If you have ever attempted to make money from your site you must of have heard of Google Adsense. Every newbie who first comes onto the blogging scene has heard that the easiest way to make money from their website is to slap on some ads. They think that by doing that there going to be a millionaire overnight.
Wrong!
You have probably also heard this time and time again “You won’t cant become a millionaire overnight”. No matter how hard you try if you are just starting out that feat is ever rarely achieved.
To make a good killing online your going to need to do more things then just put random ads from Adsense on your site. There are certain tricks that will help you improve your CTR rate immensely. Lets begin!
Blend: The first critical step is to blend in your ads. Please try not to go over the top and show off your creative side. You might be artistic but your visitors will shy away from clicking anything. Look at your blog/website’s link colors. If link’s on your site are blue then make the links in your ads blue. You have to try to make it look like it is a part of your website.
Important: Do not go overboard with blending because your risking getting banned. Google states that your ads cannot look like if they are a part of your content. If you get banned all the money you made will just go back to Google and they have enough of that,so please do not get banned.
Below Post Title: A great technique is to place your ads below your post title. After doing a ton of research this has been proven to increase your CTR by hundreds. You can even put it below the actual post to rack up some more clicks too. When a visitor clicks on your posts they want to know or learn something, so they are in clicking mode. Placing it on the top and bottom of each posts is really good for your CTR because subconsciously they are looking for something to do.
Play Around: Test, test, test. I cannot stress this enough! Play around with the positioning of your ads. You never know, one spot on your site might make or break your income.
If you don’t know where are the best positions on your site Google released this heat map which you can check out here which shows where people click more.
SEO: Believe it or not SEO is important. The majority of clicks you will get will come from search engine visitors. It is really vital to make your site SEO friendly and optimize your posts regularly with the best keywords. The more search engine traffic the richer you will be.
Less Is More: Putting more ads does not always mean more money. Remember to not place too many ads on your blog/website because you can also get banned for that. Three ads should be fine.
Even with all the tips I mentioned above it is really key to become your visitor. Get a family or friend and tell them to check out your site. Be right behind them and observe where they tend to look at, click and such.
Hopefully these tips will double your Adsense income tremendously! But what about you? Do you have any tips that increased your clicks not mentioned above? Share in the comments below!
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Very well said. Just a tip to all the newbies, NEVER click on your own ads even ONCE. It’s also better if you will not tell your friends/family about these ads because instead of helping you, they might over clicked the ads which can cause your account to get banned.
This happened to me once but I will NEVER repeat it again.
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Yes your right Christian. Just one click might get you banned. Thanks for commenting!
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May I ask you, how can we prevent from clicking on our all adsense ads?
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@Christian
Really good comment. Right after I got Adsense set up on my first blog. I explained it to my kids how awesome it was. No matter how great I thought it was, they thought it was even better.
One of my children thought they would help me out by clicking on all the ads! So I had to sit them down and explain this point to them. You will get me banned if you do that!
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Good basic tips for all webmasters who want to earn something from AdSense.
These tips are vital to make any money from AdSense and to avoid being banned.
Thanks Nabeel.
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Nice tips for newbies, you missed the keyword recearch part. Hmm…
Only 3 ad + 3 link ad are allowed max.
Yeah your right. Keyword research is good too because some keywords are more profitable than others
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@Shekhar,
Good point you raise! I had to figure this out the hard way…….
I hope newbies pay attention to what you just said.
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create an index.html page and content is adsense . 5pm will automatically load the index.php and your blog will much CTR
.
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I didnt know this. Thanks Jen.
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Great post.
The simplest way is to try different things. If you remain the same for a couple of weeks, months, or years, even, you will have to rely on getting more readers. If you change up your placement, style, or even how many ads you have, you can expect great, or less, increases/decreases in your earnings.
Thanks for commenting Joe. Changing your ad placement is important.
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A nice article Edwin bro. You have mentioned some great points that can help people get a good amount of revenue from Adsense. I think there main things for having a good adsense revenue is 1) Good Placement 2) Targeted Traffic 3) And a content rich blog.
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I’ve been doing some extensive testing with one of my blogs and it really does come down to less is more.
I tried ramping up the Adsense just to see if it had a greater impact but it actually reduced clicks.
