Adsense Success Stories

· Here we found some success stories of real people who made good and substantive income using Google Adsense        

• My best tip for success -- quality, rich, unique content supported where possible by good images. Also, don't worry about daily or even weekly fluctuations. Month-end and year-end figures are what count.

·         Especially, I would advise in investing time and money to obtain unique and helpful images. They, above all, convince the reader that you've really been there and done it.

·         I averaged about $260 a day from Adsense -- about the same as in 2007 with over double the visitor traffic. It's strange what topics I earn money from. As you'd expect it's the product oriented pages that over time bring in the bulk of the income but just the other week I earned $16 from just two clicks on a topic in microbiology.

• ·         My site gets close to a million visitors a month at peak, which basically is during the academic year; although I sometimes earn more on low-visitor days. I benefit earnings-wise by a lot of those folk being non-repeats; most of my traffic comes from organic searches. Although the site is science and technology based it covers a lot of topics and has about 14,000 pages of unique, rich, densely cross-linked content. I like to keep my ads mostly in one place -- at the top. That way people get to see the ads first, when, in my experience, they are mostly likely to click on them, and also, they're not being bothered by ads while they're reading the content. I use a medium rectangle and a small ad links unit. I rarely bother to check what ads appear -- they vary enormously from page to page, day to day, place to place (very different for example in the US, UK, and Spain), and even from ad to ad within the same block. I think it's this diversity that helps cushion my earnings from wild fluctuations. I don't get into trying to affect what ads show, keywords, etc. I just concentrate on quality content and let the system do its thing

·         Also thanks to AdSense, since June 2004 nearly 140.000,-EUR

·         There was some years ago minister Grasser in Austria, who spent for a crappy nearly no content web site about the same.

·         So I tell people, to get from a minister knowing nearly nothing about web sites 140.000,-EUR is an easy task, when You are a school friend of this minister. To get 140.000,-EUR from Google is a proof of quality.

·         I was about to call it quits back in 2002, tried selling my site, etc. Then came Adsense. Started out making a few hundred a month. Now I make more than I could ever have imagined. Neither myself nor my wife have to work now. Which is awesome. When compared to any other ad program, it is hands down the best out there. No maintenance and a consistent earner.

·         I remember when I was doing 300 - 500 a day on adsense, I am starting again after stopping for about 4 years.

·         and his amazing 14,000 pages of unique content in hie one site has inspired me to work harder on adding lots of new content to my sites

·         AdSense is the best thing that's happened to me in the last 6 years, not including having kids LOL. AdSense has allowed me to quit my day job, my wife to quit her job, buy a new house, new cars (paying cash), etc. all while putting cash away for retirement, etc. If it weren't for AdSense I'd still be at my 9-5 without really enjoying it. I am always adding content for visitors and thinking long-term.

·         Don't chase get-rich-quick cash. You might make cash but you have to figure out how to do it again. Just crank out great content that no one else has and sit back for years and let the site rake in the cash. In the long term a quality, unique content site will outperform regurgitated sites like many blogs, shopping/comparison sites, etc.

·         I would find it increasingly difficult to market product websites so I started developing an informative site. It has grown into a popular resource now and I make good Adsense $$ from it. What I like the most is that I can now focus on providing useful information for my visitors and G takes care of the rest

·         Start a new site without adsense on it. Buy ads to build some traffic. Put up ads later, or uses non-google ads now.

Following these guidelines will help Google find, index, and rank your site. Even if you choose not to implement any of these suggestions, we strongly encourage you to pay very close attention to the "Quality Guidelines," which outline some of the illicit practices that may lead to a site being removed entirely from the Google index or otherwise penalized. If a site has been penalized, it may no longer show up in results on Google.com or on any of Google's partner sites.

When your site is ready:

• Submit it to Google at http://www.google.com/addurl.html.
• Submit a Sitemap using Google Webmaster Tools. Google uses your Sitemap to learn about the structure of your site and to increase our coverage of your webpages.
• Make sure all the sites that should know about your pages are aware your site is online.

• Make a site with a clear hierarchy and text links. Every page should be reachable from at least one static text link.
• Offer a site map to your users with links that point to the important parts of your site. If the site map is larger than 100 or so links, you may want to break the site map into separate pages.
• Create a useful, information-rich site, and write pages that clearly and accurately describe your content.
• Think about the words users would type to find your pages, and make sure that your site actually includes those words within it.
• Try to use text instead of images to display important names, content, or links. The Google crawler doesn't recognize text contained in images. If you must use images for textual content, consider using the "ALT" attribute to include a few words of descriptive text.
• Make sure that your <title> elements and ALT attributes are descriptive and accurate.
• Check for broken links and correct HTML.
• If you decide to use dynamic pages (i.e., the URL contains a "?" character), be aware that not every search engine spider crawls dynamic pages as well as static pages. It helps to keep the parameters short and the number of them few.
• Keep the links on a given page to a reasonable number (fewer than 100).
• Review our image guidelines for best practices on publishing images.

