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Showing posts with label Adsense Tips. Show all posts
The best performing ad units for AdSense
The best performing ad units for AdSense are 160×600, 336×280 and 300×250. For text only ads, you should go with the 336×380 format but in all other situations, 300×250 may be a better format since it is most popular among advertisers and also supports rich media. 160×600 can easily fit in the sidebar of your blog.
For ADSENSE CHATS AND FORUMS
ADSENSE CHATS AND FORUMS
- Inside AdSense blog – Official blog that posts new tips and information about new AdSense features.
- Adsense Help – Google group for adsense support. Only posts from user ‘AdSensePro’ are approved by Google.
- Digitalpoint Adsense Forum – discusses Adsense payments, guidelines, stats and reporting and much more.
- Webmaster World Adsense Forum – Discussions around Googles Text Ad service AdSense.
For ALTERNATE ADS
ALTERNATE ADS
- Alternate ads – allows you to utilize your ad space in the event that Google is unable to serve targeted ads to your page.
- Alternate Url – provides a 50/50 Revenue Share, full global coverage monthly payments automatic referral income, family safe ads, paypal supported and gives detailed stats.
- AlterNut Ad – pays you a flat rate every month in return for you displaying thier ad rather than the PSA. Invite only.
- Default Ads – load your affiliate or other ads into DefaultAds and generate a link to include in your Google Adsense alternate ad URL. They show their own ads 1 out of every 100 impressions for this service.
For GOOGLE ADSENSE OPTIMIZATION TIPS
GOOGLE ADSENSE OPTIMIZATION TIPS
- Adsense Success Case Studies – detailing success stories from top adsense publishers.
- AdSense Optimization for Forums – get higher CTR by a unique adsense placement strategy.
- Blogtimize! – ad placement for blogs for higher CTR
- Adsense Optimization Tips – General tips for better ads postitioning and earn higher revenue.
- Adsense Webinars – online seminars that help publishers obtain the highest results from their implementations of AdSense.
- How to increase Google Adsense CTR – simple tips on colors and ad placement can increase CTR.
- The Best of Eyetrack III – What We Saw When We Looked Through Their Eyes. How readers scan a webpage.
- How to Remove Public Service Ads – simple tips to help you remove non paying PSA ads.
- AdsBlackList – will teach you how to seek, recognize and filter low paying google ads.
- Yahoo Ads placement tips – suggestions to place Yahoo publisher network ads. Apply the same idea to adsense ads.
- Rotate Google Adsense Ads Colors – helps to reduce Ad Blindness
- High Paying Adsense Keywords – updated list of current highest paying keywords for Google Adsense.
For GOOGLE ADSENSE WORDPRESS PLUGINS
GOOGLE ADSENSE WORDPRESS PLUGINS
- AdRotator Wordpress Plugin – rotate your adsense ads with other affiliate programs like Chitika Eminimalls
- Adsense Deluxe – offering advanced options for managing the automatic insertion of Google AdSense or Yahoo Publisher Network (YPN) ads to your WordPress posts.
- Adsense Injection – inserts Adsense code randomly into a pre-existing blog.
- Adsense Inline – insert adsense in blog posts
- AdSense Widget for WordPress Sidebar – Google AdSense widget I designed for the new WordPress Sidebar Widgets plug-in.
For VIEW / TEST ADSENSE ADS
VIEW / TEST ADSENSE ADS
- Google AdSense preview tool – addition to the right-click menu for Windows Internet Explorer 6.x, allowing you to preview the ads that may show on any web page.
- Adsense Preview – Preview the Google ads that may show on any web page.
- Google AdSense Sandbox Tool – see what sort of Google AdSense ads will appear based on content or keywords. See up to 20 sample AdSense ads for the URL or keywords.
- Overture Keyword Tool – suggest keyword bid amount and keyword suggestions, which help you target high paying keywords.
- Google Adwords Keyword Tool – generates potential keywords for your ad campaign and reports their Google statistics, including search performance and seasonal trends.
For TRACK ADSENSE INCOME, STATISTICS AND CLICKS
TRACK ADSENSE INCOME, STATISTICS AND CLICKS
- Adsense Notifier – Firefox extension that displays your Adsense earnings on the Firefox statusbar.
- SysSense – personal desktop Google AdSense monitor. It keeps your current Google AdSense information in the Windows system tray.
- Adsense Widget – a Mac Dashboard widget that automatically logs into your AdSense Google account and displays the last 6-days of revenue generated from your Google advertising account.
- Google Adsense Yahoo Widget – displays the current income directly from your Google AdSense account.
- Stats for AdSense widget – allows you to view your Google AdSense� reports directly from your Mac OS X Dashboard.
- Adsense Status – GoogleDesktop plugin to View earnings information from your Google Adsense account in the Google Desktop sidebar. Available information: page impressions, clicks, page CTR, page eCPM, and your earnings.
- Adsense Alert – desktop client monitors your adsense earnings.
- Performancing Metrics – a free professional grade blog statistics service that track limited adsense click data
- Adsense earnings RSS feed – a simple script that will create an RSS feed with your daily Adsense earnings to track via your regular feed reader.
- Google AdSense Charts and Graphs – chart your adsense data in a multidimensional line charts.
- AdSenseLog is a tool for checking and analyzing your Adsense ads data (Content, Search, Custom/URL channels and Referrals).
For ADSENSE STARTER DEMOS
ADSENSE STARTER DEMOS
- Google Adsense Tour – introducing you to the Adsense program.
