| I bet that title got your attention, right? Well I hate to tell | | | | There are, however, a few things that you should |
| you this but the truth is there are no Adsense secrets. | | | | consider to maximise your Adsense earnings. |
| It's all nothing more than hype put about by various | | | | Firstly, I would say that it's always a good idea to |
| internet marketers who want you to buy their product. | | | | make sure your ads blend in with your site as much as |
| Okay maybe that's a little harsh as there are some | | | | possible so they don't look like separate ads. Remove |
| very good Adsense guides out there, but the point I | | | | any borders and background colors and use the same |
| want to get across is that the real secret is that | | | | colour link text as the other links on your page. |
| anyone can make money with Google Adsense. All | | | | Also, it's always a good idea to place a large ad block |
| you need to do is create a website or blog with quality | | | | above the fold so it's viewed by your visitors as soon |
| content, display the Adsense ads in the most | | | | as they enter your website. In addition, I've always |
| prominent places of every web page (ie where they | | | | found that ads that are displayed within the actual |
| will get the most clicks) and drive traffic to your site. | | | | content (about half way down the page) also do well, |
| Sounds easy I know, but that's all there is to it. The | | | | if the page contains a lot of content, or at the end of |
| crucial part is getting traffic to your site. You can | | | | your content for shorter pages, so you give your |
| create a site with great content, with ad blocks in all | | | | visitors an opportunity to click on your ads when |
| the right places, but if no-one knows about it's | | | | they've reached the bottom of the page. |
| presence then you're never going to get anyone | | | | I don't personally like skyscraper ads, but as I've said |
| visiting your site and clicking on your ads. | | | | before it's all about testing. You may well find that for |
| There are numerous ways of getting traffic to your | | | | your own particular site layout, these ad blocks |
| site. These include things like exchanging links with | | | | perform well and achieve high click-thru rates. |
| other related sites, obtaining links from directories, | | | | Other things you can do include tweaking the keyword |
| posting on forums, creating blogs and linking to your | | | | density on each page to ensure that the right types of |
| site, writing articles and submitting them to article | | | | ads are displaying, as well as removing the "advertise |
| directories and ezine publishers, creating viral ebooks, | | | | on this site" text (which Google allows at the time of |
| and so on. | | | | writing). |
| Once you have traffic to your site you can then start | | | | Ultimately though it's all about creating quality content |
| testing your Adsense clicks and ad placement to | | | | on a regular basis, driving as much traffic as you |
| increase your earnings further. There's no hard and | | | | possibly can to your sites using the various different |
| fast rules that apply to every single site because | | | | methods of generating traffic, and testing different ad |
| every site has different layouts and will have different | | | | placements to obtain the maximum number of |
| 'hotspots', so testing is vitally important if you want to | | | | click-thrus. They're the real Adsense secrets. |
| increase your click-thru rate. | | | | |