Welcome to Obama - The New US Leader
Perubahan telah datang ke Amerika," seru Barack Obama saat menyampaikan pidato kemenangannya di Chicago, Illinois, AS."Jalan di depan kita masih panjang. Pendakian kita akan curam. Kita mungkin tak akan sampai dalam satu tahun atau bahkan satu masa jabatan," kata Obama.
Para pendukung Obama pun berteriak-teriak, "Ya, kita bisa!" Demikian seperti ditayangkan stasiun televisi CNN, Rabu (5/11/2008).
Profil Barack H Obama
Obama adalah orang Afrika-Amerika pertama yang dicalonkan oleh sebuah partai politik besar Amerika untuk menjadi presiden.[1] Lulusan Universitas Columbia dan Sekolah Hukum harvard, dimana ia menjabat sebagai presiden Harvard Law Review, Obama bekerja sebagai koordinator masyarakat dan menjabat sebagai pengacara hak sipil sebelum menjadi Senat Illinois selama tiga kali mulai 1997 hingga 2004. Ia mengajar hukum konstitusional di Sekolah Hukum Universitas Chicago sejak 1992 hingga 2004. Setelah kegagalan meraih kursi di Dewan Perwakilan AS tahun 2000, ia mengumumkan kampanyenya untuk Senat AS bulan Januari 2003. Setelah kemenangan Maret 2004, Obama menyampaikan catatan kuncinya pada Konvensi Nasional Demokrat Juli 2004. Ia terpilih sebagai Senat pada November 2004 dengan 70 persen suara.
Sebagai anggota minoritas Demokrat di Kongres ke-109, ia membantu membuat undang-undang yang mengatur senjata konvensional dan mempromosikan akuntabilitas publik dalam penggunaan dana federal. Ia juga melakukan perjalanan resmi ke Eropa Timur, Timur Tengah, dan Afrika. Selama Kongres ke-110, ia membantu membuat UU mengenai lobi dan kecurangan pemilihan, perubahan iklim, terorisme nuklir, dan perawatan bagi personil militer AS yang pulang. Obama mengumumkan kampanye presidennya pada Februari 2007, dan dicalonkan pada Konvensi Nasional Demokrat 2008 dengan senator Delaware, Joe Biden sebagai pasangan kampanye.
Sebagai anggota minoritas Demokrat di Kongres ke-109, ia membantu membuat undang-undang yang mengatur senjata konvensional dan mempromosikan akuntabilitas publik dalam penggunaan dana federal. Ia juga melakukan perjalanan resmi ke Eropa Timur, Timur Tengah, dan Afrika. Selama Kongres ke-110, ia membantu membuat UU mengenai lobi dan kecurangan pemilihan, perubahan iklim, terorisme nuklir, dan perawatan bagi personil militer AS yang pulang. Obama mengumumkan kampanye presidennya pada Februari 2007, dan dicalonkan pada Konvensi Nasional Demokrat 2008 dengan senator Delaware, Joe Biden sebagai pasangan kampanye.
Blogging for Profit Using AdSense
The first obvious step is to find a niche. While it is possible to have a general interest blog, it may not be as profitable as targeting a specific subject (click here to read the logic behind targeted advertising).
Once you settled on a subject you like, its time to set up your blog. Blogger.com is great for beginners. Not only is it free (and free of ads, unlike most free hosting services), it has integrated support for AdSense (more on this later). For now, pick a suitable but catchy name and choose one of the pre-made designs
Of course, now you have to start making posts to your blog. There are two main types of posts. The most common type of content on blogs seems to be commentary plus a link to the actual news source or website of interest. Then there are original content posts which will have others link to you (much like you do in your commentary posts). Either way, make sure its interesting to have readers coming back.
Now its time to apply for Google's AdSense program. AdSense is a pay per click program which matches ads to the content of your page. Every time a visitor to your site clicks on one of these links, you receive a small amount of revenue (the minimum advertisers can bid for a link is $0.05, of which you receive a percentage. Many phrases can have bids as high as several dollars per click).
The content of your site determines what ads appear, and therefore how much you will ultimately make. The placement and appearance of ads, however, can have just as great an impact on how much you make.
There are a few tips for maximizing ad revenue. First, the appearance of the add itself is important. Google clearly labels all its units as advertising, but allows you to determine the colors of the links and the background. It is important that this match the look of your site. The more blatant an ad is, the more likely it is to turn off visitors. Just as important is the location of the ad units. They should appear on the top half of your page, and preferably on the left side. This insures the ad is viewed by most visitors.
Having covered the basics, its now time for you to experiment to discover what works best for your new blog. The best part is, it costs nothing to try.
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Markus Finch - Top Sucsess Adsense Story
Do a search from Yahoo! answer:
One of the best success story with Adsense is Markus Finch, who operates the immensely popular online dating website PlentyofFish.com.
PlentyofFish.com's business model is different from the subscription based model used by the big online dating websites. Instead of subscriptions, Markus relies on advertising, specifically Google Adsense to derive income from his website. In a post at Webmasterworld.com, Markus reveals that he has earned $1 million from Adsense alone in 3 months, and the lessons he shares are:
1. Understand your traffic and how it could affect your keywords.
2. Create sites that will bring in repeat traffic.
3. Have your users create content and lots of it.
4. Do not enter markets with a lot of competition monitized via adsense.
5. Keep your site simple.
6. Learn from various forums and if people are not talking about your market, there is a good chance you will make money.
It is not easy to predict how much you will earn from Adsense. The only way you can learn about how your site will perform with Adsense is through trying it. The amount you can earn will depend on the:
1. Responsiveness of audience to the ads = Users looking to book a travel to Spain comes to your site about tourist destinations in Spain is a site that will do well with Adsense as users are more likely to click on an ad about hotels in Spain. However, if you are a gaming website where the main purpose of the user is to play games on your site, then Adsense will not perform as well.
2. Ad format = some types of ads do better than others depending on your content and layout. In our case, large rectangles in the middle of the content is the best, while leaderboards do not generate as much as income. Skys are the worst for us. Experiment and measure the results via channels and see which formats work best for you.
3. Ad placement - check Google's heat map as they have tested where the best placements are
4. Ad colors - sometimes ads blended into the content works wonders, but sometimes ads that contrast your site colors work best
5. Number of ad units on a page = we are allowed maximum of 3 ads + 1 ad links + 1 search box on a page. Maximize the allowed number based on the resulting look of your page (you don't want an overkill of ads). Users going to your page and reading your content may ignore the banner or rectangle at the top of the page, but may click on the ad at the bottom of the article
6. Smartpricing - the big unknown in Adsense. No one knows how this actually works.
Experiment with the factors above (except smartpricing, which you can't control), and see which combination works best. Remember though that not all sites do well with Adsense - even if you get gazillions of traffic but your visitors are not interested in looking for ways to spend their money, they won't be interested in your ads and won't click.
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