Anybody Making More than $100/day with AdSense?

You don't need to ask people who make $100 a day what works best. Just ask people what color schemes and layouts work best. I'll tell you right now that bigger ads are better and removing the borders and background colors keeps the ads less ad-like. Also, blue hyperlinks are good because humans associate blue underlined text as hyperlinks due to the old days in Internet history when almost all hyperlinks were blue. I think Namepros AdSense format is the best.

This is amazing. Google will keep getting bigger and bigger. Marketing is everything.

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1rrr1 said:

breaking rules. I suggest that you take that away

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Why? I mean a develped site. :lol:

billinchina said:

You don't need to ask people who make $100 a day what works best. Just ask people what color schemes and layouts work best. I'll tell you right now that bigger ads are better and removing the borders and background colors keeps the ads less ad-like. Also, blue hyperlinks are good because humans associate blue underlined text as hyperlinks due to the old days in Internet history when almost all hyperlinks were blue. I think Namepros AdSense format is the best.

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Bingo. Making $100 a day isn't the best benchmark of who knows how to use Adsense the best. To me that only indicates a high level of traffic to their sites. Who's to say if that the same person making $100/mo wouldn't be making twice that amount if they knew how to better optimize their sites with Adsense.

It's all about maximizing the results from traffic you have, whether you get 100 visitors a day or 100,000.

Bill's advice here is good. Make the ads blend into the content of your site. Use a similar color scheme as your site, don't make the border a different color than the background, and where possible make the links blue or the same color as other hyperlinks on your page. Placement is important too. Put your Adsense ads where they'll be seen and close to other content on your site. The bigger ad formats are better. I have very good results with the wide skyscraper format so I use it whereever possible on a site.

Best of luck,

RJ

AndyM3 said:

I wish I could discuss mine, but you all know my site :p

Anyhoo, I know guys that make $300/mo from it by owning template sites and stuff. I know another dude with an instant messaging site that makes $1,500 a month from it.

I also believe "mesothelioma" is one of the highest paying adsense words, cashing in at an average of $15.00 - and a high in the $90's.

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Yep mesothelioma definitely is one of the highest paid words in adsense. Vioxx was doing well at one time also.

dgridley said:

I haven't tried it, but AllFeeds.com bills itself as a Google alternative.. no public service ads! You don't even need a website...

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I've tried a few other programs and to be perfectly honest they simply don't measure up. -Ad_Sense is king for me because of a) the Internet's best content matching b) excellent tracking/stats tools c) no funny business with payouts!

There's no need to worry about public service ads anymore. You can easily configure Ad_Sense to display your own banner ads when their system doesn't have anything to display on your site. A great feature which I have implemented with all my sites.

I must also write that I think that Ad-Sense_ could really use some serious competition. With the popularity of Ad-Sense_, I worry that a monopoly mentality will so take over and they'll start messing around with honest partners like me. It always goes that way e.g. Yahoo!, eBay, etc.

I also worry about having all my eggs in one basket with Ad__Sense. Fraudulent clicks might get out of control and they could easly discontinue the Ad-_Sense program. After all, they still make plenty of money from the ads they display in the SERP's.

I'll check out AllFeeds.com. Never heard of them. Thanks for the tip.

AmCy

billinchina said:

You don't need to ask people who make $100 a day what works best. Just ask people what color schemes and layouts work best. I'll tell you right now that bigger ads are better and removing the borders and background colors keeps the ads less ad-like. Also, blue hyperlinks are good because humans associate blue underlined text as hyperlinks due to the old days in Internet history when almost all hyperlinks were blue. I think Namepros AdSense format is the best.

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I've done A LOT of experimentation with color schemes on most of my high traffic sites. My conclusion: white background, blue links and a red border work best. Some of you might argue with this but I'm going by empirical evidence here. It works. Some people are convinced that a yellow BG with red links works best because of the contrast. When I tried that, I got 0 clicks! I also tried matching the border the page's BG color and this does work well in certain circumstances.

AmCy

-RJ- said:

The bigger ad formats are better. I have very good results with the wide skyscraper format so I use it whereever possible on a site.

RJ

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I've had great success with the leaderboard as my default banner with the wide skyscrapers on the left flank. Bigger is defintely the best, no doubt.

I'm interested in sites that are making big bucks with Ad__Sense- because I just don't want to get too complacent with the success I'm having. Just trying to stay on top of the game, know what I mean, jelly bean?



AmCy

AndyM3 said:

I also believe "mesothelioma" is one of the highest paying adsense words, cashing in at an average of $15.00 - and a high in the $90's.

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Yup, but it's not that simple. For example, I created asbestoscancer_dot_ws in a shameless attempt to get a piece of that action. The content is original and I didn't break any +Ad_Sense_ rules yet the results have been disappointing with that site in particular. After tweaking the site a great deal I have come to the conclusion that the @Ad_Sense_ people have modified their algo to limit the earnings with certain top paying keywords. I've had much better sucess with the merchant account, web hosting, domain registraion and loan consolidation clicks.

AmCy

big beef with AdSense

Used AdSense and AdWords on a portal at one time, breaking even.

Main problem with AdSense on a true destination site is that it won't pop a new window! I've lost my viewer every time I make a nickel, and it isn't worth losing a viewer for that payout.

Emailed Google a couple of times. Really impressed with the first response...until we emailed again and got the exact same message back.

WebForging said:

Main problem with AdSense on a true destination site is that it won't pop a new window! I've lost my viewer every time I make a nickel, and it isn't worth losing a viewer for that payout.

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Premium publishers can have new windows open, just FWIW. Get 20,000,000 pageviews and you can also

-Allan

i can share with u

Share what?

-Allan

if only I'd known....

IAmAllanShore said:

Premium publishers can have new windows open, just FWIW. Get 20,000,000 pageviews and you can also

-Allan

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If only I'd known it was that easy! Just get 20,000,000 pageviews. Now, if Google can do it for them, why not for my 200,000 pageviews/month site? Or the myriad smaller ones?

WebForging said:

If only I'd known it was that easy! Just get 20,000,000 pageviews. Now, if Google can do it for them, why not for my 200,000 pageviews/month site? Or the myriad smaller ones?

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Because it diminishes the value of the click.

-Allan

sorry

IAmAllanShore said:

Share what?

-Allan

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sorry i had wrongly posted