I have seen lots of people saying that they get 200 clicks and only $5. THAT SUCKS! Follow these steps to increase your CPC: 1)Get a list of keywords that related to your site and do one of the following: ~~~CHECK USING ADWORDS~~~ Go to https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal?defaultView=2 and enter all the keywords that you have come up with for your site. Next you enter a Max. CPC for all of them and look at the position your in. Keep increasing your CPC until you are in the 4-6, 7-9 position for the keyword. That is about how much money you will be making per click (from my experience, I never get the $3 a click for the 1-3 position). From that list choose you highest paying keyword and go onto step 2. Edit: thanks to _vlada_ for link ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~CHECK USING OVERTURE~~~ This isn't as accurate but still better than nothing. Go to http://uv.bidtool.overture.com/d/search/tools/bidtool/ and try each of your keywords. Keep track of which one pays the highest amount of CPC. Once you go through your whole list, go back to your highest CPC one and punch it in. Check out the top results and try to remember some of the sites that are there. You are now ready for step 2. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 2) Checking to see if your ads are the right ones Go to http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/adsense-sandbox/ and type in your max CPC keyword(s). Keep this page open while on step 3. 3) Editing you site. This is usually the hard part. Try a lot of different things to change your current google ads to show up as the ones presented in step 2. - place new keywords in url address (ex: domain.com/new-keyword.html) - Use google adsense tags https://www.google.com/support/adsense/bin/answer.py?answer=23168 - use the keyword in your text more often and try to place the keyword(s) high up on the page in bold - name the title of the page with the <h1> tag in bold with your new keyword etc. After each change you make, check if you page shows ads from the sandbox from step 2. If it does, congratulations! If not, keep editing you site, you'll get it sooner or later. Hope this helps some people!
good info. addition: you don't need adwords account to check keywords and bids. use this tool: https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal?defaultView=2
Nice info. I have had one of those days as well where I get lots of clicks but earnings are low. These are rare days but they exist! I am fearing that i wont reach the $100 for the month soon
Meta description and keywords can sometimes help... It can take a while for any changes to make to affect the ads you see. Google says that section targetting can take up to 2 weeks before it will take effect. The Adsense bot will only visit your page periodically. I suggest that you make a set of changes to your website, and then wait 1 week and see how your earnings change. If you don't see any change, wait another week before trying something else. Cryo.
I'm not sure if Google checks Meta Descriptions any more, but to throw one in wouldn't hurt. From my experience, the top places to place the keyword you want is: 1) Actual URL 2) Title of page I could sometimes have a whole page filled with an article about bacon, but the locatioon of the file is domain.com/cheese.php?cheese and the ads will show up about cheese and not bacon.
google definitely uses meta data still. Might not be "as" important as it used to be, but still counts.
Interesting way of increasing your earnings, I will try to make some research for my site. Than you, Good job!
Research I found from other sites: quote - source Google ignores this tag. - http://www.pandia.com/optimization/SEO-metatags.html Many people still think of this as a quick fix for SEO. It's not. Google no longer uses it. - http://www.searchengineguide.com/ball/006037.html Google doesn't use the Meta Keyword Tag but other search engines do, - http://www.loriswebs.com/faq-keyword-ranking.html
There is a huge discussion on seochat with recent evidence of meta information being important again. I don't want to argue either way, but I wouldn't ignore your meta tags either way.
I believe that while Meta tags are definitely ignored by Google's usual search bot, I think that there's a good chance that the Adsense bot might still make use of them, especially in the absense of any decent content. Cryo.
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Woow this tool is wonderfull : http://uv.bidtool.overture.com/d/search/tools/bidtool/ Thanks for sharing