Comments on: Do Google Ads make cents II - the sequel http://www.tomrafteryit.net/do-google-ads-make-cents-ii-the-sequel/ Tom Raftery, social media consultant, speaker, blogger and podcaster Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:16:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Tom Raftery http://www.tomrafteryit.net/do-google-ads-make-cents-ii-the-sequel/#comment-55929 Tom Raftery Sun, 05 Nov 2006 17:44:37 +0000 http://www.tomrafteryit.net/?p=410#comment-55929 Marta, I don't see a blog when I go to that web address. Marta, I don’t see a blog when I go to that web address.

]]> By: Marta http://www.tomrafteryit.net/do-google-ads-make-cents-ii-the-sequel/#comment-55865 Marta Sun, 05 Nov 2006 16:01:13 +0000 http://www.tomrafteryit.net/?p=410#comment-55865 HI Tom, I installed Adsense Delux to my wordPress blog. I added my own adsense in Adsense Delux admin. The only problem is, only "keaywors with BLOG themes" adsense appears at my web site, which I did not included. www.web-handwerk.eu/press How does it come? I host my wordPress blog at my own server and it works fine. Everything works fine except the adsense theme - which I did not included in Adsense Delux Admin. nice greetings, Marta HI Tom,

I installed Adsense Delux to my wordPress blog. I added my own adsense in Adsense Delux admin. The only problem is, only “keaywors with BLOG themes” adsense appears at my web site, which I did not included.

http://www.web-handwerk.eu/press

How does it come?
I host my wordPress blog at my own server and it works fine.
Everything works fine except the adsense theme - which I did not included in Adsense Delux Admin.

nice greetings, Marta

]]> By: Ads for regulars? « Tom Raftery’s I.T. views http://www.tomrafteryit.net/do-google-ads-make-cents-ii-the-sequel/#comment-1982 Ads for regulars? « Tom Raftery’s I.T. views Wed, 12 Oct 2005 14:54:29 +0000 http://www.tomrafteryit.net/?p=410#comment-1982 [...] Dave wrote a thought-provoking post on online advertising and blogs following on from mine and Damien’s posts on the topic. [...] [...] Dave wrote a thought-provoking post on online advertising and blogs following on from mine and Damien’s posts on the topic. [...]

]]> By: Dave’s Rants » Blogging And Advertising http://www.tomrafteryit.net/do-google-ads-make-cents-ii-the-sequel/#comment-1967 Dave’s Rants » Blogging And Advertising Mon, 10 Oct 2005 19:38:40 +0000 http://www.tomrafteryit.net/?p=410#comment-1967 [...] You see I’ve never clicked on an RSS ad and what’s more I don’t think I’ve clicked on an Adsense ad on a site I read regularly. So with people on blogs I read regularly like Tom and Neil increasing there level of advertising I’d love to suggest a solution. What I’d do personally is to have a cookie on my site so that repeat visitors didn’t get ads. [...] [...] You see I’ve never clicked on an RSS ad and what’s more I don’t think I’ve clicked on an Adsense ad on a site I read regularly. So with people on blogs I read regularly like Tom and Neil increasing there level of advertising I’d love to suggest a solution. What I’d do personally is to have a cookie on my site so that repeat visitors didn’t get ads. [...]

]]> By: Wayne http://www.tomrafteryit.net/do-google-ads-make-cents-ii-the-sequel/#comment-1948 Wayne Mon, 10 Oct 2005 00:52:59 +0000 http://www.tomrafteryit.net/?p=410#comment-1948 Tom, I guess I was using Apple's Safari (re: slow live preview). It's not too bad this time around though, not sure why it was so slow for me on the previous post, bu it was taking like 5 seconds just to see the actual text I was typing catch up with my fingers. Good job turning on permalinks. Go get Optimal Title plugin which I blogged about and linked above and switch your page titles around so that the post title comes first, then the blog name. I think it's a good thing for SEO to have the keywords up front. Tom, I guess I was using Apple’s Safari (re: slow live preview). It’s not too bad this time around though, not sure why it was so slow for me on the previous post, bu it was taking like 5 seconds just to see the actual text I was typing catch up with my fingers.

