Google Adsense Tips, Tricks, and Secrets

I’ve been reading a few forums and blogs about Google Adsense tips lately, and thought it would be helpful to consolidate as many as possible in one place without the comments. I’ve also thrown in a few tips of my own. We start out with some of the basic general stuff and move to the more specific topics later on.
Build an Empire?

When you’re deciding to become a website publisher you will fall into one of two broad categories:

• Publish 100 websites that each earn $1 a day profit


• Publish 1 website that earns $100 a day profit

T
he reality of it is, most people end up somewhere in between. Having 100 websites leaves you with maintenance, management and content issues. Having one website leaves you open to all sort of fluctuations (search engines algorithm’s, market trends, etc). You can adapt your plan on the way, but you’ll have an easier time if you start out going in the direction of where you want to end up.
General or Niche

You can build your website around general topics or niche ones. Generally speaking niche websites work better with adsense. First off the ad targeting is much better. Secondly as you have a narrow focus your writing naturally becomes more expert in nature. Hopefully this makes you more authority in your field.

If this is your first try at building an adsense website, make it about something you enjoy. It will make the process much easier and less painful to accomplish. You should however make sure that your topic has enough of an ad inventory and the payout is at a level you are comfortable with. You may love medieval folk dancing, but the pool of advertisers for that subject is very small (in fact it’s currently zero).

Once you’ve gotten the hang of how Adsense works on a website, you are going to want to dabble in some high paying keywords, you may even be tempted to buy a high paying keyword list. This does come with some dangers. First off the level of fraud is much higher on the big money terms. Secondly there is a distortion of the supply and demand relationship for these terms. Everyone wants ads on their website that make $35 or more a click, however the number of advertisers who are willing to pay that much is pretty limited. Additionally the competition for that traffic is going to be stiff. So, don’t try to run with the big dogs if you can’t keep up. If you have to ask if you’re a big dog, then chances are, you’re not. I have used a high dollar keywords report from cashkeywords.com and was pleased with my results (see cash keywords free offer recap).
New Sites, Files and Maintenance

When you’re building a new site don’t put adsense on it until it’s finished. In fact I’d go even farther and say don’t put adsense on it until you have built inbound links and started getting traffic. If you put up a website with “lorem ipsum” dummy or placeholder text, your adsense ads will almost certainly be off topic. This is often true for new files on existing websites, especially if the topic is new or different. It may take days or weeks for google’s media bot to come back to your page and get the ads properly targeted. TIP: If you start getting lots of traffic from a variety of IP’s you will speed this process up dramatically.

I like to build my sites using include files. I put the header, footer and navigation in common files. It makes it much easier to maintain and manage. I also like to put my adsense code in include files. If I want/need to change my adsense code, it’s only one file I have to work with. TIP: I also use programming to turn the adsense on or off. I can change one global variable to true or false and my adsense ads will appear or disappear.
Managing URL’s and channels

Adsense channels is one area where it’s really easy to go overboard with stats. You can set up URL channels to compare how one website is doing to another. You can also set up sub channels for each URL. If you wanted to you do something channels like this:

• domain1.com - 728 banner


• domain1.com - 336 block
• domain1.com - text link


• domain2.com - 728 banner
• domain2.com - image banner


• domain2.com - 336 block
• domain3.com - 300 block
  

While this is great for testing and knowing who clicks where and why, it makes your reporting a little wonky. Your total number will always be correct but when you look at your reports with a channel break down things will get displayed multiple times and not add up to correct total. Makes things pretty confusing, so decide if you really need/want that level of reporting detail. TIP: At the very least you want to know what URL is generating the income so be sure to enter distinct URL channels.

Site Design and Integration
Once you know you are going to put adsense on your website you’re going to have to consider where to put it. If this is new site it’s easier, if it’s an existing site it’s more difficult. While there are some people who will be able to do it, in most cases I’d say if you just slap the adsense code in, you’ll end up with a frankensite monster (props to Tedster of WMW for the buzzword). While every website is different, Google has published some heat maps showing the optimal locations. No surprise that the best spots are middle of the page and left hand side. Now I’ve done really well by placing it on the right, but you should know why you’re doing it that way before hand, and be prepared to change it if it doesn’t work out.

