Comments on: AdSense Does Work

By: Richie

Richie — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:00:00 +0000

Ah, just noticed this is an old blog post. What are your thoughts now days on adsense?

By: Richie

Richie — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:58:27 +0000

Interesting discussion. I have been attempting to optimise my adsense on a site that gets over 1700 UV’s per day with less than average results. It doesn’t matter where I put them, there is a very low click through rate and low cpm.
Another website of ours that has only 70-100 UV’s per day makes the same amount – maybe $5.00 per day. The ctr is about the same but the cpm is much higher because of the content. I think this makes a big difference in how much you’re going to make. I, like you Yaro, will be concentrating on other monetizing methods on the bigger site.
I am also passionate about my website topic and I think think adsense doesn’t necessarily take away from the look of a site unless you have it plastered everywhere. It can be fairly discreet, especially compared to some of the glittery, flash ads and popups that you find on a lot of site.
Thanks for the discussion Jaro,
Richie.

By: Bloggernizer.TK

Bloggernizer.TK — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:31:13 +0000

Hi Yaro,

I also agree with you, Adsense will work if the ads generated by Google have a relevance with the topic of the blog. My Blog, Gamelidz is a mobile games blog, but i’ve never seen the relevant ads with my topic, it’s only showing an ads about online pc games. So, i dont think people are interesting to click the ads. Although, i realise that, my blog only gather around 30 visitors per day. What a shame..

Daniel Likin P

By: Alan

Alan — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 09:30:18 +0000

At last some reasoned debate on AdSense. I put AdSense on my blog while learning how to blog. I am not sure if it is a good thing for my blog, as it can make the blog look ugly and detract from its content. For me the jury is still out on this one. For Google, the combination of AdWords and AdSense must make for really great profits? Does it? Does anyone have information on this? I would love to see their annual AdWords Revenue number vs total annual AdSense payouts. What Ratio does Google like to keep between the two numbers?

By: Deborah Swain

Deborah Swain — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 09:44:32 +0000

hi…just found this thread whilst investing maybe too much energy in how to best tweak my adsense ads etc. and monetize my site!
i think the bottom line for me has to be that all my sites are about topics that really do interest me and therefore have interesting content which i’m happy to update and keep fresh etc. i’ve seen a steady increase over the last few months with my Living in Italy site although there are inexplicable dips too from time to time.
what i’m trying NOT to do is keep checking my adsense stats although it’s hard not to do this when there are so many people out there claiming they make a living from this!
thanks for all the design pointers in the other comments!

By: David

David — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 13:32:40 +0000

It seems Google are running an event in Melbourne on the 7th of March all about making the most out of AdSense… here is the listing

https://www.businessmelbourne.com.au/info.cfm?cat=0&pg=2805&back=2804&top=293&yy=2007&mm=3&bcID=10220&psupp=yes

By: Pat Curley- Teaching Home Based Business and Network Marketing the Right Way...For Free.

Thu, 12 Oct 2006 16:32:15 +0000

I agree with Mihai above, if you write about a niche that you are truly interested in you might do well with Adsense. You’ll also escape the algorithm changes that Google makes to wipe out the adsense thieves. And you won’t mind writing about your topic b/c you ACTUALLY ENJOY WHAT YOU ARE DOING.

By: Mike Black

Mike Black — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 20:22:08 +0000

I am curious, all the discussion i read around adsense concerns how to make money off having the ads.

What is the effectiveness of advertising that way? I cannot imagine a more worthless exercize than paying Google (and by extension, blog owners) money to have people that made a mistake or just want to make money for the site owner come to my site.

Also, my understanding is that this is where almost all of the click fraud comes from. Search engine advertising is policed much more easily because the engines controll content.

This is all just my opinion, however. I would be interested in empirical evidence. Is anyone aware of some studies on the subject. Or at least some intelligent discussions on the subject?

By: Adsense earnings

Adsense earnings — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 13:20:13 +0000

As far as IÃ¢â‚¬â„¢m concerned, the best way to make money with Adsense is to develop a website or blog on a niche topic that should also be something you are interested in. Hobby-related sites have the best chances of keeping you, as their webmaster, happy and involved, and this will soon show in the number of visitors and the amounts of money you make.

Another vital thing to consider is ad style and placement. I prefer to use a similar structure for all my websites Ã¢â‚¬â€œ one that was proven to work. I will share this with you as I believe in reciprocal help through free advice Ã¢â‚¬â€œ I also learned A LOT from browsing blogs such as this and other webmaster resources on Adsense. Ok, so getting back to ad placement: I love the idea of placing a 120×90 or 160×90 adlink box on the left side menu of my sites, in the top left corner, just below the banner. Have a look at my website, Web2earn.com and look at the area below the graphic saying Ã¢â‚¬Å“Online moneyÃ¢â‚¬Â Ã¢â‚¬â€œ it will house a nice 160×90 adlinks box soon after my site receives enough traffic.

The second good spot to place a 250×250 or 300×250 ad box is in the article text. Loose the border and make the background of the ads the same as your web background (same is true for the adlink placement mentioned above. The final touch comes with a final ad placed at the end of each araticle. Consider the article a path that leads to the final conclusion Ã¢â‚¬â€œ exactly where the ads are. You can also place a small graphic image to the left of the ads, so that they are more attractive from a visual point of view.

By using such an ad placement most of my sites get CTRs of 10%-15% all the time

Give it a try and let me know if this sort of ad placement worked in your particular cases Ã¢â‚¬â€œ I am also doing a study on this which I will eventually publish on web2earn.com

Best regards,

Mihai

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Sat, 28 Jan 2006 10:44:37 +0000

[...] I guess what I’m trying to say with all this is don’t go believing you are going to sell your blog network for $28 million dollars. Unless you are building a cult following such as Steve Pavlina, Darren Rose, and newcomer Yaro Starak of course. I’m sure they could sell the ad rights for their blogs for a pretty penny. I am sure most of you AISers out there will continue to make a nice chunk of change from the thousands of sites you are creating. Hell, I’m even trying to jump on the band-wagon. All I’m writing this for is to simply offer an opinion of where I think the next swing in online dollars will come from. [...]