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« Reply #15 on: March 19, 2007, 03:21:20 PM »

What did he say on how to add it?
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« Reply #15 on: March 19, 2007, 03:21:20 PM »

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« Reply #16 on: March 19, 2007, 03:45:05 PM »

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What did he say on how to add it?

Comments at the bottom:

http://www.mutube.com/projects/wordpress/adsense-manager/

Basically via the wordpress cms you can set up indivdual ads with individual code and each item with its own unique css attribute... rather cool!
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« Reply #17 on: March 19, 2007, 03:47:26 PM »

Thanks for sharing that. Nice find.
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« Reply #18 on: March 19, 2007, 07:48:09 PM »

Thanks sabian, I gonna give it a try.
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« Reply #19 on: March 21, 2007, 01:02:37 AM »

I have played around with ad placement quite a bit, and think I have found the best layout for ads on one of my sites.  I was a bit worried at first because I was afraid the ads might have been too “in your face”, but my click thoughts really shot up.

So take a look at this blog post on embarrassing medical exams.  You will notice I have one ad unit right by the top navigation.  What I have found is that you want to force people to look at the ads.  If you do, then you have some chance of them clicking a link.  Then I have a long ad to the right.  For some reason it performs better if it is white vs. grey.  Now go to the blog home page for my office blog.  

You will notice that every front page story is cut in half and you have to click the “continue reading link” to get the whole story.  Doing this is gold!  Once a reader clicks the link the window opens up with the ad on top.  This again forces a reader to view the ad and provides for the opportunity to generate a click.

Generating a steady profit is difficult for a site like mine.  On days when I make front page digg, reddit, and netscape, I do pretty well.  But having a site that is on topic is the way to go.  It will be much easier to filter out all of the adsense leaches.  As of right now google only allows you to block 200 competitors in your adsense competitors filter.  So choose them wisely.  Doing so made my adsense profit shoot up about 150% overnight.  Make sure you spend the time to filter out the leaches.  Google has a little tool you can  install in IE to view exactly who is advertising on you sites.  The rule is, if they are using adsense on their site then they are a competitor and you should block them.

I have also found http://www.adsblacklist.com/ very usefull, and will use them when I start advertising on my other blog project Obama Smoking. (sorry for the backlink :-))
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« Reply #20 on: March 21, 2007, 08:33:46 AM »

Thanks for that Gid (No need to apologise for the links!)

I've been impressed with the results on www.drinkingagelaws.com

Its earned more in two days than it has in the last two weeks with the previous setup but that could be a coincidence!

I've just added a link unit to my very popular but low earning Fantasy Football Blog. Just about to setup some channels to track the clicks better.

As for adblocking, i'm not sure it makes that much difference if you have a high paying niche.....
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« Reply #21 on: March 21, 2007, 10:49:36 AM »

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As for adblocking, i'm not sure it makes that much difference if you have a high paying niche.....

On my Embarrassing Medical Exams post I found that people were paying just a few cents for what was suppose to be a really high paying niche.  Then if you went to their site they had a highly filtered group of ads being shown.  I found that when I filtered the list that I started getting $1 and $2 clicks here and there.  Though the $18 clicks have been no where in sight.  You have any clues on how to land those?
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« Reply #22 on: March 21, 2007, 11:14:31 AM »

I've not managed to hit any super high paying ads, i'm not sure they really exist much these days on the content network (I.e on Google searches but not on our sites!)

I have a very low paying spanish site, www.perreo.biz , i used ad filtering and income increased from an average of $0.01 - $0.02 to around $0.05, so yes it works, i've not found the need to try it on higher earning sites as i don't see too many low paying ads, the other was filled with ebay ads, MFA sites etc.
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« Reply #23 on: March 21, 2007, 12:05:04 PM »

This is all rather interesting... could anyone give a potential monthly income if i were to get 5k-10k uniques to my blog viewing the various articles that are listed? Am i literally looking at a couple of dollars a month or with good quality content and the number of uniques (combined with about 3 ad units per blog - one at the top, one in the middle with text wrapped around and one at the end of the article) could i be looking at more?

I obviously realise ultimately it comes down to the number of people that click... but theoretically how much could i potential make from adsense with 5k-10k per month considering the nice content of the blog? Any ideas?
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« Reply #24 on: March 21, 2007, 01:29:03 PM »

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I've not managed to hit any super high paying ads, i'm not sure they really exist much these days on the content network (I.e on Google searches but not on our sites!)

I have a very low paying spanish site, www.perreo.biz , i used ad filtering and income increased from an average of $0.01 - $0.02 to around $0.05, so yes it works, i've not found the need to try it on higher earning sites as i don't see too many low paying ads, the other was filled with ebay ads, MFA sites etc.

Does this site make much?
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« Reply #25 on: March 21, 2007, 01:41:25 PM »

www.Perreo.biz

gets around 6200 UV's a month - 20K plus impressions

Over 1000 clicks a month

(I can't tell you the income due to Googles T&C's but it not bad for a site i paid $60 for!  :lol: )

Now that is low paying clicks but at a high click through rate.

Webmaster are renowed low clickers but you'll be getting a higher income per click. Its impossible to estimate.
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« Reply #26 on: March 21, 2007, 01:43:56 PM »

In theory:

Webmaster theme $0.50 per click

1% click ratio with 15000 impressions = $75.00

But the ratio and IPC (income per click) could vary massively.......
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« Reply #27 on: March 21, 2007, 02:50:47 PM »

Sounds pretty good. You delete a message of mine?
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« Reply #28 on: March 21, 2007, 02:58:12 PM »

nope!
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« Reply #29 on: March 21, 2007, 03:00:02 PM »

where else did you post about your spanish site?
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