What I did was so simple, I’m almost ashamed to dedicate a post to this. 
I hope you forgive the simplicity of what I’m about to reveal, but sometimes the simplest changes make the greatest impact.
In early November I added a 728×90 unit to the header of my Site Build It! site, Flat Stomach Exercises. That unit began earning around $40 per day for the first few days and then leveled off to $30-ish per day.
I’ve also had decent success with the same unit on my forum, WebsiteBabble.com. The banner doesn’t convert nearly as well there, but it still does OK and is worth the placement.
Note: I attribute the lower performance to the fact that WebsiteBabble.com is targeted to Webmasters and Bloggers who often have ad blindness. So it’s no surprise that unit doesn’t perform quite as well there.
I had been reading about how well the 728 unit performs on many sites and thought of adding a unit to 2 Create a Website, but was afraid it would distract from my overall sales goals. However, I am less concerned about that on Flat Stomach Exercises (FSE).
FSE is primarily an Adsense site for me. As many of you know, I created that site to do a test run with Site Build It! so I could use it as a case study/example on 2CreateAWebSite.com.
To be honest, I’m not as passionate about fitness to work on the site frequently (not to mention I don’t have the time), so I just let it sit and earn passive income. I never dreamed that test/case study site would perform so well with limited content updates.
So I’m OK with being a little heavy on AdSense ads with that site. Not sure I would use that same strategy on 2 Create a Website because I have other goals, and I have to be careful AdSense doesn’t become a major competitor for the main products I promote.
Understand When AdSense Makes Sense for You
It’s tempting to read this post, dart over to your AdSense account and create a 728 unit for your site. That’s fine if the primary goal is to earn money with AdSense, but that may not be your best move.
AdSense may be the primary monetization option for some sites, yet more of a supplement for others. You have to decide which one it is for you. Adding more units to your pages may actually distract and compete with other products you are promoting.
For example, say you are earning $500/month in commissions by referring a product on a specific page. After adding the 728×90 unit, your AdSense earnings increase by $100/month, but commissions for the main product you promote drops to only $200 per month.
In this example, the AdSense banner probably hurt your net earnings. I say “probably” because it may be hard to prove that was the exact cause, but if you see drastic results after making a change like that, AdSense may be the culprit. That’s why you should test everything.
This is the very reason some people choose to only put AdSense ads on pages that have high bounce rates and pages that don’t promote their “important” products.
So you should always look at the big picture for your site. If your AdSense earnings are increasing rapidly, are sales for something else declining? These are statistics you should pay attention to, and it’s the reason some people don’t use AdSense on certain pages if at all.
Always know your individual site goals and make sure your monetization decisions support them. Believe it or not, a boost in your AdSense earnings may not always be a good thing for your bottom line.
Hi, my name is 
I came across your sites about a month ago and I remember checking FSE out and I thinking wow, it’s probably the best example I’ve come across where Adsense is blended well with the website.
It can’t be the location because that’s common so perhaps it’s the colour and the thick border that goes around it. You don’t (well, at least I don’t) come across Adsense displayed like that so I’m not as ad blind to it.
I had noticed a similar thing on that site. I appreciate being able to look at specific ad placement/style and comparing that with actual numbers. Thank you for including that info.
I’ve started testing adsense really carefully only recently –even though I’ve been using it for years and years. It’s been very interesting to see how much difference this makes, even on some sites that currently don’t generate a ton of traffic.
Very good post Lisa and nice to see your Flat Stomach site doing really well even without putting a lot of efforts. I would love to know hows your affiliate income compare to your Adsense income on that site.
Are you promoting affiliate products in auto responders as well? how is that strategy working for you?
AdSense outperforms affiliate income by a long shot on that site. I do pretty well with a few Clickbank fitness products but AdSense is the top earner by far. I do promote a few things in my tummy tips autoresponder mailings as well.
