Adsense. - Frequently Asked Questions

[westlife]

First, thanks you for this beneficial information you shared. i want to ask a question my blog is rejected two times for adsense account.sir, can you please check and give any advice.my url is-hiteshku.blogspot.com/.

[gel code]

As a new member this is the first post ive come across, one word THANKS

[salvo]

Wow. OP: If karma exists, it will smile on you!

Gratefully,

Sal

[mmjalliance]

quick question it is better to write 3 article per kw or only 1 for adsense niche site

[Timothy Ellis]

Originally Posted by mmjalliance

quick question it is better to write 3 article per kw or only 1 for adsense niche site

You should write at least 2/400 word articles per keyword. I would write more if you were trying to rank for a tough keyword.

[Makedon]

Tony, your article is so just amazing. You have write so many tips, tricks, advice for the beginers in this article that for sure a lot of others want money.

So one big thanks, and i'm starting with all your advice step by step.

[ibarss]

veru nice information , i like it

thank you !

[sureshots]

Thanks for this information. What's sad is that sometimes no matter what keyword you target you still only get like 0.05 cents per click. So even if you have tons of traffic you still might not make any money. Adsense is good but I still like selling stuff much better.

[Julianmn]

Thanks for this advice. this helps me a lot with my sites and new ideas to go after.

[Abhi.garg]

Your post can surely help for those want to know much & more about adsense !
It Can guide very well about Adsense !

[marianajones]

What a awesome post!!! You really gave some valuable information about Adsense which someone can not find over the internet also.Thanks a lot.

[xxxJamesxxx]

That's quite an indepth guide you've written there. I myself do ok with Adsense, wouldn't say it's enough to live off by itself but it helps to pay the bills etc.

[packerfan]

Originally Posted by Vijaypravin

Daily I am getting traffic of 500 to 700 pageviews, but clicks are very less so my earning also not up to the mark.

Please guide me how to improve my earnings

You have to test and optimize. Test one thing at a time. Start with something like link color. Let it run a week, see if it goes up or down. Up, leave it, down, change it back. Then try ad placement, etc. There 100s of options to test.

The important thing is to do 1 at a time, establish a control and then pick another factor.

Also, if your visitors are visiting a lot of pages, your adsensee CTR will be low, but your visitor conversion (which is all that matters) might be perfectly fine.

[lifeisfun]

Also, are you in a niche that serves a lot of ads? Or are the ads even relevant to your site?

One of the blogs I have is done out of pure passion about one of the subjects i know; no ads on that site cater to the readers and in one month that site makes about 50 cents to a dollar.

I think is a bit difficult to provide specific help, other than say, play with ad placement, test location of ads, see which ads are getting the most clicks and try to place ads in the same location, etc.

[MikeWike]

Originally Posted by Vijaypravin

My blog name is Today Download

Please guide me

Try different adsense placement. Put some ads inside the text. Sidebar adsense codes do not work for me, but It might work for you, idk. Do split-testing and change text-ads colors and font if needed.
Good luck

[xiro25]

TEST TEST TEST.

I make about 30 a day when I hit that number of page views.

It could be the niche that you are in. If people are there for the information only then your click trough will be low.

Your CPC might not be that high.

You could be placing your ads in the wrong spot.

[mr.d]

Your site looks very nice.
Try to put an adsense block inside the text in your posts and not below
like it is now.
I found that when you blend them with text it at least 2x your clicks.
BTW, how do i get a download button like yours? lol.

[shopperpk]

Google has blocked my adsense account before I could get something. now what can I do? Do I ask google again for adsense account ? what are the policies for having an adsense account.

[xxxJamesxxx]

Google has blocked my adsense account before I could get something. now what can I do? Do I ask google again for adsense account ? what are the policies for having an adsense account.

Sounds to me you're banned. If this is the case then it's very rare to get reinstated again.

Try Amazon. I hear people who get banned from Adense, try Amazon and end up doing better than they did with Adsense.

James Scholes

[indianhub]

Great!!! Very informative subject.

[tsvaishnav]

Kontera pays pennies. Rather one should try infolinks. Its far better.

