Adsense for bloggers 3

This is part 3 in series for bloggers on how to use the Google Adsense. The full series is part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6, part 7 and part8.

There are many factors that impact the level of revenue generated from a blog using the Google Adsense program.Books have been written explaining expert strategies for
Adsense - However for the purpose of this series we've boiled it all down into four elements that we belive impact your Asense earning capacity the most.Speaking in general terms here is a simple eqation that illustrates how the factors each contribute to Adsense revenue.

ADSENSE REVENUE=TRAFFIC LEVELS + HIGH PAYING ADS + RELEVANT ADS + OPTIMALLY POSITIONED AND DESIGNED ADS

its not rocket science.Each of the above four elements contribute directly to the total revenue that your Adsense Ads will produce. Don't just work on one of them though because if any one is weak it will hold your potential earnings back. Lets break each factor down....

TRAFFIC LEVELS - The more people that see you Adsense ads, the more likelihood there is that someone will click on them. As i examine the statistics provided by Adsense that report my daily earnings i notice that my earnings in the past 8 months have increased considerably as my total page impressions have increased. For example earlier in the week when slashdot linked up to this post i had an influx 50,000 vistors in 24hours to my blog - it doesn't take a genius to work out what this did to my Adsense earnings that day! Work on increasing your traffic levels and you should see an increase in your Adsense Revenue.

HIGH PAYING ADS - Once again i'm stating tje obvious, but if the content you provide on your blog attracts high paying ads you're going to do significantly better. For example ithas been documented that the PVR Blog is doing pretty well when it comes to high Adsense earnings - the secret of its success is partly due to it being served with ads that are high paying. The topic of the PVR blog is, as you'd expect, PVR technology including TIVo, replay TV etc. This is cutting edge technology and therefore advertisers are willing to pay top dollar to get their products and services out there! in comparison if a person was to start a blog on 'toothpicks'i suspect the ads are not likely to pay very much.it would take very high traffic levels to earn as much from a toothpick blog as it would the PVR BLOG.

Relevent Ads - A second reason the PVR Blog is successful is that it servers relevent ads. To put it simply people looking for information on PVR technology are confronted by Adsense ads for PVR technology. I recently visited a blog that was having trouble getting relevant ads - they had a blog on tourist control cars. you can guess what their revenue was like. increase the relevancy of your ads to your content and you are one step closer to increasing your adsense revenue.

Optimally positioned and designed ads - One of the coolest things about the adsense program is that they give you freedom in choosing the position and colour scheme for your ads. just like in the wider world of advertising - positioning is a key element to an ads success. A billboard position on abusy intersection. the postion and design of your adsense ads is critical - if they are out of site they'll never clicked on.

Bringing them together - the above four elements are in many ways pretty obvious when spelt out like this - the challenge comes to improving each to optimize adsense revenue.

your revevenue will only grow as high as the weakest one of these factors on your blog. For example if you have high paying, relevant, well designed and postioned ads but no traffic, high paying relevat ads but they afe poorly designed an in a postion where they'll never be seen - you'll waste all your other hard work. its not enough to work on one element.

How do we improve each? in the next four posts we'll examine each area in turn and suggest a number of ways that you might try tweaking them to increase your revenue.

Read the full series at part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6, part 7 and part 8.

Adsense tips for bloggers 2 - Is your blog suitable for Adsense?

This is part 2 in a series on using Adsense on your Blog - The full series is part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6, part 7 and part 8.

Is your blog suitable for Adsense? - Before you rush into signing up for Adsense expecting it to earn you a million dollars it is worth asking the worth asking the question of wheather Adsense is the right revenue strategy for your blog. By no means is it the only option - you might like to check out this tip on other ways of making money from blogging.

Whilst there are some amazing success stories about earning big dollars with Adsense out there, it is worth taking a realistic look at some cold hard truths about the adsense program.

Google does not accept every site that applies to the Adsense program.

*google adsense program policies indicate that the content of the sites must not contain things like excessive profanity, pronograhy, illicit drugs etc. Basically your blog needs to have content that is reasonably 'family friendly'.

*Also in their policy document is a reference to them not normally accepting pages of a personal nature. this is the topic of discussion in many adsense forms and is obviouslyopen to different interpretations. many (if not most) blogs are personal in nature - however to maximize your chances of approval by adsense a blog should be targeted on a paticular topics. for example whilst this blog is often personal in nature - most of my inidvidaul posts (pages) focus on very specific themes whihc are repeated throughout the blog. update - this may have changed recently with blogger now allowing blogger blogs to use adsense.

*sites accepted into the adsense program are also required to be easily navigable, have an adequate quantitu of text based content (don't apply if you've been blooging a week) be written in english, french, german, italian, dutch, portuguese, japanese or spanish. they may not to have excessive advertising or other contextual/competing advertising.

* whilst not stated in the adsense policy document, many also believe that sites accepted into the program also need to have reasonable levels of traffic. if your blog is new, it may be worth waiting a feww weeks or months before appling to build up traffic and content levels. others speculate that a professionally designed, well0organised and privately hosted blog has a better chance of being accepted. the more professional and successful your blog appears the more likely it is to be accpeted by adsense.

If still in doubt after reading google adsense program policies you can email google for clarification or just apply and see how you go.

Of course, acceptance by google into the adsense program does not gurantee your success. the fact remains that certain blogs will always be more successful then others at generating income.

Future posts in this series will focus upon strategies and tips for increasing your revenue but it should stated here that the most successful sites are generally sites with very high traffic levels and/or content that is directly related to a particular product or serviec (the more targeted and niche-like the bette).

It is also worth saying that adsense works best on pages with lots of text content. It only reads text in dertermining ads. not images so make sure you have enough revelant content.

Adsense tips for bloggers 1

How do you make money from Google Adsense ? what Adsense tips can you share with us ?

I have been asked this question so many times in the past few days that I thought I should write something on this topic (google adsense). It seems most increasingly bloggers want to try to cover their hosting and ISP costs with some revenue from their blog - and increaingsly they are doing it and are able to make a few dollars on the side . Many are turning to Google's Adsense program.

Covering costs of my blog is why I originally signed up with Google Adsense - Blogging can get expensive when you have high levels of traffic and a lot of pages.

Whilst the agreement you sign with google stress that you are not allowed to give specific infomation about your earnings from the program I can say that I'm glad I've signed up because its well and truely covered my costs - and then some. In fact I think its quite feasible to expect that Adsense coupled with other strategies for making money from Blogging could quite easily generate a decent living. It takes time and hard work, but I think its very doable.

So how do I make money from Google Adnsense? Let me share some Adsense Tips that have helped me.

This will be the first in a series of posts on this topic. Let me say up front I'm not an expert - there are a lot of people out there making a lot more money than I am using Adsense - however most of them are not telling their secrets - well not for free anyway. I have got no secrets to hide and am willing to share what I have learnt since I signed up. If you want a real expert's opinon on Adsense I'd recommend you buying Joel comm's. What Google never told you making money with Adsnese E-Book. Joel earn's $15,000per month from Adsense and has some good thing to share.

I know some bloggers are put off or offended by the idea of making money from bloggling so I'll try not to let these posts dominate my blog - however if you are not intrested in the topic, simply skip over these posts.

Iam going to assume a few thing in this series to cut down the amount of introductory comments I have to make. Here is what I am assuming:

*You have a blog. Whilst most of the following tips will apply to other types of websites I run adsense on blogs and will speak from that experience.

*You have (or will) read a basic overview of adsense and have some understanding of what it is.

*You have (or will) read the program policies as outlined by google. these give deatils of site eligibility, ad placements and other requirements for using the system.

Enoughintroductory comments - lets get stuck into Adsense Tips for Bloggers!

full series of adsense tips part1 , part2 , part3 , part4 , part5 , part6 , part7 and part8