AdSense and Afflicates seem pretty equal money earners for me. For very specific sites, afflicates can be the way to go, simply because aswell as being specific, theirs no banner-blindness equivalent to text-size matching your own custom adverts, whereas with google ads you might get a white-background flashing advert on a black, grey, dark website – where its blindingly obvious. I too am a lover of clickbank, and I prefer it over most senarios rather then adsense, I just get a much higher performance from creating custom adverts. Google ads, even text-based ones, become very obvious ones you’ve been on the net for a while :/ Just my 2 cents, maybe you could experiment with this on more specific websites.
This is an excellent advice and one that should be paid very careful attention to. AdSense is still a great monetization method but as you said, it can easily distarct and compete with other products you promote due to obvious reasons. The reason why many people use it a lot is because it is easy to setup and it just stays there with very little “maintenance” work if hardly any. setting up units that only appear on “high bounce rate” pages is very recommendable indeed. Great.
728×90 is a powerful ad block but I have better results with 336×280 right after the blog post title.
I will really consider that box on this new niche site will working on this week, I’m not really looking to may money with products so this will fill in just perfect.
“Black Seo Guy “Signing Off”
In my experience I have learned not to put adsense when I’m promoting affiliate products on my website. I did that once and my earnings went down hill.
Hi Lisa,
I had basically given up on Adsense until I read a post you wrote a few months ago. After that I decided to add link ads after my posts on one of my blogs and one block in the sidebar – it’s been gradually increasing. I’m not sure this banner would be right for weblogbetter, but this is definitely something to consider for future sites that I’m thinking of creating.
Thanks again for your wonderful ideas.
Me too….I almost thought Adsense was completely useless till I received a well balanced short overview from you Lisa. It must take some real experience to be able to come up with these ideas for others and to also put them in an easy to understand fashion. Thank you again!
Thanks for the great article, Lisa. Yes, it is important to set the monetization goals for your site, like you say. And I have been systematically adding adsense ads but I also am reviewing what my other products should be and making sure to have individual monetization goals for each page, or group of pages. I am not testing enough, though. Testing and analysis takes discipline, so that will be my business goal for 2011!
You make an excellent point about knowing what type of income you want to bring in, AdSense ads will send a user away from your site and if you are trying to sell affiliate products or even products/services you offer then this will drive traffic and conversions away.
I myself prefer the passive income of AdSense though don’t make 1/10th as much as you do per month.
I have been asked why my humor blog doesn’t have AdSense ads. Two reasons: First, most of my readers are other bloggers, and I agree with your comment about “ad blindness”. Second, I don’t want to write about how much I love bugs and then have a Terminix or Orkin ad come up. Yes, it would be funny, but it wouldn’t make any money. Just look amateurish.
My other site is more specific and will have ads for the traffic I target.
That’s so funny you should mention bugs and having these pest control ads show up. On my Pixar movies site, that’s exactly what happened with “A Bug’s Life” pages showed. I didn’t know what to do…. but now Google seems to be reading those pages better now, understanding the theme of my site. But it drove me crazy for almost a year!
Hi Lisa,
Very Interesting. However, i’m still in doubt about the right adsense strategy to use for my website. The thing is, I really like when visitors only see relevant content rather than ads; plus as you rightly say, webmasters and similar visitors are blind to these types of ads so they are not quite as effective. So I’m coming to the conclusion that this may not work for my site.
If you have any suggestions, I would really appreciate it.
Keep up the good work Lisa.
Hi Robyn
And it may be that AdSense is not right for your site. One way to test is to try displaying ads for a month or so. (Also, you can turn off “interest based ads” so the ads only match your content) In that month, see if it anything else declines. If you start to see sales for other products going down or your page bounce rates increases too much you may conclude AdSense is distracting.
Check your Analytics stats and look for those pages that have high bounce rates. Try only putting ads on those pages instead of your high-converting and popular pages.
Great insight. All I need now is traffic ugh!
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I definitely agree with WorGeneral!!! I think your AdSense banner blends so nicely with your content on that site… Even for someone who is very aware of an advertisement, I still want to click on it because it doesn’t appear like a typical AdSense ad or out of place!! Great job – you continue to inspire!!
Hello Lisa,
It’s now i noticed the banner on your FSE site. I also face the same problem as you with my websitetrafficbiz website; it is mostly targeted towards webmasters.
