If you’re a blogger or a site owner, you probably have thought about making money with Google Adsense. But that might not be the case if you’re an online business owner selling services or products since you want the total attention of the visitor on your products.
Assuming that you’re already aware about the basics of Google Adsense, let’s discuss how to bring the word ‘success’ into action.
Following are some real ways, which Google prefers and encourages bloggers to make money with Google Adsense.
The Right Niche – And Sticking To It
This is by far the most important aspect when it comes to making money with Google Adsense. You would never be asked by Google to choose a specific niche and stick to it, but that’s one thing Google loves the most. If you have a blog on “Cakes” and after a long term effort, you start posting about dry snacks, then it wouldn’t make a sense.
It’s always better to start a new blog if you insist on continuing to write about the dry snacks. (This was just an example, but I’m sure you’ve understood what I really meant). Hence to make money with Google Adsense, it is highly recommended that you stick to the niche you started writing about and not get carried away by the latest irrelevant (which are not at all around your niche) trends. Sticking to the niche has always been a great strategy to make money blogging (overall) too.
Referral Traffic? – Can Buy You Half a Coffee, In 6 Months!
Believe it or not – it’s a fact. There’s hardly anyone who got success in making money with Google Adsense from referral traffic. Referral traffic in the sense that it is everything except search engine traffic. I’m sure you’re aware of the algorithm used by the Google Adsense bots that it shows contextual ads, meaning that the ads displayed are based on the on-page keywords and the search terms used.
The audience you get from your referral traffic is mostly aware about the ads on your blog and is hardly interested in the same, while the visitors from the search engines are always look for more information – that’s when the ads play their roles!
Some tips for getting the most out of your ads:
1) Try to get as much organic traffic as possible, as that’s the only time you’ll get enough CTR (Click Through Rate).
2) But it’s never advised to stop SMO (Social Media Optimization) as that’s where you make your name and your identity.
3) Always make it a point to optimize each and every post on your blog so that the bots will be able to show relevant ads and hence helping you make more money with Google Adsense. You can optimize well by investing in some good WP Plugins or getting free plugins such as SEO by Yoast.
Place ‘em Right And Make Money With Adsense!
Ad Placement is one important factor which is not always followed by many publishers. If I write about the positions here, it might be confusing for you (and me too). Hence, take a look at the picture on the right. This image was officially released by Google to help publishers make more money with Google Adsense. Following is a brief captioning of the graphic -
1) The Red box has been proven to be the most effective of all. It’s simply placed before the content.
2) The Orange boxes have been proven to be the second best of all. I personally recommend the position either on the left of the primary content, or just below the navigation bar.
3) The Light Yellow boxes are somewhat effective, but not as much as the above two. Yet, those placements can be used if you’re using the above positions for the banners of some of the best affiliate programs.
4) And the white boxes are mostly seen just by the blog/site owners who’re crying to get clicks.
Bottomline To Make Money With Google Adsense
The bottomline should be that in order to make money with Google Adsense, one needs to be patient enough (to increase the organic traffic over time), be on the right track and DON’T practice any black-hat SEO techniques and DON’T stop producing quality content.
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Hi Raaj,
Good Article, and i am totally agree with your Article. in my opinion Google Adsense is one the best way to make money online. we can gain the traffic by the Google adsense. Even Google adsense is the best and helpful for the blogger. Google Adsense is undoubtedly the best advertising network site. thank You for the helpful Article and i hope it will help me. Thanks
Adsense is the great way for generating revenue with the blog. I don’t have any adsense account but heard many times about the benefits of it. I will surely apply for it.
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Adsense is in my opinion the best way to make money online. I’m glad you’ve written great article about this. I think that the essential step to make money with google adsense is ad placement. I’ve seen a lot of bad optimized sites which uses adsense and I’m sure they do not earn much. I think that good ad placement is a key to get money.
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I have heard many things regarding Adsense these days. Many Accounts are being banned due to invalid activity. Have you came across this news?
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Totally agreed with you. Google adsense is the good way to monetize our blog. And most of the clicks are from organic traffic. Thanks.
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Putting Google Adsense code on the web is an awesome way to make money online. When I first try to make money with my blog, Adsense is the only way I use. However, today I didn’t use this method to make money from my blog, it’s because this way is not work well any more for my niche. That’s why I try the another way. But, just thinking, Adsense still is good way to get income online. So, now I’m going to build a new blog and putting Adsense code on my blog, again.
Thanks for you post, it change my mind.
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I like Adsense, Is very tempting because it’s so easy to make money with it. Referral traffic are mostly aware of Google adsense ads and they generally don’t click on your ads.
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I’m a business owner and so I’ve never thought about using Adsense to make money, I’m usually the one spending it. But this is an interesting article to read. I agree with you that Social Media Optimization should not be stopped. I see its importance growing even more in the time to come, even in areas like Adsense.
