Best New AdSense Strategies of 2008

[potentialgeek]

What changes did you make to your site(s) in 2008 that helped you earn more revenue?

p/g

[jetteroheller]

What changes did you make to your site(s) in 2008 that helped you earn more revenue?

Are You joking?

What changes did you make to your site(s) in 2008 that helped you to hold at last revenues?

1.) May 2008: Newsletter with about 5500 subscribers

2.) October 2008: new layout for my sites

[Edge]

What changes did you make to your site(s) in 2008 that helped you earn more revenue?

I introduced my own PPC ads, increased other partners contextual ads and sold more static banners etc..

Summary: I reduced GG ads on my site and diversified to make same and a little more money.

[himalayaswater]

Kicked out adsense and replaced with affiliate links. My 6 affiliate sales == monthly adsense income. Adsense is for loosers ;) .. just kidding...

[signor_john]

What changes did you make to your site(s) in 2008 that helped you earn more revenue?

That's easy: I gave more prominence to display ads.

I've always viewed AdSense as a secondary source of revenue, and in the last year or so, display ads have really come into their own. (AdSense is a great direct-response advertising product, but direct-response advertising is only a small part of the advertising business.)

[purplecape]

Found a way to integrate adlinks into my home page and secondary index pages. Just about doubled income--back to what it had been in early 2007 before a gradual CTR decline started.

[farmboy]

I can't say yet whether it has increased my revenue yet (although others have reported positive results), but I have recently stepped up my efforts at finding and fighting copyright thieves.

I've said it before and I'll say it again. This is within our control folks - we don't have to depend on the people working at Google AdSense. If every legit publisher would seek and out and shut down just one content thief each month, we would gradually eliminate a lot of competition and make our sites more valuable to advertisers by simple rules of supply and demand.

Everytime someone earns $1 from AdSense on their site with the content they copied from your site, that's $1 less the advertiser has to spend and $1 that probably should have gone into your pocket. But you have to take the initiative to get it stopped.

FarmBoy

[netmeg]

Reduced the number of ads to one ad block and one link unit per page - EPC soared.

Different (wider) layout, not so cluttered.

Added t-shirts

*twitter*

Removed AdSense from a couple of sites where it wasn't performing well, added a few new sites with mixed results.

Dipped my big toe into affiliate stuff.

[wyweb]

What changes did you make to your site(s) in 2008 that helped you earn more revenue?

I hired a witch doctor to put spells on them.

Oh wait, that didn't work...

[nomis5]

I redesigned the navigational structure and introduced it slowly site wise over two of my sites.

It created several new pages for almost no effort and raised the rankings in Google. Higher rankings for my sites = more dosh from any ads on the pages.

[hukumat]

[quotes]
What changes did you make to your site(s) in 2008 that helped you earn more revenue? [/quotes]
I just started this business in 2008. so everything was changing
hahahahah

[netchicken1]

I rebuilt the site to better use medium squares

[alephh]

Removed ads from poorly performing pages.

Worked/struggled/begged to get QUALITY links.

Set up one site (small but product-based topic).

[johnnie]

I actually *built* my sites in 2008 :)

[Atomic]

My best results came from knowing when AdSense doesn't cut it and finding alternatives that do.

[edited by: Atomic at 2:59 am (utc) on Dec. 24, 2008]

[inetguru]

Just ventured into this style of online business. Yet to know the difference. Nice to meet with adsense gurus in the forum. An assurance that I will start cashing in from Google soonest.

[Hobbs]

I sold my soul and gave AdSense more inventory.

[mixart]

The inside-adsense blog gave out a great tip recently about taking advantage of google image search for referrals. I knew I always got a huge number of visitors to my site from image search (about 10,000 visitors a month) - it's an image heavy site. However, I took their tips and have named my images using more useful words for image filenames (puppydog.jpg instead of image146.jpg). We'll see how much this helps soon enough :)

2009 will be interesting for me since I've decided to diversify rather than improving my one website by launching a second website. I'm quite curious to see how long it takes this site to start earning.

[ken_b]

Are there any "New" strategies?

Maybe working on all the other aspects of your site(s) and letting AdSense take care of itself is the best idea of all.