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While I was playing around with the YPN site and other languages, I landed upon a 404 Page that showed 23 pages of different countries. The requirements to join vary from country to country but are still very competitive (Australians is 30 million pageviews per month, Spain is 1 million).

I can’t understand all of the languages and pages with requirements but here is the page with links to all of the publisher options to the different countries:

http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com/wmtoolbox/pn/cp.php

For some countries, they are only looking for dominant search engines (such as the UK).

If anyone checks out their country in another language, please leave a comment with what Yahoo is looking for.

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I have seen lots of people saying that they get 200 clicks and only $5. THAT SUCKS! Follow these steps to increase your CPC:

Choose the most general keyword/key phrase for your site.

Pick one keyword that best describes what your site is about.

Find out synonyms that pay the most

To do this go to https://adwords.google.com/select/Ke…?defaultView=2 and enter your main keyword that you have come up with for your site and check the box that says ”Use Synonyms”. Next enter ”100” as a Max. CPC and click ”Calculate”. Now sort your synonyms by ”Estimated Average CPC”. Now deduct %50 from the top keywords and that is about how much money you will be making per click (from my experience, I never get the full CPC from the 1-3 position ads). From that list choose your top highest paying keyword or keyphrase and go onto the next step.

Checking to see if your ads are the right ones
Go to http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/adsense-sandbox/ and type in your max CPC keyword or keyphrase. The top ads shown are those that pay the most, so you want your site to show those ads. Keep this page open while you do the next step.

Editing you site
This is usually the hard part. Try a lot of different things to change your current Google Adsense ads to make them show up as the ones presented above.

- Place new keywords in url address (ex: domain.com/new-keyword.html).
- Use Google Adsense tags - Check out Google’s tips on their site https://www.google.com/support/adsen…y?answer=23168
- Use the keyword in your text more often and try to place the keyword or keyphrase high up on the page in bold.
- Name the title of the page with the < h1> tag in bold with your new keyword.
- Check this blog often to find other Ad optimization techniques.After each change you make, check if you page shows ads from the sandbox. If it does, congratulations! If not, keep editing you site, you”ll get it sooner or later.

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