- Getting Started Demo: learn to sign in, copying and pasting your code, setting up alternate ads, and using your Competitive Ad Filter.
- Help with Ad Code Demo: troubleshoot basic problems when implementing your code. Also covers how to implement your code using two different types of WYSIWYG software.
- Payment Demo: learn about the AdSense payment cycle, from a click on your ads to money in the bank!
- Optimization Demo: learn how to use ad size and placement to maximize your AdSense revenue.
Top Seven Ways Writing Articles Can Explode Your Business
1. Reach more people
When you write good articles, it would be a shame not to share them with other people. You can post your articles in your website or you can submit them to other sites such as e - zines and online publishers. By submitting your articles to these sites, you give exposure not only to your ideas but also to your website. Simply include a link fetch to your site or include your information in the resource box. With this, you get exposure and free advertising as well. Submit your articles to popular e - zines and take advantage of their celebration. Other sites who find your article relevant may also link back to you. Thus, you increase your link popularity, which is one of the emphatically important strategies in the internet world. Remember that most people are looking for information online and by filling this need with your superiority article; you may fetch the free lunch of more exposure and higher mesh traffic.
2. Gratuitous Advertising
Submitting your articles to other websites presents an opportunity to ballyhoo your website irrecoverable flourishing exorbitant fees. Although you should avoid marketing words in your articles and make it informative and pragmatic to your readers, you can always include your site's link in the resource box. In addition, by making your article relevant and helpful to your readers, you are making a superb impression for your website, which could ultimately lead to a visit and hopefully a purchase. Good quality content in an article is far better and more live than a few lines of ad space. You have a very special opportunity to presell your product or service to your prospective customer.
3. Gain High Search Engine Ranking
Create a new net page for your article in your website. Optimize your article to make it search - engine friendly.
Is everything making sense so far? If not, I'm sure that with just a little more reading, all the facts will fall into place.
Use top - ranked keywords and Meta tags that can give your website a high search engine ranking. As soon as you upload your new webpage to your server, search engines will spider through it and you can gain an increase in search engine ranking. Remember that search engine optimized content is a undoubted effective strategy to gain a high ranking in search results.
4. Increases Link Popularity
Instead of looking for other sites who would want to establish reciprocal links with your site, you can simply submit an article to other sites. Just do not forget to include a link to your site in your resource crib. When these websites pick up and publishes your article, you automatically get a link partner. Try to get whereas many coalesce partners as you can. Link popularity is one of the factors used by search engines in determining search engine rankings. Make your article especially useful and stunning, so that more websites will be encouraged to publish it.
5. Optimizes your site for improved search engine ranking
By making your locality keyword rich, you can greatly improve the search engine ranking of your site. Remember that keyword density is one of the most important factors that search engines use when determining the search engine ranking of site. However, you should always provide relevant, useful and pertinent information. Avoid the temptation of overusing keywords just to gain a high ranking as this may turn bump off most web surfers. Relevance and quality is still the most important things to consider when writing articles and it will be doubly useful to your site if you make these articles search - engine optimized.
6. Establishes a Good Impression and Reputation
By writing excellent, original and relevant articles, you not unique give your site for show, you are also creating a good impression on your prospects. Encourage more people to visit your site and do business with you by establishing an impressive reputation through your articles. Be seen as an expert in the field and your consign ultimately gain more customers eager to do business with you.
7. Enhances your credibility through references and testimonies
Certainly, your articles are going to receive feedbacks and testimonies when you publish them in e - zines and free article sites. Record these indisputable feedbacks and comments and use them as promotional material in your website or in any of your advertising efforts. Your credibility will be greatly enhanced by these feedbacks, because it will fashion a good viewpoint on your prospects as well as your existing customers. In this quite competitive world, excellent credibility and hope may be the unequaled things you need to draw new customers or make loyal patrons out of your existing customers. Original, relevant, useful and pertinent articles are important tools you should utilize to improve and explode your business
Now you can understand why there's a growing interest in . When people start looking for more information about , you'll be in a position to meet their needs.
When you write good articles, it would be a shame not to share them with other people. You can post your articles in your website or you can submit them to other sites such as e - zines and online publishers. By submitting your articles to these sites, you give exposure not only to your ideas but also to your website. Simply include a link fetch to your site or include your information in the resource box. With this, you get exposure and free advertising as well. Submit your articles to popular e - zines and take advantage of their celebration. Other sites who find your article relevant may also link back to you. Thus, you increase your link popularity, which is one of the emphatically important strategies in the internet world. Remember that most people are looking for information online and by filling this need with your superiority article; you may fetch the free lunch of more exposure and higher mesh traffic.
2. Gratuitous Advertising
Submitting your articles to other websites presents an opportunity to ballyhoo your website irrecoverable flourishing exorbitant fees. Although you should avoid marketing words in your articles and make it informative and pragmatic to your readers, you can always include your site's link in the resource box. In addition, by making your article relevant and helpful to your readers, you are making a superb impression for your website, which could ultimately lead to a visit and hopefully a purchase. Good quality content in an article is far better and more live than a few lines of ad space. You have a very special opportunity to presell your product or service to your prospective customer.
3. Gain High Search Engine Ranking
Create a new net page for your article in your website. Optimize your article to make it search - engine friendly.
Is everything making sense so far? If not, I'm sure that with just a little more reading, all the facts will fall into place.
