GC=short for Great Content I know this is an adsense forum, but sometimes you can get carried away with thinking about it too much and the quality of your website will suffer as a result. GC is not only about its value as something you can read or see, but also about the way it's organized. Visitors don't want to see ads shoved into their faces, that is a good way to tell your visitors you don't care about them or your website quality. But, if you win their trust, return visitors will consider checking out the ads. Adsense RULE #1 The ads should not be looked at as something we must work hard to trick people to click on... we should display them in a way that allows the visitor to make a decision, whether they want to click on them or not. By applying some common sense we can deduct that... the only reason ugly Adsense layouts make money it is from people who are tricked (basically forced to) into thinking the ads are part of your website navigation. That's just morally wrong, and people who believe that the ads are part of your navigation either: 1) don't care about your site, so they will not be able to give anything back (links, friend referrals) or, 2) see your website as a one-time stop, closed once and forever forgotten 3) are completely misled and confused once they see a different site once they clicked on the ad/navigation Adsense RULE #2 You must spend every day or every week at least... to add new content to your website, if you want adsense to generate decent income for you without having the visitors think you are trying to profit from the ads and leave immediately (a potential external link to your site lost here). What I commonly see when I analyze other people's blogs, is that they want HUGE CTRs with MINIMUM VALUE. That means 10-20 pages are expected to make a lot of adsense money. Not so true. Why not focus on building value instead of optimizing adsense? That brings me to the... Adsense RULE #3 Make your task to make a lot of money with the worst CTR you can manage. I'm not saying to literally hide all your ads at the bottom of your page, but... make an ad layout that looks decent and not obnoxious like most bloggers! Nothing's wrong with that. It adds value to your blog. It just doesn't add immediate value. But we all kind of want things now and we want a lot of them. But that's just not how it works. Place decently organized ads on your blog/site. And make your goal generating your monthly rent check with low CTR %0.30 - %0.50, if you can achieve that that means you have contributed to the visitors of your site and helped them in one way or another. You will then deserve to "optimize" your ads and make small changes that will increase CTR... but since you will already be making a lot of money, a small change will make an even GREATER impact on your revenue. I mean... why dig sand with a teaspoon in the sandbox like a little kid, when you can use a shovel and move massive amounts of sand with one thrust? It just needs to be done the right way. Adsense RULE #4 Believe in yourself and your ability to make colossal adsense earnings possible. Many times, not just in this industry, but anywhere else, people fail because they subconsciously dont believe they deserve the money or any other rewards. So they sabotage their intentions without knowing about it... and sort of just spend a lot of time running around in circles thinking why nothing is working at the end of the day. This happens for many reasons, but certainly there is no way it is because you are not capable of making a great website happen. Sometimes our parents have that kind of effect on us when we are young, but we need to grow out of it and take responsibility for our actions and stop hoping that "If i put a blog or a website online, add some analytics code to it, add some adsense to it... i will have a bright future". Thats exactly how our subconscious mind wants us to think. To give us something shallow to work on so we feel a sense of accomplishment. We need to break out of that cycle first. Otherwise nothing is going to happen for you. It doesnt happen for millions of people, why should it happen for you? Unless you change....This requires a psychological change... You must develop confidence in your ability to make your vision a reality. Anyone else wants to ad any rules to the list? How do we profit from adsense, generate great traffic and make decent amount of money WITHOUT having to think of cheating people? My theory is: When we don't try to juxtapose adsense ads solely to increase CTR, we are not guilty of lying to people. People will notice it and reward us with more referrals and traffic will skyrocket.
Thanks for that. But I believe that most of us became webmasters to earn and not to get rewards in any other way. If you can earn $10 a month and you reduce it to $5 just to make your visitor happy and hope that he brings you double the traffic the next time, you'll just be earning $10 again over a longer period of time. I say, keep the $10 and then the $20 that comes after it.
Yes, and "most of you" only earn $10 a month. When you make a website, its best to make a website for the purpose they are intended to be made. Do you know a single person who goes to ANY website just to click on ads? So why do things backwards? Do a proper website and you will make more money than you can imagine, instead of hoping for $15 instead of $10 next month. The possibilities are unlimited
Check your own website, assuming the sig link is your own site, you seems to be too pushy about getting the email addresses of the visitors, to me that is something which i dislike, but then that do not in any ways mean that i dislike your website, you have some great content there, same is the case with those webmasters who prefer adsense CTR over visitor interest. Each individuals outlook and personality, how he sees money making business, some likes to scam, some likes to spam and some likes to give "click me" kind of ads, but then you need free content, got to live with it. Still sometimes your visitors trusts you a lot, i had a visitor sending me a url from adsense displayed on my page asking me to review the product before he buys it and i recommended that product, after 3 months he contacted me saying he got cured from the condition he had and further he recommended my website (IMP:not the product) to his associates and students in the university he is teaching even outlining his experiences at his blog (gave me a nice .edu link too).....AND MIND YOU I DISPLAY IN YOUR FACE ADS ON MY PAGES