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Monday, December 11, 2006

From 3 to 300 usd adsense revenue per day in two months

Here are few advices for adsense newbies

(I am not anymore one, but either an expert), that allowed me to climb from about * 3 US dollars per day to about $300 in two months.I started the 19th of SEPTEMBER this year, and my goal was just to try. The first Few days, I got 0.05- 0.10 usd. Then I put adsense on all my pages and it climbed to 3 usd. After that I bought one of those adsense courses for 9 usd.

I learned there almost everything I know about it, especially that:- the 468*60 format is not as effective as the square box (250*250).- the ads should be inside the page rather than in the upper part.-the colors of the ads should be similar to the colors of the website- one ad box with only 3 ads is preferable to 3 ad boxes with 4 ads, because only the best paying ads are displayed.- it is profitable to create pages targeting high-paying keywords (finance-related, seo, etc.)- the link ad unit is effective (almost half of my revenues)- it is effective to monitor the performances of the pages and transfer traffic through serp and website structure to the most profitable- a google search box can be added (just 1% of my revenues, but it is an additionnal service to your website).

That gives, for example a page such as:

http://www.my-blognet.blogspot.com

here is just one thing I have read in the adsense course and that I would not advise. They write that if you create a page with very little content, the probability of receiving clicks is high. It is true. But it also increases the risk of having your adsense account closed.I have noticed that the revenues are increasing almost proportionnally with the traffic (especially when your website deals with many different topics, countries, etc.), so now I am working at generating more traffic in order to be granted a premium google adsense account.

And to reach the 2-digit revenue a day I also try to give more content to my visitors with mostly commercial services, which reduces the probability of seing my adsense account closed and lower the importance of adsense in my total ad revenues (in French, we say it is not good having all our eggs in the same basket).This is all I know of Adsense. I sincerely hope that it will serve members of MY BLOG as profitably as it has served me these last 2 months.* I write "about" because I do not want to give the exact figures, as it is explicitely prohibited by Google.

Who Benefits Most From Google AdSense?

Google AdSense is a fast and easy way to generate revenue from your website. However, not all websites and website owners benefit equally from this program.

>Here is a list of 10 types of websites that can benefit most from Google AdSense:

>Great information sites with lots of content -- whether or not they have started generating revenue.


>Narrow niche sites that haven't yet started generating revenue.
Sites that provide great information about high paying keywords.

>People who have a passion for a topic but have not yet created a website on that topic because they didn't know how to earn money from it.

>Sites that currently use banner exchange programs and want to start generating some revenue instead.

>Sites that currently offer banner advertising and want to increase revenue.

>Sites too small to attract advertisers (or those who don't want to go through the time and effort to find relevant affiliate programs).

>Sites with affiliate programs that aren't generating any or enough revenue.

>High traffic sites that contain sections or pages that aren't currently generating revenue.

.Website publishers with extra advertising inventory.

Increase revenue by Google AdSense Pay-Per Click (PPC) service.

Quite like search engine optimization, PPC advertising is a lot about getting the basics right. If you have solid foundations, your campaigns will invariably be a success. Let's go through the core elements of any PPC campaign.
PPC advertising allows you to bring traffic to your website in just minutes .
PPC pays for itself AND your other SEM expenses (like link-building) while leaving you a decent profit margin .

Keyword Research

When compiling your keyword list, consider using a professional tool such as WordTracker or NicheBot instead of coming up with all the keywords yourself. Why? Because quite frankly, no one has the time to manually compile a list of several hundred keywords. Also, these tools will tell you exactly what people are searching for AND give you a lot more options that you may never have even thought of. Using either WordTracker or NicheBot, you can easily compile a keyword list of even a thousand keywords in under an hour.Another tool that I highly recommend is a program called Keyword Locator.
You can have a look at that program below. It does a heck of a lot more than WordTracker and Nichebot.Once you have your keyword list ready, break it down into sub-lists. Essentially, instead of lumping together all the keywords, you can use the main keywords as “headers” build your list around them. These headers will be the keywords receiving the most traffic. To give you an example, take an online soccer store. Possible headers would include adsense pay rate , Google AdSense , adsense pay per click text ads, pay per click, Yahoo AdSense, pay per click advertising and even overture pay per click. All these terms have hundreds of related keywords .

