Wednesday, January 16, 2013

How much do you get paid for Google's AdSense?

Q. I was making a website and found out Google pays you to put ads in your website, but about how much in Australian dollars do you get paid?

A. No one can say how much money you'll earn

In terms of earning money on Adsense, your mileage varies. One website with the 10,000 uniques a day can earn $50 a month while another may earn $5,000. It is not easy to predict how much you will earn from Adsense. The only way you can learn about how your site will perform with Adsense is through trying it.

The amount you can earn will depend on the

1. Responsiveness of audience to the ads = A travel website that provides information on travel to Spain will attract visitors looking for ways to arrange their travel and spend money on their vacation to Spain. Your site provides the info, but the ads will provide hotels, travel agencies, tourist destinations, car rentals -- ads that are likely to get the attention of the users of your site. This is a site that will most likely do well with Adsense. However, if you are a gaming website where the main purpose of the user is to play games on your site, then Adsense will not perform as well.

2. Ad format = some types of ads do better than others depending on your content and layout. In our case, large rectangles in the middle of the content is the best, while leaderboards do not generate as much as income. Skys are the worst for us. Experiment and measure the results via channels and see which formats work best for you.

3. Ad placement - check Google's heat map as they have tested where the best placements are https://www.google.com/support/ adsense/bin/answer.py?answer=17954&ctx=en:search&query=adsense+heat+map&topic=0&type=f

4. Ad colors - sometimes ads blended into the content works wonders, but sometimes ads that contrast your site colors work best

5. Number of ad units on a page = we are allowed maximum of 3 ads + 1 ad links + 1 search box on a page. Maximize the allowed number based on the resulting look of your page (you don't want an overkill of ads). Users going to your page and reading your content may ignore the banner or rectangle at the top of the page, but may click on the ad at the bottom of the article

6. Smartpricing - the big unknown in Adsense. No one knows how this actually works. But it can affect the pricing of the ads on your site. If the advertiser paid for $0.50/click - but your site is smartpriced - then the cost may be discounted lower (e.g. $0.25). So you may try to develop a site based on high paying keywords but if smartpricing gets to you, then you may not get as much per click as what you are expecting from your keywords.

Here is Google's explanation of smart pricing https://adwords.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=9562&query=smart+pricing&topic=0&type=f

Google's smart pricing feature automatically adjusts the cost of a keyword-targeted content click based on its effectiveness compared to a search click. So if our data shows that a click from a content page is less likely to turn into actionable business results -- such as online sales, registrations, phone calls, or newsletter signups -- we reduce the price you pay for that click.

Experiment with the factors above (except smartpricing, which you can't control), and see which combination works best. Remember though that not all sites do well with Adsense - even if you get gazillions of traffic but your visitors are not interested in looking for ways to spend their money, they won't be interested in your ads and won't click.

How to bring more traffic to my Google Adsense page and bring more clicks?
Q. http://hubpages.com/hub/How-to-be-positive-always

I am new to this and want to know how to bring more clicks and more traffic. Should I start more sites and is there a limit to how many sites you can have?

A. This post can help-

http://feedshub.blogspot.com/2008/04/seo-tools-submit-blogger-sitemap-to.html

Also use Yahoo answer like you are doing now. Use linkedin Q&A. Also try to leave your footmark(useful comments) if you visit any blog/wesite.
Also you can use YouTube to drive traffic to your blog, try upload some cool videos and create your own channel.

Submit your articles to websites, use syndication website like swik to tag your blog post.
Add social bookmark links in your blog.

At last put a good content, so that people can read your post and with social bookmark links, they can spread your post to all over world.

Can you use Google Adsense on your Wordpress page?
Q. I'm looking at signing up to it so I can earn a dollar or two on my blog. But in the sign up page it says that I must own my page. Can I use my wordpress account as my primary URL?

A. If it's a free blog hosted at Wordpress.com, then no, you can't.

If it's a blog hosted elsewhere using the free software from Wordpress,org, then yes you can.

How do I put my Google Adsense code onto my Wordpress page? ?
Q. Where abouts can I put it? I can't find how to edit the index pages or about.. How can I find these so I can add the code?

A. download plugins wp addsense manager
active it

What makes a sucessful website with adsense?
Q. what makes you bring in the dough. New users, returning users, anyone with any knowledge please feel free to answer. your help is greatly appreciated

A. Your earnings depend on several factors:

1. Keywords shown on your site = some keywords are simply more expensive than others. Note, though, that advertisers can bid separately on the search and content network and they most often bid lower on content network. A keyword that goes for $5 per click on Google search may be paying only $1 on your site.

2. Level of advertiser bidding on your site - e.g. keywords "diamond" is worth more than "squirrel games" because more advertisers are willing to spend money on those interested in diamonds. Some topics are simply better than others.

3. Responsiveness of your audience to ads. Some sites are THE destinations by itself -- e.g. a news site, a gaming site, a forum. If your site does not attract visitors who are looking for something else (especially ways to spend money), then you won't do good with Adsense. That's why review sites are doing well with Adsense because people who go there are looking for SOMETHING ELSE.

3. Your traffic levels - the more traffic you have (and all things above are working for you), the better. In our case, we noticed that the source of traffic is also critical (traffic from Google is better than traffic from Yahoo as we have seen when we lost Google traffic due to update Jagger).

4. Your CTR rate - the higher the better and this depends on the your ad placement, your ad colors, and responsiveness of audience

5. Smartpricing - the big unknown in Adsense

One website with the 10,000 uniques a day can earn $50 while another may earn $500. Your mileage varies.

I suggest you read the following articles to help get more ideas of how to earn more from Adsense.

Google Adsense: How Small Business Entrepreneurs can Earn from Online Advertising http://www.powerhomebiz.com/vol123/adsense.htm
Earning Revenues from Contextual Advertising http://www.powerhomebiz.com/vol139/contextual.htm
8 Tips for Maximizing Contextual Advertising Revenues http://www.powerhomebiz.com/vol146/contextual.htm
Contextual Advertising: Why Are You Earning Only Pennies? http://www.powerhomebiz.com/022006/adsense.htm




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