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Monday, April 18, 2016

Why USA, Canada and UK clicks have High Adsense CPC & Earnings? Tips on how to get it

It’s a new day with a new way of thinking and clearing another compromising and contradicting  Google Adsense question which most of new and some senior bloggers are still wondering why large amount of money(in terms of cost per click and overall earning) is folded in USA, Canada and United Kingdom clicks on the ads. I guess It’s real complicated issue for an ordinary mind to figure out this earning scheme. So, I think it’s a good idea to share even a little knowledge of what we know about the secret behind this American and European clicks. When i mention these countries, I don’t actually mean that they are the only countries with highest cost per click. There are others which have high overall country’s CPC above 0.5 USD as we’ll see them on progress of our post. Our discussion will be based on answering these three questions.

  •  What makes clicks from United States, Canada and UK to have highest Cost Per Click? 
  •  List of Top countries with highest Adsense CPC.
  •  How to get high cost per click from United States, Canada and United Kingdom?
So, let’s start by going through one point after another. Here we go..

Why USA, Canada and UK clicks have high Adsense CPC, & Earnings?

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United States and Canada are the top countries in the world which lead on the Online Sales followed by United Kingdom.Most of the Americans and Canadians use internet through their smartphone and computers to controls their daily activities including all their home automation systems. The fact of these three big countries to be highly dependent to the online marketing makes the competition between Advertisers on promoting their ads to be very high. This also makes the price spent by Advertisers on promote their products online in these countries to be as higher as possible in order to win the bids offered by their competitors on advertising similar products. 

Competition for online business is so high in those countries. From the record of world economic forum of the last year which shows the Estimated average revenue per online shopper, The United states leads the list by being on Top of United Kingdom followed by Sweden, France, Germany, Japan, Spain, China, Russia and the last one on top ten is Brazil. In addition, the survey carried out by Tendecial Digitales showed that about 60% of Latin American internet users buy things online. I think you can imagine how hard it is for advertisers to get a clear chance on making their ads popular in order to lead over their competitors on the gadgets they are advertising.

Advertisers spend different amount of money depending on the product they advertise so they pay bids depending on the amount invested on making their ads. It is also true that some geographic location usually used to spend and pay high price on promoting their company’s products to raise their sales as we have seen above. But there are others which are not in top ten but they’ve got relatively high competition and Cost per Click on their ads as well, these are Australia, Netherlands Antilles, Denmark, Switzerland, South Africa, New Zealand, Finland, Norway, Singapore, Ireland, Austria and some few others.

List of Top countries with highest adsense CPC.

I’ve prepared for top countries with highest cost per click from the record I kept during my experiment for examining if the countries listed had real highest CPC before preparing this post. It’s good to note that This Order or list depends from one blog to another as I have already stated earlier. So, the ads I used to carry out the test gave me the list of top countries with the highest CPC in descending order as they are seen below
countries-high-cpc1. Australia
2. United States

3. Canada

4. New Zealand,

5. United Kingdom
6. Tunisia
7. Italy
8. Poland
9.Germany
10. Tanzania
11. Belgium,
12. Netherlands.
13.South Korea
14.Slovakia
15.United Arab Emirates
It is worth to know that, countries that leads for high Adsense earning and cost per click may differ from one site to another and it’s not necessary for the top countries to perform well on all the sites and categories/niche. I’m confidently telling this because I made a simple examination on making the countries which are known to have very low cost per click to give the best performance and sure they did! Example of such countries are India and Tanzania which gave me .37$ and .57$ respectively

How to get such a high Cost per click and earning from those countries?

As a blogger who is kin enough on the whole matter of earning online through Adsense, you should always dream of getting that top click with relatively high page RPM, All these achievement will still remain to be a dream if you won’t take your time and tune your mind to the state of your top thinking level so as to combine different ideas from the posts you’ve been reading in order to come up with strategies and the best conclusion on how you are going to make your blog to look newly by considering the best user’s experience, I know you might have been confused but what I real mean is..

Making a good plan on your blog to produce content which digs news, reviews and deep information about a high profitable niche or product which has many of its advertisers who pays or offer good price on their ads that may certainly be relevant to get displayed on your blog. Then you will surely have to be on the peak of happiness and investing much effort on driving high quality visitors who will engage well on the topic you are dealing with. By doing so, I’m real sure that the high priced adsense clicks will never leave your site without giving you a bunch of Today so far, estimated earnings and finalized earnings. Sure I do!

