Google Adsense Tips For Maximum Earnings And How To Avoid Smart Pricing

A lmost everyone has              Google place ads on their web      probably heard of AdSense       pages. AdSense ads can be either   by now, if not then I am        text or images, the ads can be     pretty sure you have seen AdSense     altered to blend into the          and may have not even known what      webpages, so they don't make your  it was. To explain AdSense, I         site look junky or poorly          must first tell you a little          designed. AdSense ads are highly   about ' AdWords ', Adwords is a       relevant to the content of most    Pay-Per-Click (PPC) advertising       webpages, for instance if you      system that is available through      place AdSense ads on a webpage     Google the search engine. You         that sells Coins, you will get     create a small text ad, which is      ads about selling coins or other   placed on Google's search result      coin related subjects. Every time  pages, the ads match your             a website visitor clicks on one    websites subject or content. You      of the AdSense ads on your         bid or set a fee that you are         webpage, you earn money, and       willing to pay Google every time      every month after your first       someone clicks on your ad, this       balance reaches one hundred        is a great way to get highly          dollars, Google will send you a    targeted traffic that can turn        check or you can have the money    into sales, subscribers, or           deposited into your checking       whatever you are trying to            account. The AdSense program is a  achieve with your website             great way to earn extra money if   traffic.                              you have a website, it's easy to                                         make a few dollars every day, and  Now that I have explained             some folks are making thousands    Adwords, I can now tell you about     of dollars per month doing it.     AdSense. AdSense makes it                                                possible for website owners to        When I first started Adsense, I    earn money by simply letting          placed the ads on my webpages and  it wasn't very long until I had       why was my AdSense earnings so     made a small amount of money, a       low ? The first thing that I       few days later my account balance     discovered that was wrong was '    had grown even more. I was pretty     adsense ad placement ', that's     happy, but I thought to myself,       right, you have to study each      after reading a lot of articles,      webpage's layout that you plan on  I am not making nearly as much        placing the ads on. Wherever your  money as others are making with       webpage has sections or areas      AdSense, something must be wrong.     that grab and hold the visitors    Then I thought, maybe my website      attention, this is a prime area    doesn't get the traffic that the      to place a section of AdSense      others are getting ? I chatted        ads, in other words, place the     with a lot of people on the           ads on your webpages where folks   internet that were in the             will notice them. We are           program, and I discovered that        currently allowed to place up to   the amount of visitors I get, was     3 different AdSense ad sections    higher than some of the traffic       or groups on each webpage. I       they receive. You may think that      found after some testing that the  200 - 400 unique visitors a day       best places for my ads are, just   is low for website traffic, you       under the title or sub-title,      are very wrong, the average           near the middle of the page, and   website gets a lot less per day,      near the end or bottom of my       especially if your website is         page. If you place one section of  only a few months old or is not       AdSense ads near the top of your   optimized for the search engines,     webpage, folks entering your site  or it's subject matter has a very     will probably notice the ads, and  low search demand.                    if they scroll down a ways and                                           theres more ads, that increases    If my website was getting a nice      the odds that they will notice     amount of traffic or visitors,        them also. Probably the best       place to place one section of ads     another and so on. After having    is at the bottom of your              been in the AdSense program for    webpages, right after your last       about 8 months, and chatting with  bit of text or interesting            more folks who were also in the    reading, but make sure you place      program I found that my earnings   the ads before any other links,       were still low compared to some    because when visitors are ready       other people.                      to leave your site, they may                                             leave by clicking on one of your      I then discovered another method   ads, earning you money, and if        that increased my earnings even    you have other links showing          more. I noticed that my ads stood  before your ads, they may leave       out from the rest of my webpages   your site by clicking on one of       text and content. I had always     them. So after I studied the          thought, I should make my ads a    layout of all my webpages, I went     different color than my webpages   back through and repositioned the     background so folks would notice   AdSense ads, almost immediately I     my ads, and click on them, I was   noticed my earnings increased.        