The Perfect Adsense Page, Pt 1
Man, I have seen some frightening Adsense pages floating around. It’s absolutely scary. Pages put up with no thought, and no hope of potential, economically or or otherwise. I thought I’d take a minute or two this morning and write about aspects of what makes a Adsense page good. Good for your pocketbook, good for the Internet community, and good in the eyes of Google.
The ideal page that is built for Adsense page should contain ACTUAL content about a specific topic. That may sound like a very simple statement…until you come across a site that has pages generated by the newest content generators using “Markov Chain” technology and the like.
The truth of the matter is, that even though it may take you longer to actually generate good content, it’s worth it in the long run, especially if you are depending on the search engines and articles to deliver your traffic. Your pages will stay indexed longer, and avoid the scrutiny of search engine algorithms and humans who LOVE to out this week MFA (Made For Adsense site) in a hurry.
Another thing. Adsense is a very complicated beast technically, and Google has million of users, and has probably seen (or thought of) every Adsense scam in the book. Thinking about clicking on your own ads? Here’s a idea….DON’T DO IT.
Thinking about calling your pals back east to click on your ads? Again, don’t do it. Google’s got every scheme hard-wired, and you will get caught. Period.
Too many people put Adsense of their page,and get served ads that are irrelevant to the copy. Happens all the time. Adsense considers many factors when you are served ads to a page, including the title of the page, the meta tags, the content and word counts are considered as well.
Make sure that your title and meta keywords are lined up with the ads you want to show, or else you’ll be showing Red Cross PSAs on your Tech blog.
And really, it just helps your click-though rate overall when you use good content. It helps-in spades. It helps build your credibility with your end user, and it helps your actual ad click through rate.
Next time, I’ll be talking about CTR (click through rates), and more. Here’s a quick tip before I leave though…DON’T place a picture next to your Adsense ads. That’s now a no-no. You heard differently? Well, that’s OLD news.
I’ll explain next time.
Till then, keep building!
Gary