I have seen a lot of people complaining about how Google Adsense doesn't work or makes too little money. This is not true, if you do it correctly, you can make lots of money with Adsense. Here are some Adsense tips to get you started with. 1. Keyword Research Why do you need to do keyword research? The first thing you must do is keyword research. The pay per click differs from niche to niche. For example, the average pay per click on the entertainment niche is very little, maybe only $0.01 - $0.1 per click. If you are planing to start an entertainment blog, you will need to have huge traffic in order to make some money with Adsense. On the hand, the pay per click for the Financial Niche is around $0.75-$5 per click. If you get 50 clicks a day from the financial blog, it is about $50 while a 50 clicks on an entertainment blog will get you only $0.5 - $5. That is a huge difference. I'm not saying you can't make big money with entertainment blogs, it is just harder. How do you do keyword research? SEOBook.com offers a free keyword tool that you can use. Here's how. 1. Go go SEOBook.com 2. Register for a free account (1 minute registration) 3. Click on "Tools" on the menu option. 4. Click on the "The Keyword Tool" image 5. Type in a keyword "stock market" and click submit, you will see a list of keyword suggestions. Click on "G traf est" of each keyword suggestions and you will get the an estimate of each pay per click. Please note the rate is what advertisers pay Google, so the actual rate you get is a little lower than you see on the screen. 2. Adsense Placement - The way you place your Google Adsense makes a big difference. Here are some tips. Text or Image Advertise? - In my financial blog, I found text advertisement to perform much better than Image advertisement. You should try it out yourself and see what performs the best for you. Best Performing Banners - I found the following banners perform the best. a) 160 X 600 - This ad Unit performs really good on the top left corner. b) 336 X 280 - This ad Unit performs the best when you put it right under the header of each blog post. c) 728 X 15 - This link Unit performs well when you put it on the menu. If you don't know how to change the position of Google Adsense, no worry. There are many free Adsense Optimized wordpress theme that you can find if you do a quick search in Google. 3. Content - Content is king. You must update your blog regularly and utilizing as much keywords as possible so that you can get a variety of advertisement targeting the different keywords. Content is what keeps visitors keep coming back to your site and therefore you make more money with your Google Adsense Ads. 4. Traffic - Remember, there is no free lunch, you must work hard on to build a lot of traffic to your website. The more the better. Keep in mind that most people don't click on advertisement, so the click through rate is usually low. It can be anywhere from 1%-5%, that's why you must boost your website traffic to compensate for the low click through rate.
Thing is that people are stupid enough to believe this nonsense crap and still they earn crap. People should create sites about what they can do good, so like that there is more chances to succeed and not chase some high paying keywords and other bullshit...Because who does that, most of them still failing and failing...
I'm not saying this is the only way to make money with adsense. If you can make good money with adsense, that's good. I'm not trying to convince anybody, I'm just trying to help out the people who are making little with adsense and trying to improve. I didn't know about the stock market niche when I first started, but I learn it myself. Think about it, how many interest do you have? How many sites can you start? If you are only good at 1 or 2 things, is that means you are going to limit yourself to 2 niches? Think outside the box, you need to try in order to see if you can do it or not. Of course, I'm not suggesting you to get into a niche that you have no interest of, but it is not advisable to get into niches that pay pennies.
Yes, but if a guy knows s*** about high paying niche and he knows a lot about low paying niche, still he will be more successful with niche he knows a lot about. Besides who needs lets say new "forex" site or blog? still same crap will be u can find everywhere else.Thing is that 10 unique visitors a day won't earn u a money...And i doubt someone will get decent traffic to site who created it just because it's high paying niche site, but he basically knows **** about that niche and probably all his content will be copied from somewhere else...
Like I say, you need to learn the niche well once you decide to make a website on that niche. There is no free money in the internet, you need to work hard and earn it, and learning a niche is part of it. If you are doing well with low paying niche, congratulations, I'm not asking you to start a new niche and learn it. This post is for those who are unsatisfied with their adsense earnings and are willing to take their time to study a new niche and start a new site on it. If you are not one of them, I'm not asking you to follow my tips. That's all, cheer up man.
