How to Avoid Scams on Internet Business

There are many work at home real home based business opportunities that will help you start making money today. Many people are worried about all the scams on the Internet, and therefore doubt that any home base business ideas can be real. Nothing could be further from the truth.

While it is true that there are many scams in the Internet today, there are many real legitimate and real home based business opportunities to find as well. How can you tell the difference between whether not a business opportunity is a scam are legitimate?

Here are some important tips and information help you determine this. First of all, there are many websites on the Internet today the claim you can start making literally thousands of dollars right away, and talk about the great lifestyle you will live.

Most of the time, these websites emphasize the lifestyle you will be living, the lifestyle they currently live, etc. but don’t talk at all about the business opportunity. They say once you pay them a certain amount of money, they will show you exactly how to achieve the money and lifestyle you’ve always wanted to. Keep this in mind: if they don’t talk about the business opportunity in the sales letter, it is almost assuredly a scam, and you should avoid at all costs.

It probably is not a real home based business, and if you can make any money from it, it’s such a miniscule amount that it really isn’t worth your time or effort to get involved with it. examples of these would be things such as getting paid to fill out surveys, data entry, envelope stuffing work from home, work at home typing, etc. the reality is, you can’t make serious money or even a full time income from these opportunities, and just about nobody does.

n fact, the only way you make any money at all is by advertising that particularly opportunity in online classified ads, and anytime somebody (a lead) contacts you about it, you fill out their name in an opt in form so that the company can market to them. No matter how many classifieds you put the ad in, you can’t make a full time income with work at home typing or any other of these opportunities, so don’t even waste your time with these opportunities.

Next, look for any contact information on the website. If the businesses is indeed a scam, you can be sure they won’t have the contact information, and therefore you should avoid them. However, they do have a legitimate address common this is a good indication that the business is viable.

Hopefully these tips will help you to find a good work at home real home-based is for you. There are many different ways to make money in the Internet, to may be going to hear. There is pay per click, search engine optimization, co-registration, posting in forums, etc., and that is to be having a traffic your website. Once you get traffic, you can monetize your site in various ways, including Google AdSense, affiliate products, your own products, whether they be information or physical products, etc.

There is no right or wrong way to make money online. The most important thing is to find a work at home real home based business, become an expert at that one, and focus exclusively on that. Don’t get distracted by all the opportunities out there; focus on one thing, become an expert at that, and you will start profiting tremendously as a result.

How to Improve AdSense Quality Score

Most people have no idea that this even exists. Yes, there is a quality score for AdSense as well, not just for AdWords. If your site has a low AQS (AdSense Quality Score), then it will be “smartpriced” and you will get paid less for the clicks your site generates.

Since we are in the business of making more money, let’s see some of the things you can do to prevent this from happening…

You need to know that Google has some universal rules that they apply to pretty much everything they do.

If a page has certain qualities, it will rank higher on Google

If a page has certain qualities, it will get a higher quality score in AdWords

If a page has certain qualities, it will display AdSense ads that pay you more.

Here are some of the things you can do to improve your AdSense Quality Score:

- Add quality links to your pages
- Add related keywords to your main term: If you have a page about “seduce women” you may consider including some keywords like “pick up artist”, “dating” etc…
- Use Terms of service and privacy policy links on your page. Yes, this can result in a higher Adsense quality score. Do it.
- Try to make your site more interactive so that visitors will stay on it longer. Google thinks that, if someone spends more time on your site, it must be high quality. Adding comment forms, special reports, videos etc can make your visitors stay more on your aite.
- Tell your visitors to bookmark your site (Google considers this a good sign of high quality as well)

Google Sends Secret AdSense Online Advisory Council Invites

Google is sending out invitations to select top Google Adsense publishers to join the AdSense Online Advisory Council, a select group of publishers who offer input on new AdSense products and features and help to make them better.

Darren Rowse says emails were sent to an unknown number of publishers in the last 24 hours inviting them to join the secret council. He posts the excerpts of the forwarded emails.

“As a member of the Council, you will have the opportunity to:
- Contribute to a community of other respected publishers in the council
- Test new features and products before they are released to the general public
- Provide direct feedback to the AdSense team on how we can better serve our publishers”

Darren asked in DigitalPoint Forums if these emails were legitimate and not spam. Search Engine Roundtable says it is legitimate since the email was sent from adsense-research@google.com, and he got a similar email in February 2006 from the same email address with the subject “AdSense Beta Council Invitation.” (Did he join?)

Did you get an invite to the AdSense Online Advisory Council?

Did you know there is a secret Google Display Advertising Network!

