Play Hide and Go Seek With Your Adsense Ads
Yesterday I wrote about how Google Adsense is super picky, and only likes organic traffic. Remember that this advice will vary from blog to blog, niche to niche. On my Adsense blog it holds true.
The majority of people that come directly to my site do not click on my Adsense ads, they just come here, read, then leave. It’s the people that come from the search engines that are clicking on the Adsense ads. If only there was a way to only show the Adsense ads to the people that arrived via search engines.
Well there is a way!
There is a plugin called Who Sees Ads that will allow you to control who sees the Google Adsense ads on your blog. Check out the video I made showing you the difference between direct traffic to my blog and search engine traffic to my blog.
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you might change your name to living on project wonderful if you ever get any 50 cent bidders. my adsense is being beat out by project wonderful this month….
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It’s cool!
But what if your direct traffic visitors actually click on ads too? Why removing the possibilities?
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The direct traffic is less likely to click on the ads and more likely to drive up my page views. When the adsense is visible to all traffic, this blog’s traffic heavily increase my pages views and lowers my adsense accounts CTR. I could just completely remove adsense from this blog, but then I get a backlash of where is the adsense type emails.
This blog brings in such a small percentage of my overall adsense income, yet is the biggest contributor to lowering my average CTR.
All that aside, I just think the plugin is awesome. It is much more powerful than just for what I am using it for.
I would recommend better OpenX (OpenAds) way harder to setup and understand but it gives you full flexibility on the actual delivery.
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@william hessian: WooHoo! I’ve targeted by the “Stop Beating Me” comments. I read the post, but never thought you would end up here.
@Vic: I specialize in easy and simple. If I cannot figure it out in less than 5 minutes…I’m out.
I’m all about instant results
Nice! I really like this idea, seems like an amazing idea for maximizing your performance in who sees ads to boost your click through rate. Looking forward to more great content like this.
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This is a nice plugin. I just dont know if it will work with my other Adsense plugins. It does not look like it would.
I tested it on your site though. When I searched livingonadsense on Google, behold! Adsense.
I think its a great plugin. Seeing that search engine traffic results in more Adsense clicks than any other traffic.
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@Jim: I’ve written all my great content already…sorry man!
@esvl: It seems that you didn’t thoroughly test it.