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Today I want to share with you some of the things I’ve done to improve my adsense earnings. These techniques have worked extremely well for me. So no fluff, let’s get to it:

I use asrep for my stats, so I’m not violating the Google TOS by showing these numbers.

1. The best format for an Adsense ad is (336×280). As you can see above, it gets the highest click through by far.

2. Use Blue colored links on a white background. These are the default colors in standard html and hence the most common colors for pages and links on the web. All things being equal, users are trained to click on blue links on a white background. I design 99% of my sites using a white background and blue links just for this reason. I WANT CLICKS!

How many of you just clicked on the “sample” picture above? Can’t help yourself can you?!

3. Put your adsense ads “above the fold”. This just means put them on the page where they can be seen without the user having to scroll down your web page. Here is one of my sites that does very well:

Notice how I blend the ads into the website? The above layout works best for me, and it will for you, I’m sure of it!

4. CONTENT. Make a real website, not a “MFA” made for adsense ugly, spammy, poluting the internet, content scraping, content stealing, self redundant duplicating, never gonna make a penny, get you banned, crappy website. It’s fine to use “choice” articles from article directories like ezinearticles.com. But you better cherry pick them for your site’s niche. Make sure you don’t make your visitors sorry for wasting their time on your website. Even if they don’t click on anything, at least they got some good information and that can be your good deed for the day.

These sites seriously piss me off, they polute the internet, ad no value to the surfer, and waste my money as an advertiser.

5. Tired of earning pennies per click? Block competitive websites in your adsense account under the “competitive ad filter” section. For example, if you’re selling or reviewing digital cameras, block ebay.com and amazon.com from displaying on your site. Google doesn’t allow advertisers to bid on those trademarks. Hence, if those ads show on your site, it will pay a fraction of a cent. You also want to block the major “mfa” sites for your niche. These kind of sites also pay fractions of a penny per click. Go to http://adsblacklist.com They have a great community of adsense publishers just like you who have found “mfa” sites for every niche and share them with you free. It’s a “MUST VISIT” site for any adsense publisher.

Stay tuned for more tips in the comming days:

How to improve your quality score so you get paid more per click, and get the high paying advertisers to show on your site.

How to find a profitable niche. (done)

If you have any questions or comments, feel free to post a “comment” here.

Thanks for reading, hope this article helped you.

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