I believe most of us are dreaming of making thousands of dollars from Google AdSense. One of the questions lingering in our heads is: How?
Maybe a success story would help…
I stumbled on a forum thread on DigitalPoint that is started by Chris from Australia who claimed has increased his Google AdSense income from $10/week to $800/week (Updated: $1000+ a week – See his forum signature.) While for some of us $10 a week is already a good achievement, making $800, even more than a thousand dollar a week is pretty much amazing.
The thread was started almost three years ago, and it has stirred quite a response from the other forum members. The post is long and need some time to discern the info (some forum members were ‘complaining’ about this, too) – Nevertheless, once you get the gist of the post, you learn a thing or two that most AdSense experts hide, highlighted by his successful layout that is responsible in making him $1000+ a week.
Here are some great tips from the thread:
- Choose a topic (a.k.a. niche) that is not based on the high per click income, but based on your familiarity and knowledge – This way, you can bring the site to the fullest potential, and this is way much better in the long run.
- Offer value – Write unique, on-topic articles that people would wanted to know or were searching for.
- Create a winning-template to showcase your well-written articles (need testing, testing and testing.)
- Implement the basics, must-do on-site and off-site SEO: Keywords in title, interlinking pages on the site, link building, etc.
- It’s proven to be better to build several sites you are familiar with, instead of lots of sites in high-paying niche (i.e. a blog network)
- Experiment a lot – Never be afraid of doing trial-and-errors. Once you have found a working formula, apply it to your sites.
- Learn as much as you can from forums, ebooks, books, classes, seminars – The key is to give you an edge over the rest of the pack.
- Work hard, stay motivated and set detailed and measurable goals and targets.
Here is the layout that could make you $1000+/week (notice how different it is with Google’s suggested layout):
Google AdSense Official Ad Placement Guide
Chris’ Google AdSense-Optimized Site Layout (click on the image to enlarge)
I’m going to try the layout! Any success stories to share?
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Wow, 1000 per week! That caught my eye! I agree about choosing a niche that is in your area of expertise so that you can bring the website to its fullest potential. Establishing yourself as an expert is so necessary if you want your niche to have more credibility.
This is probably the simplest format for Google Adsense that I have seen. I’ve been to a few forums and there are suggested formats for these ads but they sometimes involve too much work that I get lost on the details. This simple format on the other hand just gives the info straight up.
Good luck with the planned new Adsense format and please do update us on how it goes.
Terry - Exactly... The format is actually doable in the shortest time possible, using plain HTML (no need for CMS.)
Bethany, In the long run, that's the best advice so far...
Those advices are interesting but… I don’t believe in making 1000$ a week from AdSense with just blogging around. I can believe in 10 or even 100$ a week, but 1000 seems just like a teenagers dream of a date with Demi Moore.
I think that learning how to drive traffic is far more important than any specific layout. Once you have the visitors it really doesn’t take that long to test different placements and colors for maximum click through rate.
I don’t have any success stories to name but I am confused, my Adsense account got approved yesterday and this is the first time I’ve considered marketing etc, now I am confused whether to go for WordPress hosting or Blogger blog? I want to promote ClickBank products as well so it would be nice to know. Please clear this confusion.
if you can get the traffic, you can get the money, so it’s the traffic that’s the hard bit. This should affect the choice of niche, because it’s it’s too much of a niche then there will be noone to visit. Also woth choosing a niche that’ll get you some decent money and people are advertising for – ‘medical condiitons’ maybe rather than ‘free recepies”
"if you can get the traffic, you can get the money, so it’s the traffic that’s the hard bit" - Agreed - To add, high-paying keywords won't need that much traffic of low-paying ones... AdSense income from 100,000 visits/month for "free recipes" could equal to 1000 visits/month for "credit cards."
Mark, My only recommendation: Self-hosted Wordpress. Period.
Randy, I partly agree - I tend to consider site layout and traffic generation a two different things need to be done right in getting the most from Adsense. Good layout without good traffic only offer little benefits, and vice versa. The key is getting huge traffic and convert them well with the site layout.
