21 Reasons Why Your Users Click On Your AdSense Ads

My AdWords Site-Targeted Ads at John Chow Dot Com – Here’s the Result

About a week ago I started an AdWords campaign targeted at John Chow Dot Com. I hope this article answers some of the questions people may have as to whether it’s worth spending money on AdWords to attract traffic to your blog.

The campaign centered around a review that I wrote about my experience having Sabahan.com reviewed at John Chow Dot Com.

 

Some Background of the Experiment

For those who are not familiar with AdWords site targeting feature, it lets AdWords advertisers choose individual sites in the Google content network where they’d like to show their ads.

Sabahan.com Contest Entries & Winner for Group 6

It’s taking a while, about three weeks to be exact, to collect enough entries to start the draw for group 6. While I’ve noticed more bloggers writing a review for the contest, I can only consider those who have emailed me directly about their review.

So if you have written a review but haven’t been entered, please email me and tell me about it.

Without further ado, here are the 5 entries for group 6, sorted by time received.

 

1. Aczafra.com
2. Wayan Wandira
3. xBrain.biz
4. Jamez Z
5. SkorCareer.com.my

 

AdSense Optimisation Tips for Forums

Over at the Inside AdSense blog, the team give out tips to help forum owners improve their AdSense performance. I quote the suggestions below.

 

• The welcome box ad
  Many forums have a message above the fold on their pages welcoming users to the site and encouraging them to register. Placing a large (336×280) or medium (300×250) rectangle next to this message catches users’ attention right when they walk through the door (so to speak). By the way, these are our best performing ad units, and may also increase the number of site-targeted ads on your pages.

   

Affiliate Marketing 101 – Almost Everything You Need to Know to Get Started Making Money with Affiliate Program

In the past few days, I’ve posted the following articles about affiliate program targeted towards bloggers

• How to Make Money from Affiliate Programs With Your Blog
• How to Select Suitable Products to Sell On Your Blog

When I wrote those articles, I assumed the potential readers (or bloggers in particular) already have a pretty good understanding of what affiliate program is all about. Whether they realise it or not, those running AdSense to make money from their blogs are already involved in affiliate program.

The Single Most Important Number That Could Make or Break Your Business

After I’ve written the 8 unusual tricks to boost your AdSense CTR, an interesting discussion in the comments ensued where a reader suggested that as long as you have lots of traffic you’ll have clicks. In response, I wrote that CTR is more important than your traffic; higher CTR makes you more money with less traffic.

Another reader wrote, having a 5% CTR with 1000 visitors is better than 100% CTR from 10 visitors. When it comes to AdSense, common sense dictates that the more traffic you have the bigger your potential income would be. That I totally agree.

My AdWords Experiment at John Chow Dot com - Could It Attract More Traffic At a Lower Cost?

Some of you may have noticed that currently I have an AdWords campaign running over at JohnChow.com. I wanted to see whether AdWords could drive me more traffic at a lower in comparison to my previous ReviewMe order.

So far the result has been encouraging. I’ve also noticed an increase in my RSS subscription.

In addition to running my ads at JohnChow.com, I am also testing them over at several other blogs such as BloggingTips.com.

If you’d like to read the result of my experiment and get some insight as to the effectiveness of using AdWords to drive traffic to your own blog, please subscribe to my blog via RSS or email.

My Kontera Experiment - The Results Are In…

Some of you may recall that I wrote about re-running Kontera ads (those text links with double underline) at Sabahan.com.

I was testing to see how much money I could make from it, and whether it’ll affect my AdSense income, traffic and readers experience. I was also watching the relevancy of the ads.

I setup the Kontera ads to run from 22 Jun 2007 until 26 July 2007 today. Up until 24 July, I’ve made $30.42 from 320 clicks which translates to around $0.095 per click. My effective CPM stands at $1.29, the revenue generated for every 1000 net impressions.

How to Select Suitable Products to Sell On Your Blog

This is a follow up to my post about making money from affiliate program via your blog.

Choosing the right products to sell is one of the most challenging steps you’ll take when you want make money from affiliate programs. You can select products from the best and biggest merchants such as Amazon, but that doesn’t mean you’ll make money if the product itself has a poor conversion rates.

Some people get lucky and hit the jackpot after only a few tries. For the rest, due diligence may help you filter out products with poor conversion rates. Once you’ve gathered enough experience you’ll be able to better decide which products to promote.

How to Make Money from Affiliate Programs With Your Blog

There are several ways bloggers can make money from their blogs. Text-Link-Ads, Sponsored Reviews and AdSense are some of the most widely used advertising programs by bloggers to monetize their blogs.

In contrast, making money by selling products or promoting affiliate programs is somewhat under- utilised probably because most bloggers find it’s harder to convince readers to part with their hard earned cash.

Hence, many chose the path of least resistance by plastering Amazon product banners for example and hope someone will notice and is tempted enough to purchase the product. Unfortunately that’s the worst way to make money from affiliate programs via your blog.

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