What's the advantage of creating sub-lists? For one, it helps you focus your campaign even further – you can send visitors clicking on your “Google AdSense” ads to an internal page on your store that is dedicated to Google AdSense, and so on. Second, your campaign becomes more manageable – if one theme of keywords is not working well, you can improve it without affecting the rest of the lists.
However, the most important reason to using sub-lists is that you can create ads that are customized towards your header keywords. An ad for overture pay per click will not be as effective as an ad for pay per click if they both appeared next to search results for the term Yahoo AdSense. Customized ads will give you higher click-through rates , and a high ad CTR can help lower overall costs .
Ad Copy
Your ad copy will make or break your pay per click campaign, so it is important to get it just right. There are two sections of your ad, the title (or the heading), and the ad description . Apart from adhering to the basics (place your sub-list “header” once in the title, and once in the description), there is a lot to learn about writing winning ad copy. Think of PPC ads as intensely summarized version of a regular sales letter – approach ad copy with that view will help you write better.
The ad copy has two key components – a riveting title/header, and a compelling description. Taking Google's example, you have space to write 25 characters in the title, and two lines of 35 characters each in the description. Eventually, writing winning ad copy boils down to convincing the skeptical searcher into clicking on your ad (amongst several others) in a maximum of 95 characters.
Put each ad that you write through a stricter test than you would put your sales letter. The title is the key to attracting the searcher's attention – if it contains the keywords that are being searched for, the keywords will show up in bold and help make the ad more visible. The description, on the other hand, has just two short lines to convince the searcher to click on the ad. Focus on the user and the benefits your website / product will provide. If it helps, you can make a bulleted list of key terms that highlight your business and spread them throughout your ads.
Use the title to grab the searcher's attention , and then reel them in with your ad description. If you follow the principles you have used to write your sales letter, you'd be at an advantage compared to most of your competition.
Ad Optimization
Setting up the ad campaign is, believe it or not, the easy part. Managing it is tricky (though your work is reduced if you get the basics right). There are two main challenges facing a PPC campaign:
You don't know how well your ads will work
You don't know which keywords will convert into sales
The result is that managing a PPC campaign is a continuing process of tweaking your ads based on results – it ultimately involves regular improvements in your ad copy, to keyword lists and maybe even in your website.
The main aim of managing a PPC campaign is to constantly try to increase your CTR . While the quick and dirty way to do this is to pay high enough to rank on the top of the ads list, this can easily break your budget. A better option is to regularly review your ads, weed out the ones that don't work and improve on the ones that do work. Like sales letters, this involves reusing the working elements (titles and descriptions) and modifying them slightly to test if the CTR improves.

You must follow all these precautions


You must follow all these precautions to ensure that Google never disables or cancels your Adsense account.Familiarize yourself with the AdSense program policies and ensure that all sites on which you display Google ads remain in full compliance with these policies.Other important guidelines are:Provide a positive user experience.Sites that contain excessive pop-ups, use sneaky redirects to obtain traffic, or otherwise attempt to interfere with normal web navigation aren't permitted in the AdSense network. Please make sure your site doesn't deceive your users in any way. Provide a good environment for advertisersSites showing Google ads should not present a poor opportunity for advertisers. Sites that use tricks or deceptive practices in order to trigger inadvertent clicks on ads are prohibited. If Google finds that one of your web pages is in violation of their policies, Google will send you a email notification requesting that you make changes to your account in order to become compliant. Google Adsense will also disable ad serving to web pages or accounts.After making the requested changes, you should respond to the notification so Google reviews your site again and update your account records to indicate compliance with Google Adsense program policies.