• Use a text browser such as Lynx to examine your site, because most search engine spiders see your site much as Lynx would. If fancy features such as JavaScript, cookies, session IDs, frames, DHTML, or Flash keep you from seeing all of your site in a text browser, then search engine spiders may have trouble crawling your site.
• Allow search bots to crawl your sites without session IDs or arguments that track their path through the site. These techniques are useful for tracking individual user behavior, but the access pattern of bots is entirely different. Using these techniques may result in incomplete indexing of your site, as bots may not be able to eliminate URLs that look different but actually point to the same page.
• Make sure your web server supports the If-Modified-Since HTTP header. This feature allows your web server to tell Google whether your content has changed since we last crawled your site. Supporting this feature saves you bandwidth and overhead.
• Make use of the robots.txt file on your web server. This file tells crawlers which directories can or cannot be crawled. Make sure it's current for your site so that you don't accidentally block the Googlebot crawler. Visit http://www.robotstxt.org/faq.html to learn how to instruct robots when they visit your site. You can test your robots.txt file to make sure you're using it correctly with the robots.txt analysis tool available in Google Webmaster Tools.
• If your company buys a content management system, make sure that the system creates pages and links that search engines can crawl.
• Use robots.txt to prevent crawling of search results pages or other auto-generated pages that don't add much value for users coming from search engines.
• Test your site to make sure that it appears correctly in different browsers.

These quality guidelines cover the most common forms of deceptive or manipulative behavior, but Google may respond negatively to other misleading practices not listed here (e.g. tricking users by registering misspellings of well-known websites). It's not safe to assume that just because a specific deceptive technique isn't included on this page, Google approves of it. Webmasters who spend their energies upholding the spirit of the basic principles will provide a much better user experience and subsequently enjoy better ranking than those who spend their time looking for loopholes they can exploit.

If you believe that another site is abusing Google's quality guidelines, please report that site at https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/spamreport. Google prefers developing scalable and automated solutions to problems, so we attempt to minimize hand-to-hand spam fighting. The spam reports we receive are used to create scalable algorithms that recognize and block future spam attempts.

Quality guidelines - basic principles

• Make pages primarily for users, not for search engines. Don't deceive your users or present different content to search engines than you display to users, which is commonly referred to as "cloaking."
• Avoid tricks intended to improve search engine rankings. A good rule of thumb is whether you'd feel comfortable explaining what you've done to a website that competes with you. Another useful test is to ask, "Does this help my users? Would I do this if search engines didn't exist?"
• Don't participate in link schemes designed to increase your site's ranking or PageRank. In particular, avoid links to web spammers or "bad neighborhoods" on the web, as your own ranking may be affected adversely by those links.
• Don't use unauthorized computer programs to submit pages, check rankings, etc. Such programs consume computing resources and violate our Terms of Service. Google does not recommend the use of products such as WebPosition Gold™ that send automatic or programmatic queries to Google.

Quality guidelines - specific guidelines

• Avoid hidden text or hidden links.
• Don't use cloaking or sneaky redirects.
• Don't send automated queries to Google.
• Don't load pages with irrelevant keywords.
• Don't create multiple pages, subdomains, or domains with substantially duplicate content.
• Don't create pages with malicious behavior, such as phishing or installing viruses, trojans, or other badware.
• Avoid "doorway" pages created just for search engines, or other "cookie cutter" approaches such as affiliate programs with little or no original content.
• If your site participates in an affiliate program, make sure that your site adds value. Provide unique and relevant content that gives users a reason to visit your site first.

If you determine that your site doesn't meet these guidelines, you can modify

Relevance and originality are two characteristics that define high-quality site content. Here are some pointers on creating content that meets these standards:

Relevance:

• ·                                 Users should be able to easily find what your ad promises.

• ·                                 Link to the page on your site that provides the most useful information about the product or service in your ad. For instance, direct users to the page where they can buy the advertised product, rather than to a page with a description of several products.

Originality:

·                                 Feature unique content that can't be found on another site. This guideline is particularly applicable to resellers whose site is identical or highly similar to another reseller's or the parent company's site, and to affiliates that use the following types of pages:

•       Bridge pages: Pages that act as an intermediary, whose sole purpose is to link or redirect traffic to the parent company

•       Mirror pages: Pages that replicate the look and feel of a parent site; your site should not mirror (be similar or nearly identical in appearance to) your parent company's or any other advertiser's site

•     Provide substantial information. If your ad does link to a page consisting mostly of ads or general search results (such as a directory or catalog page), provide additional, unique content.

• It's especially important to feature original content because AdWords won't show multiple ads directing to identical or similar landing pages at the same time. Learn more about this policy.

In order to build trust with users, your site should be explicit in three primary areas: the nature of your business; how your site interacts with a visitor's computer; and how you intend to use a visitor's personal information, if you request it. Here are tips on maximizing your site's transparency:

Your business information:

• ·                                 Openly share information about your business. Clearly define what your business is or does.

• ·                                 Honor the deals and offers you promote in your ad.

• ·                                 Deliver products and services as promised.

• ·                                 Only charge users for the products and services that they order and successfully receive.

• ·                                 Distinguish sponsored links from the rest of your site content.