Google has also has published a list of the highest performing ad sizes:

• 8336×280 large rectangle


• 300×250 inline rectangle
• 160×600 wide skyscraper
  

From the sites that I run, I do really well with the 336 rectangle and 160 skyscraper. My next best performing ad size is the 728 leaderboard, I don’t really use the 300 inline rectangle too often. So really it depends on how well you integrate these into your site. Placement can have a dramatic effect on performance. TIP: When working on a new site or new layout you may want to give each location it’s own channel for a little while until you understand the users behavior.

Another ‘trick’ that can increase your CTR is by blending your adsense into your body copy. For example if your body copy is black, remove the adsense border and make the title, text, and URL black.TIP: Try changing all of your page hyperlinks to a high contrast color (like dark red or a bold blue) then change the adsense title to the same color.

The one area where I’ve found blended ads don’t perform as well is forums, especially ones with a high volume of repeat members. Regular visitors develop banner blindness pretty quickly. One ‘trick’ to keep the ads from being ignored is to randomize the color and even the placement. As with any of the decisions about location, placement and color it’s a trade off. How much do you emphasize the ads without annoying your visitors. Remember it’s better to have a 1% CTR with 500 regular visitors as opposed to a 5% CTR with 50 visitors. TIP: For forums try placing the adsense ads directly above or below the the first forum thread.

Using Images
One of the latest ’secrets’ to make the rounds is using images placed directly above or below an adsense leaderboard. This has been used for a while but came out in a digital point forum thread where a member talked about quadrupling their CTR. Basically you set up the adsense code in a table with four images that line up directly with the ads. Whether or not this is deceptive is fuzzy and very subjective. Obviously four blinking arrows would be ‘enticing people to click’ and be against the adsense TOS. However placing pictures of 4 laptops over laptops ads isn’t, so use your best judgment here and look at it from the advertiser or Google’s perspective. If you have a question as to your implementation being ‘over the line’ write to adsense and ask them to take a look.

As far as using the images, I’ve done it and can tell you it definitely works. You get the best results when the images ‘complete the story the ads are telling’. For example if you have ads about apple pies, use pictures of freshly baked apple pies, instead of granny smith, Macintosh, pink lady, and braeburn apples. TIP: Don’t limit yourself to using images only on that size ad unit, it works just as well with the other sizes, like the 336 rectangle.

Added:
I got a little criticizm for this and rightly so, as I wasn’t specific as I could have been. Do not use very identifiable brand name or products for your images. Use generic non-specific stock images whenever possible and appropriate.

Multiple Ad Units
Another way to increase ad revenue is to use multiple ad units. According to Google’s TOS you are allowed to post up to three ad units per page. Similar to standard search results the highest paying ad units will be served first and the lowest being served last. If there is enough of an ad inventory, place all three ad units. However you should pay attention to the payouts. Current assumption is you get 60% of the revenue (on a $0.05 click you get $0.03). So if a click from the third ad unit is only paying between 3 to 5 cents you may want to omit it from your page. This is one are where giving your ad units channels does have value. If one ad unit is getting a higher percentage of click throughs you’ll want to make sure the highest paying ads are being served there. TIP:Use CSS positioning to get your highest paying ads serving in the location with the highest CTR.

Adsense in RSS
With the growth of blogs and RSS feeds you’re starting to see adsense included in the feeds now. IMHO this doesn’t work, and here’s why:

• You only get to place one ad unit.


• You have no control over finding the ’sweet spot’ for the ad unit.


• The ads are usually poorly targeted (this is getting better).


• People develop ‘banner blindness’.
  

I know people like being able to read full postings in their feed reader, and there are at least a dozen other reasons for full posts from pleasing your users to mobile offline computing, all of which are completely valid. However if your website depends on generating adsense revenue to survive, then bring them to the site and show them the ads there.

