How Can I Make More Money Online with Google AdSense
Do you want to squeeze out a few more dollars with your Google Adsense earnings? I figured it would be a neat idea to do an open forum style post where you could tell me a little bit about your site in question, leave a link to your site so that I can find it and then I would review it and then make a suggestion or two on how I feel you could make some minor changes to it in order to squeeze out a few more dollars.
So here is the deal. When you drop a comment, let me know the URL of your site and tell me a little bit about the site. It is important that you do tell me about the site and try to give me some general stats and information about the site. From there, I will visit your site and reply back to your comment and provide a quick overview/review and a suggestion or two on some changes you could make to the site to increase your AdSense earnings.
Sound cool? Keep in mind, when you put the URL into the comments, it is very likely that your comment will NOT post live as it will be held in moderation. Do not worry about this, I am always glued to my blog and will approve your comment. There is no need to make the same comment twice. If you don’t see your comment here on my blog after 24 hours, then feel free post the comment again.
Ok…. I got a firm grip on my computer, so fire off the questions. Do you think that I can answer every one? Ask a question and find out for yourself. 
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Here is an example of what I am looking for in the comments so that things stay organized:
Hi Garry,
Thanks for taking my question. I have a web site that I have had up and running for about 6 months and I have been struggling a little bit with AdSense. I currently have around 25 people that visit my site each day and I make only around .50c per day. My site is about helping people to learn how to make money online. I provide blog tips and tricks that help people. Thanks again for taking my question. I noticed too that my conversions are super low and I’d like to get the CTR higher.
The site I need you to look at is:
http://www.garryconn.com/
LOL — I thought the above was a real comment.
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Garry;
If a person is new to AdSense with a new blog, how do you recommend that they get started getting traffic?
Regard,
Mark
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There are times when I feel it could be.
Ok, I’ll bite. I’ve been with google adsense for over a few years now, and have placed my codes on several sites just to get a feel for what to expect, and figuring the best way to use them.
I’ve finally decided to focus on a single site, my blog by my own name at http://www.waynejohn.com. It’s been running for about 5-6 months now, and I’ve since doubled what my existing revenue was prior to my blog.
Prior earnings: ~$5
Current All time: ~$14
Not bad all things considered, but it could be more. What would you advise of my site?
I enjoy reading your posts at lunch on my phone btw, good stuff!
Hey Garry,
I would have Digged / Stumbled this but I’m at work and don’t have my passwords (I saved them guilty as charged)
Anyhow: I set up my Bike Rack site and its made an average of 50 cents a day since I started the ads on adsense alone with about 60 – 100 uniques a day. I wouldn’t say its doing too bad, but I don’t know really how much a site is suppose to make. The URL is http://bikeracked.com
It gets indexed quickly and produces some decent long tails. Problem is, I need about $2 from the poor performing slow auction ads to get my payout so those have to stay for a little while
Anyhow, appreciate any tips that you can give,
Owen.
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My site is a Public Records site. I blog about how to obtain public records, and most notably I provide the records themselves that I obtained or others have obtained using Freedom of Information access laws. My adsense is pretty low. I’m up for any suggestions.
http://www.publicrecordsguy.com
You’ll notice I have a second sidebar for the static pages. More clicks on those ones than the main ad.
HI Gary,
My site http://www.costaricamountain.blogspot.com does not make any money, and I have no provisions for doing so at this moment. I tried to add ad-sense but I guess that I did not do it correctly. I need to try that again.
I write about our life in very rural Costa Rica, the Cabecar Indigenous who are my hungry and sick neighbors. Through my blog I try to tell the story, bring about education and awareness and to help the Cabecar and their children.
I also tell about our life here as it is very different from the lives of others.
I get hits, rarely a comment, 30 Jun 2008 – present: 392 Visits on previous ‘day’: 14. My hits come from all over the world, I have no idea who these people are. I am glad they care enough to read the posts. They also sometimes send money or contact me to give donations which I pass on to the Voz Que Clama Mission to help care for the disabled, poor Indigenous children. We buy beans rice and powdered milk with 100% of the money. I am simply a volunteer with the Mission, and what we do from our farm is our Community Service out of our pockets. I would like to do more, and the Cabecar need help.
My stories sometimes get pickup by a newspaper and that helps people find me and then they donate. At the moment I am looking for old but working laptop computers, portable sewing machines, and used sweatshirts.
I would like to make money so that I can help the Cabecar into sustainability.
Any help that you can give me is very appreciated.
Blessings,
Ginnee
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I think if any one deserves the help ginnee does, for what seems like a legitimate cause. I retract my comment in favor of Ginnee’s
- Owen.
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First and foremost you need to research the niche you have an interest in. Consider a few different topics that you enjoy and choose the one that you can write material on very easily without much time invested or research. Secondly, the niche you choose should be a profitable one. If you choose Beanie Babies for example, you’re not going to be able to successfully get a lot of money from monetizing that content. Also, Beanie Babies happens to be a very competitive niche.
Choose something that you can easily write about quickly and easily. Make sure the niche is rich and low in competition but also yields a high demand of searches.
http://www.garryconn.com/tag/niche-marketing-strategies
After you choose your niche, you should then start considering a domain name:
http://www.garryconn.com/tag/domain-name-selection
After you choose a domain name, you’re going to need hosting. I would choose a hosting company that allows for what I call, “Push Button WordPress Install.” Most standard WHM/cPanel linux hosting has fantastico.
Go here to see some decent hosting companies that work well with WordPress:
http://www.garryconn.com/free-wordpress-hosting.php
After you have hosting set up and you have WordPress installed, you need to choose a nice theme. I have quite a few available to use and I will be making more soon.
Join my mailing list to automatically have a free copy of SEOAdMax, a WordPress theme designed specially for people who want to make money with AdSense:
http://www.garryconn.com/welcome
Go here to download a theme that will balance out Affiliate Product Marketing with a nice subtle touch of AdSense as a cushion or a fall back on the typical lower AFF product conversions:
http://www.garryconn.com/leadermagic
After you have WordPress set up and have a nice theme in place, now you need to start focusing on article content.
Because your blog is new, you will need to give your blog a nice kick start. To do so, you will need to bust your ass a little bit and start commenting on other people’s blogs that are similar to your own. Make friends and be a very cool guy with everyone on the Net. Be helpful and make sure that your content is something that will interest the people that you place comments on their blogs.
The goal really from this point on is to focus on backlinks. You need backlinks so that your blog will start to rank for what I would call your primary keyword phrase. Secondary keyword phrases should naturally follow within your freestyle post writings.
As you interact with more people, you’ll find that people will actually start to write about you on their own blogs. This is very important towards backlinks.
You can also ask to be listed on folks blogrolls.