Shulink I think you are right! If I make a new category or a new Tag on my Entertainment and sports blog then? and will you please share some high paying niche name with us?
If you have a high traffic site, you can try to make money with affiliate products and cpa offers. Join Clickbank and Commission Junction, and find some affiliate products that you can promote. I make good income with adsense, but I make a lot more with affiliate products. http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=2157208
You can find a list of high paying niche here. http://www.timwebtool.com/2010/10/16/top-paying-adsense-keyword/
It's true that we can learn a niche if we find it interesting financially, it's like if our learning process was being paid by our increased adsense earnings. Any topic can be learned by simply reading stuff on the internet, subscribing to feeds of experts and slowly starting to understand better and better the subject, until you know more than most of your visitors.
Exactly, just like when you learn how to make money online, you need to learn about create blog, SEO, increase traffic, twitter, facebook, and everything is hard work. Learning a new niche is no different than learning how to make money online. If you never try, you never know.
Thanks for this I just started a couple micro niche sites and they arent making as much as I thought even though they are on the first page I will try this out
You cant earn $1000 from first month! Keep waithing, if you find the righ niche you will see results second or third month!
All steps provided are so obvious, really nothing new. As first person replied, starting blog in a high paying niche, when you have no idea about that niche, will just create crap blog and no one will visit it. Blog with 0 visitors will result with 0 revenue. As you suggested to learn your niche first is also not realistic. For example stock market niche is high paying one. People doing several degrees and working in these areas for many years till they start really understand how all that working. Following your suggestion I need to learn in university for 6 years and work in that area for few years and then I can start blog that I can really contribute. 10 year learning to start blog??? People shoul start blogs about things they like and know. Health keywords are very paying, but what average person can contribute in such blog? Man, you try to promote your signature, but really all steps you gave are trivial and worthless.
@BurnOut I agree that we should write about the topics which we like/know more. But, if we have few articles in high paying niche, we can focus on promoting the high paying articles. i-e write on interesting topics, and promote high paying articles. I decided to follow this approach when I realized that the adSense revenue is very very less for my blog, even if the blog gets lot of visitors. After doing lot of analysis, I came to know that most of my articles are related to low paying keywords. Anyway, I had very few articles in high paying niche. But they get low traffic. So, decided to promote those high paying articles. I put links for those articles in all high traffic posts. Now, I am seeing significant increase in AdSense income. And now, I am trying various ad placements and "section Targeting" also. If you don't know how to find which is low paying article and which is high paying article, you should first integrate your AdSense account with your Google Analytic account.
I'm not getting your point. You say you have article in high paying niche. What that means you have article? It is your blog, it is what you write. You have article means what? Someone else wrote it for you? Or you just took it somewhere? If visitors will respond to that article, that is not yours and not your area of expertise, how you will respond? Usually people having blogs related to particular area of interests, if you put suddenly articles not related to the main subject, I really doubt google will relate your site to that new niche, if most of your content is about something else. All that approach is to make $10 more for short period of time, but spending a lot of time in promoting that content. Worthless approach, never will succeed.
I mean my blog posts by saying as "article". I too initially thought like that only. But Google is working magically. It is able to know when to see the post as individual posts and which to see as part of website. For example, my blog is primarily focused on web development and QTP automation. But my post about future of Solar power is appearing in first few positions of the Google search result of the keyword "future of solar" which is having more than 300+ Million results. i-e a solar related post in a IT-related blog is able to get good search position even if there are lot of exclusive solar site available. I am not going write about anything which is completely irrelevant to me. i-e I am interested in Solar related things. But comparing to IT-related stuff, my knowledge about Solar related stuff is less. Anyway, I am not going to write more solar related posts. But I am just trying to give importance for promoting my solar related article/post than other regular articles/posts.
It depends on the purpose of your blog. If you blog just to share the thoughts without counting the benefits you can get from blogging, then you need not to research for high paying keywords. But most of us who strive to make money online, then finding the high paying niche is the best way to succeed in our goal.