Google Adsense Tips and Reviews

Google Adsense is the most popular method of monetizing your blog. Because of it’s popularity, a number of plugins have been developed that help you easily integrate AdSense ads into your Wordpress blog. Listed below are what I consider to be the best AdSense plugins.

• AdSense-Deluxe - Offers advanced options for managing the automatic insertion of Google AdSense or Yahoo Publisher Network (YPN) ads to your WordPress posts. There is also AdSense Deluxe+ which claims to be a slightly improved version of the original AdSense-Deluxe Wordpress Plugin. The main difference is an improved ad limiting algorithm.


• AdSense Injection - Takes a random paragraph (or br tag) break in your post and inserts AdSense code. It does one per story on multi-post pages (home, archive, category) and let’s you pick how many to show on single post pages. You can also specify how many total ads to show on a page (0-3).



• AdSense Inline - Allows you to display AdSense ads in individual posts.


• AdSense Beautifier - Makes your AdSense ads look beautiful by placing images beside them which can increase your CTR (click through rate). Please note that this practice may violate Google’s policy on images near ads. You can find discussion on this topic at JohnTP.com.


• MightyAdSense - Allows you to host your AdSense code in Wordpress without having to modify any templates. The ads are automatically displayed in your posts. You can control the location of the ads and specify how many ads are shown on a page. I use this plugin and love it.


• AdRotator Wordpress Plugin - Displays a randomly selected ad at your chosen location. Can be used to rotate your AdSense ads with other affiliate programs like Yahoo! Publisher Network, AdBrite, BlogAds, and Chitika Eminimalls.



• AdSense Earnings Wordpress Plugin - Allows you to check your daily AdSense earnings from your Wordpress admin panel. You can also use the plugin to show to the public how much money you make from AdSense.


• AdSense Sharing Revenue and Earnings System - Displays your AdSense earnings for today or any selected date range in your Wordpress admin panel and allows you to share your AdSense impressions if your blog has multiple authors. (Based on AdSense Earnings Wordpress Plugin and Author AdSense Wordpress Plugin.)


• Author Adsense Wordpress Plugin - Allows blog authors to enter their Google AdSense Publisher ID and have ads displayed on their own posts generating revenue. Admin can set the ratio of author’s ads to admin ads. This plugin could be used for creating a program similar to writingUp, or just for allowing your contributers to get something back.


• AdSense Attachment Plugin - Allows you to show your attachments (best for Images) in a new page surrounded by ads. This great way to earn some money and show large images in new window. This plugin shows attachments as a thumbnail image, and when you click on it will show image in full size.

Do you know of any that I missed? What are your favorite AdSense wordpress plugins?

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The Google AdSense program is like finding money in the street.

Kids in High School are making thousands of dollars a month with Adsense… Housewives, Retiree’s, Mom and Pop’s who’ve never made a dime on the Internet have created full time incomes by simply placing AdSense Ads on their web site or blog.

Then you have the “Super AdSense” earners. We have all heard of them… the Elite few who are on track to make half a million dollars a year or more promoting AdSense sites.

Do not be mistaken though… these people are not building like your Mom and Pop’s do. They have systems in place that create sites for them… people who build sites for them… they have outsourced and automated many of the tedious tasks such as posting to blogs and searching for keywords.

While most people cannot emulate everything these Super AdSense earners do… many of them you can.

Here are 7 Required Steps you can implement today to copy their success.

1) Starting today… treat your AdSense business like it is a REAL business and track what you do.

Begin tracking what you are doing that works… as well as what you are doing that does not work. This will keep you from making the same mistakes over and over, and you can repeat the steps that have worked in the past. As simple as this step seems… most people do not know the reason(s) to their success or failure.

2) Utilize the latest tools and software available.

The Super AdSense earners are not any smarter than your average person. I know many people think they are… but for the most part, they are regular non techie people.

They are smarter in one respect though… they use the latest tools available to them to automate most of the tasks involved with researching and creating sites. They use the latest keyword, site creation and search engine optimization tools available. The tools they use are their secret weapons.

3) Quit chasing the Mega Dollar keywords.

You cannot compete with the search engine experts who create sites for the $80 payout keywords. You may get lucky every now and then… but in the long run, you are better off building sites for the low to mid range payout keywords. The competition is less, and your chance of success is much higher over the long term.

4) Choose broad niches and break it down.

Choose a broad subject as your main theme (lets use computers for an example). From there… break it down into as many sub niches as possible.

Using Computers as the example… you could build sub niches/sites like laptop computers, computer hard drives, computer keyboards, etc, etc. You could literally build hundreds of sites around one major theme and stay totally focused. Once you have exhausted every possible sub niche of that major theme… choose another main theme and repeat the process.

5) KISS

Keep your sites easy to navigate and forget the fancy graphics that distract your visitors attention. Unless you are just building AdSense sites for the fun of it and to impress your friends… the purpose of having the site is to have people click on one of the ads, right? Then keep the site layout simple… dump the scrolling banners, dancing chickens and colored scroll bars… they are distractions.

6) What is the purpose of your web site?

Your web site cannot be everything to everybody. If you have a full fledged ecommerce site, with products for sale… links to other products, it is not a good site for AdSense. If the primary focus of the site is to sell products… let it do that.

Do not distract or confuse your visitor with to many options or choices. The best AdSense sites are AdSense only content sites that sell nothing. They are sites that “Tell”… not “Sell.”

7) Be consistent.

This is not one of those deals where you build one site and you are done. Refer back to Step #4. You must continuously build in order to be successful.

Think of it as planting a crop that you will harvest in a month or two, and the sites you build are seeds. Once the seeds have grown and matured… you will reap the harvest. The more seeds you plant… the larger the harvest.

To sum it up… utilize the tools available to automate as much of the process of building sites - doing research and building keyword lists as you can. This alone will help keep you organized and on track. Be consistent in building… treat it like the business it is and you will reap the rewards of your harvest.

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As I found, there are new earning terms for referrals were established:

* AdSense:
o When a publisher who signed up for Google AdSense through your referral first earns $5 within 180 days of sign-up, you will be credited with $5.
o When that same publisher earns $100 within 180 days of sign-up and is eligible for payout, you will be credited with an additional $250.
o If in any 180-day period you refer 25 publishers who each earn more than $100 within 180 days of their respective sign-ups and are all eligible for payout, you will be awarded a $2,000 bonus (bonus payouts are limited to 1 per year).
* Firefox plus Google Toolbar: When a user you've referred to Firefox plus Google Toolbar runs Firefox for the first time, you'll receive up to US$1 in your account, depending on the user's location. Your referral must be a Windows user, who has not previously installed Firefox, in order for you to receive credit.
* AdWords:
o When an advertiser you refer first spends $5 within 90 days of sign-up (in addition to the $5 sign-up fee) you will be credited with $5.
o When that same advertiser spends $100 within 90 days of sign-up, you will be credited with an additional $40.
o If in any 180 day period you refer 20 advertisers who each spend more than $100 within 90 days of their respective sign-ups, you will be awarded a $600 bonus (bonus payouts are limited to 1 per year).
* Pack: When a Windows user you've referred to Pack downloads and installs the product, you'll receive up to US$2 in your account.

source - https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=25889&topic=1449

Hmm.. Great news :)