Do this and work hard for about three months and you’ll eventually score PageRank. When you score PageRank things start to really get better for the blog. You will notice that you’ll naturally start ranking for higher competitive words and phrases and you’ll start to see more search traffic coming to your blog.
Be prepared to help newly established friends just as you expect them to help you. Attach yourself to about 20 online friends whom have mutual goals as you. From there you.
As you start to score search engine traffic focus a balanced effort towards scoring not only AdSense clicks but also Opt In email submissions. Having a email mailing list is a very important part towards making money online. However, really this stems into other topics than strictly making money online with AdSense.
All in all, in order to make good money with AdSense, you need to have a lot of search traffic. Regular reader traffic doesn’t click on AdSense ads; however, they do indeed make purchases based off your recommendations. So, really if you play your cards right, you can get the best of both worlds.
Content can be of product reviews that trigger beautiful Adsense ads that cater to first time readers while also catering to regular readers who will actually be more interested in the actual product being recommended.
Volume is important if you are strictly looking at SEM (search engine marketing) the more posts, pages and sections that you have indexed on your site increases the amount of exposure you have in the search engines. If you are looking at focusing strictly on SEM then I would prepare to write a ton of content.
Chris Pirillo is one of the other publishers who I know that can actually produce more content in one day than I can. I am sure that he has many paid writers writing for him though. At this time I have only a few paid writers writing on my sites.
All in all, make no mistake, this requires hard hard work. Typically what you put in is what you will get back in return.
Ok Wayne,
Your blog is very healthy. Granted when you write content about making money online, you’re not going to be very likely to score clicks because of the type of people that read the content.
Your blog is doing very well in the SERPS and when you write posts such as this:
http://www.waynejohn.com/post/2008/06/The-Tattoo-on-my-Toes.aspx
You pull up #1 for exact phrase search in Google as seen here:
http://www.google.com/search?q=Tattoo+on+my+Toes
If someone who is interested in getting a tattoo on their toes, you better believe that they will find your post page. When they do, you better believe that this page will generate very nice ads. With that said this leads me to talk to you about design.
Your design is nice, but terrible for AdSense.
(FYI to ppl reading this… I am typing very fast, I don’t have time to be nice or politically correct. I will call things as I see it, don’t get offended.)
You are using a 468×60 at the very bottom of the post and then a 160×600 on the right sidebar. I don’t have access to your AdSense account, but I would guess that your conversion % is around 1 to 2% TOPS!
I would remove the 160×600 from the sidebar.
I would remove the 468×60 from the bottom of the posts.
I would add a 300×250 image ONLY adsense unit directly below the
Post title
View the source code example of your page below:
<div class=”post xfolkentry”>
<br />
<h2><a class=”postheader taggedlink” href=”/post/2008/06/29/The-Tattoo-on-my-Toes.aspx”>The Tattoo on my Toes</a></h2>
<div style=”float:left;padding-right:15px;”>
INSERT 300×250 GOOGLE ADSENSE CODE HERE
</div>
<div class=”entry”><p>This is your blog post about tattoo on my toes</p>
At the bottom of the post pages, I would set up a second 300×250 AdSense Unit and make this one display both images/text.
To be honest… I would completely go with a new blog template. You are using a fluid width design, which personally I enjoy more than fixed width. But with fixed width you have more control over where your ads can go and how they are positioned on the screen.
I would use a theme that has a total width of 985px and also I would continue to use the 160×600 but put that on the LEFT SIDE in a sidebar on the left so that people feel more attracted to the mixture of content in relation to the relevant ads.
You have 389 pages indexed in Google, your blog is HOT it can make you a lot of money… focus on writing content that PAYS and less on content that doesn’t. Immediately change your theme so that you can properly monetize your content effectively.
http://www.google.com/search?q=site:http://www.waynejohn.com
lose the 468×60 on the top of the posts and use a 250×250 or a 300×250 and float it to the left and have the content wrap around on the right. You will see a huge difference.
If you want to keep the top 468×60 for show and tell, do it, but then remove the bottom 468×60.
Also I would have another rectangular 300×250 or similar at the bottom of your posts.
Remove the
<?php comments_template(); ?>
from your single.php file as no one comments and I am sure that you don’t really care about comments. Site that use WordPress for the purpose of simple content publication shouldn’t have the appearance of being a blog.
A blog with out comments is a dead blog. If you have a blog that caters to social style or regular readers, you would need to reduce your content flow down to a level to where you get around 5 to 10 comments prior to publishing your next post.
On GCDC, really the rate at which I publish new content is defendant on the frequency of comments I receive. With the recent survey I ran in addition to my readers pattens in reading times, GDCC does well with 1 post per day… on occasion I do 2 such as today.
Your blog indeed can make more money.. but once again, I am starting to already see a trend here in AdSense positioning. Good luck Owen, I enjoy both The Linux Blog and witnessing your development on the bike rack blog.
Wow!!! I love this site… this is very very cool man. Congrats to you on this site. If AdSense is important to you, again, position of the ads is very important. You have a 300×250 in some of the pages / posts and you currently use a blue border around the ads. I would suggest to raise that unit up directly below the post / page title and have the content directly BELOW the AdSense unit. The goal for you would be to make sure that your content is found below the bottom fold and only the post title and AdSense unit is found above the top fold.
Your site is very healthy…
When you write content such as this:
http://www.publicrecordsguy.com/fbi-foia/
it ranks very well in Google:
http://www.google.com/search?q=Does+The+FBI+Have+A+File+On+You
Which to be honest, I can totally see people using Google to seek answers on this topic. That is some really interesting stuff.
I see too that you are active in StumbleUpon… thumbs up on that for sure! Good move as your content is very interesting… people love stuff like that and people will end up blogging about it and linking to your pages.
All in all… don’t change a thing to your actual design.. it looks awesome. Just start testing ad unit positions and do a bunch of trial and errors. If you get a lot of regular reader traffic, forget it… you’re not going to get a lot of clicks. However, if you get a lot of first time reader traffic from search engines, you totally can get that blog to convert nicely at 10% or higher. .. consider how well your 728×90 is performing and consider swapping it out for a IMAGE ONLY 728×90 unit as the clicks will pay better.
Nice work…
Hi Ginnee,
Your blog is wonderful and you have tons of respect from me for what you are doing for the community.
Ginnee, some blogs are better served with AdSense while others are not. From what I understand, you are donating and accepting 100% of the money to give back to the community.
I would NOT ad Google AdSense to your blog but instead I would add a paragraph of text to the bottom of the posts that say something loosely on the lines of:
On pages such as this:
http://costaricamountain.blogspot.com/2008/07/this-beautiful-indigenous-boy-was-at.html
having that paragraph of text that invites people to make the donation will help out a lot.