Affiliate Sites
Placing Adsense on affiliate sites is tricky. Are you giving up a $10, $20, or $30 sale for a $1 click? This is something you have to test on your own to figure out. If you aren’t converting now it’s definitely worth a try. I like to use adsense on my article pages. For example let’s say you had an affiliate website where you sold shoes. You’re going to need some related articles to ‘flesh out’ the site. Things like ‘getting a shoe shine’ or ‘finding a shoe repair shop’ these are excellent spots for adsense. While you won’t get rich, they will usually provide a small steady income and cover things like hosting costs.TIP: If you find you have pages getting more than 50 clicks per month add more pages about this topic, and link the pages together. Mine you logs for the search terms used.

PPC Arbitrage
This is a dicey subject so I’m going to steer clear of precise examples. Basically you bid on low volume uber niche terms at a very low cost. You set up landing page that contains high payout ads for the related general topic. You are looking for terms with a large gap between the price you are bidding on adwords and the price you are getting on Adsense. If you pay $0.10 a click and get $1.00 a click you make $0.90 each click. To get your adsense ad approved you will need to ‘add some value’ along the way. You can make a killing or get taken to the cleaners with this one, so make sure you know what you are doing before you try it.

Trik Membuat Hasil Pencarian Google Search Tampil di Halaman Posting

Jika Kita memasang "Google Adsense for Search" atau search engine dari google adsense, maka ada tiga macam cara untuk menampilkan hasil pencariannya, yaitu:

1. Open results on Google in the same window (ditampilkan di halaman yang sama)
2. Open results on Google in a new window (ditampilkan dihalaman yang baru)
3. Open results within my own site (ditampilkan di site yang kita kehendaki).

Yang paling mudah adalah memakai cara yang pertama dan kedua, tapi cara ini membuat pungunjung yg melakukan pencarian kurang begitu antusias karena hasil pencariannya tidak lagi berada di blog kita. Kalo menurutku cara yg ketiga yang paling bagus, karena hasil pencariannya akan langsung berada di dalam web/blog kita. Ttapi cara ini membutuhkan beberapa trik agar bisa tampil di dalam postingan blogger. Yang pengen tahu beginilah caranya :

1. Buat postingan di blogger, tapi isinya kosong. trus dikasih judul.
2. Ganti tanggal postingnya ke tanggal yg lebih lama biar tidak muncul di halaman utama. caranya klik link "Post Option" (kiri bawah) kemudian yang didalam kotak "Post date and time" itu tanggalnya diganti. kalo sudah "Publish Post"
3. Masuk di "edit post" trus klik kanan link "View" pada judul postingan kosong yang km buat tadi, trus pilih "Copy link location" (bagi yg pake opera). Intinya yaitu mengambil link dari judul postingan kosongmu tadi.
4. Selanjutnya yaitu Login di google adsense, trus buat "Adsense for search".
5. lakukan beberapa settingnya, seperti memlih tampilan dan lain2.
6. Kemudian saat masuk ke pilihan "Opening of search results page" pilih yang "Open results within my own site", trus isikan link postinganmu tadi kedalam kotak dibawahnya.
7. Lalu didalam kotak "Enter width of results area:" ganti menjadi angka yg lebih kecil supaya muat di dalam bagian utama (postingan) blogmu. Minimal 500 px.
8. Ikuti terus langkah berikutnya sampai km nanti dikasih script dari google. Biasanya akan ada dua script, yang pertama untuk Foor Search Enginenya, yang kedua untuk hasil pencariannya.
9. Copy script yg pertama dan taruh di blogger, "Page element-->Add page element -->Html/Javascript".
10. Script yang kedua juga sama, copy ke "Page element-->Add page element -->Html/Javascript", tapi kemudian geser/taruh pagelement script yang kedua tadi, ke bawah dari element utama/postingan.
    

