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	<title>Turning Traffic in to Adsense Traffic</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2007 02:51:44 -0500</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[If you've been running AdSense ads on your site for quite a while and you feel that you aren't making as much cash as you could, in 99.99% of cases you're right. Most people feel frustrated that they cannot generate the revenues they expected, and this is down to traffic levels as well as click through rates. There are many ways to turn traffic into AdSense traffic and here is a short list of them with a description for each. The first thing that you need to do is tune up your site's contents. While for some people this isn't an option (if you're running a forum for example it's a lot harder) most people can make their AdSense sites veritable cash cows. To begin, you should find out what your site's keywords are. This is a basic technique in SEO (search engine optimization) known as keyword density verification. A good tool for this job is SEO Density Analizer. You should then take this list of words and search the Overture Search Inventory or Google AdWords Sandbox to find out what other words could be doing better then what you currently have. From that point on try to keep your site focused on the things that appear mostly in the keyword suggestions you receive. Try to include those keywords, or at least some related keywords as often as you can in the links on your site. Because of the way Google AdSense works this is a sure way to increase your earnings because you'll get better ads in your AdSense banners, similar to how you would get a better Google PageRank It's also important that you continuously add new pages to your site. This is very important, as the more pages you have, the higher the chance is that you'll get more hits on your ads. It's also very important that you choose the appropriate formats for your AdSense banners and the best locations for them. While this is a much wider subject you should generally know that the top three Google AdSense formats are: 336x280 large rectangle 300x250 medium rectangle and 160x600 skyscraper. Make sure you choose the appropriate colors for the ads, as making them too different from your site's content (or just different in a bad way) is sure to make visitors regard them as banners which have nothing to do with the site itself. Make sure these ads are positioned where they'll generate the highest amount of profit. Most times, that location is said to be right before the beginning of your site's actual content. On pages with a long text body, you might find skyscrapers to do better, simply because users get exposed to them for more time. Also, for sites with news or similar items, you might find a good position to be at the bottom of your content, because that's when people are finished reading your story and are looking for something else to do. You should use more AdSense units if you have a lot of text on your page. Just make sure not to overdo it because you might find that you will get a lot lower CTR and lower revenues then you were getting in the first place by employing this technique inappropriately. You can add as many as three units, so use them wisely. There's a Google AdSense Preview Tool that will let you visualize what ads would get served on your page and it can come in very handy as a testing mechanism. Just make sure you respect the AdSense policy regarding click fraud. As a pointer you could place a picture next to your adds, just make sure to leave some room in between in order to make sure this isn't regarded as encouraging visitors to click the link. Of course there are more ways to increase AdSense traffic from your site, but these should serve as a good starting point for income maximization.]]></description>
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	<title>Getting Started With Adsense</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2007 02:51:14 -0500</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[A very important element in the rapid adoption of AdSense is that it has been very easy for publishers to get the ads on their site as quickly as possible. Integrating AdSense in your website takes only a few minutes, and you can be on your way with one or more nicely integrated AdSense ads. The first thing you need to do is navigate to Google, type in&quot; &quot; apply for adsense&quot; and either apply or log in with your existing account and password. What follows is a page presenting the Google AdSense Terms and Conditions which you must agree to in order to proceed. You are presented with a report page which you can use to get a detailed status on how your AdSense advertising is doing. This allows you to improve your site's contents and layout to maximize your AdSense earnings. On the top of your page you also have link to the setup section where you can generate the code that will need to be pasted on your website in order to have AdSense banners on your page. You can use AdSense for text (the said ads), using a search box or with referrals. Your choice among these options depends on how users will navigate your site. Finally, there is a &quot;My Account&quot; tab which allows you to set up details concerning your account, payment and tax information. To add a text ad on your site, go back to the &quot;AdSense Setup&quot; tab and click the &quot;AdSense for content&quot; link. Make sure you have cookies enabled in your browser. You can make a choice between ad units and link units. The former contain text and or images concerning a certain site for each unit, most with a detailed description, the latter only