In this post, I have discussed why Google Adsense is the best way to make money online. This is based on my usage of different PPC over several of my blogs.

Any blogger or webmaster wishing to monetize and want to earn from their website / blog know Adsense basics. However there are few who never thought to monetizing their blog or newbie in blogging should explore further to understand the immense potential with Google Adsense.

There are many if and buts with many website owner and many criticize of not earning enough with Adsense in spite of reasonable traffic. However I admit Adsense as the best and easy way to make money if it is done properly. You should know how to put Adsense and where to place? How is not difficult to understand because you get small code readily available from your control panel which need to placed wherever you want advertisement to appear. Since you get all relevant ad based on your theme and page content, you are least bothered about the type of advertisement which should appear and you can be more focused on content development.

Why I admit Google Adsense as the best way to make money online is not because there are many webmasters are are earning huge 6 figure income from this alone, On the contrary there are many webmasters who are finding it hard to make living on Adsense. And there are many who are not able to make even hundred because they lack in traffic and content. So that’s a different issue. I am talking about websites which are having traffic and not able to take advantage of Adsense program.

If you are not able to extract the real money from this, you should carefully look into following:

• Theme used by your domain
• Keywords of your domain
• Keyword for specific page
• Adsense positioning
• Format used
• Color used

Broadly the first 3 points determine the kind of advertisement which are likely to appear. If your page is talking about Car Insurance but your keyword is not Car and Insurance, the served advertisement might be irrelevant and will result in no click. So you need to take it very seriously.

The Last 3 points are something which you need to keep experimenting with. In general top left position where links are placed are considered to be most prominent place for ad positioning, it might be different in your case. Similarly large Adsense block (336 X 250 or 300 X 250) works good in general but your website layout might not suit this big block. Also as seen most of the times, banner advertisement are often ignored by the visitor so try to use Text Ad in prominant place as far as possible.

Most of time people use the maximum limit of 3 block ad and 3 link unit ad (even I do) but if you want only high paid advertisement to appear, you should strict yourself from using 1-2 blocks maximum. The lesser number of ad appears in your blog/website, the highest bid advt will appear.

In general, it is said that advertisement color should be blended with the text color and that achieves highest CTR but sometime even contrast color ad works. So keep testing before making it final.

So you need to think of all parameters well if you really want to real the benefit of contextual advertisement of Google Adsense and I am firm to admit that Google Adsense is the best way to make money online from your blog or website. So be ready to put time and effort to experiment the all possible combination in terms of positioning, format and color to taste the real worth of it.

Use with sense – Google Adsense

We all know Google Adsense has provided a platform to make money with ease. It has helped millions of webmasters / website owners to monetize their website. There were many content rich website before google adsense came out and it provided an easy way for these website owners to integrate their website with google adsense and make money with minimal effort. However with its immense success, many people started website to make money with Adsense. There are thousands of individuals who are living with Adsense. In todays world, I personally believe that 90% of the websites using google adsense are made to make money using it, while less than 10% are websites, where they are using Google adsense to make money from their websites.

Let it be whatever, the point is to achieve what you aspire for. I have seen many individual trying to utilize this opportunies and making a website or blog and put Google adsense code in their webpage. They even do web page optimization to get search engine traffic but still they fail to earn good income due to low CTR (click through ratio). So One of the key to make money from Google Adsense increasing your CTR.

There could be various ways to increase your CTR and I would like to underline few ways, which will help you to increase your CTR significantly.

(1) Most of the time, you will find Google adsense in your webpage different from your content page. However to get high CTR, you have to make sure that adsense appearing in your website should be very similar to your webpage theme. If Google adsense does not serve the relevent ad, there are less possibility that user will click on that. To improve on this, I will advise following tips.
(1.a) First thing first, you should never compromise on content. You should try your best to get loads of content and there are several ways to make your website content rich as explained in my other post.
(1.b) As explained in my other post, keyword should be the main focus of every webpage. The site theme and specific webpage theme may be different. For example the site may focus on health and a particular web page theme could be pregnancy. So you should also concentrate on keyword rich content pages to get right adsense served.
(1.c) Continuing to previous point when you are dedicating a page for pregnancy, you should make sure that this keyword is concentrated in your webpage. You may also give a try by making your keyword highlighted. But not all over the pages. Making it bold or highlighted 2-3 times in a page should serve the purpose.
(1.d) You also need to make sure that the title of this webpage also consist this keyword. It will be good, if you could also use this keyword in your content title.
(1.e) If Google adsense does not serve the right ad even after doing the above step, there could be possibility that google does not have ad related to that specific keyword. If this is the case, just change your keyword and you will hit the spot.

(2) You should try to blend your google adsense ad based on your website theme. In google words “If you want the biggest revenue impact for the smallest effort, we recommend optimizing your color palettes. Choosing the right palettes can mean the difference between ads your users will notice — and click — and ads they’ll skip right over.

We’ve outlined a few strategies below that are designed to decrease ad blindness, the tendency for users to ignore anything that’s separate from the main content of your site. By making these changes, you’ll be making your ads more visible to users. The goal isn’t to confuse users into thinking ads are content, but to get users to see and read the ads so they can click on those that interest them.

The color strategy you should use on your site varies depending on the ad placement and the color of the background where the ads are placed. Review the table below for a quick reference about which strategies we suggest will work well on your site.”

You can see the complete advise in the following link:
https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=17957

(3) Always try to use wider format ad because it always works well and google too consider it best performing ads. In Google words “As a rule of thumb, wider ad formats tend to outperform their taller counterparts, due to their reader-friendly format. Readers absorb information in thought units (that is, several words at a time). The wider format lets them comfortably read more text at a glance without having to skip a line and return to the left margin every few words as they would be forced to do with a narrower ad. The wider ad format also lessens the likelihood of readers leaving the ad unit altogether.”

You can see the complete advise in the following link:
https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=17955

(4) You should not place all your ad unit in one place. Instead you should place it in different places based on your webpage design. You could place the ad either on Top of the page or/and middle of the page or/and at the end of the article each having its own advantage. Google has advised the same in following link:
https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=17954

(5) You should never miss putting link units. It is very effective and result in a very high CTR if placed properly. You should put this unit where you have navigation menu. This will result in these units looking more like a link of your website to get more information on that topic and user get served with tens of ad under each link. As per Google “Link units are particularly effective for more focused content, where visitors tend to be seeking specific information. Their varied formats are space-efficient, too, so we recommend incorporating link units into new and unusual locations throughout your site. Remember that three link units per page can be placed in addition to the existing three standard AdSense ad units on that page.” You will find details on the same in following link:
https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=18300

I hope these small steps will help you to attain higher CTR. There are many more which are on the way and will be posting very soon. Wish you all the sense to use Google Adsense.