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hello raaj,
i am working on a new blog and i am getting good traffic. i am monetizing that blog with google adsense and i must say google adsense was awesome until i started getting cpc of almost 0.05$..and that too from USA..so i am not sure whats going on? but still sometimes it gives more than expected
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Use Google Adsense as one source of income and affiliate marketing as another source. There is no right or wrong, use both!
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Placing the ads like Google tell you to, you will surely make money. The biggest problem is getting traffic.
Some great advice on Adsense, Raaj.
I think that just as with Affiliate products, Adsense also requires some constant work(testing and comparing results)….
Adsense seems like the “quick & easy’” way to make money, though, even relatively large traffic numbers does not always guarantee this..
Though, as others have mentioned in comments above, Adsense always comes up as the winner, especially whenever debates arise often looking into Adsense Alternatives….
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Great article. I like Adsense but even more than Adsense I prefer affiliate marketing. Adsense is very tempting because it’s so easy to make money with it, but you make pennies compared to what you could be making with affiliate sales. On top of that, you never have to worry about Google unjustly banning your account. It happened to so many people and their business was destroyed overnight.
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I have a question, I am rejected by Google Adscene around 50+ time and every time there is a new error, can you suggest me any alternative that can pay me like Google Adscene, I also got rejected by BuySellAds even i have good a good blog with heavy organic traffic and also fullfilling all the requirment of the new ERA…
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Excellent advice, Raaj. I’ve never really given it much thought and have always just slapped some ads up in strategic locations and hoped for the best. It would be great if I had two or three of me so I could focus some time on things like this.
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Twitter: retailer_depot
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To be successful with Google Adsense it is important to pick niches that you are actually interested in. You will quickly run out of blog post ideas if you don’t really care about the subject matter. If you can come up with niches you really care about, you will be posting on a regular basis. Visitors and Google will soon follow.
Very informative article. There plenty of people who earn lot of money form google every month, and there are also people who lose lot of time hunting for bad content and waiting for results. This circle is basically very simple. You offer shit, you receive shit. You offer gold you receive gold. Very simple no?
Yeah, i agree. I currently have unattractive Weights Loss ads on an Investment site. I didn’t know that all investors were overweight – did you?
Anyway, thanks for the input and great content on the site keep it up!
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Great post! I have a rather large site that does well with Adsense. I have my earnings integrated with Google Analytics. Every once in a while I will review what pages are getting a lot traffic but have low CTR.
I like to work with the low CTR pages for a while before removing the ads. One thing that has been cashing in high percentage returns is placing a 468 x 60 directly below a Youtube video.
Adsense is a funny thing. If someone finds your page looking for a particular product, people click on the ads often.
If a visitor finds an informative article on “How to do something,” then they seem to leave without clicking the ads.
I have a site that helps people locate music stores that averages a 12% CTR just because people are looking for music stores and Google serves very relevant results. It helps that there are no other options on the page other than Adsense for them to click on.
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I use adsense actually only on youtube – but maybe Ill put it on my site now.
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Hi,
The article is really informative and will help me in my next adsense sign up,
Once the account was disapproved because of the mistakes that you have mentioned above but i am gonna keep your suggestions in mind to before i apply again. some of the major mistakes were i applied before 6 months and the site was not micro niche
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Nice thought! It is good to make money with Goggle Adsense. Google Adsense is the best advertising network for any blogger
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Well, i was so successfully in money with adsense, just before google released these fucking animals – what im talking about? – All my niche domains are removed from SERP
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I’ve seen a few studies comparing adsense to other competitors and the conclusion is always that adsense wins with regards to revenue generated.
It’s also very customizable so you can make it really look like part of your site.
Even big sites like ebay.com and amazon.com have advertising on their sites so they must think it’s worth it.
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Woah, this is some helpfull information. Now in the future when designing a template i can consider placing the adsense boxing on the right position
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Nice post .So effective is this post because many people doesnt know how to effectively use adsense.
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Awesome post. This post made so aware on how to effectively use adsense . I was not aware of these issues . Sorry for my delay to marvel at this post.Thansks
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hi Raaj,
nice thought man.the adsense really hotcake and i like your bottomline to make money with google adsense it was good.if our content is good automatically the traffic occurs in our businessblog.your SEO techniques suggest that making money with google adsense is very easy to readers. nice work
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Thanks for the great tips! I just had my best day today with adsense, since I started my blog eleven months ago. I’m learning more and more everyday.
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I completely love this post. The tips are spot on especially the one on referral traffic. Referral traffic hardly clicks on adsense ads.
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Hi Raaj,
thank You for the helpful information? I always put the adv block on the top place, I tried several different places and decided that the top plase is the best for the google ads
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Finally someone posts some useful informaiton on this and placement suggestions. I was honestly thinking adsense was a joke and couldn’t understand how to make a reasonal amount of money with it.