I have mainly used the 160×600 sky scrapers with success, but I am planning on changing a couple of sites to use the 728 units.
Am hoping for an increase, don’t think it will be as good as Lisa’s.
I have bad experience with that ad format. It is outperformed by other ad units.
I was kicked out of Adsense. They kicked me out in 2004 for a violation (my mate clicked on some ads thinking he was doing me a favour) and earlier this year they let me back in (same account) then a couple of months ago they went back on their word and kicked me out.
I wonder if your little tip will work with Adbrite?
i don’t let any of my friends and family know about my sites…have always thought something like that could happen. they’d start clicking ads to make me money and get me kicked out of adsense or another program. sorry to hear about that.
Hi Lisa, great post again.
I’m tending to stay away from AdSense now as I do believe it hurts other Affiliate promotions and also the fact that I’m a little afraid of AdSense now with all the trouble a lot of people have had. I’ll let it all calm down with the google situation before I start playing about with AdSense.
As simple as you say the tip sounds, it is more than other remember to do. Especially that I believe many people neglect testing and once they think they are making a nice amount of money they say “this is it”. But you thought me that there is always room for improvement.
I can’t add much to this but I just want to say that I love the new look and feel of your ab site. I think it looks better than it did before.
Thanks Brankica!
Hey Lisa, Awesome Tip.
It’s always a good idea to continue to keep testing new things. You never know what’s going to be a home run for you until you try.
Thanks for the good content.
great tips. for me it has always been about testing, as well as only displaying ads on pages where i do not promote affiliates or my own digital products. trading dollars for pennies simply isn’t wise
Thanks for the tip Lisa, I might try it on one of my websites.
A question:
I just checked out your two sites you mentioned and at the moment both ad units are banner ads.
Did you set them up to display banner ads only or text-and-banner ads too?
Right now I’m only using images. I may experiment with text later.
Thanks for sharing. I actually working that out with one of my blogs and was actually having a hard time driving clicks to it. I know it’s not easy as that even if I would put the 728×90 ad unit on my site. Well, I just realize that I should work on more the traffic before focusing myself on how to get clicks. Thanks.
thank u lisa..it helps me a lot..
My blog is just a little over a year old, and adsense is just starting to make a very little bit for me. I haven’t put up a google custom search textbox yet, but after seeing your video on youtube, I will definitely research that option!
Thanks for creating such great quality in your videos and blog posts on adsense info!!!
I absolutely agree. I’m strictly keeping my Adsense ads to Text Links only because of this. I will be promoting many products on my Reviews page so I won’t be placing ANY on that page what-so-ever.
Thanks for keepin’ it real Lisa!
Nice post good to see your earnings growing steadily over time. Perfect indication that your strategies are working thus far.
Also your post highlights the fact that focusing on AdSense niches works.
Carry on the good work
I was stunned when I did a little bit of testing and found that most of my money on my other sites came because of the 728 ad as well. I guess it’s true sometimes that bigger is better. I can’t use it on my main blog, but I am using it on other blogs and websites now.
I was curious about your design, so I checked it out. I notice that your ad is embedded INSIDE your header. That leaves me with 3 questions:
1. Is that feasible for anyone, or do you have to be a pro developer to make that work?
2. Doesn’t it degrade the integrity-value of your site to have ads in the header? [People are often complaining about my site, that it has ads in the first place and seems to be "all about making money" -- said with a sneer]
3. How much of the success of the ad is not because of the ad format, but because it’s placed inside the header, which makes it look non-Adsense-y?
Blessings,
erin
It’s really not that hard with some CSS. I have a video on positioning things inside your header. It’s for WordPress but it can apply to static sites if you have one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeSWGFOzjJc
Some do not like AdSense ads in the header, but as I said in the post, this is just my “adsense” / test site for Site Build It! so I’m not as concerned about it. Also, people don’t seem to care as much when there is so much free value on the site. I’ve never had any complaints.
I definitely think the blend works and helps it convert.
I agree Lisa if you provide lots of free valuable content on your site visitors are most likely not going to complain about the Adsense ads. You are a shining example for providing great content and lots of it.
