Great Tips on Using AdSense

I use AdSense to monetize certain sections of my website to make additional money off my traffic. Here are a few of my tips that can help you with AdSense too.

  1. Don’t exclude your own business areas. Advertisers will pay  more to advertise on your website if they are selling the same or similar services that you are. That being said, be careful where you monetize so you don’t bleed off your own potential customers.
  2. Be judicious about the number of ad panels and where you put them. Don’t over do it.
  3. Build AdSense ad spaces into your new design. Don’t paste them in as an after thought.
  4. Be realistic about how much money you can earn with AdSense ads. Try to cover your hosting expenses for the year and you’ll be doing great.
  5. Don’t use AdSense everywhere in your website. Choose high traffic areas that typically are not conversion sections in your website. For me this means we show AdSense ads on our blog and in our how-to article sections. These are high traffic sites, but are not typically high conversion sections of our website. You won’t find ads on key pages of our website that are important to our own business, just what I consider adjunct pages.

Great Tips on Blog Writing

Here are a few of my top tips on blog writing to consider.

  1. Stay true to your key topic; meaning don’t skip around and try to write on everything that crosses your mind. Try to create authority and frequency on a few key items that you want to place on organically.
  2. Be consistent. Publish the same days and same time. Don’t miss your schedule! Write ahead and schedule posts if this works best for your needs.
  3. Hire a blog writer and then just add a paragraph at the end of each blog post to personalize the blog for your market.
  4. Try to use keywords that are important to you in the blog post title.
  5. Make sure to use tags and categories smartly and judiciously. Use categories for navigation and tags for keywords.

You don’t need to be an expert writer to write for your own blog, but it does help if you get your message out in a helpful, friendly, and grammatically correct way.

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