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Posted by busylizzy • 1/01/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: adsense, blog advertising, earnings, income, making money

I only started blogging in October, so I am still a newbie. I have some questions about Adsense...

Do they pick up on just the keywords I put in the box at the bottom of each blog article? Do they pay any attention to words within the article or it's title?

I've heard that the larger ads are better - the large boxes and towers.

I am trying to make the coloring of my ads match the rest of my blog, to make it look like it all belongs, rather than be "visual pollution."

I've read that I should put all my ads up top but I've seen blogs like that and it looks like a big pile of trash with no content. So I have been putting only one ad on top of my blogs and then one in 1st or 2nd position on the sidebar. Any comments?

I've read claims that certain words attract higher-paying ad's. Of course they want to sell their lists! I suppose different advertisers do pay more and we just need to know what their magic words are. Anyone want to share some "super words" with the rest of the world?

I and the rest of the newbies would appreciate any comments and advice on this subject.

User Comments

1/01/09

pointlessbanter

1) It isn't based off your tags
2) You should have some up top but make them work for your site. If you are just about making money jam all three ad units up top. If not blend one up top, one in the sidebar, and one lower throughout the site. Also look into using other ad systems besides adsense. In general the rule of thumb is to have your main units above the fold.
3) Yeah there are certain keywords that pay higher but unless you want to write an entire site entirely around dentistry or drunk driving lawyers I wouldn't worry about it.

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1. 1/02/09
  
  busylizzy
  
  Thanks for the advice. I really appreciate it!
1/01/09

NAF08

You need to join adsense discussion group and get advise from google top adsense earners.

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1/02/09

busylizzy

Update - I am doing a "research project" on finding the magic words. I'll let everyone know when I'm done and the article is posted.

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1/02/09

NAF08

busylizzy i will like to have it.

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1. 1/02/09
  
  busylizzy
  
  I just now posted part of this project as a new blog discussion...see my post entitle ADSENSE WORDS THAT PAY - MONEY WORDS
1/02/09

NAF08

There's nothing like adsense words that pay, what you need to make money with adsense is bundles of traffic. Atleast 0000 plus figure.

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1. 1/02/09
  
  busylizzy
  
  The point of using these words is to attract the higher-paying advertisers. Certain businesses compete with each other to be the first "hit" when you search one of these words and to be featured in an ad that pops up on your blog. Yes, you are correct in that you need high traffic. Once you have both high traffic and higher-paying advertisers, then you'll see an increase in your Adsense earnings. So get out there and start writing lots of articles with lots of tag words! Good luck to you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1/07/09

sudam08

Should you research for some hot keywords then i am sure you will not be blogging for a niche. I would advise you to focus on the keywords of your contents. This will make people of a niche or thought visit your blog consistently. Check your keyword density, but dont stuff or bloke. First try to blanket as much keywords as possible in the search engines and directories. if you consistently blog and build your content, the search engines will pick up your keywords on their own and show what percentage of a keyword matches your content. So, it is upto you to write about a keyword that is hot. Remember what is hot today may not be hot tomorrow. So it is advisable to cling to a niche and build content on the theme. There is a site whatshot.com if my memory is okay, that tells the hot search terms.

As far as the size of the ad sense unit is concerned, as you said it should not be visual pollution. Sometimes you blend and sometimes you make it distinct as Google says. Try to colorize them, at times. As there is channels nothing will be hampered in changing or customizing. Further, customizing is too easy now as you can do so only going to your ad sense account and not altering anything in your template or codes.

Thanks

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1. 1/07/09
  
  busylizzy
  
  You are right in that one must stay in their niche. Maybe some of the words are in one's niche already? Or not...
1/07/09

metalheader

I've heard that very few people tend to be successful at making a lot of money with AdSense. I haven't really tried it myself yet, but I have tried affiliate marketing and I can talk about that if you'd like.

But other than that, nope, I'm still considering give it a shot. But good plan about not putting up Ads every where. I hate visually polluted blogs and I usually give the owners of such blogs some constructive criticism.

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1. 1/07/09
  
  busylizzy
  
  If I can increase my income from a penny to a dollar, go for it!
1/07/09

NAF08

From my experience online, visitors will keep flooding your site as long as you keep giving them what they want, they don't care about more or less ads on your site, they're not force to click on it, for they only click on it when it's related to what they're looking for.

How do they expect you to pay for the running cost of your site, like hosting, domain name plus your time of writing quality articles. A dedicated server will cost you nothing less than $2.000 par year with assistance plan, but those that can maintain there server themselves only pay $79.99/mo which is still alot of money.