totally wrong. Almost everyone                                           that has been on the internet for  I left my webpages alone, and         any length of time, has become so  about three months later I            accustomed to seeing banners and   received my first check in the        other flashy ads that almost       mail, it wasn't a lot of money        everyone now has what is called    but still for really doing no         'ad blindness', that is, when      physical work I was very glad to      they visit a site they are         get it. My earnings slowly            automatically turned off or they   started getting better and better     ignore anything that looks like    after that first check, the next      an ad. I used the Adsense editor   month I received another check,       and I changed my ads background    then the following month I got        and border colors so they matched  the background color of my            found some little icons and        webpages, and I changed the text      images that matched the content    color of the ads so they matched      of my webpages, and near where     the text color of my webpages         the Adsense ads were shown, I      content. The ads blended in very      displayed the images by adding a   well, to me they were barely          simple html image tag. I asked     noticeable from the rest of my        google if adding the images was    webpage, but right away the           within the AdSense rules, and I    number of clicks on the ads           was advised that they were fine    increased, and the earnings went      as long as they didn't make folks  up even more.                         click on the ads, by this I mean,                                        you cannot have a flashing sign    I left my webpages alone and for      that says, ' click these ads ',    another couple months my earnings     or you shouldn't have a scantily   stayed about the same, I was          dressed girl pointing to the ads   content with the results, but my      saying ' make me happy - click     earnings were still not as good       here ' or stuff like that, just    as some of the other folks who        make some nice little images that  received roughly the same amount      pertain to your webpages content.  of traffic that I did. Then I                                            found out that they had done          The next couple months or so, my   something else to their AdSense       earnings still continued rising    ads, something that made the ads      slowly. By this time, besides my   seem to really get peoples            regular webpages I had been        attention, they were placing          working on several BLOG's          images near the ads, it seemed        pertaining to different subjects,  adding images made the ads look       so I thought I might as well       unique and it helped make the         place AdSense ads on all of my     amount of clicks on them rise. So     blogs also and make even more      I searched the internet and I         money. For a couple weeks my       earnings went up quite a bit, and     drop to as low as 3 cents a        I was very happy, then all of a       click, where before 'smart         sudden, just like someone turning     pricing', that same click might    off a switch, my AdSense earnings     of earned them a dollar or much    plummeted. I was now making in a      more, this was quite a drastic     day, what I had made when I first     drop in earnings. What is          joined the program, what the heck     horrible about 'smart pricing',    happened I thought to myself ? My     besides the earnings loss to       traffic was still slowly rising,      AdSense users, is that one site    the number of clicks was rising,      or webpage can trigger it, and     but for some strange reason, the      once triggered by that one         earnings per click, (EPC) had         webpage, it effects your entire    dropped a lot, it was horrible.       account and every webpage you                                            have will now earn substantially   Then I learned that Google had        less per click. Remember awhile    introduced a new feature or           back when I had added AdSense Ads  system into the AdSense program,      to my BLOG's, that seemed to be    called 'smart pricing', 'smart        what had triggered smart pricing   pricing' automatically adjusts        for me. The BLOG's were on         the cost of an ad click. Using        numerous subjects, but they were   Googles system of analyzing           not business or real professional  AdSense data, if it shows that a      sites, so hardly any business      click from one of your webpages       results such as sales, occurred    is less likely to turn into an        from folks clicking the ads on     online sale, or other business        these sites. After I removed the   result for the Ad publisher, the      Adsense ads from the BLOG's, it    amount you earn per click in          took about a week, then I noticed  AdSense is greatly reduced. When      that the EPC was once again        'smart pricing', was introduced,      climbing back up, yes the 'smart   some AdSense users saw their EPC      pricing', spell had been broken.                                                                            If you are thinking about trying      http://rwtroll.dealspot.hop.click  AdSense, or if you are already in     bank.net                           it, beware of the smart pricing                                          curse, or if it has already           You may publish this article in    effected your earnings, try           your ezine, newsletter or on your  removing AdSense ads from your        web site as long as it is          webpages a few pages at a time,       reprinted in its entirety and      the smart-pricing system is           without modification except for    evaluated each week, so it will       formatting needs or grammar        take a few days to see if you         corrections.                       have removed ads from the page(s)                                     that triggered it.                     About the Author: Robert W. Benjamin has been in the software business on the internet for over 5 years, and has been producing low-cost software for the past 25+ years. He first released software on the AMIGA and C64 computer systems in the late 1970's-80's. http://rwtroll.dealspot.hop.clickbank.net Read more articles by: Robert Benjamin Article Source: www.iSnare.com