Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Adsense: How To Start Using Adsense to Increase Ad Revenue

By Darrel Hawes

Adsense is a service owned and operated by Google. Adsense lets website owners earn advertising dollars by showing ads on their websites. Google supplies the text, image and video ads that show on websites in the Adsense network. Which advertisements appear is determined by the keywords and content that exists on the website.

For many website owners, the Google Adsense program is a big part of their advertising arsenal. Adsense's popularity can traced to at least three factors. Ads in the Adsense program normally do not disrupt the flow of reading as do similar ads which people are used to interacting with online. Not to mention relevance; due to Google's system for matching ads to the the specific content on websites, the ads can be expected to closely match the theme of the page on which the ad is found.

The system is quite simple. When website browsers click on ads, the website owner is credited with revenue for each click. The amount ranges from a few cents up to one dollar or even more. The ads displayed are generated from advertisers who have joined the Adwords network.

One might think that website owners would click on ads on their own websites, because each click means more revenue for them. To counter this possibility, Google has constructed means of discovering when this happens. Google calls this action "click fraud". Whenever a website page shows evidence of click fraud, the offending party could be prohibited from using Adsense forever.

Website owners can subtly persuade visitors to click on ads through the use of three primary methods:

The use of several varieties of traffic generating techniques to get more visitors to their websites.

The use of excellent content on their websites, with the goal of displaying higher-revenue generating advertisements.

Persuasive sales copy which naturally makes readers want to click on the ads. Some website owners write phrases like these: "Sponsored Links" or "Advertisements". It should go without saying that it violates Google's Adsense terms of service utilize such blatant comments as "Click on these links". - 16463

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