Optimizing Google Adsense 2
June 26th, 2006
4. Optimize your website for high paying Adsense keywords.
This is where you can make a big difference on your Adsense income. As mentioned earlier on this website, Google Adsense clicks varies from $0.00 and up to several dollars a click. The trick in optimizing your pages with high paying keywords, without breaking Google’s Adsense terms, or damaging your site’s content, is to do a bit of research and abstract thinking..
You will never be able to know the exact price a click on a given keywords gives you, this is a well guarded “Google secret”. However, you can use 2 different legal and freely available tools, to get a better estimate on each keyword.
If you signup to Googles Adwords program, you will get access to different tools - including Google’s AdWords TrafficEstimatorSandbox.
Here you can get an estimated cost to AdWords advertisers for a given keyword, and test out different keywords. You can use Google’s AdWords keyword suggestion tool to have variations of your keywords suggested.
Let’s assume that you have created a website about Horses, and you have decided to expand your site with more content.
A search with the above mentioned method shows the following price per keyword :
* Horses $0,33
* Model Horses $1,34
* wooden rocking horses $1,11
* Arabian Horses for sale $0,98
* thoroughbred horses $0,66
So just out these examples, you might want to consider writing your next page about Arabian Horses for sale, or maybe even add a page about Model Horses, or wooden rocking horses for your readers children.
This method is also very useful when trying to determine if there are higher paying keywords, that you can target with the same content. From your readers perspective you are still offering content on the same subject, and for the Google AdWords advertisers, you are offering original content about their subject, and therefore highly targeted prospective buyers.
Please, always remember to write your content for your readers not for Adsense, since this can result in having your Adsense account terminated, and all your earnings will be lost.
5. Increase website traffic
Up to now, we have been discussing means of improving your CTR and click prices. Another factor, that is easy overlooked is your websites traffic.
Always try and increase your site traffic, i.e. by offering free valuable content, hold contests, offer newsletters, contribute to forums that are relevant to your topic etc.
6. Use Google Adsense Adlinks on your site.
This new type of Google Adsense Ads, have a different layout and function that the usual Adsense ads. When you add Adsense Adlinks to your WebPages (you can add both Adsense ads, Adsense search and Adsense Adlinks to the same page), your visitors will be presented with 4-5 links. Each link represent what google determines to be the most relevant keyword for your site, and when clicked on, your visitor is taken to a page displaying relevant Adsense ads to the link clicked on. Once again, any clicks registered on this page counts towards your Adsense income.
7. Use Google Adsense site search.
Offer your sites readers the possibility to search directly on Google from your site. Besides providing a search field, you will also have the added benefit that the search result page displays Adsense ads. Any clicks on these Ads, will be counted as clicks created from your website, and can thereby potentially increase your Adsense income.
Note: Google’s Adsense Terms strictly forbids publishers to alter the search code (i.e. pre populating the search field), or encouraging its users to use the search field.