All in all, I made this post from my own experience of blogging while running adsense and by reading different articles for over a month. One of the best and great advise I can give to you is that, Different countries offers different cost per click and it is also possible for two different blogs to give big difference in CPC and earnings even if they all get visitors from the same country. This difference is determined by the niche, quality and quantity of content in the posts, and some other factors which are explained in these 5 tips for raising adsense CPC for higher earnings. 

Let me remind you one more thing guys! From my experience of using Adsense for over years[Not with this website] I’ve noticed some tricks and many tips on how to raise my revenue by taking control of CPC, Page RPM, And CRT of the ads account I use. I’ll be grateful to reveal those tips on my next articles. So, stay in touch and Subscribe to my newsletter below to show how much you care In order not to miss any single tip, It’s only fair to share

Sunday, March 20, 2016

[Updated 2017 ] Top 5 Google Adsense Earning Tricks 2016 And High CPC Tips

Today i'm going to share the top 2017's tricks for Adsense earning and the amazing hidden|unknown  tips on how to raise your cost per click.  Adsense is one of the leading CPC advertisement network which helps bloggers to benefit from it by earning money from their website and advertisers to get advertised. Due to this fact, there are specialized bloggers and expert who have knowledge and ability of making some software and various hacks aiming to trick Google AdSense and get the most out of it. Yeah! They are there. Latest Adsense ticks to get you a bunch of money are going to be illustrated below with the right way on how to monetize your ads.These proved tweaks are safe and works well on increasing your CPC and earnings

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 We all know that, Some bloggers need to see a stream of money flowing toward them without applying and investing enough efforts on reading various tricks and preparing good contents in the blogs they run. It's like they don't know that doing all those is never going help to get the handsome amount in their finalized earnings. Well, Lets see the key to the room of getting high Cost per clicks and good income from Google Adsense. 

High Adsense earning depends to many factors, some of them are Traffic driven to your site, Placement of your Adsense ads, number of ads displayed per one blogger page and Quality of the blog's content determines Cost Per Click hence earnings. The higher the quality the higher the CPC. This is so just because the well written post have higher chance of attracting relevant ads hence targeted ads will be displayed to your client/visitor. Okay, Lets see these five tricks which gonna help to boost your 2017 Adsense earnings. Here we go.. 

Related: Why is my Adsense CPC so low? How to increase Google Adsense CPC 2017

1. Quality of the content 

Good written post are the key factor that determine blog preference in search engines. Similarly, Targeted  high CPC Ads gets displayed in your page if and only if the content in your blog post have qualifications of being a good post. And the factor which determine the post's quality is use of right keywords in the right manner. Put in mind that, Writing blog post needs some skills, The more you try to learn different tactics  is the more good writer and a search engine friendly content creator you become. The issue of ranking on the top of your competitor in never an easy task if you will be ignorant to the use of right keywords and lazy at researching difficulty on ranking keywords. 

Example, On my Site here. I made a simple research on writing the post about Some Adsense trick which works by showing the hidden Adsense in the YouTube video or in an image by the use of various code. This can raise your page Cost per click, RPM and revenue up to 300', its quite amazing by the way. I got Ranked on top of Google results for the search of specific keywords like "Transparent Adense over video play button" which are the important keywords of the trick. My post became on top of Google results just because of the simple keyword research i made before converting the trick into a blog post. There is no magic in ranking on the top of Google results guys! What i believe is that, The much time you invest in your blogging carrier by cooking and preparing high quality content is the more you will drive organic visitors,  earn and enjoy working at your home doing online business. 

2. Proper Adsense placement

Have you heard about Adsence positioning tips in your website? Well, Google Adsense Policies allows you to place Two or Three ads per page. Hope we all know that, I made a simple research on my test website a couple of month ago and noticed something very strange and from there is where i started to understand why Adsense ask us to put three ad unit per page. I made a Micro niche blog in which i tried to follow secret of good post writing,tips and hidden tricks to drive thousand of visitors and applied for Adsense, it took just two days to get my account fully activated. On the first month i started using Ads on my blog by displaying five ad-unit per page, the cost per click was around 0.3.

