Referral Programs
Chitika
Publisher Referral Program| Advertiser Referral Program
Refer Publishers:
Get Chitika eMiniMalls
The Publisher Referral Commission Program rewards you for bringing new business to Chitika. Refer new Publishers to Chitika’s eMiniMalls service and earn 10% of what your referral earns. The referral makes the same revenue that they would normally and Chitika pays you for your efforts. It’s that simple!
* You’ll earn 10% of what your referrals earn - the more friends you refer, the more you make!
* You’re eligible to earn commissions for each referral for 15 months following each referral’s approval date.
* Chitika will pay you 30 days following the end of the month that your commissions are earned provided that your total revenue has exceeded $10 (for PayPal) and $50 (for check where PayPal is not available).
* You will be paid based upon audited revenue.
* You will find your Referral reports in the “Reports” section when you log into your account. Reports are updated on a daily basis.
* The referral program is only available for Chitika’s eMiniMalls service at this time.
* For more information, please read our program FAQ’s and the Program terms in our eMiniMalls Terms and Conditions.
Users: Login, and get your referral link/button under “Referral Programs “.
Refer Advertisers:
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Earn $25.00 once your advertiser referral reaches $100.00 spent in their ad campaign.
* There is NO limit to the number of referrals you can earn referral commission from.
* Chitika will pay you 30 days following the end of the month that your commissions are earned.
* Your referral revenue is added to your regular monthly revenue and/or Publisher Referral Revenue each month.
* Access your Advertiser Referral reports in the “Reports” section when you log into your account.
* For more information, please read our program FAQ’s
Users: Login, and get your referral link/button under “Referral Programs”.
Not yet a user?
For any additional questions, please contact Chitika Customer Support.
Commission Junction
Maximize your revenue opportunities. Partner with top-tier advertisers.
Commission Junction
Are You a Publisher?
A publisher, also known as an affiliate or reseller, is an independent party that promotes products and services of an advertiser in exchange for a commission on leads or sales. A publisher displays an advertiser's ads, text links, or product links on their Web site, in e-mail campaigns, or in search listings. The publisher is paid a commission by the respective advertiser when a visitor takes a specific action such as filling out a form, subscribing to a service (both lead examples) or making a purchase (a sale). Please visit our FAQ for more details on how advertisers and publishers work together.
CJ Marketplace for Publishers
Commission Junction's network, the CJ Marketplace*, provides publishers with opportunities to partner with leading advertisers while having access to millions of links and offers. Commission Junction provides transparency by publishing the performance metrics of all advertisers, their respective ads as well as publishers within the CJ Marketplace. Additionally, strategic advice and featured weekly advertiser offers are available to CJ Marketplace publishers through CJU, our comprehensive online resource. Top-performing publishers who qualify have a distinct advantage in meeting their objectives and getting maximum return for their efforts with our CJ Performer™ solution.
Learn more about the CJ Marketplace
Publisher Advisory Board
The objective of the Publisher Advisory Board (PAB) is to enhance communication between Commission Junction and its publisher clients in order to build mutually beneficial solutions.
The PAB will provide member feedback and serve as a venue for proactive communication between its members and Commission Junction. This forum will allow publishers to gain insight into the strategic direction of Commission Junction by observing the challenges, successes, and opportunities throughout the lifecycle of business and technical initiatives. Moreover member feedback will serve an integral role in shaping the future business and technological decisions in order to best achieve communal success.
Learn more about the Publisher Advisory Board
CJ Performer
An industry exclusive, CJ Performer is the premier affiliate marketing solution for top-performing publishers. Qualifying publishers are provided a designated account manager, expedited technical support, and custom transactional feeds. CJ Performer is redefining publisher success.
Learn more about CJ Performer
* Commission Junction is committed to maintaining a high quality pay-for-performance environment. Publishers earn the right to work in the CJ Marketplace by following the Publisher Code of Conduct
Commission Junction
Are You a Publisher?
