Getting a Higher CTR from Google Adsense on Blogger

So you want a higher Click Thru / Through Ratio from Google adsense on Blogger eh?

Well assuming you have good quality content and your blog is already showing up on Google search and Google Blogs then follow these 3 simple steps.

1. Template : This very page you are looking at is using a template that I got free, off the web from some very kind people who designed them to fit in with the Google Adsense, See here >
2. Colours : Experimenting with a variety of colours will yield different results. I am forever changing mine around but at the moment I have settled on a more high contrst type for my most successful blog site, see here >>
3. Most Importantly! : How do you monitor how many people click your individual Adsense Ad Unit, how can you track them? Answer. Sign Up for Statcounter >> its a free service and absolutely essential to not only tracking your visitors, but tracking which ad units work best. They have a new feature called "exit link activity" and if you click on the links, they show you the AdSense ad that your visitor clicked on. Awesome!

In addition, it would be worth reading about the google heat map if you have not already done so, this will also provide Google Adsense's recommendations for where to place your ads in your new template

Best of Luck!

Adsense $100 Goal !

Break out the champagne!

Finally, after about, hmmmm maybe a year, I have finally reached to $100 mark on my AdSense programme.

I am starting to get to grips with it now, I have learned a lot in the last few months regarding as placement and CTR (Click Through Ratio)


Here are some links that helped me: CTR Help : problogger : Ad Placements

Its a very psychological thing, some sites place ads right next to their own links so that people probably click on them accidentally. I don't think that is fair so I try to blend the ads in some cases and make them stand out in others.

Now I need to increase my earnings by a factor of, well I dunno, x1000!

Champers all round!

Adsense, does it work?

I have had AdSense on my sites for a while now and only a wee trickle of money has dribbled in over the last year or so. When I mean a wee trickle, I mean a "Wee Trickle!"

but its getting better, I get around 10,000 Page Loads a month on my widescreen wallpaper site and its increasing, but still only about 0.3% - 1.0% of visitors click on my ads, resulting in a terrible Click Thru Ratio (CTR).

How does one improve this situation? These guys reckon they have it down and these guys too have a variety of tips on how to do better.

I have read them both but still lack in a decent CTR.

I will persist however, I think basically high quality content (text) + high quality keywords = High quality ads.

Fingers crossed!