From there you can easily create a web page that tells about the charity or how the money is used and set up really cool http://www.paypal.com donation button. PayPal.com has gone a long way over the years and its really easy to accept donations from your readers.
The great thing about your blog is that you attract people who have an interest to change the world and make the lives better of people in need. All you need to do is create the proper call to action in order to get your readers to give you money. They are sad, sympathetic to the situation and have their wallets open, but unfortunately they don’t know how to give you money quickly and easily.
Make it easier for people to donate money to you and they will.
No problem… I was able to answer both.
Hi Garry,
I’m running a Gadget blog (check my sig) for 1.5 month now. It’s been in sandbox for 9 month and with normal serp (I’m outta Sandbox now) and the visitors are only 300/days. Now I try to optimize it but wonder how to make the traffics better. Do you have advice how to make optimize the Gadget blog? I see lots of Popular Gadgets blogs create more than 3 articles a day and they’re success. My adsense earning are not enough to hire writers and I only write 2 articles max a day. What should I do?
Thanks for your kind answer
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What about us YPN users? Will you help us as well?
I’ve got a site at http://www.jroller.com/jsight/ that gets halfway decent traffic, but a barely noticable amount of ad revenue. I wonder if this is just the way it is for this type of site or if I’m just going about it in the wrong way? The site has ads more as an experiment than as a real revenue producer anyway, but I’m curious as to your thoughts… Thanks, Jess
Hi Gary,
I’ve start this blog about 3 or 4 month ago and start to post frequently just a month ago, do you think that i should start to put an adsense ads now or a bit later???
My blog :-
http://www.menscure.com
Thanks…
Hello Garry,
I say thanks for your free template. The template is great. I am using it at my blog. My blog is still new, just several days. I hope you review my blog. My blog is about any topics on technology. Thank you very much.
You got a really nice blog. It looks like your blog is very slow to index. The last post to get indexed in Google was the very last one found on your home page. You have way too much stuff on your home page. The home page should be an open window for the Googlebot to freely and easily roam to find your newly published content.
Coding has a lot to do with that. Also the amount of content that you put on the home page has a lot to do with this. I would recommend that you get drastically reduce the amount of information on your home page as I think it is difficult for Google to get digest all the information.
Home page should feed Googlebot the most recent posts quickly and efficiently. The home page should also direct Googlebot to the category pages as well as the tag pages… These sections soon get considered as being their own home pages. Really if you look at a category page and compare that to your home page, what is the difference? None really… only main difference is your category page contains even MORE links to more focused keyword targeted content. Etc….
As far as traffic goes.. there is nothing wrong with 300 visits per day. At a minimum, I can make around $3 per day off 300 visits using AdSense. My rule of thumb for AdSense is that I try to make $10 / 1000 ad impressions.
I think also you should do a better job with your post titles as those are going to be the primary keywords that people will search for to find your posts.
http://www.cutiegadget.com/boobs-pudding-from-japan/
is a great post…
if you type the same thing in Google:
http://www.google.com/search?q=Boobs+Pudding+from+Japan
you pull up #1.
I would make a lot of changes to your theme or consider getting a new one. I would continue to post as often as you do… unless indexing does speed up. If indexing does speed up after the updated theme, then I would slow down your rate of content or simply create a second blog. There is nothing wrong with having two blogs. If you have the ability to write three posts per day, you are better off running three blogs doing one post per day on each of them.
As far as monetization goes… you have a big HOLE in your site that escapses traffic without getting money from then when they leave.
You need to review your amazon.com stats and see how much traffic you have sent them without a return. I don’t like amazon.com and I am done sending them free traffic. My amazon.com conversions have always been super low.
Last month I sent them like 25,000 visits and didn’t make a dime… If I had had 25,000 Google adsense clicks, OMG that would have been so much better.
Review how your traffic leaves your site and PLUG all the holes in the exits that allow people to leave your site without you earning money.
All in all… you have the best thing working for you that many people DON’T and that is the fact that you have the time to product unique content. That is the hard part… the easy part is monetizing it effectively.
Strange site… its different for sure… what program do you use to publish content. I don’t like the permalink structure… and also don’t like the way the home page and category sections link into the actually individual pages. Doing some basic and quick Google searches for various search terms based around the content on these pages results in your various sections and individual pages pulling up. So that is good! I wouldn’t recommend converting to WordPress, keep what you have going and just make a few changes.
As the few other people above, the position of your ad is not optimal. Consider how well the 728×90 is converting for you. I understand that YPN does not have an image only option… if it is not converting for you I would consider putting up an affiliate image banner instead and then use the YPN rectangle and put it directly below your post title and have the content wrap around it. That should make a word of difference for you.
YPN is pretty cool actually, not many people know how to make money with YPN because the ads seem to never be relevant. I have a trick up my sleeve for producing some KILLER YPN ads on my blogs. However, I will need to keep that secret to myself, I am sure you understand. The great news is the fact that your YPN ads do seem to be pretty relevant.
If I would you, I’d make the suggested changes and then continue to feed the site new content on a scheduled basis and then start a second site, WordPress and rock and roll on it. You can use the original site to help feed the new site links.
Don’t get me wrong, this site isn’t a wash by far… but I wouldn’t depend solely on just this one site… while too there are great things you can do to get some decent money from it.
You’re not posting original content:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&suggon=0&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=p57&q=%22The+situation+doesn%E2%80%99t+need+to+be+dramatic+and+serious+to+kiss.%22&btnG=Search
http://menscure.com/kissing-tips/
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&suggon=0&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=dQn&q=%22Try+something+new+everyday+and+let+your+experiences+broaden+your+perspective.+Explore+a+new+district+in+your+neighborhood.%22&btnG=Search
http://menscure.com/creative-notions/
I can’t afford to provide support for those who can’t sit down and do hard work and write their own content. Sorry.
Your blog looks very nice… its a great design and I think if you read the above comments you’ll be able to take something from them.
You are using SEOAdMax… you don’t need any help.
Just blog…
get backlinks….
rock and roll…
Hi Garry,
Long time reader, first time poster!
My first blog has been up and running for around 4 months now and is focused on wind turbines for residential applications. I provide information on new turbines, home made turbines, industry news and other renewable energy news.
I am currently getting around 250 unique visitors each day and building. I am running adsense, amazon ads and ebay partner ads. I am considering removing the amazon and ebay ads as they have done nothing for me. I want to push on further with Adsense. I am currently averaging around $5.00 a day.
My site is:
http://www.residential-wind-power.com
Thanks
Tim
Thanks Gary for reminding me….
I’m still new with this blog and still collecting my material and later i will then post my own article..
Thanks….
Wow Garry,
do you realize that you have just turned what somebody else would have sold as an ebook about “How to make money with a blog” sold at least for $47 into a single comment ?
