How to make money with Google Adsense?

Earning money from google adsense comes from the following formula

Money earned = ( Number of clicks X Price per click )

So to make more money , you have to either increase the number of clicks or the price per click. Thus if you succeed to increase one of them or both, you will make more money from Google Adsense.

Make More Money by increasing number of clicks

There are 3 main ways to increase number of clicks:

1. Getting more traffic for your blog or site,
2. Optimizing format and colors of Ads to suit your blog or site.
3. Putting the Ads in good locations.

Getting more traffic

Getting traffic is your main work as takes time and effort. It‘s also a lot of hard work. To generate more traffic,you can use these techniques

• Submit blog to search engines and optimizing it.
• Increase link popularity by link exchange, article marketing, directory submission.
• Paid Advertising through classified advertising, banner advertising or search engine advertising.
• Participate in forums/groups related to the content of your web site.
• Add comments to other blogs.

Ads format optimization

you can adjust ads format to improve your click through rate(CTR):

• Google states that the most effective ad formats are 336×280 larger rectangle, the 300×250 inline rectangle, and the 160×600 wide skyscraper.but you have to choose the best ad format that works for your blog.It requires tracking and testing to arrive to the suitable.
• Create a custom palette that best suites your blog. In general, you can follow these settings:
  
• Border color : no border.
• Background color : background color of your blog.
• Link color : color of your links.
• URL color : blue or red.
• Text color : black or color of your main content.

Locations of the Ads

• Certain locations tend to be more successful than others.


• This "heat map" illustrates ideal placements on a sample page layout.


• The colors fade from dark orange (strongest performance) to light yellow (weakest performance).

• All other things being equal, ad placements above the fold tend to perform better than those below the fold.


• Ads placed near rich content and navigational aids usually do well because users are focused on those areas of a page.

Make More Money by increasing cost per click

• It is enhanced by targeting higher-paying keywords.
• You can create unique, relevant and quality contents that target at the higher-paying keywords to increase your average cost per click (CPC). You should find out which keyword variations for a topic pay more,Often the more specialized variations and phrases pay more than generic terms.
• You can increase your CPC by reducing the occurrence of lower-paying ads. You can use AdSense competitive filter mechanism to filter out the ads that you don’t want to be shown on your blog.
• It is suggested by others that showing fewer ads on a page will result in higher-paying ads displayed on your blog. A lot of publishers report that theymake more Adsense money if they remove ads completely from pages with few or no clicks.
• As you can see, it involves a lot of hard work if you want to make extra Google AdSense money. You need to put in your time and effort to make it happen.

How to Insert Google Ads in Posts?

Inserting Adsense code into your post body helps you to increase your benefits from google Adsense and have higher (Click through rate).

Parse Your AdSense Code

Parse means making the Adsense code standarded XML and that is made by replacing all the html character such as ’<’ with ’&gt;’ and ’"’ with ’&quot;’. For example:

Quote:

<script type="text/javascript"><!--
google_ad_client = "pub-XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX";
google_ad_width = 336;
google_ad_height = 280;
google_ad_format = "336x280_as";
google_ad_type = "text_image";
google_ad_channel = "";
google_color_border = "FFFFFF";
google_color_bg = "FFFFFF";
google_color_link = "000000";
google_color_text = "000000";
google_color_url = "000000";
//--></script>
<script type="text/javascript"
src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
</script>

would be

Quote:

&lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;&lt;!--
google_ad_client = &quot;pub-XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX&quot;;
google_ad_width = 336;
google_ad_height = 280;
google_ad_format = &quot;336x280_as&quot;;
google_ad_type = &quot;text_image&quot;;
google_ad_channel = &quot;&quot;;
google_color_border = &quot;FFFFFF&quot;;
google_color_bg = &quot;FFFFFF&quot;;
google_color_link = &quot;000000&quot;;
google_color_text = &quot;000000&quot;;
google_color_url = &quot;000000&quot;;
//--&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
&lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;
src=&quot;http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js&quot;&gt;
&lt;/script&gt;

You can use your text editor to replace all the HTML, but there is an easier free method to parse AdSense Code at BlogCrowds,it takes care of everything for you.and here is the link:
http://www.blogcrowds.com/resources/parse_html.php

Now with the code you can paste it anywhere in your HTML code with no error at all.

Where to paste the parsed HTML code?

Expand your blog’s widget first and find the code below,then add your parsed code and save the template :

1)Next To The Post :

<div style="float:left;"> <!--parsed Adsense code--> </div> <div class=’post-body’> <p><data:post.body/></p> <div style=’clear: both;’/> <!-- clear for photos floats --> </div>

2)After Post Before Credits:

<div class=’post-body’> <p><data:post.body/></p> <div style=’clear: both;’/> <!-- clear for photos floats --> </div> <div><!--parsed Adsense code--></div> <div class=’post-footer’> <p class=’post-footer-line post-footer-line-1’> <span class=’post-author’> <b:if cond=’data:top.showAuthor’> <data:top.authorLabel/> <data:post.author/>

3)After Credits

<p class=’post-footer-line post-footer-line-3’/> <div><!--parsed Adsense code--></div> </div> </div> </b:includable> </b:widget> </b:section>

may this method violate Google Adsense TOS ?

Absolutely no,Minor edits on Google Adsense Code for Blogger Beta/XML are allowed as long as the resulting Adsense Code generated by Blogger is exactly the same as given from Google Adsense.