Friday, June 20, 2008

Adsense Tips, Tricks for Higher CTR

Google Adsense is perhaps the easiest way to attract advertisers from across the globe to your blog. Just submit your blog to Google for approval. If Google likes what it sees, it will place contextual ads linking to products likely to appeal to the readers. Each time a reader clicks a link, the advertiser pays Google a small fee, and Google splits that with you.

The next interesting question - How to Make Money with Google Adsense ? Here are The best Google Adsense Tips and Tricks for making more money (profit) from Google adsense program.
  1.  Strictly follow the rules mentioned in Adsense policies. You will always earn more revenue from Adsense by playing it clean.
  2. Never modify the Google Adsense HTML code.
  3. Don't ask your friends or visitors to click on your Google ads.
  4. Don't click on your own ads - Google is much smarter than you think.
  5. Don't place ads in pop-up windows, error pages or even empty pages.
  6. Don't start a "adsense asbestos" or "home equity loan rates" website merely to make money from accidental clicks (accidence). You will never make money out these "made-for-adsense-only" websites. Instead, write on topics what you are passionate about. Don't waste your money on high-paying adsense keywords lists.
  7. For short articles, CTR is best when ads are placed just above the content.
  8. For long articles, CTR improves if ads are placed somewhere in middle of the content - visitors read the long content and then they are looking for more resources.
  9. Use Text Ads instead of Image Ads as users get more options. If you still want to display image ads, consider ad formats that support image ads - Choose either the 300x250 medium rectangle or the 160x600 wide skyscraper - or both, if you display multiple ad units on a page.
  10. Google Ads without background color and borders always perform better. Make the border color and background color same as your page background color.
  11. Always put ads above the main fold. Make sure that the ad unit with the highest clickthrough rate is the first instance of the ad code that appears in the HTML. Since the first ad unit is always filled before the rest, you want to make sure that ad unit is located in the best placement on your page.
  12. Try setting the ad link URL color to a lighter shade. If your text is black, you may make the adlink as light gray.
  13. Blend AdLinks with other navigation links or place horizontal adlinks at the top of your webpage. AdSense publishers are permitted to click on link unit topics on their web pages, provided that they do not click on any Google ads on the resulting page.
  14. The first few lines of your content are an important factor for determining what Ads are served on your webpage. That's the right place to put keywords in bold (strong or &ltb> tags) or header tags (h1, h2, etc).
  15. Always select the setting to open Google Adsense search box results in a new browser window, so you won't lose your visitors. Click the Open search results in a new browser window checkbox and this add target="google_window" to your form tag.
  16. Maximum people think the search box is on the top right corner. So you know where to put it.
Remember, you are the best judge when it comes to choosing ad formats. Even Google doesn't offer the best advise always. For instance, in the visual heat map, Google suggests that webmasters are best served by positioning ads on the upper left-hand side of a Web page. But on the Google homepage, you will find ads on the far right.

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Enhanced AdSense Security - Allowed Sites


Google has just announced another weapon in the war against AdSense fraudsters - a list of allowed sites. Each publisher can now submit the URLs of sites displaying their AdSense ads. Only earnings accrued from these sites will be credited to the publisher's account. This great new feature should seek to reassure AdSense publishers that Google are taking seriously their concerns about account.

To register your own allowed sites just click the 'Allowed Sites' link under your 'AdSense Setup' tab in your account. Read the full story at Inside AdSense.

Don't forget to update your AdSense account today.

Sunday, May 25, 2008

More URL Submissions!

AltaVista.com URL Submit
Search results on AltaVista are powered by Yahoo! Search Technology.

AlltheWeb.com URL Submit
Search tool owned by Yahoo and using its database, but presenting results differently.

AOL Search URL Submit
The AOL Search engine delivers great search results.

ExactSeek.com URL Submit
Create an account for FREE URL Submission.

Exalead URL Submit

Exalead FREE URL Submission.

InfoTiger Website Submit
Try it out! Just submit your URL along with your email and you're good to go.

Jayde URL Submit
Free URL Submission through this site.

Scrub the Web
What a great site! Find out how your meta tags, keywords, title tag and other features are working (or not working) for your site, for FREE!

SplatSearch URL Submit

Add your webpage to this search engine.

Suggest a Site to Open Directory
Have something worth submitting? The Open Directory Project is a web directory of Internet resources. A web directory is something akin to a huge reference library.

WebSquash URL Submit
Enter a web address to start the crawler.

Submit your URL to Search Engines!


Submit your URL to Google

Google is the #1 search engine and should be your first effort in registering your website to the search engines. To submit your URL to Google, simply do a Google search on "URL submit," or click the link below. This should pull up a page to submit your URL. Submit away!

Google Base
If you have an eBay store, Google also has a "Google Store Connector." By downloading this, all of your items will be available on Google Base for free, as long as you set up a google account. Start your free account and download the Google Base Store Connector. This allows you to simply upload all of your items by connecting with eBay. Your items become searchable fairly quickly, and earn you extra sales!

>>Click here to Submit your URL to Google. Submissions through Google, are of course, FREE!<<


Submit your URL to YAHOO!

Yahoo remains one of the leading search engines, often right behind Google. To submit your URL to Yahoo, sign up for a free yahoo account and click the link below. The first entry most likely will be the Yahoo page to submit your website or store URL. Simply input the URL here and you're ready to go. Yahoo also has Yahoo Shopping, which is similar to Froogle , but is a pay-per-click program. If you feel like experimenting, try it out for a month and see if it works for you.

>>Click Here to Submit your URL to Yahoo. Submissions through Yahoo, are of course, FREE!<<


Submit your URL to MSN

MSN has a great search engine that is easy to use and has an extremely easy URL submission. Submit your URL to MSN by doing an MSN search on "msn url submit," or click the link below. Same deal here! This will put you into MSN searches without waiting for MSN to find you.

>>Click Here to Submit your URL to MSN Live Search.<<