11. 3RING BLOG

Here are 7 simple tips that will certainly help increase your adsense revenues, and hopefully get you to that sunny beach sooner.

1. Location, Location, Location…

Just as with most marketing efforts, the same is true for Google AdSense.

As an example, if your site is displaying the typical “F” pattern ad layout (a 728×90 leaderboard as header, and a 160×60 tower block on the left- and maybe even an extra ad or link unit) then you’re not just showing the top-paying ads, you’re also showing a lot of the ads with lower values too. If your site triggers ads in the $1+ range, you’re hurting your own pocketbook. While the abovementioned “F” pattern layout (based on findings of viewing ‘hotspots’ - from Google too) has often been regarded as the best placement for Adsense, it is being proven by many to not be that effective. Why? Because these multiple ad panels trigger lower paying keywords that are “outside” of your content, not within it. When Adsense ads are placed within the content, it generally performs better on average. We have experienced this while testing different Adsense placement models. One site we manage had a 20% increase in CTR when replaced the ‘fully packed’ ad layout with a more spartan and simple 468×60 text ad block within the body of the content.

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The most important question to any person involved in a search marketing project should be:

“What are the people searching for?” If you can answer this question, you can can obtain far greater traffic than your competitors - and moreso, it is FOCUSED traffic, already into the purchasing cycle… If you can write and optimize content based on keywords that people are searching for, quite simply, you win.

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An Ingenious Approach to Managing Internal and Client Projects

Basecamp is an elegant, low cost web solution for project management that doubles as a client extranet. Designed for ease of use Basecamp saves time while it dramatically improves productivity by consolidating project resources and communications in one central location.

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Sometimes, along with the hustle and bustle of doing what we do here, it’s a relaxing comfort to work from an area that inspires peace of mind and creativity. It is what culitvates the atmosphere that encourages us to be the best at what we do.

For example, I wake up at between 5:oo and 5:30am most days, head to the gym, and get back around 7:15am. Just around 7:30am, I’m usually ready to hop into an epsom salts bath to sooth the pains of the coming day and past workout… and whilst running the bath, I like to take in the morning sunrise that occurs directly out my front window.

On the morning of December 8th, 2005, it was a particularily cold morning, but the sky seemed mostly clear. It was still fairly dark when I left the gym, but as I got ready to hop into my bath, draped only in a towel - I was treated to and gazed upon one of the most spectacular sunrises I’ve ever seen…

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