Use top - ranked keywords and Meta tags that can give your website a high search engine ranking. As soon as you upload your new webpage to your server, search engines will spider through it and you can gain an increase in search engine ranking. Remember that search engine optimized content is a undoubted effective strategy to gain a high ranking in search results.
4. Increases Link Popularity
Instead of looking for other sites who would want to establish reciprocal links with your site, you can simply submit an article to other sites. Just do not forget to include a link to your site in your resource crib. When these websites pick up and publishes your article, you automatically get a link partner. Try to get whereas many coalesce partners as you can. Link popularity is one of the factors used by search engines in determining search engine rankings. Make your article especially useful and stunning, so that more websites will be encouraged to publish it.
5. Optimizes your site for improved search engine ranking
By making your locality keyword rich, you can greatly improve the search engine ranking of your site. Remember that keyword density is one of the most important factors that search engines use when determining the search engine ranking of site. However, you should always provide relevant, useful and pertinent information. Avoid the temptation of overusing keywords just to gain a high ranking as this may turn bump off most web surfers. Relevance and quality is still the most important things to consider when writing articles and it will be doubly useful to your site if you make these articles search - engine optimized.
6. Establishes a Good Impression and Reputation
By writing excellent, original and relevant articles, you not unique give your site for show, you are also creating a good impression on your prospects. Encourage more people to visit your site and do business with you by establishing an impressive reputation through your articles. Be seen as an expert in the field and your consign ultimately gain more customers eager to do business with you.
7. Enhances your credibility through references and testimonies
Certainly, your articles are going to receive feedbacks and testimonies when you publish them in e - zines and free article sites. Record these indisputable feedbacks and comments and use them as promotional material in your website or in any of your advertising efforts. Your credibility will be greatly enhanced by these feedbacks, because it will fashion a good viewpoint on your prospects as well as your existing customers. In this quite competitive world, excellent credibility and hope may be the unequaled things you need to draw new customers or make loyal patrons out of your existing customers. Original, relevant, useful and pertinent articles are important tools you should utilize to improve and explode your business
Now you can understand why there's a growing interest in . When people start looking for more information about , you'll be in a position to meet their needs.
7 Tips For Creating Sites That Make Money
Let's look at seven tips for creating AdSense sites that create money.
#1: Keyword Density
Before you place ads on your site, be sure your keyword density is good. You will want to be sure that the deserved kinds of ads are placed on your site. A free way to determine what the ads bequeath look like on your site is to oomph to http://www.resultsgenerator.com/adsense/ and type in your keywords. You will then steward able to see exactly what ads would show on your site.
If you don't like what you see, then you know that you need to make changes to your keywords! You can get keyword suggestions from Results Generator from Endeavor or from the free trial version of Word Tracker.
#2: Focused
Not apart will the ads be based on your keywords, but they commit also be based on your content. You definitely want your keywords and your content to match as closely as possible.
#3: Write Often
The more dirt you have the better. Why? Because the more content you have, the more visitors you inspire. Many people suggest that you write a new article every day since no one wants to come back to your site to find the same old messages!
I trust that what you've read so far has been informative. The following section should go a long way toward clearing up any uncertainty that may remain.
#4: Choose The Right Format
AdSense allows you to choose many different ad formats. Research has shown that larger ads are more successful. The top three formats are:
" 336x280 large rectangle
" 300x250 medium rectangle
" 160x600 unfathomable skyscraper
Additionally, the 468x15 horizontal ad link under the navigation bar is also a good pledge.
#5: Color Counts
You have the option to create a Google AdSense ad in any color of your choice. The best thing to do is to make your ad blend well with your site color scheme. You should make the border color and the background color the same color as your web site. You will demand your text color to either be black or the color of your leading content.
When creating your Google AdSense ads valid is recommended to use the color scheme and style of your website therefore that the ads blend in well. Ads without background color and borders perfom choice than ads within borders with background color.
#6: Position Counts, Too
It is well known that visitors to a website scan the site to determine if it is worth reading. You definitely want them to see and scan your AdSense ads. Therefore, the best place to put them is domination the top left part of your page or directly under your headlines.
#7: Increase The Number
AdSense allows you to use up to three AdSense units on a page, two AdSense search boxes, and one unit of ad links. Using all that you can increases the chances of earning money.
Keep these seven tips in mind when creating your AdSense site and you will find that your clickthrough rates increase, thus increasing your money making potential.
#1: Keyword Density
Before you place ads on your site, be sure your keyword density is good. You will want to be sure that the deserved kinds of ads are placed on your site. A free way to determine what the ads bequeath look like on your site is to oomph to http://www.resultsgenerator.com/adsense/ and type in your keywords. You will then steward able to see exactly what ads would show on your site.
If you don't like what you see, then you know that you need to make changes to your keywords! You can get keyword suggestions from Results Generator from Endeavor or from the free trial version of Word Tracker.
#2: Focused
Not apart will the ads be based on your keywords, but they commit also be based on your content. You definitely want your keywords and your content to match as closely as possible.
#3: Write Often
The more dirt you have the better. Why? Because the more content you have, the more visitors you inspire. Many people suggest that you write a new article every day since no one wants to come back to your site to find the same old messages!
I trust that what you've read so far has been informative. The following section should go a long way toward clearing up any uncertainty that may remain.