Keep up the good work!
I’ve tried that particular ad in the header of my blog but removed it as I felt it upset the whole look of the blog.
Still I understand the potential in loss revenue and so I added a Chango ad instead. This ad only pops up when people come to my site via a search engine and so my regular readers don’t see it. It has the added benefit of showing ads directly related to the search term they were using when they found my blog.
The only negative is that it only displays ads to people from America and Canada.
This 728 X 90 ad also helped me to increase my adsense earnings. One of my Mobiles website is purely based on adsense revenue but only my ads are not as much blended into content as yours are.
I did not know that the increase in Adsense earning would effect comissions/sales of other products. I am a newbie to this field and this post has increased my knowledge about niche sites and adsense
This post increased my income inHindi movies and in Birthday Messages
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Thanks a ton.
Nice tips. However, I’d say that your tips best suits sites which has great no. of visitors. Trial and error methods to improve adsense clicks and monetization just like you mentioned sometime makes no sense for websites which has relatively less data.
you can increase ur revenue even more , by placing the
I think you are right, Adsense does certainly hamper the sale of other products since it distracts the visitor by showing ads of some similar products. I think one should avoid putting adsense of sales pages.
thanks for sharing..really i tried leader board..it works cool…
I recently started looking at AdSense and how this could help monetize my blog and website. After
much research, I found AdSense would probably cause more of a hindrance than a help!
The reason for this is simple; my website audience just didn’t need it. This style of thinking brings us back to Lisa’s fundamentals; know your audience!
The style of my blog is not about selling a product, I aim to keep my readers on my site, not direct them elsewhere. This is not to say that AdSense will not work on your site, it just wasn’t right for mine. Do not get caught up in the buzz that AdSense will make you rich quick. It doesn’t always… but could!
Over the years I have found on my old sites that direct advertising for clients has pulled in 5X to 10X more money than Adsense but how to find these clients is not easy. Some companies are paying a small fortune for Adwords advertising but if they had paid even 1/10 of the amount to decent websites to place static ads in strategic positions they would get far more bang for the buck. These people are firm believers in adwords because Google has a done a great marketing/PR job . Well, how could you fail if you already have the most visited search page in the world?
Thanks for sharing this awesome post
amazing….y envy you
I have my ad leader board embedded below the header. I may try putting it higher up and see what happens since I don’t really sell anything specifically on the blog itself like I do on the website. I did already have some suspicions about adsense posssibly taking away from sales on my Mixtapes and Flyer Design Website pages so I moved the ads lower on those particular pages but I still have ads embedded in the template itself, so I may have to try removing those to find out how much of an impact they have on my overall sales. – DJ Emir Mixtapes
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Amazing guide! Really really good!
I have try to optimized my blog as well and getting some little change, increase. But not much
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Hey,
Thanks for the post, I am following these. It’s really has valuable information. If these are gonna work for me i will let you know
thanks
Like someone said, I also had better results with 336×280 than 728×90.
I know I should follow these tips to boost my blog earnings. I am paying forward to my readers anyway. In fact, I am planning another BIG giveaway this year. If only I could double up my earnings a bit.
It seems that everything on the net today is about money. Imagine if there were no adwords, how would we make money? I used to be in that place i.e. before adwords and only did selling directly. BTW, this is still a good business. When adwords came along, it meant that I lost customers but it also meant that the customers I did have were willing to pay 10X or 20X more than I initially asked for. I wonder if adwords never came, would I be making more money? I think the answer is yes. I believe that people here should not only be thinking about PPC but also about doing something directly with their clients. If you have been able to pull in people to your interesting web pages to buy something through PPC sponsors then surely there is a way to sell something that you yourself provide.
Actually, testing different ad placements every month or so increases your CTR, because if you keep them in the same place people will tend to skip them after a while.
What I am trying to say is that there is no real good placement (well, there is, those near the action zone, where people will first look on the website) but there is a good banner rotation placement.
Great article Lisa! I’ve found that with some of my sites the adsense does terrible, but it really does depend on what your site is about and how much the cpc pays. I have one site that gets a lot of hits, but the cost per click is very low.