Good job turning on permalinks. Go get Optimal Title plugin which I blogged about and linked above and switch your page titles around so that the post title comes first, then the blog name. I think it’s a good thing for SEO to have the keywords up front.

]]> By: Tom Raftery http://www.tomrafteryit.net/do-google-ads-make-cents-ii-the-sequel/#comment-1946 Tom Raftery Sun, 09 Oct 2005 20:42:56 +0000 http://www.tomrafteryit.net/?p=410#comment-1946 Sorted now Michele - well spotted. Thanks again. Sorted now Michele - well spotted.

Thanks again.

]]> By: Tom Raftery http://www.tomrafteryit.net/do-google-ads-make-cents-ii-the-sequel/#comment-1945 Tom Raftery Sun, 09 Oct 2005 20:36:37 +0000 http://www.tomrafteryit.net/?p=410#comment-1945 Ah! D'oh! Nice one, thanks Michele! Ah!

D’oh!

Nice one, thanks Michele!

]]> By: Michele http://www.tomrafteryit.net/do-google-ads-make-cents-ii-the-sequel/#comment-1944 Michele Sun, 09 Oct 2005 20:32:40 +0000 http://www.tomrafteryit.net/?p=410#comment-1944 Look at this page title :) Look at this page title :)

]]> By: Tom Raftery http://www.tomrafteryit.net/do-google-ads-make-cents-ii-the-sequel/#comment-1943 Tom Raftery Sun, 09 Oct 2005 20:24:16 +0000 http://www.tomrafteryit.net/?p=410#comment-1943 Which archive includes the word "blog" in the title Michele? - I didn't think that was anywhere! Which archive includes the word “blog” in the title Michele? - I didn’t think that was anywhere!

]]> By: Michele http://www.tomrafteryit.net/do-google-ads-make-cents-ii-the-sequel/#comment-1942 Michele Sun, 09 Oct 2005 19:42:51 +0000 http://www.tomrafteryit.net/?p=410#comment-1942 Tom - if you get over 1% you would be doing very well The ad relevance improves over time and will also depend on the ad position. The fact that your archive includes the word "blog" in the title doesn't help Tom - if you get over 1% you would be doing very well
The ad relevance improves over time and will also depend on the ad position. The fact that your archive includes the word “blog” in the title doesn’t help

]]> By: Tom Raftery http://www.tomrafteryit.net/do-google-ads-make-cents-ii-the-sequel/#comment-1940 Tom Raftery Sun, 09 Oct 2005 18:53:40 +0000 http://www.tomrafteryit.net/?p=410#comment-1940 @Wayne, I'm interested to hear that the live preview is causing you problems. What OS and browser are you using? It used to slow down for me too occasionally but since I upgraded my Firefox to 1.5 Beta, I haven't had any problems like that. I'm not sure if it is Firefox or the fact that many of my extensions were disabled by the upgrade(!). I have permalinks turned on, (my premalink structure is set to /%postname%/) thanks. I have noticed somewhat irrelevant ads on some pages as well - I'll have to watch that. @Michele, you don't have to talk about <em>your</em> CTR rate - all I was asking is what kind of CTR I should expect to get. Should I expect 80%, or 8%, or .8%, in your opinion? What would be considered good? @Wayne, I’m interested to hear that the live preview is causing you problems. What OS and browser are you using? It used to slow down for me too occasionally but since I upgraded my Firefox to 1.5 Beta, I haven’t had any problems like that. I’m not sure if it is Firefox or the fact that many of my extensions were disabled by the upgrade(!).

I have permalinks turned on, (my premalink structure is set to /%postname%/) thanks.

I have noticed somewhat irrelevant ads on some pages as well - I’ll have to watch that.

@Michele, you don’t have to talk about your CTR rate - all I was asking is what kind of CTR I should expect to get. Should I expect 80%, or 8%, or .8%, in your opinion? What would be considered good?