Your brain is popping out ideas, your heart is giving away help and your fingers are typing faster then ever. Back from my holiday I found you in great shape !
Thanks for the great value you provide us.
ciao
alexander
Hi Gary,
My blog is in french language but you don’t need to understand anything, it’s just about “cooking recipes”.
My url : Recette Cuisine Facile.
I’ve launched it 3 months ago. My adsense earning is about 3$ a day. I have 200-300 visitors a day.
I’ve tested several adsense positionning. And the current one is by far the most successful I tried. I would be thrilled to have your feedback on that.
The english version on my blog will be up in september.
Thanks for your help and your time.
Hi Garry,
you got a great idea providing us your direct expertize. I would suggest that in order to improve the learning effect, for us who reads your suggestions about the blogs of other people, that you provide a “BEFORE” screenshot of the things that you suggest to change. On this way if the owner of the blog does eventually make the changes you suggested, we can see what he did and how the change looks like.
Now to my submission, I’m running with a low frequency of posting a MMO blog in italian language(http://www.comeguadagnaresoldi.it), I’m aware that the MMO niche is hard to monetize with adsense and that the ads in italian language pay way less than in english. I’m actually getting around 130 pageviews a day and earn $1,7. would love to hear what improvements I can make.
Thanks & ciao
alex
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Amazing article! Detailed and very interested. I am going to recommend this blog to my friends.
Hey,
Thanks for the advice! I’ll give it a shot and see what the results look like.
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this is great Garry!
My site is http://lifeandlawns.com (lawn and lanscape tips)
It gets around 400 uniques per day, 95% from Google searches. The average page views is 1.5, around a minute and a half . I also have 75 subscribers.
I have adsense showing within posts only in the full post view, not on the main page.
I get about 20 clicks per day on my Google ads.
I look forward to your insights!
AL (longtime reader here)
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Hi Tim,
Congrats on your hard work on such a cool niche blog. You are doing very very well with this site. Typically I aim for $1 / 100 visit and if you are getting $5 for 250 you are doubling my personal baseline goal. I agree with you on the Amazon and eBay. In my past experience, it seems that I do nothing but throw clicks away and deliver nothing more than free traffic to Amazon.com without getting compensated for it.
My advice to you would be to perhaps better optimize your post titles as those really act as primary keyword searches in Google. When you name your post, consider what people would type into Google to find your article. “Best Deals on The Tidal Turbine Power Station” or “Tidal Turbine Power Station Reviews” things like that.
I would focus on scoring more traffic to your pages. All you need is traffic now. You’re conversions must be doing well to make $5 bucks from 250 visits. I would totally recommend that you starting using WordPress tags as they build even more indexable pages. Nice work. You just need more traffic which will come when you improve your posts titles and start using WordPress tags. Go back and edit all your old posts and add tags. If tags don’t show up you’ll need to add the PHP code to your single.php file.
<?php the_tags( ‘<p>Tags: ‘, ‘, ‘, ‘</p>’); ?>
Ok…
My above comment to Tim applies to you as well. However, I would make use of the 300×250 below your post titles. Unfortunately though it looks like you always start your post with an image and that will post a problem. If you are making $3 / day off 300 visits, then you are in line and doing well. English ads might pay better, so hurry up with getting your English version up and running.
I am not going to do that… too much work and will take too much of my time.
If you are getting $1.70 USD from 130 pageviews on a MMO blog that you are doing great. If you are aware that MMO is hard to monetize then why waste your time with it? Wouldn’t cooking, food or perhaps various Italian reviews be more profitable for you?
It is possible that you would make more money if you had not removed the 300×250 from the single.php on the SEOAdMax theme. You have one unit at the bottom right corner of the site, which is the least seen place on a web site. If you were to put the original unit back as I had designed, you’d see better performance. SEOAdMax is great and I think with you making money from an MMO blog using it goes to show that it’s built to do what it’s designed to do.
Thanks.
Thanks Gary for your comment,
I’ve been thinking for a while to include 300×250 below my post titles, but as you said, I use an image on all my posts below the title.
My solution would be to have : a post title, a 300×250 ad, some texte, an image and some more text.
What do you think ?
I have another subject of matter concerning adsense. I don’t like the fact that my two top earners are the ones that seems to be some sort of navigational menu.
I believe that my users don’t recognize adsense ads, and they just click on them thiking it’s my blog menu.
The others ads on my site are not successfull at all (may be 10% of my earning).
Because users know they are ads.
I also have some sort of video ads at the bottom of my articles. And because, they seem to be some sort of content video, it works great. Again, my users are fooled because they don’t think they click on ads.
What is your thinking about that ?
Is it wrong to fool users on purpose (even if google is okay with that) ?
Do you think it’s the case on my blog ?
Anyway, thank you for your review and your tips. You have a great blog here.
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Hy Allyn,
First off, I think it is very neat how you are able to add three AdSense units to each post like that. Are you using a plugin to do that? You have a unit on the top of the post, middle of the post and bottom of the post. That is cool. Are you doing this manually each post or do you have a plugin that allows for this. Either way, super nice work. Sounds to me that you are converting around 5% which is half what I ideally aim for. I like to be around 10% so I am thinking that if you substitute one of your 468×60’s for a 300×250 that you’ll see an increase. I noticed that all three of your units are 468×60. You should do some testing to see if you can get other ads sizes to perform better.
You have great traffic for a single niche blog. If you were to make use of the WordPress tags you would automatically build additional pages to help with indexing which would allow you to focus your time on building a second or even a third niche blog. You will never make enough money from just one site. So you need to figure out ways to use your time wisely towards creating multiple sites.
Since this blog actually has a regular reader base, you might consider pitching products and writing more reviews of products that have affiliate links within them. Overall, super nice work and I think once you make some minor adjustments and get your blog around 10% conversion that it will be time to start another blog while continuing to maintain the existing one.
I understand, looking it from your point of view, I would do the same.
Hey Garry I guess that for the review you have looked at the Big Blogger site. I wanted you to review my italian blog which is here (http://www.comeguadagnaresoldi.it) and does not run SeoAdMax.
Because writing isn’t one of my strength and I hear over and over again to write about something you’re passionate: how to make money online passionates me.
ciao
alex
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The only problem is that you would have to go back and edit your posts so that it would better accommodate the 300×250 below the post. Any post that immediatley uses an square image would need to be revised. However, if you were to do that, I totally think that you would see more positive results in your click thru and earnings.