That is true. It depends on the subject. I think even without adsense the site worth itself depends on the subject unless you have some incredibly sought after domain name.
I’m new to most of this stuff. I just realized a few weeks ago that you could make money like this. I’ve watched some of Brad Callen’s webinars and he goes into it. According to him he has made some serious money with it.
I’m going to try this to see if I can increase my adsense earnings…Thanks again Lisa; you’re the BEST!!!
Lisa Congrats! Your article rocks! You Always give good advices! I bet you have helped a lot people to make money online! good job!
Wow…..Nice Tip,Simply Superb
I have 250 – 300 per day visitor and 1000 – 1500 page impression on my blog http://www.bestbhojpurisongs.com but adsense revenue is 80 cent to $1.5 per day how can I Increase this amount can anybody help me?
I’ve had great success with placing the two largest adsense squares next to each other.(336 x228)
That way you’re able to get more ads displayed. The click through rate most times is over %3, sometimes 6+% (could use more traffic now), however I have removed them from some of my pages because I wasn’t meeting my goals which is selling android tablets.
728×90 ad unit works great for me. Since my blog doesn’t have high traffic so the earnings aren’t high…
Hey Lisa, great post! It is definitely key to knowing your website’s purpose – as far as ads and ad placement and also your audience. I have had the 728×90 leaderboard placed in the header of my essay website and it has been doing very well. However, not so for my web development site; the sidebar ads work better there. I also make it my duty to pay special attention to my ads performances and am constantly experimenting with the new ones I’ve created. Healthy Living Now is my newest site and I am in the experimental phase. As always, thanks for your insights!
Is there an alternative to adsense like another program of some sort. Hoping to get more or the same amount of money from each ad click.
Jberkdesign.com
Drwalisever.com
AdBrite, Kontera, and Chitika are options but I don’t think anything pays like AdSense.
Yes! Exactly! Adsense is the best. I have placed only adsense ads to my blog. Even though I prefer giving quality contents to my blog
Does adsense make websites slower. I recently was on a fast server and started to gain traffic so I put adsense on my homepage and I became a lot slower so I took it off but the server was still slow. Is this adsense or something else. I am on a bluehost shared hosting plan.
Jberkdesign.com and drwalisever.com (both on the same server).
My aim is not to earn more from my blog. At present I’m concentrating on giving quality contents to my blog visitors. I prefer adsense earnings as secondary to my blog.
Yes, I love to place adsense banner at all my blogs and earning more than clickbank products.
Hello! This is my first reading your blog and it is awesome! I am currently experimenting with internet marketing. I will definitely come back for more guidance. Cheers
good lisa,your income is increasing.mine is still below 100.for websitebabble,you can try cpm networks
thank you very much,article is very great and full of information, because i have a website and only earn like 5$ a week, but i will try this
Lisa
how do you add the adsense block to the header, if you are a
block building SBIer ?
Thanks
Dominic
ps: congratulations on not having a real job!
@Dominic I don’t believe you can if you use the Block by Block builder
I have recently started playing around with banner placement on my blog. I am still trying to build traffic and create static pages, but I have definitely found better luck with AdSense earnings since I started using the Leaderboard ad. You have a great site and I am learning a lot from you. Thanks for sharing your wealth of knowledge.
Lisa, i can’t find it in the adsense tos, but is it against it to have a youtube video next to the ads? how is that converting for you? thank you?
john
Very well! Those are my highest converting units.
lisa you are simple great…
i watched almost all of your videos on youtube its great to learn with you….
you stick to the topic very well
thumb up for you…
Lisa your blog is truly inspirational and very informative. I am going to start a blog soon on my website , i have a question for u that is what adsense plugin do u use for wordpress blog ! Please provide me a genuine solution ! Thanks !
I like your conclusion ” Believe it or not, a boost in your AdSense earnings may not always be a good thing for your bottom line” very much but I have no luck with any affiliated marketing efforts.
I strongly believe it is the niche which decides whether your website can be a success in affiliated marketing. Since you are in web development niche the chances of success in affiliated marketing is high compared my tech niche site (mainly troubleshooting guides). So for me adsense is the only way to generate income.
