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I have been working with Google Adsense for quite a while now and I have some simple tips for low earners to boost their Income.
As we know, Google Adsense is a pay per click program where you get paid when a visitor clicks the Adsense ads on your site and you can earn anywhere $0.10 to a $1.00 or more depending on what the advertiser is paying per click.
New Adsense publishers have not optimized their Adsense fully, so this article is to help these new and probably low earners to make some money.
Adsense On Your Site
I know you might be caught up in the whole money making online and you might tend to place a numerous amount of ads on your site but this would not be recommend. If you fill your site with ads this means you would be destroying your site without even knowing it by making money.
Visitors tend to get turned off if you have more ads than content. Remember, the reason why visitors come to your site is because of the contents that you have, not to click on your ads. Wouldn’t it be strange if you just browse from site to site to click on the ads? You have to deliver quality content to your visitors and might be in turn you will get a few clicks depending on your traffic.
New Adsense User Tip: Two Adsense ads per page would be best.
Positioning Your Adsense Ads
I would not recommend you placing Google Adsense ads at the top of your site. Visitors do not like to be greeted with advertisements in their face. It’s best to place the ad at the bottom, in a suitable position in the content, and or at the side bar, depending on how your website is structured.
Layout and Colors
To blend means you use the same color on your site to match your ads. For example, choosing the same background color and choosing the same link color.
I do this not because I want to hide my ads or trick my visitors that I placed the links there, but because it makes my site look more neater.
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April 29, 2010 at 1:46 pm
Great thoughts but all the same wondering if these are from your own experience since I couldn’t see adsense ads here!
On point #1, yes your readers do not come to your blog for some ads but the content. However, your providing your content is not because your are a philantropist! You need the revenue and putting the ads where they are conspicous will pay you more. Just try it out!
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April 29, 2010 at 2:56 pm
Yes my own experience. I have other websites and blogs. This is my latest blog.
April 29, 2010 at 4:31 pm
Nice Tips Kharim. One more thing which I believe should work is remove low paying category from adsense settings and keep your ad unit minimum above the fold.
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April 29, 2010 at 4:40 pm
Thanks for reading and commenting Harsh Agrawal. Thanks for that tip as well
May 3, 2010 at 2:17 am
Nice tips but I still prefer placing ads on the header.
Btw, I think there are some problems with the layout of this theme
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May 3, 2010 at 5:47 am
Thanks for reading and commenting Tek3D. That is ok but it should not be the first thing that greets your visitors.
May 3, 2010 at 5:48 am
Oh btw, what problem do you have with my blog’s theme?
May 3, 2010 at 2:49 am
Nice tips Kharim. I’ve been using these for some time now. Please let me add my penny of advice on the fact that 2 Adsense slots per page are recommended: it is because it increases your Click Through Rate (CTR) allowing Google to pay you more money per ad clicked. I used to have 3 ad slots but increased the CTR when I reduced the number to 2.
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May 3, 2010 at 5:52 am
Thank you for reading and commenting Sachim. You are right. I used to have 3 ads per page and since I removed 1 of them and now have 2 ads per page, I have notice an improvement in clicks and earnings.
May 3, 2010 at 9:01 am
Position and color matching is the best way to raise your Adsense income.. well except driving huge amounts of traffic..lol
Greta post.
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May 3, 2010 at 9:24 am
Thanks for reading and commenting @ John Paul Aguiar. It’s all about your ads location, color, and size.
Nice
May 3, 2010 at 11:35 pm
One amazing tip I’d like to share is a simple set of codes you can include on your pages to help display relevant ads.
These two pieces of code are:
With these, you’d place them only within the body content of your blog posts. You don’t want Adsense to pick up on your sidebar and footer because they often include recent comments, top commentors, related posts and other bits of information which throws off the effectiveness.
Within the Wordpress editor, just place the section start before your title and the end right before the comments. This will ensure adsense is scanning only your body content which in turn gives you highly relevant ads.
May 3, 2010 at 11:37 pm
It seems my comment wouldn’t allow me to use the tags.
I found the Google post which explains this in detail:
https://www.google.com/support/adsense/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=23168
Hope this helps.
May 3, 2010 at 11:39 pm
Just to quickly add onto the comment again.
The reason why you don’t want to include the comments is that many times you’ll only have ones which say “Great Post!” which doesn’t add that much value for Adsense.
