How do you make money from the Google Adsense Program? What AdSense Tips can you share with us?
I have been asked this question so many times in the past few weeks that I thought I should write something on the topic. It seems increasingly bloggers want to try to cover their hosting and ISP costs with some revenue from their blog – and increasingly they’re doing it and are able to make a few (or quite a lot) dollars on the side. Many are turning to Google’s Adsense program.
Covering costs of my Digital Photography 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 stresses that you are not allowed to give specific information about your earnings from the program I can say that I’m glad I’ve signed up because its well and truly 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. (Update: Since writing this series I’ve revealed that I am now looking at making over a six figure income this year in 2005 from blogging).
So how do I make money from Google Adsense? Let me share some AdSense Tips that heve helped me.
This will be the first in a series of posts on this topic. Let me say up front I’m no 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’ve got no secrets to hide and am willing to share what I’ve learnt since I signed up for the program 8 months ago. If you want a REAL expert’s opinion on Adsense I’d recommend buying Joel Comm’s What Google Never Told You About Making Money with Adsense E-Book. Joel earns $15,000 per month from Adsense and has some good things to share.
I know some bloggers are put off or offended by the idea of making money from blogging so I’ll try not to let these posts dominate my blog – however if you are not interested in the topic, simply skip over these posts.
I am going to assume a few things 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 details of site eligibility, ad placements and other requirements for using the system.
Enough introductory comments – lets get stuck into the Adsense Tips for Bloggers!
The full series of AdSense Tips is Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7 and Part 8.
I just wanted to say the tips you’ve provided throughout your blog are fantastic. My blogs only been going for three days and already I’m making money through adsense, and getting 200 visitors a day!
Thank you in particular for your hint/tip on placing the ads actually inside and at the bottom of the posts. It seems to be working: http://andrewwills.blogspot.com
Thank you! I will continue to be an avid reader of yours!
Lot’s of great info., a little too much to digest at once. Thank you.
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Google adsense is great for any type of website from penguins related to web sites selling church software. It is a great way to earn extra income and even a living for some individuals.
Great site :) Keep up the good work.
I have to say that I am an avid reader of your posts…. you may say you’re no expert, but are definitely a Pro. Thanks for sharing your info with us!
Hi and thanks!
This ‘blog pointed me in the right direction and I’ve since managed to learn quite a bit.
Thanks again…
I am new to adsense but performing well . I do resaech first then design websites just for the good paying keywords, informative for user as well.
Finance is the one of the best.. here is an example:
http://www.125mortgages.co.uk
Please check my ad placement and see this ads have very high click ratio.
I started posting about web marketing, and found a cool seo friendly wordpress template. You can see it action in http://www.ritacatita.com
Cheers!
Thank you darren! Your adsense tips are really helpful.
Thanks for these AdSense Tips!
Darren. My wife found your blog y/day. So I’m here today because you offer so much free information that you impressed her. Thanks.
I’m always looking for tips on monetizing my blogs & sites. One of my blogs [ http://research-autosurf.com ] helps to make good money for us. But that’s not because of AdSense (I hear it’s paying low these days), etc, so I will read more of your material and perhaps add some other revenue streams that you’re using.
Again, tx for sharing so openly and fully.
Gary
I love adsense i think its great but blogging is hard especialy marketing one and trying to drive traffic to the site. A good tip os if you want to do well in adsense then position your ads in places where visitors will notice them, I’ve found that the ads that blend in with the content do well.
Thanks.
It’s been good even though my blog is not a too fantastic one after reading your post and tried applying them.
Thank you for all the advice Darren, don’t think I need to buy the book, all the tips you have given here are good enough..
Good tips and advice. As with anything, you have to put the ideas into practice. Sadly, most people don’t get past the reading only stage.