 In the next month i changed the ad placement. I reduced them to Three ads per page, there is where i noticed the marked increase in revenue and the CPC tripled to 0.9 for that month. I didn't stop there, i started writing very long post of about 2000 words and placed 5 ad units in those long content. i placed Adsense below the post tittle  and another at the end of the post, one ads unit was in the sidebar and two Ads in the middle of post content. That kind of arrangement is favorable to those who used to manage writing long post content in their website. But The most preferable way of Google advertisement placement is the use of Three ad unit or two ads if you possible. 

3. How to increase CPC | Cost Per Click tips
The amount that advertisers pay the publisher for one click on the site. The cost paid for one click depends from one country to another. USA, UK and Canada have high cost per click compared to Tanzania or India. We know that AdSense earning comes from click on the ads that are seen on your site to the visitor,That's right. So, the high quality of written content welcomes high paying ads hence determines the cost you gonna be paid when a visitor clicks the Ads.In general,  CPC depends to many factors. New bloggers usually used to experience lower cost of about 0.02 to 0.2 of a dollar while other gets up to 150 United States Dollar  from a single click. That's so amazing Eeh?  But Targeting high paying keyword in your site is the way to grab that CPC. That,s the reason why i told you the quality of content you write in your blog real matters.

4. Try something new and Latest tricks in your site.

As i said earlier, Top Adsense earners are those who never stick and stop trying something new in their market of blogging. Tricks are developed day after day and Kimjoh Tech Tricks can't stop updating you by not giving you valuable and hidden tricks which makes thousands of Millionaires every year from blogs they are running with just simple tricks. 
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The 2016 trick of hiding Adsense in Video play button on youtube vid to increase clicks is one among those hacks which can give you the money that you had never thought you could get. I know you can't believe it easily until you prove and see it happening to you as i did. One more thing i wanna tip you about the trick is that, its not proved if the trick is not against Adsense terms and conditions, so its better to try it with a new account for the safety of your official ads account from ban.

NOTE! Its always good to know and be aware of the safety level of the trick or hack you try to use in the blog running Adsense. Some tricks are against Adsense TOS, so you might be endangering your Adsense account and blog to get banned when applying such hacks in a blog.So, much research and precautions should be taken

5. Drive Traffic to your website

Traffic is the main key of getting success from any advertisement program. The number of visitors in your website can help to determine how much you can possibly earn with google Adsense.
Less number of page views results to lower chance of getting clicks hence low earning. I know this situation of getting low blog's traffic in this competitive field of blogging faces many newbies, but they don't have to mind. Just remind them one thing, effort is the key to success.Get it! OK, fine. Website which receive thousands of daily visitors have the greatest chance of hitting the target by getting their pockets full of Dollars. So, try your best to rank higher in Search engines and use social networks like Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, Disque and other networks to share your blog posts.


Adsense tips and tricks are being developed every day in this world of internet marketing. Once you get to know and learn something new, it's better to keep a third eye on it. Try to put and apply it in your blogging carrier. By doing so, i believe you will be one among those who thanks Adsense and blogging for saving and wide opening their future by reaching and fulfilling their dreams through the effort and skills they invest.

Higher Cost Per Click Adsense tends to appear in your blog due to the Keywords you are using in ranking your blog. Try to use different keyword researching tools to get the right ones for your niche and start feeding them with fresh and quality contents. Placing three or two ads unit will be the best choice to help you focusing on high monthly revenue. Never stop on trying something new, you know why? it's simply because top Adsense earners used to believe and stand behind that saying, Yeah! i also believe in it. If you have anything contradicting you Just feel free to ask and share through comments.

I wish i could give you more of what i know about top tricks and tips for Adsense earning in 2017 and all about Cost per click but, let me have a short break. See you in the next article.

Don't forget to share and link to this post guys. Enjoy!

