Comments on: 3 Adsense Experts + what they do – Part 3 of Adsense series http://danielmcgonagle.name/3-adsense-experts-what-they-do-part-3-of-adsense-series/ Wed, 15 Feb 2012 23:09:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Dan http://danielmcgonagle.name/3-adsense-experts-what-they-do-part-3-of-adsense-series/comment-page-1/#comment-3982 Dan Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:22:38 +0000 http://danielmcgonagle.name/?p=1448#comment-3982 @Mike, Adsense CTRs can range from 2% to 30-40%. It's been my experience some made for Adsense themes are really bad for SEO for some reason, so I'm moving into using good SEO themes and just adding in Adsense via plugins. I also have an Adsense theme I outsourced tha tis a combination of those 2 things, just waiting on my programmer to finish things up. Also, you can't rely on the high paying Adsense words,either since what you get paid fo rclicks is affected by smart pricing and the ads get rotated, and you also need to do some coding changes to make sure you display ads that only target certain kws. But like all things, traffic solves everything, massive content addition seems to be what works best here, or massive domains purchasing and mini site creations @Mike,

Adsense CTRs can range from 2% to 30-40%.

It’s been my experience some made for Adsense themes are really bad for SEO for some reason, so I’m moving into using good SEO themes and just adding in Adsense via plugins.

I also have an Adsense theme I outsourced tha tis a combination of those 2 things, just waiting on my programmer to finish things up.

Also, you can’t rely on the high paying Adsense words,either since what you get paid fo rclicks is affected by smart pricing and the ads get rotated, and you also need to do some coding changes to make sure you display ads that only target certain kws.

But like all things, traffic solves everything, massive content addition seems to be what works best here, or massive domains purchasing and mini site creations

]]> By: Mike http://danielmcgonagle.name/3-adsense-experts-what-they-do-part-3-of-adsense-series/comment-page-1/#comment-3981 Mike Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:47:09 +0000 http://danielmcgonagle.name/?p=1448#comment-3981 Dan, Thanks for the ideas on using Adsense. I am a newbie internet marketer having been at this about two months pretty much full time. All of your advice is consistent with information I have seen from a couple of other people in the biz who also seem to be pretty straight forward. I have seen some success in being on page one of Google for some of the keywords with reasonable search volume without monetizing. My approach has been one of balancing between search volume and competition. Based on results so far I have a reasonable idea of the right mix to end up on page one of Google for a key word with reasonable search volume, including long tail keywords. Let’s say my keyword plus long tail keywords total search volume = 5,000 exact searches a month. So now I am trying to figure out if the $$$ are going to be worth the time it takes or $$$ outsourced. So at 5,000 searches a month , and in the number 1 position, I should get 2,100 of those searches using the rule of thumb 42% for the #1 spot. And let’s also say I am getting $1.00 per click through. At a 1% CTR that means I make $21 a month. That’s ok, worth my time and effort. But let’s say I drop down to the number 3 spot, where a lot of people would be happy be. Now my rule of thumb says I get 8.5% of the traffic or 425 searches and at a 1% CTR I make $4.25 – now I’m having second thoughts. If my CTR gets up to 5%, I’m happy again, over $20 per month. So my question/comment is does Adsense make sense, or are my “goals too high.” Can I really expect to consistently be ranked #1 for keyword combinations with a total search volume of 5,000? Can I really expect a CTR of 5%? Just thinking out loud. Dan,
Thanks for the ideas on using Adsense. I am a newbie internet marketer having been at this about two months pretty much full time. All of your advice is consistent with information I have seen from a couple of other people in the biz who also seem to be pretty straight forward. I have seen some success in being on page one of Google for some of the keywords with reasonable search volume without monetizing. My approach has been one of balancing between search volume and competition. Based on results so far I have a reasonable idea of the right mix to end up on page one of Google for a key word with reasonable search volume, including long tail keywords.
Let’s say my keyword plus long tail keywords total search volume = 5,000 exact searches a month. So now I am trying to figure out if the $$$ are going to be worth the time it takes or $$$ outsourced.
So at 5,000 searches a month , and in the number 1 position, I should get 2,100 of those searches using the rule of thumb 42% for the #1 spot. And let’s also say I am getting $1.00 per click through. At a 1% CTR that means I make $21 a month. That’s ok, worth my time and effort. But let’s say I drop down to the number 3 spot, where a lot of people would be happy be. Now my rule of thumb says I get 8.5% of the traffic or 425 searches and at a 1% CTR I make $4.25 – now I’m having second thoughts. If my CTR gets up to 5%, I’m happy again, over $20 per month.
So my question/comment is does Adsense make sense, or are my “goals too high.” Can I really expect to consistently be ranked #1 for keyword combinations with a total search volume of 5,000? Can I really expect a CTR of 5%? Just thinking out loud.

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