Wow this is amazing i have to put a 728 unit in my blog to, to see if it converts like yours. tkx for the tip!
hello
been following your blog and youtube vids
how many visitors do i need to earn 30 dollars a day from adsense?
thank you
Hi Lisa, I’m a bit confused on setting up google adwords..I’m not sure what keywords to use etc.
About the website adsense earnings ,all depends from the niche.
Best niches are medicine and tourism.
I heard of niche, what exactly is it and how do I use it?
I have tried different ads on my blog and found the 336×280 works the best
You just gotta be patience with the google adsense earnings, when you work hard and put a lot of effort in your blogs you will see your earnings go up
thanks for sharing this info. I had a blog, the adsense approved it but i dont earn that much. Anyway, it feels good when somebody leaves comment. earning is a bonus…
Hi Lisa,
Thanks for such a wonderful article. My website earns around $1 from my website through adsense, how can i improve it to $ 20 per day.
Kindly advise
Best Regards,
Ishita
I agree with all the comments from the people above and this is just a quick note to thank your for those excellent Youtube videos.
Need help with traffic and adsense.
hi lisa
can u tell me how to increase the revenue in the adsense.i am not earning the money in the adsense.i would be very thank fulif u tell me the advice.
thank u
Great Article, I quite believe you made $1000 from adsense on website. But your success don’t come over night. Making money online (adsense) is a gradual thing, though a lot of people have this notion that immediately they setup a website/blog and display adsense on it they automatically start making big money.
keep up the good work and enjoy your money with peace of mind.
Wish you the best.
hello Lisa,
I am ROshan…
I have a personal blog, just a personal blog, and that too not in English…
I would like to create adsense earning website in English.. Where will I start…Which topic i need to select ?
Hello,
I’m curious, did you contact google about their adsense terms of service w/ this one? To me it seems breaking a few of their adsense guidelines…
If it’s okay it is a mighty fine placement.
Clever placement of adsense! It is ingenious to create a website that blends naturally into the Google Adsense ad, very effective and noteworthy. I also like the look and feel of this page as it seems to be a hybrid website/blog. I’m all for the environment!
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I have a good number of visitor and the page views but I dont get clicks from my adsense…… I only make $1.25. 0.21 or non per day…………help me out anyone
Hello Lisa!
A very new visitor to your site and this post title is more than awesome.THanks for explaining the concept by taking examples which i like in the post .
Lisa one question arised in my mind why do you use dates in the URL like 2010/12/06 <<Any reason behind this so plz tell Because in terms of seo its not recommended.If so Please share.
Regards
Navneet Arora
Nice post Lisa, I’ve been reading many of your posts, even if I have a blogger blog I still think I’ll be doing good sometime because I think my blog is looking good
… Thanks for your help.
I still learning how to use adsense to make money online.
it’s always be the position and the target field.
Just browsing many articles that can help me w/ it.
your blog actually has a lot of them =)
thx so much for the info you gave out~!
Thanks Lisa. I kind of look at my blog like a big funnel. Good content and SEO practices are what brings traffic to your blog. Once you’ve got some traffic, the key is for you to make money by the time that person leaves your blog. That comes from good design and format.
hello Lisa Thanks For The information Great Job Really One Again Thank’s
Hi Lisa this is intresting butis not that simple to make 1000$, anyway thank’s jocuri barbie
It’s nice that you are doing well on your other sites so that you can experiement one one of them. i generally am a bit cautious of hurting my existing revenue by trying something new but know that i have to do something to keep up with the developments. i will try out the suggestions you stated above – thanks!
I am checking your website now. Wondering how I can emulate your google adsense placement. It is true that placement plays a great role for google adsense.
728×90 is a powerful ad block but I
have better results with 336×280
right after the blog post title……..
My problem is that, I am not getting visitors to my website. Recently, I started a website, but I am unsure of how to get traffic to my website. Can you suggest ways to get traffic so that I can earn via Adsense ?
Hi Lisa!!
