All Entries Tagged With: "adsense"
Spammers Are Getting More Clever Every Day
Spammers used to just pick up your articles at article directories and slap them on a Blogspot blog with AdSense. Or they’d use WordPress and trackback to your blog in hopes that you’d approve the trackback and send traffic to click on their ads. Now they’re getting even more clever than that.
I recently found an article I wrote on a plain blog, no ads. The spammer included by author resource box with all links intact. So far, so good. But I noticed that right in the middle of the article, throughout the article, the spammer inserted nonrelevant sentences with nonrelevant links pointing to other web pages that contained their AdSense ads. How clever.
I’m sure this is in violation of Google AdSense guidelines. I know it’s in violation of article directory guidelines and search engine guidelines. If this happens to you, report the offending website to each search engine and to Google AdSense. It’s a small measure, but one that might go a long way to clean up unwanted spam.
How To Increase Your Clicks On Your AdSense Ads
A lot of people have high hopes for their AdSense blogs. Too high, actually. But that doesn’t mean you can’t make money on AdSense with your blog. I have one blog that only gets about 1/10th the clicks as other properties I own, but the income is double. How is that, you say?
No. 1, you have to choose a keyword niche that is profitable. Do your research. Find out what topics are clicked on the most and what keywords offer the highest payouts on AdSense.
But there is one other thing that you can do to increase your AdSense blog’s ROI and click through rate, no matter what the payout is on the clicks. This one thing can increase your CTR by 100%. It’s just a simple tweak and all you have to do is make this one change to your template’s CSS or php file and you’re in business.
What’s the tweak? The color of your in-text links. I’m not talking about your AdSense links. I’m assuming you know how to optimize your AdSense ads. I’m talking about your blog post links. If you don’t use links in your blog posts, that’s even better. Why tempt your readers to click a link that won’t make you money? But what if you do use links in your blog? Make sure those links don’t show up in blue like normal links. That will tempt people to click those links and they won’t click your ads. Instead, change your CSS file to make links appear the same color as your other text. That will make internal post links indistinguishable from surrounding text and you’ll get more clicks on your AdSense ads.
