Friday, March 26, 2010

How to increase google adsense CTR in few seconds



How to increase google adsense CTR in few seconds


By Kashf



CTR stands for Click Through Rate that means how much your website ads are being clicked. So, here, I am going to explain a funny story to increase your google adsense ctr to maximize your website's earning. Actually, earning depends upon ctr because
High Traffic=High CTR=$$$$$


The basic goal that you have to instal in your head is that YOU HAVE TO MAKE YOUR ADS LOOK LESS LIKE ADS.


As you know old and ugly 468×60 ads are still present from the history of internet when internet started. Now, even a newbie, can easily understand that it is an advertisement ad and he will probably click on this sort of any ad.


[Don't try this ad, this gives lowest CTR and will decrease your adsense earning]


Step 1:-Using the best colors for your Ad Units

As a general rule of thumb, always make your Ad Unit background and border colour the same as your website background colour.Why? I hear you ask. Well the reason for this is that the ad unit can easily blend with your website and content and does not set off any alarm bells or "banner phobia". This may result in your visitors actually taking the time to look at your advertisements and perhaps click.
Always go with the default blue link colour for your ad unit or slightly darker blue or even dark green. Try to always make the advertiser url as invisible as possible by making this a light grey. One last tweak, if you have any links in your main content portion of your webpage, change the colour of these to something other than your adsense link colour. However, keep your navigation the same colour as your Adsense links to make your adsense links look like they are part of your navigation.


Remember : The border and background colours of your Ad Unit must match your website background colour and the link should be the standard blue with the advertisers url a light grey. All other links in the content of your webpage should not be the same colour as your Adsense links.

Step 3:-Positioning the Ad Units
Just like the property business, its all about location, location, location. Its sad to see that most new Adsense publishers these days tend to put their Ad units on the left and right hand sides of the webpage. This will drastically reduce your CTR. The objective is to get position these Adsense units as close to the top and middle of your webpage as possible.
Visitors are conditioned to look for content in the middle of the webpage and will always overlook the sides because surfers who have come to your website in search of an answer want only the answer which will be in the middle or the content portion of your website and will often always overlook the sides.
What works best for me is a large rectangular block just BELOW the Title and just above the content text. This is powerful at maximising your CTR because the visitor reads your title, is interested and what is the next thing they see? Advertisements.
The next best position to place an Ad Unit is right AFTER the main content. Combine these two and you have a webpage that is geared to have a high CTR because visitors who want products or services NOW will click the ads below the title and visitors who have been educated by your article and are interested in products or services related to your article will click the Ad units at the bottom of your webpage.
If your feeling a bit more adventurous and also if you have a long article, why not place an ad unit INSIDE your content, that's right place it about halfway through your article and make your text wrap around it. These Ad Units will gain the interest of visitors who were initially interested in the article and are now bored. So this is their ‘out' and you stand to make some money when they click away.
Last but not least, you've got Google Adsense Ad Link Units that are Google Adsense Ads that are grouped into links. Choose an appropriate size for your Ad Links Units and place them ABOVE your website navigation. This makes these Ad Link units look just like your navigation. So imagine the scenario when your visitors have finished reading your content and haven't already clicked away on one of your rectangular blocks that you have carefully positioned, they now look for more information so they look at your navigation, Lo and behold, they click.
Remember : Position a large rectangular block below the title, one at the bottom and one in the center if your content is long enough. Place Adlinks block on top of your navigation so that it looks like part of the navigation of your website.

Thursday, March 18, 2010

How to add meta tags to your blog’s front page and posts in WordPress

Meta tags like the description and keywords tags are what search engines use to identify the content of a page on your site. The description tag is the most important meta tag because it is displayed to search engine users on result pages. For example, when I search the term ‘blog’ in Google, the first result looks like this:
The text that reads: “Blogger is a free blog publishing tool from Google for easily sharing your thoughts with the world. Blogger makes it simple to post text, photos and video …” is actually the meta description tag for Google Blogger’s frontpage. When I navigate to the page (by clicking the link) and view the source of the page, I can see this chunk of code at the top:


