Adsense is a great way to make money from a website.Many people make thousands of dollars from their blog using adsense while others earn a very few amount.There are many reasons for this different earnings like CPC,unique content,CTR,etc.One of the most important reasons that affects adsense earnings is ad placement.Many people fail to place the ads properly.This can be due to the reason that they don't know where to place the ads.This article will discuss about the most common places on our blog for ad placement.
1 ) In The Sidebar
This is the easiest place to add adsense code.
How to implement? Go to the layout page in blogger,click on add a widget and add an HTML/Javascript widget the adsense code in it or directly add a Adsense widget.
2 ) Between Posts
To add Adsense between post simply go to the blogger dashboard and navigate to layout.Click Edit Link below the blog post section and put a check mark on 'Show Ads Between Posts' option.
Check out recommended ad formats for this placement location.
13 ) In The Blog's Footer
Convert your ad code and then go to your blog template.Find <div id='footer-wrapper'>
Paste the converted code right after it.
14 ) Anywhere In The Post
If you want to add an ad anywhere onto you post simply copy the ad code(Do not convert).Switch to HTML view in your post editor and paste the ad code in your desired location.(Make sure all the tags are closed properly)
15 ) Add Two Ads Side By Side
If you want to add two ads side by side then follow the below syntax.
Adsense is a great way to make money online.But a lot of people fail to make at least 1$ a day.One of the main reason for this is poor traffic.Imagine if you have 100 people a day on your site and only 2-3 click on the ads,then you are not gonna make anything from adsense.So you need more traffic.
Why is it recommended to join adsense once you have high visitors? Many people create a site,write some post(for the sake of writing)and then apply for adsense.Once they got approved they start to experiment with different ad placements,colors.,etc. so as to make more money.Thus creating content becomes the secondary task and you will start loosing your traffic.Gradually you get depressed with lower earnings.You will then go for other ad networks without creating good unique content.
Why is my CPC,CTR,etc. too low? The main reasons for this is because you don't have enough traffic.The traffic source and the country will also be a factor of your CPC.
How can I increase my earnings?
Keep on creating good&unique content
Target audience from high paying countries like USA
Practice methods to increase your organic traffic (search traffic)
Get more and more backlinks which helps to increase your Google Page Rank
Create custom channels and track your ad progress.Then remove the low performing ad units.
Make your custom channels targetable.
Block irrelevant ad categories in your adsense.
Use different adsense services like adsense for feeds,adsense for search,etc.
Check out the below videos.They are really great!
Check out my previous posts on adsense optimization if you haven't already.
MeasureIt is a browser extension for Chrome,Firefox and Safari to measure pixels online.This is a very useful extension if you are a blogger or web developer.MeasureIt allows you to draw a ruler across the screen to measure the width and height.A translucent overlay comes across the screen while measuring to avoid clicks.
This tool will be very useful when you want to:
measure website component size without even looking at the original source code
measure header images of websites
design a responsive website
re-size your site components
before applying padding styles in CSS for your website
Buttons helps you to add links in an attractive and convenient way.It also helps the visitor to quickly find the link without reading the whole post.Moreover it gives a professional touch to your blog.Buttons can be made highly attractive with CSS which forces the user to click on it.This post will teach you how to add buttons to your blogger post.
How To Add Buttons To Blogger Post?
Go to your Blogger Dashboard > Templates > Customise > Advanced > Add CSS
Copy-Paste any of the below CSS code.
Then copy the button code and paste it in your desired location.
Switch to HTML view and replace the the button name.
Then go back to Compose mode.
Add the link to the button name text.{To make the button open the link in new tab simply check the open link in new tan option in link to option.
Videos are a great way to convey your ideas.Most bloggers use video sharing sites like youtube,metacafe to upload their videos and to embed it in their post.A video sitemap tells Google exactly where, and what the video content is on your site. It helps Googlebots recognize video content, and display it in therelevant search results page..This is the only way to get video previews on search results for your site. But creating a video sitemap can be very difficult and time consuming if you already have many videos on your site.But Complete PC Guide have found a solution for this.
Copy the xml code and paste it in a new notepad file.
Save the notepad file as videositemap.xml (Extension should be .xml)
Then upload the sitemap file to your blog directory using FTP.
Path yourdomainname.com/videositemap.xml
Go to webmaster tools and sign in.
Go to your site dashboard.
Go to Crawl section and click Sitemaps.
Add a sitemap from the top right button.
Fill the url path.
Click Submit.
If you are working to build traffic to your site then consider submitting a video sitemap.What do you think about video sitemaps?Is there any simple method than this?Tell us your thoughts in the comment sections!
If you are an Adsense publisher you might be wondering how to increase your ad revenue.There are many factors that affects your revenue.One of the most important factor is ad placement.Without a good ad placement location a user is likely to miss an ad from his view.Therefore you need to make sure that your ad placement is good.
What is the best ad placement for any site?
It is impossible to give a single answer to this question because different sites are of different niches and are using different layouts to match their niche.
Best Ad Placement For Different Types Of Sites
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Add ads between the content on the homepage.Place the larger ad units above the fold to attract placement targeting.Adding link ads above the title or at the end of post or between the content can dramatically improve your earnings.Include an adsense for search to your homepage.
Add leaderboard or rectangle ad units between the post on the homepage.Also add a link unit below the navigation bar.On content pages include a rectangle ad unit below the post wrapped around text.
Almost all internet users now own a blog with blogger or wordpress.Eveyone starts blog with the hope of making money but fails to do so with less traffic.Even if you have a good traffic making money can be very difficult with bad ad placement.