A publisher, also known as an affiliate or reseller, is an independent party that promotes products and services of an advertiser in exchange for a commission on leads or sales. A publisher displays an advertiser's ads, text links, or product links on their Web site, in e-mail campaigns, or in search listings. The publisher is paid a commission by the respective advertiser when a visitor takes a specific action such as filling out a form, subscribing to a service (both lead examples) or making a purchase (a sale). Please visit our FAQ for more details on how advertisers and publishers work together.
CJ Marketplace for Publishers
Commission Junction's network, the CJ Marketplace*, provides publishers with opportunities to partner with leading advertisers while having access to millions of links and offers. Commission Junction provides transparency by publishing the performance metrics of all advertisers, their respective ads as well as publishers within the CJ Marketplace. Additionally, strategic advice and featured weekly advertiser offers are available to CJ Marketplace publishers through CJU, our comprehensive online resource. Top-performing publishers who qualify have a distinct advantage in meeting their objectives and getting maximum return for their efforts with our CJ Performer™ solution.
Learn more about the CJ Marketplace
Publisher Advisory Board
The objective of the Publisher Advisory Board (PAB) is to enhance communication between Commission Junction and its publisher clients in order to build mutually beneficial solutions.
The PAB will provide member feedback and serve as a venue for proactive communication between its members and Commission Junction. This forum will allow publishers to gain insight into the strategic direction of Commission Junction by observing the challenges, successes, and opportunities throughout the lifecycle of business and technical initiatives. Moreover member feedback will serve an integral role in shaping the future business and technological decisions in order to best achieve communal success.
Learn more about the Publisher Advisory Board
CJ Performer
An industry exclusive, CJ Performer is the premier affiliate marketing solution for top-performing publishers. Qualifying publishers are provided a designated account manager, expedited technical support, and custom transactional feeds. CJ Performer is redefining publisher success.
Learn more about CJ Performer
* Commission Junction is committed to maintaining a high quality pay-for-performance environment. Publishers earn the right to work in the CJ Marketplace by following the Publisher Code of Conduct
Affiliate Junktion
Affiliate Junktion, a global leader in providing Internet & Affiliate Marketing Solutions, is now recruiting motivated individuals to join the Affiliate Junktion Program. Join free and expect quality results, superior support and an ongoing income online through our Pay-Per-Lead Affiliate Program. Join us today and you could earn up to $600 per day within just 30 days! (Terms & Conditions apply - Click here)
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Leads Per Day Earnings Per Day Earnings Per Month
25 $50 $1,520
75 $150 $4,562
150 $300 $9,126
300 $600 $18,250
Latest News 26 July 2008
Increased Commission Earnings
The upgrade of our affiliate system proofs to be a huge success!
Faster performance, increased conversion rates and increased commission earnings . Some affiliates are reaching a conversion rate of 72%! That's $144 earned per 100 visitors! ------------------------------------------------------------------ » Learn More
Top Affiliates - June 2008
K. Parker - $14,668
S.D. Svenson - $11,012
Y.S. Singh - $10,884
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Make more money by selling text based ads.
Join over 20,000+ publishers monetizing their sites.
Publish Ads
Make Money
Sell simple, relevant text ads on your website.
Retain full editorial control over the advertisers that appear on your website.
Lets check it out
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Make more money by selling text based ads.
Join over 20,000+ publishers monetizing their sites.
Publish Ads
Make Money
Sell simple, relevant text ads on your website.
Retain full editorial control over the advertisers that appear on your website.
AMAZON Affiliate
You Sell It, We'll Ship It
Your business should focus on customers and sales - not fulfillment. With this innovative new service, your inventory and orders are processed using the same system used by Amazon.com. When a customer places an order we pick, pack and ship it. No more complicated warehouse and inventory management software. No more worrying about how you’re going to get all those items packed before the pickup time. No more hassles with shipping companies. Just let Amazon do all of it! After 10 years and millions of orders and customers, Amazon has created one of the most advanced fulfillment networks in the world and your business can now benefit from our expertise.