With the Link Units… I honestly don’t use them too much. Also I don’t think its good to consider using Google AdSense in a way to supposedly “tricks” people into clicking. If you use Google AdSense in a similar way to how you would advertise a private advertiser’s ad then that is a better way of looking at it. Because really, these are in ways, private advertisers who have opted into advertising on your blog. One of the reasons why I like the 300×250 is because it is very popular among advertisers in AdWords, so by using this size unit, I am going to generate very very relevant ads based off my content. People should indeed know that these are ads but because of how closely match to what they are looking for, they click on them. I really like your blog. An idea that comes to mind would be to make use of the TAGS. You can use tags to build new pages and then from there use the 300×250 like we discussed.
Thanks for your answer, Gary.
I really like the “Check out XXX’s last blog post..” feature on your comments.
I will give a try to the “commentluv” plugin.
Great discover here, Gary !
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No review request – just a note to say I’m so glad I put aside an hour to go through every comment / review. This is super-useful – it’s very helpful to see real-life examples and to have an SEOAdMax site in there – you sure can see the difference!!
Here’s the weird part — I ran an AdWords campaign last week that showed up on Tim’s Wind-Power Blog!!! I remember going there when I was digging through my analytics and damned if I didn’t end up there again today looking at your review of his site. (I’m not selling wind power, but a family member is selling their 100% off-grid solar dome).
Now off to email Tim about advertising…
Annie
P.S. You showed such restraint with the plagiarist!
I like it too… it was suggested to me to use it just only a few days ago.
Glad I was able to help you and thanks for reading my blog.
Now isn’t that a small world.
Thanks for the kind reply, Garry! Take a look of my blog, I made few change based on your advices: I removed Amazon big banner (replace it with adsense) and reduce the post home page, from 13 to just 7. I also remove some widgets to make google fasten the crawling speed. I usually make the post usually scheduled posts, is making post with it slower the speed? Amazon makes good income for me, this month I got 2.55% CR, even I only get the sales from small commissioned items like books or games, because sometimes I review products from Amazon.
I also want to change the theme.. Can you give me advice where I can get another good seo wordpress template, because I don’t familiar with php languange and cannot change my theme structure. Last year I change my theme, however because lack of the information, my blog been in sandbox for 9 month because I put bad seo theme,,, It frustate me enough so I haven’t change the theme yet. Oh, I also remove some not useful widgets, I hope it will faster the google indexing,,
I give you many thanks for the review,, really it helps me!!
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Garry,
thanks a bunch for the great info and advice.
the adsense plugin is called Adman and lets you put the adsense in the three spots easily.
I thought about making one of the units bigger, but did not want to interfere with the content. I will give it a shot and report back my findings.
also, what are wordpress tags?
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Oups. I just figure it out.
It’s Garry, not Gary !
Sorry for that. My mistake.
Don’t worry — he answers to almost anything.
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I love your candor on my blog design. I feel the same way about it, and this will mark the third iteration of designing a new look for it.
Actually, with each redesign I gain another asset that will be of value to others, so I don’t mind changing the design a lot. Speaking of which, I just revealed the design I will be implementing this weekend. If you have time, give it a quick look see to see if that meets what you might expect to fare better with AdSense.
As well, since I’m redesigning, I have no qualms making every single change you listed for me here. Also, I can only do better than I am now anyway.
Thanks for the review Garry! I found it quite enjoyable to read a straight-forward critique on my site. I’ll keep you appraised of my progress if you like. Cheers!
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Good grief… I just realized who you were… I critiqued a site that totally validates 100%…
You look like a tuff dude too… hey, by the way, can you kick John Cow’s a$$ for me. He isn’t being a very nice cow lately. He just robbed me of my DebtConsolidationBook.com web site, robbed me of my RSS feed and robbed me of my email opt in list. I will totally buy you your next tattoo.
Hahaha, that’s ok, I always appreciate a good critique! As for John Cow, well, I just now learned about the guy, so perhaps one day we could talk about that. Just give me a few years to work out and get back in shape. hahaha
I’m going to have to do the CSS thing all over again with the new design too. Always fun…
Oh, I may look tough, but I’m still a true geek in the middle. Gas prices will have everyone sporting their best Mad Max outfits soon enough…I’m just ahead of the curve.
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Hi Gary
I have been blogging on this blog since September 2007 and I am at this stage getting ± 15 – 50 visitors per day. Clickthrough rate: Very low. ;-(
I have been thinking about changing the total layout on my blog or maybe start a complete new blog with new topics and title. This one just sort of happened without too much planning beforehand as you would be able to see.
Do not be to harsh in your review with an guy who could have been your dad
) and a relative newbie on internet marketing.
The blog you need to have a look at is:
http://zero2amilliondollars.blogspot.com/
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Hey G. I was wondering with SEo ad max If I had a few writers on one of my blogs is there a way to ammend append, add their own pub id to the post they write through the 300×250adsense-left.php, or is there a way having the user have his/her own single.php with their pub id? See I want my writers to get paid with me having to figure out the click and crap like that.
I know Im a bit lazy.
Actually I am looking for project collaborators at the moment if interested visit the blog and let me know
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Garry,
I have the site, http://www.bank-cd-rates.net and the blog, http://www.bank-cd-rates.net/top-cd-rates.
I use the site for static articles, tools, and a rates table.
I use the blog for new rate posts, news, and such.
Currently getting about 25 impressions / day with 1 to 7 clicks. Best day was $8.70, on average it is about $1.34. Goal is to get to $5 on average and start a second niche site. The blog gets more traffic and conversions.
The blog uses the SEOAdMax with some mods. I started at the end of May.
Ok, I’ve finally finished the makeover. Care to give it a look-see and let me know your thoughts? I didn’t do the sidebar ad unit because all the real estate there is taken or spoken for.
Cheers Gary, and thank you very much for posting this. It motivated me to really focus on what I’m trying to achieve and some ways to get there.
Holy Cow… what a make over… man that looks awesome. Dude… it’s perfect. I would never change a thing ever again.
The AdSense in the posts look amazing. Perfectly balanced and perfectly positioned in a way that doesn’t distract people from reading the content, yet also it is there in a way that can be found attractive to people which would then help you with getting clicks.
The sidebar is amazing. I can see how you have valued the sections in the sidebar and one of which is value in your readership and folks who contribute their own content to your blog by leaving comments.
I absolutely love the make over… do you have any feelings left in your fingers from all the coding and design work? Hopefully you still got gas left in the tank for writing? LOL!!!
Thanks for coming back and following up, it was a real pleasure to visit again seeing the before and after.
I don’t know if it would make sense to look at my site as it is really only about 1 week old. Anyways here it is, not generating hardly any traffic but i am still grinding it out and posting on others blogs like i should.
http://www.computermechanic.info/blog
Its basically a site for people who aren’t very computer savvy or new computer users. I am putting basic info about computers, websites, software, etc…
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Gary,
I just started my own blog about 3 weeks ago and I have been using adsense for about 2 weeks. I currently get about 200-300 visitors a day and make between $6 and $10 a day. What could I do to improve my adsense earnings and drive more traffic to my website.
