Switching Over To Adsense May Not Be As Good As I thought.... Any Suggestions

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So I very recently made the switch over to adsense. First of all, I am not insulting the program at all. I am actually quite impressed at how relevant the ads are in relation to the content.

I have 2 problems or questions that I need to address.

1. Are my sites immune to a google ban.

- I know that no one can give a guarantee, but an approximate answer works for me.

2. How do I improve my CTR

I'm not allowed to discuss any specifics. But I will say that my ctr is below 1%. Meaning that It's a decimal point of some kind.

I would prefer to have a much higher ctr.

Does anybody see anything that I should be doing differently. I have about 40 websites similar to the one in my sig. I'm considering starting to put adsense ads on them, but I would love to provide optimal settings.

Thanks so much to anyone that can help at all.

Edit:

Sig has loaded yet... Sorry. Here's the website that would be there juicer machine
#search engine optimization #adsense #good #suggestions #switching #thought
  • I don't see any website in your sig
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      I had info that the people were looking for at my homepage, and my homepage ranked at the top of page 1 in Google. So my site answered there question and gone they were without clicking an add. My ctr was around 1.5-2%. Then I decided to move that content to an innerpage and my CTR increased to 10% instantly as the Adsense ads also offered that info for free and appaerantly my readers were to lazy to find the content on my own site.
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    • hasn't populated yet I guess. I edited my original post to include a link to one of my sites.
  • When I look at your page I get all the information I need about a juicer. As a result, I have no real need to click on the ads. As your website provides me with all this information. I have found that breaking up my articles, or producing articles that do not contain ALL the information someone is looking for can help boost the clickthrough rate. Don't go overboard with that strategy though. It is a fine balance to walk.
  • Diversify, google adsense can pay well, but don't build your sites around it. Been there done that, banned, no reason, lost a lot of finalized earnings. There are other opportunities out there, lead generation is a good one too.
  • When I checked out your page there was only 1 relevant ad that I saw. Do you have user based interests turned in? That could be a big reason. All I saw was ads for credit cards, probably because I was looking at info about my chase credit card earlier.
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    • user based interests??? How do you turn that on?

      Sounds pretty interesting to me.
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  • So it would probably be wise to change the color of the ads to a lighter blue. And create text-only on the home page with links to inner pages. Does that sound like the best course of action?

    Would google consider a text only page as low quality content?
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      I just visited your site and I see way too much content where no ads are visible.

      Why don't you spread the content amongst multiple pages? And try to optimize these pages for other longtail keywords that are relevant.

      Also I would add some Amazon ads for juice machines and use some 336x250 adsense blocks wrapped in the content.

      You should also embed the youtube video link in your content so visitors stay on your site a little longer.

      Thing is, if I would look for a juice machine and visit your site I might like to read your review BUT I don't see any link where I can buy it. The power of review sites is that they also offer the product to there visitors and make money from that. Now people think, hey thats a nice juice machine for $69,-. Let's Google where I can buy that! Adsense ads are relevant but you are describing very specifc machine's with type numbers and Adsense is not THAT relevant to offer that exact product that you are talking about.
  • I don't mean any disrespect to anyones opinions but the idea that he should change his page to have worse content is not a very good plan. I won't go into all the reasons why, but for starters he will put his account at risk and he'll put his rankings at risk.

    Some of my best adsense sites are chock full of everything the visitor wants. Adsense is 70% about ad relevancy to the users needs when searching for your page and 30% ad placement IMO. As my first suggestion states, you should turn off user based interest ads. Its under "Allow & Block Ads" and then the "Advanced Settings" tab. You should then take that 780x90 banner at the top and get rid of it. You should place a 336x280 block, not wrapped around any text and place it just below your first paragraph. You should then take that other 780x90 banner and get rid of it. You should then add another 336x280 block about half way down the page in between content, once again not wrapped. You should also have all ads set to images and text based ads.
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      Didnt know it was possible to turn these user-based ads off.

      Why is it bad to wrap your content around the ads? I do it all the time with great CTR's

      About the content, I wrote that before I visited his website, the type of content he uses is kinda irrelevant for his ctr. I thought he offered some how-to or something. Didnt even know it was about juice machines. Still it's too much content to cover with only 3 ad blocks.

      Like previously said: Add Amazon products to your page and embed your youtube video, that would fill it up nicely without having to move content. And if you want to make your site look real ugly you should indeed not wrap your content around the ad blocks but just put them ugly in the middle to break the txt lol
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  • How do you mean, whether your sites are immune to Google ban? As far as you go by the TOS, you should do fine. Breaching them is a walking on a thin ice, what I would be really wondering about is, how much members got Google's team watching over this, heh. I personally stumbled upon a thousands webs, claiming, how great AdSense gurus their providers are, but in fact, half of the tips listed on their sites are just bogus and violations of Google TOS, it's kind of hard to filter, how to do this right,..
  • I only skimmed the first few comments. Don't listen to these folks. You think they have a clue what they're talking about?

    You come off a lot smarter than these folks. Trust your instincts. Provide value. You are simply targeting wrong keywords for adsense. Focus a little more on keyword research.

    Also, your site seems like it may perform better with amazon.
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    • I agree with you that amazon is a better fit. Believe me, I generated 4 thousand dollars in amazon sales from these websites in December alone. But then I was banned from the program from an accidental infringment of the TOS. From what I've read online, it's just about impossible to be admitted into the amazon associates program after you've been banned.

      Which is why adsense seems like the logical successor, considering that I don't just want these sites to go down the drain.
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  • Yes... You are targeting the wrong keyword.Period
  • 1. No website is immune to a Google ban. Period.

    2. To increase your CTR I would recommend changing your Adsense link colors to match the link colors on you site.

    I would change the URL colors to a light grey or just make them black.

    Also I would change the theme and add a large rectangle, aligned left in the beginning of the first paragraph.
  • Well, adsense can easily ban you because lack of content on your site. You simply don't have enough content.
  • Your site takes a bit too long to load.

    a major culprit is the jquery you're loading from freefilesblog.com. Load it off the google copy instead.
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    • use some free CDN and caching to improve your website speed. Cloudflare is a good free CDN.
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