It's been over a year working with Adsense. Today I want to share (specially with the noobs) 15 Adsense Tips I Wish Someone Gave Me When I First Started 1 - Read the Adsense TOS and the Program Policies. READ the whole thing, and make sure you've understood what it says. 2 - Don't cheat. If you cheat, you'll eventually get banned. 3 - When in doubt, ask the Adsense team. 4 - Content is king, but without traffic it won't make you any money. Getting traffic is the harder part of the job. 5 - Most of the Adsense ebooks, systems, programs, courses and seminars out there are cr*ap. Don't waste your money on those unless someone you know and trust says it is worth trying. 6 - Sites about mesothelioma and other hyped "high paying keywords" won't make good money because nobody is interested in visiting sites about that. 7 - You CAN make good money from Adsense in free blog services. If you have a good, useful and interesting site it doesn't matter if it's hosted on blogspot. But, if you choose to do this, I would recommend that you get your own domain, and having an up to date back up of all your posts and comments. That way, if you ever get problems, you can be back on the game in no time. 8 - PLR articles and ebooks can be a good source of inspiration for your own articles. I'm not talking about re-writing them, but using them as a starting point. They're usually full of good keywords, and they come in packages that makes sense for the reader, grouped by similar topics. Take your PLR pack, read your articles, make a list of keywords and topics/titles, do a little research on the net. Then you'll be ready to create your own, unique articles. 9 - SEO (search engine optimization) helps a lot. Learn about it as much as you can, but don't over do it. Remember, humans will use your site. 10 - It can take as long as 2 years of hard work to reach a nice daily income. 11 - It's important to test different ad placements, colors and sizes. Don't just dump your Adsense code in your pages and hope for the best. Try different combinations and use Adsense channels to track the results. 12 - The horizontal skyscraper (728x90), placed under your header, can convert really well. Sometimes, even better than in-content blocks. 13 - It's better to have more than one site with Adsense. This way, if one site goes down - due to Google filters, hosting problems or whatever - you won't see your income dropping to zero. Just don't build more websites than you can manage properly. 14 - If you're going to write your own content, finding a good, profitable niche that suits you is hard work. But it's even harder to create good content about a topic that you don't care about. 15 - Regularly updated content is really important. Blogs tend to rank well because they are updated more frequently than websites. What about you? What you wish someone told you when you first started with Adsense?
Great tips but two things: 1 - Don't try to understand TOS, if there's something at your websites that they don't like, they'll just say bye, bye and so much for the TOS Imagine that you're the advertiser and don't do nothing, which may be unfair to advertiser, that's all to be a good publisher. People must click, advertiser must be satisfacted, he's money must effect on new customers, Google must earn, you must earn too, everybody is happy 2 - Don't cheat. If you cheat, you'll get banned FOR SURE .
Two things I would add 1) Don't put all your eggs in one basket. Sign up for a 2nd PPC service, you an use it as 'alternate_url' if google adsense is down or something goes wrong you will have better options 2) You're site can't look like it is MFA (Made for adsense). Even if you not doing anything technically wrong, if it looks like a bunch of content was all put up in 24 hours with ads all over it you may get warnings or banned 3) Use pub-id exchange programs like the one at here at DP and set one up too..I love these things ;-) 4) Advertise sometimes for free. Don't always use your pub-id, you won't make any $ but you may find it helps you more in the long run. Careful to be sure you do this within TOS though. 3)
That is nice to know - this is the only adsense block I put on my sites... The rest of the space is for content and affiliate links.
Thank you guys for the feedback. It's really appreciated! Well, I have to agree with you on that one! But I think if you take the time to read and follow the TOS, you'll be reducing the odds of Google finding something they don't like in your websites, right? LOL I made a mistake on that one. English is not my first language, sorry! I meant to say "sooner or later". And you're right, that's FOR SURE!
I'd say don't over do adsense either. Have you been to sites that have little contents but are surrounded by blocks of ads? Turns me away immediately.
It seems people think the more ad blocks you have, the more money you get. I believe it's the other way around: less ads, with good placement = more clicks and more value per click.
There are a lot of top whatever tips on this site that are just an old rehash of the same points, however, I think yours is very good and useful, to the point, and speaking from true experience. Thanks!
Math's not my strong point..spelling either Here's the post about the pub-id thing http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=323433&page=21&highlight=adsense+CTR+pub Basically, if you remove the pub-id reference (put it in ""). Ads will still appear on your site but they won't be connected to your Adsense. You're essentially running ads for free. The notion is if you do something good for google, google helps you out a bit too when you put your pub-id back in there later.
I have no idea how people got the notion that taking out your publisher id and advertising for free will help you in the long run - if anything it *might* increase the click payout when you put your pub-id back in (but this is highly suspect), but won't that just even out with what you lost when you weren't using it? Using little crazy tricks like this are likely just to get people in trouble, rather than actually help them.
Thanks, I tried to write something useful and original. LOL Oh, I thought you were talking about this. I've seen it. It seems to be a neat trick, but I'm not entirely convinced it isn't going to cause problems in the future. So, I'm not trying it. I've seen things like this: a trick that work for sometime, and then people get banned. In fact, I've just seen one of these: Later in the same thread: Call me a coward if you want, but I wont risk my account. Anyway, thanks for your input!
Another tip is to not take tips too seriously. Not every tip works for every person. Test things out for yourself. A lot of people are against putting ads under the fold. A lot of my clicks come from under the fold because people like to read the content first.
Just to be clear, I wasn't really suggesting a 'trick' to gain more $. If you leave the pub-id out you are giving away free advertising and this produces "Good Karma". Google continues to get $, Google's customers get visits. I'm also not suggesting doing anything harmful, though I cannot see any harm from removing your pub-id. You send good karma out there, and good karma comes back to you. Works with pretty much anything. That's all I meant.
Of course! But it's always nice to have someone pointing you to the right direction, isn't it? JPRuss, forgive me, I didn't fully understood what you were trying to say. I like your approach, it's very positive! Also please let me say that I don't think (nor was I saying) that leaving the pub-id out is wrong or harmful. I'm just afraid or doing it! I wasn't criticizing anything. I apologize if I gave you a wrong impression, it was not my intention.
Best one on the list: 6 - Sites about mesothelioma and other hyped "high paying keywords" won't make good money because nobody is interested in visiting sites about that. half the sites on the web are this crap.