A Couple of Ideas to Improve Your AdSense Income

By Kyle Eslick

A couple of months ago Google made some significant changes to their AdSense program when they re-did the clickable area, which caused a lot of people to lose money. I know personally that my AdSense income dropped by at least $70.00 a month as a result of this change, and I’ve heard from several others that are have had the same problem.

Anytime there is a change, it is only natural we take the time to step back and look over the situation in the hope of finding a way to improve it. One post I ran across recently was written by Josh titled 10 Ways to Increase Your AdSense Income. In his post, Josh covers a bunch of methods people should consider when trying to maximize their clicks.

Two important tips:

2. Target competitive niches! I don’t care what anyone says about MFA sites, they work! I’m not talking about spam sites, I’m talking about high-quality, informative sites that are in a high paying market! Some of these niche sites can bring in $5-$10/day after only a couple days. When you’re making over a $1 per click you don’t need much traffic to make money.

3. If a site has a CTR of 1% or less, remove it from your site. Although there is some controversy as to whether or not CTR causes “smart pricing” to kick in, it’s just not worth risking. At least remove Adsense for a few weeks and see if your overall adsense income rises. If so, you were probably hit with Google’s Smart Pricing. If that site in particular was causing smart-pricing to kick in, consider a different monetization model.

And one tip I’m not so sure about:

8. Do not go by Google’s heat map. It’s a good visual aid for some layouts, but there are just too many variables. The effectiveness of any layout will be determined by color, style, niche etc. so testing is always your best bet!

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Make all the Things Purple

AdSense Tune Up - Five Free Ideas

By Rick Carbone

If you have been displaying Google AdSense on your website for any length of time you know that your daily income is variable. You have good earning days and not so good earning days. The biggest issue is consistency. You have the tools to make a change, already at your disposal. Here they are:

Google Analytics®: The best deal on the Internet, because it's free and it's better than anything else that you would pay for. All you need to do is open a free AdWords® account and then open the Analytics tab and sign up for your free account. You will get a piece of code just add it to the end of each page you want to have stats on. If you are an owner of XSitePro is even easier. Just open the "other" tab and click on Global Scripts and add the code to the section "immediately before the closing

tag." It's that easy and you will add it to every page in your site all at once. Once you have added the code you will see where your site visitors are going and what they are looking for. You can then tailor your content to the most viewed pages. In the long run your AdSense earnings will grow.

AdSense® Placement: Where you place your AdSense ads and the size of the ads is driven by your site. Although Google offers a "heat map" of the best positioning they point out that it's based on an average view, your website could be different. The main message here is that it's important to test different strategies to find the best size and placement.

Ad Color: This is something that a lot of Adsense publishers overlook. Blending AdSense ads into your site can be as important as placement. So once again test different colors. Again if you own Xsite Pro this is a very simple change.

AdSense for Search: It doesn't cost anything to put this on your site but it can be a powerful income generator for you. Google has made some changes recently and beefed up the search function. I've seen as much as a 100% increase in daily revenue.

Utilize all of the AdSense Tools: AdSense offers other ways to increase your revenue such as AdSense for Feeds if you generate any RSS feeds from your site, and AdSense for Mobile if you are creating a .mobi version of your site. And by the way version 2 of XsitePro converts a standard site to a mobile site as well.

It's also important to note that displaying AdSense on your site without any consideration to your content is worthless. You should always consider your content, as well as keywords, in placing your AdSense Ads. Be sure to use your keywords in the upper third of your content to get the best results.

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