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matt · 1 year ago

I blog about carbon offsetting, my issue is the majority of my readers use firefox as a browser. Adsense has great ads from carbon offset providers that are very pertinent to my readers. Since I have firefox readers, they are blocking the ads. Other ad companies don't really have the "right" ads.

What do I do?

Simon · 1 year ago

Good question Matt, I think it's a hard problem to deal with, and it is only going to get worse as more ff users blanket block ads. Here is a solution that makes it more difficult to block your ads, and displays an image that only those who have blocked your ads will see. You can make that image what ever you want... very good read on a very good blog. Pro Blog Design

Kellie Pickler · 1 year ago

I think that Google will have to change its smart pricing policy as social media continues to grow. Google should not want to miss out on publishers serving their google ads in fear of being smart priced.

Jon Cardozo · 1 year ago

Sorry if this question is too basic - adsense hasn't really been my thing up until now. How can you estimate how much you will make per click?

Simon · 1 year ago

Hi Jon, You have to do research, and find tools to help you. As a general rule, competitive niches which relate to highly profitable products tend to pay more. Credit cards, Buy Viagra etc

Make money online with Adrian · 1 year ago

Simon / Jon

I have experimented with various blogs and find that the type of niche your blog is in dictates all of your potential adsense earnings.

OK... Pretty obvious stuff so far...

Here's what happened when I ditched all adsense on my blogs -

Adsense earnings jumped, within a couple of weeks, by up to 1000% on some sites! I kid you not.

I might add that your 'Smart Pricing' post is invaluable to those caught in that particular trap.

As a result of being hit with Smart Pricing, I now ONLY use blogs for the sole purpose of driving traffic to another offer, or website, and have removed adsense from all from my blogs completely.

I find that using adsense works incredibly well and can achieve a 25-30% ctr on sites built around B2C type products/services.

I want to assure you that it is possible to earn an average of .25 cents for everyone who merely visits your site when you can create a good ctr, in the 'right' niche, with the 'right' keywords (long-tail).

A typical example of a 'HOT niche' (to coin a phrase) would be any type of insurance product (my favourite) because there is huge demand. AN example would be 'car insurance'.

By then homing in on a sub-niche you can create multiple sites targeting different countries and include many affiliate products to compliment your adsense earnings.

Yes, I know that something like 'car insurance' is hugely popular with tons of competition but I have a technique that's almost laughably simple.

It can help you to find many keyword phrases to build your next adsense/affiliate site around... and you can beat those PR5 - PR7 sites to the punch and bag a PAGE 1 slot in all three of Google/Yahoo/MSN searches.

This reply has gone on long enough... so apologies all round... but if you're interested in seeing how I complete this simple task, I'll post the 'system' back here if you'd like to see it.

Here's to more profits!

Adrian

Simon · 1 year ago

Adrian, thanks for the very informative comment. I would love to hear any further info you have on the topic....as long as it doesn't involve signing up for any free ebooks, or buying anything. Cheers, Simon

Dwayne Charrington · 1 year ago

Thank you for the information. I've only just recently placed Google Ads onto my blog seeming as my blog has started rating #1 in Google search for terms like stmusic code amongst others.

Very informative post, I've got your RSS feed bookmarked in FireFox.

Erin · 1 year ago

I'm not sure I'd even bother with Adsense personally at this point. Eventually the market will have to even back out and make promoting Adsense worthwhile.

Laarni · 1 year ago

My adsense account got higher clicks when i started using my current theme.

Anyway, nice post!

Internet Niche Marketing - Adr · 1 year ago

Simon

Apologies for the delay in posting back.

I've included a video because it's easier to explain the niche marketing system and how it's possible to rank page #1 in the search engines.

It's explained in detail if you'd like to take a look.

I like your Youtube post and I can confirm your article contents form the bedrock to produce money online.

Here's to getting richer -- quicker!

Adrian

Katir · 1 year ago

A very informative post, only hope this bring some great returns.

fedmich · 1 year ago

wow, nice post and very informative :) thanks

sandie · 1 year ago

Thank you for providing a valuable article.I recently came accross your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I dont know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog.

ranjeet · 1 year ago

how can i increase my blog's page rank..also i hv joined bidvertiser ...

Santa Barbara SEO · 1 year ago

Thanks for the good tips. I have several blogs but must say that my main earnings dont come from Google. Would love to improve but just not getting the right visitors from social media websites. Only search engine visitors will actually get click rate up.

Free Wordpress Hosting · 1 year ago

Great tips! You can customize the adsense ads so they blend into your site design. People will think they are links and click on them

adsense gempak · 1 year ago

gud info for newbie like me...thanks a lot for this gud info!!!

Business Solution-Ardi · 1 year ago

Good post about adsense ads format and position. Thanks for the info about headspace plugin. The plugin should be tried to get higher rank. For keyword analysis, I usually use www.nichesearcher.com. The tool also account number of my keyword competitors.

Eugene Chuang Garg · 1 year ago

I have tried almost everything to get my adsense earnings up. Not working for me. Thanks for the tips anyway.

Simon@Rugby Coaching · 1 year ago

Adsense can be a real bitch. Thanks for going to the effort to show how it can be done right. Cheers.