Also, if the comments get off topic, it will also display irrelevant ads.
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May 4, 2010 at 8:36 am
Thanks for your tips and comments Murlu. Do you have any ideas how to target the ‘high paying adsense ads’?
Those tips can be used as you said Murlu to target the section that you want, such as the content or body of your blog or website.
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May 4, 2010 at 8:56 am
From my experience, it really depends on the subject of your blog and its blog posts.
For example, if you were to check Google Adwords for PPC costs, you’ll notice that most of the high payout keywords are for industries such as medical, credit cards, insurance and so on.
The reason why these companies pay so much is that they’ll get their money back in the long term. It’s a loss leader.
Since these companies are willing to bid upwards of $100+ per click, if your blog targeted subjects and keywords they bid on, your Adsense will more likely show these ads and thus, earn you more money.
In a nutshell more or less.
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May 4, 2010 at 9:02 am
Oh you mean your blogs niche.
I know that these industries pay alot. Medical, Mortgage Financing and Credit Cards. Now I understand. Thanks for the clarity Murlu
May 11, 2010 at 8:16 pm
I just use the WhyDoWork Adsense plugin on my clients sites, it allows you to use different adsense codes in different part of the page/post/site, as well as allows you control of when the ads appear (I like to wait 5 days so all the RSS readers have usually come and gone, after that referral and search traffic will come, and those are the clickers anyway). Really make adsense much easier with that plugin….
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May 12, 2010 at 9:26 am
Ok Cool Keith. Will check that plugin
May 7, 2010 at 4:23 pm
I myself tuned my AdSense from using 468×90 banners to 350×250 blocks on my blogs and saw a 45% improvement in AdSense two months in a row just by switching my ad sizes and locations around. Blending your adsense and know that the larger blocks just outperform the banners every time in my own experience with running AdSense on 6 blogs.
May 7, 2010 at 6:47 pm
Ok Justin thanks for your comment and keep up the good work
May 11, 2010 at 8:10 pm
At some point you have to decide you want to really increase the money, or worry about a reader not liking the placement of the ad. I have tested adsense on many sites, and in many niches, the large text ads (350 and 336) work the best, designed like the rest of your content (which you also mentioned), placed DIRECTLY under the title of the page. I have seen that one placement more than triple sites earnings.
So, then the question becomes, do you want the visitor to read your article, or do you want them to click that ad. Some bloggers wrestle with that question. I don’t. But I don’t put adsense on my own sites, just for clients, and they don’t sell their own products.
The other thing that is very important with adsense, or any other CPC type advertising, is you need traffic, lots of it. Adsense is a big numbers game, more impressions usually equals more clicks. Not just any traffic, but search traffic. So a smart SEO campaign is really important as well.
Just thought I would add my $.02 (per click LOL)
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May 12, 2010 at 9:35 am
Well said Keith, Thanks for your lovely comments
May 14, 2010 at 11:27 pm
I have found good success with 336×280 and also the 728×90 one. As far as I feel apart from size even the placment of the ad is so very crucial. The colors, placement and ads should all blend with each other.
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May 15, 2010 at 9:57 am
Thats true Isabel. It’s all about location, size and color. They play major roles
May 18, 2010 at 12:49 pm
These are some good advices, if you will not take into consideration this advices you will have allot of money to lose.
May 18, 2010 at 2:05 pm
Thanks for the comment Bit Doze. You are so right
June 3, 2010 at 2:09 am
Im not ready for this yet but when the time comes i will take advantage of this post to the fullest . Keep up the good work as usual .
July 17, 2010 at 1:09 pm
Ok Ron
Thanks again for commenting
There are many ways to use AdSense to achieve your goals.Some people are using AdSense to earn a great deal of money in amounts that you would not have thought was possible unless you robbed a bank.
July 17, 2010 at 1:13 pm
Thanks for the comment Mapo. You are so right, there are lots of money to be made with Google Adsense.
August 11, 2010 at 10:55 pm
I’m failed when singup Google adsense. But noway i will try it again and use this tips for my account
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October 7, 2010 at 3:19 pm
Your site has to be over 6 month old I think before you can get accepted into Google Adsense. Try again
and I wish you luck
August 29, 2010 at 10:17 pm
I like these tips! I know success with Adsense is determined by experimentation… since the design and layout of every blog is different, it will vary for each blog… take the time to play around!
