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Increase Your Adsense Revenue

Adsense has been the go to revenue service for many online web sites, and why not? Sign up is free and easy, and the ads are automatically related to your site. That being said, many people often have trouble making any money with the service.

In theory Adsense should be a killing and an easy way to make money, but the problem is that many just don’t implement the ad structure for the best results. People always think you need tons of traffic, but there are other ways to improve your revenue from Adsense.

If you already have Adsense up and running on your site, then you are probably aware of the loads of different companies advertising through the Google platform. Why not use this to your advantage?

The rules of Adsense clearly states that you cannot promote clicks to your ad; however, there is nothing wrong with improving your chances of clicks.

For those that are unaware, Adsense ads crawl the content on the page and display related ads. Knowing this we need to capitalize on this system. Let me give you a quick example of what I am talking about:

On my investing blog, I have several reviews for various stock brokers. While some have their own affiliate programs, others don’t. So how can I take those brokers that don’t and create my own “affiliate system?” Something is better than nothing, right? I simply fill my review with keywords for that broker. Odds are that they will have some sort of ad campaign running through Google. At the very least, some stock broker will show up.

In relation to my investing blog, I did a review for thinkorswim stock broker, threw in an Adsense 300×250 campaign, and 5 times out of 10 a thinkorswim ad came up. Obviously if somebody is reading a review about a particular product and then see an ad for that or a related product, they are more inclined to click on it.

You’d be surprised to see how much this trick alone will boost your revenue. Better yet, if you are able to get search traffic, conversions will run even higher.

Stumbling Across the Optimal Ad Spot

Over the last couple of weeks I started to notice an interesting stat when it came to my Adsense placements. The slot that seemed to bring in the most money was the 468×60 campaign located in between the actual post and comments section.

I first noticed the change once I altered the look of the theme on my stock market site. The 468×60 ad now seamlessly blends into the theme, but instead of just putting it at the bottom the location is even more specific.

I placed it right under the post, and then have it followed by the article meta information and related articles. Because of this placement, I think many people often think it is either part of the site and/or they see something interesting and click on it. The clean look also gets the ad to stand out.

This placement is also working well with other types of ads that I have tried, but they need to be very targeted ads. That is why I think the Adsense campaign works so well there. Creating custom post templates will help with targeting your ads.

You can see a picture of the placement:

Bottom Ad Placement