Some great advice here on this blog. With my site [http://www.crack-adsense.com] I teach information on getting AdSense to work well for others. I have a blog on the site myself and my adsense earnings are quite decent actually. AdSense is really a puzzle, you just have to know how to put it together. I also got video tutorials through my site on this as well as I want to do my part as an AdSense expert to help others out with their adsense earnings.
I enjoyed your series – mucho informative! I plan on sharing it with other new bloggers that I know. Thanks for taking the time to blog all of this.
Do you not find Google’s rules slightly oppresive though? They specify what the content of your site must be, where your ads can go and how many ad units you’re allowed. They’re taking autonomy away from the individual blogger and meddling just to enforce their dominance in the contextual advertising industry. The most glaring example of this is their recent announcement that you can’t have images aligned with ads.
Is there is a difference in adsense earning between bloggers and free subdomain owners?
Exactly as Darren has said, i have decided to use Adsense in order to cover my hosting expenditure. I have tried to do my best in order to optimize it for adsense, but if anyone feels that it needs a few changes do not hesitate to tell me so ! I am a poor lonesome student and i will soon see if adsense can make me earn money !
adsense rocks, but u have to be careful !!!!!
cheers
three cheers to google adsense
hip hip
did i hear “hurrah”
;)
I have also joined the adsense bandwagon. Your article had great piece of information. keep it up….
vivanco
Darren, have you done your own studies as to the best ad forms to use. I’ve had many tell me that the skyscrapers work the best but i have read many articles this week that say the smaller and cleaner looking the better. Any thoughts on that. I know you touched on that a bit, but i just unclear which side of the debate holds the most research. Thanks man.
Ford Mustang – I find that rectangles work best if they are in or near content. But largely it depends upon the set up of your site and how it looks and operates. Best to experiment and see what works best on your particular site.
I started with adsense a few days back and to say I’m making pretty good myself considering the amount(very small) of traffic I get. I still have to get listed though.
Hi! Darren,
I have put up my blog to run an affiliate services and adsense few months ago. Its seem can’t improve much on my traffic. I had tried rss,ping and submit to search engine for listing ( i know this will take times).
Feel free to visit my blog and leave me your great comment, how should i improve futher.
Anyone are most welcome to pay me a visit.
Good articles, Thank you,
In regards to ads…
Does anyone ever question an as in a magazine? No, we all know this is how a magazine survives (or prospers) and is able to pay expert staff to collect, write and publish stories.
I predict that in the next couple years, amateur websites will start to disappear (excluding community pages like myspace etc). The costs to attract and keep visitors to a site will increase and free traffic will be hard to come by. The sites that will survive and offer users good content will be the ones that can afford good content or have the time to write it – both cost money and in some cases, lots of it.
So, wether we like it or not, good content will come with ads on the page – just like magazines, websites will need revenue to be able to publish quality content.
It is ridiculous to expect a webpage author or company to provide content without a means to earn revenue from the website. Ask the average internet surfer if they would invest 40 plus hours a week to a website for free and I think the answers would all ring to the sound of loud “NO”.
If you like the content a site provides, don;t be upset with ads – click on them and support the sites you like.
Though i have decent traffic at my website, i am not able to generate good revenues.. why it that? pl. help.
my blog is greatstockcall.blogspot.com
Helllo,
I have been trying to make my site popular, i landed up here and i hope i will learn something new for sure. Thanks for helping us. I want more traffic to my blog (http://visitformoney.blogspot.com). I will keep on learning more from here. Thanks in advance
Luv u alll
Adsence does work and is an interesting way to make money. I have not seen much traffic recently. Does anyone think its because of the weather or is something else keeping people away from the Internet?
Other ways to make traffic happen are Adwords. I use these ideas like…
It includes techniques like:
CAMPAIGN NUKING — how to steal the Adwords campaigns from ANY
advertiser (even the big players), underbid them and do it in the
most brutal way possible.
