Google AdSense is undoubtedly the
most popular Pay Per Click (PPC) program in the industry
today. By enrolling your site under the said program,
AdSense will display a series of ads on your pages.
You stand to earn every time a visitor of your clicks
on these ads.
They don't have to buy anything, mind you. They just
have to click on the ads and nothing more. These ads
are by no means random. They are contextually relevant,
meaning, they are assigned based on their relevancy
to the subject of your site.
Could a blog substitute for regular sites when it
comes to making money through AdSense? Yes people,
blogs can also be provide an additional income stream
through AdSense! In some aspects, a blog is a more
efficient tool for this purpose.
There are people online today making six figures per
month from Adsense alone. Unbelievable but true!
There are three determinative factors for the success
of a site enrolled under the AdSense program.
1. The Cost Per Click (CPC) that is carried by the
ads assigned to your site.
2. The number of page impressions, or simply put,
the amount of traffic that passes through your site.
If you garner a lot of page impressions, you have
a better chance of acquiring a lot of clicks.
3. The Click Through Rate (CTR), which is the number
of clicks your ads get per the number of visitors
that visit your pages. The higher your CTR, the more
you stand to earn.
CPCs are a given. If you're dead set on a subject
for your blog, then you will just be attracting a
certain group of ads. But if you wish to make a blog
for the primary goal of making money online, then
you have to choose the right keywords before everything
else.
Basically, your blog will be assigned certain ads
based on the keywords prevalent in its entries. There
are some keywords that will attract ads that pay high,
and there are those that will attract ads that pay
low. The trick is in finding the high paying keywords
around which you will create your blog.
Here are some tips that will help you find those keywords
with relative ease:
* Create an account at
www.adwords.google.com
. Adwords, of course, is the advertising partner of
AdSense. When you become a member, you could take
a peek at how much the going rates are for certain
keywords.
* Visit
www.adsensearena.com
. This is one of the very few sites that give information
about high paying keywords for free. It would rather
be kept a secret by those who discovered it, so keep
it quiet;-).
The number of your page impressions really depends
on the traffic that you can generate for your blog.
Blogs would have an easier time with this because,
as we've previously discussed in past lessons, search
engines love them. But of course, this is not set
in stone. If your competitors, for example, are also
using the blogging strategy, then you're all in equal
footing.
To get the edge, do try David Pankhurst's special
report on How To Conquer Your Niche With Wordpress.
David will share some absolutely mind blowing techniques
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through a simple manipulation of the Wordpress software.
Check out his report at
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Increasing your CTR is an entire subfield in itself!
There are a plethora of strategies dedicated for this
purpose. We have discussed some of these tactics in
my newsletter, as well as my own blog at
http://www.malkeenan.com/blog
. These include the choice of ad design, the placement
of the ads, and the colors to be used, among other
things. I'm telling you, increasing your CTR has become
a science of sorts in recent months!
In the next article, I will discuss some really advanced
strategies that will blow you away.
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