Sep
Adsense Tips From The Mystery Guru
I found a blog entry from earlier this summer full of Adsense tips from someone who supposedly did very well with Adsense. The blog author apparently just stumbled into this mystery man who was very successful with Adsense and decided to share his tips. It could have been a “guru” or some random guy on the street, but he didn’t want his identity revealed.
However, he shared plenty of tips, so let’s dissect this article to see if he knows his stuff…
Adsense outperforms affiliate programs
The first thing we learn is that this dude sucks at promoting affiliate programs. If Adsense outperforms affiliate programs, sorry, but that’s pathetic. I guess it could depend on the site, but if you actually promote the affiliate program instead of using crappy banner ads, affiliate programs should outperform Adsense by far.
Ad placement
This sounds good. Put some rectangles in your content so the text wraps around it, yep, I do that a lot myself. Limit your ads, yep, you don’t want to display the cheap ads.
Ad design
Match the colors to your site, yep, pretty good here as well.
Alternating colors, yep, very good tip to prevent ad blindness.
Targeting ads
Mention the product on the page, yeah, basic stuff. How else are you going to target the ads?
However, I’ve never noticed improvements by using Google’s “ad section” crap.
Long-term strategy
This is definitely flawed…
If every page you make raises just $.04 per day from the time the page ranks and you put up 5 pages per day you’ll raise your income $.20 per day. With 365 days in a year you’ll make $73.00 more per day!
If a page makes 4 cents a day and you add 5 pages, you still make 4 cents. You won’t get 20 cents unless you bring in more traffic. That 4 cent click you got also meant that the visitor left your site…
Defense
Gotta disagree again here. Several “not much” sites will cause you to be overworked and annoyed and not get anywhere long term. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.
You’re probably better off with a flagship site and defensible traffic.
Build a good site and don’t get too concerned about updates.
For example, how many big sites get wiped out all at once from some little update? I can’t think of any…
Squidoo got a spam penalty from Google recently. Whoopity doo, their Alexa rank is still under 500. I think they’re doing fine, maybe even better (since they’re cracking down on spammers.)
When Google puts more work into banning link exchanges, what will happen to all your puny sites that only got indexed thanks to link exchanges?
Don’t work with partners.
It’s true that working with partners can lead to disputes and trouble, but how many big businesses have only one person? Johnny Cupcakes is big and run mostly by John, but he still has help keeping things operating smoothly.
Link building
Get one way links. Really? That’s priceless advice. How do you suggest new little sites get lots of one-way links?
Maybe that can be the subject of your next article??
“Make a good helpful site: don’t pull tricks and you’ll get there.”
OK, that’s a good way for him to sum things up.
Overall the article is worth a read, especially if you’re new to Adsense. Even if you know your stuff, you might get an idea from it, but don’t expect much. Just don’t take this guy’s advice when it comes to affiliate marketing!
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“A friend of mine, much bigger and experienced, which insisted to not reveal his name while he grab lot of money from online activities but don`t want to be in middle of attention, allowed me to show to certain peoples how he do things.” - next, a sum of old advices choosen random from the about +100 ebooks about adsense which were sold once with 49-99 bucks, now are free to get for only join into a “giveaway” program (one signup for a dayly newsletter in your email) then subscripe for free to the list owned by a nobody (which is second useless dayly email for you).
Free and also 99% useless. Except building targeted adsense templates (and point them as landing page in 3-10 traffic exchange sites), if doesn`t matter is on the ilegality edge reff to adsense rules, there can not be made important money from google adsense. Google make big money that way but one won`t.
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One of my fav quotes (appear random under the titles of my posts) say :
“Eat crap, 10 trilions flys can`t be wrong”.
Thanks for the critique. An interesting phenomena has been a lot pf people saying “this is mostly old news/crap but there was this one tip I liked…” And that one tip is different each time!
Of course, Mystery Mentor was giving *me* those tips and I am new to Adsense so a lot of it probably is basic to experienced website developers that already use an ad-based model. Most of my experience is moving the viewer to a different type of close - purchase a product or request more information about a service.
Since getting these tips I have been implementing them on a few select sites and what I can report so far is that it does work for small consistent earnings. I average about $.11/day now which is not a lot but better than $0. And that will improve as I work with it some more.
As to the rest… I don’t agree with everything either. But I wanted to give MM’s advice as it was handed down to me.
Oh, and I already have an article about link-building that has been popular for a while. I am an experienced SEO so I don’t think MM bothered to give me pointers on that end.
Thanks again for the critique. I much prefer discussion over blind agreement.
Thanks for jumping in rmccarley!
Nice link building article too, maybe I’ll fit that into one of my critiques sometime
p.s. best of luck with Adsense. I bet you’ll make more $ with trying to close sales especially if you can already do that, but you never know when some Adsense technique you learn can help improve your other monetization strategies.
There are lots of ways to make money online. I don’t see any reason to limit myself.
Cool site, I came here through this link:
http://www.netbusinessblog.com/2007/09/07/stealing-feed-counts-is-lame/
Thanks for coming by Ash!
Stay tuned for some posts this week I think you’ll enjoy, especially if you’ve paid attention to the feed count thing!
Create good content, people link to your site, other people see those links and visit your site. They too link to your site because of the good content, … and the traffic continues. It’s all about providing good content to readers looking for information.