my faith in to? Which ad network will make me a few bucks? Which one do you prefer?

So if you are into soccer/football video games FIFA 2009 News is THE place to go.

This is part two of my blog tips and links. Today with Adsense.

Adsense is a service offered by Google. There are as many ideas and suggestions out there as there are sites/blogs on how you should position your ads. I’ve collected some of those that helped me where to place them. There are a bunch of plugins too, but I’ll cover those in another post.

Starting up from scratch
Google Adsense – Quick Introduction
Adsense Introduction: What is Adsense?
Google Adsense and WordPress – Does it make cents?

Google’s heat map

General tips/collections Note that some tips are recycled
Google Information for Webmasters
Adsense tips for bloggers
Google Adsense Optimisation tips
Adsense tips to increase your revenue
Google Adsense Information, hints, tips and examples
13 Ultimate Adsense tips collection
10 Adsense tips for maximum click-through rates
7 ways to get super Adsense income
Top 10 AdSense Tricks To Boost Your Commission

Layout/placements:
Tips for better adsense ad layout
Don’t blind optimize your adsense
Adsense unit size tips
A short guide to ad sizes
Adsense loading order affects click value
How to positions ads on a blog
Where to place ads in WordPress
Keywords
AdSense Tips: What Decides the Ads that Get Displayed?
Finding the highest paying adsense keywords

Who wants to make money while others search the net? Recently launched Sharogle.com gives you the opportunity to do that.

It is pretty simple – Sharogle.com uses Google Adsense search bar known from many website, including this one. Instead of keeping the earnings for themselves it is shared among the users. When you sign up, you register with your Adsense id and that is it. Now when someone uses Sharogle.com to search it could be your Adsense id that gets the “click”.

When you use Sharogle you are not searching with your own Adsense ID. Random IDs except your own are rotated for each query. Each time you search, you get a point. Members with the most points will enjoy a greater percentage of rotations. You will get paid from clicks produced by other members who used your ID during a search. The Sharogle system does not allow members to search using his own Adsense ID. Only the IDs of other members will be rotated during a search. Sharoglers get 50% of the revenue. It is free to sign up at Sharogle.com and the only thing that can happen, is that you earn a little money.

Fear not its not just for moms. As you know I am going to be an eDad in September and I’m still allowed to read the site.

eMoms features alot of brilliant articles, idea, WordPress tutorials and how to monetize your blog.

eMoms are celebrating their 1st anniversary this week (Congratulations!) with several contests.

This is copied from the birthday post:

“Well, I’m wrapping up Advertising and Affiliate Week, and it’s been a bit hectic – so I haven’t been able to put up as much material on these topics as I would have liked. Nonetheless, next week we’ll be talking about blogging and social media as we wrap up the eMoms Birthday Party Contest (and I’ll have plenty of time to write more and more about this stuff in the future!).

Monday we’ll be celebrating the Blog Birthday by giving out the following prizes:

• A FREE copy of Uncommon AdSense – by Eric Giguere
• 2 FREE years of GoStats analytics tracking from Richard Chmura
• A FREE SEO site analysis and improvement plan from Viperchill
  (I know, I know, better late than never!)
• FREE hosting for a year from Bill Hartzer
• The book Meet and Grow Rich by Joe Vitale and Bill Hibbler
• A $500 Coupon off of a ticket to Elite Retreat donated by the Elite Retreat founders themselves!

Then for Blogging and Social Media Week, look forward to some of the best giveaways of all:

• A FREE Premium subscription EarnersForum donated by Lee Dodd
• The book Meet and Grow Rich by Joe Vitale and Bill Hibbler
• A $500 Coupon off of an Elite Retreat ticket (Orlando in June, anyone?)
• The *Grand Prize* is a FREE phone consultation with Jeremy “ShoeMoneyâ€? Shoemaker and myself to talk specifically about how to grow your blog or business

What to do to win?

