The BH Plug-in, Adsense and Fake Search Engines

There are three way to monetize blogs with the BH plug-in: embed affiliate and contextual ads, redirection, and displaying a landing page.

Personally, I would not recommend embedding Adsense in blog posts unless you knew exactly what you are doing, i.e., you’re an experienced BH! For one reason, it leaves a huge footprint. Google can and does knock-out entire networks of splogs because of the Adsense footprint!

If you want to use Adsense, I believe a much better alternative is to create fake search engines, one per niche and redirect traffic their which will convert much better than any blog post. I first noticed this tactic last year and it’s very effective, so kudos to whoever employed it first!

The search term is passed on to the fake SE script which embeds it in the title and description tags, between H1 tags, and in the search box. This forces Adsense to display the most precise ads for that term – and usually the highest paying too. Because there’s usually a close match between the search term and the Adsense ads, CTR tends to be much higher, sometimes very high. Here are some illustrative examples of using a fake search engine with Adsense only.

This is just the basic layout. It’s easy to improve the look of the fake search engines and even add graphics and affiliate links, but I’m sure you get the idea. The fake SE script can be downloaded here.

The tactic is to build a network of related splogs that redirects all human traffic to a fake search engine, where you’ll get a much higher CTR and probably the highest paying ads too. Then replicate for every niche you want to target