[pbbiet]

SEO Pressor is a best plugin for On page SEO also easy wpseo is a good alternative at cheaper price had tried both and they yield same.Gonna try "WP Smush it" thanks for the post.

[Magento developer]

Its a good news for all of us.

[davidtong]

Question...

Let's say my home page is set to display 5 posts.

If I inserted ONE adsense unit code under the post title, the home page now shows 5 ads (the same ad code under title), does that violate Adsense TOS?

[gvsridhar171]

I have sent you a PM ... I need help from you

[wabrielleSierra]

I'm just running Clickbank. But it is so difficult to trans

[SEOForceOne]

great guide, thanks for sharing.

[jhonybravo222]

Thanks for sharing this nice information about adsense my adsense account banne last weak

[Pauline Bennett]

Great post thanks for sharing! Adsense did not make me much money (I must have been doing it all wrong ) so this will help.

[arfeen]

i have twice got banned from adsense i dont know what was the reason even google dont fee any need to tell us the reason for banning!

[money200]

I think you write every secret of Adsense to make more money in 2012.

[Abhi.garg]

Due to your post I try to post adsense in my Personal Blog but when I get the code of adsense & I Paste in adsense but even its creating problem !

[SalAG]

Haha. I like the line " a fool with a tool is still a fool." Of course, you need to assess your need for the product first. I knew a lot of newbies who invested their money on tools they rarely used.

[MartinK8]

I have bought a wso about building adsense sites not long ago that was much worse and learned less from it than your post. So thanks a lot for sharing this.

[messi1453]

very nice topic I love this.

[Sumdor]

Thank you so much for this. I'll immediately work on the keyword project. Had hosted several sites but never used keywords as a main tool to get traffic.

[jhonybravo222]

Man this technique not going well in these days ok because google going to improve our search engine strategy

[star1290]

Thanks for sharing

[darren0007]

Originally Posted by Tony W

Note: There are no affiliate links in this post and I’m not affiliated with any of the services that I recommend in this guide.

Google Adsense has always been one of the easiest ways to make money from your blog or website. Once your website is set up and ranking, you’ll enjoy a steady flow of visitors, a percentage of whom will click on your ads, resulting in money in the your bank account.

It worked in 2005 and still works in 2012, although some things have changed. If you follow these steps I’m about to show you, you can make an absolute killing off of Google Adsense.

Step 1: Locate Your Keywords
As with most internet marketing methods, the very first step is to find your niche and keywords. If you want to learn how to make money with Adsense, you need to understand how to make money online in general. And that begins with proper niche and keyword research.

This step is crucial because visitors will be using these keywords to find your website. You need to find a keyword that has high searches, but low competition.
Before finding the exact keywords you’re going to use, you need some niche ideas. Places you can use to brainstorm ideas include…

• Amazon (best seller section)
• Flippa (see what types of sites other people are selling)
• 43 Things (see what people’s goals are)
• Yahoo Answers (see what problems people are having)
• Clickbank Marketplace (browse through the most popular products by gravity)

How to Find A Profitable Keyword
There are two ways you can go about actually finding keywords.

First, you can do keyword research yourself, manually. The most common tool for this is the Google Keyword Tool. It’s completely free and I still use it for my keyword research, even though I have a bunch of fancy paid software too.
If you want to go for fancy paid software, which will save you time, I recommend getting Market Samurai which the most popular keyword research too.

You can get a free 40 day trial of MS (normal length is 14 days I think) if you type in marketsamurai.com/thirtydc

These tools are for more advanced users who understand the fundamentals of keyword research. If you’re a total newbie, you can still benefit from these tools. Just make sure to go through the tutorials first.

You want one keyword you want your main domain to rank for in Google. This should be the keyword with the most searches. Once you find that, you want a list of related keywords to target individual pages for.

For example, if your main keyword is “Christmas gifts” your secondary keywords may be “Christmas gifts for mom”, “Christmas gifts for boys”, “Christmas gifts for girls” and so on.