contain links to certain types. Of course, it's a bit hard to know which type you should use so you should probably experiment with both for a while before you decide. You can also view an example of how the unit will look to the right of your page. However, you may only use three ad units and one link unit on any given page. This is believed to be a step which Google takes for quality control. The next step is to choose your add format and colors. You can basically select any color palette you choose with Google offering some of its own if you don't have the time or skill to create one. You can constantly view how the palette will look through the aid of an example. The one that works best in terms of appearance and revenues will vary with the look, feel and content of a website. However, your ad formats are limited to a choice of eleven formats. There's an &quot;Ad Formats&quot; link which takes you to a page that lets you see all even of these in action so you can decide best which one suits your site. Sometimes the most intrusive, doesn&rsquo;t work best however again, this can vary from website to website. After you finish with customization, you can click &quot;Continue&quot; from the bottom of the page. You are now presented with a section entitled &quot;AdSense for Content&quot;. You can click anywhere in the text and that shows the JavaScript required to get AdSense running. This will automatically select the text in the box. You can then copy it and paste it into your pages directly. If you use dynamic pages, you should paste this code within your template so as to ensure that it gets displayed on any page of your website. Some advertisers choose not to display Adsense on every page, and this is understandable. An example of this is a company that has adsense, may also have terms and condition which would inevitably provide legal resources which would probably be deemed inappropriate. What is then left for you to do is get content on your page (provided you didn't have any already). Google AdSense crawlers will soon visit your site, making sure that the ads displayed are relevant to your site's content. And you're all done. For a simple page this should indeed be a matter of a few minutes, which is precisely what makes AdSense the choice for so many. Although it is quick, its mass appeal also makes it the best. Through being the most popular, advertisers and publishers alike see Adsense and Adwords as their natural first choice.]]></description>
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	<title>How Adsense Changed the Internet</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2007 02:50:31 -0500</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[Ever since Google came up with the master idea that is AdSense, the web has transformed in a variety of ways no one would have ever suspected. Some of these are good changes others aren't. This is a small exploration of how a brilliant marketing scheme has taken the web by storm. It deals with the changes advertisers and publishers and even website visitors have undergone ever since AdSense has become a daily part of our on-line lives. Even before AdSense came out a lot of people were advertising through AdWords. It ensured a lot of publicity through getting your site listed at the top in Google search queries. It took away a lot of the pain and price of SEO and the large amount of time you had to wait until you were finally on top. It made launching a website, a realistic way to instant profitability instead of a long term strategy with no immediate returns. Through the use of AdSense, the possibility appeared of having your ads appear on just about any site on the Internet that has anything that even resembles your company is all about. And so it's for that reason that AdSense has brought a new sense of advertising to the Internet. Before PPC poorly ranked web pages had to advertise offline to get any real initial exposure. Companies no longer have to hire expensive professionals to create extremely elaborate advertising campaigns. There are no high costs of running your ads on websites which you have to personally look for. All you do is come up with a couple of meaningful words for your business, sign up with Google AdWords and let Google take care of the rest of the equation. Although it requires day to day management automation saves significant time for advertisers. Of course, probably the largest change in the way the Internet works due to AdSense comes from the publishers' point of view. Whereas one would previously have to jump through many hoops to get a website to even support itself now people are making fortunes off their sites. This leads to motivation for content, and resources for web surfers. That generally means site publishers have to worry more about what content lies on their site, and the overall way their pages look rather then be concerned with the economic specifics of maintaining a site&rsquo;s profitability. Although time is invested in adsense, a large capital investment is not. It's no surprise that the blogging phenomenon exploded when AdSense came out a few years ago. Anyone could just write a page about a subject he was passionate about and making a living out of it through AdSense. And thirdly, one can't ignore the impact AdSense has had over the casual everyday web surfer. Whereas people used to not even notice banners altogether (which psychologically is a very interesting thing to observe) the situation is completely different for text ads. People nowadays will take a long look at a sponsored ad. Why? Well because the whole setup brings forth a feeling of confidence about the advertiser. People don't ignore a text ad as easily as