Quick Facts about Fulfillment by Amazon
- Fulfillment by Amazon can be used for Amazon.com orders or orders from other channels, your own Web site, or even catalog and in-store retail sales.
- Sellers own and control their Fulfillment by Amazon inventory at all times; you can send more or request returns at any time.
- Fulfillment fees are charged to the seller at the time of a sale.
- Fulfillment by Amazon items on Amazon.com qualify for Super Saver Shipping and Amazon Prime.
Your Own eCommerce Web Site
Use Amazon's world-class eCommerce and merchandising technology to create your own online store and take advantage of benefits such as:
One place for all your online needs
- One toolset to manage WebStore by Amazon, Selling on Amazon,and Fulfillment by Amazon.
- One interface for managing your inventory, product information, and orders.
- Take a quick feature tour and start selling online.
Amazon’s technology and selection
- Orders are processed via Amazon’s trusted payments system–no merchant account is required.
- Millions of active Amazon customers can use their credentials to buy on your WebStore.
- Merchandising & community features such as top sellers, recently viewed items, customer reviews.
- Merchandise Amazon.com items on your own WebStore and earn Amazon Associate Program referral fees.
Quickly create and maintain your Webstore yourself
- 1-Click WebStore.
- Build an initial Website in minutes with our 1-Click WebStore feature.
- Create multiple stores on multiple domains while paying one low monthly fee.
- Enhance and maintain the WebStore yourself through easy-to-learn online tools.
- Preview your 1-Click WebStore.
Exceptional online marketing
- Your Website is automatically optimized for search engines to more easily find and link to it.
- Market to your customers through integrated e-mail campaign management software.
- Find new customers through integrated search engine marketing services.
Affordable pricing and trusted payment fraud protection
- 1 Month FREE Trial!
- Multiple stores for one low monthly fee and a small referral fee on items that sell.
- Credit card processing and transaction fees are included.
- Access to Amazon world-class fraud protection, allowing you to focus on growing your business.
- For more information on pricing, visit our online store pricing section.
ADBRITE
Make money from your site traffic. Show relevant, high-quality advertising.
Get ads from thousands of advertisers, including top brands.
AdBrite can help you monetize your site with advertising that fits the content and user base of your site. Our base of advertisers includes top brands like Live Nation, GM, AT&T and Verizon—at the same time, AdBrite serves ads on nearly 1 billion pages daily, providing massive scale opportunities.
Optimize results with full transparency and control.
The AdBrite interface is very easy to use – you can sign up online and run ads on your site in minutes. Once you’re up and running, your publisher dashboard will give you all the latest detailed information about every single ad that’s run on your site.
Try out a full suite of ad formats.
In addition to text and banner ads, AdBrite offers advanced options like our Full Page Ad, BritePic, Inline and InVideo ad types. These formats will allow you to show high-value ads without losing site real estate—and the multimedia formats let you take advantage of the photos and video clips on your site. Bottom line, you’ll earn more than with the standard options provided by most ad networks.
ADSENSE
The basic of adsense
Adsense is considered as one of the most powerful tool in a website publisher’s arsenal. It enables a person to monetize their sites easily. If used properly, it can generate a very large and healthy income for them. However if you are not using them rightly and just maximizing the income you squeeze from it, you are actually leaving a lot of money on the table. Something all people hate doing.
How you can start earning money with Adsense can be done easily and quickly. You will be amazed at the results you will be getting in such a short period of time.
Start by writing some quality content articles which are also keyword incorporated. There are a lot of people given the gift of being good with words. Writing comes easy for them. Why not make it work in such a way that you will be earning some extra cash in the process.
There are actually three steps to put into mind before you begin writing your ads and having an effective Adsense.
Keyword search. Find some popular subjects, keywords or phrase. Select the ones which you think has more people clicking through. This is actually a keyword selector and suggestion tool that some sites are offering to those who are just their Adsense business.
