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Adsense Tips - Best Adsense Format

You will often hear a variety of opinions on what the best adsense format is. It really depends on how your site is laid out and what meshes best with your content. That said, there is a general consensus that the best ad format as the 300x250 rectangle ad unit.

300x250 Ad Unit

Specifically, we're talking about the 300x250 ad when placed inside the top of your post content, either wrapped in the top left, or top right of the text. This is in one of the adsense 'hot zones', and is also the highest place to get clicks. The 300x250 displays 4 text ads, or and image advertisement.

Research has also shown that this ad format generates the highest CTR and CPM. When a reader views your blog, and starts to read the posts, this ad will be right there with the beginnings of your content, thus increasing the chance they will see the related content, and click on the ad.

When trying to make money online through blogging and adsense, strongly consider this option. To further customize it, make sure the links and text of the ad blend in with the rest of your site. Make sure similar colors are used, as bright or mismatched ad colors will turn a reader off and likely send them away from your page.

250x250 Ad Unit

The second best performing ad unit is the 250x250. This may be best for blogs with smaller post width. This also performs very well, functioning in the same manner as the 300x250.

Text vs Image Ads

When blogging for money, not only is it important to consider what ad formats work best, but also what they are displaying. For the 300x250 and 250x250 ads, most top adsense users will say that the text and image combination format performs best for them, generating the most adsense revenue. This will vary from user to user, of course. I myself have seen better results from the text only ad units. It really is a form of trial and error and seeing what works best for your site and your content.

http://top-paying-cpc-keywords.blogspot.com/2009/09/adsense-tips-best-adsense-format.html

Adsense Heat Map - Where to place Adsense Ads

This is a common question asked by so many adsense users. Where do I place my adsense ads? There have been many studies done on where people are most likely to click on ads. Google has their own 'heat map', which can be found here.

The darker orange the area, the more likely the ad is to be clicked. The white areas are the least likely.

Think about when you are reading an article or blog on the web, where is the first place you look? To the blog post, correct? Well, since we read left to right, it makes sense that the 'hottest' areas to place adsense are in the upper left quadrant of the post and sidebar areas.

The other 'hot' area to place adsense, helping improve your chances of making money online, is below the post, where people are often looking for labels and comments.

Ultimately, it is up to you were to place them, so try to optimize your adsense in whichever way you can. If one configuration doesn't work out too well, try another until you find something that is fairly consistent and successful in bringing in adsense revenue.

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Intro to Adsense, Adsense for Beginners

So you've decided to earn a little money with your blog or website, and now you want to place adsense to start generating revenue. Setting up and placing adsense on your site is fairly easy, but here is a quick walk through for those that are interested.

Sign-up

The first thing you want to do is sign up for an adsense account. You will need to provide accurate information, as this will be how Google mails your Adsense check to the right location, as well as details needed for them to be able to pay you in the first place. There are no gimmicks here, it's a secure site, and you shouldn't have to worry about sending this information online. Sign up for adsense here.

Getting Started

Okay, now that you are all signed up for adsense, it's time to choose your format. First, choose adsense for content, which will give you the option of placing link units or ad units.

Ad Units - Ad units generate income by placing text and image ads on your site that are relevant to the content of your blog. When a reader of your blog clicks on one of these Google ads, you make money!

Link Units - Link Units are a set of topics that are relevant to the content of your blog. When a person clicks on one of these links, it takes them to a google search page, with other advertisements on it. When a person clicks on one of these advertisements through your link unit, you make money!

1. Let's choose an ad unit to start with. You have the option of either choosing text, image, or rotating text and image, which means it will display text sometimes, and images other.

For this example we'll go with text only.

2. Now, find a place on your blog that you want the text to go into. For instance, if you wanted to place adsense on your sidebar, you will probably want a vertical tower. Two good options are the 120x600 tower and the 160x600 tower.

3. Taking the 160x600 tower, I now have to choose the color format. Google defaults its adsense ads to the blue text. You can change this to match your site. This is recommended, as ads are much more likely to be clicked if they blend in with the content of your blog or website.

4. After choosing the colors, I have the option to change the font and corner styles. For this, I am leaving them as the adsense default.

5. The last part of this set up section involves what to do if there are no relevant ads to a particular page on your blog. This occasionally happens, so Google needs to know what to place in your ad slot. YOU can choose to display public service ads, which generate no income when clicked on, or you can have another ad program's advertisment placed there. You can also have it set to simply display a solid color.

That's it! Your adsense ad is designed. But you are not quite through yet. You still have to set up a channel for your ad.

Channels

Channels are extremely valuable tools for Adsense. By customizing a channel for a particular ad, you have the ability to see how well it performs. An adsense report will tell you how many times it has been viewed, how many times it has been clicked, how much money it has made. It also tells you the CTR and CPM. These numbers are very important to how much money you make, and we'll go over these in another post.