Friday, March 18, 2016

How to Start and End Embedded YouTube Video in specified time

You Tube videos has got so many things to to with. but, today we are going to learn the professional trick of making the video to start playing at a specific part, to stop playing at the time you wan't it to and combination of all the two techniques. This technique was developed to save time and help people to send the specific video clip which is from too long video. 
image-result-How-to-Start-and-End-Embedded-YouTube-Video-in-specified-timeNow, the way out of serving time to be used to cut and make a clip of the video is just to deal with embedded code section of the specific video. The tips and tricks of customizing your video are technically given below with simplified and vivid examples.Bloggers who are based on posting content full of videos in their site are sometimes used to get curious when they loose their visitors through the video post they make. This happens naturally especially to those who are new in the blogging market as well as to great bloggers who value the number of unique visitors in their overall monthly traffic. So, i will provide you the trick of terminating and stopping the suggestion list in YouTube videos embed in your blog.

Recommended;Trick to hide google adsense on YouTube play button 

Let's start with,
  • How To Set The Video To Start Playing From a Certain Time Interval
Here, the video is gonna start playing from the time we insert, Lets say we are interested in a video part which is at the second minute.
What to do here is just to copy the embedded URL from YouTube or any video player and append the following attachment Just after the video link as shown below
Copied embedded codes from YouTube
<iframe width="654" height="480" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/gFu2wjQMM0Q" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
In the code above, Just add  ?rel=0&start=40 right before the closing tags.Your code will then appear as the one seen below with its corresponding video. Note, The video will start playing from 40 seconds. The starting time should be converted into seconds, not in form of minutes.
<iframe width="654" height="480" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/gFu2wjQMM0Q?rel=0&start=40 " frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

  • How To Embedded YouTube Video to  Stop At a Specific Time
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    If you want to limit a video to not to play from a certain certain point to the end, then you must make the following piece of code in use,  ?rel=0&end=200
    Add the above piece of string just as we did in the previous code and Change the time ''200'' to the one you want to end the player.
    Example, i'm going to use a different video with the following embedded codes

    <iframe width="654" height="480" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ym4uVS-5tSA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>i'm gonna add the string and change the stopping time to four minutes, that is (4 * 60= 240 seconds)
    My code will be as follows
    <iframe width="654" height="480" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ym4uVS-5tSA?rel=0&end=240" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>



    The above Video stops at the fourth minutes. I Hope you are enjoying learning these tricks, Most of the time i used to recall Steve Jobs quote that says, "Don't ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them.by the time you get it built,they'll want something new" Hope you agree with it. Any way Let's go to another section which will be the last part of our today's lesson.
    This is Combination of the above tricks.
    • How to Start and stop the video to play with in a certain limit of time. 
      The last part is to set the staring time simultaneously with ending time for your video player.
      There is just simple tricks over here which is used to combine the JavaScript together so as to perform our required task. 
      Let,s take an example of the last video over there and use it's code in our final tutorial here. the code we are going to add in the source code is ?rel=0&start=180&end=300 Now,
       Our video source code will be 
      <iframe width="654" height="480" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ym4uVS-5tSA?rel=0&start=180&end=300" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

      Those are the tips i wanted to share with you Guys. But let me conclude by this one of stopping the suggestion list as i said earlier.
      Addition of &rel=0 to the end of the embedded link will make the video to give no suggestion of related video. you can see it here which is just similar as the one in the video above, So, the string of that rel=0 code should be used in the manner as i used it in the above video. but if you wanna have suggestion list. Then remove it as i have done it in the video below.
      <iframe width="654" height="480" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ym4uVS-5tSA?&start=180&end=300" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
      see the video with suggestion list below
      Hope you have enjoyed today's lesson. If you come across any difficulty, feel free to ask and consult me through comments.

      Monday, February 29, 2016

      CODE TO HIDE GOOGLE ADSENSE; TRANSPARENT ADS OVER VIDEO PLAY BUTTON [2016 TRICK]

      Top adsense earners are fighters who never just work hard on writing best contents and use much of their time to share on social networks but are those who do all of that and still manage their time to try new tricks and techniques to boost their daily earning. The much they try the much they earn.
      I'm going to give you the trick of how i made bunch of money with Google adsense. that was $223 USD per day.
      HIDE-ADSENSE-ON-VIDEO-PLAY-BUTTON-EARN-1500-PER-MONTH-EASILY
      One day of the last two months i woke up very early in the morning direct to my laptop. I wrote a very good post on one of my mini blog then shared it to social networks just as i used to do. When i was in there, i found a site which used a super technique for adsense that blew up my head.
      That was to place a hidden Google adsense ads on top of the video. I really got amazed and shocked from this thick that i never imagined it could exist. To get to know what he was doing to get those code become another task to me on that morning. The idea which came to me was to contact the website owner so that we could make a deal.  
       I sent a message to the owner of the site at around 8:30 a.m  i waited for the reply while trying to search for the related trick on google and yahoo. I tried to use different search keywords like 