Writing articles. Start writing original content with keywords from the topics that you have achieved in your search. Take note that search engines are taking pride in the quality of their articles and what you will be writing should keep up with their demands.
Quality content site. Build a quality content site incorporated with Adsense ads that is targeting the subject and keywords of your articles and websites. This is where all that you’ve done initially will go to and this is also where they will prove their worth to you.
The proper positioning of your ads should be done with care. Try to position your ads where surfers are most likely to click on them. According to research, the one place that surfers look first when they visit a certain site is the top left. The reason behind this is not known. Maybe it is because some of the most useful search engine results are at the top of all other rankings. So visitors tend to look in that same place when browsing through other sites.
Some of those who are just starting at this business may think they are doing pretty well already and thinking that their clickthrough rates and CPM figures are quite healthy. However, there are more techniques and styles to generate more clicks to double your earnings. By knowing these techniques and working them to your advantage, you will realize that you will be getting three times more than other people who have been previously doing what they are doing.
Finally, Adsense has some excellent tracking statistics that allows webmasters and publishers to track their results across a number of site on a site by site, page by page, or any other basis you wanted. You should be aware oft his capability and make the most of it because it is one powerful tool that will help you find out which ads are performing best. This way, you can fine tune your Adsense ads and focus more on the ones being visited the most rather than those who are being ignored.
Another thing you should know. Banners and skyscrapers are dead. Ask the experts. So better forget about banners and skyscrapers. Surfers universally ignore these kinds of ad formats. The reason behind this is that they are recognized as an advert and advert are rarely of any interest that’s why people ignore them.
To really start making money with Adsense, you should have a definite focus on what you wanted to achieve and how you will go about achieving them. As with any other kind of business ventures, time is needed coupled with patience.
Do not just ignore your site and your Adsense once you have finished accomplishing them. Spare some time, even an hour, making adjustments to the Adsense ads on your sites to quickly trigger your Adsense income.
Give it a try and you would not regret having gotten into Adsense in the first place.
John Ugoshowa.
href="http://www.quickregister.net/partners/">http://www.quickregister.net/partners/
5 ways to improve your adsense earning
If webmasters want to monetize their websites, the great way to do it is through Adsense. There are lots of webmasters struggling hard to earn some good money a day through their sites. But then some of the “geniuses� of them are enjoying hundreds of dollars a day from Adsense ads on their websites. What makes these webmasters different from the other kind is that they are different and they think out of the box.
The ones who have been there and done it have quite some useful tips to help those who would want to venture into this field. Some of these tips have boosted quite a lot of earnings in the past and is continuously doing so.
Here are some 5 proven ways on how best to improve your Adsense earnings.
1. Concentrating on one format of Adsense ad. The one format that worked well for the majority is the Large Rectangle (336X280). This same format have the tendency to result in higher CTR, or the click-through rates. Why choose this format out of the many you can use? Basically because the ads will look like normal web links, and people, being used to clicking on them, click these types of links. They may or may not know they are clicking on your Adsense but as long as there are clicks, then it will all be for your advantage.
2. Create a custom palette for your ads. Choose a color that will go well with the background of your site. If your site has a white background, try to use white as the color of your ad border and background. The idea to patterning the colors is to make the Adsense look like it is part of the web pages. Again, This will result to more clicks from people visiting your site.
3. Remove the Adsense from the bottom pages of your site and put them at the top. Do not try to hide your Adsense. Put them in the place where people can see them quickly. You will be amazed how the difference between Adsense locations can make when you see your earnings.
4. Maintain links to relevant websites. If you think some sites are better off than the others, put your ads there and try to maintaining and managing them. If there is already lots of Adsense put into that certain site, put yours on top of all of them. That way visitor will see your ads first upon browsing into that site.
5. Try to automate the insertion of your Adsense code into the webpages using SSI (or server side included). Ask your web administrator if your server supports SSI or not. How do you do it? Just save your Adsense code in a text file, save it as “adsense text�, and upload it to the root directory of the web server. Then using SSI, call the code on other pages. This tip is a time saver especially for those who are using automatic page generators to generate pages on their website.