Jak@ doberman pinchers website · 1 year ago

man, I wish adsense wasn't so confusing because it can make you some decent cash. I'm still struggling on how to trigger specific adsense keywords.

MJ@Make Extra Money · 1 year ago

This is a great guide. I had a lot of trouble with smart pricing because I owned a forum (really bad CTR) but now my CPC has gone through the roof!

bilginin adresi bilginin tek k · 1 year ago

I think they are wrong, and that is why I no longer participate in their program. (It’s not like it cost me anything to quit.)

Donna@Bitching Blog · 1 year ago

I have tried the Who Sees Ads plugin to avoid the problem of smart pricing with social media traffic but it isn't as nice as Shylock adsense plugin with the placement of ads. So I found a hack that combines both - show only to search engines but with also the ability to place the ads easily wherever you want.

But I heard that the best ad server is openx. Do you have any opinion or tutorial on that?

jason@homes for sale · 1 year ago

I am still trying to make some money with AdSense. I didn't think it would be this hard. I am going to try your suggestions and hopefully it will increase my CTR.

Kevin@Web hosting Ireland · 1 year ago

Smart pricing is a real problem on certain terms. Sometimes your better off trying a new keyword to try and get rid of the people who smart price your site.

Post@Forex iTrader · 1 year ago

I think the main problem with adsense is that you need thousands of visitors to make money but thousands of viitors will get you into smart pricing. Google is so smart right ?

Simon · 1 year ago

@ Post: You do need lots of traffic to make money from Adsense...but lots of traffic won't get you smart priced...lots of untargeted traffic will. The best traffic for converting adsense is traffic from Google search. If you improve your SEO, you can make heaps with adsense.

chris@Pimco high yield bond fu · 1 year ago

I also get better adsense earnings sometimes with text links or search box. For some reason they do not seem to be smart priced as much and you can earn more somtimes.

Great article on how to improve adsense earnings. Everyone should try your points they do help increase adsense earnings on most sites.

cipals15 · 1 year ago

I usually earn more now by testing different ad position and sizes on my blog. Testing is best thing you should do.

tony@Domain registration pay p · 1 year ago

I think keyword research and niche make the most difference in adsense earnings. I also noticed that more adsense ads are not better use less and keep CTR rate high to earn more money.

Karl@Internet Information Cent · 1 year ago

My AdSense earnings were down somewhat for November. I'm not sure why; perhaps it's the holiday season or the slow economy. I hope it picks up soon because I was getting close to the $100/month mark.

chris@Etf funds. · 1 year ago

I alos use less adsense ads now. I found out the less ads at the same click thru means more money most of the time.

johan@zara clothing · 12 months ago

i definitely find that adsense in content works the best

Mathew@High yield savings acco · 12 months ago

I only use 2 ad units atmost and one text unit. I found if i have 3 the click thru rate is lower. If i can have only one ad unit or just text ads i seem to make more as long as i still get clicks.

tom@Los angeles cheap dsl. · 11 months ago

The best way to improve adsense earnings is target keywords. Make sure to not use to many on any page or you will wind up with alot of low paying ads. Find higher paying terms and make niche for them.

Kaiser@Obama Speech · 11 months ago

I tried making money with Adsense but i couldn't for one reason and that reason is patience. All the pages i wanted to create for Adsense took too long to rank. Either that or i wasn't doing something right...lol. But i'm sure i will try again in the future.

Camilla@golf gps equipment · 11 months ago

I know this post is kind of old but I just had to comment to let you know how much your site has helped me. After reading from you, Griz and Court I realized my account had been smart priced. After some investigation I found the culprit... removed ads on that site and now I'm back up to .50 cent and over clicks again... Thanks so much!

Daniel @ Jämför Billiga Bilför · 10 months ago

Adsense works best when your blogging for money and by that I don’t mean MMO blogs, I men researching keywords and than targeting them from the get go and sticking to that group of keywords and related groups of keywords. Multi niche blogs works for thus who know their stuff but sponsored links on thus types of blogs converts best in my experience.

andy@freeloans · 9 months ago

Great post. Like the idea of using headspace. Makes sense to get keywords in post. If one site is not paying well take ads off it can make other sites pay more.

bob@Gold etf · 9 months ago

I think useing correct keywords and terms makes alot of differance. Makes sure to make niche for eah page so you do not get smart priced.

Rod@British Lions Tour · 9 months ago

One thing you didn't mention is the importance of getting backlinks to your site / post using your target keywords as anchor text - this is crucial for achieving good search engine rankings for those keywords.

Simon · 9 months ago

@Rod - Maybe not in this articl, but in just about all of my other Make Money Articles I do.

jack@home depo · 7 months ago

Nice ideas. I like the fact you show how to choose keywords that still make money and are easy to get listed in search engines for. That is half the battle to making money on adsense.

carrol@digital photograhy site · 5 months ago

I seen some codes to only show ads when people find site from search engines. They say it makes your click thru higher and you earn more money. I still have to try it but it sounds like it does work.

Thomas · 5 months ago

You could also add the adsense section targetting codes to improve contexual relevancy and increase overall adsense revenue!