Monetizing a website can be done in a myriad of ways, one of which is Adsense. If you are finding it difficult to earn any real money with Adsense, you are not alone. However, there are several webmasters earning a steady, sizable paycheck each month. What is their secret? They don’t just mimic what everyone else is doing, they make their own strategies.
Some of the developers who have made good money with Adsense have shared their tips here. These tips have helped folks just like you to start on the road to financial success with your website.
Below are 5 secrets to increase the money you can make with Adsense.
1. Focus on just one Adsense ad layout. Most marketers agree the best performing layout is the large rectange, (336X280). It has been shown to have a better click through rate (CTR). With this layout, the ads look like regular links on your site. People are more likely to click on them.
2. Design a color palette that is unique. Pick colors that match your website’s text colors and background colors. You want your Adsense ads to blend with the rest of your site, so that it is a very fluid design, and the ads seem to be content on your site. This leads to more visitors clicking more often.
3. One of the most strategic things you can do, is to manipulate where on your page the Adsense appears. Most find that placing it at the top, so that it is the first thing your web audience sees is the best thing. Don’t let it hide, make it stand out. The increase in your earnings will reflect an obvious Adsense placement.
4. Maintain links to relevant websites. If you think some sites are better off than the others, put your ads there and try to maintaining and managing them. If there is already lots of Adsense put into that certain site, put yours on top of all of them. That way visitor will see your ads first upon browsing into that site.
5. For a long-range strategy, try to automate the insertion of your Adsense code into the webpages using SSI (or server side included). Ask your web administrator if your server supports SSI or not. How do you do it? Just save your Adsense code in a text file, save it as adsense text, and upload it to the root directory of the web server. Then using SSI, call the code on other pages. This tip is a time saver especially for those who are using automatic page generators to generate pages on their website.