Ad Sensing

I dont quite understand how adsense works. Basically i just put adsense on my blog today and I checked today my stats this evening and found I made a $1.50 and i had 330 page views and zero clicks. How did I make that much? Its an estimate btw.

Advertisers can choose to either pay for clicks PPC or by impressions CPM (1000 impressions have a similar price to 1 click) I believe adsense passes on your earning cut in either case, so perhaps that $1.50 is for impressions.

You will see odd stats, sometimes clicks vanish, perhaps after beings suspected of being faked. With luck it looks like you may be paid in 2 or 3 months at that rate.

I was thinking about about setting up a eCommerce website. But lets says I get the site up and running with 5,000 different products. I cannot afford google adsense or any advertisement. How much traffic should I expect per day? Will anybody be able to even find my website through search engines?

You can expect it to take a long slow process to get search engine ranking, I don’t know that the number of products listed had much effect on traffic in itself, other than one expects a big inventory to be associated with a larger store that has a bigger advertising budget.

To be a success you will have to employ paid advertising after you have identified the life long value of a new customer, big budget stores can afford to initially lose money when first acquiring a new customer, know they will profit from that customer eventually.

Aside from making immediate sales, you also can start building brand recognition with an ad campaign, for every click your will get hundreds of impressions of your ad which can help it be more families to a prospect the next time they see it.

There are many independent affiliate "stores" displaying catalog data feeds from major retailed like Amazon, that require little effort to create a 5000 item site.

Just product catalog listings, particularly if they are also listed on numerous other sites, don’t earn a lot of search engine ranking, you may have to resort to writing how to guides and extended product group introductions to give the search spiders more words to chew on.

Aside from the limited measures you can take to optimize your site for search engines, the biggest factor is the number of and quality of links your site gets from other web sites, the search engines automated ranking systems use these ‘backlinks’ are measured the popularity of a site.

You can get some low quality backlinks on your own by commenting on blog posts and leaving signatures on useful discussion forum posts. You can also submit the site to online directories as well as the search engines.

The search engines can ‘discover’ your site through the backlinks from other sites, or you can speed the process by submitting your sit for indexing, here’s the Yahoo form:
http://search.yahoo.com/info/submit.html

A few more details…

My website gets an average of 3600 regular visitors everyday and more than 700 unique hits easily. And it is growing.

I am currently using Google AdSense, so by looking at the statistics, how much do you think I should earn if I get an average of 8 cents a click?

I just want to know what the ideal amount is so I can determine if my actual earnings are good enough or not. And please let me know of some AdSense alternatives that you have worked with.

Thanks a lot in advance.

If you are earning 8 cents a click, you are doing something drastically wrong. With the number that you state, AdSense alone should pull a minimum of $980.00 with an upside of $2600 per day.

I don’t think your visitors are all unique – I think the majority of them are machine generated.

I want to earn some money through my website and google adsense didn’t accept my request as my website is only 2 months old ( they need at least 6 months). Please tell me if there is any way I can make some money from other sources. It would be better for me if they pay in checks rather than pay-pal or alert-pay.

First off, improve the quality of your site. I know of newly created sites that got accepted. It seems that Adsense is using the 6 months excuse if they don’t like the quality of your content

There are several ways you can earn money from advertising other than Adsense:

1. Join an advertising network. Advertising networks are organizations that aggregate Web sites that offer advertising space, and sell banner ads (and other advertising options) across them. Traffic requirement is often a minimum of 5,000 monthly impressions, although many do not accept sites hosted by free page services.

Burst Media http://www.burstmedia.com
Fastclick (ValueClick). http://www.valueclickmedia.com
Advertising.com. http://www.advertising.com
Tribal Fusion http://www.tribalfusion.com

2. Participate in contextual advertising networks. Contextual advertising are text ads delivered based on the content of the web page using an automated system.

Yahoo! Publishing Network (currently in beta and available to US publishers only) http://publisher.yahoo.com/
Intellixt http://vibrantmedia.com/site/web_01a5.htm
Quigo Adsonar http://www.quigo.com/adsonarexchange.htm
IndustryBrains http://www.industrybrains.com
Kontera http://www.kontera.com
Kanoodle Brightads http://www.kanoodle.com/about/brightads.html
Clicksor http://www.clicksor.com/affiliate_programs.php
Contextweb http://www.contextweb.com/
Bidclix http://www.bidclix.com/
Bidvertiser http://www.bidvertiser.com/

i am about to create a website soon and i want to know how many clicks can i get per 1000 page views in google adsense. i read somewhere that you can easily earn 10$ per 1000 impressions, is it true?

I don’t think anyone can predict how many clicks you can get per 1000 pageviews in Adsense. You can get 100 or you can get none at all

In terms of earning money on Adsense, your mileage also varies. One website with 10,000 uniques a day can earn $50 a month while another may earn $5,000. It is not easy to predict how much you will earn from Adsense. The only way you can learn about how your site will perform with Adsense is through trying it.

