Despite what you may hear, the Google AdSense program is not for everyone. There are some types of web sites that do poorly no matter how hard the owners try, and there are others that should be doing well but the webmaster simply isn’t putting in the effort to make things happen. Here are some tips to make AdSense work better for you. If you do them all and you’re still not having any luck, then you just might be running one of those sites that don’t make money 1. Determine if your visitors are “in the mood†Like I mentioned at the top of this article, some web sites just don’t work with pay-per-click programs. The best performing sites fall into one of these categories: • Sites where users go and expect to buy something while they are there. E-commerce sites fit the bill here.. • Sites where users go to find specific information on something that they want to buy now. Music and video review sites, vacation information sites, resume building sites, etc. You don’t have to actually be selling these types of things; your site can just be a mecca for information pertaining to these things. Then, when the visitor comes to read your content, they are more likely to click on your ads. • Sites where people who have disposable income and a credit card like to visit. This includes sites with money management, investing and lifestyle content. • Sites that draw a large amount of new users every day. Free coupon sites and “How to†sites are good examples. • Sites where people go who expect to read ads. Classified ads and shopping comparison sites fit into this category. 2. Make sure that your visitors don’t feel that you just want to grab their money Give them plenty of relevant and well-written content. If writing isn’t your best skill then hire someone to do it for you. Good content brings steady traffic and steady traffic pays the bills. 3. Play by the rules Google has some very specific Terms of Service (https://www.google.com/adsense/policies) for participating in their AdSense program. Learn those rules and follow them so you don’t lose all of your investment by getting shut out. 4. Use the tools that Google gives you Google gives you tools for determining the best keywords for your site, measuring ad performance, and setting up different ad “channels†for fine-tuning ad results. These guys and girls are the 800 lb. Gorillas in the Pay-Per-Click market. They didn’t build these tools just to keep their programmers busy. Take advantage of their knowledge for they are very big and you are not! 5. Tweak, fine-tune and then tweak again You should never be happy with your AdSense performance. If it’s good, then you need to make it great. If it’s great then you need to make it amazing. If it’s amazing then you need to take it to the UPS club. The UPS club? Google sends all checks over $10,000 per month to the webmaster via UPS overnight delivery. Now there’s a club that I wouldn’t mind belonging to. 6. Get more traffic No matter how much traffic you have, you need more. More eyeballs translate to more clicks. Even if you’re only pulling a 2% click-through. That’s a lot of clicks when you have thousands of visitors each day. 7. Experiment with new keywords New keywords can bring new ads and new eyeballs along with it. Set up some new pages on your site and experiment with different content. Once you get something that’s working then refer back to Tip # 5. You can see results in near real time when you use Google’s AdWords. Don’t be afraid to be different. If something that everyone else is doing doesn’t work for you, then invent something that does work and get it on your site
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It always intrigues me to see folks complaining about low CPC with their humor or video site. What exactly are those users expected to buy?
wow, this is nice stuff. I really enjoyed looking at the highest paying keyword for adsense too. Maybe Ill try to target in that area now
This "Tweak, fine-tune and then tweak again" is quite important also to keep paying attention if your keywords are still paying well and also to look for new ones in that niche that started paying high money as well. Then, optimize your site for them. You're welcome but, like above, keep paying attention on the "Tweak, fine-tune and then tweak again" like hassanmahya2000 said above.
I think the most important factor that matters in earning from adsense is the amount of traffic that you get.
Nope. If you are getting $0.01 per click and have a poor ad placement/style/design, thus with a low CTR, you can have thousands of visitors and still have no money. For good earnings with AdSense are needed, basically: - High paying keywords - High Traffic - Nicely built web site - Ads positioned above the fold - Ads with nice colors, according to your site - Ads with best performing sizes, like 338x280 - Ads with strong "call to action" positioning, for maximum convertion. As you can see, traffic is just one of the major factors to make money with AdSense.
Man, it sucks to write in those kind of category to get a high payout. Maybe writing about cellphone might be a good idea. Writing about mesothelioma in health, is damn boring.