The Best Place To Put Adsense On Blogs

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There are many places to put Google Adsense Adverts, personally I think there is only one good place to put Adsense on blogs.

The image shows a suitable heat map of where Adsense should go. The yellow represents content including the banner at the top. The green on the right is the navigational menus.

The red represents the ad formats. The long on at the top is the main banner, with the red square as a rectangular advert. The blue represent text links.

The reason this is on of the best, is that adverts continue down the page. With lots of content, adverts will mingle in and will help with your conversion ratio and earnings.

Do's and Don'ts Monday

Its that time again for Do's and Don'ts Monday to help you get the best out of Adsense.

Don't

• Spam you website, hoping to get clicks.
  
• Puts ads in areas where accidental clicks are possible
• Confuse users with your Adsense code.
• Generate illegal impressions
• Generate illegal clicks.

Do

• Focus on getting valid clicks
• Be creative with your colours
• Suitably blend
• Adhere to the rules

Hopefully these rules will help you with your Adsense account.

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Easy To Use Webmaster Tools

I've been searching the web and found a couple of tools which you can use to help out your website and as a result try to get a better position in Google and hopefully improve you Google Adsense improvements.

Page Rank Prediction

It does what it says on the tin. Predicts your page rank. A good tool if you ever need to to work out your page rank when Google next updates there PR database. You can check out the website here.

Website Grader

Probably one of the best tools on the internet at the moment. A general all round tool that checks all aspects of your site. Click the image below of the full version.


This website, checks your page rank, Alexa rank, Inbound links and indexed webpages. As well as offering general information about your website. A must.

Pingoat

A rather cool little website, that "pings" loads of websites that you blog has been updated. A good my to let other people no that your website has been updated.

Hopefully all these websites are usefully because they defiantly helped me.

Do and Do Nots Monday

Its time for Adsense Hacks Do and Do Not's Monday. If you are ready lets begin.

Do

• Check earnings regularly.
  
• Make sure that your CTR is no higher than 10%, as this could report invalid clicks.
• Add e-mail alerts.
• Check your balance at the end of the month.
• Use advance reports to work out how much the average is between months.

Do Not

• Click your own ads.
• Let other people do your account.
• Constantly manage your Adsense account from different IP's as this could cause invalid clicks and Google remove you from the course.
• Ask people to click your Ad's.
  

Do's and Do Nots Monday.

Its Monday again, can you believe it? And it is time for Adsense Do and Do Nots. This week its about colors of adverts.

Do

• Use custom colors in the Adsense set up blog.
  
• Blend the boarder and background exactly.
• Use colors that please your color scheme.
• Optimize colors for best effect.
• Change the colors around every so often.

Do Not

• Use garish colors.
• Oppose colors so much that they stand out and distract from your content.
• Use the same color for all the different elements.
• Confuse users with you adverts color scheme.

Well hopefully you have gain a little more insight into using colors with Adsense, till next time goodbye.

Using Custom Colours For Adsense Ads

Did you know that you can use custom Colors with Adsense adverts. For quiet a while I thought that you could only use the colors out of the color picker. But if you click on the hex decimal number you can input any value which is a valid color. This of course is really useful as the colors that they provide are not that useful for some sites.



These different colors enable a whole variety of styles. Useful for people who have colors that are not in Google's color range.

Accidental Clicks

Once in a while you may click on your adverts which are being served on your website. An according to Google's terms of service you are not allowed to click on your own adverts.

Now this is not so much of a problem as Google can sort out which adverts are being clicked on legitimately and being clicked on illegitimately. Now Google have announced that if you accidentally click on your own adverts you wont be penalized to badly. Although they wont credit your account with the cash. This is not a problem if it doesn't happen that often. But it can be if this happens frequently.

Every time you click on your own advert a little red flag will be added to your account. Gain to many red flags and they will close your account. All in all don't click on your own adverts.

This article is to serve as a reminder to make sure that your Google Adsense account wont get closed.

Adsense Videos

You heard of the new Adsense Videos that are coming. Heres the blurb that is coming from Google.

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Click-to-play video ads: This is a video ad type on our content network. Any publisher opted into image ads and using one of the supported formats may see these click-to-play video ads on their sites.



AdSense video distribution and sponsorship: We ran 2 pilots that allowed publishers to choose video channels (short-form video clips bundled with video ads) to display on their sites.



In-stream video ads pilot: This is what we're announcing today - we're extending AdSense to online video content. Publishers in this test will be able to define at what point in their videos that streaming video ads will appear.

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They look good. Cant wait to try then out.

Do's And Do Nots of Adsense - Monday

Its Monday again and its is time for the Do and Do Nots of Google Adsense. This weeks theme is Ad units. Shall we begin?

