SEO for AdSense - A Guide for Newbies
Posted: Friday, July 22, 2011
by Liz Canham
http://www.internetmarketingwithliz.com
Using Google's AdSense on your website pages won't earn you extra cash unless you have enough visitors to click on the ads, so obviously you need to generate extra traffic.
How do you do that? Basically, you need to use SEO for AdSense. That's search engine optimisation which is a way to make your website more attractive to search engines so that they rank your site highly for certain keywords and send you more visitors. Here are some tips as to how to do that.
Tip #2. Make sure that each of your pages targets just one topic. Don't jump between topics or your AdSense adverts may not fit with the content of your page and neither will your pages won't be properly indexed.
Tip #3. Invest in a good keyword research tool which will not only give you the number of searches, but the number of competing pages and a strength of competition calculation so that you know which keywords are worth targeting.
Tip #4. Do your keyword research, decide which keywords you want to target on the page and make sure that those keywords appear in the title, the page url, the first paragraph, maybe a couple of times in the middle and in the final paragraph. Don't exceed more than one or two percent of the page content or it won't read correctly to your visitors.
Tip #5. Make sure that the content of your pages is original, interesting and informative. Answer questions and give tips. Hang out in forums to find out what people are interested in or have a problem with.
Tip #6. Check your ranking in Google for your chosen keywords, from time to time. If your page doesn't appear near the top then try rewriting your title and the first and final paragraphs. Sometimes just changing a couple of words will make all the different.
SEO for AdSense is quite complicated and there are many ways of tweaking the content of your site to make the very best of it but if you follow these basic tips, you'll be well on the way to increasing your ranking, your traffic and the number of clicks to your AdSense advertisements.
Liz Canham has made a study of SEO for AdSense over a number of years and has lots of information about AdSense on her website AdSense Tips and Tricks.
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Top-level comments on this article: (1 total)Nice article. There are so many general SEO articles out there, it's nice to see an article that has a specific purpose. Thanks for sharing.
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