21 Days to a More Profitable Blog Tutorial > Day 14! Get a clue about Adsense
(YAAAWN STTTTTTTRETCH oh! Hi! I had a rather decent nights’ sleep, how ’bout you?)
Good morning! And how was your yesterday’s Sunday? Over here in LingLand, I took my kids to the karate demo team practice (performance is in 2 weeks!), updated the karate website to include our Shihan’s article in the National Enquirer (he’s the Chief of Police for our local ASPCA as well) and finalized my latest tutorial that I’ll be writing (I’ll be announcing that soon).
And about today? Since this morning, I checked my feedreader, commented at Super Sunday Stumbles, What are YOU about?, and wrote Be a hero and proactively avert online disaster for your real life friends, and am now starting the day. Wheee!
Of course, that brings me to:
Today is Day 14 of my series, 21 Days To A More Profitable Blog!
And for today, I’d like to discuss:
Buying A Clue.
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Have I gotten your attention yet? No? Okay, how ’bout:
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Ahem.
As you can probably tell, I’m NOT a big Adsense fan. Oh, back it the days when I broke the Google code and could builds sites that brought any keyword whatsoever to the top 10 (that was in 2004, btw), I was a member of the Adsense UPS club (that’s when your monthly Google check was over $10,000 and had to be delivered special to your home). And it was delightful – I regularly had clicks for
- mesothelioma lawyer
- houston lawyer dui
- bmw manual
- etc.etc.etc.
That was 4 years ago. (hey, wanna see what pages ranked them? Some were found at Mesothelioma Lawyers and others at Find Lawyers and others at …) Ah, those were the days…..
But now, this annoying thing called REALITY comes into play.
Here is the fact about making huge bleeping amounts of money regarding Google Adsense:
You need traffic.
And I’m not talking 10 or 100 visitors a day – I’m talking THOUSANDS. Ideally, for each page. THOUSANDS.
Okay?
But be that as it may, you’ll find some folks still believe (or want to believe) that Adsense is key to their future success.
I would STRONGLY disagree with this (unless you have more traffic than Grand Central Station), but I do respect the fact that people want to discover this for themselves. And with that, let’s start off with:
Before You Begin – Go to Google Adsense and Sign Up.
Wasn’t that delightful?
Step 2 – Add it to your blog.
Google Adsense provides many tutorials on how to do this, including:
Want to add Adsense to your blog template? Here are some resources for that:
- Adding Adsense
- How To Add AdSense Ads To A WordPress Blog
- Adsense Help – Basics
- Tactics to Increase Your AdSense Earnings Overnight
What’s that I hear you mumble? You’d like Adsense plugins? ‘course you would! And here they are!
- Adsense Deluxe WordPress Plugin (you can also use eBay affiliate code too, heck, any javascript…)
- Adsense Manager
- Adsense Revenue Sharing
- Adsense Under Image
- MightySearch – Add Adsense Search to WordPress
- Improving AdSense Clickthrough Rates With AdSense Beautifier Plugin
- WordPress MU AdSense Plugin
If you’re reaaaaally tickled pink with Adsense, you can then consider:
Step 3 – Adsense-optimized WordPress themes
There are literally hundreds of Adsense SEO optimized WordPress themes out there! Visit:
- 18 Adsense Optimized WordPress Themes to Maximize your Contextual Ad Earnings
- Introducing ProSense: An Adsense Ready SEO WordPress Theme
- Adsense ready WordPress themes
- SEO Adsense WordPress theme
- The Ultimate List Of Adsense Ready WordPress Themes
And thus closes my admittedly shorter-than-a-parakeet’s-eyebrow lesson on Adsense Oh yes, I had almost forgotten! No Adsense tutorial is complete without Adsense tips! Look to the following for some extremely useful information:
- Collection of Creative Adsense Placement
- Google Adsense Tips, Tricks, and Secrets
- 5 Tips for Improving AdSense Referrals Earnings
- Google Adsense Tips
- My top 5 tips for increasing adsense earnings (without increasing traffic)
- The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to Effective Adsense Link Units Optimization
- Google AdSense: Facts, FAQs and Tools
- More AdSense Tips for Bloggers
- A to Z Adsense Tips
- Adsense Tips and Tools Collection
As you might infer, I’m really just not that big on Adsense. But….if you’ve been looking to add it to your site, I’m pretty certain that above will guide your way.