Trik Adsense Muncul di Web/Blog Bahasa Indonesia

Per tanggal 17 Juni lalu Google tidak lagi memperbolehkan blog berbahasa INdonesia untuk memasang Google Adsense nya. Itu berarti blog kita yang berbahasa Indonesia dan pernah kita pasang kode Google Adsense hanya akan muncul PSA saja. Tapi jangan buru2 putus asa dulu ternyata masih ada cara kok untuk dapat memunculkan iklan dari Google di blog kita yang berbahasa Indonesia, tapi sebelumnya saya tekankan bahwa trik dibawah ini bertentangan dengan TOS Google, jadi apapun atau seburuk apapun resiko yang mungkin timbul sepenuhnya ditanggung oleh penumpang (baca : pemilik blog yang bersangkutan) nah ini trik nya yang saya ambilkan dari sini..

sebenarnya sangat mudah, hanya dengan menambahkan script ini :
google_language = "en";
kedalam script adsense km, maka iklan adsensenya akan muncul dalam web/blogmu yg berbahasa Indonesia

Contohnya seperti ini:

<script type='text/javascript'>
google_ad_client = "pub-5569888573993887";
/* 336x280, created 6/12/08 */
google_ad_slot = "3879894015";
google_ad_width = 336;
google_ad_height = 280;
google_language = "en";
</script>

Nah, gampang kan tapi sekali lagi resiko ditangung penumpang lho ya.....

Once More, Google AdSense Tips

Google just released a Newbie Central for their AdSense program, those ads webmasters can include on their site to earn money for every click on the ad from a visitor (if you're using the program, part of the advertiser budget will go to you, and the other part to Google). I wanted to add some tips from my own experience:

1. Ads can work well in-between other stuff. On a games site of mine, some of the games don't contain ads next to the game area; the AdSense ad will only be shown in-between game rounds. This is the time the visitor is not concentrating on performing a task but might take a small break, and be open to the option of visiting new sites.
2. Put too much emphasis on AdSense and your site may be linked to less. The more available space you dedicate to AdSense on your site, and the less you differentiate between ads and content in your design, the more money you earn with the program, right? Not quite. While pushing the AdSense may result in short-term gains, it might also convince some visitors that the site is too crowded to be worth visiting again. And some of those visitors may also be bloggers or other people who might otherwise help to promote your site with links to it. And the less your site gets linked to, the less traffic it gets, meaning AdSense revenues may go down in the long term.
3. Even if you get huge traffic, the AdSense income from the site is more dependent on the site type and audience. Google targets AdSense ads automatically to the site content. Or at least, it does so ideally – but some types of content fare better than others with this targeting. I noticed for instance that AdSense does better on a games site than on a technology blog. I also heard people say that AdSense does quite good on product oriented blogs; say, one post solely about the iPod; another post solely about Gadget XYZ, and so on.
4. Image ads can be relevant and work for you, but they might also apall some visitors. Google's AdSense program gives you the option to choose between a couple of different ad formats. Two main groups are text ads vs text & image ads. When you choose the latter, Google will deliver what they deem works best for your content (or so one would hope, and it would be in Google's best self-interest to serve you the best possible ad, it seems). However, Google doesn't really know your layout preferences, and they don't really understand when your audience thinks ads are "too much"; and considering image ads include Flash animations (which you can't disable, once you go for image ads), Flash animations may well push some people away. One thing you can do is to only show image ads in areas where they don't disturb the content, e.g. at the end of posts. Also, you might want to listen to visitor feedback on the ads being served; I received emails before that the blinking ad on this or that site made a person want to leave the site, at which point I blocked the specific advertiser via the AdSense Setup -> Competitive Ad Filter option.
5. When it comes to context sensitive targeting, you can increase or lower the importance of certain parts of your page. To help Google find a matching ad for your content, you can use the HTML comment syntax by encapsulating more important parts with


<!-- google_ad_section_start -->
... your important site content here ...
<!-- google_ad_section_end -->.



Or, to lower the importance of a section, use:



<!-- google_ad_section_start(weight=ignore) -->
... your not so important site content here ...


<!-- google_ad_section_end -->



(Google notes that it may take up to 2 weeks for this change to your site will be taken into account by the AdSense.)

What if your site doesn't have any good matchable content to begin with, though? Say, the page just includes an image. Well, for the reasons of search engine optimization but also ad optimization you might want to consider using at least a descriptive title, an explanatory footer containing the important keywords or keyphrases (the kind of footer that actually helps the human visitor by explaining what the page is about). In the case of image content, reasonable alt and title attribute texts should be used as well.*

*Whatever you do, don't resort to "keyword-stuffing" as it doesn't help your visitors and may get your page ranked lower in search engines.