The amount you can earn will depend on the

1. Responsiveness of audience to the ads = A travel website that provides information on travel to Spain will attract visitors looking for ways to arrange their travel and spend money on their vacation to Spain. Your site provides the info, but the ads will provide hotels, travel agencies, tourist destinations, car rentals — ads that are likely to get the attention of the users of your site. This is a site that will most likely do well with Adsense. However, if you are a gaming website where the main purpose of the user is to play games on your site, then Adsense will not perform as well.

2. Ad format = some types of ads do better than others depending on your content and layout. In our case, large rectangles in the middle of the content is the best, while leaderboards do not generate as much as income. Skys are the worst for us. Experiment and measure the results via channels and see which formats work best for you.

3. Ad placement – check Google’s heat map as they have tested where the best placements are https://www.google.com/support/adsense/bin/answer.py?answer=17954&ctx=en:search&query=adsense+heat+map&topic=0&type=f

4. Ad colors – sometimes ads blended into the content works wonders, but sometimes ads that contrast your site colors work best

5. Number of ad units on a page = we are allowed maximum of 3 ads + 1 ad links + 1 search box on a page. Maximize the allowed number based on the resulting look of your page (you don’t want an overkill of ads). Users going to your page and reading your content may ignore the banner or rectangle at the top of the page, but may click on the ad at the bottom of the article

6. Smartpricing – the big unknown in Adsense. No one knows how this actually works. But it can affect the pricing of the ads on your site. If the advertiser paid for $0.50/click – but your site is smartpriced – then the cost may be discounted lower (e.g. $0.25). So you may try to develop a site based on high paying keywords but if smartpricing gets to you, then you may not get as much per click as what you are expecting from your keywords.

Here is Google’s explanation of smart pricing https://adwords.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=9562&query=smart+pricing&topic=0&type=f

Google’s smart pricing feature automatically adjusts the cost of a keyword-targeted content click based on its effectiveness compared to a search click. So if our data shows that a click from a content page is less likely to turn into actionable business results — such as online sales, registrations, phone calls, or newsletter signups — we reduce the price you pay for that click.

Experiment with the factors above (except smartpricing, which you can’t control), and see which combination works best. Remember though that not all sites do well with Adsense – even if you get gazillions of traffic but your visitors are not interested in looking for ways to spend their money, they won’t be interested in your ads and won’t click.

Need more than just adsense. Are there any other ways to make any residuel money?

1. Join an advertising network. Advertising networks are organizations that aggregate Web sites that offer advertising space, and sell banner ads (and other advertising options) across them. Traffic requirement is often a minimum of 5,000 monthly impressions, although many do not accept sites hosted by free page services.

Burst Media http://www.burstmedia.com
Fastclick (ValueClick). http://www.valueclickmedia.com
Advertising.com. http://www.advertising.com
Tribal Fusion http://www.tribalfusion.com

2. Participate in contextual advertising networks. Contextual advertising are text ads delivered based on the content of the web page using an automated system.

Google Adsense https://www.google.com/adsense/
Yahoo! Publishing Network (currently in beta and available to US publishers only) http://publisher.yahoo.com/
Intellixt http://vibrantmedia.com/site/web_01a5.htm
Quigo Adsonar http://www.quigo.com/adsonarexchange.htm
IndustryBrains http://www.industrybrains.com
Kontera http://www.kontera.com
Kanoodle Brightads http://www.kanoodle.com/about/brightads.html
Clicksor http://www.clicksor.com/affiliate_programs.php
Contextweb http://www.contextweb.com/
Bidclix http://www.bidclix.com/
Bidvertiser http://www.bidvertiser.com/

3. Affiliate Programs – you sell other people’s products that your audience may be interested in; and you get a certain commission after the desired action was done (whether a sale, a lead, subscription to email newsletter, or however this is defined)

Commission Junction http://www.cj.com
Linkshare http://www.linkshare.com

I own a business that needs to advertise specifically to my city.
There are no other businesses offering the service in my city.

How much should i budget per month for a google adsense campaign?

Google adsense is free. This just places ads on your site according to your content. Google Adwords however is a pay per click or impression program and this always depends on how much you are ready to spend per day.Remember here they want their money on your guesstimation up front. The success of this depends on your use of keywords & phrase & SEO. You might want to consider a more local advertising campaign. Local Business or public classifieds as an example. I’m only saying this because you need exposure and if nobody knows the product exists there’s not much chance they are looking for it .This you would be able to find out using keyword search tool at the link below. Social sites like Facebook has advertising were it’s $0.01 per click & $o.02 per thousand impressions as a form of advertising. Food for thought.

A few more details…

My website gets an average of 3600 regular visitors everyday and more than 700 unique hits easily. And it is growing.

I am currently using Google AdSense, so by looking at the statistics, how much do you think I should earn if I get an average of 8 cents a click?

I just want to know what the ideal amount is so I can determine if my actual earnings are good enough or not. And please let me know of some AdSense alternatives that you have worked with.

Thanks a lot in advance.

I know of a website that gets about 300,000 impressions everyday that makes only $10 a day from Adsense. I know of another site that gets only 12,000 impressions a day from Adsense but earns at least $500-700 a day from Adsense.

