30 June 2008

Putting ads on your site




AdSense lets you customize the appearance of ads to match the look and feel of your site. You can also customize the style of your AdSense for search box and search results page.



Adding AdSense to your pages is easy. Once your application is approved, just log into your account, customize your ad unit, and copy and paste a block of HTML code into your website. You're welcome to place ads on any acceptable site-- without re-applying.

How do I get started?




Becoming an AdSense publisher is fast and easy:



To apply, you must have:

* A launched website with acceptable content and valid URL.
* A valid payee name and mailing address to receive your payments.


Read tips for application success

* Don't own a website? Create one with Blogger or Google Page Creator.

* Have multiple sites? As an AdSense publisher, you can place ads on any acceptable site-- without re-applying.

Whats Google AdSense?



AdSense may be one of the fastest and ways to monetize traffic to your website if you have products or services to sell or simply to provide free content to your visitors.

In other words, Google AdSense enables website operators Placer code on their site that connects to the server Google ad content database and extract relevant keywords advertising web pages. The webmaster is paid a percentage of the tax that Google receives from the advertiser each time a visitor clicks on an ad. There is no charge for the webmaster to participate in AdSense. All costs are covered by the advertiser participating in AdSense sister called AdWords.

Google sends digital "robots" that use proprietary algorithms to analyze the Web page host and analyze the content in an effort to determine what keywords are relevant. It reports its findings to the Google ad server that serves ads relevant to those keywords. Given that the whole process is automated, the ad robots "do a pretty good job to get the content of advertising right most of the time.


01 January 2008

5 Ways To Improve Your Adsense Earnings

If webmasters want to monetize their websites, the great way to do it is through Adsense. There are lots of webmasters struggling hard to earn some good money a day through their sites. But then some of the “geniuses” of them are enjoying hundreds of dollars a day from Adsense ads on their websites. What makes these webmasters different from the other kind is that they are different and they think out of the box.

The ones who have been there and done it have quite some useful tips to help those who would want to venture into this field. Some of these tips have boosted quite a lot of earnings in the past and is continuously doing so.

Here are some 5 proven ways on how best to improve your Adsense earnings.

1. Concentrating on one format of Adsense ad. The one format that worked well for the majority is the Large Rectangle (336X280). This same format have the tendency to result in higher CTR, or the click-through rates. Why choose this format out of the many you can use? Basically because the ads will look like normal web links, and people, being used to clicking on them, click these types of links. They may or may not know they are clicking on your Adsense but as long as there are clicks, then it will all be for your advantage.

2. Create a custom palette for your ads. Choose a color that will go well with the background of your site. If your site has a white background, try to use white as the color of your ad border and background. The idea to patterning the colors is to make the Adsense look like it is part of the web pages. Again, This will result to more clicks from people visiting your site.

3. Remove the Adsense from the bottom pages of your site and put them at the top. Do not try to hide your Adsense. Put them in the place where people can see them quickly. You will be amazed how the difference between Adsense locations can make when you see your earnings.

4. Maintain links to relevant websites. If you think some sites are better off than the others, put your ads there and try to maintaining and managing them. If there is already lots of Adsense put into that certain site, put yours on top of all of them. That way visitor will see your ads first upon browsing into that site.

5. Try to automate the insertion of your Adsense code into the webpages using SSI (or server side included). Ask your web administrator if your server supports SSI or not. How do you do it? Just save your Adsense code in a text file, save it as “adsense text”, and upload it to the root directory of the web server. Then using SSI, call the code on other pages. This tip is a time saver especially for those who are using automatic page generators to generate pages on their website.