I am setting up a website with inspirational qoutations, and plan to have a nice design (either hand drawn or photography of nature). I expect to have advertisers from the “self improvement” industry to advertise on my site. But i am new to this adsense business, and just learnt the meaning of CPM and CPC. Surfing the net, i found hundreds of packages that claim to teach you everything you need to know about become rich with adsense, and they charge you a steep price!!! can i learn enough from “free” sources of information? how much do i need to know? how about all the stuff about KEYWORDS?, there seems to be alot about that. could you please giude me
How Can I Be Successfull At Google Adsense?
Written by Make Money Online on June 26th, 2009 in Publisher
Just wanted to say HI. I found your blog a few days ago on Technorati and have been reading it over the past few days.
Promote the website and get it listed in search engine searches. Make sure that the ads are reflecting what is on your page–users of your site are more likely to click on the Google ads this way. Also, try integrating a blog with your quote site, that will attract more interested users and broaden the scope of the ads Google can/may place on your site, which means more clicking options for visitors.
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The best sites to learn about the program are:
- Adsense website: read the blog, familiarize yourself with the program policies, check their optimization tips
- forums such as WebmasterWorld.com Adsense forum http://www.webmasterworld.com/google_ads…
In terms of earning money on Adsense, your mileage varies. One website with the 10,000 uniques a day can earn $50 a month while another may earn $5,000. It is not easy to predict how much you will earn from Adsense. The only way you can learn about how your site will perform with Adsense is through trying it.
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/b…
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/a…
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.
The window for small websites making decent cash from Google Adsense has closed.
It used to be quite easy to make hundreds of dollars a month from it, but right before Google went public the amount that Google was paying dropped by about 90%. No joke.
These days, an average website will make about $100 a year with Google Adsense. Or less.
Look to Adsense to provide a little bit of money for your site, but not to cover its expenses. And no, don’t buy anything that claims to tell you how to make a lot with Google Adsense — these documents were written when making money with it was easy. As I said, these days it is not.