Blogging Tips & Help
7 Tips for Increasing AdSense Earnings
Posted in: Blogging Tips & Help on: Sun Jan 22 2006 by paulM
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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