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October 7, 2010 at 3:23 pm
Yep that’s true. You have to play around with your Adsense, layout, size, colors, placement and see which one works for you.
Some great tips here. I have found that the key is to experiment with placement and colors. Keep working and be sure to give them at least 500 impressions to get a good feel for what works.
I also use the Who Sees Ads plugin for Wordpress which hides your adsense ads to regular viewers but shows them for search engine traffic. I has increased my CTR and income as well and has lots of options too!
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ozh-who-sees-ads/
Another tip is to keep in mind that Adsense likes keywords. Be sure to focus on some of the keywords that you want to target in your post as it will help Adsense pull better ads.
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October 5, 2010 at 8:27 am
Thanks for the fine tips Elliott. I will check that plugin and install it and see what results I get.
October 7, 2010 at 9:16 am
Your adsense ads blends great with your post, which is great.
Anyhow adsense earning is small but good way to monetize blogs for a long run, because we don’t need to do anything and can earn money from it.
Great tip
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October 7, 2010 at 3:28 pm
Well making good money with Adsense can work great for you if you have lots of traffic. I know their are some people who earn over $200.00 everyday. So once you have the traffic, it can work well for you.
October 8, 2010 at 12:12 am
Yes, true, more traffics more clicks.
Gosh, 200$ a day that’s awesome adsense earnings from one blog.
I will be happy if i get 5$ a day regularly ahaha.
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October 8, 2010 at 9:53 am
Yup… $200 per day is great. lol
October 7, 2010 at 3:06 pm
I think it can be safe to say that if your intentions are just to make a site for just “ads” then chances are you will not be very successful in making money online. I don’t use Adsense on a lot of my sites, but I have found that placement, and the layout do have a very heavy emphasis on whether or not anyone ever clicks on your ads. Sometimes you might want to due away with Adsense as they will be competing with your affiliate sales
.
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October 7, 2010 at 3:30 pm
That’s true. If you make a site jus to place ads on them then you won’t have much success in making money from those ads.
You have to have more content than ads as well in order for it to work well for you.
Thanks for the comment Garen
I am new to Google Adsense and is still in process of learning about it by reading related blogs. thanks for the post. It somehow gives me a clear view on how adsense works and it’s value.
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October 14, 2010 at 5:03 pm
Google Adsense is a great way to generate income from your website or blog, but bear in mind that wit lots of traffic it can work well for you
October 16, 2010 at 7:05 am
Adense Optimization is important for good google adsense revenue. And also important ads come out related content.
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October 16, 2010 at 1:28 pm
That’s true. Good optimization can work great for you
October 26, 2010 at 1:30 pm
Very good information Thank’s for your information, i will try to implement it to my sites
October 26, 2010 at 4:55 pm
Thanks for the comment. Hope you put these tips into good use
November 3, 2010 at 10:41 am
I think you should play with different ad styles and positions, before you start getting lots of traffic.
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November 3, 2010 at 11:29 am
Yep that’s true about playing with the different sizes and colors but you have to have great traffic in order for it to work well
Google AdSense offers immense advantages for web site owners and advertisers alike. Wish you a happy and prosperous New Year
January 2, 2011 at 9:51 am
Thanks for the comment and same for you for the new years
Over all you should try to use ads that blend in, because people spend lots of time in forums and the forum design should not be disrupted by outstanding ad colors.
And I really enjoyed reading this article and some of the above information will be useful for me.So thanks a lot!
January 21, 2011 at 10:47 am
Thanks for the comment Seph and glad you liked my article
Hello Kharim,
Very helpful hints in this article! Cheers to you. I agree that adsense adds from Google can help you earn. However, you need to maintain that high rank of your website so that the ad owner will not leave your website as well.
March 23, 2011 at 7:03 pm
Your’e welcome Clark and thanks for commenting.
Hi Kharim
Nice article and some usefull tips. Especially about choosing the colours. But I wonder why you say not to place ads at the top of the page when you have ads just behind your post title? Would you say that by ‘top of the page’ you mean in the header?
