How to Earn Money Using Adsense
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Here's some Google AdSense tips to increase your earnings.
Steps
- Don't put ads on empty pages.
- Build a skeleton set of pages that have no content, just titles and some meta tags. Ads could be displayed on them; although all you see are public service ads at first, but the very act of displaying ads on a page causes the AdSense web crawler to quickly fetch that page for analysis. A page with good content will thus begin showing relevant paying ads fairly quickly.
- If you don't have any content, though, Google will have to guess as what your page is about. It may guess wrong, and so the ads that it displays may not be relevant. You'll have to wait until Google re-crawls the site for the ads to correct themselves. Here is what Google had to say when I asked them about how often the AdSense crawler updates a site:
- Thank you for taking the time to update your site. New ads will start appearing on your site the next time our crawler re-indexes your site. Unfortunately at this time, we are unable to control how often our crawlers index the content on your site.
- Crawling is done automatically by our bots. When new pages are added to your website or introduced to the AdSense program, our crawlers will usually get to them within 30 minutes. If you make changes to a page, however, it may take up to 2 or 3 weeks before the changes are reflected in our index. Until we are able to crawl your web pages, you may notice public service ads, for which you will not receive any earnings.
- It's better to flesh out the page before you start displaying ads on it.
- Don't be afraid to ask questions.
- If you're wondering about something, don't be afraid to ask Google. They are very good at responding within a working day. There are two email addresses to use, depending on the type of question:
- Please feel free to email us at adsense-tech@google.com if you have additional technical questions or concerns. For general program or account questions, please email adsense-support@google.com.
- Their responses are always very polite, and they appreciate getting problem reports and suggestions.
- Avoid non-English characters on English pages.
- This one is a bug at this time.
- Normally, this wouldn't be an issue, but on some pages the presence of the accented characters is enough to cause AdSense to display non-relevant ads in French. This happens whether the browser indicates a preference for French or not. When this was reported to Google, this is the response:
- Thank you for bringing this issue to our attention. We are currently working as quickly as we can to address this problem. As soon as we have more information for you, we will email you again. We appreciate your patience.
- Sincerely,
- The Google Team
- Until this is resolved, it is a good idea to strip out all accents except on the pages that are actually in French.
- Check your keyword density.
- Although Google doesn't release exact details as to how they determine the ads to serve on a given page, they do tell us that it's the text content of the page that matters, not the meta tags. Before serving ads on a page, then, you might want to check its keyword density. A good, free tool for doing this is found here:
Tips
- Do not click your ads. If Google catches you, they have the right and will close your account and retain any earnings you might have.
- To get lots of visitors you need an unique idea for your site. You can get help by searching the Internet with keywords "website ideas".
- Using a site like http://www.flixya.com, is a quick and easy method to driving traffic, which will help. As an individual, it may take time to build, advertise and see revenue from a site with little content or activity. Revenue sharing websites like Flixya (which offers 100% revenue to every member) is the best way to get started.
