Summary: Google AdSense Secrets eBook, earlier priced at 97 dollars, is now available for free. Good guide to getting started with contextual advertising.
Just yesterday I shared you a secret to making money online, and today I share even more good stuff. I know, I know - the amount of "secrets" on my blog is getting overwhelming, but what can I do when people title their videos and eBooks like this? Anyway, let me show you what these 3 free guides are about and how to get them.
AdSense Secrets and More
Joel Comm is giving out some of his guides for free in order to promote his current product, the Secret Classroom. There are three Contextual Advertising Guides, including one very famous guide for AdSense, two more for Chitika and Kontera.
- AdSense Secrets 4.0, 237 pages
- Chitika Secrets, 35 pages
- Kontera Secrets, 39 pages
The AdSense Secrets guide, now available for free, is the updated version of the famous What Google Never Told You about Making Money with AdSense -eBook, originally published in 2005 and updated in 2008.
Joel has also published New York Times and Business Week bestselling book The AdSense Code
These products have been on sale before (the AdSense Secrets guide for $97), and they are now available for free. In total, there's three contextual advertising guides with over 300 pages of content available for download after giving your name and email to sign up for a email list.
Disclaimer
I wrote this post to share the free guides, not to promote or recommend the Secret Classroom itself. I suggest you download the free reports, at least the AdSense one.
I cannot recommend the Secret Classroom as I am not familiar with that myself. Secret Classroom might be really good product for all I know or it might be bull crap, so you're on your own with that :) Since I'm sharing the free downloads with you, I might as well use my affiliate links while doing it, right? With that said - if along the line, you choose to join the Secret Classroom, I will get paid (and I thank you for the coffee!).
Oh and feel free to unsubscribe from the email lists as soon as you have the PDF -files on your computer, or stay on lists, there might or might not be something good there. I'm cutting the email clutter myself, so I'm quite fast at unsubscribing from lists if all I see is promotions and sales pitches.
Google AdSense Secrets for Free
Who Else Wants The Most Popular eBook On Making Money with AdSense - FREE!
The AdSense Secrets guide is the updated version of the famous What Google Never Told You about Making Money with AdSense -eBook which Joel published in originally in 2005 and updated in 2008. This has been paid product so far, priced at $97, not available for free before.
People have been paying for this eBook, so it's definitely "worth it" now when it's free. Making money with Google AdSense is probably not as easy as it was couple of years ago (if it was actually easy even then), but the principles are the same and this book has them all.
The AdSense Secrets is good, in-depth guide to Google AdSense, or at least it is relatively long and comprehensive. There are sections on tweaking the ads to increase click-troughs, using proper colors, ad placement instructions, how to control the ads, using Google Custom Search, and advanced topics like building content, getting traffic, SEO and tracking performance.
There's even sections on combining AdSense with other contextual advertising networks, like Chitika, Kontera, etc. So all in all, this is great guide for AdSense and it even includes 12 case studies, which are always great addition to any information product.
Google AdSense Secrets 4.0 Free Download
If you get just one guide of the 3 shown on this post, get this one from adsense-secrets.com. Do note that it's been a paid product before, so you'll see the "typical" sales page (not too long thou), don't mind that as the eBook itself is now free - just scroll down to the bottom for the "Download for free Today".
Go the the site, sign up for the email, verify the subscription, download the PDF. In true Internet marketing fashion, this is for limited time only, whatever that means (a week? a year? forever?), so get it while you still can as I can't predict what Joel will do :)
The Other Guides
The Chitika and Kontera guides are much smaller. I wouldn't pay much for these, but luckily they are now free, so no worries there.
Chitika only shows ads for search engine traffic from US or Canada (other countries like UK is on it's way). So the ads are not showed to regulars, like RSS readers or people coming from Twitter for example, which is great.
The ads are highly targeted for the arriving search traffic, which results in high click-through rates compared to other advertising. In a sense, Chitika is actually helping your readers, which is the reason I like it a lot. If you're not using Chitika yet, I suggest you give it a go. The free guide gives an introduction to Chitika, so it should help you get going.
Kontera on the other hand turns words on the page into adwords / links. This is something I haven't used yet, but apparently it is working for some people, as I see many sites, including some really big sites, running Kontera ads. If you want to give it a go, this free guide will help you get started with Kontera.
If you'd like to have one or both of these guides, you can get them from these pages (again, signing up for the email list, verifying the subscription, download, unsubscribe if you don't want to stay on the list):
How To Get The Free Guides
In case you're not familiar with the email list dance (the sign up for a list, verify for the list (double opt-in), get second email with the download link, download), here are the instructions how to get the free guides:
- You get the download information after joining the email lists
- You can unsubscribe any time you want (right after you have the guides on your hard drive)
1 Go to one of the pages
2 Enter your name and email address
Scroll down a bit if needed. Ignore the "sales page", as the guides are free.
- You'll be redirected to Secret Classroom, but just ignore that
- Close the page once you are taken to secretclassroom.com
- (unless you have the time and really want to see what's it about. I didn't)
3 Go to your email and check if the mail arrived
The subjects of the emails will be something like these:
- Response Required, confirm to receive your copy of AdSense Secrets
- Response Required, confirm to receive your copy of Kontera Secrets
- Response Required, confirm to receive your copy of Chitika Secrets
4 Verify the subscription at your email inbox
5 Download the PDF
Repeat for the other 2 sites (if you want all 3). You'll probably receive sales and promotions from Joel if you stay on the lists, but you can unsubscribe after you have all the PDFs on your hard drive (I know that's not "cool" thing to do, but signing up for four lists to get 3 guides and keep all subscriptions is a bit much, isn't it?).
Conclusion
If you're thinking about making money with Google AdSense, or displaying AdSense ads on your blog, the AdSense Secrets eBook will help you with it. It won't be easy, but you won't know if it works for you if you don't try. With this it'll cost you nothing apart from the time you take to study it and then put what you learned into action.
I wish I could give you the direct links and save you the email hassle, which is kinda pain in the ass, but what can you do. And like said, at least get the AdSense guide, the other three are not that good.
p.s. I said it at the beginning, but just ignore the Secret Classroom stuff you'll be redirected to (or check it out if you really want, I don't care). I have very little knowledge about it, but wanted to share the free guides with you.
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