After reading numerous threads here at the adsense section and after I have helped so many people triple their adsense income with my tricks I want to know what your single frustration is with adsense. These days I am reading many people still having problems with click through rates or traffic problems, but what just makes you irritated that you cant solve or get past.
No frustration. Anyone who is frustrated needs to do more research. To be successful with AdSense it takes work. Sadly, most people think it's as easy as 1-2-3. However, before you really start making money, you're going to waste your time making a lot of mistakes. If you're getting a low CTR or low CPC I can see how you may be angry. However, their are numerous amounts of resources online that'll teach you how to increase such things. I'll tell you right now how to increase AdSense CTR. 1) Make all links on your site #0000ff with blue underline. 2) Make text on your site match that of AdSense ads. 3) AdSense colors -----Blue Links -----Black URL -----Black Description -----No border -----Background color should match background of your site. --------Preferably white. 4) AdSense placement of the 336x280 advert. -----In main content area. -----Directly under post title. Boom! If you do those things and your content is RELEVANT to your ads, then you'll have a CTR anywhere between 3% and 15% automatically... no guess work... The main way for success... DO your research. The more research you do, the more lucky breaks you will catch. Also note: There are NO shortcuts. *Learn how to blog *Learn how to market your blog *Learn how to develop a strategy. -----Make a checklist of things you need to do everyday to reach a goal you've set. For those people who have plateud, ask yourself why? -----Has your traffic topped out? -----Do you need more backlinks? ---------Squidoo and Ezine is a great way to get some. (Yes. It's a lot of work, but it's well worth it.) -----Do you not blog enough? ---------I write probably 10 articles a day. The main thing people need to understand is: AdSense is NOT easy money. PERIOD. Stop looking for shortcuts and start writing. That's the only way you'll be successful.
My biggest frustration with adsense is the way they smart price you. Some people say there is no such animal thats crap it sure is smart pricing maybe you call it another name. I took off there ads in january after get clicks from 10 cents to about 55 cents a click Then clicks went down to a penny to 3 cents for the highest click. I just started a 2 weeks ago added some ads back on the site only about a eight of the site and the link unit on every page. Guess what the clicks I am getting is even higher than before but I will not put the ads back on every page again the lowest click I got was 22 cents only about 3 clicks a day. The other pages are adbrite ads and they have done me even better than before with adsense smart priced me.
^^^^^ I don't believe smart pricing exists. (at least... it hasn't happened to me) I have some sites that get up to $3.00 per click Then I have sites that sometimes get only $.01 per click. It all depends on the content and the advertising bid price in my opinion.
My biggest frustration with Adsense is having been banned about 2 years ago from the program and now not being able to really participate in these conversations. I'll admit it was my own stupid mistake, but yeah that's my biggest frustration.
Not being able to control what kind of ads are put on my website. I know that I need to pay attention to the keywords and that I can block certain ads, but adsense still doesn't always get it right... Or maybe I don't get it right?
Yes, that would be about it. No matter how many visitors my site gets I'm always in the $14 ~ $20 region.
well Google itself accepts that smart pricing does exist. ================================ My biggest frustration is that less and less people are clicking ads nowadays. People are so used to Adsense ads...they don't even look at the ads....
Either you accept Adsense as it is with all pros and cons or just do not bother with that at all. No frustrations.
i got no frustration on adsense. im happy with adsense, more happy now that i got a new idea on how to promote websites
I understand what you mean but I was talking more along the lines of frustrations being not getting enough traffic or poor click through rates etc.
I've placed adsense on so many of my sites and blogs but haven't seen much growth in revenue. I'm not sure if this is do to poor placement or some other factor. I'd like to know what the best strategy is for generating more revenue from Adsense using existing sites.
For me it's the slow payment terms and the complex explanation they provide for it. Just think of all the interest they make from the money that they hold whilst you have to wait around being paid. Why can't they just pay as soon as you reach the threshold like other affiliate sites do.
This can be extremely frustrating. Depending on what you website is about I know this sounds simple but you need your ads to be really focused in on what your website is about or what your visitor demographic also searches for this way you can show ads thats is relevant to your visitors instead of any ad related to general keywords within your website/blog. If you know your demographic then you are on to a winner in my opinion and I don't think many people teach how to market to your demographic or find out what they want.