Here is my website: http://www.homesoftherich.net
Thanks,
Kenny
Hi,
I started My wordpress blog with useful articles about acne 3 weeks ago.I used a Wp theme that should have one of the best CTR for adsense.I have 40 visitors a day on average but nobody clicks? I checked my google PID and this is correct.
Could you give me some advice? Thank you,
Acnewiz.com
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Hi Garry,
Thanks for doing this…I have a brand spanking new site on “love compatibility”. I just want to know your thoughts on the placement of the AdSense ads on the single post page. Your insights are appreciated.
Thanks Garry.
Hi,
I have two websites. One is almost about how to make money with AdSense, but I didn’t place any AdSense ads on it: http://www.tspcentral.com/.
The other site is about making money with resell rights and PLR products. In this site I have included AdSense ads, but I couldn’t make any significant revenue from AdSense there: http://www.makemoneyonlinecentre.com/
I will be very happy if you visit my sites.
Thank You.
How are you making $10 per day when i make only $.50 cents for the same traffic you get
Bit off more than you can chew?
Hey now, be nice. Garry is a VERY busy guy but he does his best to help those who are willing to wait.
Did you know that he maintains over 100 sites? He also has spent about the last month and a half day in and day out working his ass off on creating niche blogs for those who have ordered them for him.
While he loves to help people, the whole reason why he has this blog, I am pretty sure that money which feeds his family and keeps his family under a roof is far more important than answering a question right away. Give it a few days and I know for a fact that he will have an answer to your question
It wasn’t meant to be mean. It was a serious question. He changed the title of this post from “Ask Garry How To” to “How Can I”…. so I thought it became too much and he changed his mind.
That was almost certainly done to help people find the post in the SERPs.
Mark
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What did you call me????
I can’t really repeat that here — this is a “family blog’
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Hi there, I’ll try my best to sugar coat it. Your blog is very confusing and very overwhelming. You have a very extreme mixture of ezine content found on the top section of your blog and then towards the lower portion of the page is where I find your own content. The home page of your blog is way too big and you are promoting a million and one different things.
It comes to no surprise that you are failing to do well with Google Adsense. Your Adsense is diluted by the million and one other things found on your blog. To be honest, there is a lot wrong with the blog, the main thing is clutter. It is not appealing to the eye, and if I can’t make heads or tails out of it, then the common person visiting the site I am sure feels the same.
There is nothing wrong with using Blogger.com. That is fine. There are many successful blogs on Blogger.com; however, the way the format their pages and present the information to people is where the success is at. To me, when I visit your site I feel as if walking into a library where someone just went through it and threw all the books off the shelves and on to the floor.
In summary, I don’t know what the deal is with the ezine articles… I would remove those and write your own content. Focus on your post titles and focus on using the exact phrase a few times in your article content. All in all man, the blog needs a lot of serious work, I am sorry. Chin up though and take your experience and build another blog having learned from your errors in the first.
You can easily write a simple PHP script that will allow you to rotate AdSense code on your blog. If you can’t write the code, do a simple Google search for it and you’ll find many instances. In fact, I believe that there is also a WordPress plugin available that allows you to rotate out AdSense code for multiple authors.
Hi Chris,
This doesn’t sound like a problem to me, this sounds like a call for celebration and a time to start another blog. It is easier for me to have a handful of blogs to make a few dollars a day VS having one blog the same amount as say 25 blogs. If you run around 100 sites and each site makes around $2 dollars per day… in my opinion, that is getting near the amount where you can seriously start considering how much you value your day job.
Keep up the great work. My only advice to you would be to use better post titles that match the long-tail queries of people searching in Google. Use the many free services available towards finding micro niche topics within your niche to write about. You have SEOBook.com keyword tool, Google AdWords keyword tool, those are both free.
Excellent layout.. I like the theme. I think it is very clean and easy to read. I would stop using Uncategoriezed and I would stop using the name admin on your posts. Secondly, your post titles are terrible. You have a post titled, “Been Busy”, who types that into Google? I know that it is a traditional type of blog entry (like a live journal — e.g. hello world, my day sucked today) and that is fine. However, if you are wanting to make money online with a blog by monetizing your content, you need to focus on keyword targeting.
For instance, you wrote a review about the Flickr Uploadr: http://www.computermechanic.info/blog/2008/08/10/flickr-uploadr/
Your post title is just, Flickr Uploadr. There is a balance to search engine marketing. The balance is choosing post titles that mimic what people search for in Google, but also doing it in a way that also allows you to rank on the top 10 of Google. Two word post titles aren’t good for new blogs or blogs that don’t have PageRank. Other more superior content will outrank you as you can see here:
http://www.google.com/search?q=Flickr+Uploader
You seem to be motivated towards writing on your blog, you seem to also have a good blog theme, I think you just need to focus more on search engine marketing keyword targeting, both topics I have covered many times in the past. Use my search bar and search for these two topics and you’ll find a wealth of information. Good luck, you are on the right path.
Kenny,
Congrats to your success. Seriously… this might sound silly… but make a new blog. Imagine having 50 blogs just like the one you explained. You’d really be rolling in the cash. However, to answer your question, you simply need to add more content to your blog. The more articles you write, the more holes you fill in the Google SERPs. Keep a sharp focus on your article titles and make sure that you write content that targets specific keyword phrases that you have researched and found to be something that your blog can easily rank for.
If I were in your situation and you see another blogger doing well based off the same amount of traffic, I’d watch him like a hawk and find out what it is that he is doing that you are NOT doing.
Hi there,
You have chosen a very competitive and very widely abused niche. Search engines pretty much mark you from the start as being high risk. You have to be an expert in this business to be successful with this niche and even still you’d have a challenge. I would have a challenge running a successful micro niche blog on acne… well, maybe not too difficult.
Anyhow, attacking this niche, pretty much all elements have to be picture perfect. This is not a niche the common beginner in the business would want to take on.
For review of your blog. I don’t like your theme, there is too much information crammed into it. Things are very cluttered and you seem torn between promoting clickbank products vs writing quality content that actually helps people monetized with Google AdSense.
You should start very very long-tail and work up from there. You are not going to get any search traffic when you write posts that target competitive keywords. You need to focus more on secondary (or what I call long tail keywords). It is better to rank on the top 10 for a keyword that only gets 100 searches per day than to rank 100th on a keyword that gets 10,000. No one really ever ventures into page two of the SERPs and I would like to believe that some 80% of people click the first link in the SERPs. The remaining 20% click 2 thru 10.
You would be better off starting a new blog targeting a different niche topic, something that will allow you to get more comfortable with this business and then revisit your original blog after you have gained more experience. That is just my opinion.