Be aware of risks when you change ad layouts too much. I once had a system on the server to randomly differ between various AdSense layouts on the same page. Doing so I was hoping to add some good variety to keep the ads at least somewhat interesting and notable. Shortly after I stopped doing so and simply included a rather big static area for the AdSense to "do what it wants," the AdSense revenues for that site increased. Now, I don't know if this was a coincidence of some sorts, as revenues often go down or up even when you don't do anything, but it might well have been that there was a connection between adding too much homemade randomization, and lowered revenues.

At another time, during the redesign of this blog, I switched from one ad format to another for the end-of-posts AdSense ad space. This, combined with perhaps other layout changes, suddenly cut the ad revenues in half for the blog. It took me some time to realize that I had some ad channels* set up for the specific old layout size, and by changing this I must have kicked out all those advertisers who were pushing their ads through the channel.

*This setting can be found at AdSense Setup -> Channels.

Use competing ad systems when AdSense doesn't seem to work for a site. At CoverBrowser.com, which shows galleries of comic and book covers and so on, I tried including AdSense ads in "non-annoying" places in the layout (including trying to use AdSense affiliate links via AdSense Setup -> Referrals), but this didn't seem to work at all. However I then tried "affiliating" the "buy" link below individual covers, utilizing the eBay affiliate commission system offered by AuctionAds.com*. (Disclosure: Patrick Gavin, co-owner of AuctionAds, paid me for consulting before on other projects, like Sketchcast.com.) This worked a lot better, and as it was simply connected to an existing site feature, it also didn't add clutter.

A good start to find other ad programs is to search for adsense alternatives on Google... you will see a lot of lists which are dedicated to competitors. (Note that some of these competitors may be US-only.) You may also want to join an ad or blog network like The Deck, Federated Media (disclosure: I was part of Federated Media before), or 9 Rules. Before joining such a network – which might require you to show them your traffic stats and so on – check if their typical ads and campaigns fit with your site layout and your general ad type preferences.

*CommissionJunction also offers an eBay affiliate system but CommissionJunction has really low usability, in my opinion; setting it up is confusing.

Sometimes you may get a sudden increase in traffic, hence ad clicks, but you can't locate the source of the traffic. I'm using Google Analytics to track my sites, though AdSense is also a good first indicator of traffic explosions... because it will show the combined page views of all your sites (provided you include AdSense on all of them), as opposed to Google Analytics, where you need to check site by site individually.

However, sometimes even with Google Analytics, you won't be able to locate the source of your traffic because there's no specific new popular referrer being shown (a referrer is the site linking to your site, provided people click on that link). In these cases, it may well be that your site has been discussed in a TV show or similar, as the show won't "link" to you (but audiences will be entering your domain manually into the browser when they like what the saw on TV). When you feel that there has been a traffic explosion sometimes you may get additional email feedback in regards to your site, and it makes sense for you to ask your visitor: where did you first find out about the site? Maybe the can let you know about the name of the TV show, or magazine, or other "offline" source responsible for the peak. (I sometimes sent pointers to the BBC Click show for instance, with partly enormous effect.)

Consider using AdSense even when the page doesn't get any traffic yet. Who knows, some day the traffic suddenly explodes, and you might not realize fast enough and thus miss out on the action (as sometimes, traffic goes as fast as it comes).

On the other hand, reversely I would suggest to never do a site just to make ad money with it. That kind of motivation may lead to spammy sites that don't help anyone really. (If a project is great, it's great even if it doesn't make any money.)

Making money with AdSense takes time. In my experience, it may take many months to years for a site to gain enough traffic to make OK money through AdSense... if ever. I have almost never experienced any site making quick and easy money with AdSense (though you may be getting quicker results than me of course, as it depends on so many variables!).
I think for any site getting a couple of thousands of visitors a day, you might want to start playing around with AdSense to see where it takes you (if you didn't already include AdSense anyway just to see what happens, and following up on tip #9). As you are paid in US-$, the actual benefit the ad revenue will bring depends on your local costs of living as well (you might even ponder moving or going on an extended holiday trip if your local costs of living are too high for your site revenues to cover).

