Website review please and an Adsense tip.

First of all a little background. I'm a real estate investor and have been in the field the last few years. My website has brought me sufficient traffic that I've been able to converse with buyers, sellers, and investors. I'm happy with that part.

http://www.foxvalleypropertysolutions.com

However within the last 2 weeks I decided to put Adsense on my webpages and while I was getting about 70 hits on average to my site within any given day. I might get a click or two a day and it bought coffee. Then I decided to put a whole bunch of subjects (articles) at the very bottom of my homepage, wrote some articles on Ezine and a few other places, did a couple of linkwheels and worked on joining forums with high PR backlinks. My hits jumped up and I made $9+ with Adsense (my best day yet.. this weekend I had a $2 day and Zero on Sunday). Anywho, I'm looking at recommendations for what I should do with the subjects that are at the very bottom of the page and cover a wide variety of things. If you were to click on the subjects, you would see that each one might contain anywhere from 8 articles up to about 30 or so and each page has Adsense on it. I have about another 20 subjects to add too. Anyway, seeing as it is a mess and most of the subjects are not related to real estate I'm looking for recommendations from the more experienced folks on what do do with each subject matter.... like each subject has its own website or I have one big FREE ADVICE website that covers all of these subjects (but then how would I concentrate on one niche?)hmmmmmmm

Oh, as a tip for folks (coming from a newbie). I setup all of my web pages initially for Firefox because it is what I use on a daily basis. Late last evening I ended up on a different computer that was Internet Explorer only. I freaked out when I saw that none of my Adsense ads were showing up near the top of the page. I didn't realize that there was such a difference between Firefox and IE and I scrambled to change things last night.

Any recommendations would be very very much appreciated.

 

Double stream of income.
It is very nice.
Your Adsens placement is also in perfect position.
Just Drive Traffic.

 

the first thing, i suggest you to change the theme. i prefer which has side bar then you can place adsense there
there many adsese options, you can try another one such as link and content

 

The double stream could be nice... its just the fact that I seem to have too much stuff going on with all the subjects at the bottom that aren't related to my real estate business website.

Mrgaban, so are you saying to just place the adsense in a different spot (along the side) but keep otherwise keep the website the same? I believe you can have 3 sets of ads on one page, correct?

 

If you think now that adsense can be a really nice addition to your revenues if you put in the work, then yes, opening a new website to put the articles inside, and just make a link from your real estate site to the new site. Start again the promotion work you did for the estate site, but for this new site, and sooner or later you'll see google send visitors to your new site. And then you'll be on your way to get paid every month by google.

 

I'm a newbie to affiliates, but not website design. I had a business website that was getting over 3,000 hits a day. One of the pages was listed in the 3rd spot by Google. But, it had been up since 2002. I never had any Adsense on it. IF this is your main business & it's local, I wouldn't "load it up" with ads. Start a new website, but hey....that's just my take on it! BTW: I never tried setting up web pages just for FireFox but IE. Web pages looked fine in FireFox. I.E. is usually the default in most web design software. I think IF you build it for IE it should look Ok in FF. IF you don't have your own web design software, then that's probably your problem.

 

Yes, it is my main business and it is local... or the majority of it is local right now. I don't mind having the ads on the site because in the real estate investing industry, lets just say that everyone is either selling a product, course, seminar, coaching, or something or other. But I do think that having all of the other subjects at the bottom (unless it were real estate related... ie mortgage, insurance, etc...) waters down the site.

So, now I think I just need to figure out how to separate those subjects out into a different site or sites and still capture niche words and be able to move traffic into those site(s).

When initially creating my site I used a template that another gentleman used as his sales page and he was getting an insane amount of hits. So I figured that I would change the wording around for my own location and it has worked out pretty well.... until I started using Adsense and saw that it wasn't showing up on IE. Yeah, I do tend to stay with Firefox because I've always been a sorta Linux/Firefox stay away from the bad guys sorta person.