To create a channel for your new adsense ad, select new channel. Name it whatever will help you recognize it in your reports. For my text ad, I would label it Blogsite 160x600 text sidebar.

Proceed to the next page, where you are now labeling the ad itself. I like to individualize my channels and my ad, so I named the ad the same thing I named my channel.

Click Submit and Get Code! Your ad is created. Now we have to place it.

Place into your blog with HTML Code

The resulting adsense html code needs to be copied in its entirety and placed on your blog. Find the edit html area of you blog, and copy and paste the code where you want your adsense displayed. That's it! Within 10 minutes, your adsense ads should start displaying!

For Blogger users, you can also insert adsense code by placing them into an html widget. Just select the new gadget option in your layout, and choose html. Paste the copied adense code and save. All done!

That's it! Adsense should now be running on your blog! Now you can add mroe adsense units to help make even more money with your blog!

http://top-paying-cpc-keywords.blogspot.com/2009/09/intro-to-adsense-adsense-for-beginners.html

Adsense Tips - What is Cost Per Click (CPC)?

Wondering what cost per click (CPC) means? It is a term used to describe the amount an advertiser pays when an ad of theirs is clicked on a given website or blog. The money is paid to an ad program, such as Adsense, who then shares the revenue with the website publisher. Cost per click also is known as price per click, or PPC.

So, how exactly does it work, then? Well, let's say you make a blog or website about online shopping coupons. You decide to ad Adsense advertising to your blog. You choose to have text ads displayed in your sidebar. Adsense reads keywords on your site telling it to display online coupon ads. Anytime a visitor comes to your site, and clicks on the ad, you make money! It's that simple. Cost per click works the same way across all online ad programs that use CPC. The revenue sharing may be different, but the concept is the same.

Now, not all ads are the same, and not all will generate the same CPC revenue. A website about lawyers, which may have a $20 to $30 CPC, may generate more money than a website about how to groom cats, which displays CPC ads at less than $1 per click. So choosing the right topics and keywords are essential.

Most ad programs that use CPC advertising are free to use. Adsense is the leading CPC program, so you will see many websites using this program. After all, it helps Google reach out to audiences and readers they otherwise may not be able to. That's better for them, and better for their advertisers.

To sum up, cost per click is ultimately a very simple concept. Put ads on your site. Readers clickthe ads. You make money! Good luck!

What is the Google Adsense Program?

Adsense is Google's web advertising program. It consists of text, image, and even video ads that can be placed on just about any website, including blogs. Many bloggers today, including myself, have found adsense very useful, and that it can be an extremely powerful income generating tool.

Focusing on blogging, adsense works in this manner:

The blogger creates a blog about a specific content, be it how to make money online, celebrity news, family and parenting, etc.
When the blog is set-up, the author can immediately start placing adsense on their site.
When readers visit the site, they see ads relevant to the content of the blog, and click on the ads.
By clicking on the ads, the blogger is paid for each click. These clicks can range from $.05 to as high as $20 or more!

The process is very simple. Even while you are not on your blog, people are visiting your website. The adsense is always there, always showing the most relevant ads relating to your blog content.

When you see advertisements on "Make money in you sleep!" or "4 hour work weeks from home!", they are referring to placing advertisements on your site that continuously work while you are away. Adsense is the leading advertiser in this manner, and with Google's vast web of networking and clients (we're talking billions of dollars here), why not take advantage of it?

Why use Adsense?

Why not? When working on a blog or website, wouldn't it be nice to generate a little side income while doing something you enjoy? The extra money can be used to cover web hosting costs, or domain name registrations, whatever tickles your fancy.

Personally, I use my adsense revenue to help put away money for my daughter's wedding and education. It has also helped me cover web hosting costs on other sites and blogs I have.

What's the cost to use Adsense?

Nothing! Signing up for adsense and the ability to place them on your blog is absolutely free! Google wants to expand their advertising as much as possible, and bloggers are a great affiliate for that. You promote Google's ads by placing adsense on your blog, and Google will pay you each time someone clicks on an ad! It really is that easy! You can sign up for Adsense here.

When do I get my money?

Here is the only catch, Google will not mail you a check until you have reached a total of $100 or more. For some, it can several months to reach that total as they continue to build traffic to their blogs. It seems like a long time, and yes it can be, but once you have established a good reader base and consistent blog traffic, the revenue only keeps going up from there!

Adsense Equals Blog Income

The bottom line is Adsense will make your blog money. I won't lie, it does take some effort to make a good blog that people will want to read, so don't be frustrated if you don't see immediate results. The people making money with adsense have established good blogs, with many readers over a certain period of time. But the potential is there, and it has the ability to make great amounts of additional income, all while doing something you love!

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