The description is declared within the meta description tag. The syntax for this tag is simply: but remember that you must insert it between the HTML header tags for it to work.
The meta keywords tag is sometimes considered to be the second most important meta declaration. When the web was in its early stages, the meta keyword tag was used in HTML so that search engines could easily categorize your page (and therefore index and rank better). However, as the web grew, people (mainly spammers) inevitably began taking advantage of the meta keyword tag and declared keywords that weren’t relevant to the content they had on their pages. Search engine developers, catching on to the game, then grew distrustful of meta keywords and modified their algorithms so that meta keywords would count little for search engine ranking and indexing purposes.
There is still debate today as to whether search engines, like Google, even bother considering meta keywords; but most web developers concede that it couldn’t hurt to add them to your pages — just in case.
The syntax for the meta keywords tags is very similar to the description tag and it goes like this: . It does not matter if you have spaces between your keywords and you are able to have keyword phrases which are multiple words between each comma.
Inserting the meta description and keyword tags into individual post on your WordPress blog
If you are a WordPress user, you probably already understand that you do not have access to the header (the place where your meta tags will be) for each post and page. Installing a plugin like
Meta SEO Pack (highly recommended) will allow you to easily edit both the meta description and meta keywords tag for your posts in the edit post page of your admin control panel. It is recommended that you add meta descriptions for every single post on your blog. This will not only cause search engines to view your blog better (Google wants you to have unique meta tags and will reward you with more visitors if you use them) but will also enable you to send a message to people who see your site displayed in their search engine results.
Why should people visit your page? What are you offering them specifically? These are the kind of questions you should ask yourself when creating a meta description tag for your individual posts.
Inserting meta tags into the frontpage of your WordPress blog
Because the index.php page is so dynamic, WordPress does not have a way of editing your frontpage from the admin control panel. You can use the Meta SEO Pack to add tags to your frontpage or you can edit your theme’s header.php and do it manually. You can do that by clicking ‘Editor’ (under the Appearance tab in admin cp), then ‘Header’ (header.php) on the list of files to the right. Insert the tags anywhere between the and tags but make sure you don’t alter any of the php code.


AdSense Tip

AdSense Tip #1: Find your keywords
Before serving ads on a web page, check its keyword density. A free and advanced tool for finding the mostprominent keywords in a page can be found here: SEO Density Analyzer. Copy the most important keywords to atext file ([web page name]-adsense-keywords.txt).
AdSense Tip #2: Improve your keywords
Get keyword suggestions from Overture Search Inventory and from Googl e AdWords Sandbox . Get new keywordsthat can help you improve your ad relevance. Enter the keywords from [web page name]-adsense-keywords.txtand save the suggestions to [web page name]-adsense-suggestions.txt.

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

How to Double Your AdSense Income Instantly

As you probably already know, AdSense is revolutionizing the way many infopreneurs are creating revenue from their web site traffic. The reason for this is its simplicity. Through AdSense, revenue is generated when someone simply clicks thru the AdSense ads displayed on the webmasters web site.

In this article I want to give you a few simple ways to dramatically increase your AdSense income.

The bottom line:

To increase AdSense income all you must do is increase the number of click thrus you receive.

There are two ways for you to increase your total number of click thrus. You can either increase your website traffic or you can increase your AdSense click thru rate. Now, getting more traffic would be great, but let’s be honest increasing your web site traffic is much easier said than done. So, let’s focus on increasing your AdSense click thru rate instead.

4 Tips to Increase Click Thru:

Match your AdSense to your website:

You want your AdSense ads to appear as seamless as possible. Your goal is to match every aspect of your AdSense ads to the theme of your website. What you want to do is remove the borders from your AdSense ads and match the background color of the ad to your website. Additionally, you want to match the color of the AdSense links to the rest of the links on your website plus choose an ad format that makes the ads look seamless.

For example, if your web site has a white background and the default color of your hypertext links is blue you will want to remove the border from your AdSense, make the background white, choose either a square or a rectangle as your ad format instead of a skyscraper or banner, and yep you guessed it… make the links blue.

Placement Matters:

Where you place your AdSense ads is just as important as how they look. Luckily, there are only a few concepts that you need to worry about in order to increase your click through rate.

•The more white space around your ads the better

•The closer to the top of the page the better

•The closer the left of the page the better

Follow these concepts and I can assure you that you will see an increase in your AdSense click thru rate. (It really is that simply!)

Google Search:

Now this is one that I rarely see webmasters take advantage of. The Google AdSense program gives webmasters the ability to add a Google search box to there web site.

Why should you use this function?

Well, when a website visitor chooses to use this search box from your website your AdSense ID will be imbedded in ALL of that visitors Google searches. If that person does 1 search or 50 your AdSense ID will still be imbedded throughout process.

Why is this so great?