These are some of the tips that have worked well for some who want to generate hundreds and even thousands on their websites. It is important to know though that ads are displayed because it fits the interest of the people viewing them. So focusing on a specific topic should be your primary purpose because the displays will be especially targeted on a topic that persons will be viewing already.
Note also that there are many other Adsense sharing the same topic as you. It is best to think of making a good ad that will be somewhat different and unique than the ones already done. Every clickthrough that visitors make is a point for you so make every click count by making your Adsense something that people will definitely click on.
Tips given by those who have boosted their earnings are just guidelines they want to share with others. If they have somehow worked wonders to some, maybe it can work wonders for you too. Try them out into your ads and see the result it will bring.
If others have done it, there is nothing wrong trying it out for yourself.
- 1 vertical skyscraper text ad unit about halfway down the left hand side under "Sponsor Links".
- 1 vertical skyscraper image ad unit down the left hand side under "Sponsor Links".
- 1 horizontal text banner unit at the bottom of the page with images above each ad to draw attention to them.
Adsense is considered as one of the most powerful tool in a website publisher’s arsenal. It enables a person to monetize their sites easily. If used properly, it can generate a very large and healthy income for them. However if you are not using them rightly and just maximizing the income you squeeze from it, you are actually leaving a lot of money on the table. Something all people hate doing.
How you can start earning money with Adsense can be done easily and quickly. You will be amazed at the results you will be getting in such a short period of time.
Start by writing some quality content articles which are also keyword incorporated. There are a lot of people given the gift of being good with words. Writing comes easy for them. Why not make it work in such a way that you will be earning some extra cash in the process.
There are actually three steps to put into mind before you begin writing your ads and having an effective Adsense.
Keyword search. Find some popular subjects, keywords or phrase. Select the ones which you think has more people clicking through. This is actually a keyword selector and suggestion tool that some sites are offering to those who are just their Adsense business.
Writing articles. Start writing original content with keywords from the topics that you have achieved in your search. Take note that search engines are taking pride in the quality of their articles and what you will be writing should keep up with their demands.
Quality content site. Build a quality content site incorporated with Adsense ads that is targeting the subject and keywords of your articles and websites. This is where all that you’ve done initially will go to and this is also where they will prove their worth to you.
The proper positioning of your ads should be done with care. Try to position your ads where surfers are most likely to click on them. According to research, the one place that surfers look first when they visit a certain site is the top left. The reason behind this is not known. Maybe it is because some of the most useful search engine results are at the top of all other rankings. So visitors tend to look in that same place when browsing through other sites.
Some of those who are just starting at this business may think they are doing pretty well already and thinking that their clickthrough rates and CPM figures are quite healthy. However, there are more techniques and styles to generate more clicks to double your earnings. By knowing these techniques and working them to your advantage, you will realize that you will be getting three times more than other people who have been previously doing what they are doing.
Finally, Adsense has some excellent tracking statistics that allows webmasters and publishers to track their results across a number of site on a site by site, page by page, or any other basis you wanted. You should be aware oft his capability and make the most of it because it is one powerful tool that will help you find out which ads are performing best. This way, you can fine tune your Adsense ads and focus more on the ones being visited the most rather than those who are being ignored.
Another thing you should know. Banners and skyscrapers are dead. Ask the experts. So better forget about banners and skyscrapers. Surfers universally ignore these kinds of ad formats. The reason behind this is that they are recognized as an advert and advert are rarely of any interest that’s why people ignore them.
To really start making money with Adsense, you should have a definite focus on what you wanted to achieve and how you will go about achieving them. As with any other kind of business ventures, time is needed coupled with patience.
Do not just ignore your site and your Adsense once you have finished accomplishing them. Spare some time, even an hour, making adjustments to the Adsense ads on your sites to quickly trigger your Adsense income.
Give it a try and you would not regret having gotten into Adsense in the first place.