they do a graphical banner. Another thing to note is that graphical banners have become even less profitable nowadays. It is because of this that many people are walking away from affiliate type networks to AdSense. Of course, there are bad effects as well, with people making websites solely for the purpose of running AdSense on them and just as well, with a large phenomenon of 'click fraud', people creating artificial clicks for various reasons. But Google does try to control such behavior, and really isn't to be blamed for such individuals' actions. All in all Google AdSense is transforming the way the Internet works and it's doing so mostly in a good way. Now those with ideas can write them down, and make money from them. Those looking for content can find it easier, and those looking to attract a customer base can do so in a targeted way. Adsense has changed the internet through supporting the economic interests of businesses, and the utility of consumers.]]></description>
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	<title>How Do I Increase Adsense Income</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2007 02:50:10 -0500</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[One word, &ldquo;experimentation&rdquo;. The only way to increase adsense income is to fiddle with your template. Basically, what you need to do is see what your currently earning and tweak everything on your blog. There is a little more than that, but this is what will increase your income when everything else is in place. If this is a little cryptic, I will try and clear everything up. I will give you the answers to a few questions you should be answering yourself. How much content do you have? This is a major problem with many adsense income sites I see. Many people think they can create a site and make money. Many bloggers go into this state of mind that they can make money from a handful of pages on there site. News Flash: You will never make any real money with a handful of articles on your site. If you landed on a site for some kind of info your researching, you will be turned off by the fact that you&rsquo;ve read all the pages in 5 minutes. Remember, many people on the internet scan so 10 pages of content can be read in 20 minutes and shorter for most. This leads me to the point I want to make about return visitors. These visitors that come back again and again, are the basis of all income. They love to read content and they like it to be updated. If you write more content and increase the number of pages on your site, you will increase traffic and revenue. This goes beyond traffic because you will be creating an authority site that will give you a more legitimate look. Since many people are afraid of links leading to viruses, this will ease them into trusting you and the adsense on your site. What is the quality of your content? This continues from the amount of content on your site. If your site has low quality content, you will have the &ldquo;x&rdquo; clicked on your visitors internet explorer. If you have content that is of low quality, contains bad grammar, and incorrect information, you will lose the trust of your readers and lose money. People will not take the chance to click on links on a site they think is suspicious. Who is your audience? This is another problem people don&rsquo;t realize. I&rsquo;ll give you an example of this problem because you have probably seen this before. My partner/brother, created a blog about, &ldquo;brain theory&rdquo;. He is not a professional blogger and he has no SEO or keyword research skills but he still wanted to create it and hope for an audience. Needless to say, he had many problems but still got a little traffic. This traffic was not converting. Now, I understand that a few visitors will not give you any money but he was not getting any money at all. When he investigated his ads, they where so off topic, they wouldn&rsquo;t get any clicks ever! Some of the links were for blogging because his title had the word blog in it since his site was a blog. It was just a description but it affected almost all the ads. To fix this problem there are a few things that can be done. First, you can fix the words you write. Make sure ONLY the main key words you want in your ads are in your title tags. This will help when google bot scans your content for relevancy. To go one step further, you can add tags in your template that will direct the bots to the content you want them to scan. This way, you can close your body content in these tags which will change the ads by only focusing the bots on your keyword rich (and correct) content.]]></description>
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	<title>Want to Make More Money with Google Adsense?</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2007 02:49:48 -0500</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[You want to make money online so you set up a site and add a few affiliate links in it. But wait, you also read online that almost everyone who has a website are having google adsense ads on it. It sounds so good because when ever someone clicks on the ads, you get paid for it. Now, how easy is that for earning money online. So you sign up with Google adsense and then you place the code that they give you and hope to make some excellent money. So what are the google adsense success secrets that other successful webmasters use to make some great money with their website? Placing the google adsense ad in the right spot of the page is crucial to how much money you will make. It is very important that you place the ad above the fold (at the top of the page) on your website in order to get the most clicks. It is called a high