Hello

My name is Al Sowerby. I was born quite a few years ago in a village at the foot of Crossfell as you may not know is in Cumbria in the United Kingdom.

This Blog is not going to be about Families or birthdays all that clutter. This is going to be about Information on a whole manner of things. Variable because of the input I hope I am going to get from you.

I know it is going to be variable as I have already had emails from quite a lot of people and they certainly were mixed. But all linked together on the main theme, The Web.

So I m going to kick off with a point that is growing to tremendous heights of late, and I may say with thousands of different themes.

I have been questioned about Adsence by Google. Questions on Guidelines, what makes Adsense special? Even its misuses, Oh yes and there are some creeping in. But I am sure Google are up to it, it is not easy to fool Google for long.

Of course adding Adsence to your web page is easy, that is what they always say don‘t they. That’s because THEY KNOW, AND NEARLY EVERYTHING YOU KNOW IS EASY. But not to someone who is not greatly computer literate. I think that is the proper term

. They say, all you have to do is copy the code from your Adsense account, when you have one. You will see it there in code box; also it is very important that you paste the code in the body tags of your html page. That is if you want it to run at all.

Also you make sure that three ad units are the maximum specified by Google Adsense, and no more than one link unit per page. And never mess with the Adsense code in any way, just paste it in as is, no changes.

Google Adsense is a bright light in the advertising system, but there again wrong/illegal methods are used to increase revenue. One glaring example is websites that do not use any useful content but use keyword loaded information, which could fool the search engines, but I think only for a time. Or the use of lashings of free content, The lesson is, never use schemes that will get you kicked out of the greatest thing going.

.So Google Adsense is special, but why?

Google have basic control over the ads that are displayed on the websites but the website owner is able to customize how the ad looks and also filter certain ones. Another thing I did not know. Colour has a lot to do with attracting customers to sign up. Did you know that? You didn’t? Then try the colours red and yellow. Let me know what happens.

Thoughtfully these ads are related to the theme the website caters for. This is not used often anywhere else.

Of course it is obvious that the visitors to the website containing Google Adsense ads are doing so because they are looking for that topic or theme. They would not stay long otherwise. So if the topic is related they might be tempted to click, so everyone is happy.

Of course the website owners usually get revenue for their displays but not always which makes a happy bunny too. Then again they are such an improvement on banner ads, they take up little space and are clear and readable.

So we all join together and give three hearty cheers to Google Adsense advertising programs.

Blogs

What is a blog? funny name isn‘t it so what should we say it is? Is it simply the jottings of what goes round ones head ? As I said before Blogs could be family orientated or amongst friends or maybe companies. Lots do it for fun, others to make money. Of course the real intention is to update it frequently, how frequently? Once a week , once a month?

It can be written like a newspaper but more personally. Something to think about.

I remember being told a long time ago when I was writing a book.This Guru, yes I knew some Guru‘s. He said, just put your words down as if you were talking to a friend sitting across the table from you, and you know how friends get engrossed in what they are discussing, let that same feeling seep into your writing and it will show.

Don‘t stop, keep going sentence after sentence, page after page, let it flow, just get your thoughts down on paper, you can clean it up later; but not too much. It has to be written just as if you were sitting there telling your friend a story. I did write the book, it was called Money From Honey I sold a few copies then sold the rights to it. It is still kicking around.

Do you like books, are you a reader or do you have a large collection of books cluttering your home. Well go to Amazon.co.uk.

Sign up as a member, costs nothing, When you get your user name and password, log into Amazon and at the browser you will see [sell my stuff] Click on this and this will take you to a page where you are asked to enter the ISBN number of the book you want to sell.

All books have this number either on the back cover or just inside the front cover. When you have entered the number, If the book is on Amazon`s lists, a new page will pop up with the name of the book and how much that book is selling for by Amazon `s shop. This is where you set your price. You set down the price you are asking, obviously lower than Amazon`s price. Then it is given a listing number and the jobs done , you have a book being sold by Amazon and it has cost you nothing. So off you go to the next book you have to sell.

This is all free of course until you sell , and then they take a small percentage. They also charge the customer the going rate for post and package that is also yours.

You will be notified when it is sold and they like to give you two days to post it off, and there it is, done. Great Eh.

Of course there comes a time when you are fresh out of books to sell. So then off you go to charity shops, book shops, garage sales to buy books cheaply, it`s surprising how many there are, and it`s fun.

Then again you can write your own ebook to sell on ebay or from a website. There are so many subjects to choose from, but the favourite idea is a subject you love and can be passionate about.

Gardening is a favourite one, there are so many categories, from flowers, shrubs, plants trees, fruit trees, and soil, composting, it’s a huge subject.

You just need to find a target of hungry people with a problem and you solve it, It could be dog training, how to bring up a newly acquired puppy, no easy task and hundreds of related problems. If you don’t know then find out from books and talking vets and other dog owners.

I will talk to you later but first of all I have a bit of news to the UK readers only. I have a free report, which will get you a bit excited. The title is :How to get what you want for less than you want to pay. It’s very and the coming weeks it is going to get even more exciting. So just call me at alan.sowerby@yahoo.co.ukfor your free report..

Windy.

PS . Next time I want to give you some tips about buying and selling on eBay