Adsense still a money maker?

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When you first start a web site or a blog, it is very hard to monetize it using other methods. Your only hope is adsense at this stage.

It is very easy to get in to the system and it used to be very easy to make money with adsense. Times have changed now. Still it is easy to get accepted as a Google publisher but it is not easy to earn clicks in a legitimate way.

That is why most publishers get desperate and use illegal methods to generate clicks. But eventually they get banned because Google is the Greek God of Internet. Google knows everything.

I started using adsense on the very first day of my blog. I was not desperate to make money from this blog so I just wanted to give it a try. I knew I could get rid of the code if it is not working out for me.

But as you can see, I am still running them. But most bloggers complain that their ads are not converting. They say people have become adsense blinded. But I realized Whether we can make money with adsense or not is completely depending on the way we present adsense to our viewers.

Most “adsense secrets guides” tell you to blend them as much as possible with the content. But we must not forget the fact that people do not live in caves these days. They can identify an ad no matter how hard we try to hide it. So the best way is to present it in a nice way without annoying the visitors. And if the ads are relevant, there is a high chance of your visitors clicking them.

The easiest way to get more relevant ads is to use Google section targeting. I have seen many publishers are ignoring this all important 2 codes. When you are writing something off topic use this code,

<!– google_ad_section_start(weight=ignore) –>
<!– google_ad_section_end (weight=ignore) –>

For example, if you are writing about investments and in the last paragraph if you are asking your readers to subscribe to the web site, you can block that irrelevant part by using the above code.

And if you feel some paragraphs are highly relevant with keywords to your topic, use this code to highlight them.

<!– google_ad_section_start –>
<!– google_ad_section_end  –>

My click through rate increased significantly once I started using these 2 simple codes.

You are seeing the best adsense layout worked for me so far. I have tried blue color Titles, Orange color titles and several different back ground colors. For several days I ran them with a white back ground and contrasting colors. But the current combination is the one worked best for me. That is not going to stop me from trying few different things in the future.

And you should not go ahead and change your adsense settings blindly. This adsense layout is working nicely for my blog. Unfortunately there is no universally accepted way to present your adsense ads. You have to figure out what colors and placement will do the work for you. But I am 100% certain that there is a wining combination of color and placement for all the web sites. The Sooner you find yours, more money you will make. It is really possible to make money with adsense.

The adsense unit you see at the very beginning of this post is the one which got me most clicks. Since it is the first ad unit of the web page, the value of clicks are also high. I have had clicks valid up to $3.90 a click. It is a good idea to float the adsense unit with your text content. You can do this by using the following code.

<div style=”float:left; margin: 10px;”><Your adsense code></div>

The main thing I realized is adsense is still a money maker. My blog is only 3 months old but I will be withdrawing my second adsense cheque next week. I created a content site last month on health and beauty just for adsense. And it is already showing good potential, both with Google search engine placements and with Adsense earnings.

What I like about that web site is I can simply forget about it in 2-3 weeks. It will still bring me money. It is much easier to maintain a web site than maintaining a blog. So if you are after few quick bucks from Google adsensde, always go for a web site. Not a blog. Not only it will make your life easy, web sites make it much easier to rank for good keywords in search engines. SEO guru’s may not agree with me. But I am speaking from my experience. Just my 2 cents though.

If you are planning to make money with adsense by creating a web site, Watch this video by my friend Lisa from 2createawebsite. She has some very good points and I am sure you will like it.

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