TIP: Less ad spots on a page= more money.

So I've done a little experimenting, and I also dabbled in Adwords a bit to get a better understanding of how it works on the other end. This might be old news to some of the more experienced users, but I think it's a big mistake for beginners to load their pages with as many ad spots as possible when you're starting out.

When you're a adwords buyer, you pay more for the top spots and coverages per click. So, in essence, it makes sense that with fewer ads to click on a page, your visitors are more likely to click on the higher paying ad spots. It might not seem like much, but there can be a HUGE difference between a 4cent click and a 25cent click over a months time. I mean, that's total common sense... but many beginners load those pages down, and I do believe it also effects your eCPM, as the number of times an ad has been shown, will totally not match up to how many clicks you should be getting.

So if you've ever pondered to yourself, "Why the heck am I only getting 4cent clicks all the time?!" -- try narrowing down your spots a bit instead of overloading your pages, and watch your payouts grow.

 

Good advice there, I recently did this too and my eCPM went up and so did my earnings.

 

Gosh, you guys are so smart. I'll immediatly go relieve my pages of my sixteen adsense-units.

 

Is this truth? I am showing a rectangle and a medium ad units. Are they too many?

 

Nothing about AdSense is "truth". What works on one site doesn't work on another. The only way to find out is to ttry different things, and see what makes you the most money. Try different formats, color, number of units, etc. When you get $50.00 for each click with a CTR of 100%, you can stop experimenting

 

I was so inspired by this I ran 8 red lights in your honor!

 

Hehe.. thank you. I will try out them

 

I just love the new sarcasm dripping responces around here.

Used to be that helpful people with opposing view points felt compelled to articulate their decent beyond whatever seemingly clever little comment that they could muster up.

But then....hweres the fun in that

 

Yirmumah, you have a good website for google adsense. I meant the background color for the sentence "ads by google" and the picture on top there.

 

You're right, from now on, for the good of the community, I will endorse everything.

Thanks for the heads up.

 

noppid - red rep for messin' around..?

Nice. Having a bad weekend..? (obviously )

I green repped you anyways, since it seems like you could use a 'pick-me-up' - haha

 

It's a good tip for beginners. I used to have mutliple ad units, but only until I added channels to each individual unit did I realize that the majority of the units didn't perform that well (really low CTR).

I removed all the channels that weren't performing and kept to one leaderboard above the fold. Overall CTR increased as well as eCPM, which was to be expected.

 

I tried adding a total of three adsense blocks when it was first allowed. My cpm fell into the basement and the earnings plumeted. I went back to a single ad block and the site performs quite well.

 

I went from 1 ad section to two and my c***** and earnings jumped up a lot.
Having 1 - 2 - or the max of 3 per page, does'nt reduce the values any, and the more you have, the more chances you have of folks clicking something.

I think ? !!! I just emailed google and asked them. I mean this is a biggie, a lot of us have tons of mini sites or pages, and it takes a LOT of time placing the code and images next to em, etc....... jeepers creepers.

If I am wrong, I am going to pull my fins out.... oh well, more black coffee and tylenol for the coming weekend.

 

My adsearch link, and adlinks are both on trackable channels. I'd be a fool to not track that.

I guess it works really well for us because we have about 6000 unique visitors a day, 20,000 page views on average. So by the numbers, once someone's done reading a blog post or comic strip, if they're thinking about what we've written, or don't know what we're talking about, but we've peeked their interest, the google search is right there, along with the adlinks.

If you have a site with bought traffic or low traffic in general, this might not work as well. Also, this works great for RETURNING visitors, who aren't keen on clicking ads everyday, but they DO use the google search bar. So it's a win win.