In terms of earning money on Adsense, your mileage varies. It is not easy to predict how much you will earn from Adsense as it is not only about impression and amount of click. You may think you can get high income but if you are smartpriced, then the way you currently calculates your stats will be vastly different.

The only way you can learn about how your site will perform with Adsense is through trying it. And as you are already with the program, just study your site and see how much you can earn, but making sure you optimize its performance for Adsense

The amount you can earn will depend on the

1. Responsiveness of audience to the ads = A travel website that provides information on travel to Spain will attract visitors looking for ways to arrange their travel and spend money on their vacation to Spain. Your site provides the info, but the ads will provide hotels, travel agencies, tourist destinations, car rentals — ads that are likely to get the attention of the users of your site. This is a site that will most likely do well with Adsense. However, if you are a gaming website where the main purpose of the user is to play games on your site, then Adsense will not perform as well.

2. Ad format = some types of ads do better than others depending on your content and layout. In our case, large rectangles in the middle of the content is the best, while leaderboards do not generate as much as income. Skys are the worst for us. Experiment and measure the results via channels and see which formats work best for you.

3. Ad placement – check Google’s heat map as they have tested where the best placements are https://www.google.com/support/adsense/bin/answer.py?answer=17954&ctx=en:search&query=adsense+heat+map&topic=0&type=f

4. Ad colors – sometimes ads blended into the content works wonders, but sometimes ads that contrast your site colors work best

5. Number of ad units on a page = we are allowed maximum of 3 ads + 1 ad links + 1 search box on a page. Maximize the allowed number based on the resulting look of your page (you don’t want an overkill of ads). Users going to your page and reading your content may ignore the banner or rectangle at the top of the page, but may click on the ad at the bottom of the article

6. Smartpricing – the big unknown in Adsense. No one knows how this actually works. But it can affect the pricing of the ads on your site. If the advertiser paid for $0.50/click – but your site is smartpriced – then the cost may be discounted lower (e.g. $0.25). So you may try to develop a site based on high paying keywords but if smartpricing gets to you, then you may not get as much per click as what you are expecting from your keywords.

Here is Google’s explanation of smart pricing https://adwords.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=9562&query=smart+pricing&topic=0&type=f

Google’s smart pricing feature automatically adjusts the cost of a keyword-targeted content click based on its effectiveness compared to a search click. So if our data shows that a click from a content page is less likely to turn into actionable business results — such as online sales, registrations, phone calls, or newsletter signups — we reduce the price you pay for that click.

Experiment with the factors above (except smartpricing, which you can’t control), and see which combination works best. Remember though that not all sites do well with Adsense – even if you get gazillions of traffic but your visitors are not interested in looking for ways to spend their money, they won’t be interested in your ads and won’t click.

I am interested in making some extra income through Google AdSense and ClickBank. I know that I need to have my own website in order to profit from this, but I just need some tips on how to "get the ball rolling." I would appreciate some feedback from anyone who has some know-how in this area, or anyone who has advertised through AdSense or ClickBank. Thanks so much!

To "get the ball rolling" your first thought should be the CONTENT of your planned website. The amount of money you will earn from advertising will depend on the type of content you have — whether that content can attract visitors to come to your site, whether that content will compel them to come back again to your site, or whether other websites will want to link to you and give you traffic. Everything starts with content.

There are several ways you can earn money from advertising:

1. Join an advertising network. Advertising networks are organizations that aggregate Web sites that offer advertising space, and sell banner ads (and other advertising options) across them. Traffic requirement is often a minimum of 5,000 monthly impressions, although many do not accept sites hosted by free page services.

Burst Media http://www.burstmedia.com
Fastclick (ValueClick). http://www.fastclick.com
Advertising.com. http://www.advertising.com
Tribal Fusion http://www.tribalfusion.com

2. Participate in contextual advertising networks. Contextual advertising are text ads delivered based on the content of the web page using an automated system.

– Google Adsense https://www.google.com/adsense/
– Yahoo! Publishing Network http://publisher.yahoo.com/
– Intellixt http://vibrantmedia.com/site/web_01a5.htm
– Quigo Adsonar http://www.quigo.com/adsonarexchange.htm
– IndustryBrains http://www.industrybrains.com
– Commission Junction Evolution http://www.cj.com
– Kanoodle Brightads http://www.kanoodle.com/about/brightads.html
– Clicksor http://www.clicksor.com/affiliate_programs.php
– Contextweb http://www.contextweb.com/
– Bidclix http://www.bidclix.com/

3. Sell advertising for your site directly. This is admittedly a more difficult route for a small business site wanting to earn advertising revenues. But hey, as they say: "no pain, no gain!"

I have about 80 views on my website a day. I am thinking of using google adsense. How many views do I have to get per day to make about a dollar a day? I could use the extra income.
Thanks.

you dont make money just by getting views, you only make money when people click on the ads

you will need about 1000 impressions a day to get about 10 clicks on the ads per day to make about $1 a day