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Monday, May 22, 2006 

Adsense Sharing - Jumping On Someone Else's Bandwagon

Before I get into my project for this week, I thought it might be helpful to talk about Adsense revenue sharing. It's the next big thing in content-based sites, but not only can it be helpful to the publishers, but it can also be a good opportunity for writers as well. Most revenue sharing sites fall into one of three categories: forums, blogs, and articles.

On forum sites you typically get a percentage of the revenue on any thread you contribute to. These can be especially useful for people that already spend way too much time on forums as it is. Just start splitting your time between your old forum and your new, money making forum. The first bulletin board to ever pull this off is the Digital Point Forum
, which is aimed at webmasters.

Blogging has grown to be a huge phenomenon. Everybody has begun sharing their lives on the internet, some to make money, some for the joy of it. If you're blogging just to make money, then most likely you'll fail at it. You have to have another reason to wake up and start typing each day otherwise you'll probably end up quitting pretty quick. The benefit of joining into a larger blogging site is that you can use their traffic to drive hits to your site. Building traffic from nothing can be a daunting task, so any little edge can help. Plus, most blogging sites are free to start so you can do it without any initial investment. Blogger Party is getting popular and I'm experimenting with Senserely Yours right now.

Finally, there are article sites. If you don't have the time to constantly be updating your blog or checking the latest forum news, these work great. Also, you can give them an article in order to drive more traffic to your other sites. I run a programming site called scratchProjects.com that allows you to share the revenue generated by writing programming articles. Then there are less specialized sites like Article Trader.

So if you can't think of an idea use some else's, and while you're at it, use their traffic, and their revenue model, all through Adsense revenue sharing. A full list of revenue sharing sites is maintained at AdMoolah. Check it out.