click through rate. What this means is that you will want to place the ad high enough on the page so that your visitors do not have to scroll down to see the google ad. By placing the google adsense ad above the fold, there is a greater chance that people will click on the ad. The reason for this is because the majority of your visitors will not scroll down the page and look at it. A lot of the time, people look over the top part of the page without worrying about scrolling down. If you place the ad higher, you have a better chance to get clicks from your visitors. The way you blend the ad with the rest of your page can determine if the ad is visually appealing or not. It is very important to make the google adsense ads look like your site and not another ad. You can do this by making the font and color of the ad's text similar to the rest of the page. I also recommend that you blend the background of the ad with the background of your page. It should basically have the same color. Google gives you the option to go into your account and customize your ads in different fonts and colors. This will help you blend the ad to your site. Make sure that you don't use the banner ads on your site because this will decrease your click through rate. Placing banners and picture ads on your site may seem more appealing and much more professional, but this will make people avoid those ads and look for something else on your site or worse, they may leave and never come back. Doing the above recommendation can make the difference between success and failure with google adsense. If you sit down and do all of these suggestions that are listed above and generate a good amount of traffic to your website, having success with google adsense should not be and will not be a big problem for you.]]></description>
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	<title>Ten Good Reasons for using Adsense</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2007 02:49:25 -0500</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[Why is Adsense so popular? What is the difference between traditional banner ads and Adsense? In this article, I&rsquo;ll give you ten good reasons for using Adsense. Displaying relevant ads Adsense contains a vast advertiser base and its technology can deliver ads that are highly relevant to the content of the page. For example, you blog is about cars. Adsense will automatically selects those cars related ads and shown on your blog. Studies have proved that the percentage of clicks is higher for relevant ads than random ads. More clicks means higher revenue for you, too! One contact point and that&rsquo;s it Another advantage is that after you&rsquo;ve created a blog about cars, later maybe you want to create another blog about movies also. All you need to do is to use the same Adsense code then that&rsquo;s done. Unlike traditional advertising, you&rsquo;ll have to contact different companies for different kinds of ads. You only need one contact, Adsense. One time registration only As a Webmaster, you may own several blogs. However, you only need to register with the Adsense program once. After you&rsquo;ve registered, if you continue to create another blogs later, you don&rsquo;t need to register with Adsense again. Credibility of Google With the backup from Google, one of the largest search engines in the Internet, you don&rsquo;t have to worry of not getting pay or being cheated by those fake &ldquo;earn money online&quot; companies. Support different languages Now you may wonder, is Adsense supports my language or not? Don&rsquo;t worries Adsense supports different kinds of language, not only English. Combine your blog with Google search engine Apart from earning revenue from ads, joining the Adsense program also enables you to place a Google search box on your site. On one hand, your readers don&rsquo;t have to switch to Google to search something that they&rsquo;re interested; they can search that in your site and make them stay longer. On the other hand, when your readers search it from your site, the results shows up with ads also and you&rsquo;ll get paid when your reader click on it. Customize the appearance of ads Traditional banner ads made your site looks &ldquo;ugly&quot; as you don&rsquo;t have much control on its appearance. Let&rsquo;s say you already have a banner on your site and you probably don&rsquo;t want so many banners on it. With Adsense, you can customize the appearance of ads to make it more suitable for your site. If your site is mainly blue, you can choose the color of the ads to be blue also. (This feature is pretty important to your earning too and I&rsquo;ll discuss the reason behind it in my articles later.) Text-based ads Adsense offers you text-based ads as well as traditional graphic banner ads. According to studies, most readers are already getting sick and tired of the traditional graphic banner ads. Automatically, they tend to ignore these banner ads and developed the banner ad blindness behavior. By using text based ads, webmaster doesn't have to face the problem of banner ad blindness and the click through rates will be expected to be much higher, too. Keep track of the performance of ads You can place your ads in different locations on different pages. Adsense enables you to assign different channels to different ads. As a result, you&rsquo;ll know which location&rsquo;s ad has the highest number of clicks in your site. Customizable reports Finally, Adsense provides a large range of reports to you. You can analyze these reports and make the corresponding adjustments to improve you site. The reports are customizable, too.]]></description>
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