For the Grand Prize, you must subscribe to the eMoms at Home feed – there is a secret link in the feed that steers you to a page with simple instructions to enter the drawing to talk to ShoeMoney. For all other prizes, simply link to the blog and you are entered.
I really hope everyone has read this, because only 25% of the new subscribers to this blog have actually officially entered the contest. I want you to win!!!
**Important clarifying fine print: Any link to this blog in the month of April enters you into the contest automatically. You don’t need to link every week, and you can link to it however is appropriate for your site. You needn’t stay subscribed to the feed any longer than you want to, but you do need to be subscribed in order to win the prizes as stated (though I have my fingers crossed you’ll stick around!). Links from Splogs won’t count. You must have a way for me to contact you on your site so that I can deliver your prize if you win, too.

If you don’t own a blog, but do have a web site, you can still post a link to this site to enter – just PLEASE send me an email with the link to your page, because Technorati won’t track it automatically. If your blog link hasn’t appeared in Technorati, then I don’t know you have linked to the site.”

Here is a collection of Google Adsense advice and help that I have assembled from the web. I found several of them on various other blogs.

Starting up from scratch
Google Adsense – Quick Introduction
Adsense Introduction: What is Adsense?
Google Adsense and WordPress – Does it make cents? (WordPress)
Starting your Adsense business with free blogs (Blogger/blogspot)
Google’s heat map

After that, try this post: How to make money with Google Adsense

General tips/collections Note that some tips are recycled
Google Information for Webmasters
Adsense tips for bloggers
Google Adsense Optimisation tips
Adsense secret tips and optimization tricks
Adsense tips to increase your revenue
Making money through Google Adsense
Top 10 ways to supercharge Adsense
Adsense tips for bloggers
Google Adsense tips
Google Adsense Information, hints, tips and examples
13 Ultimate Adsense tips collection
10 Adsense tips for maximum click-through rates
7 ways to get super Adsense income
Top 10 AdSense Tricks To Boost Your Commission

Layout/placements:
Tips for better adsense ad layout
Don’t blind optimize your adsense
Adsense unit size tips
A short guide to ad sizes
Adsense loading order affects click value
Maximizing Profits With Website Design and Layout: Part II
Effective blog layout map

Keywords
AdSense Tips: What Decides the Ads that Get Displayed?
Finding the highest paying adsense keywords

Search engine optimization
Search engine optimization basics: Improve your standing in search engines
Search Engine Optimization Tips for Blogs
Search Engine Optimization for Blogs – The Complete ProBlogger Guide to SEO
SEO tools for webdesigners

PHP or codes
HOW TO: Create intelligent blog ads
Split testing Adsense
Adsense tip: randomizing ads
Trying to boost Google Firefox referals program earnings
How to Get Immediate, Top Placement With Search Engines: A Pay-Per-Click Overview

Useful tools
Google Zeitgeist
Finding stop words
Chicklet Generator
Keyword selector tool
Keyword density checker
Overture bid tool

Other things you can do
Monetizing your blog archives
Putting adsense in your feed
Chasing pennies with Adwords
AlternateURL: Earn revenue from PSA ads!
Adsense revenue sharing

Things to consider
Can The Source of Your Traffic Affect Adsense Revenues?
Importance of a good Description
Using free information to earn big money with Google Adsense
Doubling Google Profits overnight
Maximised Adsense earning overnight
Understanding Adsense (Adsense as content)
Cracking the Google Adsense Code

Tax
Do I Have To Pay Taxes On My Ad Revenue?
It’s tax time! (Paying taxes on Adsense revenue)
Taxes on Adsense

Terms and conditions
Google AdSenseTM Online Standard Terms and Conditions
Adsense policies
Know thy Adsense terms and conditions
Common mistakes by Google adsense publishers (Full explanation here)

Preventive measures for Google Adsense ban
You Too Can Be Banned From AdSense With No Money Down (Enquire Within) Part 2 (Reinstating suspended Adsense account)

Other lists
Blog advertising programs A-Z
39 Google Adsense alternatives
Highest Paying Search Terms
High paying Adsense keywords updated

Websites that will help you
www.seospot.info for search engine optimization
www.problogger.net and www.performancing.com for blogging-related advice
adsensemaster.blogspot.com, one of many adsense-related blogs

There are definitely more out there so I will add them from time to time. Do check back for new additions. If you have any other links feel free to add them through a comment. Thank you.