Adsense $$ Jumped +300%

[yukon]

Hey guys, I changed my Adsense Interest-based Ads account settings to:

Show ads based on user interest and demographic categories. Visitation information from my sites may be used to help create interest and demographic categories.

I did this yesterday afternoon, I just now checked my Adsense earnings. My earnings are up about 300%.

Not sure If this setting had anything to do with the higher earnings since it's been only 24 hours since I changed the setting (I hope it is, lol).

This is the only thing I've changed in the last week, havn't touched the sites.

Traffic is low because of the holiday (4th July), CTR is hovering around 5%.

[Charles Harper]

Here is an opinion...

I believe it allows them to use banner retargeting.

That may account for the jump if visitors are seeing the ads of sites they have already visited.

I have noticed that about some of the google ads recently; not on my sites, but on sites that I visit.

Often I will see re targeting ads in the Google News site.

In any case, good on you and keep up the good work.

CT

[seoviviti]

May be you have change the visitor based ads display on your website. Some time the targeted visitors will love your ads and get higher clicks.

[Andrew S]

this should be on by default i think

[yukon]

Originally Posted by jade69

And how much do you earn in $?

I won't say what the dollar amount is, that's not anyones business besides my own.

I will say I'm a full time IMer, & the only one in my family that works + zero debt...

[yukon]

Originally Posted by Charles Harper

Here is an opinion...

I believe it allows them to use banner retargeting.

That may account for the jump if visitors are seeing the ads of sites they have already visited.

I have noticed that about some of the google ads recently; not on my sites, but on sites that I visit.

Often I will see re targeting ads in the Google News site.

In any case, good on you and keep up the good work.

CT

Yep, I think your correct.

I see it a lot on sites I don't own. I'll search Google for something & land on a site that has Adsense, most times they are running interest based Ads, that show very targeted Ads based on the Search query I did.

I'll run it like this for a week or so, see what happens.

[timpears]

Hey man, that is awesome. I think you are on to something. I am going to do the same as I think this makes sense. Your sites are now targeting what the visitor has shown an interest in, in the past. I hope this works better than the targeting to the page as that often didn't match up that often.

Where do you find that setting. I can't find it in my AdSense account?

[yukon]

Originally Posted by seoviviti

May be you have change the visitor based ads display on your website. Some time the targeted visitors will love your ads and get higher clicks.

So far the CTR is about average for my sites, I just now checked again & the CTR is at +6.5% for the day (about average for most of my sites combined).

[yukon]

Originally Posted by Andrew S

this should be on by default i think

Correct, that is the default setting in the Adsense Admin.

I changed that setting a few months back & actually did ok as far as earnings go. I just decided yesterday to switch it back to the default setting & see If anything changes (testing).

Again, it's still way to early to say this is what boosted my earnings, it's only been 24 hours. I don't want to jinx it, lol.

[Michael55555]

Nice. It sounds like you might just be "bi-winning".

[yukon]

Originally Posted by timpears

Hey man, that is awesome. I think you are on to something. I am going to do the same as I think this makes sense. Your sites are now targeting what the visitor has shown an interest in, in the past. I hope this works better than the targeting to the page as that often didn't match up that often.

Where do you find that setting. I can't find it in my AdSense account?

On the old Adsense Admin screen it's ---> Adsense Admin. > My Account > Account Settings

Third setting from the bottom of the page ---> Interest-based Ads Preference

[yukon]

Originally Posted by Michael55555

Nice. It sounds like you might just be "bi-winning".

LMAO!

Old Charlie Sheen would be proud, wouldn't he!

[paulgl]

Might be just a coincidence. I never put much faith in turning it off or on,
because google targets individual users no matter what. They just don't
"gather" info, what ever that means. They put ads in relation to a visitor's location
anytime.

Another thread people were talking how the weekend was slow. Saturday
was a snail's pace, but today is the best day this month, and I mean it rocks.

Why? I dunno. Granted, it is only the 4th day of the month, but it is 20%
higher today than the best day so far.

Paul

[DruKlein]

Originally Posted by yukon

Hey guys, I changed my Adsense Interest-based Ads account settings to:



I did this yesterday afternoon, I just now checked my Adsense earnings. My earnings are up about 300%.

hhere exactly can you find this setting you are talking about?


thanks bro!

[seothatworks]

feels so good when such things happen

[tchung]

Did your traffic increase a lot? Or how'd it suddenly jump