]]> By: Michele http://www.tomrafteryit.net/do-google-ads-make-cents-ii-the-sequel/#comment-1939 Michele Sun, 09 Oct 2005 16:18:13 +0000 http://www.tomrafteryit.net/?p=410#comment-1939 Tom We aren't allowed to talk about our CTR rates :) If you want to track clicks there is a plugin that allows you to do so, though I'm not sure how accurate it is: http://www.kloeschen.com/adsenselogger-wordpress-plugin Tom

We aren’t allowed to talk about our CTR rates :)

If you want to track clicks there is a plugin that allows you to do so, though I’m not sure how accurate it is:
http://www.kloeschen.com/adsenselogger-wordpress-plugin

]]> By: Wayne http://www.tomrafteryit.net/do-google-ads-make-cents-ii-the-sequel/#comment-1936 Wayne Sat, 08 Oct 2005 01:00:44 +0000 http://www.tomrafteryit.net/?p=410#comment-1936 Sorry, forgot to mention, I just wrote yesterday about optimizing your pages for SEO. Link: http://www.acmetech.com/blog/2005/10/06/wordpress-seo-page-titles-and-meta-tags/ It's a little technical but may be useful advice for anyone interested in making their WP blog more SEO friendly. Sorry, forgot to mention, I just wrote yesterday about optimizing your pages for SEO. Link: http://www.acmetech.com/blog/2005/10/06/wordpress-seo-page-titles-and-meta-tags/
It’s a little technical but may be useful advice for anyone interested in making their WP blog more SEO friendly.

]]> By: Wayne http://www.tomrafteryit.net/do-google-ads-make-cents-ii-the-sequel/#comment-1935 Wayne Sat, 08 Oct 2005 00:58:18 +0000 http://www.tomrafteryit.net/?p=410#comment-1935 Everyone new wants to know what CTR they can expect. There is no answer, only diligent effort on your part. (as an aside, your live-preview comments feature makes typing tedious in its slowness; I've seen solutions which offere a preview button to manually update the preview...) As you're doing, monitor your traffic and popular pages. Play with different placements, styles, etc. View the pages yourself to see how relevant the ads for the content are. The more relevant they are the more likely someone wants to click. On my blog, some pages which I think should get targeted ads sadly get irrelevant ads which are relevant to other areas of my blog/site (seems like adsense takes into consideration other content within your site when it's having trouble finding something on target for the current page). As an example, even though I write about wordpress and SEO all the time, I have some technical stuff about ... about parsing the magnetic Track data contained on credit/debit cards, and too often I get ads for card swiper hardware in a post having nothing to do with that. Another important suggestion: turn on permalinks in your blog (Options->Permalinks). that gives you much more SEO-friendly and adsense-friendly URLs. To do that in a nutshell with shell access to your server, go to your blog's root directory: if you do not already have a .htaccess file there, type 'touch .htaccess' to create the file, then change the permissions so that WP can write to it (or else you have to paste in the rules manually). command for write access is a variation of 'chmod a+w .htaccess' Did I mention I hate the live-comment preview??!! :-( It took me ten minutes to write this when it should have been two minutes. Oh well, thanks for blogging abbout AdSense-Deluxe. Everyone new wants to know what CTR they can expect. There is no answer, only diligent effort on your part.

(as an aside, your live-preview comments feature makes typing tedious in its slowness; I’ve seen solutions which offere a preview button to manually update the preview…)

As you’re doing, monitor your traffic and popular pages. Play with different placements, styles, etc. View the pages yourself to see how relevant the ads for the content are. The more relevant they are the more likely someone wants to click. On my blog, some pages which I think should get targeted ads sadly get irrelevant ads which are relevant to other areas of my blog/site (seems like adsense takes into consideration other content within your site when it’s having trouble finding something on target for the current page). As an example, even though I write about wordpress and SEO all the time, I have some technical stuff about … about parsing the magnetic Track data contained on credit/debit cards, and too often I get ads for card swiper hardware in a post having nothing to do with that.

Another important suggestion: turn on permalinks in your blog (Options->Permalinks). that gives you much more SEO-friendly and adsense-friendly URLs. To do that in a nutshell with shell access to your server, go to your blog’s root directory: if you do not already have a .htaccess file there, type ‘touch .htaccess’ to create the file, then change the permissions so that WP can write to it (or else you have to paste in the rules manually). command for write access is a variation of ‘chmod a+w .htaccess’

Did I mention I hate the live-comment preview??!! :-( It took me ten minutes to write this when it should have been two minutes. Oh well, thanks for blogging abbout AdSense-Deluxe.

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