Your Eureka Moment on AdSense Forum

[Heartlander]

This probably refers to more established regulars on webmasterworld, but even some newcomers are finding nuggets here and there.
It isn't the nuggets I'm interested in hearing about, however.

What have you learned in the WebmasterWorld Adsense forum that caused you to slap the side of your head and say "of course!"...and then go out and apply that knowledge successfully?

[northaqua]

Wow! I just made a post telling what reading here did for me. I could have waited and posted it here, and wouldn't have had to think of a headline! Thanks

[pageoneresults]

How come Adlinks are so successful?
[webmasterworld.com...]

Believe it or not, I had no idea that Google Ad Links were performing as well as everyone said they were. I immediately implemented an Ad Links format for testing.

[hunderdown]

Increase your earnings by removing poorly performing pages/channels. Can't remember the exact thread but it was in the spring two years ago. At the time it was an heretical idea that most didn't buy into. I tried it and it worked for me. Now more widely, but not entirely, accepted, though why this works is still disputed. And it doesn't work on all sites in all situations....

[david_uk]

No Eureka moments really, but I guess where this forum has helped is in watching others experiences. From this, one of the things I learned was that adlinks seemed to be generally providing webmasters with improved earnings. In the early days, results were mixed. I didn't have any luck with them, so dropped them. Thanks to this forum, I realised they were worth trying again, and this time I'm finding them to be a good source of income.

[mertero]

Hey pageoneresults, didn't know I helped you, good luck with AdLinks.

My 'euroeka' moment was not in a forum, but a friend who told me to change the way I place my ads. I looked at his site, and he had adlinks. I tried them, and my revenue was up alot ;-)

R.

[OptiRex]

Over a few months my EPC was gradually lowering to the point of unacceptibility therefore after reading that some had recommended a maximum of two units I experimented with removing a couple of ads and almost immediately, if I remember correctly, my EPC returned to "normal" and ever since then, apart from a couple of strange Google blips, has remained consistently good.

[Hobbs]

My most effective one was not related to this forum but relevant to it:
I decided to work less on experimenting and raising my eCPM and work more on my content and hence traffic!

Early on I had quite a few of those forum moments:
Raised earnings by blocking domains
Raised them again by clearing my block list
Raised earnings by lowering the number of ad units per page
Raised earnings by removing AdSense all together from some sections on my web site
Raised earnings when I experimented with firefox in those under-performing sections
Also raised earnings when I started using other networks as alternate ads.

--Hobbs

[netmeg]

Repositioning my ads a few months ago. Made a huge difference, and I'm not even to my "peak" yet, as my site is largely summer-seasonal. I was too impatient to read most of the docs (including about the heat map) when I started out (I come from the "documentation is for wimps" programming background) so I just put the ads where I thought they should go aesthetically (to MY taste) but once I moved them up and over, and refit my page a little to make them blend in, it made, as I said, a HUGE difference.

[ronburk]

The Markus Made a Million post. Not for the usual reasons, but because I suddenly saw that, if you can generate content on a per-city basis, you can sell a nationwide Widget product/service and still sell lots of ads to every company that sells the same Widget product/service locally. If the local seller can differentiate themselves by being focused on their locality, they may not see your one-man, nationwide service as competition and may be happy to give you their advertising dollars.

Now, every website idea I have, I look to see if there's a "generate per-city local content" angle that can be exploited.

[ken_b]

No "eurekas" for me.

But the biggest eye opener was how well Adlinks works for some sites. That bit of knowledge added about over 40% to my income. :)

Beyond that, most the income gains from what I've learned here have been incremental. Pick up a percent here, three percent there, another couple percent from the pile in the corner, and it adds up nicely in the end.

[pageoneresults]

But the biggest eye opener was how well Adlinks works for some sites.

I was so against Ad Links when I first saw them. I didn't think putting the user one more click away from information would have been helpful.

I've started my Ad Links testing as of yesterday. I will keep this thread bookmarked and will report back on my results within the next 30 days, maybe sooner if I see numbers that are above the norm. ;)

[BillyS]

I actually took the time - about fifteen minutes - to reposition my ads to make sure they actually showed above the fold. I also made them look like they belonged on my website - another 15 minutes.

CTR doubled overnight and has stayed there ever since. I couldn't believe it - best 30 minutes I ever spent.

[Heartlander]

// The Markus Made a Million post//

Same here.
As a matter of fact, I took the time to do an interview with Markus for my blog after reading about his techniques.

As for the Adlinks, after reading the replies here, I'm almost tempted to put them back up on some pages.....
Decisions, decisions...

2 Eureka moments in one week, perhaps? ; )

[pageoneresults]

I will keep this thread bookmarked and will report back on my results within the next 30 days, maybe sooner if I see numbers that are above the norm.

You know, I rarely check AdSense more than once a week. But since I impemented the Ad Links I wanted to keep a close eye on daily activity.

Oh my! I am quite surprised. Clicks have literally doubled. CTR is up 0.7% and CPM is $1.00 above average. I know it has been only 48 hours since I implemented the Ad Links but geez, I didn't think it would react that quickly. I'll definitely keep you posted. ;)

Today was a record day for Clicks on my AdSense campaigns.

[clickme]

Not sure if this counts as a Eureka moment, but I loved seeing how everyone here values content over crap. It was an encouraging sign for my existing website with is content based.

[universetoday]

Putting Adsense into the archive of my vBulletin forum. Wow.

[Heartlander]

I've got a phpBB archive site, now you have me thinking....
I wonder how often it is spidered? Hmmm.

More importantly, how many from SERPS actually end up there?

[northaqua]

"""I wonder how often it is spidered? Hmmm.

More importantly, how many from SERPS actually end up there? """"

Isn't that something that you track?

Perhaps I have a much smaller site, so it makes it less complicated?

I am asking because, now I feel that I don't have the bases covered.?

Another thing to learn.
Cheers

[Heartlander]

No- I sure don't track that part of the site....yet.
No ads or anything on it-yet. ; )

[HuhuFruFru]

i could raise earnings through:

- removing ads from pages with low ctr
- blending the ads
- less is more: instead of three ads i put only one ad on each page (the page also looks cleaber)
- google section targeting: they really increase the relevancy of the ads, and THAT'S the most important thing!
- ADLINKS! i really love them :)