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AdSense Tips: Avoid Using the Competitive Ad Filter At All Costs

May 21st Information and Tutorials \ Monetizing Your Website Here is another way you can raise the cost per click (CPC) of your Google AdSense ads:  Don't ever, ever, ever use the Competitive Ad Filter. AdWords advertisers are competing in the auction to dsplay ads on your web pages. By allowing more advertisers to enter the auction, you raise the potential CPC of each ad spot. Using the Competitive Ad Filter reduces the number of auction bidders and lowers your potential CPC for each ad.  Continue reading...

Set Each AdSense Ad To Display Both Text and Images for a Higher CPC

May 21st Information and Tutorials \ Monetizing Your Website This is another somewhat advanced AdSense tip. It might be a little hard to understand but it is very simple to implement. The tip is that you can raise the cost per click (CPC) on each AdSense ad unit by enabling both Text Ads and Image Ads on each ad.  Continue reading...

Your AdSense Ad With The Highest Click Through Rate Should Appear First In Your HTML

May 21st Information and Tutorials \ Monetizing Your Website Some Google AdSense tips are not very obvious at first. This is definitely more of an advanced tip, one that I didn't figure out until after a year and a half of using AdSense, but it will help to maximize your AdSense earnings if you can wrap your head around it and properly implement it. The tip is that you will make more money with AdSense if you make your AdSense ad with the highest click through rate (CTR) appear before all other AdSense ads in your site's HTML.  Continue reading...

Do Not Use Quotes or Special HTML Characters in Your Article Titles

It can be very easy to add quotes or an apostrophe to the title of a new article, but don't do it! For example, I could have made the title of this article Don't Use Quotes or Special HTML Characters in Your Article Titles but I resisted using that apostrophe. Several plugins and components process the data stored in the title, title alias, meta description and meta keywords and do not always account for quotes or special characters so it is a good idea to avoid them.