Top 10 AdSense tips

AdSense Tip #1: Find your keywords

Before serving ads on a web page, check its keyword density. A free and advanced tool for finding the most prominent keywords in a page can be found here: SEO Density Analyzer. Copy the most important keywords to a text file ([web page name]-adsense-keywords.txt).


AdSense Tip #2: Improve your keywords

Get keyword suggestions from Overture Search Inventory and from Google AdWords Sandbox. Get new keywords that can help you improve your ad relevance. Enter the keywords from [web page name]-adsense-keywords.txt and save the suggestions to [web page name]-adsense-suggestions.txt.

AdSense Tip #3: Keep your website focused on a theme

Use the keyword suggestions to enhance your web pages and to build theme-based content. And also try to get your keywords into the anchor text of your incoming links as much as possible. Don’t forget that Google AdSense is keyword-targeted advertising: Google AdSense bases its advert topics on your websites content, this means that content-rich websites of a popular topic should attract a large amount of ads.

AdSense Tip #4: Write a new page every day

One of the best tips is to add a new page to your web site every day. The more content you have, the more visitors you will get. Put an Adsense unit on each and every content page of your site. But where? You will find more about that from the next AdSense tips.

AdSense Tip #5: Choose the right AdSense format

Wider formats are successful because the ads are compact, easy to read and are complementary to the content. The top three AdSense formats are:
336×280 large rectangle
300×250 medium rectangle
160×600 wide skyscraper

Another successful format is the 468×15 horizontal ad links, that can be placed under your navigation bar.

AdSense Tip #6: Color tips

When creating your Google AdSense ads it is recommended to use the color scheme and style of your website so that the ads blend in well. Ads without background color and borders perfom better than ads within borders with background color.

Create a custom AdSense palette:
border color = background color of your web site
background color = background color of your web site
link color = blue, color of your links
url color = black, #999999
text color = black, #333333, color of your main content
You can also rotate your color palette: select multiple color palettes that blend with your site to create variety.

AdSense Tip #7: Position tips

Visitors tend to look at the big headlines to see if your page is worth reading. If you get them interested, they will read the text and look for your navigation links.

Place the AdSense ads in a prominent place around the top/left part of your page or under your headlines, where your visitors are most likely to look at.

If you have an article page with a long body of text, the bottom of that article is a good place for AdSense ads because your visitors read the text and then they want more resources.

AdSense Tip #8: Increase the number of ads, but not too much

If you have a lot of text on a page, use multiple AdSense units. You can use up to three AdSense units on a page, two AdSense search boxes and one unit of ad links.

Link units allow the user to refine what they’re interested in. So if they may not be interested in specific ads on your page, they might be interested in a particular topic, and by clicking on a link unit and a link in the link unit, they’ll be able to specify that they’re interested in that specific topic and get a lot more options and variety on the ads that might appear.

AdSense for Search allows visitors to search Google.com or your sites (up to 3 domains). You earn money whenever they click on the ads that come up on the search results. If you click the Open search results in a new browser window checkbox in the AdSense for Search settings, you won’t lose your visitors.

AdSense Tip #9: Preview Google ads

You can find out what ads will be served by Google AdSense if you install Google AdSense Preview Tool, a very simple tool available only for Internet Explorer 6.0. Click to advertiser sites without generating invalid clicks, and easily add their URLs to your URL filter list. Because AdSense uses geo-targeting, Google serves different ads for other countries. Instead of faking your IP or travelling abroad to test your ads, use this AdSense tool to see what ads see your visitors from France, Germany or other countries.

There may be no Google AdSense ads available for your webpage, so Googlw will display Public Service Ads. You can hide them using alternate colors or images. Make sure you include the image in a simple html file as a link (use target=”_top”). The image size should be the same as the dimension of AdSense units. In the alternate url box, enter the absolute url of the html file.

Read more about alternate ads.

AdSense Tip #10: What not to do

Don’t click on your own ads
Don’t ask others to click on your Google ads
Don’t manually change AdSense code
Don’t place Google ads on sites that include prohibited content (e.g.: adult sites)
Don’t employ cloaking, hidden text or farm links
Don’t use AdSense ads on the same page with similar ads (e.g.: Yahoo Publisher Network)
Source : http://clickkt.com/?tag=adsense

 

thanks for the share..helpfull tips for beginers..

 

Yes, some good tips in there

Dean

 

thanks, nice tips

 

It's all about that traffic..

Good read though...

 

When did this change from:

- three ad units
- three link units
- three referral ad units
- two search boxes, and
- one video unit

Or, am I misreading your tip?

 

Thanks a lot.....

 

Great tips. Thanks for sharing. I will add one more tips that found is useful. Make your layout fixed instead of fluid. And 960px wide is the norm right now.

 

very good tips , i say thank you for this precious information

 

I'll have to play the Devils Advocate here. Many of those tips are outdated and do not perform well any longer.

For one, the Overture search tool isn't online any longer and hasn't been for quite a while.

I don't blend my ads any longer and most high earners don't either. I want them to see the links when they get bored on my site so they will click on them to leave.

Putting a bunch of adsense ads on your pages reduces the amount per click. Stick with the ads high in the page, like the 336x280 at the top and the 160x600 in the sidebar. You'll receive more money per click this way. Ads showing lower in the page pay less, sometimes a lot less.

You need to experiment what works on your site. Some sites do better with colored backgrounds and borders. Especially if they look like a sticky note.

Don

 

@TxDon - Good to see someone play Devil's advocate..

My thoughts:

Tip #1: Keyword research is important.
Tip #2: Overture is defunct as you say. Use Google Adwords keyword tool or your preferred kw research tool
Tip #3: Agree. Keep your site focused on its theme.
Tip #4: You don't need to write a new page every day. New content is good but this is rubbish.
Tip #5: Common sense
Tip #6: Test colors - Blending will work on some sites. Making ads stand out will work on others. Test. Test. Test.
Tip #7: Agree
Tip #8: My recommendation is to never use more than 2 ad blocks on a page. That said, do what works for you.
Tip #9: This is a non issue from my perspective.
Tip #10: Agree

I think that covers them all.

Dean

 

Thanks for the tips...

 

Thanks for sharing.

 

Ever heard of plagiarism? At least cite the source where you got this info from. -_-

http://deadline.3x.ro/adsense/adsensetips.html

http://www.blogoflux.com/google-adsense-tips-boost-your-revenue/

http://www.technobuzz.net/15-great-google-adsense-tips-to-earn-money/

 

awesome tips! i have made changes on some of my sites and i think it is paying off, showing a 15% increase in revenue.

 

Thanks a Tons, Very useful Info for people like me

 

Good tips. Thanks

 

Thank you very much for your useful tips.

 

tips have been published a zillion times before.... agree with less is more approach - dont add more ads take some away! and you get higher ppc

 

Thanks for sharing these very useful tips