Comments on: How do people make a living from Adsense et al? http://usbappz.com/2009/12/how-do-people-make-a-living-from-adsense-et-al-2/ put it on a USB Flash Drive Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:28:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: hipechik http://usbappz.com/2009/12/how-do-people-make-a-living-from-adsense-et-al-2/comment-page-1/#comment-84158 hipechik Wed, 09 Dec 2009 08:31:27 +0000 http://usbappz.com/2009/12/how-do-people-make-a-living-from-adsense-et-al-2/#comment-84158 This is very easy: 1. Find a topic that earns the most earnings per click on Google Adsense, then write about it. The reason why some people see 5-6 figures has to do with the types of topics they write about. You see, some keywords are worth more than other ones. Some keywords may earn as little as 2 cents per click, while others can soar as high as $20 or more per click. I find that technical oriented (IT, medical information, etc.) tend to have high EPC, as opposed to other ones. 2. Yes, traffic does matter. You're more likely to earn more money if you have much traffic. I had a site that when it started out, only earned $25 a month. Then it started growing, and it started seeing upwards of $10 a day ($300+ a month). So, if you want to have more traffic, then work on search engine optimization, so people can find you. 3. Be careful where you place your ads and what colors you give them. A huge mistake people make is to either make Google blend so seamlessly with the rest of their sites that they seem invisible, or place them in a blind spot. I think that the best place is right at the very top, using colors that are somewhat different from the rest of your site, but not too jarring. 4. Make sure your ads are properly targeted. Obviously, if your site is about, say, gardening, but Google Ads keeps posting ads about "dentistry", your visitors are not going to click on them. Hoped this helped. :-) Google This is very easy:

1. Find a topic that earns the most earnings per click on Google Adsense, then write about it. The reason why some people see 5-6 figures has to do with the types of topics they write about. You see, some keywords are worth more than other ones. Some keywords may earn as little as 2 cents per click, while others can soar as high as $20 or more per click. I find that technical oriented (IT, medical information, etc.) tend to have high EPC, as opposed to other ones.

2. Yes, traffic does matter. You’re more likely to earn more money if you have much traffic. I had a site that when it started out, only earned $25 a month. Then it started growing, and it started seeing upwards of $10 a day ($300+ a month). So, if you want to have more traffic, then work on search engine optimization, so people can find you.

3. Be careful where you place your ads and what colors you give them. A huge mistake people make is to either make Google blend so seamlessly with the rest of their sites that they seem invisible, or place them in a blind spot. I think that the best place is right at the very top, using colors that are somewhat different from the rest of your site, but not too jarring.

4. Make sure your ads are properly targeted. Obviously, if your site is about, say, gardening, but Google Ads keeps posting ads about “dentistry”, your visitors are not going to click on them.

Hoped this helped. :-)

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]]> By: Nick Nguyen http://usbappz.com/2009/12/how-do-people-make-a-living-from-adsense-et-al-2/comment-page-1/#comment-84156 Nick Nguyen Wed, 09 Dec 2009 07:31:40 +0000 http://usbappz.com/2009/12/how-do-people-make-a-living-from-adsense-et-al-2/#comment-84156 There are usually two ingredients to the formula: relevance and traffic. Since your site is a personal blog, it doesn't have a very commercial intent. Which means that people visiting the site are not interested in buying anything, so it's hard for the ads to be relevant to the content of your site. Also since your traffic is low, that sets an upper bound on the amount of clicks you can get. I imagine that sites that do well via AdSense, etc. are sites like gadget blogs where visitors are interested in the ads that they see... just my 2 cents. Google There are usually two ingredients to the formula: relevance and traffic.

Since your site is a personal blog, it doesn’t have a very commercial intent. Which means that people visiting the site are not interested in buying anything, so it’s hard for the ads to be relevant to the content of your site. Also since your traffic is low, that sets an upper bound on the amount of clicks you can get.

I imagine that sites that do well via AdSense, etc. are sites like gadget blogs where visitors are interested in the ads that they see… just my 2 cents.

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]]> By: knitmeapony http://usbappz.com/2009/12/how-do-people-make-a-living-from-adsense-et-al-2/comment-page-1/#comment-84155 knitmeapony Wed, 09 Dec 2009 06:27:44 +0000 http://usbappz.com/2009/12/how-do-people-make-a-living-from-adsense-et-al-2/#comment-84155 It's exactly as you think -- traffic and clickthroughs. Content is still king on the internet. If you've got something people want to read, you'll get the traffic, and if you get the traffic (called 'impressions' in advertising speak) well-placed ads will generate more money. Google It’s exactly as you think — traffic and clickthroughs. Content is still king on the internet. If you’ve got something people want to read, you’ll get the traffic, and if you get the traffic (called ‘impressions’ in advertising speak) well-placed ads will generate more money.

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