Comments on: Adsense Link Units – Weblogs Inc Closes in on $1M in a Year

By: Marshall

Marshall — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 10:29:39 +0000

I have just set up some link units at the top of my page and I am wondering if they will pay off as regular search results, which tend to pay higher than site ads, and that might be making the difference. I set them up here: Visit My Website

By: Anthony

Anthony — Sat, 23 Jul 2005 03:53:19 +0000

The fundemental business model is simple but like any business sucess depends soley on the quality of your strategy and how you execute it.

By: Mike Clifford

Mike Clifford — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 22:41:59 +0000

Very interesting strategy here.
Hire folks to write Blogs, and put AdSense on them.
So simple, one would think…but it hasn’t quite worked that way for us yet at the Heartland Blog Network.
Click my name, and you’ll see.

Baby steps, I suppose?

By: Fabrice

Fabrice — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 17:43:56 +0000

While the vertical version was not successful, the horizontal one works really well. I’ve added horizontal “link units” to http://SharpToolbox.com and http://JavaToolbox.com since the beginning of the month and until now, my revenues have improved a lot compared to last month.
One more proof that optimization for AdSense is very different from one site to another. I think they work well for my sites because the visitors are really searching for targeted information.

By: Lindsay

Lindsay — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 01:28:54 +0000

How many people are working at Weblogs, Inc? I follow a couple of their blogs, and they post a ton every day. It’d be interesting to know how much of their revenue is profit and how much goes back into paying employees and paying for hosting. Thanks!

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 00:02:04 +0000

JJ: we have 80 blogs.

By: Chi An

Chi An — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 22:29:11 +0000

the horizontal ad link of my blog is weaker in overall. Average CTR, eCPM, and earning are lower than large rectangle unit in my blog.

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 21:06:46 +0000

I’ve also tried them briefly on a few sites and they didn’t do very well at all.

By: Neil Camp

Neil Camp — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 20:50:17 +0000

I am still experimenting with link units, and so fat due to low traffic (still wotking on content) no luck. The better performer for me is the old standby leaderboard

By: JJ

JJ — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 16:50:31 +0000

Good info and the 1 million is a great income.But it would be nice to know on how many sites were necessary to build for that 1 million number.
JJ

By: Julio Alonso

Julio Alonso — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 16:26:33 +0000

After reading Jason’s piece I’ve been trying them on http://xataka.com which is a Spanish language gadget blog. I must say that, with just three days data, they are performing in line with my best performing units, which happen to be in the same type of pages, without affecting their performance.

I have tried it also on blogs on other topics, but the results have not been that impressive.

By: John (SYNTAGMA)

John (SYNTAGMA) — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 14:01:27 +0000

Of course, we are talking about 70-80 sites here and, as Jason himself says, that has to support a lot of staff. It doesn’t include income from other ads though, which occupy the prime spots. Impressive, beyond doubt.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 13:04:01 +0000

I’m trialing those kind of links at the moment, although in a vertical box at the top of the page.

I just switched from using contrasting colours to blended colours, which I’ll try for a nother two weeks and then do some comparisons on if it is giving me a reasonable return. Before, I had nothing in that place, so if I’m getting any clicks its got to be seen as a positive.

as for getting close to $1mil a year, that puts things into perspective – the amount the site is pulling in in one day, would be a dream for most people to get in a year.

By: Alexei

Alexei — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 12:27:13 +0000

I tryied links too and got very poor result :(

By: Paul Short

Paul Short — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 12:26:21 +0000

I've seen mixed reviews on the horizontal link units. My own experience with them over at Turboblogger.com have been kind of bland. They ARE producing a little income but my guess is that it's only because that space was never used before, and I have them optimized about as much as I can. They're in the hot zone, they look like a nav bar, the targeting is dead on, etc. But so far, nothing mind blowing. As for WIN, they get a massive amount of network traffic so even a tiny improvement in CTR and earnings over another style of ad will translate into a fairly substantial boost in daily earnings.

By: Lee

Lee — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 11:34:13 +0000

I tried them on one of my other blogs, and again along with your experiences the results were very poor.

I would expect the results would be reasonable on very niche topics where researchers are struggling to find resources, but I wouldn’t think engadget would fall into that category (perhaps I’m wrong?).

I’ve always found that simply blending the ads, or keeping it simple, tends to bring the best results – I posted some of my own Adsense Tips the other day.