Comments on: Adsense Optimization – the Holistic Approach

By: ambee

ambee — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 09:07:43 +0000

hi..there

problogger is a great site…i have learn alot from this site… but still im having trouble with getting traffic to my blog
http://travel-maldives.blogspot.com

By: woonwz

woonwz — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 10:07:15 +0000

Hi there,

How do you actually get the first wave of traffic?

I can’t seem to get any. Maybe you would like to take a look at my blog and give some feedbacks? http://woonwz.blogspot.com

By: Mianoor

Mianoor — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 20:14:52 +0000

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By: Spinneyhead

Spinneyhead — Thu, 14 Apr 2005 11:19:46 +0000

Joined up blogging
Problogger on the holistic approach to AdSense optimisation. I’m into the third day of treating blogging as a full time job, and I’m finding Darren’s blog a great source of info on the subject.

By: Ian

Ian — Thu, 14 Apr 2005 11:18:24 +0000

I chose to start blogging about Green widgets for non-monetary reasons- my parents are planning an ecohouse and have found that the AdSense value of that blog is much higher than that of my more eclectic personal blog. Keep up the good work, I'm finding ProBlogger a great resource as I start trying to make money, maybe even a living, from my own blogs.

By: Dale Estes

Dale Estes — Wed, 13 Apr 2005 20:59:15 +0000

I would have to agree you have to have traffic but the competition is relentless and overwhelming.

By: Tom Hanna

Tom Hanna — Wed, 13 Apr 2005 19:32:45 +0000

Ugh…it’s hard to edit in these tiny boxes. “traffic building techniques *are* going to bring some junk traffic.”

By: Tom Hanna

Tom Hanna — Wed, 13 Apr 2005 19:31:16 +0000

One more reason to look at it holistically. I’ve noticed that higher traffic pages have lower CTR and CPM. Obviously building traffic is necessary but any traffic building techniques (even pinging the update services) is going to bring some junk traffic.

From having a general purpose personal blog as well as some more narrowly focused business pages, I can say that tight focus is important, too. If your blog talks about blue, green, red and purple widgets, the other color widgets are going to dilute your green widget ads. You end up serving less ads for green widgets and serving ads about purple widgets to people who might have clicked on that high value green widget ad if it had been served to them.