John Ugoshowa.
href="http://www.quickregister.net/partners/">http://www.quickregister.net/partners/
5 ways to improve your adsense earning
If webmasters want to monetize their websites, the great way to do it is through Adsense. There are lots of webmasters struggling hard to earn some good money a day through their sites. But then some of the “geniuses� of them are enjoying hundreds of dollars a day from Adsense ads on their websites. What makes these webmasters different from the other kind is that they are different and they think out of the box.
The ones who have been there and done it have quite some useful tips to help those who would want to venture into this field. Some of these tips have boosted quite a lot of earnings in the past and is continuously doing so.
Here are some 5 proven ways on how best to improve your Adsense earnings.
1. Concentrating on one format of Adsense ad. The one format that worked well for the majority is the Large Rectangle (336X280). This same format have the tendency to result in higher CTR, or the click-through rates. Why choose this format out of the many you can use? Basically because the ads will look like normal web links, and people, being used to clicking on them, click these types of links. They may or may not know they are clicking on your Adsense but as long as there are clicks, then it will all be for your advantage.
2. Create a custom palette for your ads. Choose a color that will go well with the background of your site. If your site has a white background, try to use white as the color of your ad border and background. The idea to patterning the colors is to make the Adsense look like it is part of the web pages. Again, This will result to more clicks from people visiting your site.
3. Remove the Adsense from the bottom pages of your site and put them at the top. Do not try to hide your Adsense. Put them in the place where people can see them quickly. You will be amazed how the difference between Adsense locations can make when you see your earnings.
4. Maintain links to relevant websites. If you think some sites are better off than the others, put your ads there and try to maintaining and managing them. If there is already lots of Adsense put into that certain site, put yours on top of all of them. That way visitor will see your ads first upon browsing into that site.
5. Try to automate the insertion of your Adsense code into the webpages using SSI (or server side included). Ask your web administrator if your server supports SSI or not. How do you do it? Just save your Adsense code in a text file, save it as “adsense text�, and upload it to the root directory of the web server. Then using SSI, call the code on other pages. This tip is a time saver especially for those who are using automatic page generators to generate pages on their website.
These are some of the tips that have worked well for some who want to generate hundreds and even thousands on their websites. It is important to know though that ads are displayed because it fits the interest of the people viewing them. So focusing on a specific topic should be your primary purpose because the displays will be especially targeted on a topic that persons will be viewing already.
Note also that there are many other Adsense sharing the same topic as you. It is best to think of making a good ad that will be somewhat different and unique than the ones already done. Every clickthrough that visitors make is a point for you so make every click count by making your Adsense something that people will definitely click on.
Tips given by those who have boosted their earnings are just guidelines they want to share with others. If they have somehow worked wonders to some, maybe it can work wonders for you too. Try them out into your ads and see the result it will bring.
If others have done it, there is nothing wrong trying it out for yourself.
Top 10 AdSense Tricks To Boost Your Commission
Google AdSense is fast becoming the preferred way for people to earn an income online. Forget eBay and multiple affiliate programs. Whether you are a work-at-home mom trying to make a little extra cash or an Internet entrepreneur with hundreds of monetized websites, AdSense is truly the easiest way to earn money.
Simply sign up for a free account, grab your ad code and paste it in your site. But here's the amazing thing - no matter how much money AdSense is making for you right now, a few simple tweaks can increase that amount considerably. And I should know, after learning about these tricks, I more than doubled my AdSense commissions!
The self-proclaimed AdSense gurus and experts are sharing this insider knowledge, for a fee.
You can learn all these secrets from them, as long as you buy their e-book, sign up for their seminar or purchase their newsletter. But I'm going to share all their AdSense tricks for free. Here they are:
1) Color code your ads to match your web site palette *exactly*. Don't use frames around your ads. Instead, in the AdSense code generation interface, make sure you choose the same color as your page background for the ad frame and the ad background.
