I’ve never actually been serious about making money through Adsense before. I had a product and that was my main focus. But in the past few months I’ve been reading a lot about how people are earning thousands from Adsense. So, I figured … hey, why not give it a shot. It would make a good second income.
My initial attempt with Adsense was lame at best. Like many others, I just stuck one of those skyscraper Adsense ads in my navigation column. I was making about $2/mth. That’s not bad for beginners, right?
I left it at that for a long time. Sometimes, I wouldn’t earn a thing for a whole month. But I didn’t care because it wasn’t my main income.
Lately though I decided to buy some of the info products available on the net about boosting income from Adsense. I have to say that I’m quite disappointment with many of them. You know that feeling, when you bought something and wish you can just ask for refund but you feel bad about it because the authors did try their best.
So the e-books just lay there taking up your hard disk space, collecting virtual dust.
And then, I came across yet another product that looked more tempting then the rest. I kept coming back to read the sales copy. I really wanted to get hold of it but at the same time at the back of my mind “what if it’s like the others”.
After a few days, my curious side got the best of me and I purchased it. That month my Adsense earnings went up by a whopping 1341%. And I only started using it in the middle of the month.
I am SO excited. And the product? It’s called Adsense Tracker. It’s actually a neat software that you install on your server that will give you stats to see how your Adsense are performing. Which layout works best. Which color. You can even see which ad your visitors are clicking on and on which page. Plus which keyword they typed to get to your page which resulted in a click. That’s just the tip of the ice berg.
Not only do you get the software, you also get a report on which ad layout in which colors are statistically performing the best. So, you don’t have to start from scratch.
You also get a whole database of keywords that has high click income. Up to $39 a click. Can you believe that?
And if you don’t have an existing web site, or even if you do, you have access to 25,000 articles that you can use as content. I used some of these articles in my sample site in the WordPress tutorial series.
I’m really happy I bought this product. It’s hard to find a product these days that leaves you with that warm fuzzy satisfied feeling. If you’re having problems with your Adsense income. I highly recommend you get the Adsense Tracker.
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April 22nd, 2006 at April 22, 2006, 12:21 am
Excellent topic and you covered it nicely. Adsense is indeed a huge player in the online advertising world and I believe any tips and guides are appreciated. Of course, while millions of publishers are running Adsense, only a handful are making serious money off it. As far as I’m concerned, the best way to make money with Adsense is to develop a website or blog on a niche topic that should also be something you are interested in. Hobby-related sites have the best chances of keeping you, as their webmaster, happy and involved, and this will soon show in the number of visitors and the amounts of money you make.
Another vital thing to consider is ad style and placement. I prefer to use a similar structure for all my websites – one that was proven to work. I will share this with you as I believe in reciprocal help through free advice – I also learned A LOT from browsing blogs such as this and other webmaster resources on Adsense. Ok, so getting back to ad placement: I love the idea of placing a 120×90 or 160×90 adlink box on the left side menu of my sites, in the top left corner, just below the banner. Have a look at my website, and get more tips on How to make money with Google Adsense and look at the area below the graphic saying “Online money†– it will house a nice 160×90 adlinks box soon after my site receives enough traffic.
The second good spot to place a 250×250 or 300×250 ad box is in the article text. Loose the border and make the background of the ads the same as your web background (same is true for the adlink placement mentioned above. The final touch comes with a final ad placed at the end of each araticle. Consider the article a path that leads to the final conclusion – exactly where the ads are. You can also place a small graphic image to the left of the ads, so that they are more attractive from a visual point of view.
By using such an ad placement most of my sites get CTRs of 10%-15% all the time
Give it a try and let me know if this sort of ad placement worked in your particular cases – I am also doing a study on this which I will eventually publish on my web2earn.com Google Adsense case study
Best regards,
Mihai
April 24th, 2006 at April 24, 2006, 12:25 pm
Hi Mihai,
Thanks for your input. Great feedback. What I’ve done so far is try out various layouts and formats and I make sure that I track the results. I even try different link colors. Since Adsense is not my main income, sometimes I just do some changes for the fun of it :o)
September 1st, 2006 at September 1, 2006, 11:51 pm
see adsense alternatives .
http://www.dhoomley.com/
September 2nd, 2006 at September 2, 2006, 4:42 pm
sandra .. url is actually
http://www.dhoomley.com/
moneymaker.htm
good one