Display Google Adsense on “Allowed Sites” Only

What happens when some site banned by Google copies your content, along with your Google Adsense codes and displays ads on their site. Google would not be too happy. Now you can identify the URLs that are allowed to display Google ads for your account.

Login to your Adsense account, go to Adsense Setup > Allowed Sites - and you can choose your whitelist sites and either allow all sites or list specific sites. Once you activate your listed sites, ads will still show on other sites, but impressions and clicks will not be recorded, nor will you earn any money for those clicks.

What was the need to create a Allowed Sites list?

“We’ve added the Allowed Sites feature because we’ve learned that some AdSense publishers are concerned about potentially malicious behavior from others on the web, such as stealing their ad code and placing it on an inappropriate site. By offering this feature, we allow AdSense publishers more control over which sites or URLs can have their AdSense code.”

It will take a few hours for the changes to take effect. Remember, you will not receive earnings if other sites list them, so be sure to keep your list up to date. Determine all your domains that host Adsense ads and list them. If you do not change any settings, by default, they allow any site to show ads for your account.

However, Amit is not setting Allowed sites, and explains some valid reasons for the same.

“A part of traffic coming to this site originates from Google/Yahoo cache (when the main site is inaccessible), online translation services like Babelfish (for non-English visitors) and from proxy servers (where the site may be banned). And some social sites / web directories display external content inside frames. With Adsense Whitelist in place, you miss an opportunity to monetize this indirect traffic.”

Of course if someone is misusing your Adsense publisher ID, then you have to enable the features. In normal circumstances, will you set Allowed sites for your Adsense account?

Google Adsense Launches Google Gadget Ads

Google Adsense has built gadget ads to advertise the AdSense program. Gadget ads enable advertisers and agencies to engage audiences on the Internet’s largest ad network with a rich and interactive new ad format.

Here is what the new Google Gadget ads look like -

The Google gadget ad can be seen on the Adsense blog. You need to enable image ads on your Adsense account and be using the one of the image ad formats to get such a gadget ads to be featured on your site. The most popular sizes for gadget ads are the rectangle, leaderboard, and skyscraper formats.

Gadget ads can be priced on either a cost-per-click (CPC) or cost-per-thousand impressions basis (CPM). These gadgets are new and as the gadget ad inventory increases, you may see these ads begin to appear more on your site.

Personally I do not like these ads as they clutter up my web design. Enabling image ads will also allow Flash adsense ads as well as video adsense ads. Adsense says it is a good idea to enable image ads as they compete with text ads for the same ad space and can make you more

Google Adsense Payments by Western Union Quick Cash

A new payment option is appearing on dashboards of Google Adsense publishers that will make transfer of money across the world even faster. Normally you get a mailed cheque or can opt for the faster Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT), but the new Western Union Quick Cash lets you receive your AdSense payments in cash using the worldwide Western Union money transfer service.

AdsenseAdvisor, A google representative points out in the Webmaster World Forums

“We haven’t officially announced the launch yet because there were a couple language translation issues, which should be fixed this afternoon. However, this feature has successfully launched, and if you live in one of the countries mentioned, you can sign up for this payment method now.”

Payment by Western Union Quick Cash is currently available in the following countries
* China (Mainland)
* Malaysia
* Pakistan
* Romania
* Philippines
* Argentina
* Chile
* Peru
* Colombia

This new Western Union money transfer service option will cut down on the bank fees and long clearing times associated with depositing checks. Remember your Western Union Quick Cash payment will be made in US dollars, though you may have the option to receive your payment in your local currency. Note that they can only send Western Union Quick Cash transactions to individual payee names, not business accounts.

Find your Western Union Payment Services agent. Read how to pick up the Western Union Quick Cash payment requirements like need for a valid government-issued photo ID, your unique MTCN (Money Transfer Control Number) etc.

Share Your Google AdSense Story Contest

Google AdSense is running a story contest where they want to hear from you about how Google Adsense has helped you. Shoot a video, tell your story, submit it and you could be featured on the AdSense blog in the coming weeks.

Check out the details of the AdSense Story Contest. Shoot your story video (maximum of 2 minutes) and submit it as a video response to Tim’s video. Of course you will need a YouTube account to submit your video.

However, they warn that do not use any trademarked logos, images, or copyrighted material, do not reveal any specific AdSense statistics such as clickthrough rate or eCPM, do not advertise or encourage users to visit your site and click on your ads. And you need to adhere to both YouTube and AdSense Terms and Conditions.

Hurry! they have extended the deadline until November 14th, and are also promising some cool Google schwag. They are looking a simple story from the heart about your own AdSense Story…