When choosing the ad heading colors, match them to the *exact* color of your page headings. Use the exact same ad background shade as your page background. Use the exact same ad text font and color as the text on your pages. You can see an example of this color-matching on my Search Engine Advice Blog at - http://www.searchenginecollege.com/blog.htm - notice the 4 link ad unit at the top and the skyscraper text ad unit on the left hand side under the heading Ads by Google as you scroll down the page? The link and text colors are identical to the color palette used throughout the rest of the page.
Near enough is NOT good enough. If you can't quite get the color matching right, use Google's built in color palette together with the RGB to HEX or vice versa color converter on this page - http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Guide/Style. That handy little tool was a life saver for me.
This is probably the one single tweak that made the most difference to my commission levels.
2) Try not to use the traditional horizontal banner style or leaderboard image ads because people are blind to them.
3) Use Google's own AdSense optimization tips at https://www.google.com/support/adsense/bin/static.py?page=tips.html and visual heat map to assist you in deciding where on your page to place your AdSense ad code.
4) Research competitive keywords using a keyword research tool such as Keyword Discovery at http://www.keyworddiscovery.com/?id=22487 or grab a list of the most popular keywords from various sources and use them in your web site pages where relevant. This article - http://searchenginewatch.com/facts/article.php/2156041 - is a good source of frequently searched keywords. Targeting popular keywords should trigger AdSense ads on your pages that utilize those keywords. The more popular the keyword or phrase, the higher AdWords advertisers are generally willing to pay per click for it so the higher your commission on those clicks.
5) Incorporate the AdSense code into your page so that the ads look like a regular part of your site. You can see an example on this Internet Dating Stories site - http://www.lovestory.com.au/ - where link ads are incorporated within the regular left hand navigation of the site under the heading "Feature Links".
6) Use Google's new 4 and 5 link ad units wherever possible. They seem to have a much higher Click Through Rate (CTR) than regular ad styles. You can view all the AdSense ad formats at https://www.google.com/adsense/adformats.
7) Place arrows or images next to your ads to draw attention to them. You can see two different versions of on this search engine article library page - http://www.searchenginecollege.com/articles/article-library.htm - at the top (where a pointing hand directs your eye to the ad) and the bottom where 3 images draw your attention to each of the three AdSense ads.
8) Use the full allowance of multiple AdSense ads on each of your pages - 3 regular AdSense ads, plus 1 link unit. Use careful placement of these ads so they blend into your site and don't distract from your content. Clever use of this allowance can be seen on this page about bad Internet dating stories - http://www.lovestory.com.au/bad-stories.htm - where you see:
- 1 horizontal 4 link ad unit towards the top of the page under the first paragraph.- 1 vertical skyscraper text ad unit about halfway down the left hand side under "Sponsor Links".
- 1 vertical skyscraper image ad unit down the left hand side under "Sponsor Links".
- 1 horizontal text banner unit at the bottom of the page with images above each ad to draw attention to them.
You can also include 1 AdSense referral button in addition to the 3 other units.
9) Tailor your page content to a particular niche or focus. Page content that is tailored towards a specific theme is more likely to trigger AdWords ads that closely match the content and are therefore more likely to interest your visitors and inspire them to click.
Don't create pages merely for the sake of placing AdSense ads. Visitors (and search engines) can see through this ruse in an instant.
10) Use custom Ad Channels for each of your ad placements, for example, "Top 5 Link Unit Blue Palette" or "Left Side Navigation Image Skyscraper" etc. Tweak, track and measure the success of each of these custom channels so you know what gives you the highest CTR. Some ad formats and colors will work better than others, but you won't know which until you test, test and test some more!
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Article by Kalena Jordan, one of the first search engine optimization experts in Australia, who is well known and respected in the industry, particularly in the U.S. As well as running her own SEO business, Kalena manages Search Engine College - http://www.searchenginecollege.com - an online training institution offering instructor-led short courses and downloadable self-study courses in Search Engine Optimization and Search Engine Marketing subjects.