Hi Mary,
So on this page: http://astrology-love-compatibility.com/astrology-love-compatibility/astrology-love-compatibility/
I see that you are using the 120×600. I think the 300×250 directly below the post title with the text wrapping on the right side is much better.
That will be hard for you to do, because you use an image on the top of your post content. I think you run a better chance at getting clicks that most people so far I have seen.
Can you give me some additional stats on your blog. I like it and I’d like to re-visit your blog after you give me some additional information about it. Reply back when or if you want me to help further.
How old is your blog? How much traffic are you getting? What is your average click conversion?
Choose a new topic… your blog targets people like yourself and me… we are people who are all about making money online. We don’t click Google Ads… Target people who aren’t savvy with the computer such as rednecks and farmers who type using one finger. Google AdSense does NOT work on make money online blogs. Well, it can… but why put yourself thru the trouble when you can easily create blogs that cater to people who don’t know what Google AdSense is?
Hi Mary,
See comment # twenty three thousand seven hundred and five (if that is any indication to how busy my blog is)
http://www.garryconn.com/ask-garry-how-to-make-more-money-with-adsense.php#comment-23705
I need additional info and no, I didn’t bite off more than I can chew. I got a super big mouth and I just LOVE doing this for free… a thank you would be a nice gesture.
I answered Mary’s questions prior to working down the list to see that she had complained. LOL
Oh well…
Mary… I need additional info, see the comment response I left for you.
Hi Mary,
I changed the post title because majority of my RSS subscribers have read this post and took advantage of my offer to help. Because I am such a nice guy, I then changed the post title so that people can find this post in Google who desire help.
You are a mind reader my friend.
Hi Garry,
I’m sorry, I thought you had changed your mind and I DO appreciate your time. It makes sense what you did with the titles. I realize it sounded like a complaint as Jarret pointed out. It’s hard to express tone in emails and in comments. I should have used an emoticon
And Thank-You! I will make that change if it fits.
I have no stats as of now, the site is just barely 48 hours old. It just went live when I first left my question.
Thanks again!
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Indeed… these do help. I have gotten myself in more trouble online by falsely reading someone’s carefree sarcasm than I would like to admit. Congrats with your new blog and contact me anytime you need help Mary.
Hi Garry,
Thanks for offering to help me with Wordpress on Twitter the other day. Totally unexpected, totally cool!
If you have a minute let me know what you think. I’ve had this Manga web site up for about a year. If you aren’t familiar, manga is essentially Japanese comics–a lot get made into anime like Dragonball Z.
The audience is teens and college-aged kids and I’ve given up monetizing it any other way than Adsense and would like to know if there is anything more I can do to squeeze out more revenues.
Over last 3 months: avg hits-160/day; Adsense $ 71.84 total, $0.80/day, $2.49 best day. CTR 6.72%.
The site I need you to look at is:
http://www.read-manga-online.com
Thanks for any input!
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Thank you Garry,
I didn’t thought about this before, it is a very good Idea.
Hi Gary,
It’s so kind of you to offer help like this. I have a tech blog and would be very glad if you visit it and tell how I can drive more traffic to it and make more money with AdSense.
Thanks,
Haris
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Hello Garry. I have an Adsense question that has me and several others stumped so I thought I would give you a shot at it. I have a blog/site at http://www.shipscaptainandcrew.com Over the years it has gone through several changes to find best format from html to curent WP blog. About 3 months ago the adsense stopped converting. I get roughly 70-100 unique visitors a day and I used to have quite a few click throughs but now nothing. In fact when I go to my Adsense control panel and I check the stats it rarely shows more than one impression.
Do you have any clue what might of happened? Adsense on my other sites is doing fine. Thanks in advance for your great advice…………..eric
A little word of advice needed form ya. I am a newbie in blogging world and online money making thing. Though I am a software developer by root but never got into online money making stuff.
Now i lost my job, and these things are looking attractive now LOL.
i have been researching into lots of programs that claims to help us to make money up to 10k . i got very tempted by them till i found out fraud which i have mentioned in blog as well.
I am so confused now. On one hand i am thinking to join ppsclassroom course which make reasonable claims to make money and on the other hand I am scared of loosing my money as i am already short of it.
Any word of advice you can provide ?
By the way if you want to check the fraud I was talk about here is the link . http://webcritics.peepsreview.com/2008/10/who-wants-money-or-quick-ways-programs-to-get-it/.
Take care.
Sunny
Hello Garry. I have a blog related to blogging (www.blogsmartly.com). I put up some Adsense ads a few days ago, and all I earned was a few cents. What do you think I should do to increase the click-through rate and earn some dollars? Do you suggest changing the entire theme?
Regards,
Ganesh.
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Hi Garry,
I appreciate what you are doing.
I’m a newbie to blogging, started precisely June 28th, 2008.
I haven’t made anything from adsense since I started and I really don’t know what is wrong. Please check my blog and tell me what you think I need to do.
I eargerly await your response.
Thanks and God bless.
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Hi,
I have been maintaining a blog for around 4 months.My blog is a niche blog where i discuss finance,economy and investments.I started it as a passion for writing but i have realised the power of adsense and have recently included it in my blog.
Stats:
Have around 400 page views and 250 unique viewers till now.The average time on the site is around 2 mins and 1.70 pageviews/per visit.
A daily average would be an average of 10 views:-(
It would be great if i could get some help with my blog.
the blog url http://www.gettingmoneywise.blogspot.com
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Hi Tracey,
Your blog in many ways is doing fine. Last year, is when I spoke of creating 100 blogs with the goal of each blog making around $1.00 dollar per day. Your blog in its current state is doing around $0.80. If you had 99 more blogs with similiar stats, you’d be making between $80 to $100 / day.
Since day one, I have always said that it is easier to make money online running multiple blogs rather than try to build one SUPER BLOG like a John Chow or a TechCrunch blog.
Getting 100 smaller blogs to the point where they easily get around 100 visits per day is NOT difficult. Getting ONE blog to the point where it gets 10,000 visits per day IS difficult.
And that is where it dawned on me last year. 10,000 visits is 10,000 visits no matter what! Those visits can come from ONE blog that you totally bust your ass on, or it can come almost NATURALLY over than span of 100 blogs.
The original objective was to build 100 blogs each having 100 visits per day, each having a 10% CTR @ $0.10 / click for a combined daily earning of $100 dollars.
I more than achieved that!
Fast forward a year to today, I am now focusing on building niche blogs having put in a lot of research on the keywords. I target keywords that pay excellent money per click.
While my old generation of blogs still to this day make money, my newer and SECRET blogs are making me a killing!