Do

• Get a good colour scheme
• Use the same colours for the same ad areas
• Make sure that the ads are visible
• Use Skyscraper and large rectangle, they pay well.
• Use channels
• Use link units

Do Not

• Make your ads indistinguishable from your content
• Blend so much your ads disappear
• A colour scheme that does not match your site
• Block ad units
• Cover ad units
• Say "Click My Ads"
• Put ads on none content pages
  

5 Best Places to Adsense Adverts

You can put Adsense pretty much anywhere on a page. This list is the 5 best places to put adverts. The list is in no specific order.

1) Under The Header

Under the header is especially good since that area of the page attracts a lot of attention. Placing adverts here is a great money earner.

2) Under Navigation Aids

Again these areas of the page attract lots of attention.

3) At the Top of Posts

Just under the title is good as many people s eyes will wonder towards your ads.

4) In the Middle of Posts

A half time break if you wish, give your readers a chance to try out different content.

5) At the Bottom of Posts

The best place in my opinion if you want to use link ads, gives the best chance of visitors to view your adverts.

Ulitising Adsense Referral Units

Referral link units come in two forms, link and button. This guide will tell you how to use them to your advantage and help make you money.

The main advantage of a referral button is that you can earn up to $2000 a year off one product by just referring people. The disadvantage is that people usually have to download something or sign up. But with some good optimisation you can start getting clicks and earning money.

There are 4 types of referral packages; Adsense, Adwords, FireFox and Google Pack. Each have there own different target audience. For example the Adsense and Adwords referrals are aimed at people who are setting up sites and ready to promote them. For example people visiting this site have an interest in Adsense and possible Adwords. Other websites such as my blog would have referrals of the Google Pack and Firefox, as those are the types of product they would use.

Each different referral pays a different amount. This was taken from Adsense help.

AdSense:


• When a publisher who signed up for Google AdSense through your referral first earns $5 within 180 days of sign-up, you will be credited with $5.
• When that same publisher earns $100 within 180 days of sign-up and is eligible for payout, you will be credited with an additional $250.
• If in any 180-day period, you refer 25 publishers who each earn more than $100 within 180 days of their respective sign-ups and are all eligible for payout, you will be awarded a $2,000 bonus (bonus payouts are limited to 1 per year).

Firefox plus Google Toolbar: When a user that you have referred to Firefox plus Google Toolbar runs Firefox for the first time, you will receive up to US$1 in your account, depending on the user's location. Your referral must be a Windows user, who has not previously installed Firefox, in order for you to receive credit.

AdWords:


• When an advertiser you refer first spends $5 within 90 days of sign-up (in addition to the $5 sign-up fee), you will be credited with $5.
• When that same advertiser spends $100 within 90 days of sign-up, you will be credited with an additional $40.
• If in any 180-day period, you refer 20 advertisers who each spend more than $100 within 90 days of their respective sign-ups, you will be awarded a $600 bonus (bonus payouts are limited to 1 per year).

Pack: When a Windows user that you have referred to Pack downloads and installs the product, you will receive up to US$2 in your account.

Its obvious that the Adsense package pays the most, but its not necessarily the best for your site.

There are 3 types of formats that could be picked for referral units; link, button and big button.
The link units as the title describes is simply a link. Best for positions or sites that have a lot a links. The small button is useful, as in my case on the right, for sidebars and small areas that only need a small button to fill the area. The big buttons are better for large areas of your page that need to be filled, and a referral link is the best thing.

Remember that you are allowed 2 referral units on your page so fiddle around and see what gets the best position and clicks. Set up a channel and see what is working. Best of all experiment and see what your visitors want and click on, because if a visitor likes your products then they will click on your links and earn you money.

Utilising Adsense Link Units

Adsense link units are a really good money maker. I am going to share with you tips to making more profit. As you are only allowed one link unit per page, you are going to have to make it count.

For example link units are best placed were a lot of your links are already contained. The sidebar, at the bottom of a post. The placing of a link unit is important because only one or two words advertise what the advert is about. Putting a link unit in a low traffic area of your site is a waste of time.

Colour is also important. The best link colour is blue. All links on the Internet are blue so should yours. There is no need to reinvent the wheel are confuse your visitors. as well as this also make sure the background and boarder watch your sites background, they want to blend seamlessly.

Different link units work best it different positions. The long and thin units work best at the top and bottom of the page. The box link units look best either in the side bar or directly below your content. As if they were originally part of your website.
There is an option on how many links per unit. If there is small text as the main font on your page use five links, the ad size will blend better. If you have normal text size like mine then stick with four links per unit.

One tip, don't blend your ads so much into your site that a visitor cannot distinguish the ads from your content. This is against Google TOS. Don't risk it.

Finally use the competitive adverts filter within Google Adsense account settings to weed out adverts that are not relevant. Having adverts that don't relate to your content will not get many clicks. Use it to your advantage.

The best thing to do is make a channel for your links unit and experiment what position makes you the most money. Have fun.