The second way to do keyword research is to outsource it. There are some great gigs in the Warriors for Hire section that provide keyword packages.
Here are the criteria I personally follow:

• EXACT local monthly searches at least 1600
• CPC at least $1
• Allintitle and allinurl less than 50,000

Allintitle and allinurl gives you a rough estimate of your competition. It tells you how many OTHER pages on the internet have your keywords in the title/URL. To find these numbers, simply type into Google search, allintitle: “your keyword in quotes” and see how many results come up.

Also be sure to check the stats of the top 10 ranking websites with market samurai or some other keyword tool. If a lot of sites have low page rank, domain age and backlinks to page, then the KW is easier to rank for.

Note that when using Google KW tool, ignore the competition column. It doesn’t tell you about your actual competition in the search results, but how many advertisers are bidding on the keyword in Adwords. So you actually want high “competition” because that means the niche is profitable.

Step Two: Buy Your Domain
Once you find a profitable keyword, you need a domain to host your website on. Again, there are 2 ways to go about this.

Aged Domain – Faster Rankings
The first option is to pay for an aged domain, a domain that’s been around for a while. Google loves these domains, and you can get traffic to these faster. These domains usually cost $11 and up.

A few places where you can buy aged domains include

• Digital Point Domain Sell/Buy/Trade (free)– This is a forum where people sell domains they no longer want. You can find a lot of gems in this thread.
• Godaddy Domain Auctions ($4.70 per year) – Here, you can bid and buy domains that are expiring. You can search through domains by keywords, age and some other factors. You can’t search by page rank though.
• Register Compass ($37 per month) or Fresh Drop ($99/month) – These are paid services that lets you browse through and search for aged domains. The best part is you can search by page rank, backlinks, age, and other important ranking metrics.

Brand New Domain – Exact Match Keyword
The downside to an aged domain is that you don’t get to choose what the domain name is. While an aged domain’s existing backlinks, PR and age more than makes up for this, having your keyword in your domain name will give you a nice ranking boost and will make your life a whole lot easier.

The best type of domain to get is an exact match domain. This means is essentiallywww.yourkeyword.com/org/net/info/co.

Register a new domain costs anywhere from $2.99 – $24.99 per year, depending on the extension you get.

By the way, .info’s and .co’s rank just as well as .com/.org/.net domains. I’ve personally gotten a cheap .info domain to #1 in Google in just a few weeks.
If an exact match domain is not available, what you can do is add a letter or word to the end of it. So if yourkeyword.com is taken, you can use something like…

• yourkeywordx.com
• yourkeywords.com
• yourkeywordtips.com
• yourkeywordblog.com
• and so on…

I highly recommend you get an exact match domain or as close to one as possible.

Where to Buy Your Domain
If you’re registering a fresh domain, I recommend Name Cheap. They’re checkout process is fast and easy, unlike Godaddy, who tries to upsell you a billion times. Name Cheap also offers free privacy protection.
You can usually find a Name Cheap coupon code here and save a few bucks.

Step 3: Get Hosting
To make passive income with Adsense, you need to host your website on a reliable server. This way, visitors can access it 24/7, and you’ll get paid around the clock.
Getting the right web host is important because any down time equals a loss of profits.

That’s why I recommend Host Gator, which is the most reliable web hosting service I’ve ever tried.

Their baby plan allows you to host unlimited websites, starting at under $10 per month.

Step 4: Install WordPress
Once you set up for hosting, you need to start designing your site and uploading content to it. Hands down, the easiest way to do this is use WordPress, a free blogging platform. The great thing about WordPress is that you don’t need to have any experience in programming or web design and still create a beautiful and profitable passive income website.

To install WordPress, simply go into your Host Gator cPanel and select Fantastic Deluxe. Follow the installation instructions to get WordPress set up on your domain. After that, configure your settings, themes, plugins and pages (we’ll talk about this in the next step).

If you’re going to make multiple websites, it’s a good idea to get a backup plugin so you can easily duplicate your sites. I recommend Backup Creator by Robert Plank (there’s a WSO on here) or Backup Buddy.

