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Connected Internet: Why My Adsense Earnings Are Better Than Other Blogs

  • Darren · 2 years ago
    I think you're right on all of those points - except that problogger gets more traffic than my photography blogs :-) They are actually doing better than problogger both in earnings and traffic. But you're right, writing on products helps a lot with AdSense.


    thanks for the links
  • Martin · 2 years ago
    I agree that search engine traffic is far better for Adsense than regular visitors who probably only click if they want to reward the site owner.

    I would not advise new bloggers to only look at optimizing their posts for search engines and revenue. It is my experience that it is most often better to simply write about subjects that you are enthusiastic about. Traffic will come in eventually.
  • Martin · 2 years ago
    It is rather obvious that Problogger is not really monetized correctly and Darren mentioned (on his blog I think) that it was far more useful for image building and reputation than for making money from it.

    I fell into that trap when I started using Adsense because I copied the ad layout from Problogger for a few weeks until I realized that this was not the perfect spot.

    Everton you should probably mention that it could be counter productive to run more than one Adsense banner on your site.
  • Bush Mackel · 2 years ago
    You can imagine my surprise when I woke up and saw all of this. Everton - Thanks for the MORE than thoughtful response! You, Darren and Martin gave a lot of good information that will no doubt help me immensely. Now I just have to start implementing all of this. (#):) Thanks again and best regards!
  • John · 2 years ago
    I think the difference is also partly down to audience - John Chow's readers are generally more internet savvy and therefore more likely to recongnise and ignore adsense ads.
  • Ashish Mohta · 2 years ago
    To write a post which people look for is the key. If you can get lot of hits from google money is always on the way. After optimizing my posts I was able to do so. Now I am able to make some good money out of adsense. Great tips
  • Everton · 2 years ago
    @Darren
    Sorry, I meant that Problogger traffic was probably higher

    @Martin
    I was thrown by Darren's problogger layout initially, until I realised he had other sites that were making the serious money
  • Craig Kohler · 2 years ago
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  • Eric · 2 years ago
    At over $4k a month in AdSense earning, you must be doing something right! I had always wondered why John Chow's AdSense earning were so low (about $1K a month), but when I was reading your analysis of search traffic - it makes sense to me now. JC's readers see his site everyday and have become blind to the AdSense ads. A search brings a brand new person to your site and they are not as de-sensitized to the placement of the ads. Excellent point.
  • Everton · 2 years ago

    @Eric


    It's not really about being de-sensitised to a site, it's about what you are doing there in the first place


    A search engine visitor is also looking for a particular service or piece of information. So, if they've chosen your link from a set of results on Google and your site is showing ads relevant to what they are looking for, they will probably click on them.


    Whereas regular readers are visiting just to see what you've written about recently, and are not necessarily looking for things to buy etc

  • Everton · 2 years ago
    @Martin

    Just spotted you don't run feedburner ads on your site - interested to hear why not?

    To be honest, I'm making less from feedburner every month and they are now down to less per month than I make from adsense in a day, so I'm considering whether or not to pull them, so interested to hear your views.
  • Martin · 2 years ago
    Everton Feedburner ads never seemed to work for my site and I'm only using them on my feed to make a few - really few - bucks. I keep the feed ads in the hope that the service will finally kick of after the Google purchase.

    A second reason why I never put them up was that I did not want to ad more ads on my site. I already had serious difficulties convincing myself to add Tribal Fusion to my blog ;)

    I never thought it would make much sense to add another ad on my blog for just an increase of 1% or even less in revenue
  • Everton · 2 years ago
    I've got mine tucked away in the sidebar and it only appears about 0.5% of the time so for now I'll leave it alone, but I've been disappointed by the fill rate as well.

    Blogads seems to have died as well
  • Ashish Mohta · 2 years ago
    I would agree that feedburner fill rate is too low. Many of the advertisement come with a geographic dependencies which is not worth.

    @Martin: Even I am waiting for Google's program to show up ( if they have any plans either on marketing or new style). Fan doesn't work well unless you have 2000+ and kind of site.
  • Shashank · 2 years ago
    @Everton
    you have told us in third point to use a good stats package ..which is the best then ...i know the three prominent ones statcounter,google analytics and sitemeter.. ..
    are they not enough ..?
  • Everton · 2 years ago
    I prefer mint as it gives me the snapshots I need quickly
  • Martin · 2 years ago
    Mint has the advantage that it is running on your server and the disadvantage that it is not free and uses system resources.

    Google Analytics is free but it increases the loading times for the visitor and it could give problems if the service has a problem.

    You could also check your webhost to see if he offers any statistics for your site, awstats for instance is a nice program.
  • Everton · 2 years ago
    @Martin

    Good point about Google Analytics and page loading times. Just realised I still have the code on my sites even though I never look at the stats -removing now
  • Nirmal · 2 years ago
    It was a great informative article. Your theme especially is a great one, this will definitely improve adsense.
  • Dennis Bjørn Petersen · 2 years ago
    I am actually afraid to see Everton's final consultant bill ;)

    The FIFA 08 idea was/is great. Traffic is steadily increasing (it also helps to have a link on Wikipedia)

    I use Google Analytics and the blog stats plugin from wordpress. It gives me a quick overlook over the most read posts, referrers, links and so forth.
  • Everton · 2 years ago
    @Dennis

    Maybe you should start payig me a percent of earnings now instead to lessen the blow, before I sue you in court like facebook because you 'stole' my idea ;-)
  • Dennis Bjørn Petersen · 2 years ago
    hehehe...true. I'd love to pay you...if you can find it in your heart to deny a young man his only chance to buy a Nintendo Wii. All my earnings are going into the "My Wife Won't Let Me Buy A Wii" fund. I'm only 90% away ;)
  • 3gp · 2 years ago
    Search Engines works great CTR is always higher as per my experience.
  • Shashank · 2 years ago
    but mint is a paid tool...also recently discovered awstats ..but i don't know why i like only statcounter
  • Ashish Mohta · 2 years ago
    @3Gp: According to my analysis only search engine traffic and that in huge amount can give you a high ctr. People who complain of having lower are most probably not having much of SE traffic
  • horisly · 2 years ago
    well, i really agree with you views.
    but now, i don't have much time to blogging, so my paying decline.
    i will try my best next month
  • Michelle Amos · 2 years ago
    There are plenty of arguments for why one blog makes more money with adsense than another. I'm sure there is validity to all arguments: Backlinks, Pageviews, visits, content quality content, obtuse audience. I've read and heard all sorts of things. I'[ve even heard about the importance of hiding your adsense ads. Its my contention that I don't want to go to a bog and feel like I'm being pushed into spam sites that just want to sell me something I have no intention of buying. That's just me. Like I said I've read alot of material, but I've got to say the best blog I've found out there yet is www.monetizationweekly.com it gives just about every argument there is for why one blog might be more successful than another. Check it out!
  • budi anduk · 7 months ago
    why my adsense earning still 0.0x hehe..