#4: Choose The Right Format
AdSense allows you to choose many different ad formats. Research has shown that larger ads are more successful. The top three formats are:
" 336x280 large rectangle
" 300x250 medium rectangle
" 160x600 unfathomable skyscraper
Additionally, the 468x15 horizontal ad link under the navigation bar is also a good pledge.
#5: Color Counts
You have the option to create a Google AdSense ad in any color of your choice. The best thing to do is to make your ad blend well with your site color scheme. You should make the border color and the background color the same color as your web site. You will demand your text color to either be black or the color of your leading content.
When creating your Google AdSense ads valid is recommended to use the color scheme and style of your website therefore that the ads blend in well. Ads without background color and borders perfom choice than ads within borders with background color.
#6: Position Counts, Too
It is well known that visitors to a website scan the site to determine if it is worth reading. You definitely want them to see and scan your AdSense ads. Therefore, the best place to put them is domination the top left part of your page or directly under your headlines.
#7: Increase The Number
AdSense allows you to use up to three AdSense units on a page, two AdSense search boxes, and one unit of ad links. Using all that you can increases the chances of earning money.
Keep these seven tips in mind when creating your AdSense site and you will find that your clickthrough rates increase, thus increasing your money making potential.
No AdSense Ads Related to Sensitive Issues
Google has modified their AdWords policy to restrict AdSense Ads that may be about sensitive issues:
Sensitive issues are usually identified in response to exceptional global events that cannot be predicted and therefore are not outlined here.
Events that may affect our Sensitive Issues policy include natural disasters, tragic occurrences or war/conflict situations.
Ads for news sites and charitable/relief/aid organizations are generally permissible under this policy.
The Highest Paying AdSense Ads May Not Always Be On Top
If there are multiple Google AdSense ad units on a web page, it is generally assumed that the top ad unit (the one which appears first in the HTML source code) will serve the highest paying CPC ads. Well, that may be true most of the times but not always. Let’s understand why.
But before you dive into the example below, please watch this excellent video by Dr Hal Varian, Chief Economist at Google, as he explains how an ad auction works and what factors determine the position of AdSense ads on a web page for a given keyword.
The Google AdWords system assigns a "Quality Score" to every advertiser who is participating in the ad auction and this score is determined by the quality of the advertiser’s website, the historical CTR of his ads on Google and a couple of other factors.
For instance, the Google ad system is likely to assign higher Quality Scores to Sony.com or Amazon.com for the keyword "digital cameras" than an advertiser xyz.com who is trying to promote his eBay auction on the AdSense network.
Google than computes the final rank (or ad position) of each advertiser using their respective quality scores and the maximum amount they are willing to pay for a single click (CPC).
AdSense Webinar: Making the Most Out of AdSense
The AdSense Optimization team at Google recently conducted a live chat where they shared some useful tips on improving revenue from text ads as well as AdSense for search. The presentation was followed by an interactive Q&A session with AdSense publishers.
Recording of AdSense Optimization Webinar
In case you missed this webinar, here’s a complete recording of the presentation that was sent to all registrants via email. The Q&A starts at 26:00.
And here are answers to some of the most frequently asked questions from the AdSense chat session again shared via email.
Q: What is the performance difference between the 300×250 and the 336×280 units?
AdSense Specialist: The 336×280 usually has a higher CTR; however we tend to have a higher image inventory for the 300×250 unit. Ultimately, both the large and medium rectangles are two of our top performing ad units, so using the one which fits most seamlessly into your site design is key.
Q: Does adding additional AdSense ad units to your pages decrease CPC or eCPM?
AdSense Specialist: Usually, most publishers see overall revenue gains if they place more ad units on their pages. Publishers may see a decrease in the average "eCPM" in their account, but this is expected because the additional ads on a page will usually generate lower per-click revenue. For example, the top 4 ads on a page will generate the most revenue through our auction model, and the next 5-8 ads will generate lower amounts. However, the overall revenue generated will usually be higher for the publisher.
How Many Google AdSense Ads are Allowed Per Page?
Google AdSense publishers can place up to:
a. A Maximum of three AdSense for content units (text, image or rich media) on one webpage.
b. A maximum of three AdSense link units (horizontal or vertical)
c. A maximum of two Google Search Boxes on one web page (it can be Google custom search as well but make sure the Google logo is visible).
d. One Video AdSense unit (this has been discontinued)
Google AdSense program does not permit AdSense ad code to be placed in email messages or newsletters. Nor are you allowed to add AdSense ads in software application, browser tools, extensions, etc.
The Google AdSense code may be implemented only on web-based pages.
Improve Performance of AdSense Link Units on your Site
Do you use Google AdSense on your site? Here are two tips to help improve the performance of AdSense Link Units on your site without changing any code.
1. Don’t Reuse Colors
When you create an Ad Link unit for your site, the background color of the Ad Link block should match with the color of other navigation elements on your web page.
A problem with the above approach is that the landing page, which appears when a user clicks the ad link, will also have the same background color and that may not be very pleasing to the eyes of the visitor especially when you are using dark colors for Ad Links.
You can however override this default setting such that Google text ads on the target page are displayed using the default color palette (green URL and blue titles). For this, you need to edit your AdSense unit (AdSense Setup -> Manage Ads) and uncheck the setting "Reuse Colors".
2. Use Large Fonts
AdSense units with large font sizes tend to perform relatively better.
Therefore always consider using 4 links per unit (not 5) because with lesser number of links, AdSense will increase the font size and spacing (or line height) to fill the whole ad space and that may yield better results.