April 7, 2011 at 7:51 pm
Yeah I meant in the header… But I guess it works differently for every blog
Unluckily I don’t have Adsense. I think I should only try one of them. I’ve read good reviews about WhyDoWork AdSense, but i will still consider other. Thanks for the advice. This was really helpful for me.
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April 9, 2011 at 3:55 pm
Adsense is really great and it works well. Looking forward to my second check
I think that the position and the color plays the most vital role in your Adsense income. Traditionally, I saw people place 300×250 ads and 160×600 because those ads work best for them. The color is important too. Gurus say that you should optimize the color of Adsense to match with the theme but some other guys say no so I am really not sure about that.
April 14, 2011 at 10:57 am
Thats true Jermy… Location, color and size is what makes Google Adsense works best. You have to know what works best for your site and adjust it. Another thing which makes it work great is lots of traffic.
April 12, 2011 at 12:23 pm
Though I am not a new on AdSense but I am a Low Earner. I am using Leaderboard and Sky Scrapper Ads on my blogs.
Please write another post to discuss this topic in depth so people like me can also take more advantage.
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April 14, 2011 at 11:01 am
Hey Nazimwarriach… I have another post which I had written about what I did to increase my earnings with CTR…
Simple Tips I Used To Increase My Google Adsense Earnings
April 16, 2011 at 9:46 am
Inserting adsense ads in post is probably the best way, that way visitors view ads only after clicking on posts
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April 21, 2011 at 8:40 am
My Adsense Unit in the post does pretty well, better than in the header or the footer. I have not really tried it in the side bar to see how it works. I might try it later on though. Thanks for your comment.
Please I am asking you to also leave a comment on the article link below… Thanks
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May 11, 2011 at 5:36 pm
Great writeup.
Am 17, but a great programmer, website-designer, and Cisco expert……….. keep writing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
June 10, 2011 at 11:00 am
Hi there! I love this post
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Very Well said which is absolutely TRUE also.
Like you say – Visitors visit for our content not to click on our ads. So first meaningful and Informative is required which makes them to land on our site and then on Ads.
Second is also true about position coz I personally don’t like this that whenever I open any sites and first my eyes got ADS rather than what I want. So placing ads at perfect postion is very much important and the right place is BOTTOM. Agreed in this.
Third is very much important about colours–There are many folks who hates many colour especially eye catchy or strong one which reflects bad rays to our eyes coz sometimes by watching such colour from more than 1 min many get HEADACHE. So what they do, Just simply click on CLOSED button.
Thus thanks a lot for this very simple but much more important tips. If these tips are neglect then I am sure that we never get desired results form ADSENSE.
July 12, 2011 at 12:48 am
Good tips. But these tips will be helpful only when you have great traffic.
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July 13, 2011 at 11:35 pm
it a nice article , till now i think if i place ads on top the click rate be high ..
you give me new idea . thank you
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July 18, 2011 at 2:22 pm
Very informative and useful post, AdSense is a great way to monetize a website as long as you know how to use it and this post provides great ways to do that
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I have been do it, but i am stay Vietnam and every click by viet nam country it very small income. If clicked by USA can help me income $1 – $1.4 /1clicked…
So, what can I do to have more click by US Country ? Because i am a poor students in Vietnam country… I have to try design a website to earning income to learning..
100% agreed in all points as these are only to earn money from adsense and these are the only mistakes many does inorder to earn quick money and get destroyed their site say in very first point you have said that “If you fill your site with ads this means you would be destroying your site without even knowing it by making money”. This is absolutely true as it obvious that visitors comes for our content not for our ads.
Thanks a lot for this important sharing and Sorry to reach here LATE.
August 14, 2011 at 1:32 am
This post suggests not to have the ad unit in the starting of the page but its there right on this blog, too

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August 19, 2011 at 3:55 pm
Very nice post mate. Even though all the points stated above and the comments provided are vital. There are some more pivotal points that many adsense bloggers fail to do, and that is actually optimizing the your site contents for adsense. After these have been done then can you really take full advantage of the adsense program.
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September 25, 2011 at 12:10 pm
Truly right! Sometimes I felt guilty why I put my Adsense before my post. If I have a time, I will remove the nasty annoying square like button in the my post. I think this will affect my visitor.
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September 25, 2011 at 1:27 pm
You don’t have to feel guilty putting Adsense in your content or before your post… If you are having success with it then you can keep it there.then you can keep it there.
