My First Day With Adsense, just cool

Hearing all that about making money with adsense I tried myself, I had about 300-500 visits each day to my site, and about 200-300 unique visitors each day, so... why not. So I went to Google and setup the adsense account. You can’t imagine my surprise when I noticed the first 10 cents coming through after 30 minutes and the first 3 dollars during the first day. I was amazed. The thing is that adsense works really nice. It took me some time to setup the correct ads and keywords. You have to check some things when using adsense.

1) Check your keywords, if your site is about board games, set “board games” as a keyword, if you only set “board” you can get ads about surfing skateboards or about intel boards. Really… it is quite important to keep ads focused, people who visit your site have a reason for that; they are interested in something that might be in your site. And it seems quite clear that a guy looking for “board games” like chess, checkers etc, will not (most likely) be suddenly interested in a hardware piece right?

2) Change the colors and border of your ads to match your site design, don’t show “green and blue” ads if your site use a different set of color. People nowadays are programmed to “skip” those “gree and blue” ads. But please, neither hide the links nor lie to the users, or Google will close your account.

3) Position your ads in an optimal way, you can use the adsense channel to keep track, depending on the design of your site/blog you might experience a huge difference (CPR) between your ads at top, left, right, bottom, etc.


The funny part: My own page for a Reversi/Othello game, was showing up ads related to Shakespeare!

Leo
TeKnowMagic President