If that visitor clicks on any of the sponsored listings while surfing from your web site guess who makes money. YOU! If they hit the back button and click on another ad guess who makes money? YOU! This is absolutely huge. Through this function you now have the ability to earn multiple click thrus from the same visitor on the site visit. Please don’t overlook how powerful this is. Besides, most of your website traffic will just be browsing anyway, so I why help them find what there looking for and make a little coin along the way?

Tracking:

Just like any other type of marketing, you won’t know what’s working the best for you on your web site unless you track the different things that you’re experimenting with. Set up a few Google AdSense channels for the different ads that you’ll be placing on your website. Then just see which channels are working the best and stick to those.

That’s it!

Follow the tips above and I can assure you that you will absolutely double your AdSense click thru rate and your AdSense income. The best part about the four tips I’ve shared here is that you can put them into action immediately and see how they will work on your website right now. Who knows… you could be making twice as much by tomorrow by just making a few simple tweaks here and there.

Adbrite–Best google adsense alternative

Adbrite–Best google adsense alternative

Adbrite, is currently one of the best alternatives there is to Google's adsense. While they do not offer the same large selection of ad formats that Clicksor and Google Adsense provide you they do offer the most commonly used ones. In addition they offer inline page links with have some great click through ratios as well as interstitial full page ads which offer an excellent way to monetize all traffic to your site not just traffic that clicks on your ads. Their payouts are also very competitive. They have more relaxed terms and conditions than Adsense and are much more accepting of smaller publishers including bloggers.

If you're a publisher, use AdBrite to set your own ad rates, and approve or reject every ad that's purchased for your site or just have AdBrite auto accept ever ad. AdBrite enables you to instantly sell ads to your visitors via a "Your Ad Here" link, in addition to selling through AdBrite's marketplace and sales team.

Revenue is typically split 75/25 in your favor. Through a small snippet of HTML placed on your site, they handle serving, scheduling, billing, customer service, and sales. About half of AdBrite's sales are generated from the marketplace and sales team, while the other half are generated from users clicking "Your Ad Here" on your website.

While AdBrite can provide publishers with more revenue and better ads than traditional ad networks such as Google AdSense, they work fine along-side them as a way for you to generate additional ad revenue by selling ads directly to your visitors — something the other ad systems don't do. Ad Brite also lets you select your own minimum bid prices and give you the option of showing an alternative ad service such as Clicksor when bid prices fall below your minimum.

If you're using AdBrite on your website you also have the option to turn off AdBrite's "run-of-network ads" and AdBrite will only display ads that have been approved by you allowing you to prevent competitors ads being shown on your site. If you have no ads running, AdBrite will display nothing but "Your Ad Here" or your alternative ad provider.

Note, from my experiences it can take a day or so from when you signup with AdBrite and put their code on your website to actually start seeing relevant ads showing up. So if you see the message "Advertize on this site" just be patient and give it a day or so and you should start seeing relevant ads showing up.

List of Top Text Link Advertising Networks

List of Top Text Link Advertising Networks

Earn money from internet is the biggest and hot topic in these days. Lot of people are making website for only earning purpose and now another fasion is open in this era that is "Blogging for money". There are lot of methods of earning money online. Earn money through text links is not a popular method but you can earn money though this mehtod if you have a page with high PR and high alexa raank.

Actually, there are many websites that are offering text links but, today, I will review some popular

Text link ads – Text link ads is an adverting company located in NY which helps both the advertiser and publisher to make money of their services. To include your website as a publisher here on text link ads, your website should have Google page rank 3 or 4 at least and good Alexa ranking as well. They send your earnings on the first of every month via check, Paypal or Payoneer whichever you recommend. According to me, Text link ads; is the best adverting company for selling links on your website. I himself have been suing text link ads on some of my blogs with great success.
TNX (Pronounced as the word Thanks) – TNX could be your ultimate target if you are willing to sell text links on your website. The good thing about TNX is that you can though on selling links on your website if your website doesn't have some real PR. And if your website have a good page rank, then the price for every link that is sold on your website will be quite high. They have the paypal as the mode of payment and they send your payments once every month.
Linkworth – Linkworth has many adverting programs including text link ads which website owners and bloggers can use to make money. They have 70:30 commission ratio i.e. publishers will be paid 70 percent of amount they make with every opportunity and the rest will go to Linkworth account. They send the payments on the 10th of every month via check, paypal or bank transfer whichever you prefer. According to me, Linkworth is a win-win situation for both the publisher and blogger as it gives lots of money making opportunity to both with their website and services.
Linkadage – Website owners can earn money by selling text links with Linkadage. With Linkadage, you can sell links on PR as well as non PR pages and even can set your own pricing for links.

Saturday, March 13, 2010