 

I think that you made it look really professional

 

Well I'm working hard to take the subjects on the bottom of my real estate investing page and put them on a new site. I'll still keep them on the real estate site until I can get traffic showing up at the new site.
This is what I've come up with so far.... I'm working on an opt-in form
so it hasn't been put on the homepage yet. I haven't worked with the Adsense too much yet but I'm going to get something off to the side I believe.

http://www.adviceace.com

 

So my next question. I haven't submitted my new site http://www.adviceace.com to any of the search engines or advertised it in any way because I just created it today.
Any recommendations on getting it listed fast?

 

It's not because I have one such website, but try submitting it to social bookmark sites rather than web directories. Google tend to crawl social bookmark sites very often and that's the best way to get your site listed (not talking about ranked) quickly.

 

Just bookmark the homepage and not the individual topics/links correct?

 

Not in my opinion. Several of my users join the site just to post their homepage, but they don't understand the purpose. it's quite easy to get links to one's homepage, everybody does that. But it's more interesting to develop backlinks to internal pages to make it noticed on google. So that the internal pages can improve their rankings on the keywords they're about.

If all you're looking for is to be listed fast, then yes a link to the homepage will be enough.

 

Thanks for the advice. Today I'm working on social bookmarks to my different topics at http://www.adviceace.com with Stumble and Connotea.

 

I want to warn you about using the so-called adsense websites that you are using on your site.

This could be a reason for google to ban your account, please read the google adsense publisher terms one more time I don't think you have read about the no goes.

To the frontpage it looks great with the header section banner, but I am talking about the articles on lets say:

foxvalleypropertysolutions.com/accounting/bottleneck-oriented-business-management.html

If your domain first gets banned your screwed so think about what you put up there!

 

I have started to break everything away from my foxvalleypropertysolutions.com site and move things over to adviceace.com

Not sure what you are referring to in regards to the so called adsense websites.
I have articles included in my site and I'm inviting others to send their articles to my site for inclusion. My understanding is that you could have up to 3 separate adsense blocks on a page. Maybe I am not seeing something?

 

I see by looking at your sites html code that you built it with a web based design software, or maybe W3C is just your host???? I like to make my web pages at 1024 width. Can you determine where Google puts the ads....like across the top or as a sidebar deal???. Here's a tip. If your going to start designing multiple websites you should REALLY think about using NetObjects Fusion 7. Man it's nice. Before you click a button it has a box with a gif video showing what things that button will do. No need for any html coding, does it all. Blows Dreamweaver & Microshaft FrontPage (lol...lol) away. Oh, Fusion 7 even puts it in the search engines for you.

 

In the past I used Dreamweaver to create my sites but when I would update the individual pages, I would just go into my Bluehost account or throw it in notepad to do the html. I was never really sure what width to put the pages because it seems like everyone uses different settings on their computer. I am a sports photographer and am sometimes asked to provide images for the web in 800x600 format and at other times in 1080 or 1200 or 1600 width. I can't remember how I setup my real estate website because its been up for about 3 years and I only touch it from time to time. Here is my hobby website.
http://www.tomlinsonphoto.com I haven't touched that one in about 5 years and it looks funky depending on your computer settings. For my latest site that I setup yesterday http://www.adviceace.com I used CoffeeCup. I'll have to check out that NetObjects Fusion 7 though. It sounds sweet.

 

On your photography site it looks like 1024. You could put banners on it! Please don't tell me you use a Nikon....lol...lol!!!! Yeah, there's a way that you can have the most popular ebay auctions listed in a scroll deal. I think I might try that along with Amazon.com. Your "Advice Ace" just about covers it all. Good idea!!! Just me & please don't take this the wrong way, but that site (Advice Ace) looks a little "ghostly". I don't know if it's the fonts or size....or maybe needs a little dressing-up. Just my 2 cents! I'm just telling you this because I try to look at a site like most people would the 1st time. Get some 2nd 3rd & 4th opinions about this cuz that site has the potential to make you some real money! $$$$$$$$$$$ (P.S, I had to delete your links cuz they wouldn't let me post this unless I did & they weren't even my links..strange!)

 

You know exactly what I'm talking about.
When you are gonna act like a donkey I wont give you more advice but this link.. www.google.com/support/forum/p/AdSense/thread?tid=396c188e4269f1a1&hl=en