Content websites that develop multiple streams of online income end up with better odds of meeting or even exceeding their advertising goals.
They also increase their odds of surviving as a business. (more…)
The major advantage for publishers who put Google AdSense on WordPress sites is obvious: more revenue. What’s not obvious is the best way to do it.
Google AdSense is the largest ad network on the planet in terms of the total revenue it shares with publishers who use the AdSense code. (more…)
Yield optimization is one of the lesser known concepts in online advertising. It leads to higher revenue through better inventory management.
It starts with the basic idea that a site publisher or sales team may not be able to sell out 100 percent of all ad impressions on a site. Yield optimization also applies to sites that use only network providers such as Google AdSense.
AdSense earnings regularly go down for some sites and keep growing for others for many, many reasons. But some disturbing trends point to red flags about the future for AdSense partners.
First, some background. Google AdSense is one of the greatest product developments on the Internet. The company brilliantly decided to expand its search advertising inventory by allowing other websites to publish its ads and split the revenue with a healthy 68 percent going to its publishing partners. (more…)
Website publishers who target Google AdSense keywords will often find an improvement in revenue performance.
AdSense and similar advertising networks rely on the context of pages to deliver the best-performing ads. Context means the content has wording that is relevant to the ads that appear on the page.
An ad unit audit on a regular basis will often lead to an improvement in revenue performance.
What is an ad unit audit? It is a review of the results of different ad units, advertisers and locations to see which ones perform above average and below average. The audit should lead to changes in creative and placement that improve click rates.
Some online experts say that a CDN or content delivery network will make a site load faster because of the way it retrieves data.
The actual answer is sometimes yes and sometimes no. It depends on the hosting environment, quality of the CDN, the amount of traffic a site receives, how well the site is already optimized for speed, and other important factors. (more…)