Comments on: Adsense Optimization Tips

By: Busby SEO

Busby SEO — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:52:46 +0000

Great advice and reading your post made me go back and evaluate one of my adsense sites

By: Kyle

Kyle — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 22:36:00 +0000

Hi… I just implemented it on my site. I hope it works.. Tnx again

By: Webmaster Forum

Webmaster Forum — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 05:09:57 +0000

the privacy policy thing is the newest adsense tip I’ve seen….I will create one for my site now….

By: roger

roger — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 21:31:32 +0000

hi frank,
Great post and complements with Grizz posts nicely.

question: how to get the alternate style for outbound links. I saw Elliot answer: not underline, no hover change, color as surrounding text.

how to do that in css ?
thanks.

By: jfc

jfc — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 16:20:44 +0000

Hi Chris,

I’m sorry I forgot to respond to this question earlier.

Yes, you do still want at least 100 words or so with the video, preferably more. I also will say that you probably won’t see as many conversions on pages that display a video but, if you have one or two pages with a video out of 30 or so total pages it shouldn’t hurt you much while it enhances the legit look of your site.

By: jfc

jfc — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 01:14:27 +0000

Hi Make Money,

Soccer isn’t a particularly high paying niche so if the ‘bot thinks your post is targeting something like “Greensboro Soccer” you’ll get very low priced clicks. Even good keywords probably will be in the 25-50 cent a click range at most. For that niche, I’d probably look more toward eBay affiliate.

Also remember that smart pricing is across all your sites, not just one. If you’re getting low paying clicks on that one site but not others then it’s likely a problem with your keyword targeting.

Griz has a good article on the topic of smart pricing that might be helpful to you: Optimization Tips for Adsense.

By: Make Money

Make Money — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 00:50:44 +0000

Care to share info on how to not get smart priced - cos I am being smart priced on my soccer site (all clicks currently like <$0.10)?

By: jfc

jfc — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:21:26 +0000

Hi Sara,

I’m not familiar with the package you mentioned, however, it’s important to remember that search results and Adsense quality are two different things.

You can get a good search placement, even with primarily duplicate content, based on things like the number and quality of inbound links and the age of the domain. The prime example of this is news sites.

Adsense quality is evaluated on more factors, not just search placement, as Google tries to cut down on the number of MFA (Made For Adsense) sites and provide advertisers with greater value. They been more aggressive about pursuing quality, from both publishers and advertisers, over the past 12-18 months.

By: Sara Oliver

Sara Oliver — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:44:18 +0000

Thanks for the info….it sheds a whole lot of light on why our results are terrible. I have 1 additional question, what about word press direct, specifically the software they offer with their gold package such as rss, plr, you tube, etc. that generates automatic postings…wordpress states it doesn’t hurt google ranking??? Is this accurate??? Thanks!

By: smallcomputing

smallcomputing — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 01:44:23 +0000

Thanks for the great tips. As others have said, I was surprised to see that google looks for a privacy policy and a contact page. I need to pay a little more attention to how some of the bigger sites that use adsense operate now, and if they have those.

Also, thanks for the link to Grizzly’s site. I’m about to sit down to each of yours and go to school.