Accidental Adsense Discovery
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If you’ve been using AdSense on your websites for any length of time, you know how frustrating it can be if the AdSense ads don’t closely match the content of your pages. With mismatched ads, your visitors aren’t very likely to click on the ads and there goes your AdSense income.
I’ve been building AdSense sites for a while and usually don’t have much trouble with the ads matching the content. However, not too long ago, as I was building a new page, I just couldn’t get the proper AdSense ads to show up. The subject of the page was related to financial issues, but the AdSense ads were about camping equipment!
As I read the content of the page, there was no doubt about the subject matter. I had my best keywords in the page title, in the meta tags, in the headline tags, in the image alt tags and I had a generous sprinkling of the keywords dispersed throughout the page content.
I refreshed the page several times, hoping that the ads would change to the proper subject. But each refresh of the page only brought more ads for camping equipment.
I have built thousands of AdSense pages before and I never ran into this problem. I did everything I knew about in trying to optimize the page for my financial keywords, but nothing seemed to work. I tried increasing the keyword density, but I still saw ads for camping equipment.
If you refer to Google’s AdSense tutorials, you’ll see that they do have some special codes that you can insert into the HTML code of your webpage to inform Google of the content area they should use for determining which ads to display. Google supposedly reads the content between these tags and ignores anything else. I put the special codes on my page, expecting that finally I’d get the correct ads. I refreshed the page and guess what – more camping ads!
At this point, I was running out of ideas. I had done everything that made sense, but no matter what I changed, I just couldn’t get the right ads. I decided to walk away for a while. Maybe Google needed more time to accurately judge the content in order to make the correct decision about the ads.
I got side-tracked with other matters, so I ignored the new webpage for about a week. I decided to check the ads, since surely Google would have them right by now. I opened the page and – you guessed it – more camping ads!
By this time, I was near the end of my patience and I was getting desperate. I decided that I would grossly overload my new page with the financial keywords in an effort to find the problem. I made a copy of my page and put it in a different directory on the server, just so I wouldn’t lose my original page.
After making the copy, I opened it in my web browser and much to my surprise, I was seeing the proper AdSense ads! I didn’t make any changes to the content of the page – none at all. This page was an exact duplicate of the one that kept showing the camping ads. The only difference was the location. The duplicate page was placed in a temporary directory for testing. I used one of my keywords for the name of the directory and that made all the difference with the topic of the AdSense ads that Google displayed.
I did a little more experimentation to see what I could learn. I stayed with the new page, the one that was showing the proper ads and made a few changes. First, I removed the special Google HTML codes. I refreshed the page and the right ads were still showing up. Next, I started removing some of the keywords. I was still getting the right ads. I experimented with all the aspects of the page, even the page title. No matter which items I changed, I was still getting the correct ads. After exhaustive experimentation, I determined that although keyword density, page title, headline tags and image alt tags are important, the directory name where the webpage resides seems to have the most impact on the topic of the AdSense ads that Google displays.
If you find yourself in a similar situation, where you just can’t get the right AdSense ads, Change The Directory Name!
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June 22nd, 2009 at 4:05 am
Be careful on absorbing any info you get in chat rooms as this could cost you time runnin down verification. Make sure you acquire info from a reliable source (someone who is running successful adsense campaigns). I would say that there are no real secrets but there are unique strategies being applied. Upload your sites, get indexed, experiment with code placement and page cosmetics, get backlinks and maintain the site with fresh content on a somewhat regular basis. test, test, test…. repeat
June 22nd, 2009 at 4:05 am
Hi Ronald,
Where will you place your adsense ads?
If it's on your blog (blogspot), just paste in on your blog layout.
Step by step guide :
Log in to your blogger account, click on the Layout, It'll link to your page layout, click on "add a gadget" (a small window will pop up), scroll down and look for "HTML/Javascript" finally paste your code here.
The other way is take a look at the bottom page (still on page layout), click on "Make money from your blog. Publish ads with Google AdSense"
That's all
Btw I just found some related resources that might answer your question
June 22nd, 2009 at 4:05 am
Don't waste your time on them – it was a HUGE waste of money and he teaches you nothing.
June 22nd, 2009 at 4:05 am
The problem of having signed up with a free forum host is that you can't actually edit the phpbb files. This means that you can't install MODs and insert ads or banners. But there's a solution….
Goto your admin panel. Goto Forum management and create a new section under a new category and call it 'Sponsors'. Then you'll be asked o fill in the description about this forum and whether it should be locked. Just paste your adsense code here and save. Goto your main forum index and you should be able to see your ad as description to the forum you created!!!
June 22nd, 2009 at 4:05 am
WHAT IS IT EXACTLY?
Adsense is a way to monetize and earn money from your site by putting Google ads from their advertising network Adwords. It has been around since June 2003 and Adsense has allowed many website owners to earn from their sites. I highly recommend going through the Adsense Quick Tour to learn more about the program http://www.google.com/services/adsense_tour/index.html
HOW DOES IT WORK
You apply and once you get approved, you can put in the Adsense code in your site. Here are the instructions on how to add Adsense codes on your site https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=10192&topic=8434
You earn through various ways:
1. Pay per click – this is the common way to earn which is you earn every time a visitor clicks on your ads
2. Pay per impression – an advertiser can specifically target your site and show ads where you earn via cost per 1,000 impression (e.g. you earn every time someone sees your ad, even though they don't click on it)
3. Referral – you can also earn if you refer a visitor to use Adsense or Adwords, download the Google toolbar, etc.
WHAT PERSONAL INFO DO I HAVE TO GIVE?
