The easiest and maybe the fastest way to squeeze money out of your blog is to use Adsense. Using Adsense is simple, straightforward and within minutes, you will have ads that fit your reader’s interest.
However, if you want to get some real income from Adsense, then a few cents per day (which is the cold truth for many bloggers), you’ll need to do more than just copy and paste some piece of code, onto your blog.
You have certainly read success stories about bloggers who rake in hundreds of dollars per day from having Adsense on their blogs and what they all have in common, besides traffic, is that they think out of the box, making things a little bit different. These bloggers rarely spills their Adsense secrets all over, which is quite natural, would you?
However, there are a few basic points that are crucial to know, if you want to take your first steps to make some real money from Adsense.
Below you’ll find the basics, which have helped me improved my click through ratios and income from Adsense.
- The first thing you should do is to focus on one ad format. If you do a quick search around the web, you’ll find that the large rectangle, 336×280, is the format that tends to work very well, for a majority of bloggers. The success of the large rectangle is because the ads will show up like normal links, and since surfers like to click on such links, your click through ratio will be good, naturally. Another click friendly format is the wide skyscraper, 160×600, which you should place in one of your sidebars.
- Use a color scheme, tailored to your blog’s color scheme. Your goal is to make the ads to blend in. Make them look, as they are a natural part of your blog. For example, if you have a grey background on your blog, then make sure that your ad’s border and background are also grey, plus that the titles has the same color as your links.
- Place the ads so that your readers notice them, as quick as possible, which is usually at the top of your blog. Do not make the most common mistake of them all, placing your ads at the end of your posts. Think about, why would you like to hide your ads?
- Be active and creative when it comes to place your ads. Remember, surfers tend to develop ad blindness quickly. One way to prevent ad blindness is to move your ads around, from time to time.
- At last, make sure that your blog has a primary topic and a clear cut navigation system. Then create as many posts about it as possible. That way your readers will stay longer, this increases the chances that they, eventually, will click on one of your ads, which is the whole point!
I believe that the points above, together with a content rich blog and some traffic, will give you a good start on your journey, towards those impressive checks from Adsense!