Easy monetizing of your blog with AdSense

Why should I monetize my website?

The more success you have with your blog / website, the more time and money you're going to invest to update it and host it properly.

At some point you may think: wouldn't it just be nice to have my site pay for itself?

Well, that is actually easier to achieve than it sounds! A decent hosting plan should cost you no more than $6.95/month. However, that's quite a low figure here and most people make many many times more than that in ad revenue...


By properly monetizing your blog site it is actually possible to have it pay, not only for the hosting, but also for the time you spend working on it.
Why AdSense?

First, because AdSense is a very simple and proven solution that already pays for hundreds of thousands of blogs/websites accross the world!

Also, AdSense is provided to you by Google which not only makes it reliable but also trustworthy. Once you have earned money from Google, you can actually trust them to pay it to you!

Finally, because the ads will be contexual, i-e they will be relevant to the content of your blog/site. This way, your visitors will not be offended for seeing the ads on your site.

How do I get started?

It's as simple as that:

1. Sign up: Sign up for AdSense. It's totally free! Then follow the provided instructions to put a little javascript snippet onto your blog skin or any web page you like.
2. When visitors view your site they see contextual text ads that automatically adjust to the contents of each page / blog post so that they are always relevant. No flashing images, just relevant text links! :)
3. When a visitor clicks on an ad link, Google records the click and you get paid for it. Get ready for a monthly check from Google ;)

Will it ruin my blog design?

You can choose the exact position and colors of the text ad blocks you place on your site.

Below are two examples of blogs that incorporate text ads and successfully pay for themselves. Judge for yourself:

• Example 1: Ad links at the end of the blog post.
• Example 2: Ad links at the top of the page.
Note: as you can see, AdSense is not limited to English!

Tehnik Adsense

Seperti yang saya kutip dari postingan Cosaaranda.com disini, postingan saya kali ini sebenarnya bukan merupakan tric dan tips mutlak yang harus anda jalankan dalam memasanga Google Adsense di blog anda, tapi paling tidak ini dapat membantu anda dalam memaksimalkan Google Adsense yang anda pasang di blog anda..

Format Ad Units

Secara umum, ad units yg paling menguntungkan adalah yg berbentuk kotak (rectangle), yaitu yg berformat 336×280, 300×250, dan 250×250. Hindari menggunakan format 468×60 karena hampir semua pengguna internet sudah aware bahwa itu adalah iklan.

Jika ingin memasang iklan vertikal, sebaiknya gunakan format 160×600. Yg perlu diingat, hindari memasang iklan vertikal pada situs dengan struktur layout 2 kolom. Sedang untuk layout 3 kolom, letakkan iklan tersebut pada kolom tengah, di antara content utama dengan sidebar yg berisi navigasi situs.

Penempatan Iklan

1. Pastikan ada setidaknya satu ad units yg terpasang di bagian atas situs atau istilahnya “above the fold“. Dengan kata lain, letakkan iklan di posisi dimana pengunjung tidak perlu menggulung layar untuk melihatnya.
2. Distribusikan ad units agar tersebar di berbagai lokasi, jangan mengumpulkannya di satu titik saja. Gunanya adalah untuk menghindari kejenuhan pengunjung dan anggapan bahwa situs kita adalah MFA.
3. Jika content utama situs Anda sedikit (sekitar 3 paragraf atau kurang), cukup letakkan satu ad units saja di antara judul artikel dan isi artikel; atau setelah artikel. Jika content utama cukup banyak, pasang dua buah ad units dan letakkan pada 2 posisi yg disebutkan sebelumnya. Jika artikel benar2 panjang, Anda bisa menambahkan satu buah ad unit lagi di tengah2 artikel. Jika menggunakan platform Wordpress, Anda bisa memanfaatkan trik yg saya berikan beberapa waktu lalu.
4. Anda juga bisa memasang dua buah ad units meskipun content utama hanya sedikit. Tapi pastikan bahwa posisinya tidak terlalu berdekatan. Salah satu triknya, Anda bisa meletakkan content2 lain setelah artikel utama sebelum memasang ad unit di bawahnya.