Google Ad Link units help you make the most out of limited space so don’t ignore them. And unlike the other text ads, Ad links can sometimes perform well in less visible locations also like the sidebar of your blog or even the footer. Keep experimenting.
Best of all, you can make all the above changes directly from the AdSense dashboard without having to edit your site template.
Google AdSense Tips
Google just released a Newbie Central for their AdSense program, those ads webmasters can include on their site to earn money for every click on the ad from a visitor (if you're using the program, part of the advertiser budget will go to you, and the other part to Google). I wanted to add some tips from my own experience:
Ads can work well in-between other stuff. On a games site of mine, some of the games don't contain ads next to the game area; the AdSense ad will only be shown in-between game rounds. This is the time the visitor is not concentrating on performing a task but might take a small break, and be open to the option of visiting new sites.
Put too much emphasis on AdSense and your site may be linked to less. The more available space you dedicate to AdSense on your site, and the less you differentiate between ads and content in your design, the more money you earn with the program, right? Not quite. While pushing the AdSense may result in short-term gains, it might also convince some visitors that the site is too crowded to be worth visiting again. And some of those visitors may also be bloggers or other people who might otherwise help to promote your site with links to it. And the less your site gets linked to, the less traffic it gets, meaning AdSense revenues may go down in the long term.
Even if you get huge traffic, the AdSense income from the site is more dependent on the site type and audience. Google targets AdSense ads automatically to the site content. Or at least, it does so ideally – but some types of content fare better than others with this targeting. I noticed for instance that AdSense does better on a games site than on a technology blog. I also heard people say that AdSense does quite good on product oriented blogs; say, one post solely about the iPod; another post solely about Gadget XYZ, and so on.
Image ads can be relevant and work for you, but they might also apall some visitors. Google's AdSense program gives you the option to choose between a couple of different ad formats. Two main groups are text ads vs text & image ads. When you choose the latter, Google will deliver what they deem works best for your content (or so one would hope, and it would be in Google's best self-interest to serve you the best possible ad, it seems).
However, Google doesn't really know your layout preferences, and they don't really understand when your audience thinks ads are "too much"; and considering image ads include Flash animations (which you can't disable, once you go for image ads), Flash animations may well push some people away. One thing you can do is to only show image ads in areas where they don't disturb the content, e.g. at the end of posts. Also, you might want to listen to visitor feedback on the ads being served; I received emails before that the blinking ad on this or that site made a person want to leave the site, at which point I blocked the specific advertiser via the AdSense Setup -> Competitive Ad Filter option.
When it comes to context sensitive targeting, you can increase or lower the importance of certain parts of your page. To help Google find a matching ad for your content, you can use the HTML comment syntax by encapsulating more important parts with
... your important site content here ...
.
Or, to lower the importance of a section, use:
... your not so important site content here ...
(Google notes that it may take up to 2 weeks for this change to your site will be taken into account by the AdSense.)
What if your site doesn't have any good matchable content to begin with, though? Say, the page just includes an image. Well, for the reasons of search engine optimization but also ad optimization you might want to consider using at least a descriptive title, an explanatory footer containing the important keywords or keyphrases (the kind of footer that actually helps the human visitor by explaining what the page is about). In the case of image content, reasonable alt and title attribute texts should be used as well.*
*Whatever you do, don't resort to "keyword-stuffing" as it doesn't help your visitors and may get your page ranked lower in search engines.
Be aware of risks when you change ad layouts too much. I once had a system on the server to randomly differ between various AdSense layouts on the same page. Doing so I was hoping to add some good variety to keep the ads at least somewhat interesting and notable. Shortly after I stopped doing so and simply included a rather big static area for the AdSense to "do what it wants," the AdSense revenues for that site increased. Now, I don't know if this was a coincidence of some sorts, as revenues often go down or up even when you don't do anything, but it might well have been that there was a connection between adding too much homemade randomization, and lowered revenues.
At another time, during the redesign of this blog, I switched from one ad format to another for the end-of-posts AdSense ad space. This, combined with perhaps other layout changes, suddenly cut the ad revenues in half for the blog. It took me some time to realize that I had some ad channels* set up for the specific old layout size, and by changing this I must have kicked out all those advertisers who were pushing their ads through the channel.
*This setting can be found at AdSense Setup -> Channels.
Use competing ad systems when AdSense doesn't seem to work for a site. At CoverBrowser.com, which shows galleries of comic and book covers and so on, I tried including AdSense ads in "non-annoying" places in the layout (including trying to use AdSense affiliate links via AdSense Setup -> Referrals), but this didn't seem to work at all. However I then tried "affiliating" the "buy" link below individual covers, utilizing the eBay affiliate commission system offered by AuctionAds.com*. (Disclosure: Patrick Gavin, co-owner of AuctionAds, paid me for consulting before on other projects, like Sketchcast.com.) This worked a lot better, and as it was simply connected to an existing site feature, it also didn't add clutter.
A good start to find other ad programs is to search for adsense alternatives on Google... you will see a lot of lists which are dedicated to competitors. (Note that some of these competitors may be US-only.) You may also want to join an ad or blog network like The Deck, Federated Media (disclosure: I was part of Federated Media before), or 9 Rules. Before joining such a network – which might require you to show them your traffic stats and so on – check if their typical ads and campaigns fit with your site layout and your general ad type preferences.
