Money Adsense
Have you made money from Adsense?
A lot of people are using adsense these days, including myself. I have a few ads placed on my blog. I don't think anyone clicks on them though. I am a freelance writer and most of th people reading my blogs are writers. The ads are all about writing as well. Has anyone here made any money through it?
Do you think where I place the ads makes a difference. Honestly, I don't want them so big and in the way. I do have the on my sidebar, right in the middle. So people are sure to scroll past them.
Any tips would be great.
I have made a LOT of money with Google Adsense (let's just say that Uncle Sam is sooo happy with the amount of taxes we pay).
The amount you can earn will depend on the
1. Responsiveness of audience to the ads = A travel website that provides information on travel to Spain will attract visitors looking for ways to arrange their travel and spend money on their vacation to Spain. Your site provides the info, but the ads will provide hotels, travel agencies, tourist destinations, car rentals -- ads that are likely to get the attention of the users of your site. This is a site that will most likely do well with Adsense. However, if you are a gaming website where the main purpose of the user is to play games on your site, then Adsense will not perform as well.
2. Ad format = some types of ads do better than others depending on your content and layout. In our case, large rectangles in the middle of the content is the best, while leaderboards do not generate as much as income. Skys are the worst for us. Experiment and measure the results via channels and see which formats work best for you.
3. Ad placement - check Google's heat map as they have tested where the best placements are https://www.google.com/support/adsense/bin/answer.py?answer=17954&ctx=en:search&query=adsense+heat+map&topic=0&type=f
4. Ad colors - sometimes ads blended into the content works wonders, but sometimes ads that contrast your site colors work best
5. Number of ad units on a page = we are allowed maximum of 3 ads + 1 ad links + 1 search box on a page. Maximize the allowed number based on the resulting look of your page (you don't want an overkill of ads). Users going to your page and reading your content may ignore the banner or rectangle at the top of the page, but may click on the ad at the bottom of the article
6. Smartpricing - the big unknown in Adsense. No one knows how this actually works. But it can affect the pricing of the ads on your site. If the advertiser paid for $0.50/click - but your site is smartpriced - then the cost may be discounted lower (e.g. $0.25). So you may try to develop a site based on high paying keywords but if smartpricing gets to you, then you may not get as much per click as what you are expecting from your keywords.
Here is Google's explanation of smart pricing https://adwords.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=9562&query=smart+pricing&topic=0&type=f
Google's smart pricing feature automatically adjusts the cost of a keyword-targeted content click based on its effectiveness compared to a search click. So if our data shows that a click from a content page is less likely to turn into actionable business results -- such as online sales, registrations, phone calls, or newsletter signups -- we reduce the price you pay for that click.
Experiment with the factors above (except smartpricing, which you can't control), and see which combination works best. Remember though that not all sites do well with Adsense - even if you get gazillions of traffic but your visitors are not interested in looking for ways to spend their money, they won't be interested in your ads and won't click.
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To paraphrase the lovely Shania Twain - "If you're not willing to give it all you've got- get out of here!"
It's easy to waste your time trying to understand the internet business and end up being in a daze, surrounded by too many miracle cures and instant success stories.
It's like a tsunami of information drowning you, and there is no escape to higher ground.
I don't know how someone got my email address, but some drongo (an Aussie term - you'll figure it out!) wrote to me asking me to put in just 5 dollars and immediately get back 20 without my doing anything.... one of those "instant cash doubler" schemes.
After all this time I've got more common sense... and so should you...than to get into his "program." That common sense will tell you that the only way you will get back 20 dollars for five is if five other mugs like you fall for his scam and front up with their five dollars, so that the promoter can pay you and keep some for himself.
All very well if you are one of the first in line, and get your seed money back with just one payout, but that very rarely happens.
I just got I don't know how many of these "miracles" and at least one "Next
Product" alert in my mailbox which is supposed to help me get instant riches in internet marketing.
Listen, if you really want to make serious money, you have to be one of these promoters, cobble together a few tips and tricks that anyone can get for free, give it a catchy name, and get one of the big hitters to promote it to their list. I'm sure you've seen your inbox flooded by lots of these people, all trying to sell you the same thing, and with ever increasing bonuses which you will never use, but they sound great.
However, for most of us down in the food chain, that's not a realistic option - we don't have our own product, and no guru will touch us.
Let me tell you, the only solid money I've ever made is from using Google Adsense to make money. Sure I won't retire from it, but I am making around $2.50 a day from my sites. Not much, I know, but what if I had an Adsense network of 100, or even 200 sites? (That's $50 a day for you non-accountants!) That's how much you can make, and that's the secret of making money with Adsense.
You can not only use Adsense on your site, you can use Adsense in WordPress blogs, use all the Google information marketing tools, Adwords etc.
Of course the drawback is that you have to set up those 200 sites and maintain them with constantly changing content, and that content has to be sufficiently interesting to make a few people click on a few ads.
However, there are ways to do this, using RSS feeds, feeds from other blogs, and other auto blogging techniques, but be wary of not overdoing it, make sure the feeds add genuine interest to your site.
The main problem will be in setting up 200 attractive, keyword and Adsense rich sites.
To do this yourself will take a lot of time, effort and money, and you will never do it if you're just mucking around with internet marketing.
You will have to spend some serious cash on hiring someone to do it for you, or get a website generating software program, and a really good one will not be cheap, but if you're serious, you will spend that money, which gets back to the thrust of my opening paragraph - "If you're not willing to give it all you've got - get out of here!"
©Peter Phillips
2007
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