"1000 seems just like a teenagers dream of a date with Demi Moore" - LOL Yes, it's not easy and it definitely need Ashton Kutcher-like skills to date Demi Moore... err.. to make $1000/week. I guess it worth to try - If someone can make it and he is not on national TV, we still got our chance ;)
Thank you for this suggested layout. Many people don’t pay enough attention to ad placement and just put ads wherever they fit. Little do they realize that they may be sabotaging their adsense earnings by not being more careful. Some layouts may work better for certain sites. So even if someone suggests a certain layout, it is still best to do some trial and error testing to see what works best for your specific site.
Its definitely a massive advantage to blog about something your either interested in or know a lot about. This saves time, money, and as you mention, brings your blog to its potential so much faster!
I personally dont agree to chris’s adsense layout especially the ones right on top of the page. It doesnt look nice that if you are visitor first stumbles upon your goolge ads and then read your website contents. Having them on the side or at the bottom, vividly seen can be okay.. but right on top is something i dont appreciate. I think placing content oriented ads next to your blog roll or sidebar will be helpful. I just got a free credit from hosting solution providers for renewing my domain and I think this right time for me to experiment chris’s concept with a new domain.
Mack, Yes - It doesn't look nice... But it does proven to be effective. However, if you are not planning to optimise your site for AdSense, I suggest you to avoid the top ad.
Jeremy, Believe it or not, shuffling ads around my sites' layout can increase Adsense income by about 40%. The niches and site types will be detrimental factors on how you should arrange the ads
It sounds attractive, but I would like to append that you shouldn’t expect fast and easy money from Google AdSense. Don’t forget that you should know what and how to do and if you’re going to do something, do it right. Thanks to the author for sharing these great suggestions and good luck to webmasters in increasing their earnings.
The way you explained Adsense official Ad Placement Guide is very impressive, even thx for success story yes trying to achieve more $$ from adsense but still not get such huge success, sure wanna try your path.
I do know that it’s possible to make that kind of money with Adsense, but you have to choose your niche carefully. Actually, it’s not so much the niche that is important, but keywords inside the niche. You can make a lot of money in any niche, so long as you pick the right keywords that have a lot of searches and less competition.
Chris, No, no - Don't get things wrong - Less competition is not good in term of Adsense income. You should aim for niche and highly competitive keywords WITH lots of searches - This way, there will be lots of advertisers (Adwords') competing for the keywords, hence raising their PPC payout to publisher (Adsense's)
Why not? If he can do it, you and I can do it, too!
John, Yes - you right. Getting more than a fiver from Adsense needs effort. But once you get there, everything will start rolling well... Thanks :)
Can you really achieve that income with Adsense? Effort is typically required in this field and before expecting that kind of amount, it takes a lot of time and perseverance as well. I do like the point that it does.
This is a wonderful strategy to make a leap from $10 to $1000. Google Adsense is powerful mean of making money I have been using it for a long time and its earning me good money.
The layout that you have mentioned will surely do wonders for other people too.
Thanks for this informative post.
Ads are the most popular advertising network on the Internet. It is owned by Google, and it allows bloggers to monetize their blogs by displaying contextual text messages.your tips seems very useful for me.i will use them and let you know the results.
Interesting that everyone has their own opinions and methods. But the people making big money are in fact working niches that have lots of advertisers willing to spend.
Quite logical - Niches such as finance and health are having great per click pay out due to the highly lucrative and competitive nature of the niches.
The level of income is pretty much attainable... If you know what you are doing, of course.
Revenue from Google AdSense depends on the attendance of the resource. There is a large attendance and no money.
Wow $1000 per week? That seems like a dream for me, btw does he get the income from one site or lot of site? For now I prefer to focus only with two sites, and it needs lot of hard work. And I think I still need long journey to get that amount. I hope one day I will be on that position
The keys are: outsource, outsource and outsource. Spoiler: Go to webmasters forums and you will find dozens of people willing to do any kind of works for you ;)
It is hard to earn money with Adsense, i hope this thread will help me, the tips are very basics, i already do it but always no good earnings from it…
Hi all,
Well, this is really amazing and sounds good to get over $1000 in a single week. But, i think that there is only single way to get this huge amount, i.e. high amount of traffic because all the points mentioned above are the way to get high amount of traffic only and nothing else.
Thank you..
Hi, I must say that learning how to drive traffic is far more important than any specific layout. This is because the moment you have the visitors it really doesn’t take that long to test different placements and colors for maximum click through rate. Thanks for sharing this valuable info.
Any feedback from you?