AdSense Stupidity

Stupidity 1: The most common misconception around is More Ads = More Money, but that’s totally wrong. AdSense has something known as Smart Pricing which sets the per click cost. Smart Pricing varies on various factors like Domain Age, Page Rank, Site Relevance, Impressions, Clicks etc

Under Performing Ad Units seriously damage your per click price, In short words, Pages filled with too may Ads pay lot lesser. Darren has post a must read article about Smart Pricing here check it out

Stupidity 2: Bloggers generally try to suck every $$ out of their blog. Its good, I won’t comment on that, but how stupid it would be to place a AdSense Search Box on a new blog which is yet to be crawled by Googlebots ?

AdSense for Search is meant only for well crawled sites. I personally don’t use AdSense for search because it simply drives traffic away from my blog + It pays too low.

Stupidity 3: Yet another misconception floating around is that Image Ads pay more than Text Ads. This might not be true always. Even it was true, Image Ads receives least number of clicks compared to text ads. So what’s the point in using it?

I let AdSense choose the best format for my blog. I strongly suggest everyone to read this

Am I missing something, Come on shout out!!

This post was published by on November 16, 2006

About the Author: Thilak Rao works as a Social Media Expert. He is one of the first professional bloggers from India, and he loves to write, travel and click photos. Follow him on Twitter @thilak

  • http://www.bloganything.net fuad

    research showed that ie user click more ads than firefox user. if your site is not compatible/broken in ie, then ,you might get little click( since most firefox user is it illiterate and they are used with adsense..)..

  • http://www.quickonlinetips.com/ Quick Online Tips

    The real benefit for Adsense for search on my blog is it gives much better search results than the default wordpress search. Income from it is very low I agree. Maybe I should start using the ad free Google search.

  • http://tech-buzz.net Thilak

    Faud: Yeah, I agree upon that fact. That’s why I show a Large Rectangle Above the content to IE users and not for FF users

  • http://tech-buzz.net Thilak

    Quick Online Tips: Yeah, It might work great for well established sites like yours, but for a new site who’s content isn’t yet crawled by Googlebot, it would return empty results. Isn’t it ?

    BTW, I wonder why your comment was caught in my Spambox. Akismet is really acting weirdly these days.

  • http://ajaydsouza.com/ Ajay D’Souza

    Chuck Akismet ;)

    Nice tips Thilak. How come you didn’t Digg this?

  • http://ajaydsouza.com/ Ajay D’Souza

    Got

    This URL has been reported as a news middle-man, it will remain blocked for 0 days.

  • http://tech-buzz.net Thilak

    Ajay: That’s true, Someone repeatedly kept submitting my articles to digg and I got banned for no fault of mine :(

    Even PaulStamatiou.com is blocked, Folks at Digg act so lame sometimes !!

    Guess, I’ll have to find a way around

  • http://www.alieneyes.wordpress.com knight17

    Why not submit to Netscape, Reddit etc.Submit to some blogs as tips will also increase your traffic.

  • http://www.technovice.ent jumanjisama

    Cool info, totally didn’t know about this before. But, i have removed all my un performing ads a few weeks ago :)

  • http://tech-buzz.net Thilak

    Jumanjisama: Did you see the difference ?
    BTW, you’ve put the wrong URL in the link

  • http://www.pontotriplo.org/quickpicks/ Jorge

    “… That’s why I show a Large Rectangle Above the content to IE users and not for FF users.”

    Thylak: How do you do this? Is there any plugin available? Thanks for your help.

  • http://tech-buzz.net Thilak

    Jorge: No, there isn’t any readymade plugin available, but there’s a simple PHP hack which will help you.

    I have pasted the source code in pastebin, check it out

    Let me know if it helps you

  • http://www.pontotriplo.org/quickpicks/ Jorge

    Thanks Thilak.
    As far as I know I will not be able to try this in my Typepad blogs but I will try this hack in my WordPress blog. I will post here the results. Thanks again.

  • http://tech-buzz.net Thilak

    Jorge: No, Problems.. Keep coming back. Have a great weekend

  • http://www.freakitude.com Lovedeep Wadhwa

    hehe…now i know what smart pricing is ..
    thanks..

  • http://adsense4dummies.blogspot.com Tom

    Some good points. You be amazed how many sites I see cramming in AdSense all over the place. They are only conning them self because if Google find out they have too many ads, they’ll disable the account.

  • http://www.gottapimp.com cool stuff

    This is all very true. Another point is that adsense ads towards the top of the page pay higher (call me captain obvious.) The order in which ads are presented is partially based on the bids just like the search network.