      How to put hidden adsense over image in blogger. 
      How to put hidden adsense ads in a blog
      Hidden adsense ads on a youtube videos
      Transparent adsense ads on the image or youtube video
      Code for hidding adsense ads in the video or image on a blog
      HTML code to hide adsense

      HTML code to make a transparent adsense hidden Transparent adsense on background image tricks

      Those are some of the keywords i used to search for the related trick i met but i found nothing.
      There was no any post or forum that had ever discussed the related issue of hiding google adsense ads in videos or images and making it transparent at the same time.
      I guess you can imagine how much disappointed i was because i did that search for about 8 hours while waiting for the reply but there was no any response from the email i sent.

         On the progress, i found one of the video which was showing how to use and place the code he had already created on making the post to be in the way i need. i got hope but the problem came again that i was totally not understanding the language he was using in his tutorial. 

      Any way, lets go to the code we have been waiting for,

      CODE FOR HIDING GOOGLE ADSENSE ON VIDEO, 





      CODE START FROM HERE

      <g><br/> <iframe src="LINK OF VIDEO SOURCE" width="500" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullsreen"></iframe><br/></g>

       <div class="asdf"> <ins style="position: absolute; top: 130px; bottom: 20px; left: 250px; opacity: 0; width: 336px; height: 228px; display: block; overflow: hidden; "> ADSDSENSE CODE </ins></div>

      CODE ENDS HERE

      How to use and set the codes for hiding adsense ads on the video play button

      Sign in to your blogger account.
      Then to new post
      Open the HTML on your post section
      Paste the above codes.

       VIDEO SECTION

      Now, you have to replace the link of the video( the red words on the codes ) with the video link you would like to use on your post.
      here, you need to go to the youtube video you wanna use, then go to share then embed as it is seen below, but actually, you won't share the video 
      TRICK-ON-HOW-TO-GET-EMBEDED-YOUTUBE-VIDEO-LINK
      Then copy the link which appears there, as it is seen below

      <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/9FxvBFPTtWQ" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

      you need to copy the highlighted blue part above and paste it in the code section of LINK OF VIDEO SOURCE 

      You can alter the size of the video frame by changing the dimensions of Height and width which are numbered 315 and 500
      ADSENSE CODE SECTION

      Recommendation: Use 336*228 ads unit and it is good to use the image ad format
      Let's go,,.. 

      Here you can change the position of adsense to the left or right, bottom or top side of the video or wherever you want. What you need to do is just alter the size i mean numbers which appears after top and left by decreasing 250 at this part of code left: 250px you will make the adsense ad to move to the left side of your video post part.

      Also you can move the ads to the bottom by adding the px on  top: 130px
      example by putting 150px or 180px to the position you want.

      You can see the ads position by moving the cursor on the video there where you will see the adsense links on the bottom of your Computer. The same effect as when you move a mouse over the display adsense 
      If you gets Any problem on doing this, Just comment below. I will surely help you
      Here are the best ebooks from Amazon which has best guide on Adsense coding tricks. You can try one of them to raise your online income through Adsense. 

      IMPORTANT NOTE! This trick is against Adsense policies as it can be counted as click fraud, 

      I received direct message from Google Adsense About this trick. The message is as seen below

      Action is required to bring your AdSense account into compliance with our AdSense program policies. Please make changes to the above site within three working days. We may spot-check the site again after this time. Once you've made the changes, hit the "Mark resolved" button below and complete the short form. Please be aware that if you do not make changes to bring your site into compliance, ad serving may be disabled to the website listed above. Learn more

      Publishers are not permitted to encourage users to click on Google ads or bring excessive attention to ad units. For example, your site may not use symbols such as graphics, arrows, or misleading images that direct attention to the ads. This also includes placing Google ads in floating box scripts. For more information you can check our ad placement policies and watch the recording of previous ad placement hangout.

      adsense-warning-message

      Friday, January 22, 2016

      Good Post Writing Secret! Get Over 10-Thousands Organic Visitors Per Post, Starting From Today


      Good Post Writing Secret!