Nice, eh? Oh, and if you’re looking for videos to help you add Adsense, check out:
How to get started with video units>
And that brings me to:
In closing
In today’s lesson, you learned all about Adsense and why Barbara Ling doesn’t think it’s optimal for the majority of blogs due to the high traffic requirement.
And of course (you really didn’t think I’d close a post without this now, did you?) an opportunity now arises!
(remember, there’s no such things as problems in real life – just misunderstood opportunities)…..
HOMEWORK - Think about getting affiliate commissions for reviewable products. How would you go about this?
Thus, until tomorrow! (and don’t forget, if you think any of your friends would benefit from these tutorials, please do share them! They’ll thank you for it…guaranteed).
Enjoy,
Barbara Ling
#BEGIN highlights of this blog writing post:
Beginners Adsense blogging tips: You can find free Adsense-optimized themes online you can use.
Intermediate and/or Advanced Adsense blogging tips: eBay/Amazon will give you more income.
#END highlights of this blog writing post
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ps – speaking about Adsense, want targeted niche websites? Lookie at:
Money-Making Sites Fully Optimized For Adsense, Amazon
How To Generate profits from Google Adsense
How To Generate profits from Google Adsense
Money-Making Sites Fully Optimized For Adsense, Amazon
Money-Making Sites Fully Optimized For Adsense, Amazon
How To Generate profits from Google Adsense
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How To Generate profits from Google Adsense
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I like how you give Adsense resources even if you don’t believe in it yourself. I know a lot of people promote it all over the place. I also read that Cat Killer article – I can’t beleive how horrible some people can be.
Wow that’s alot to digest! I am new at this so I don’t have much to contribute. This will give me plenty to research as I contemplate creating my own blog and possible other internet ventures. Thanks for the info!
@Sarah,
Yep, that cat killer person should be behind bars. Chief Amato did well in cracking the case.
@Monte
My pleasure!
Barbara
Hi Barbara,
OK so now I need to ask some tough questions. I am having a problem getting access into my adsense account and wonder if you can give me some tips about better ways to get google to help me.
It’s a long story (and I won’t bore you with all thr gory details) — suffice it to say that between the time I got the account, and now, I had (good) reasons not to be active with it. And now I want to revive it and play. But I can’t find my password, and nothing google offers me is working.
We’re playing "email tag" and I’m beginning to think that they are actually deliberately misleading me! (Naw, they wouldn’t do THAT, would they????)
Anyhow I can’t use my account unless they let me back in — which they claim they are trying to do by "helping" me — which is worse than no help at all!
Help!!! Any suggestions???
P.S. I wonder of others have had this, umm, challenge before??? Is there a way to get to a real live person and have an ordinary, adult discussion that yields satisfactory results? Or is that so 1900′s???
Nancy
@Nancy,
Does http://tinyurl.com/yw7ygt help? I know the Adsense account has now been merged with one’s Gmail account….
Hope that helps,
Barbara
Hi Barbara,
That’s an interesting thread but I don’t think it answers my problem. It’s not a gmail address ) although I do have gmail too. I suppose I could post the dilemma in the forum and see if there are solutions that have worked for others.
But this thing has been going on now for, oh, around a month. Google takes a minimum of 3 days to reply — with info that doesn’t really answer the question. So basically it’s like the upside-down birdie at twitter whose message is something unprintable. . . sigh.
But thanks for reminding me about the forum.
Nancy
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