Google Adsense?

Question

Anyone already doing it? If it's for real how or what kind of website do you recommend starting up?

Answer 1

Adsense is REAL and one of the best programs around. I've been with the program ever since it was opened to the public in June 2003 and it's been a real blessing.

In terms of earning money on Adsense, your mileage varies. And you are RIGHT -- the type and topic of website can determine how well you earn from the program, not just traffic (unlike what the 2nd poster said). One website with 10,000 uniques a day can earn $50 a month while another site with the same exact traffic may earn $5,000 -- because of the differences in topic.

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.

Answer 2

Google adsense is one of the real online income source in the internet today. I've been using it for almost 5 years now and earned some decent cash.

My Advice to you is before you start a website or blog. Do some research on areas of your interests. Read some articles and watch some videos about how to find the right niche.

Answer 3

Adsense is google ads which u show in ur website and gogle pays you it anyone clicks it.

Yes i have done it & many of my friends are running it successfully. U only need to have a website. Based on ur website subject google is going to show u ads. Have a subject which is quite search able in SE's.

In your Google adsense account u will see the revenue generated by the adsense.

Answer 4

Click my picture and go to my profile and look at my website. It's 15 Mb so small and uses the space provided by my ISP. It has adsense on and is useful. It tells me what pages are popular and which aren't and when you get to $100 you can actually claim the cash. If you don't have any space. Try http://pages.Google.com and set up a Google pages web site. You can put adsense on - and no special software is required to do it. It is slow to build your site though.

Answer 5

I think google adsense is fake coz after reaching ur earning amount to such level 100$ they will disable ur account and will simply write that u are making clicks over thae ads by urself. so I dont recommend google adsene. U can try yahoo publisher instead google adsense.

Answer 6

Doesn't really matter what kind of website you have as long as you get lots of traffic.
You are relying on some of your visitors clicking on the Google ads and obviously the more visitors the more chance there is of that happening.
The ads will be targeted towards your keywords and site content, so make it interesting.
Regards, Zyfert
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