I have contemplating this a lot recently. I have not seen a shift in Google rankings like this in the last 10 years. The change in top 10 placements has been staggering for many key phrase searches. I have seen many sites go up for sale that are showing significant drop in rankings and traffic. Adsense sites seem to have taken the biggest hit. I guess it makes sense, there are 8 catrillion (I made up a number because I …
Category: Adsense
I recently received an email from the Google Adsense team asking me if I wanted to make more money. Of course I did so I checked out the email. They included an image of what they called the Adsense heatmap showing where on the page Adsense ads get clicked the most. I figured this would be something all of my readers would be interested to know so I am including a picture of the heat map below. Enjoy. As you …
My friend Mark Butler who runs the Keyword Academy keeps telling me about all of these members he has that are making anywhere from $1000-$5000 a month just from Adsense. I asked him to show me what exactly they were doing and so he walked me through their methodology and I have to admit that I was really impressed. So impressed in fact that I decided to try it out for myself. I know that I have talked about how …
I got an email from my brother-in-law Jeff this morning explaining to me the difference in adsense money he is making on two of his websites. Site A is his old website(his baby) that he has been building for the last year or so and has achieved nominal success, enough to show him that some money can be made on the internet. On this site he sells an ebook as his main source of revenue and then uses google adsense …
Google’s Adsense program allows advertisers to place advertisments on a publisher’s website. When a visitor clicks on the advertisment, the advertiser pays Google and Google pays the publisher of the ad. You’ll sometimes hear this mentioned from the advertiser’s perspective as the “content network.” Here’s an example of Adsense on a popular personal finance blog: In our Prosperly Portfolio we never use Adsense. The cost of convenience is far too expensive. The Cost of Google Adsense Consider the example of …