Adsense Tips, Layout Optimization Tricks for Higher CTR

Google Adsense is perhaps the easiest way to attract advertisers from across the globe to your blog. Just submit your blog to Google for approval. If Google likes what it sees, it will place contextual ads linking to products likely to appeal to the readers. Each time a reader clicks a link, the advertiser pays Google a small fee, and Google splits that with you. The next interesting question - How to Make Money with Google Adsense ? Here are The best Google Adsense Tips and Tricks for making more money (profit) from Google adsense program.

a. Strictly follow the rules mentioned in Adsense policies. You will always earn more revenue from Adsense by playing it clean.

b. Never modify the Google Adsense HTML code.

c. Don't ask your friends or visitors to click on your Google ads. Do not include incentives of any kind for users to click on ads. Don't label the Google ads with text other than "sponsored links" or "advertisements.".

d. Don't click on your own ads - Google is much smarter than you think. You should not reload your pages excessively. If you are testing your website layout with Google adsense, follow some precautions . Or you can use the unofficial Google Adsense Sandbox Tool that is accessible from Firefox, IE and other browsers to see what kind of Google ads will be served based on content (website address URL) or keywords.

e. Don't place ads in pop-up windows, error pages or even empty pages.

f. Don't start a "adsense asbestos" or "home equity loan rates" website merely to make money from accidental clicks (accidence). You will never make money out these "made-for-adsense-only" websites. Instead, write on topics what you are passionate about. Don't waste your money on high-paying adsense keywords lists.

g. For short articles, CTR is best when ads are placed just above the content

h. For long articles, CTR improves if ads are placed somewhere in middle of the content - visitors read the long content and then they are looking for more resources.

i. Use Text Ads instead of Image Ads as users get more options. If you still want to display image ads, consider ad formats that support image ads - Choose either the 300x250 medium rectangle or the 160x600 wide skyscraper - or both, if you display multiple ad units on a page.

j. Google Ads without background color and borders always perform better. Make the border color and background color same as your page background color.

k. Always put ads above the main fold. Make sure that the ad unit with the highest clickthrough rate is the first instance of the ad code that appears in the HTML. Since the first ad unit is always filled before the rest, you want to make sure that ad unit is located in the best placement on your page.

l. Try setting the ad link URL color to a lighter shade. If your text is black, you may make the adlink as light gray.

m. Go Wide - The large rectangle is the best paying adsense format (336x280) - The Google Adsense Publisher team also feels that the best formats are the wider ones - the ad formats that contain the widest individual ads. Try using the 336x280 large rectangle, 300x250 medium rectangle, or 160x600 wide skyscraper.

n. Placing images next to ads or above ads does help in attracting user attention.

o. Blend AdLinks with other navigation links or place horizontal adlinks at the top of your webpage. AdSense publishers are permitted to click on link unit topics on their web pages, provided that they do not click on any Google ads on the resulting page.

p. Organize an Adsense Party for your friends and colleagues - Request them to navigate your website, watch their activity - it will provide vital clues about which regions on your website draw more user attention. Try putting ads near those areas. (Thanks Darren)

q. You can put upto 3 adsense units on a page. Try putting a large skyscraper on the right navigation sidebar of your website. That area is close to the browser scrollbar. You can also add 2 AdSense for search boxes, 1 adlink unit and 1 referral button per product (i.e., 1 AdSense referral button and 1 Firefox plus Google Toolbar referral button).

r. The first few lines of your content are an important factor for determining what Ads are served on your webpage. That's the right place to put keywords in bold (strong or tags) or header tags (h1, h2, etc).

s. Always select the setting to open Google Adsense search box results in a new browser window, so you won't lose your visitors. Click the Open search results in a new browser window checkbox and this add target="google_window" to your form tag.

t. Maximum people think the search box is on the top right corner. So you know where to put it.

u. Don't syndicate full content. If people can read everything from the newsreader window itself, why would they visit your website where your ads are.