Anyway, with that said, here is my advice to you: Build Multiple Blogs. The current blog is almosts reached it CAP. To get your 6.72% CTR to around 10% I would strongly advice using a different theme. ProSense was so very cool when it first came out because those guys saved the day with building a theme designed for AdSense. However, over time, people started to discover that the ad placement wasn’t optimal.
For instance, you have a 160×600 on the right sidebar… in my experience, no one clicks those because they are out of sight and out of mind.
You need a basic and very clean looking theme, also it wouldn’t hurt to have that theme designed in a way that caters to the type of people reading it. The whole Dragonball Z has a specfic look and feel to it, your theme should kinda have that anime feel to it.
Doctor up the blog and make it look more appealing to the topic and get the CTR to 10% and then from there… walk away! Maybe update it as you can… once every other week, once a month, etc…
Build more blogs!!!
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Your blog seems to be running smoothly to me. Give me more details about your current stats and then tell me what your goals are and I will be able to provide you with more feedback.
So you are telling me that Analytics is reporting around 70-100 unique visits per day but when you cross reference that to Google AdSense ad impressions there isn’t a close match, or rather NO REPORT of impressions at all?
Is you AdSense code damaged? Do you have the correct PUD-ID # in place? Did you add the URL into your URL Channels?
Sunny,
A word of advice… don’t buy anything online that makes promises, instead go to Barnes & Noble, grab a coffee and browse around for an educational book.
Learn about WordPress, learn about basic PHP and basic HTML so that you can do tweaks to WordPress, and for that matter, purchase a book on WordPress. Score a book on SEO as well.
These are the things that YOU or anyone should invest money in.
After you have learned how to do thing MANUALLY, then and ONLY THEN you should decide on purchasing products that CLAIM to automate the many processes that YOU already KNOW how to do yourself.
There are many ways to make money online, NOT JUST THE WAY I DO IT. However, I do what I do because I feel it is one of the best ways TO make money online. I am a blog builder… I am building around five new blogs a day! These blogs are monetized using AdSense… these are blogs that I build and really never visit again unless there is a problem or it is performing poorly and needs minor adjusting.
I think that you should put AdSense on a niche blog that attracts people who have no clue about AdSense rather that put AdSense on a blog that attracts people who DO know about AdSense.
When was the last time you clicked on an AdSense ad?
Looking at your http://live.feedjit.com/live/telenovelaloveworld.blogspot.com/
you are getting a very nice flow of traffic and from Google too! Your blog design is terrible. You need a new theme that will allow you to position your AdSense ads in a way that will be most favorable for clicks.
I would suggest using the 300×250 directly below your post titles and make the text wrap around the ad on the right side.
You could be making pretty damn good money with the traffic you are getting. You need to change theme and then study your CTR behaviors…. and keep making changes until you hit 10% CTR.
You need to remove both 468×60’s and put a 300×250 directly into the top of your post content and allow the content to wrap around it on the right side.
At the very bottom of the post you need to add a second 300×250.
Amazingly, you are getting really good traffic. You are the second Blogger.com blog I just commented on tonight using the http://live.feedjit.com/live/gettingmoneywise.blogspot.com/
You are getting a decent flow of traffic AND it is coming from Google. Actually makes me consider using Blogger.com again since it’s free. LOL!!!
At any rate, you need BETTER AD POSITIONING!!!
If you do what I said, you will immediately see a higher CTR % and more money.
Also match the ads to the background of your blog which is gray.
Hi Gary,
Thanks for your time and valuable suggestions.Actually i am not good with html/xml.hence i mostly put ads using the add widget tool from blogger.
But,yes i will try putting the 300*350 directly into the post content.But,i am not sure how to get the wrap around text working.I will try searching it today,or i will be grateful if you could redirect to some site which explains that.
At the bottom of the post a 300*250.Won’t it make the post too bulky with ads.
Shall i remove all the other ad blocks i am having.The ad block in the header was a part of the template and i just put my adsense id.But,yes if it aint helpful ,i shall remove it
Thanks a lot for Liking and recommending my blog.It is the single most best thing happend to my blogging expirience till now.
PS:I unfortunately do not get too much of a traffic.But,yes google does give me some juice.I need to improve the visibility and repeat readers
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Hi Garry,
Here’s my most successful site, http://spacedust.atspace.com – it’s a collection of funny pics, a mix of my own and stuff I get sent on email.
It currently receives 11k visitors and earns $10 per month, 2.25 page views per visit. Since it went online 15 months ago, it’s had 1.1 million views, but the traffic has been dropping for about 5 months.
Traffic: 79% from Stumbleupon, 13% direct, 1% search engines. The webpage is built using a program in GWBasic!
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated
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Hi Gary. I’m not leaving a blog to review. I just wanted to say that I’ve read through all of these comments and you’ve done a phenomenal job of answering everyone’s questions. I know some of the blogs and websites have been changed since you first reviewed them, which means people have listened to you; great job. And I’ve learned an interesting point, that being that my own blog is being seen by more people who already “get it” than people who don’t, so I just might need to create another blog and gear it towards the uninitiated in some fashion.
Great stuff indeed.
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Hey Gary, I just started my site a couple weeks ago and it’s generating 300-500 visits a day but ad CTR is terrible. I’m not using Adsense due to the site’s content but rather another text ad network that essentially looks the same. Since I put up these text ads, I’ve had 3000 views and 10 clicks for a total of $1 of the course of a week or so. My traffic comes from Myspace promotion as well as comments on other blogs (barely any organic traffic yet since the site is so new). Any thoughts?
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I can’t help you on a site like that. Terrible…
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[...] 16, 2008 So there I was, minding my own business while reading Garry Conn’s post where he Adsense questions from his commenters, who were asking about placement and such on their sites, when he said [...]
Hey Garry,
I’ve been blogging about technology and other related subjects since about May of 2008 and have really been enjoying the experience. I have recently just changed my theme as i felt it was so “cluttery” that it would just turn away visitors and i noticed that i wasn’t getting very many clicks(Only about eighty dollars worth since June). I was wondering if you could give it a look and tell me where i could improve.
Thank You.
Website: http://bradwelltv.com/bradley
hello Garry, can you please comment on the adsense ads on my site? it’s not a serious site, just some pics and jokes and some stories. I know that I need more traffic to it. But, if I already get the traffic, where do you think I should improve? thank you very much
Hey Garry,
My site is on the sport of flag football. I enjoy playing year round. I have not been active on my blog because of the lack of feedback. I would like some pointers on how i can really ramp up my blog and get traffic. I am still kinda new to this IM thing but i do have a flag football lens that has recieved good traffic but no sales or commissions. Any pointers would be helpful. Thanks in advance for your help.
website
http://theflagfootballzone.blogspot.com/
hi
i have just started my site before one month hits are very low and even google ad sense is earning nothing please give me some idea how can i earn money from this web page.
thanks alot
kusum
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