Step 5: Optimizing Your Blog
Themes
One of the best theme I’ve used to earn money with Adsense sites is the CTR theme (not sure if WSO is still open). All you have to do is insert your Adsense publisher ID and it will automatically insert ads in your posts. This theme is optimized for click throughs as it uses pictures in specific locations to draw the reader’s eyes towards the ads. I’ve seen very high click-through-rates with this theme.

There are also a few other free AdSense themes available. Here is a list of the best free Adsense themes.

Settings
These settings (especially permalinks) will optimize your Adsense site for performance as well as the search engines.

• Title and Description – Be sure to include your main keyword in your site’s title and description
• Permalinks – use a custom structure that includes your post title. If you have a bigger site and are using categories, you can do /%category%/%postname%/ but usually /%postname%/ is fine.

It’s crucial that you set up the correct permalink structure!

Plugins
I recommend the following WordPress plugins when building your passive income Adsense blog.

• Akismet – spam blocker
• All in One SEO – manages your on page SEO for better rankings
• Contact Form 7 – to receive emails
• WP Insert – to insert Adsense ads anywhere on your page. Also to manage your privacy policy
• Clicky Analytics – To analyze your site’s traffic and visitor stats. This is way better than Google analytics in my opinion. You need to sign up for an account at www.getclicky.com.
• XML Site maps – creates a sitemap so all your pages get indexed in Google
• W3 Total Cache – too speed up your site
• Broken Links Checker – to notify you of broken links on your website
• WP Smush it – to speed up your site by reducing images
• Secure WordPress – to prevent hackers from accessing your site
• Pretty Links Lite – allows you to cloak and track affiliate links
• SEO Pressor - On page SEO helper (paid plugin)

Step 6: Add Content
The next step in this guide is to add content to your blog. Again, there are two ways you can do this.

The first way is to create your content manually and write everything yourself. Each article should be about a keyword on your list and at least 500 words long. Include pictures and videos if you can.

On Page SEO Basics
There are a few guidelines to follow if you want to optimize your on-page SEO and get your page ranked easier. You don’t have follow all of these guidelines, but keep in mind that the more, you do, the better it will rank.

If it’s unnatural to do all of the things on this checklist, then just do the bare minimum: You want to include your keyword in the title, first sentence and last sentence. You’ll also want to include it in the heading and body without overtly “keyword stuffing”.

That said, here’s what you do if you want a perfectly optimized article for SEO:

• Keyword density of 2% to 4%
• Keyword in title
• Keyword in h1, h2 and h3
• Keyword in italics, bold and underline
• Keyword in first and last sentence
• Keyword in Alt image tag
• Link out to authority site (like Wikipedia article or any other site related to your niche that has good page rank. Also, don’t “nofollow” these links. If you don’t know what that means, don’t worry about it)
• ink to other blog posts on your site using THAT keyword as anchor text

While normally I would recommend creating “killer content” and having articles that really over-delivers and gets your visitors hooked on your stuff, with Adsense sites, our goal is for the visitor to click on our ads and leave our site.

So a really well written article will actually delay or prevent that completely.
So in this case, I do recommend outsourcing your articles to a cheap writing service if you do not have the time to create them yourself. Some article writing services that I personally use include…

• The Content Authority ($5 per 500 word article)
• Article Writing ETC ($3.5 for a 500 word article)
• Hiring your own article writer on oDesk (best option if you plan on having a lot of articles outsourced)

Getting Your Website Indexed
Once you have your first article posted, you want to get your website indexed in the search engines. The easiest way to do this to use this quick index tool and enter in your website information.

To check whether your website has been indexed in Google, simply type in “http://www.yourdomain.com” into the search box and see if your website comes up. Using the bulk ping tool above, you should get indexed within 24 hours.

Adding More Content
I recommend adding a new, unique article every few days for 2 weeks until you have 5-10 articles on your blog. You can do this all at once and schedule them to automatically post (be sure to change the daily posting time for each one), or you can post them as you go.

Step 7: Getting Your Website to Number 1 on Google
Next, we’re going to be focusing on getting our site to the top of Google by building quality backlinks to our site.

