Comments on: Incoming Links, Technorati, Alexa, Adsense, and Google rank. Should I Care?

By: Marius

Marius — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:30:56 +0000

I’ve noticed lately that Adsense is going down every month and CTR is much lower than on a niche website for example. But, I also agree that people are not writing about what they like or about their hobbies anymore, is all about making a few bucks with Adsense. Of course, the ideal way is to do both but few understand this and start blogging about things they know very little about.

By: Trond

Trond — Fri, 16 May 2008 18:36:59 +0000

Hi! I recently did some SEO on one of my websites that has Adsense running.
This is a niche website and had about 3.000 unique visitors each month but after I did some keyword research to get a better picture of the search volume I now have an average of 7.500 unique visitors.

Since the website is community based it mostly live its own life and by using the Adsense program I earn an average of 350$ each month.

I have enabled a high level of interaction and the website is espected to reach 10.000 users within two months.

The visitors are finding my website through Google (Very good SEO work done here) and also through relevant websites (Adsense). The Adsense income is at the moment funding all the Adwords and Yahoo Search Marketing campaigns

I would recommend everyone to start combine SEO, Adwords, Yahoo Search Marketing and to use viral campaigns.

Thanks for a lot of interesting info on you blog El Yanqui!
You have been bookmarked

By: AdoptionMomma

AdoptionMomma — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 18:08:27 +0000

i wouldnt really care about those things… especially after the most recent pr update

By: El Yanqui

El Yanqui — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 16:28:08 +0000

Ross, thanks for visiting. I understand that most of the clicks will come from people who aren’t bloggers themselves. My issue with Adsense is one that you indirectly bring up. You say that these ads are clicked on by people looking for solutions to their problems and that is most likely true. Assuming that people visit a blog that has content they are interested in, then the ads will be relevant. This reinforces my belief that good content should be a bloggers first priority, and ads coming in further down the line.

Unfortunately, it seems that the vast majority of blogs with Adsense are blogs about making money… with Adsense. It ends up being a snake eating its tail. I’m sure there are many fine blogs out there with real content and Adsense that are making money and useful to visitors. Like anything else, there are good and bad examples.

There are somewhere around 100 million blogs. Some are good, most are rubbish, and I don’t necessarily count my site in the first category. But this is my rubbish, and I focus on what I want to focus on and don’t give a toss about SEO or Adsense ranking. Like I said, I’m not trying to disparage those who use it and make money, or those who choose to blog about making money blogging. I just like my little imperfect system and stressing about things I’ve added to my blog, not what Adsense has.

By: Ross from Hatchthat Business Interviews

Ross from Hatchthat Business Interviews — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 07:46:13 +0000

It is easy to say that nobody clicks on ads but it isn’t bloggers that click on ads, it is the people who aren’t bloggers who are less aware that they are actually clicking on ads.. those people are just trying to find solutions to their problems.

Adsense takes about 10 minutes to install, even if you don’t care about money it can’t hurt to give it a shot for a few week.s

By: El Yanqui

El Yanqui — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 12:55:13 +0000

Well, thank you. I do like to hear it when someone likes b!c! and tells others. I might end up starting a pyramid scheme if I can figure out how to do it…

By: terro

terro — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 15:53:04 +0000

I hope it helps that I listed you as my favorite in a MercatorNet poll.

By: El Yanqui

El Yanqui — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 19:58:08 +0000

I looked at your site and the ads make sense based on what you’re posting about. It is also unobtrusive enough to where finding the actual content isn’t a problem. I think the problem might be in blogs that talk so much about making money online or making money with adsense that all of the ads become a weird loop about making money blogging. It’s the content that is important and that is even reflected in the ads.

I can’t remember where I got that widget from. Early on I found a site with a list of Wordpress widgets and picked and chose from it. I’ll see if I can find that and get back to you.

By: indigo-alien

indigo-alien — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 13:57:24 +0000

I wanted to ask you earlier, where did you get that calendar widget?

By: indigo-alien

indigo-alien — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 07:41:07 +0000

I’ve put up a small box of Google Ad-Sense links in my sidebar just because I figured that my blog was off-beat enough that some useful links might appear. Like you, I’m an ex-pat (Canadian) living overseas.

Sure enough I’m getting links like “German Language Courses”, and “Discount Travel to Germany”. Of course there are other less useful links too, but the box is fairly unobtrusive and I think, low on the annoyance scale.

Make money at it, you ask? According to their own figures, for two months of Ad-Sense goodness, Google owes me 26 cent so far. Those would be US cents too, so we aren’t drinking Starbucks coffee yet.