Adsense strategies i will love to share

Nice post albeit much is common knowledge: (it's hard to post something new about adsense)

I'd like to add:

- Place ads on top rather than bottom of pages...the top KILLS the bottom in performance

- Low searched (specific) keywords are easier to rank and usually pay more per click

- 1 ad per page is enough and pays the highest) and a lot of your visitors will click it if there are not many distractions on page

- Content that discusses products do better with Adsense than information/entertainment type pages and allows you to "recommend" that they buy online over offline which will make them more likely to take notice of your adsense ads

adsense on forums is often a frustrating experience for new adsense users. Looking for a way to monetize all that forum traffic many new adsensers wind up on a forum themselves complaining about the poor returns. The following advice is based on my experiences of running adsense on forums for 2 years. ( I only successfully figured out what to do after being on experimentation ) 1. Topic is important. If your forum is focused on car loans or investing your going to get better payoffs per click than if its about music. This is simple to understand so it should need no more explanation. If your forum is in a low CPC ( cost per click ) topic then try putting in a for sale section, jobs section, an a wanted section. These will help build some better paying traffic for you. 2. Ugly URLS have got to go. ModRewrite is a must ( assuming your using apache ), you have to have easily crawlable urls to get fully indexed in the search engines. Most of your clicks are going to happen by people reffered to your site not by your normal users, so the search engine referrrals are what are going to pay for the forum. Also your targeting will improve if your urls are simpler. Regards Kady

Last year I created about 10 small adsense sites just to see what content or niche does well for me.. until I concentrated on clickbank and my other big adsense sites that I forgot all about them.. Today when I was checking my stats, I throughly checked the stats and to my surprise the sites were still earning money without any updates etc.. the sites were earning about 30 cents to 1.50 cents per day... My question is, is it worth the time and money to create lets say 50 small adsense sites? the advantage is that it is very easy for me to think of a topic to create a site, for example create a site about a cat breed, or a superhero character or in which case the topic are endless.. the major disadvantage though is the price of the domain and maybe the time to create the sites...which should take no longer than 1 week. But with this said and let us say I create 50 sites which are earning 50 cents a day, that is still an easy 25 dollars a day... what do you guys say and recommend? I hope this thread can also help newbies on adsense who thinks about creating several small sites... If you are interested to see my sites message me and I'll send you a sample of my sites..

What do you do to get this at the moment my ads have this set up,

google_color_border = "FFFFFF";
google_color_bg = "FFFFFF";
google_color_link = "cc0000";
google_color_text = "000000";
google_color_url = "C3D9FF";

I have just got to page 1 on google for my keywords,that have 6,600 searches per month according to google keyword tool.

But im not getting any clicks on my ads, they do stick out like a sore thumb.

Do you just change all text to black color,or do you do more

Thanks for the info, have changed the cc0000 to 000000 and everything matches now,see what happens now with clicks

Nice post Jackie. I do not do a lot of adsense so i do not have much advice to give. I have heard it is best to place your ad above your content so it is the first thing the reader sees.