Important- Before You Build A Single Backlink
I recommend you wait at least 2 weeks before building a single backlink. I’ve noticed that I tend to rank higher (and have my rankings stick) more easily if I wait a few weeks. Right after your site goes live, Google has to decide how to categorize you (which is why it’s important to link out to authority sites).

If you build links right away, you may get ranked quickly, but your rankings will almost always drop right away (my theory is that Google categorizes you as a trending topic/news story when you get links too quickly, which is why you rank fast, then drop).

I’ve noticed this over and over again in my websites so I always wait 2-3 weeks before building a single backlink.

Option 1: Building Backlinks Manually (Requires Your Time, No Money)
When building these links, it’s important to vary your anchor text. So if your main keyword is “dog training tips”, you also want to include keywords like, “tips to train your dog”, even if you’re not targeting them because this is a lot more natural and Google’s smart enough to understand that they’re related. Also have naked links (anchor text is your URL).

Another good practice that I’ve seen great results with is to build backlinks to both your main domain, Domain For Sale as well as your inner pages www.yourkeyword.com/keyword-2.

These are the best ways to build manual backlinks to your website if you don’t have the money to outsource yet.

Article Submissions – After each new blog post has been indexed, use that post and submit to as many of these as you can…

• Ezine Articles
• Squidoo
• Hubpages
• GoArticles
• Articles Dashboard
• The Free Library
• Article Slash

Web 2.0 Posts – Write new articles and post them on the following sites. Add new articles to the same account.

• WordPress.com
• Blogger.com
• Blog.com
• Properous.com

Social Bookmarking – I like using a free service called SocialAdr to create social bookmarks. What’s cool about this service is that other people will submit your social bookmarks to their accounts, essentially building backlinks for you.

Forum Profiles – These profiles on high PR forums that link to your website. I recommend using Angela’s high PR profile backlink packages because they aren’t being spammed to death.

Blog Networks – Blog networks allow you get backlinks from private, high PR, aged blogs. My favorite blog network that I’ve seen amazing results with is Build My Rank, which has a 10 link free trial (sometimes, that’s all you need to get ranked on page 1).

Option 2: Building Backlinks with Paid Tools (Requires Time And Money)
If you have the budget, there are some tools I recommend to make your life a whole lot easier. Remember that a fool with a tool is still a fool.

These tools will not magically get your number 1 rankings. There’s imply there to automate your link building so you have less work. These tools will take a while to learn, but well worth the time invested, since you can use them for as many other websites as you want. This is the most bang-for-your buck way to make money with Adsense.

These are 2 previous tools that I mentioned previously that have paid options. I personally use and highly recommend both of these.

Social Adr – The paid option is $40 per month and you to build over 1600 backlinks per month without having to submit links for other people.

Build My Rank – The paid option starts off at $59 per month and lets you build unlimited links to 5 different domains that you own. This is the most bang for your buck link building tool in my opinion since many of these blogs have PR 4 and up.
By the way, Build my Rank is amazing for ranking long tail keywords (keywords longer than 3 words).

Here the two other tools I recommend:

Article Marketing Robot ($97) – Automatically submits articles to thousands of directories. You’ll need to upload a new article list. The one it comes with is pretty crappy.

Bookmarking Demon ($147) – Automatically submits social bookmarks to hundreds of different accounts.

I’ve used a lot of SEO tools and services and these are the ones that have worked best for me.

Option 3: Building Backlinks With Backlink Packages (Requires Money, No Time)

If you have the budget, don’t have time or just lazy, you can outsource your entire backlinking campaign. I have only tried one complete done-for-you SEO service that I saw great results with.

I’m not going to mention the service here because IDK if that’s allowed on Warrior Forum. View this original guide at the bottom of this post if you want to know.
By the way, all of these link building techniques I mention can be outsourced on Fiverr for a few bucks. You’ll find the specific gigs in the original guide.

Step 8: Flip for Profit (Optional)
Once your website is making you a solid monthly income, you can easily sell it on Flippa for up to many times it’s monthly revenue. It’s important to provide proof of income and traffic when you sell your site, so be sure to be keeping track of your traffic with Google or Clicky Analytics.