There are some great tips on here, the hardest part is definately getting the traffic, even then theres no gaurantee they will click the ads, still ya gotta keep trying, thanks for for all the tips
thx for the tips. could u tell me why there is always only ads in your square google adsense. on my blog, only three or four in one square? is there any way i can control that?
thanks!
i am earning already 165 dollars a month with a 1 yr old blog and just 170 posts . yahoo
and its growing
Can i put adsense code behind any button ..i saw this but how can i do plz tell me i have a forum lanuched 1 month ago i have daily 70+ visitors and 210 members
Thank you for your adsense tips. I was wondering why my Photo Competitions blog kept showing advertisements for things that had nothing to do with photography. Now I know it’s all in the individual post titles.
I have placed google adsense on my site http://www.carefreebaby.com, i was wondering if anyone out there can help me out increase my adsense earning?
THanks in advance .
With Adsense I got about 200 $ in last year… now i can eat spaghetti and pizza one times a month at the restaurant. Bye!
does adsense work on xanga? i’ve been trying to get the codes in but they don’t seem to work.
The biggest thing is to have content worth reading. Without that, Adsense won’t do you much good. No advertising will.
Just wanted to add that I’ve learned quite a few things from the articles here over the past few months, Darren. Thanks very much.
Thanks for putting this together. I’m a newbie but looking to create a great education site. Stop by some time.
It’s not every day a newbie has the chance to meet some guy who’s already earning 6 figures of income by GG Adsense program.
I have tried some time, with little success. What am I supposed to do? Or what am I doing wrong? Should I concentrate on one site or disperse my time among multiple blogs??
i think, the most important point is “location” of the ads. There are thousands of blogs get thousands of hits everyday and earn nothing.
Quentin Tarantula, Moderator at eyje
http://www.eyje.com
Can adsense accept website contents of other language such as Malay or Chinese?Please help me on this .
l also just read from the adsense official blog of google about this article and l saw they gawe u a backlink of your article and its should be very friendly for you:)
l am also adsense publisher and like all adsense publishers myself also liked the news changes of best pay per click broadcaster of google adsense’s new advertisement blocks.
They are working hard to understand what the advertisers want and how to make them happy with the publishers clicks, from my point of wiew, adsense advertising unit workers also realised that the old wiew of google adsense was becoming unfriendly to the publishers and they become a very apart side of the website they are published. Google is changing this, they are tring to design new templates for their advertisers to let visitors of the adsense publishers pages more good looking and friendly to let them “click” on the advertisement.
l think adsense advertisers also want this new format. They were also realising they advertisers become very unfamilier with the site. They were also looking for the best position to their ads for maximum response. l think google will giwe more friendly looks to their advertisers to let the visitors “click” on the advertisements…
Advertisers happy, Publishers happy. Google happy.
reply to Eddie :
Adsense can accept malay or chinese language (and others) , google adsense will display relavant ads for the language, location and/or content for the website.
I am new in the blogging field and I just added some adsense to see what is going to happen see my blog seedubai.blogspot.com
Have a great day.
Justin
hi.. i m just wondering how does this adsense thing work?
u place the advert on ur blog and how is the income calculated and banked in to the blogger?
cos i m a blogger who doesn’t know any computer stuff.. and just wondering how does this work.
thanks for your share this tips
I recent ran a poll to determine which revenue program is the best and earning the webmaster the most money. Of these choices: Adbrite, Amazon aStore, AzoogleAds, BidVertiser, Chitika, Clicksor, Commission Junction, Feedburner, Feedvertising, Google Adsense, InteliTXT – Vibrant Media, LinkShare.com, Pheedo, Yahoo Publisher Network. Pheedo, Amazon aStore, and Google Adsense were the top 3 choosen. Pheedo is for RSS Feeds. Does anyone have any experience with Pheedo or Amazon aStore compared to Google Adsense?
The Adsense poll is located at: http://polls.hopto.org/polls.aspx?poll=44&partner=0&Desc=Make_Money_On_The_Internet