My forum www.nigerianbestforum.com have many ads on it, and that never stop my traffic from increasing daily, because we do offer visitors what they want.

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1. 1/07/09
  
  busylizzy
  
  Good point. I chose a blogsite over a website because it's free to me. Now my challenge is to make it look like a website.
1/07/09

darren1985

Adsense will appear according to your page content, if your page is about pets, then adsense about pets will appear on your particular page.

If you next page is about children, then adsense about children will appear on that page.

It's true that some adsense do give you higher incentives. If you really wanna earn from adsense, you really have to find the keyword that you wanna target, especially those with less competition but with high search volume. Google.com/adwords is a good way to start..

And do spend some time on thinking which place to place the ads. Within a post? Sidebar? Top or bottom?

Hope this helps!

Cheers! :-D

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1/07/09

NAF08

busylizzy!
I will advice you to get atleast a share hosting account and your own domain name for your blog, a share hosting cost you almost nothing about $4 a month which your adsense ads will largely pay for it, because with a free hosting, you don't have a total control over your data, and you can wake up one morning to find your blog gone ( deleted by your free host).

Also with a free host you're promoting other people's domain, because your blog is a subdomain.

So think about it.

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1. 2/19/09
  
  Jules66
  
  Oh No! I have a free blog, hope that never happens ! eeek!
  
  I actually created it about 3 years ago, but forgot all about it, until recently. So luckily for me it's still around
  
  I'm not doing my primarily for the money anyway, altho it would be a bonus. Hasn't made anything on the couple of ads I have had on my blog over those years I have added a couple more ads, and am trying to promote my blog this time round, so I will see what happens over the next couple of years LOL
2. 2/19/09
  
  busylizzy
  
  I don't think Google is going to kill my blogs on blogspot.
1/07/09

prdps

I think one ad is sufficient and it doesnt matter whether it is big or small... Obviously you can attract visitors by large ads but they can easily figure out that it is just a ad . But when the ad is small or just fits your content people may still visit it although they know its just a ad because they are intrested in the subject matter...
And ya i completely agree to the traffic opinion.. At the end what matters the most is the Traffic for adsense .. nonetheless some keywords have role in generating more money..

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1/07/09

busylizzy

Thanks for your comments!

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2/19/09

Jules66

Good question busylizzy !

I am fairly new to blogging as well, and confused by the ad side of it, and how it works etc..? (even did a post about it in my blog lol)

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2/19/09

bassboys

hey, for me the best is right under a post.. u can see it in action here, and also some adsense alternatives.

blaggers.co.cc/blog/2009/02/18/my-top-5-adsense-alternatives/

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2/19/09

gideonson

Busylizy, my blog answers all your questions about AdSense and Blogging. You'll find it helpful.

Gideon
adsense-office.blogspot.com

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2/19/09

busylizzy

Wow! Seems like you guys are showing off your muscles. (swoon). I'll check your sites out.

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2/19/09

halthouse1

Hi BusyLizzy: Coincidently I just posted a discussion on another way that you can monetize your blog. Let me know if you have any questions or thoughts.

Mike

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2/19/09

halthouse1

Sorry. This is the title: Is Everyone Monetizing Their Blogs and Websites?

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3/07/09

witara2008

any body know, how many times googleadsense admin will send you alert/warning before they banned your web/blog?

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3/07/09

timethief

Google Adsense has a help forum. Perhaps you should check there.
tinyurl.com/76euzt

I typed this into Google: "does Google Adsense Admin give warnings before banning"
These are the results I got:
Q: Does Google give warnings first, before they ban your adsense account for violating ad rules?
A: It depends on how many sites are in your account and how much each is making. If you have three sites, each making around $100 a day, then you would get a warning and maybe the site in question will be banned (not the account). However, if you have one site, and it is in question and you have fifty others making nothing, then chances you entire account will be banned. unless what you did was heavily harmful, in most cases, they don't warn before banning. If it is a minor TOS violation, you may (or may not) get a warning. If you try to cheat them, there will be no warnings, 100% ban.
Conclusion: Try to invest a few hours in reading Google TOS and simple comply to the TOS precisely as published. Hence just be a clean and honest publisher and you have nothing at all to fear or worry.
www.jtrag.info/articles/adsense-faq-does-adsense-warn-before-they-ban-your-...
www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=48182
www.google.com/adsense/localized-terms

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3/07/09

afifudin

if, traffic increase maybe click at your adsense increase

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you can increase traffic at:
www.machineiklan.com

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3/09/09

Heryrhey

Hi ... the experience of the blogger ad size 336 x 280 click on most people. so also try the color of your ads according to your blog so that people think that the blog is not your ads. try the safe and thank you.

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