Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Adsense Secrets Exclusively Revealed


I bet that title got your attention, right? Well I hate to tell you this but the truth is there are no Adsense secrets. It's all nothing more than hype put about by various internet marketers who want you to buy their product.

Okay maybe that's a little harsh as there are some very good Adsense guides out there, but the point I want to get across is that the real secret is that anyone can make money with Google Adsense. All you need to do is create a website or blog with quality content, display the Adsense ads in the most prominent places of every web page (i.e. where they will get the most clicks) and drive traffic to your site.

Sounds easy I know, but that's all there is to it. The crucial part is getting traffic to your site. You can create a site with great content, with ad blocks in all the right places, but if no-one knows about it's presence then you're never going to get anyone visiting your site and clicking on your ads.

There are numerous ways of getting traffic to your site. These include things like exchanging links with other related sites, obtaining links from directories, posting on forums, creating blogs and linking to your site, writing articles and submitting them to article directories and ezine publishers, creating viral ebooks, and so on.

Once you have traffic to your site you can then start testing your Adsense clicks and ad placement to increase your earnings further. There's no hard and fast rules that apply to every single site because every site has different layouts and will have different 'hotspots', so testing is vitally important if you want to increase your click-thru rate.

There are, however, a few things that you should consider to maximize your Adsense earnings.

Firstly, I would say that it's always a good idea to make sure your ads blend in with your site as much as possible so they don't look like separate ads. Remove any borders and background colors and use the same color link text as the other links on your page.

Also, it's always a good idea to place a large ad block above the fold so it's viewed by your visitors as soon as they enter your website. In addition, I've always found that ads that are displayed within the actual content (about half way down the page) also do well, if the page contains a lot of content, or at the end of your content for shorter pages, so you give your visitors an opportunity to click on your ads when they've reached the bottom of the page.

I don't personally like skyscraper ads, but as I've said before it's all about testing. You may well find that for your own particular site layout, these ad blocks perform well and achieve high click-thru rates.

Other things you can do include tweaking the keyword density on each page to ensure that the right types of ads are displaying, as well as removing the 'advertise on this site' text (which Google allows at the time of writing).

Ultimately though it's all about creating quality content on a regular basis, driving as much traffic as you possibly can to your sites using the various different methods of generating traffic, and testing different ad placements to obtain the maximum number of click-thrus. They're the real Adsense secrets.

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

AdSense Is Making Me Rich


I want to talk to you about the power of Google AdSense and how you can use it to generate not hundreds, not thousands, but tens of thousands of dollars from your website. I have only been using AdSense for a few months, but already I am earning thousands and thousands every single week just from AdSense. I want to share with you right now some secrets on how I do that.

One of the best secrets that I have learned about AdSense is that you can get a lot of revenue if you place AdSense in your links pages. Almost everybody now has a links page or collection of links on their website for other resources. If you have a categorized links directory or a few links pages grouped together this is even better. What AdSense can then do is determine exactly which ads to show on which page.

Since you’re already going to be losing traffic from those links anyway, why not get paid to actually drive people to other websites! That’s one of the key secrets: include AdSense on your links pages.

Another great secret is to use your newsletter or mailing list to generate AdSense revenue. They don’t allow you to send anything out by email that includes AdSense, but what you can do is you can create a newsletter that is online. You would send an email and, rather than including the newsletter within that email, you would send people to a link. People will land on that link and it includes your newsletter in html format along with relevant AdSense ads.

This also builds up over time. You can have multiple issues of the newsletter back-dated, all of which are accessible and being read by your visitors and all that include AdSense ads. This is a great way, and a very quick way, to monetize your newsletter. If you create a newsletter around a specific theme every single time you email it out, you’ll start to see that the ads become relevant each time and you’ll get more and more people clicking on them.

Another secret for AdSense is to create the text ads with the same background as your sites page. If you do this they blend into your site much more effectively. If you use frameless ads, where the color of the frame is the same as your website, this will work even better.

The main secret that I found in creating an AdSense empire is to do one thing every day which will actually improve your AdSense earnings. Whether you add more content, get more key phrases, send another newsletter or read more information about AdSense; do one thing each day which earns you more!