Link Units

Banyak publisher yg melupakan keberadaan link units karena dianggap tidak menarik. Padahal dari pengalaman hampir setiap publisher yg menggunakannya, link units terbukti memberikan kontribusi pendapatan yg tidak sedikit, bahkan seringkali lebih besar dibandingkan yg dihasilkan oleh ad units.

Hampir sama dengan ad units, hindari link units berukuran 468×15. Sebisa mungkin pasang link units berformat 768×15 (5 units) dan letakkan di bagian header situs Anda. Ini akan memberi kesan bahwa units tersebut adalah menu navigasi situs, bukan iklan.
AdSense For Search

Dari kebiasaan berinternet, pengunjung akan selalu mencari kotak search di pojok kanan atas situs Anda terlebih dahulu sebelum mencari di tempat lain. Jadi tanpa basa-basi, sebisa mungkin letakkan search box Anda di posisi tersebut. Setidaknya di posisi teratas pada sidebar Anda.
Blended atau Stand-Out

Blended berarti kombinasi warna yg Anda gunakan pada ad units atau link units sesuai dan menyatu dengan layout situs Anda secara keseluruhan. Sebaliknya, Stand-Out berarti penggunaan warna2 yg sengaja berkesan menyolok (atau mencolok yah) sehingga lebih menarik perhatian pengunjung.

Meskipun banyak orang menyarankan untuk menggunakan model blended, tapi dari pengalaman saya pribadi, model stand-out performanya tidak kalah dibandingkan model blended. Jadi untuk hal ini, saya serahkan kepada masing2 publisher untuk memilih mana yg paling baik.

Yg jangan sampai lupa, jika ingin menggunakan model blended, pastikan warna background dan warna border ad units yg dipilih sama dengan warna background situs Anda, sehingga terkesan benar2 menjadi bagian dari content.

Satu tips lagi, link berwarna biru relatif lebih banyak di-klik dibanding warna2 lain. Ini terkait dengan mindset pengunjung internet yg sudah terbentuk sejak dahulu bahwa biru adalah link ke situs lain di internet.

Nah semoga trick diatas dapat membantu kita semua untuk mendulang lebih banyak lagi dollar ...

Basic Adsense Tips

by Muhamad Fuad

Once in a week, i will publish my personal article about an advertising program which is Adsense. For those who still don’t know what Adsense is, it is a pay-per-click adevertising program which website publishers can use to menetize their websites.

The first thing you need to know about Adsense is it is not a program where you can earn money esily. Well to said, your website or your blog need lots of traffic to take full advantage of this program. Now, you must be wondering on how to improve your website traffic. From my experience,for the first time my website receive very little hits per day which is about 30-50 hits. Its really bad and to solve the problems, I have use these methods:

1. Add good content
2. Do a SEO (Search Engine Optimization)
3. Improve the site layout

When I added good content to the website, website traffic increases to 100 hits per day. Website visitors is always hungry to find new information in the net. Regardless what is the type of your website/blog is, you must create a truly original content for it. Don’t spend your time searching for free artilces because Adsense really don’t like duplicate contents.

Another tips is let your visitors know what your website/blog offers to its visitors. Create a section for your new website visitors what they can gain by visitng your website/blog. Suggest them to comment on your entry so that they will feel they are belonging to your blog/website.From their comment and suggestion, you can improve your website/blog more. Now, thats for the section for getting website traffic.>

The next factor that you must take care is SEO which means Search Engine Optimization. Search engine that we will focsu is Google. Google receive million search per day. you can imagine a lot of people go to Google everyday to search for infromation. If you’re lucky they will find your website. But it’s not an easy way to do because SEO need lots of hard work and patience. The first thing you need to do when you have a website/blog is by giving its url to Google so that its crawler can search your pages and then include them in Google search engine. For lots more information about SEO, go to our Webmaster Section. i have post lots of good tips for SEO there. Another tips