      Good and indexed post will have an everlasting performance of driving visitors(Organic traffic) to your blog..Quick tips and tricks that can start working faster.try them Today! 


      Are new to blog post writing?  
      this is the first question you should ask to yourself as it hold a very great impact on your target, that is high quality post content because the writing competition is too big in recent days just as how apple iphone 6 plus is being in writer's mind contest. Have you came across the posts which tells that good content must contain 500 to 1000 words? I guess so. But get this, For your post to be very precious to your users and Google bots that ranks and determine the quality of your content with the help of crawlers the content words/content marketing should range above 1500 words.

      Hard writing makes easy reading similarly, easy writing makes hard reading. Invest your time on writing. The more time you spend on writing a single post, the more strong and attractive it will be, Trust me or not.What is needed there is just to be Confident and sure of what you are going to flow about.  Do you know why am telling this? Its simply because the longer time spent on writing a post will make you to get reflection of very many precious keywords that will boost your post stability.


      Keywords; These are words which are likely to be searched by the users on the internet to get relevant content to what they seeks. Now, the good writer usually target to use those strong keywords/AdWords[you can get them from keyword tool or adwords keyword tool] on the first paragraph. Also to those writers who intends to attract high paying Adsense by having the list of keywords for a specific content or niche. They used to put those Keyword just at the start of any paragraph. Keyword highlighting will also help readers to get the whole picture and imagination of what is contained in your post even before they have not read all the stakes that supports the skeleton/ highlighted words

      Believe in yourself and what you know, Follow your Passion! You have a definite special skill to share to other, They need your ideas to strengthen them, What are you waiting for?.Most successful writers are those who writes about the stuffs they like. say.. a person who likes technology is likely to write a very good tech post which is full of details and hints like this one here How To Change Your FB Profile Name Before 60 Days Limit[2016 Facebook safe hacking trick]
        Write, Read, Finish/Conclude, Publish and Learn. Different writers have different writing skills. Example.. by writing the content and read it to know if it real sounds well and it carries what you want it to, If it doesn't satisfy you then that's the right step for you to Edit it before it is Concluded to be published. Learning is the best and super secret of becoming a good writer. Try to read what other writers works and get the tips from their knowledge that you think they gonna boost and improve your posts.

        You can not be a great super writer just from the start/beginning. You have to start writing first. No matter how many mistakes you make, the end is gonna be sweet. Trust me or not!  But all these will be achieved if you are following the hints, tips and secrets revealed above. You need to be confident of your ideas. Fear is Failure.. avoid it! 
        Take a look at this full detailed video

        Here are some of very useful Secrets and quotes from great writers of all the time
        by writersdigest
        1. Never save your best for last. Start with your best. Expend yourself immediately, then see what happens. The better you do at the beginning, the better you continue to do.

        2. The opening paragraph, sentence, line, phrase, word, title—the beginning is the most important part of the work. It sets the tone and lets the readers know you’re a commanding writer.

        3. The first duty of a writer is to entertain. Readers lose interest with exposition and abstract philosophy. They want to be entertained. But they feel cheated if, in the course of entertaining, you haven’t taught them something.

        4. Show, don’t tell or editorialize. "Not ideas about the thing, but the thing itself."—Wallace Stevens

        5. Voice is more important than image. "Poetry is not a thing, but a way of saying it."—A.E. Housman

        6. Story is more important than anything. Readers (and publishers) care a lot less about craft than content. The question they ask isn’t, "How accomplished is the writer?" but, "How good is the story?"

        7. These rules, pressed far enough, contradict each other. Such is the nature of rules for art.

        8. All writing records conflict. Give the opposition quality attention and good lines. The power of the the antagonists should equal that of the protagonists.

        9. Shift focus often. Vary sentence structure and type; jump back and forth in time and place; make a good mix of narration, description, exposition and dialogue.

        10. Be careful of your diction. A single word, like a drop of iodine in a gallon of water, can change the color of your entire manuscript.