Adsense is addictive
Adsense is really addictive. I started putting some ads on my website, and my initial goal was just to pay off hosting expenses. I really found that there is a huge potential in the adsense program.
My only problem its becoming addictive - really addictive. When you find that half hour of work will have a continuous and sustained pay back for the rest of your website’s lifetime its really worth.
The cycle has been going through optimizing ads, adding more services for website visitors, analyzing then tuning the ads placements.
Things that I’ve learned:
- Using channels is a no-brainer requirement. It helps to see what works and what does not work. The way I use channels is for every ad it will belong to a channel with the website’s name (mibrahim.net), its type (large-rect), its placement (top / right / left), the page it’s on (search results / property / info …etc), and one big combo of those (prop-large-rect-top-mibrhim.net). Now you’ll be able to figure out which positions work overall on your website, which type of ads do better and you can do the same for every type of pages.
- Reading the tips offered by google helps for your initial placement of ads
- Use larger sized ads - they usually outperform smaller ones