Some people have an entire business based on creating Adsense sites using a proven system and flipping it down the line for a big sum. Adsense sites on Flippa can sell for up to 15-25 times the monthly revenue.

FAQ

Q. I don’t have an Adsense account. How do I get one?
A. Approved Adsense accounts are harder and harder to get nowadays, especially if you live in Asian countries (India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, etc.) But if your blog has quality content (so you may want to write the first few blog posts yourself), you should have no problem getting your account approved after applying for one.

Q. I got banned from AdSense. How can I get another account.
A. If you’re banned from AdSense, there are 2 things you can do. The first is to create an account for a family member and use that one. There are also services out there that create Adsense accounts for you. I don’t know if I’m allowed to mention any specific names here. View the original guide at the bottom if you want to know.

Q. Can I combine Adsense with other affiliate networks?
A. Sure, you can combine Adsense with other networks such as Amazon, Clickbank, Ebay and so on. One of my favorites is an Amazon/Adsense hybrid website.

Thanks for reading! I hope this guide on how to make money with Adsense helped and I wish you tremendous success.

Original guide (with images) here: How to Make Money With Adsense

Loved the post, thanks alot
Darren

[Anadisooza]

That's the great post for adsence marketing .
you share the all the information about marketing .
Thanks..

[shopperpk]

thanks for sharing this nice post with us. I am having problems in account making with Google adsense as Google is saying you are not allowed to do this or you can not make adsense account, can you people refer me any other way of adding ads on my blogs.

[Teravel]

Originally Posted by outwest

The EXACT MATCH DOMAIN advice, and then if its not available, buy EMDx.com
to me thats absurd advice

Originally Posted by IMentreprenette

Hi outwest. I thought the same in the beginning but when I tried putting "x" in addition to some of my EMDs--it works. You gotta try it and actually prove it to yourself.

Originally Posted by outwest

Yes but it depends totally on the competition
I can rank high with Horsefeed.com for watchmoviesonline kws if the comptition is very low and I have good backlinks

Originally Posted by IMentreprenette

I think we're on the same boat here. All I'm saying is putting an "x" in the end would still be an EMD considering you have the keywords you wanna rank for in it. With that in mind, it would be easier to go for that keyword cause you have it in the domain (on-page seo wise).

You are both right, and you are both wrong. Let me explain.

If you are building a 5 page micro site, you most likely have the following pages.
Home (Your domain), About Us, Contact Us, Privacy Policy, and a Disclosure page. The ONLY page you want to rank for is your homepage, and so you will want an EMD in order to get the best results when ranking.

If you are building an Authority website, you are targeting more than 1 keyword. When you try to rank for a keyword, you want the keyword in the Meta Title, Meta Description, and in the Web Address. This could be brandingterm.extension/yourkeyword as long as you set your Meta's and have the Keyword in the URL.

We all know that more traffic means more chances for a profit. The question is, why would you want to spend $2-$12 (depending on extension) for each keyword, when you can brand yourself with a single website, and easily rank for as many keywords as you want.
Having a single website also means you are spending less time on On-Site SEO, as you don't have to spend all that extra time installing WordPress, Themes, Plugins, and setting up all the other On-Site SEO for each website. You can easily set everything up for a single website, and easily go from page to page.

[salgolden]

Aisited by at least 1,dsense always seems like "easy Money" but it only is if you have a site that is visited by at least 1,000 people a day. Maintaining a site like that certainly isnt easy

[irfanmeo]

The summary of toatal on page and offpage seo really helpfull for newbies .

[Simin]

Thanks dude for the tips... rocks adsense in 2012....

[anku9696]

nice informative post.
surely going to help me with a points,
thanks

[patco]

Thanks for the nice post. The info is great. Keep following this post.

[kaellyn]

That's a lot of good information. I'm going to have to read it a few times to get everything out of it. Thanks!

[tchandler50]

That was an INCREDIBLY useful post. Thanks so much for sharing. I've been thinking of trying out some niche, adsense sites and this is going to give me the knowledge to move forward.

[anku9696]

thanku , it was very informative and it will surly help me