Optimizing Adsense - What I've Learnt So Far
Amazing. After just a few days of tweaking this site I've managed to Treble my Adsense earnings. How did I do it? Well I've taken on board what a lot of other Adsense publishers have said about optimizing their Adsense earnings. BTW some of that advice is way off the pace - out of date. Things change rapidly in the online world and what may have worked in 2005 is probably not relevant today. I'd steer clear of these sharks that want to show you how to do it after you buy their glossy-looking programs for "The All-Time Never-To-Be-Repeated Price of Just $99". From what I can make out these programs are all cons. You can get most of this information from the web. And the thing is - if they really had found an Adsense loophole or a surefire way of milking millions from Adsense why would they want to share it with the world? So don't be a chump. Stay away from the jerks that flog these programs. Here's what I've found to Greatly Increase Your Adsense Earnings -
* Probably the most important thing you can do is to make sure your links colour is the same colour as your Google Adsense headings. Like this - There are no Naked People on this page. See how that colour is the same colour as the Adsense? I had to change my template to match. Originally I had almost the same blue. But almost doesn't cut it. I figured out that the blue Google use is probably a standard colour so I found This Great Site on how to use CSS and HTML and dicovered there are 17 basic colours used online and that the Google blue was most probably this blue - #0000FF so I got into my template, found the Page Links and changed it. And Voila! Neat eh?
Now the idea of changing the link colour is twofold - firstly people are used to clicking on that particular blue-coloured link. So they might be inclined to click on a Google link (I do all the time but NEVER on my own site). But it also means you can put the Google ads in the copy like what I'm about to do and it won't look out of place. I'm going to use a Google Search Button because i've use the Adsense on other parts of this page - you're allowed up to three - I've got one across the top, one in the middle and one on the side. Plus I have a Firefox Button and now this Google Search button.* Another important thing to do to optimize your Adsense is to have good content.
I can't stress this enough. The days of just scraping content - lifting articles from the web are over. People are more sophisticated - we can smell scraped copy a mile off. Often it's badly written. Or its reads like its been written by a computer or by some hack paid to churn out this rubbish. We're all looking for personal experience - how the other guy did it. Like I'm telling you here. And if the content is reasonably well-written and relevant and topical it'll get you on to a good Google Page - hopefully the first page - that's where you want to be. That or the second. This whole thread Optimizing Adsense to Make More Money is at the top of the Google page. Do it now - use the Google Search above. Enter Optimizing Adsense to Make More Money. Cool eh? Now just that entry is bringing me hundreds of visitors a day (I track you with my host Squarespace's stats page) - maybe that's what brought you here?
OK...more in a few hours...I gotta take the kid to the park...

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