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Monitizing A Adsense Site

by bbradford71
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Hello All,

I am building my first adsense keyword niche site and I am a little confused. I did extensive keyword research and found a keyword that has over 1000 local searches a month, has a great CPC ($3.80), has a very high competition for advertisers. I ordered all of my content through iwriter, though a little higher in cost than fiverr I have been very pleased with the quality. I put the site together and it got indexed pretty quickly.

I am using the Prosense theme which I really like, it is simple and clean! The theme is set up so that all you have to do is copy and past your ad codes. This is where I am confused!!!! The theme is set up so that on the home page there is a banner at at the top of the page, there is a side bar ad on the right hand side and there is a square ad that goes at the top of your post above the content.

What I seeing is that the banner ad does not show up at all, even though the theme tells you which size ad to place there. The side bar ad and the ad within the post rotate. What I mean is that if the side bar ad shows up the ad in the post does not and vise versa. I am also noticing that a lot of the time the ads do not really have anything to do with the niche of my site. I kind of expect the ads to be related to dogs if the site is about dogs (just an example).

Anyone have any ideas or thoughts on this?


Thanks
#adsense #monitizing #site
  • Profile picture of the author michaelvadal
    Originally Posted by bbradford71 View Post

    Hello All,

    I am building my first adsense keyword niche site and I am a little confused. I did extensive keyword research and found a keyword that has over 1000 local searches a month, has a great CPC ($3.80), has a very high competition for advertisers. I ordered all of my content through iwriter, though a little higher in cost than fiverr I have been very pleased with the quality. I put the site together and it got indexed pretty quickly.

    I am using the Prosense theme which I really like, it is simple and clean! The theme is set up so that all you have to do is copy and past your ad codes. This is where I am confused!!!! The theme is set up so that on the home page there is a banner at at the top of the page, there is a side bar ad on the right hand side and there is a square ad that goes at the top of your post above the content.

    What I seeing is that the banner ad does not show up at all, even though the theme tells you which size ad to place there. The side bar ad and the ad within the post rotate. What I mean is that if the side bar ad shows up the ad in the post does not and vise versa. I am also noticing that a lot of the time the ads do not really have anything to do with the niche of my site. I kind of expect the ads to be related to dogs if the site is about dogs (just an example).

    Anyone have any ideas or thoughts on this?


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    Do you own your adsense account already?
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    • Profile picture of the author michaelvadal
      I also have encountered those things I have a website that is about samsung tablet and sometimes the ads that appear are something different. Actually at first I wondered why but as time goes by I noticed that it was changing until it is related to my nice..So I think you just need to take some time and just refresh it as this problem also occurs on my website but it is ok now..

      All you need to do is PATIENCE..
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  • Profile picture of the author lovboa
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    Do you have more than 3 ad units on your page?
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  • Profile picture of the author bbradford71
    NO three is the max I have, it has gotten better to some degree but many of the ads are still not even close to the nature of my site.
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  • Profile picture of the author Rafay Zafar
    you can turn off interest based ads in your adsense account settings.
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    • Profile picture of the author paulgl
      You can't really turn off interest based ads. Google shows
      ads relevant to the searcher regardless. That's an old
      setting that was used to glean info from your visitors
      to maybe tweak future ads for other visitors. Not
      a good stat anyway, or a good way to do adsense.
      Anyone logged in to google will see personal results
      if they are warranted.

      So you found a keyword, got a domain, wordpress,
      bought articles, etc. For what? Think that somehow
      people would just flock to your site, bid on it, and
      actually get clicks?

      If you are just plugging your id into a template, that's
      a very bad idea. You will get stuff like you are
      getting. If you are plugging in the whole code, ditto.

      Wordpress with their css, over-div'ed,
      bloated code can make even the best template
      screw up with even just an extra space or
      line break.

      I can't stress to people, over and over, that making a
      site from scratch is actually quite easy. And it allows you
      to do more than any wordpress template would ever
      do. Very, very easily.

      This is your first adsense site. Read this forum for much
      more tips than can be gotten in one reply.

      Google knows a whole lot better as to what ads people
      will click on. If people actually knew that they pay
      brilliant engineers to come up with this stuff, they
      might actually get MORE clicks. Google loves a click.
      They make money and you make money. They are
      not in the business of taking money off the table,
      although many people seem to think they are.

      There's a reason why they have default blue title,
      green links. I use this every single time. All I do
      is darken the blue from FF to CC.

      You can tweak the ads by doing various things.
      title, h1, bolded words are the best thing. Watch
      what you put in your title, h1, and bolded words.
      I've seen people put crap in all 3 that just does
      not belong. Then wonder why they get ads
      for toothbrushes or something. Google cannot
      possibly glean your content and get exactly what
      your article is about. But they sure can read the
      3 things above.

      On each and every page on my sites, I have a bolded
      sentence at the top, saying something like:
      "Welcome to domain.com. Our site provides keyphrase, keyword,
      etc." High up on a page matters a lot to the adsense bot.

      Paul
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  • Profile picture of the author bbradford71
    Thanks for the info, I will try a few things
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