v. Use URL channels to determine performance of individual pages. I track my most popular pages with Google Analytics, Statcounter and create a channel for each of the URL. You can even track Adsense Clicks with Analytics

w. For low CTR pages, try changing titles or adding more content to get better focused ads

x. Block low paying advertisers with Filters. Why to loose a visitor for 0.01 cents. Use Overture or Google Adwords Keywords tool to discover keywords that are less popular with advertisers.

y. The AdSense for search Top Queries report shows you what your users are looking for, by listing the 25 most common searches conducted through your AdSense for search boxes. Use this report to identify additional topics to add to your site, or to keep track of your most sought-after information. Focus and improve that content.

z. Not everyone has a RSS reader. Use RSS to Email services like FeedBlitz, Bloglet or Rmail to let users subscribe to your blog by email.Remember, you are the best judge when it comes to choosing ad formats. Even Google doesn't offer the best advise always. For instance, in the visual heat map, Google suggests that webmasters are best served by positioning ads on the upper left-hand side of a Web page. But on the Google homepage, you will find ads on the far right.

Related Links Display only relevant
Google Ads in Blogs Google Adsense Layout
Tips for Maximum Clicks Guide for Google AdSense Publishers

AdSense is one of the best tools you can use to draw dollars to your site. Remember that there is no easy way to make money on Adsense... it takes a lot of work. Adsense publishers on blogspot.com can integrate Adsense directly from Blogger Interface.

About Google Adsense


About Google Adsense

Google's Adsense is a great way to cash in on the Pay Per Click market. Google's Adsense allows you to serve text-based Adsense ads on your web site and receive a share of the Pay Per Click payment. These ads are similar to the AdWords ads you see on the right-hand side at Google when you do a search at Google.com. Payouts range depending on the market and can yield dollars per click using Google's Adsense! Earning money couldn't be easier! It's a great way to monitize your webspace and web site owners, both new and experienced, are currently enjoying the profits from this new opportunity. The web's most popular search engine is now giving you the chance to earn some extra cash by simply displaying a few text ads on your web pages.
Targeted contextual advertising means relevant ads appear on your site. When relevant ads appear on content pages, people click on them. Google makes more money and in turn, you receive higher profits.
Participation in AdSense is free and offers the following benefits:
- Run ads that will interest your users.- Customize the appearance of ads.- Access a base of 150,000 advertisers.- Manage your account online.- Filter out unwanted ads.

AdSense Advantages

- AdSense is simple to join.- It's easy to paste a bit of code into your pages.- It's free to join.- You don't have to spend time finding advertisers.- Google provides well written, highly relevant ads chosen to closely match the content on your pages.- You don't have to waste time choosing different ads for different pages.- You don't have to mess around with different code for various affiliate programs.- You're free to concentrate on providing good content and Google does the work of finding the best ads for your pages from 100,000 AdWords advertisers.- It's suitable for beginners or marketing veterans.- AdSense provides simple, easy-to-understand stats.

If you have affiliate links on your site, you are allowed to add AdSense ads; However, with your affiliate links, you must not mimic the look and feel of the Google ads. You can also block ads for sites that don't meet your standards or that may be a competitor. Inevitably, AdSense is competing strongly for space on web sites with all other revenue sharing opportunities.Many users of the adsense program have voiced their concerns about what they would like to see changed or improved. See the list below.

The Adsense Wish List

Payments:Direct depositDesign: - more options for the custom designs (flexible layouts)- specify number of ads per layout - specify width and height - Open Adsense Ads in a New WindowFraud (prevention): - advanced detection of suspicious activity - warn early and not if it's already too late

Adsense Money

So, how much will you earn from Adsense? Google says: "The AdWords ads you are able to display on your content pages are cost-per-click (CPC) ads. This means that advertisers pay only when users click on ads. You'll receive a portion of the amount paid for clicks on AdWords ads on your website. Although we don't disclose the exact revenue share, our goal is to enable publishers to make as much or more than they could with other advertising networks." ..

The only way to know how much you'll earn is to try it and see. Because there is not a long term contract, you may cancel at any time.
Information directly from Google's Adsense program: