September13
It’s been over a year working with Adsense. Today I want to share (specially with the noobs) 15 Adsense Tips I Wish Someone Gave Me When I First Started
1 - Read the Adsense TOS and the Program Policies. READ the whole thing, and make sure you’ve understood what it says.
2 - Don’t cheat. If you cheat, you’ll eventually get banned.
3 - When in doubt, ask the Adsense team.
4 - Content is king, but without traffic it won’t make you any money. Getting traffic is the harder part of the job.
5 - Most of the Adsense ebooks, systems, programs, courses and seminars out there are cr*ap. Don’t waste your money on those unless someone you know and trust says it is worth trying.
6 - Sites about mesothelioma and other hyped “high paying keywords” won’t make good money because nobody is interested in visiting sites about that.
7 - You CAN make good money from Adsense in free blog services. If you have a good, useful and interesting site it doesn’t matter if it’s hosted on blogspot. But, if you choose to do this, I would recommend that you get your own domain, and having an up to date back up of all your posts and comments. That way, if you ever get problems, you can be back on the game in no time.
8 - PRL articles and ebooks can be a good source of inspiration for your own articles. I’m not talking about re-writing them, but using them as a starting point. They’re usually full of good keywords, and they come in packages that makes sense for the reader, grouped by similar topics.
Take your PRL pack, read your articles, make a list of keywords and topics/titles, do a little research on the net. Then you’ll be ready to create your own, unique articles.
9 - SEO (search engine optimization) helps a lot. Learn about it as much as you can, but don’t over do it. Remember, humans will use your site.
10 - It can take as long as 2 years of hard work to reach a nice daily income.
11 - It’s important to test different ad placements, colors and sizes. Don’t just dump your Adsense code in your pages and hope for the best. Try different combinations and use Adsense channels to track the results.
12 - The horizontal skyscraper (728×90), placed under your header, can convert really well. Sometimes, even better than in-content blocks.
13 - It’s better to have more than one site with Adsense. This way, if one site goes down - due to Google filters, hosting problems or whatever - you won’t see your income dropping to zero. Just don’t build more websites than you can manage properly.
14 - If you’re going to write your own content, finding a good, profitable niche that suits you is hard work. But it’s even harder to create good content about a topic that you don’t care about.
15 - Regularly updated content is really important. Blogs tend to rank well because they are updated more frequently than websites.
What about you? What you wish someone told you when you first started with Adsense?