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How to Build a Profitable Home on the Web — Episode Five
You’ve probably read fantastic stories of people who earn hundreds of thousands of dollars each year with Google AdSense. But did you know that for every publisher making huge money, there are thousands of people out there who earn next to nothing
That sure doesn’t sound like easy money to me!
What gives, then Why are some folks so successful while others toil away without any appreciable results
The difference is all about the implementation, as top AdSense earners have literally built their sites with ad placements and earnings in mind. In much the same way as a farmer prepares fields for his crops to grow, powerhouse AdSense publishers have, in effect, cultivated places on the Web where earnings have the potential to blossom.
With that in mind, let’s focus on building a site that is ready to earn. We’ll start with two of the most basic, fundamental “best practices” for AdSense — ad placements and the types of ads to display.
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Bucktowndusty said:
Interesting. I was putting the graphical block ads at the top, then placing the textual ones on my sidebar. I shall try the switch and see what happens.
Regards buck
Bucktowndusty said:
Thanks Chris. I think my main issue is just having the time to study the adsense particulars more. I basically just signed up and put the coding in there. I have not had time to block ads, read documentation and techniques, etc, etc. As a result, my earnings are too embarrassing to even state (even though traffic is good).
I will do some testing, though, and I’m pretty sure what you suggested would have some positive effect. Regards Buck
Mike Buffet said:
I’m one of those earning next to nothing or rather $1 a day. Getting traffic is a challenge.
Duncan said:
great tutorial, question though: is shoemoneys cheque you’ve shown actually one of his Adsense cheques or from another program If it is his Adsense cheque (and I’m not questioning that he makes that sort of money, he does) then they must have a different colour and layout to the ones they send out to non-US adsense users…least from the last time I received a cheque anyway, I’ve been on EFT now for what seems like for ever.
Also one last tip to share: add a subscribe to comments on your site here…it’s a great way to bring visitors back + I’d like to know when or if you guys respond, indeed I’m really surprised you’ve not already got the option.
Chris P. said:
Duncan,
Based on what Shoemoney says at his site, that’s the last check he received from Google before converting his payments over to EFT.
And you’re spot-on regarding the Subscribe to Comments plugin. I pimped it on this site, and then never implemented it.
I’m a great role model.
a name="comment-807"/a p class="comment_meta"a' rel='external nofollow' class='url'>Chris said:
Buck,
Although I haven’t done any in-depth investigation here, it would seem as though you’ve got some absolutely positioned elements. Sometimes IE responds VERY strangely to them, and you have to get pretty creative with z-indices in order to get things to display as you would like.
If that is the case, my recommendation is to not work with the absolutely positioned elements. Instead, figure out a way to use more straightforward markup to achieve your desired look.
How to Maximize AdSense Profits with Two Simple Tweaks | Tubetorial said:
[...] So, once you’ve figured out where to place your ads, it’s time to do all the “little things” that will unleash your profit potential. [...]
Tubetorial on Adsense at The Blog Herald said:
[...] The two recent episodes in the How to build a profitable home on the web series will probably be of more use to our readers than all of the ones before combined. I know, by following links in the comments on our posts, that some of you guys have a lot to learn when it comes to using Google Adsense in a good way. So you might want to check out episode 5 and episode 6 to get the most out of your Adsense ads. Good solid stuff. [...]
Don said:
Well after seeing your tutorial, it looks like I have a lot of work to do. My blog is on the wrong site to accomplish some of the things that your suggesting, so I am going to have to move to wordpress first off. Then I will have to move all my articles over using all your tips. Might help me generate more than the 8 bucks I have made so far.
Thanks again
Don cfish said:
Would it be a bad thing to put ads on a professional website or is this just not common practice
Alex said:
cfish, most “professional” websites have ads actually, most likely Google adsense. Well, for in my opinion, ads can be quite too annoying sometimes, but it differs from person to person.
Good News said:
Great information, I moved my google ads from the footer to the header and changed them to a link list from an image also and it’s working.
Jim said:
I’m curious too - (great site and theme by the way) - how are people getting the link ad in the header picture itself The way I have it setup now, the links add appear below the picture.
What’s the code, or method, to get those ads to run along the bottom of the picture itself
Thanks again for a great site.
Jim said:
I’m sure it was #1, but of course, I can’t find the site (which I had found through yours) - I think the pictures were even random as well.
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Marc said:
Hi I was curious as to how you display ads in the sidebar of only certain pages As can be seen in the video where sidebar ads only appear on the front page and not on the archive page
Cheers
oleg ishenko said:
IMHO, that ‘Helpful e-Bay Resources’ line above the left sidebar ad unit is against the TOS. You can get banned for that.
indoswall said:
Good tutorial, Thanks a lot
CB Radios said:
Good ideas.. I just started using Adsense, wasn’t too happy with the results.. I’ll need to try different formats as you have suggested. Can you ever place too much Adsense ads, meaning placing at the top, the left, right, and bottom