PPC & Advertising Information

Maximise Your AdSense Earnings


As a blog or site owner, you can make some cash with Google's AdSense pretty easily. To maximise your potential earnings, here are some tips that may help you:

1. Create Well-designed Sites

People are impatient and will not tolerate poorly designed websites. Make sure that your site's colour scheme is overly gaudy, glaring, or plain hard-to-read. Use a readable font size, and always make use of bulleted lists, dividers and make your paragraphs short whenever possible.

Never create an overloaded website and always focus your content. Ensure that your navigation is easy to understand and that the user will intuitively know where to click to get to where he wants. A good well-designed website is the first step in attracting more visitors.

2. Place AdSense Ads On Pages With Content

Content in this case means text, because images and other media may not return targeted ads. Only text is used by Google's targeting technology to determine what kind of ads will be served.

3. Make Them Prominent

Put your ads in a place where your visitors will have a high chance of looking at them. For example, place them in the middle of your content, or above the fold of the page, where they can see your ad before scrolling down.

4. Customise Your Ad Colours

Google allows you to customise the colour of ads, so why don't you? There are two schools of thought here: You either make the ads look like part of your site, or make them look very outstanding. For variety's sake, you can even rotate up to 4 different color palettes for a particular ad.

5. Use Appropriate Ad Formats

AdSense has a number of ad formats available for you to choose from, so make use of them to create ads that suit your layout best.

6. Double-check Framed Ads

If your page uses frames, check that you have selected the Framed page checkbox on the Ad Layout page. Otherwise, AdSense cannot gather the proper information about your site and will not be able to serve targeted ads.

In fact, I highly recommend that you place this line in the AdSense code of all your ads anyway:

google_page_url = document.location;

It's just for the simple reason that while your site may be frames-free, someone might have clicked through to your site while in someone else's frames, and your ads may not be showing targeted ads anymore.

7. Use channels to track performance

Channels are the best tool to analyse your ad performance. Use them to determine the performance of a page or site. Test your colour schemes, placement and formats with channels to tell which are the performers that you want to keep. Remember to give your channels descriptive names that you will be able to understand.

Alvin Poh has been specialising in web development, content distribution, advertising and marketing strategies since 1995. His goal is to provide practical information based upon his years of experience to help webmasters, website designers, and self-employed people achieve their goals in today's competitive Internet. At his site, you can learn how to make money online.


MORE RESOURCES:

StraightUpSearch

Oneupweb : Avoid These 5-PPC Pitfalls
StraightUpSearch
When implemented correctly Pay-Per-Click (PPC) advertising can be one of the most powerful marketing channels available. It's deceptively easy for most companies to sign-up for a PPC account, but managing these campaigns is another story.



Search Engine Marketing Blogs
KoMarketing Associates
Pay-perk-click (PPC) advertising is one of the more common lead-generation methods. However, 74 percent of B2B marketers spend more than $50 on average to get a single lead, iMediaConnection reports. Many times, these leads are of low quality, ...

and more »


What Kinds of Businesses Should Use PPC Advertising? [Infographic]
Business 2 Community
... 2012 Following up on those results, we wanted to share some advice for new or hopeful AdWords advertisers – namely, what kinds of businesses are finding great success with AdWords and other pay-per-click (PPC) advertising platforms?



IMCREDO Expands Its Social Media Services
openPR (press release)
Now the list of SMO options for business-partners is extended to include online comms management and PPC advertising in social networks. This introduction follows the large-scale market research, conducted by the IMCREDO experts in December, 2011.



Are You Making These 3 Pay-Per-Click Advertising Mistakes?
Business 2 Community
By Elisa Gabbert, Published February 7, 2012 These common pay-per-click (PPC) advertising mistakes are easily avoided, but nonetheless, we see them over. and over. and over. again. These mistakes hurt your click-through rate (CTR), Quality Score, ...



Formic Media Account Team Achieves 100% AdCenter Certification for Pay-Per ...
PR.com (press release)
Formic Media, Inc., a local search engine marketing agency focusing on small business, recently had each member of the account team take, and pass, the Microsoft AdCenter exam. With the account team all passing the exam, Formic Media has now passed all ...

and more »


The Breakdown: Where Google Made its Billions
Fox Business
Home improvement retailer Lowe's spent a whopping $59.1 million on Google pay-per-click [PPC] advertising in 2011, the most of any other single source, followed by $55.2 million from online retail behemoth Amazon and $50.3 million from Lowe's largest ...

and more »


PPC Running Out of Steam? It's Time for Outbound Marketing
iMedia Connection (blog)
Search and Display Pay-Per-Click (PPC) advertising is one of the most common methods for generating new leads. However, PPC works great at the beginning, reaping all of these low hanging fruit at relatively low cost per lead. However, once all of these ...



Server Side Design Co-Hosts Web Marketing Seminar to Help Businesses Enhance ...
PR.com (press release)
The focus of the seminar is to help businesses boost their online presence by gaining a better understanding about how Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Pay-Per-Click (PPC) Advertising and Social Media Marketing (SMM) work. “For a business to gain an ...



Intertwine Interactive and Proxibid Announce Partnership
openPR (press release)
Proxibid's business model requires the implementation of an extremely robust PPC advertising campaign. The dynamic, ever-changing nature of the auction business will require diligent monitoring and proactive adjustments by Intertwine's team.


Google News

home | site map
© 2006