Archive for the Adsense Category
What is Good CTR
I just made a post on What is good eCPM and felt to write a similar post about what is good CTR as they both go hand in hand.
CTR stands for Click Through Rate and it the ratio of number of clicks on the ads divided by number of times ads were served multiplied by 100 (as CTR is represented in percentage)
Best Adsense Format
If you are looking for Best adsense format (i.e. the one which brings highest revenue) then it is 336×280. It has been reported repeatedly as well as acknowledged by most of the webmasters that the big ad unit brings maximum clicks and revenue as it is very much on the face.
Infact here are the Top 3 best Adsense Formats in terms of revenue -
Adsense Testing with Different Fonts
Adsense often do lot of testing on its ads and ads format including changing font size. Here is an example of different font size adsense ads seen on same page having same adsense code -
Adsense not Showing Relevant Ads
In the past, I had talked about google adsnse is showing unrelated adsense ads on this blog. So after weeks, I can see the ads are still not very targeted. This is certainly has to do with the main niche of the site and this blog being a part of it, google adsense is getting confused.
Anyway to make google adsense show relevant ads, I am looking to use adsense section targeting.
Less Ads = More Money in Adsense ?
yes, this is very much true and is often acknowledged by insiders that instead of putting more ads, use less ads and you will have more earnings. The logic is fairly simple, different advertisers pay different amount for every click and those ads which are high paying are shown at the top.
Now if you use only one ad unit with 3 ads in it, lets say they are of $1, $0.75 and $0.5, then for every click you are assured that you will make atleast $0.5 (take the bottom image as an example)
Why adsense accounts get Closed
You may like to read some other adsense articles like What is Adsense Smart Pricing, How to avoid Adsense Smart Pricing and How to have Multiple Adsense accounts.
So continuing this series of adsense, lets talk about why adsense accounts get closed. Adsense accounts get closed when you violate their policies and terms of service.
Multiple Adsense Accounts
Google adsense do not allow you to have multiple adsense accounts but still you can have more then one google adsense accounts as you can open it using your family members name. This is perfectly legal way of having multiple google adsense account (the address has to be different though).
Here are some tips to have Multiple Account
How to avoid Adsense Smart Pricing ?
In the previous article, I had covered what is smart pricing. now in this article I will cover how you can avoid adsense smart pricing.
Here are 5 tips to avoid getting smart priced -
What is Adsense Smart Pricing ?
Being a user of adsense for over 4 years now, I think I am in the positions to explain what is Adsense Smart pricing.
Simple explaining, Adsense smart pricing is lowering of earnings per click. Let me explain it with an example -
Unrelated Google Adsense Ads
I uses ad blocker hence I never sees what ads are being shown on the website (I only uses firefox as a browser) so just for change, when I checked the site and some of its post, it seems google adsense is showing highly unrelated ads on the blog ! Here is one example -
