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Top 10 ways to maximize your Adsense earnings

I sometimes will come across sites that just make me cringe theway they are using Adsense on their pages and wish I could reachout and help them. Here are my Top 10 waysto maximize your Adsense earnings 1. Use text ads only. It has been shown that text ads are moreeffective than image ads. Personally, I don't use any ad-blockerbrowser plugins, but in my min...

...d, I automatically block outanything that looks like an ad. That's the beauty of text ads,they blend so nicely with your content, your reader may reallythink it is another of your links.2. Blend your ads. Take the time to use the color palate inAdsense to blend your ads with your current site style. Yourusers will thank you for this and so will your wallet. Take thetime to make the ad link colors the same as your page's.3. Display only one ad block per page. Remember, without...

... trafficthere is no revenue. Your visitors are there for your content,not your ads. If you are running a blog, try to space out yourads between articles. 4. Remove unnecessary links from your page. Remember yourvisitors are there for your content, and you want them for theirad clicks. Any link to an external site is a potentially wastedad click. Try to remove superfluous links and focus yourvisitors attention firstly to your content, and secondly on yourads.5. Use channels to track your progress. Actively use Adsense'schannel feature to track different campaigns you may be running.Experiment and compare your results over time.6. Put at least one ad block above the fold. "Above the fold" isthe first portion of the website which is visible to the user,without needing to scroll.7. Use section targeting. If your pages are very long andcontain various different topics, Adsense sometimes has timedetermining which would be the correct ad to place on your page.Remember, we always want our visitors to see the most relevantad to what they are currently reading. Use section targeting todivide the different topics on your page. As an example, sectiontargeting could be used to partition off different blog articleson a home page.8. Use Google's Heat Map. Read through Google's article on theirheat map and try to follow by example. They know their own stuffbest. try these advices9. Use high paying keywords. If possible, use high payingkeywords in your site. If there happens to be one portion ofyour site which is focused on a high paying keyword, refer totip #7 and apply section targeting around that area.10. Increase your traffic. Adsense is a numbers game. Simplyput, more traffic equals more money. Refer to my trafficgeneration pages for tips on thisTop 10ways to maximize your Adsense earnings