How a Malaysian Made US2746.56 from AdSense in August 2007

I was browsing Alang’s blog at Blog Webmaster Malaysia when I came across a post about the highest income he had earned from AdSense in a day.

Alang was one of the few Malaysians who have been very successful with AdSense. He used to make between $3000 to $4000 from AdSense in 2005. The most he has made from AdSense in a day was $144.74. Unfortunately, he no longer earns as much these days.

My Latest Blogging Projects and a Chance to Supplement Your AdSense and Affiliate Program Income

Some of you may recall that sometime in May 2007, I’ve made an announcement to invite interested bloggers to contribute related articles for some of my blogs.

In return, I’ve promised to pay the bloggers via an AdSense revenue sharing arrangement where they would keep 100% of the AdSense income generate by their own posts.

So far I have had several interested bloggers contacted me but only one decided to give it a try. Unfortunately, our discussion didn’t materialize and nobody took up the job offer in the end.

New AdSense Ad Test Unit Spotted

I don’t usually write about any AdSense ad that appears out of the ordinary which obviously is undergoing some testing.

However a few minutes ago I spotted an interesting AdSense format for the medium rectangle that appeared at Sabahan.com so I might just give it a mention.

Someone had actually spotted this ad format in early August and started a discussion thread at DigitalPoint.com.

As you can see below, besides the normal ad text, the unit also contains related words at the bottom. It looks a little cluttered but the novelty factor would probably help in increasing its click through rates.

How Much Money Did You Earn On Your First Day Running AdSense?

A member at DigitalPoint Forums asks how much did other members earn from AdSense on their first day.

Most members reported they earn nothing, but a few earn a couple of dollars.

If you have a brand new website, it’s normal to earn nothing or a couple of bucks for a start.

My first day with Google AdSense was on Friday, September 12, 2003 where I earn $0.27. It wasn’t a full day. The real earning was made on the second day where it jumped to $37.73, then $32.51 the next day, and $45.04 the day after.

New Features Highlights for Google Reader, AdSense & Search

I’ve been busy for the past few days planning and negotiating with the contractor on my parents’ house extension, which is probably evident from the patchy posting frequency you might have noticed for a couple of days.

Anyway, I’ll continue to update this blog as time permits.

I’d like to mention a few new features that have been added into several of Google’s applications these past few days.

 

Google Reader Search

If you are using Google Reader as your feed reader, you’ll be happy to know that they’ve just added search. This feature is one the main features I’ll look for in any feed reader.

My Internet Income Report for July 2007

Everyone (well more and more bloggers anyway) seems to be revealing their blogs’ income nowadays, following a trend started by John Chow Dot Com. If there were others who had chosen to reveal their blogs income before John Chow, I am not aware of them. Those that I know of didn’t go into as much details as what John Chow is doing.

I know how much you make is your own business so many bloggers prefer not to reveal their earnings.

How to Boost Your AdSense CTRs with Colour Palettes Blend, Complement and Contrast Strategies

The Blending Technique

When it comes to optimising AdSense, blending is one of the most widely used techniques to increase click through rates (CTR). Blending involves tuning the AdSense unit background and border to match the background colour of the page.

Further blending involves matching the colour of the ad link to the colour of links on your page and the colour of the ad text and ad URL match to the colour of the page text colour.

You can see this technique mainly used here at Sabahan.com as shown below. Click the image to see the larger version.

21 Reasons Why Your Users Click On Your AdSense Ads

1. They are genuinely interested in it
2. They see highly relevant ads to your content
3. They thought it’s part of your content
4. It’s an accidental click
5. Because they notice it
6. They want to support your site
7. They are tricked into clicking it
8. Because you opt for image ads which potentially have a higher value than the corresponding set of text ads.
9. They thought your link unit was part of your navigation menu
10. They thought the AdSense ads were part of the search result when you use AdSense For Search

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.

   

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.

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