Increase your Adsense CTR using a few simple techniques.
1: Optimize the color of your ad units. Blend in your ad units with the layout of your page - make your links on the page the same color as your ad unit links, and vice versa - unless you have a layout that is more conducive to contrasting ads.
2: Use LINK UNITS. Their addition will NOT diminish the CPC of your other ads, because link units do not compete against ad units. Link units are likely to get more clicks because they are of a less intimidating / obtrusive appearance compared to ad units.
3: Put your link units at the top of the page, in the side scrolling section, OR at the bottom of the page, as many viewers look at the bottom of the page, for various reasons.
4: USE HIGH-CTR AD UNITS. These include: Rectangle 300x250, Large Rectangle, Large Square 250x250, Wide Ad Tower 160x600, and the Leaderboard 728x90. Personally, my best performers are the Large Rectangle and the Large Square.
5: Put ads in between or in the middle of posts/pages. These are proven to be the HIGHEST CTR areas for ads to be.
6: If you can, try to place just one ad unit above the fold. But you have to be willing to give up prime real estate in order to get a high CTR, especially if most of your traffic is Google traffic.
The magical Adwords tool: Use it to make more Adsense income
What's the link? It's at https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal. Use and abuse it in order to find the keywords that YOU want.
HOW do you make the keywords work in your favor?
A: Find the keyword with the highest CPC/CPM. This is MOST important.
B: Find ones with high advertiser competition. This means more consistent CPC/CPM improvements. This also means you can get away with more ad units on your pages.
C: Find ones with a relatively high search volume, although, if you're planning to try to get your site to the top of Google, find one without TOO high a search volume, as that will make it nigh impossible to compete with the big dogs.
Use the hell out of this thing and KEEP TRACK of which keywords pay real well. Failure to do so will result in more cent-clicks and less dollar-clicks. Write keywords down or save them in Notepad if you need to.
HOW do you make the keywords work in your favor?
A: Find the keyword with the highest CPC/CPM. This is MOST important.
B: Find ones with high advertiser competition. This means more consistent CPC/CPM improvements. This also means you can get away with more ad units on your pages.
C: Find ones with a relatively high search volume, although, if you're planning to try to get your site to the top of Google, find one without TOO high a search volume, as that will make it nigh impossible to compete with the big dogs.
Use the hell out of this thing and KEEP TRACK of which keywords pay real well. Failure to do so will result in more cent-clicks and less dollar-clicks. Write keywords down or save them in Notepad if you need to.
Some scattered Adsense tips
After a lot of experimenting, I figured out a few ways to kick up the Adsense income a bit. I'll share my tips.
1: DON'T CROWD THEM TOGETHER. Really, your ads are going to need to take up prime real estate in order to get a higher CTR. However, don't go putting 3 ad units all right up close to each other, above the fold. That's not only stupid-looking, but it increases the chances that a visitor will click a low-paying ad.
2: BLEND 'EM. Blend ads as best you can. My blog has the "Scroll" background, so it has background graphics all the way down, but I custom-blended it as well as I could. If they contrast too much, your readers will get ad-blindness.
3: ABOVE THE FOLD. That's where you want one ad-unit - not two, though. I personally stick a large rectangle right below the title of the blog, and then regular squares (250x250) after the first two posts on the blog. Reason being, I want users to read beyond the first ad at the top (rather than having to deal with an ad flood), and see another unit when they get to the end of a post. I used to have all three ad-units above the fold - one leaderboard, one big rectangle and one wide ad tower. Sounds great for a blog that gets nothing but google-traffic and doesn't get updated, right? WRONG. Theoretically, users should click your ads cuz that's all that shows. Realistically, you'll have a lousy CTR. Your ads will blend in with each other.
4: USE LINK UNITS. Personally, I put them at the top of the blog's navigation bar, right above the top post, and at the bottom of the blog. Some days, I get a higher revenue from link unit clicks than I do from the ad unit clicks. They aren't as susceptible to ad-blindness as ad units, and sometimes they're just plain less intimidating.
5: For dead blog users: a little trickery. Stick an ad in the middle of a post - google to figure out how - or simply split your last post in half - the first post is your post title plus the first half of your text. Your second post is the last half of your text, with no title. Put an ad unit in between.
So far, I'm on pace for about 50 dollars this month, whereas I used to rarely top 25 dollars. I hope my strategies work for you as well as they have for me. Oh, by the way, don't check your revenue daily. You'll drive yourself insane and it will seem higher if you check it weekly or monthly.
1: DON'T CROWD THEM TOGETHER. Really, your ads are going to need to take up prime real estate in order to get a higher CTR. However, don't go putting 3 ad units all right up close to each other, above the fold. That's not only stupid-looking, but it increases the chances that a visitor will click a low-paying ad.
2: BLEND 'EM. Blend ads as best you can. My blog has the "Scroll" background, so it has background graphics all the way down, but I custom-blended it as well as I could. If they contrast too much, your readers will get ad-blindness.
3: ABOVE THE FOLD. That's where you want one ad-unit - not two, though. I personally stick a large rectangle right below the title of the blog, and then regular squares (250x250) after the first two posts on the blog. Reason being, I want users to read beyond the first ad at the top (rather than having to deal with an ad flood), and see another unit when they get to the end of a post. I used to have all three ad-units above the fold - one leaderboard, one big rectangle and one wide ad tower. Sounds great for a blog that gets nothing but google-traffic and doesn't get updated, right? WRONG. Theoretically, users should click your ads cuz that's all that shows. Realistically, you'll have a lousy CTR. Your ads will blend in with each other.
4: USE LINK UNITS. Personally, I put them at the top of the blog's navigation bar, right above the top post, and at the bottom of the blog. Some days, I get a higher revenue from link unit clicks than I do from the ad unit clicks. They aren't as susceptible to ad-blindness as ad units, and sometimes they're just plain less intimidating.
5: For dead blog users: a little trickery. Stick an ad in the middle of a post - google to figure out how - or simply split your last post in half - the first post is your post title plus the first half of your text. Your second post is the last half of your text, with no title. Put an ad unit in between.
So far, I'm on pace for about 50 dollars this month, whereas I used to rarely top 25 dollars. I hope my strategies work for you as well as they have for me. Oh, by the way, don't check your revenue daily. You'll drive yourself insane and it will seem higher if you check it weekly or monthly.
Random ways to make money online without Adsens
myLot - Do you use MySpace already? This site pays you for doing the same things you already do on MySpace, and it's growing WAY faster than MySpace ever did - it's much easier to meet people and find people, and heck, it's just plain fun!
Shareapic.net - it's like Photobucket, except if Photobucket actually PAID you to use its site - great to use with MySpace or eBay, or any forums you post at.
Inboxdollars - This one pays you to read emails, play games, do surveys, and many other things - you pick and choose the methods you want to make money with here.
CashCrate - Similar to InboxDollars.
TreasureTrooper - similar to the two sites above.
AGLOCO - This one pays you simply to surf the internet with a small, spyware-free adbar at the bottom of your browser window. It's like the old Alladvantage site, except this one is here to stay.
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