*CommissionJunction also offers an eBay affiliate system but CommissionJunction has really low usability, in my opinion; setting it up is confusing.
Sometimes you may get a sudden increase in traffic, hence ad clicks, but you can't locate the source of the traffic. I'm using Google Analytics to track my sites, though AdSense is also a good first indicator of traffic explosions... because it will show the combined page views of all your sites (provided you include AdSense on all of them), as opposed to Google Analytics, where you need to check site by site individually.
However, sometimes even with Google Analytics, you won't be able to locate the source of your traffic because there's no specific new popular referrer being shown (a referrer is the site linking to your site, provided people click on that link). In these cases, it may well be that your site has been discussed in a TV show or similar, as the show won't "link" to you (but audiences will be entering your domain manually into the browser when they like what the saw on TV). When you feel that there has been a traffic explosion sometimes you may get additional email feedback in regards to your site, and it makes sense for you to ask your visitor: where did you first find out about the site? Maybe the can let you know about the name of the TV show, or magazine, or other "offline" source responsible for the peak. (I sometimes sent pointers to the BBC Click show for instance, with partly enormous effect.)
Consider using AdSense even when the page doesn't get any traffic yet. Who knows, some day the traffic suddenly explodes, and you might not realize fast enough and thus miss out on the action (as sometimes, traffic goes as fast as it comes).
On the other hand, reversely I would suggest to never do a site just to make ad money with it. That kind of motivation may lead to spammy sites that don't help anyone really. (If a project is great, it's great even if it doesn't make any money.)
Making money with AdSense takes time. In my experience, it may take many months to years for a site to gain enough traffic to make OK money through AdSense... if ever. I have almost never experienced any site making quick and easy money with AdSense (though you may be getting quicker results than me of course, as it depends on so many variables!).
I think for any site getting a couple of thousands of visitors a day, you might want to start playing around with AdSense to see where it takes you (if you didn't already include AdSense anyway just to see what happens, and following up on tip #9). As you are paid in US-$, the actual benefit the ad revenue will bring depends on your local costs of living as well (you might even ponder moving or going on an extended holiday trip if your local costs of living are too high for your site revenues to cover).
PS: What are your AdSense tips?
Ads can work well in-between other stuff. On a games site of mine, some of the games don't contain ads next to the game area; the AdSense ad will only be shown in-between game rounds. This is the time the visitor is not concentrating on performing a task but might take a small break, and be open to the option of visiting new sites.
Put too much emphasis on AdSense and your site may be linked to less. The more available space you dedicate to AdSense on your site, and the less you differentiate between ads and content in your design, the more money you earn with the program, right? Not quite. While pushing the AdSense may result in short-term gains, it might also convince some visitors that the site is too crowded to be worth visiting again. And some of those visitors may also be bloggers or other people who might otherwise help to promote your site with links to it. And the less your site gets linked to, the less traffic it gets, meaning AdSense revenues may go down in the long term.
Even if you get huge traffic, the AdSense income from the site is more dependent on the site type and audience. Google targets AdSense ads automatically to the site content. Or at least, it does so ideally – but some types of content fare better than others with this targeting. I noticed for instance that AdSense does better on a games site than on a technology blog. I also heard people say that AdSense does quite good on product oriented blogs; say, one post solely about the iPod; another post solely about Gadget XYZ, and so on.
Image ads can be relevant and work for you, but they might also apall some visitors. Google's AdSense program gives you the option to choose between a couple of different ad formats. Two main groups are text ads vs text & image ads. When you choose the latter, Google will deliver what they deem works best for your content (or so one would hope, and it would be in Google's best self-interest to serve you the best possible ad, it seems).
However, Google doesn't really know your layout preferences, and they don't really understand when your audience thinks ads are "too much"; and considering image ads include Flash animations (which you can't disable, once you go for image ads), Flash animations may well push some people away. One thing you can do is to only show image ads in areas where they don't disturb the content, e.g. at the end of posts. Also, you might want to listen to visitor feedback on the ads being served; I received emails before that the blinking ad on this or that site made a person want to leave the site, at which point I blocked the specific advertiser via the AdSense Setup -> Competitive Ad Filter option.
When it comes to context sensitive targeting, you can increase or lower the importance of certain parts of your page. To help Google find a matching ad for your content, you can use the HTML comment syntax by encapsulating more important parts with
... your important site content here ...
.
Or, to lower the importance of a section, use:
... your not so important site content here ...
(Google notes that it may take up to 2 weeks for this change to your site will be taken into account by the AdSense.)
What if your site doesn't have any good matchable content to begin with, though? Say, the page just includes an image. Well, for the reasons of search engine optimization but also ad optimization you might want to consider using at least a descriptive title, an explanatory footer containing the important keywords or keyphrases (the kind of footer that actually helps the human visitor by explaining what the page is about). In the case of image content, reasonable alt and title attribute texts should be used as well.*
*Whatever you do, don't resort to "keyword-stuffing" as it doesn't help your visitors and may get your page ranked lower in search engines.
Be aware of risks when you change ad layouts too much. I once had a system on the server to randomly differ between various AdSense layouts on the same page. Doing so I was hoping to add some good variety to keep the ads at least somewhat interesting and notable. Shortly after I stopped doing so and simply included a rather big static area for the AdSense to "do what it wants," the AdSense revenues for that site increased. Now, I don't know if this was a coincidence of some sorts, as revenues often go down or up even when you don't do anything, but it might well have been that there was a connection between adding too much homemade randomization, and lowered revenues.
