Tips

In short the way that I have made it is with hard work. I know this isn't what people want to hear, but its what works.

I started in adsense about 3 1/2 years ago making $10 a day with one website and have progressively worked my way up. I've done this by adding additional websites, additional content, and tweaking my ads. I now have 6 websites that are earning me consistent income with adsense and I finally reached the 5 figure club for the first time.

Here are some of my tips that I wanted to share with others since I have gained much by reading this forum and haven't given back much.

1. Content is King. By this I mean the more content you have the more visitors you will get and the more clicks you will receive. The past year we have added blogs to most of our sites that get updated every couple of days. We have noticed that our main site has been losing traffic this year, but our blog is gaining traffic. Our blog has also been more of a money generator (CPM) then our main site which has helped increase our revenue.

2. Some niches pay higher then others but make less money. I see so many people asking for a list of the highest paying clicks. I admit that I have tried making some websites for those niches. The problem is that many of them are hard to rank in so therefor don't make as much money. There are plenty of lower paying niches that are easier to break into that will pay more in the long run. Work with what you are good with and the money will come along.

3. Constantly test, but not too much. I see on the adsense blog that you should constantly be testing new ad formats to find out what works for you. I agree with this as many of the suggestions given on the adsense blog and the adsense tips have helped increase CTR. But, you need to be careful of doing too much change. Try to focus some of that time working on content rather than trying to get a little more CTR.

4. What works for one person won't work for another. A couple of months ago we were invited to have a member of the adsense team look at our website and give suggestions for improvement. We accepted and tried out their suggestions. After 12 hours we pulled their suggestions and went back to our old format. Doing their suggestions saw a 50% reduction in revenue and I could tell leaving them on longer would just hurt us more. Be willing to try suggestions but don't assume that since it worked for one person it will work for you.