Very Interesting. However, i’m still in doubt about the right adsense strategy to use for my website. The thing is, I really like when visitors only see relevant content rather than ads; plus as you rightly say, webmasters and similar visitors are blind to these types of ads so they are not quite as effective. So I’m coming to the conclusion that this may not work for my site.
If you have any suggestions, I would really appreciate it.
Hello Lisa, great article thanks for sharing your success.
Hi,
This is really an interesting and helpful read. Tho’ i had an adsense account but it never did much good to me…hope I will apply some tips now
Great site Lisa! I’m using 2 300×250 text-only blocks side by side but I might test that header banner instead for a few weeks, since it would wouldn’t look visually out of place there.
i am sucessfully using Asense for my song website http://www.mp3mahal.in past 3 years and doing great good with it!!Can you please also do let me know how can i increase my income with any other ppc companies…Some one suggested with Infolinks… is it good to goo with it..coz i have very few text in my website
woah! really amazing.. Google rocks
Gr8 tips Lisa:-) I agree with your point of 728×90 ad unit but still wonder, there’s some drastic change this month after the privacy policy is implemented. What do you feel? Your site is wonderful and will visit again. Have Liked your fb page too. All the best wishes…
Hello,
Excellent post Lisa, I have been using the Google Adsense since the last three months and I would like to suggest that the 300 X 250 ad units did exceptionally well for me…do infolinks really work??
Please suggest
Thanks
Aditya
I am pessimistic about the adsense program so far but this is a good point, hope more trials and errors can make me increase the adsense earnings.
I appreciate you being true about your business. Not many bloggers will reveal their secrets, and not many will revel their money niche. Thanks for sharing with us
I will like to place that 729 by 90 ad on the top header of my website, but I am having trouble centering the ad. Can anyone tell me the HTML for centering that ad, I tried a few and they are not working.
I just found your site, I have a blog and was looking for ways to increase my adsense earnings, so far my max has only been around $56 for Oct of 2012 for the whole month!. It has taken more than a year to get to this level.
What advice can you give to a blogger that is increasing earnings about 15% onthy, but would like to take it to the next level faster? My primary blog with most traffic is http://www.displacedguy.com but my other niche sites make more money. How many sites do you run to get over $1000 daily? I would list my other site but don’t want my comment to get flagged for spam, it is like subotex
Thanks Rich
Hi Rich,
I never said I make $1,000 daily. This is an increase for the month and it’s from 5 sites. How much you make is all dependent on traffic. And $56 should be celebrated, most people never even see that much. So congrats and keep working on building more content, using social media, perhaps try guest posting on other sites. How fast you get to the next level is all about how well you market your site. What are you doing so far?
if my website only has about 50 visitors (unique visitor) per day, Can I put adsense and earn! I am worry about banning from Adsense team because my site is new.
CAN ANY ONE TELL ME WHAT CHANGES SHOULD I MAKE TO MY WEBSITE BEFORE APPLYING TO ADSENSE PLS.
MY SITE – http://betterwebads.com
Great article Lisa! I’ve found that with some of my sites the adsense does terrible, but it really does depend on what your site is about and how much the cpc pays. I have one site that gets a lot of hits, but the cost per click is very low.
Hi Lisa!!
Very Interesting. However, i’m still in doubt about the right adsense strategy to use for my website. The thing is, I really like when visitors only see relevant content rather than ads; plus as you rightly say, webmasters and similar visitors are blind to these types of ads so they are not quite as effective. So I’m coming to the conclusion that this may not work for my site.
If you have any suggestions, I would really appreciate it.
The thing is, I really like when visitors only see relevant content rather than ads; plus as you rightly say, webmasters and similar visitors are blind to these types of ads so they are not quite as effective. So I’m coming to the conclusion that this may not work for my site.
Very inspiring story. Thank you very much for sharing.
Hi, Lisa I find your article very usefull and thanks a lot for that.I sign up to use google adsense on my websites but they won’t accepted me.If you know other adsense alternative who has an good PPC ,thanks a lot.
Hi,
i have a question what wordpress theme you used in this website ?
The Genesis Lifestyle Theme http://www.2createawebsite.com/genesis