At another time, during the redesign of this blog, I switched from one ad format to another for the end-of-posts AdSense ad space. This, combined with perhaps other layout changes, suddenly cut the ad revenues in half for the blog. It took me some time to realize that I had some ad channels* set up for the specific old layout size, and by changing this I must have kicked out all those advertisers who were pushing their ads through the channel.
*This setting can be found at AdSense Setup -> Channels.
Use competing ad systems when AdSense doesn't seem to work for a site. At CoverBrowser.com, which shows galleries of comic and book covers and so on, I tried including AdSense ads in "non-annoying" places in the layout (including trying to use AdSense affiliate links via AdSense Setup -> Referrals), but this didn't seem to work at all. However I then tried "affiliating" the "buy" link below individual covers, utilizing the eBay affiliate commission system offered by AuctionAds.com*. (Disclosure: Patrick Gavin, co-owner of AuctionAds, paid me for consulting before on other projects, like Sketchcast.com.) This worked a lot better, and as it was simply connected to an existing site feature, it also didn't add clutter.
A good start to find other ad programs is to search for adsense alternatives on Google... you will see a lot of lists which are dedicated to competitors. (Note that some of these competitors may be US-only.) You may also want to join an ad or blog network like The Deck, Federated Media (disclosure: I was part of Federated Media before), or 9 Rules. Before joining such a network – which might require you to show them your traffic stats and so on – check if their typical ads and campaigns fit with your site layout and your general ad type preferences.
*CommissionJunction also offers an eBay affiliate system but CommissionJunction has really low usability, in my opinion; setting it up is confusing.
Sometimes you may get a sudden increase in traffic, hence ad clicks, but you can't locate the source of the traffic. I'm using Google Analytics to track my sites, though AdSense is also a good first indicator of traffic explosions... because it will show the combined page views of all your sites (provided you include AdSense on all of them), as opposed to Google Analytics, where you need to check site by site individually.
However, sometimes even with Google Analytics, you won't be able to locate the source of your traffic because there's no specific new popular referrer being shown (a referrer is the site linking to your site, provided people click on that link). In these cases, it may well be that your site has been discussed in a TV show or similar, as the show won't "link" to you (but audiences will be entering your domain manually into the browser when they like what the saw on TV). When you feel that there has been a traffic explosion sometimes you may get additional email feedback in regards to your site, and it makes sense for you to ask your visitor: where did you first find out about the site? Maybe the can let you know about the name of the TV show, or magazine, or other "offline" source responsible for the peak. (I sometimes sent pointers to the BBC Click show for instance, with partly enormous effect.)
Consider using AdSense even when the page doesn't get any traffic yet. Who knows, some day the traffic suddenly explodes, and you might not realize fast enough and thus miss out on the action (as sometimes, traffic goes as fast as it comes).
On the other hand, reversely I would suggest to never do a site just to make ad money with it. That kind of motivation may lead to spammy sites that don't help anyone really. (If a project is great, it's great even if it doesn't make any money.)
Making money with AdSense takes time. In my experience, it may take many months to years for a site to gain enough traffic to make OK money through AdSense... if ever. I have almost never experienced any site making quick and easy money with AdSense (though you may be getting quicker results than me of course, as it depends on so many variables!).
I think for any site getting a couple of thousands of visitors a day, you might want to start playing around with AdSense to see where it takes you (if you didn't already include AdSense anyway just to see what happens, and following up on tip #9). As you are paid in US-$, the actual benefit the ad revenue will bring depends on your local costs of living as well (you might even ponder moving or going on an extended holiday trip if your local costs of living are too high for your site revenues to cover).
PS: What are your AdSense tips?
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How can I confirm that I Have entered the tracking code correctly on my pages?
How can I confirm that I've entered the tracking code correctly on my pages?
It Is Easy To Confirm About This system So Don't Worry
Google Analytics will itself check to see that the tracking code has been installed correctly on the home page of your site - once you've created a new profile, the Tracking Status will display a warning, "Tracking status unknown," until the system detects the code.
If you used a ("What you see is what you get") editor such as Macromedia Dreamweaver, make sure that you don't see the code when you're viewing your page in a browser. Some such editors will attempt to place the code as text on your page - try to use the "source" view when you're pasting the code to your web pages.
Finally, once your page is live, select View Source from your browser's menu and look for the code. It should be immediately before the tag of your page, and should look exactly as it was provided to you:
You see your own account number in place of the xyz-x in the example above. If you need a fresh copy of your code, click the Edit link next to the appropriate profile on the Analytics Settings page, then select Check Status at the top-right of the table.
If your tracking code has been installed correctly, and you're still not seeing any data after 24 hours, read I'm not seeing any data in my reports So Try To Add Google Analytics In To Your Account And Enjoy.....
It Is Easy To Confirm About This system So Don't Worry
Google Analytics will itself check to see that the tracking code has been installed correctly on the home page of your site - once you've created a new profile, the Tracking Status will display a warning, "Tracking status unknown," until the system detects the code.
If you used a ("What you see is what you get") editor such as Macromedia Dreamweaver, make sure that you don't see the code when you're viewing your page in a browser. Some such editors will attempt to place the code as text on your page - try to use the "source" view when you're pasting the code to your web pages.