I’ve found that 125×125 is a good option for ad size. It’s very attractive and growing in popularity.
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Indeed 125X125 ads are the least intrusive. Nobody wants to be bombarded with a clutter of ads. The ads should also blend with your website fonts.
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This has to be one of my favorite posts! And on top of thats its also very useful topic for newbies. thank a lot for the info!
Wow great tips. I will surely implement these techniques!
Hi, i’ve optimized my blog for adsense as per your tips. Lets see how it works.Thanks
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Nice Post.
Knowing the proper positioning of your adsense is a must for you to maximize your revenue. The more visible your ads to your readers, the higher possibility for them to click those ads. As a result, you will earn more thru their clicks.
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January 17, 2012 at 11:24 am
i think ad placement is more impotent then all things and middle article ads was very worked for me
Im going to take advice from someone who can not even spell…..yeah, right.
February 14, 2012 at 7:55 pm
Hey … I’ve been looking through your website and getting some real good advice on getting into the blogging world. I personally started my own blog (it’s related mainly to the repairing of blackberry cellphone….i’m a cellphone technician). I don’t know what made me stay away from blogging but i’m glad i ventured into it.
I havent applied for adsense yet, but i will eventually when i start getting some readership to my site and i have added more articles.
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February 15, 2012 at 11:04 am
Thanks for the comment Wayne and I wish you success with your blog. You should apply to adsense after your blog has traffic, lets say over 100 visitors daily.
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Thanks Kharim for sharing these tips with us. I have already implemented some of them particularly those to do with color blending and hoping to see good results. All the best
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March 2, 2012 at 9:00 pm
i love this article. I will utilize it on my site.. Thank you
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March 8, 2012 at 9:28 am
728×90 & 336×280 ad units perform pretty well for me…Link units are the one in which I don’t see any benefits
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March 8, 2012 at 9:13 pm
When I was on Google Adsense the 300×250 was my top performing unit. Works like a charm
Hmm… I have to disagree with not having an ad at the top of the website. My 728×90 ad and 300×250 ads that are both at the top or near the top of the website are actually the ones that make the most money and get the most attention.
March 16, 2012 at 8:47 am
Hope on next Attempt my site will be approved for Google Adsense. I will try for all tips.
Thanks Kharim for this useful tips.
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March 16, 2012 at 9:58 am
I wish you the best of luck bro… Not sure what went wrong buyt my account was banned by Adsense
March 16, 2012 at 2:53 pm
Thanks Kharim. Hope Google Adsense again approved our site for Adsense
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March 16, 2012 at 10:27 pm
Thanks. I hope so too.
March 18, 2012 at 5:46 am
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1.If you want to increase the revenue your site generates from ads, you will eventually need to build more than one website.
2.When you create websites based around one specific, central topic, you are able to send more targeted traffic to them.
3.Obviously, this increases the likelihood that visitors will be interested in the advertisements and therefore more likely to click.
4.Plus, multiple properties means you can optimize each site for specific keywords to rank them higher in the search engines.
5.Even if you only have one site and manage to rank it on the first page, chances are it’s only going to rank that well for one keyword.
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Kharim,
Thanks for these tips. I think, adsense ads inside the post is also effective. I’m having a nice number of clicks on that ad position. My only problem is that I got a low paying keyword. Increasing adsense revenue also depends on the keywords in my opinion.
Thanks.
Alden
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April 5, 2012 at 7:13 am
Informative article but it needs more description about Google Adsense easy optimization
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May 9, 2012 at 12:49 am
Nice suggestions Kharim. I do agree that reducing number of ads increases CPC and makes your blog more neat.
However, placing Ads on sidebar or bottom of posts is not a very good suggestion. After making a lot of placement researches, I found that a LeaderBoard Ad unit at the top of post converts better. However, it may be different for different site structures and blogs.
Another point to be noted: If you are getting too many clicks and very low pay per click rate, it is advisable to reduce the number of Ad units. In my ICT Trends website, I used to get huge clicks but the CPC was hardly 0.02 or 3. After I removed all the units and just kept 1 Ad unit and 1 link unit, the CPC improved up to 0.7 on average.
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May 14, 2012 at 11:52 am
Very good Adsense tips. I’m glad you pointed out that I shouldn’t add too many ads, it’s easy to get carried away.
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