In the application form https://www.google.com/adsense/g-app-single-1 you will give
- your name
- your address
- if your country qualifies for electronic fund transfer and you wish to be paid by EFT, your bank details
- your SSN or tax account number if you are in the US as Google reports Adsense income to the IRS
IS IT WORTH IT AND HOW MUCH MONEY PER MONTH DOES IT BRING IN?
Some sites do very well with Adsense (even in the millions of dollars a year) while many more sites do extremely poorly with the program (can't even earn $10 a month). One of the misconception people have about Adsense is they simply slap it in their websites and it will automatically earn them big money — which is not true as evidenced by the many disgruntled webmasters
Your income will depend on:
- the topic of your site (if you have high paying keywords you stand to earn more)
- responsiveness of users to ad (are visitors coming to your site with blinders in their eye or do they look at the ads as additional complementary resource)
- traffic (you earn more with more traffic, even if you have low paying keywords or other metrics)
- how you implement the ads on your site (some positions and colors work better than others)
I suggest you join the program (you've got nothing to lose as it is free) and see how your site will do with it.
June 22nd, 2009 at 4:05 am
Go to manage Ads in adsense, and copy the HTML code for the ad unit, then paste the code on all pages of your new website.
June 22nd, 2009 at 4:05 am
If you want to earn money from Adsense, you need to consider and think about the following factors when thinking about your topic
1. Responsiveness of audience to the ads = A travel website that provides information on travel to Spain will attract visitors looking for ways to arrange their travel and spend money on their vacation to Spain. Your site provides the info, but the ads will provide hotels, travel agencies, tourist destinations, car rentals — ads that are likely to get the attention of the users of your site. This is a site that will most likely do well with Adsense. However, if you are a gaming website where the main purpose of the user is to play games on your site, then Adsense will not perform as well.
2. Ad format = some types of ads do better than others depending on your content and layout. In our case, large rectangles in the middle of the content is the best, while leaderboards do not generate as much as income. Skys are the worst for us. Experiment and measure the results via channels and see which formats work best for you.
3. Ad placement – check Google's heat map as they have tested where the best placements are https://www.google.com/support/adsense/bin/answer.py?answer=17954&ctx=en:search&query=adsense+heat+map&topic=0&type=f
4. Ad colors – sometimes ads blended into the content works wonders, but sometimes ads that contrast your site colors work best
5. Number of ad units on a page = we are allowed maximum of 3 ads + 1 ad links + 1 search box on a page. Maximize the allowed number based on the resulting look of your page (you don't want an overkill of ads). Users going to your page and reading your content may ignore the banner or rectangle at the top of the page, but may click on the ad at the bottom of the article
6. Smartpricing – the big unknown in Adsense. No one knows how this actually works. But it can affect the pricing of the ads on your site. If the advertiser paid for $0.50/click – but your site is smartpriced – then the cost may be discounted lower (e.g. $0.25). So you may try to develop a site based on high paying keywords but if smartpricing gets to you, then you may not get as much per click as what you are expecting from your keywords.
Here is Google's explanation of smart pricing https://adwords.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=9562&query=smart+pricing&topic=0&type=f
Google's smart pricing feature automatically adjusts the cost of a keyword-targeted content click based on its effectiveness compared to a search click. So if our data shows that a click from a content page is less likely to turn into actionable business results — such as online sales, registrations, phone calls, or newsletter signups — we reduce the price you pay for that click.
June 22nd, 2009 at 4:05 am
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Look, GoogleAdsense is not a money maker unless you have tons of traffic everyday and getting traffic takes time even when the SEO is done professionally.
I run 16 blogs on Blogger. Some do well, some don't. I submit to all the Search Engines and Blog Directories regularly and I write and submit articles to over 150 Article Directories to generate traffic.
My money is made with affiliate products that I know deliver what they promise. I do have GoogleAdsense too but it makes only a few dollars a month. I will replace it when I find something better.
There is a lot to learn. There are NO OVERNIGHT RICHES in Internet Marketing.
Jim DeSantis
June 22nd, 2009 at 4:05 am
I did this once with a site that had no traffic. Hated it, and moved it back to a regular website.
If that particular site wasn't so big, I would move it back to wordpress in a heartbeat.
Depending on the size of your site, it could be a huge job. What I suggest you do, is install wordpress in a folder, password protect the folder and keep robots out. Find a theme you like, play around with tweaking it, put ads on it whatever. Add your content to it. With the newer wordpress versions, you can match the links to what you have now. (I moved a friend from a blogger blog to a regular blog and didn't even need to touch her filenames, because of the extension I gave to match blogger.)
It really isn't that hard (unless you have a huge site, then I would say fuggedaboutit!
Alternatively, as long as your regular pages aren't php, you could install wordpress in the root directory, and move pages over (matching them to the url you currently use) one at a time, and delete the old page.