AdSense was always a hot topic so I decided to share some tips about improving your CTR. Perhaps you already know that but there are people that will find this helpful, I hope. If you know some good tips and tricks, please be my guest and post them here.
1. Increasing CTR
Do you get decent number of visitors but no clicks? If you run AdSense on your blog your goal is obviously money and to make people click on your ads before they leave your blog. Perhaps you offer your visitors too much information. If you want them to click on your ads you have to draw their attention towards ads. Offer enough information about a certain topic but don’t tell them everything, start a discussion and leave the other part to AdSense. This is where you want your visitors to get answers from. In other, more simple, words - make them click. Ad placement plays a big role so be sure to put ads between text and at the bottom of your page, that way when people scroll down they have an option of leaving a site by clicking an ads rather than closing a Firefox tab.
2. Keywords
How do you know whether you should build a blog with high paying or low paying keywords? Well, that all depends on what you’re really trying to acomplish. You can generate revenue with any keyword. The thing is what do you want to do? Do you want to run only one blog you’re going to be serious about and put a lot of effort to it or are you going to build ten or so blogs with automated content? If you’re going for the first option you should start a blog with extreme competition, it takes a lot of time and effort but it will definitly generate serious revenue. Or you can build several blogs with non-competitive niche and low paying keywords, you won’t make as much as you could with high bid keyword niche but you’re effort will be minimal.
3. Templates
Don’t use AdSense ready templates, they turn people away and they’re very hard to adjust. It’s best to install ads on your blog manualy because it gives you more freedom when choosing ad position. Always blend your ads so they fit with the rest of the layout perfectly and try not to put more than one block on your blog. Click price actually depends on your niche and its keywords but using only one block of ads will get you more high-paying ads. The other feature you should incorporate with your ads are pictures. Google allows you to put images next to your AdSense ads and there’s really no reason why you shouldn’t use that. Putting pictures with an arrow towards your ads might not comply with Google TOS but if you talk about cars, sticking a BMW or Audi pictures might help you with CTR. Try not to use private or brand name products images because you might get in trouble.
There’s also a very good resource page about AdSense guides, tools and tips by Quickonlinetips. You might want to take a look at it here.
3 AdSense Tips You Should Know…
AdSense was always a hot topic so I decided to share some tips about improving your CTR. Perhaps you already know that but there are people that will find this helpful, I hope. If you know some good tips and tricks, please be my guest and post them her…
PlugIM.com
September 16th, 2007
Sound advice on Adsense, but I notice that you use Adbrite and Bidvertiser. Are these better than Adsense? I know that under the Adsense TOS you cannot use Adsense as well (as they look similar), so do they pay better? An article on Bidvertiser adn Adbrite would be good. I have been using Adsense for a while now, so am interested in your opinions on the other advertising tools.
Webologist
September 16th, 2007
Comparing PPC programs out there, I can guarantee there is no better than Google AdSense. They pay better per click and they have a huge database of advertisers which makes your ads targeted and related to your content unlike some other systems out there like BidVertiser.
Stick with AdSense but feel free to experiment with others, I dare to say you’ll return to Google.
I’m trying out different PPC and Affiliate programs to see how they work, that’s why I use BidVertiser and AdBrite at the moment. I’ll be running AdSense and others in the future.
The thing with AdBrite is their PPC program sucks but they pay good CPM rates and this is what I use on my blog. Usualy CPM works only with high traffic websites but I’ve installed it because I’m trying out different ad providers.
I’ll write something on PPC and Affiliate programs because there are too many people emailing me what’s the best, what’s worth and what not.
Thanks for your interest.
Daniel Vukadinovic
September 16th, 2007
You’ve mastered Adsense without it.
Congrats, your new theme is marvellous.
Earn Money Online
September 19th, 2007
Thanks Raj, it’s not my theme actually but it’s been heavily modified and I plan to do some more modifications and then I’ll release the theme here.
Daniel Vukadinovic
September 19th, 2007
winonline.co.nr i saw some information in this site…. this seesm to have same info as in here…..it ws pretty nice….lolz….
sherloc
September 20th, 2007
winonline.co.nr is on the loose! Quick, make 16,450 blogs and earn 4,500,000$ overnight. Sure, in a world called Zeeland where people fly around and crap diamonds. Installing twenty blogs is not hard, but can you handle them properly?
People have a totaly wrong image when it comes to running multiple blogs. It’s not about creating multiple blogs, it’s about managing them. If you spend few hours every day working on your single blog, imagine how many hours you would need to spend to manage ten blogs. That’s insane. If you do all the work yourself, you can forget about it because it’s impossible to run ten successful blogs at the same time unless you don’t care about the quality of your content. As I said earlier, you can run multiple blogs, but are they going to be worth reading? When you have only one blog you dedicate all your time and effort to it and it becomes your baby that you love and have to take care of but once you start running ten blogs or more all that hype is gone and there’s just something-you-have-to-do left. Ofcourse there’s a reason for that. You don’t run ten blogs because you love to do that, you run them because they bring you money.
1.One-man team
Managing multiple blogs requires hard work, a lot of time and good organization. If you’re doing all things by yourself, you need to schedule your daily work properly otherwise you’ll get lost in the whole management process and when that happens, I wouldn’t want to be in your position. Running multiple blogs also means bigger responsibility, you have more readers, more content and more spam to take care of. You need to carefuly manage your advertising strategy, work on your promotion and update your blogs regulary. That’s not pleasant at all.
2. Human labor
Why doing all the work yourself if you can hire someone to do work for you. This is how your ten blogs dream becomes reality. Think like a businessman and hire people to write blog entries for you, that way you’ll have more time to manage your blogs and advertising campaigns and not worry whether your content is going to be satissfying or not.
3. What’s the hurry
Don’t start all your blogs at once. After lauchning your first blog wait a couple of weeks and than launch another blog. You need to wait to see how your blogs are getting established in the community so you can make your next blog better. Once you have your blogs up and running you need to be patient because indexing and ranking don’t come overnight, you should know that. Don’t forget to cross-link your blogs and try different advertising systems to squeez maximum earnings of each blog.
4. Automated
If you’re too lazy or don’t want to pay people to write articles for you there’s always an alternative - automated blog systems. I’m sure you have seen blogs that generate lots of posts every day, those are basicly wordpress blogs running RSS grabber plugin. It’s very easy to set this up and requires no management work at all but it may not be legal because publishing other people’s content on your blog without permission can get you banned on popular web 2.0 websites including search engines and advertising companies so be careful.
Be sure to choose different niche for every single blog, that way you maximize your chances of succeeding. Running multiple blogs is everything but easy and many times people quit and sell their blogs because there’s too much work but if you prepare and organize yourself like a business blogger should, you’ll probably be making six figures and more after your blogs get established.
sherloc
September 20th, 2007
I don’t know if this is SPAM or not but your site is breaking Google TOS.
Daniel Vukadinovic
September 20th, 2007