From 5 to 300 usd adsense revenue per day in two months

Hi,

Here are few advices for adsense newbies (I am not anymore one, but either an expert), that allowed me to climb from about * 5 usd per day to about 300 in two months.

I started the 29th of june this year, and my goal was just to try. The first day, I got 5 usd. Then I put adsense on all my pages and it climbed to 14 usd. After that I bought one of those adsense courses for 29 usd.

I learned there almost everything I know about it, especially that:

- the 468*60 format is not as effective as the square box (250*250).
- the ads should be inside the page rather than in the upper part.
-the colors of the ads should be similar to the colors of the website
- one ad box with only 3 ads is preferable to 3 ad boxes with 4 ads, because only the best paying ads are displayed.
- it is profitable to create pages targeting high-paying keywords (finance-related, seo, etc.)
- the link ad unit is effective (almost half of my revenues)
- it is effective to monitor the performances of the pages and transfer traffic through serp and website structure to the most profitable
- a google search box can be added (just 1% of my revenues, but it is an additionnal service to your website).

That gives, for example a page such as: http://www.centreurope.org/france/cross-cultural/working-living-france.htm

There is just one thing I have read in the adsense course and that I would not advise. They write that if you create a page with very little content, the probability of receiving clicks is high. It is true. But it also increases the risk of having your adsense account closed.

I have noticed that the revenues are increasing almost proportionnally with the traffic (especially when your website deals with many different topics, countries, etc.), so now I am working at generating more traffic in order to be granted a premium google adsense account. And to reach the 4-digit revenue a day I also try to give more content to my visitors with mostly commercial services, which reduces the probability of seing my adsense account closed and lower the importance of adsense in my total ad revenues (in French, we say it is not good having all our eggs in the same basket).

This is all I know of Adsense. I sincerely hope that it will serve members of this forum as profitably as it has served me these last 2 months.

david




* I write "about" because I do not want to give the exact figures, as it is explicitely prohibited by Google.

 

thx for sharing your experince. a truly inspiring one...

 

Yes, thanks for sharing.

Are there others who feel the same about the square box over the 468 x 60 format? This is very intriguing to me.

 

Thank you very much!!! I think these are good Advises.

2 questions please:
1. "- the link ad unit is effective" What is link ad unit?
2. those adsense courses are they from Google or other?

greetings from Berlin, Germany
Wally

 

Yes, imo the square box converts much better than anything else.

 

thanks Wally,
for the link ad unit, go to - AdSense for Content - then in "Ad type", click on link unit.

2. I bought the course from a Canadian company (30 usd, now it seems that the price has fallen to 20). But I will do not publicity for them (even in PM), because I do not want anybody to think that I am in anyway involved with them.

 

there is an add link unit about 5 posts up from here.

 

What about on a forum? I saw a forum using a square ad after the first post instead of the leaderboard.

IMO the 250x250 ad is too big to put in the middle of a forum thread. The 180x150 is ok, but only shows one ad.

 

Thank you Centreurope for these Infos.

 

You mean 180x150? Do they have a 150x150?

Thanks!

 

They have 250x250 and 125x125 and then some larger rectangles.

 

This has helped me a lot. I have started using them on my travel site and the income has doubled. Ive been doing them like this:
http://www.backpackearth.com/Traveling-Europe-on-the-rail.html

I used different sizes and this one has worked the best so far.

 

Sorry, I meant 250*250, if possible in the middle of a page, for example under the title of a paragraph.

 

I see what you mean, but it's hard to integrate 250x250 ads into a bulletin board.

 

Bryan, by bulletin board are you referring to a forum site? If so, I have found using link ad units between posts (similar to here on DP) to be very effective.

Great bit of advice to the initial poster by the way!

 

Yes, I mean forums, I will try link ads for a bit.

Thanks to the original poster. Great thread

 

Great advice... but for sure you got lot of traffic to earn that money... care to share with us how you get that much traffic? As we all know traffic still the biggest factor of this kind of earnings.

 

Thanks for this tips! Great post!

Right now I'm doing around $30 a day with regular text ads. Now I see that your way is much better and visitors would probably rather click on links like yours. I would try that!

 

Very Good Information. Thanks. I have also made a few changes that have made me jump up in average/day. Not alot but Was at only $0.55/day and now after 4 days It's up to $0.69/day. Let me remind you that I've had adsense for about 4 months now so average will go up slowly. Now getting about $3-$6/day

 

Edpudol, I agree with you. Traffic is essential. My strategy is:

- identifying the most frequent keywords with tools such as the digitalpoint keyword suggestion tool. I generally choose a combination of two or more words, because it is much easier to achieve one of the 1st Google results for "Paris Hilton" rather than for "Paris" or "Hilton".

- check how much those keywords pay (with overture's tool or, better, with a google adwords campaign ). For example Paris Hilton is not interesting (at least in France).

- Choose the best compromise between traffic, keyword price and difficulty of achieving a high position in Serp (this can be assessed with SEomoz.org's tool) and build pages accordingly.


95 % of my trafic come from search engines. I don't know if my strategy can apply abroad and especially in America. I live in France, where there are very few SEOs. The people in charge of the websites in France are 95 % programmers. They know how to type a line of code, but they are not familiar with e-marketing and most big websites are not at all SE-friendly. Thus the competition is not that hard.