Can You Earn Money With Adsense?

How much can you earn with Google Adsense? One website I work with sees about 10,000 uniques a day earn about $50 a month. However, another site with the same traffic may earn $5,000. It is not easy to predict how much you will earn from Google Adsense. The only true way to learn about the earning power your website has with Adsense is to implement it.

Your Google Adsense Earning Power depends on a number of factors:

1. The Responsiveness Of Your Audience. For example, a travel website that provides information on travel to Italy will attract visitors looking for ways to arrange their travel plans and spend money on their vacation.

Your site might provide the information but the Adsense ads will provide hotels, travel agencies, tourist destinations, car rentals. These ads are highly likely to get the attention of the users of your site. This is a site that will most likely do well with Adsense. However, if you are a gaming website where the main purpose of auser is to play games on your site, then Adsense will not perform as well.

2. The format of Your Ads. Some ad types and formats do better than others. This depends on your content and layout. For some sites, large rectangles in the middle of the content is best, while skyscrapers may not generate as much as income. Experiment and measure the results to determine which formats work best for your site.

4. The Display Color of Your Ads. Sometimes ad perform better based on color and the contrast they have with your website. Experiment with blends as well as custom match.

5. The Number of Ad Units Per Page. Some sites are limited to 5 ad units per page, comprised of display ads, links, and a search box. Consider the appropriate number for your page based on usability and design. You want users to click through your ads at a high rate, so focus on layout.

The key with optimization Adsense revenue is to start with a baseline. Determine your weekly earnings before making any changes. Then, make a small change to your settings and run your ads for 2 weeks. Measure the results. Keep making small changes and experimenting to find which ad set up generates the best results.

Easily Wrap Your Text Around Google Adsense Ads

For those of you who read my blog on a regular basis, you know how much I love to share great tips when I find them. Today's post is based on a post from Erik Vossman of http://www.erikvossman.com/.

Erik - I know you're worlds away in Hawaii... but I can't thank you enough!

by Erik Vossman

If you’re like me and rather new to the html coding world you proabably are looking for a dumbed down way to do things. Well I have begun posting lots of tips on using wordpress and netfirms and decided that I need to post about coding in general as well. One of the most useful things I have learned how to do is wrap text around Google Adsense ads when they are embedded in text. If you are using wordpress and would like to find out how to wrap text just follow this link. If you are looking to just wrap text around ads using a normal html editor like notepad, Dreamweaver, or FrontPage then keep reading.

Also the great thing about this trick is that it works for Chitika ads as well. If you aren’t using Chitika ads you should, they are very similar to google adsense and another way to generate revenue for your site. They pay monthly once your account goes over $50.

The process described is a really easy 2 step process with one extra tag you need to add. This is the quickest and easiest way I found to wrap text around google adsense using the least amount of html coding. Much easier than inserting a table or anything like that.

How to wrap text around Google Adsense ads (also works for Chitika):

1. First off you need to get into your text editor you use for html coding. You can use the coding section of Dreamweaver or FrontPage, or use Notepad. Then you have to find where in your content you want the text to wrap around the ads. Anywhere will work for your first try, you can then copy and place the text where you please.

2. Once you found the spot you like you need to add the following div tag around your adsense or chitika code. Note: replace the "[" with "<" and the "]" with ">".

[div style=”display:block;float:right;margin: 5px 5px 5px 5px;”] all the google adsense code (or chitika)[/div]

That’s it!

Explanation of the div tag
The float:right attribute can be changed to float:left or float:center as well and it will position the ads in those positions while allowing the text to wrap around the ads that directly preceeds and follows it. I also add the margin code to add a margin of white space around the text wrap on the top, bottom, left, and right. You can add or remove space as you wish. The display:block element basically just describes whether you want to break the line where you are inserting the ad or let the browser find where to break the line and wrap the preceeding text. If you want the browser to do it just choose block:inline. I have better luck with block:float but it can sometimes make the text look choppy. Play around with these to see what you like.

There you have it, you can now insert this same coding with different add scripts all over your content and have the text wrap around the ads. Remember that this works with both Google Adsense and with Chitika based ads. Good Luck!

If you are using wordpress check here to get text to wrap around adsense inside posts. I also have a similar article about getting it to wrap around chitika ads which just requires a tweek.