Placement is key; if you wrote a really enticing line and had your adsense next to it, readers may want to click on the add because it fits the flow of the post
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Yeah Murlu, thanks for commenting.
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Murlu,
Can you give an example of this… a link or something. I’d like to get a visual of what your are saying.
Thanks,
Jason
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HIGH TRAFFIC will surely increase your earnings
keep on experimenting …u will get some good improvements….
Adsense at Middle of post and using Adsense link units wisely will surely skyrocket your Adsnese earnings….
Really great post Edwin,
The most important thing is blend, if the ads can blend with your blog then you can easily make more money with it.
Thanks a lot for the great post,
-Onibalusi
No problem Onibalusi. Glad I could help
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@Onibalusi
Thanks for confirming this point…newbies listen to
Onibalusi, he know’s what he is doing! Check out his blog!
jason | theBlogQuest.com´s last [type] ..How to Get Your First Affiliate Sale By July 16th, 2010!
Very nice article. Surely i will test this in my blog…
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Use Text + Image Ads and Boarder less Ad Units.
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Cool tip.
Hi Edwin,
Welcome to technshare.com and congratulations on your first post here.
I like your topic as I have made some money already on one of my blogs and am looking to make more with Adsense!
I still need to experiment a bit more with blending and positioning to see if I can increase the clicks.
Good article I will forward it to some friends just now getting into Adsense.
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Thanks Jason for the kind words.
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People also does the mistake like clicking his/her own ad. This will lead to ban from Google. Remember more traffic means more clicks
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Never click your own ads. No matter how tempting it is
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I believe Google has a failsafe in place to disallow more than 3 ad codes to show up on a single page. So that shouldn’t be an issue.
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Upto my experience ads with different background than our actual site background will work good,, because ads will easily get caught by peoples and it make them to click the ads,,
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Not always. It might make it more noticable but it might also keep them away from clicking
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Really a nice tips for new bloggers.
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Thank you.
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Just exactly what I needed! Thank you for sharing!
No problem Martin.
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Thanks for the awesome post Edwin, definitely a must-read for anyone trying to make money using Adsense.
Here’s another tip: Use Adsense Section Targeting
I won’t get into how (just do a Google search), but basically it allows you to include AND exclude certain sections of your site from the Adsense bot and include other sections.
When I used Adsense, I excluded things such as my site header, navigation, sidebar, ads, etc. and included my article and that helped to make my ads super relevant.
Thanks again Edwin.
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Cool information Jonathan. And your welcome.
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Thanks for this share !
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Great article….will try it in my blog…
Thanx!!
Good points – most important one is to keep testing. I still think the one single factor to making money from adsense is high traffic volume
Oh, and if you don’t know not to click your own ads… you won’t be making a lot of money off the web.
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Ha. Nice Anne. Thanks for the comment.
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Very useful tips for newbies. All these tips are strongly recommended to newbies.
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Great stuff! I also start a different campaign and did all sort of testing. Thanks for the tips, I’ll be sure to come back here for more.
I have to agree that testing all of the possible ad positions is crucial. I’m a that stage yet and although there have been some increases, I still haven’t found the best spot. Will certainly check out the heat map. Thanks for sharing!
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Awesome stuff man,
I know that I personally don’t use adsense on my blog though because it has a bad habit of stealing my affiliate sales! lol
CJ
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Great post, I’m still running adsense on a few niche blogs, hopefully I can improve my adsense revenue with these tips. Thanks for the interesting article.
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Less is more is not always right. Adsense pays us per clicks and impressions and most of bloggers now are aware of adsense ads and hesitate to click on it or never do that. So, if you put it only one unit on homepage or single post, you will definitely loose impression and clicks too, the best way is to make your adsense ads as much visible as possible that can draw your readers’ attention and if they do not even click, you can still get money from impressions.
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Thanks for sharing Edwin, Adsense is hard to get much money from unless you have a lot of traffic. Good to see there are tips and tricks for those daring enough to keep it rolling!
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Playing around is the best way to deduce the best placement for different blog
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I was finding ways to improve my adsense earnings. U have mentioned about posting ads below the post title. I think it will work and I am going to try that.
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