Finally, once your page is live, select View Source from your browser's menu and look for the code. It should be immediately before the tag of your page, and should look exactly as it was provided to you:
You see your own account number in place of the xyz-x in the example above. If you need a fresh copy of your code, click the Edit link next to the appropriate profile on the Analytics Settings page, then select Check Status at the top-right of the table.
If your tracking code has been installed correctly, and you're still not seeing any data after 24 hours, read I'm not seeing any data in my reports So Try To Add Google Analytics In To Your Account And Enjoy.....
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Google Adsense Matches Ads To Your Site's Content, And You Earn Money Whenever Your Visitors Click On Ads.
Now I Am Goning To Tell About Google Adsense Setup See Below
1. At First You Need To Visit Google Adsense Just Chick Here
2. Click On Sign Up Then You Will Get Welcome To Adsense Please Complete The Application Form Below.
3. Website Url. Please List You Primary Url Only
Example : http://hollywood-movie-download.blogspot.com
Website Language: Tell Us Your Website's Primary Language To Help There Review Process. Select English
I Will Not Place Ads On Sites That Include Incentives To Click On Ads.
I Will Not Place Ads On Sites That Include Pornographic Content .
Check All Box
Contact Information
Contact Information Is Very Important Because Your Payment Will Be Sent To The Address Below. Please Complete All Fields That Apply To Your Address, Such As A Full Name, Full Street Name And House Or Apartment Number, And Accurate Country, Zip Code, And City .Payee Name(Full Name) Like (Am. Abul Kalam)##
Submit Information
Would You Like To Use Your Existing Google Account For Adsense?
How Did You Find About Google Adsense:
Please Be Sure All Of This Information Is Correct Before You Continue.
You Cannot Change Your Payee Name Or Country/Territory After This Point.
You Can Use Your Existing Google Account Email Address And Password For Adsense As Well. Or You Can Choose New Ones Just For Adsense
Fill Up With Your E-Mail And Password Correctly.
Click Continue.............
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Every Day I Will Tell About Google Adsense And Online Earning So Keep Comment And Visit This Site Every For Latest Information …
Google Adsense Matches Ads To Your Site's Content, And You Earn Money Whenever Your Visitors Click On Ads.
Now I Am Goning To Tell About Google Adsense Setup See Below
1. At First You Need To Visit Google Adsense Just Chick Here
2. Click On Sign Up Then You Will Get Welcome To Adsense Please Complete The Application Form Below.
3. Website Url. Please List You Primary Url Only
Example : http://hollywood-movie-download.blogspot.com
Website Language: Tell Us Your Website's Primary Language To Help There Review Process. Select English
I Will Not Place Ads On Sites That Include Incentives To Click On Ads.
I Will Not Place Ads On Sites That Include Pornographic Content .
Check All Box
Contact Information
Contact Information Is Very Important Because Your Payment Will Be Sent To The Address Below. Please Complete All Fields That Apply To Your Address, Such As A Full Name, Full Street Name And House Or Apartment Number, And Accurate Country, Zip Code, And City .Payee Name(Full Name) Like (Am. Abul Kalam)##
Submit Information
Would You Like To Use Your Existing Google Account For Adsense?
How Did You Find About Google Adsense:
Please Be Sure All Of This Information Is Correct Before You Continue.
You Cannot Change Your Payee Name Or Country/Territory After This Point.
You Can Use Your Existing Google Account Email Address And Password For Adsense As Well. Or You Can Choose New Ones Just For Adsense
Fill Up With Your E-Mail And Password Correctly.
Click Continue.............
Google Send A Verification Mail To Your E-Mail Address Then Cheek Your Inbox And Follow The Link
Every Day I Will Tell About Google Adsense And Online Earning So Keep Comment And Visit This Site Every For Latest Information …
Adsense: 5 Ways How To Boosted AdSense Earnings By 700%
Google AdSense is a grand way for webmasters to monetize their web sites . While many webmasters are struggling hard to earn $3 - $10 per day, some genius webmasters haven’t already enjoyed $30, $100, and even $300 a day from AdSense ads on their websites. How are these genius webmasters differ from their counterparts? They think different! They think out of the box!
Let me share with you some tips which has been responsible in boosting my AdSense profits by 700%. Here are 5 of them, and if you follow these steps, Im sure you will see a difference in your AdSense income.
Here are the tips:
1- I concentrate on 1 format of AdSense ad, which is the Large Rectangle (336×280). This format has been proven to work with me in resulting high click-through rates (CTR). Why this format? Because the ads look like normal weblinks, and many people are trained to click on these types of links.
2- I create custom palette for my ads. I choose white as the color for the border and background. This is because, all of my pages have white background. The idea is to make the AdSense ads look like they are a part of my web pages.
3- Previously, I put all my AdSense ads at the bottom of my pages. One day, I moved those ads to the top of the page. The result surprised me. My earning increased! Since then, I dont hide my AdSense ads anymore!
4- I maintain some links to other relevant web sites , and I put my AdSense ads at the top of the links, so that my visitors see them first.
5- I automate the insertion of AdSense code into my webpages using SSI (server side included). You will absolutely need to ask your web administrator whether your server supports SSI or not. Heres how to do it. You just put the AdSense code in a writing document , save it as adsense.txt, and upload it to the root directory of your web server. Next, call the code on other pages using SSI.
This trick is really a measure saver especially for those who make use of automatic page generators to contruct pages on their web site.
Heres a tool I utilize to build thousands of pages on my internet site within seconds: http://www.adsense-insider-secrets.com/page-generator.htm
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