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Google Adsense is undoubtedly the best advertising network for any blogger. Even when we have direct advertising sponsors, we still like to have Google ads on our site. They are simple, clean and elegant but pay good.
The only thing I dont like about them is they are too harsh regarding the TOS
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Ads at the above and bottom of the content gets good CTR. Less ads you placed on your blog, the more CPC is with you
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This blog speaks out truth about making money online and I am so grateful that it has given me important guides on how to do it. Making money is never easy. However, if you stick on quality materials and quality output plus quality attitude nothing is impossible.
Thanks to the blogger!
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You are so right about the ad placements. It was nice to see them because although I have been doing this awhile I still need reminders. Thanks for helping me stay track.
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Hi Raaj,
I am soon gonna place Adsense ads on my blog but with the aim that they should not disturb my visitors or distract them. The main purpose of a blog is to help people so I feel that ads should be place in a way that can avoid accidental clicks.
Joe,
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Hello Joe
Nice idea. What I would say is that if you don’t want to distract your visitors, you first need to find a great spot which is clearly visible and yet is not between the content. Secondly, you need to write your posts in a manner that the keywords inside the content are so strong to help Adsense bots determine what ads to show.
Hope that helps. Cheers
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Hi Raaj,
hope your ideas would help me to make some money!!!
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I hope the same Dinesh. All the best!
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Don’t you think that Adsense destroys the professional look of a Blog? I would simply recommend to get rid of it, if some one is not earning a handsome money with adsense.
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If placed properly, it just adds to the look of the blog Fahad! But yeah, one above the content…one below the content….and even in the middle of the content will definitely screw the blog.
And yeah, who says you can’t make a handsome earning with adsense? :)
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Hi Raaj,
You’re certainly right here, to make money from Google Adsense you need lot of organic traffic. Referral traffic are mostly aware of Google adsense ads and they generally don’t click on your ads. But to build your trust and getting exposure you need all types of traffic so you should not even ignore referral traffic for your site.
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Of course Aasma. I don’t say that one should completely ignore referral traffic, I mean, it is DAMN important for any blog! But for adsense, organic traffic is the word.
Cheers
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Thanks for the nice tips Raaj. Adsense is not everyone’s cup of tea. SEO plays a very major role since Adsense is based on contextual advertising (which is good coz, it cuts down our own efforts of serving targeted ads). But if we choose the wrong niche (the one that is less crowded and/or that have a very low click through rates) we can only buy half coffee in six months. And watching those pennies add up is really frustrating (I had been there) :)
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Even I’ve been there Jane, and hence I wrote about it! It’s better I stay hungry for six months than to get just half the coffee and waste that beautiful space on my blog right?
Thanks for passing by! Cheers
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I´m not very sure about Adsense, I think it´s much better to place affiliate banners, the rewards are much higher, I think that´s why Google doesn´t like affiliate programs.
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But those who’ve earned great with adsense have made more than affiliate programs. But it depends from blogger-to-blogger. Cheers :)
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Hey guys,
I’m gonna stick with biomagnetismo on this one.
Have a nice day.
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Those are some great points about making money with AdSense. I’ve been running websites for years and find that the most important thing is optimizing your page content well enough that the correct ads are shown. Basically, it’s all about having great quality content pages with enough of the keywords display the right ads. The next part is making sure that you blend the ads in with your content so that they don’t stand out as being ads, but seen as more content on your site. I see so many sites just using the standard AdSense code which makes the ads stand out like a sore thumb. If you’re diligent and pay attention to some of the things noted in this post, you can make a lot of money from AdSense. You also need to make sure that you place your ads within your content and locations where people will click other than headers and footers and other crazy places.
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That’s true Rhett. People just copy-paste the code which they get by default. They don’t make any changes to the colors etc from their adsense account. This seriously makes it worthless for everyone.
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great post Raaj , I am currently righting something similar on my blog but i am concentrating on some other part more. glad you mentioned about the niche.
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Thanks Saad. Let’s see what you’re going to write about. Probably Part 2 of the first post? (*writing) Cheers!
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For me, the most important thing about making money with adsense is SEO SEO SEO! If you don’t rank on page 1 in the top three results, you are essentially wasting your time. The problem is Googles guidelines are total nonsense. There is no way you can build enough links to rank nr. 1 just from supplying “great” and “unique” content. Other webmasters do no hand out free links the the greatest content on the web. Once in a while a blogger might read your blog and comment on the subject on his blog and link to yours. But that doesn’t give your hundreds of links. You might get 20 if you’re lucky. Making money with adsense is impossibe without some serious work and seriously “grey hat” SEO techniques. (unless you bought a super domain name back in 1995 that gets millions of hits every day just because of the great DNS)
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Hi Suzy. What I believe is that producing quality content is what takes you the the first page, and probably the top 3 results. If you believe that your content has great quality, then just start building links to it and it should go great!
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