Comments on: A Couple of Ideas to Improve Your AdSense Income

By: Robert Irizarry

Robert Irizarry — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 01:28:48 +0000

Here’s one I didn’t see covered – Show your ads only to that part of your audience that is likely to click on it.

Social media is great for traffic and exposure but typically converts poorly in terms of ad clicks. Fortunately, the WordPress plugin Who Sees Ads let’s you control what sort of traffic sees Adsense.

In the process, you should see an improvement in CTR and avoid “smart pricing”.

I’ve been experimenting with it for about 2 weeks now and so far so good. I’ve been limiting Adsense mostly to search engine traffic and seen an improvement in CTR as a result.

By: Sumesh

Sumesh — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 08:30:54 +0000

Blue background is fine – just make it a bit darker and use white text so that there’s more contrast. Or, you could lighten the background and keep the text as it is.

Experiment and ask around a bit – but I’d surely recommend changing it.

By: Tom Ross

Tom Ross — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 01:56:08 +0000

Good post! I really hate Google Smart Pricing, it negatively effects honest webmasters…

By: Bush Mackel

Bush Mackel — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 16:27:21 +0000

I’m def ok with the whole clickable area thing in regards to AdSense blocks. But of course, I don’t make any money from them anyway, so that probably has something to do with it.

By: Kyle Eslick

Kyle Eslick — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 14:50:26 +0000

@ Sumesh – Really? Thats interesting, because the blue shading is probably the thing I’ve gotten the most compliments on.

What do you recommend? I’m always open for suggestions. A grey shading of some sort maybe?

By: Sumesh

Sumesh — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 11:14:24 +0000

PS: Black text on blue background is ugly – and your theme is showing that everywhere. Don’t let an oversight ruin an otherwise slick theme.

By: Sumesh

Sumesh — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 11:13:08 +0000

Heat map isnt much relevant any way. It depends more on how the design is. If the design is made to guide the eye in a different way, heat map will be useless. If there’s too many catchy elements in header, the eye will be there, and not among content as the map says.

By: Josh Spaulding

Josh Spaulding — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 19:58:23 +0000

Thanks for the plug, Kevin. I’ve heard about the reduction in income of many publisher accounts. I guess I’ve been lucky because I’ve only seen a slight increase. Google stock has dropped in a major way lately as well and from what I hear they’re saying it’s due to a drop in advertising dollars (Adwords.)

By: A Couple of Ideas to Improve Your AdSense Income · Making Money Online

A Couple of Ideas to Improve Your AdSense Income · Making Money Online — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 11:46:25 +0000

[...] Bloggeron – quality over quantity wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerpt A couple of months ago Google made some significant changes to their AdSense program when they re-did the clickable area, which caused a lot of people to lose money. I know personally that my AdSense income dropped by at least $70.00 a month as a result of this change, and I’ve heard from several others that are have had the same problem. Anytime there is a change, it is only natural we take the time to step back and look over the situation in the hope of finding a way to improve it. One pos [...]