Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Google Adsense Tips and Tools Collection


Google Adsense is an amazing contextual advertising program that lets you earn revenue from your site by a variety of revenue generating programs. Pay per click ads, Adsense for search, referrals for Firefox with Google toolbar, Picassa, Google Pack and the adsense program itself. This is a compilation of common Google tips and tools to make more money from Google Adsense.

Google Adsense Guidelines

Adsense Starter Demos

  • Google Adsense Tour – introducing you to the Adsense program.
  • Getting Started Demo: learn to sign in, copying and pasting your code, setting up alternate ads, and using your Competitive Ad Filter.
  • Help with Ad Code Demo: troubleshoot basic problems when implementing your code. Also covers how to implement your code using two different types of WYSIWYG software.
  • Payment Demo: learn about the AdSense payment cycle, from a click on your ads to money in the bank!
  • Optimization Demo: learn how to use ad size and placement to maximize your AdSense revenue.

Track Adsense Income, Statistics and Clicks

  • Adsense Notifier – Firefox extension that displays your Adsense earnings on the Firefox statusbar.
  • SysSense – personal desktop Google AdSense monitor. It keeps your current Google AdSense information in the Windows system tray.
  • Adsense Widget – a Mac Dashboard widget that automatically logs into your AdSense Google account and displays the last 6-days of revenue generated from your Google advertising account.
  • Google Adsense Yahoo Widget – displays the current income directly from your Google AdSense account.
  • Stats for AdSense widget – allows you to view your Google AdSense� reports directly from your Mac OS X Dashboard.
  • Adsense Status – GoogleDesktop plugin to View earnings information from your Google Adsense account in the Google Desktop sidebar. Available information: page impressions, clicks, page CTR, page eCPM, and your earnings.
  • Adsense Alert – desktop client monitors your adsense earnings.
  • Performancing Metrics – a free professional grade blog statistics service that track limited adsense click data
  • Adsense earnings RSS feed – a simple script that will create an RSS feed with your daily Adsense earnings to track via your regular feed reader.
  • Google AdSense Charts and Graphs – chart your adsense data in a multidimensional line charts.
  • AdSenseLog is a tool for checking and analyzing your Adsense ads data (Content, Search, Custom/URL channels and Referrals).

View / Test Adsense Ads

  • Google AdSense preview tool – addition to the right-click menu for Windows Internet Explorer 6.x, allowing you to preview the ads that may show on any web page.
  • Adsense Preview – Preview the Google ads that may show on any web page.
  • Google AdSense Sandbox Tool – see what sort of Google AdSense ads will appear based on content or keywords. See up to 20 sample AdSense ads for the URL or keywords.
  • Overture Keyword Tool – suggest keyword bid amount and keyword suggestions, which help you target high paying keywords.
  • Google Adwords Keyword Tool – generates potential keywords for your ad campaign and reports their Google statistics, including search performance and seasonal trends.

Google Adsense WordPress Plugins

Google Adsense Optimization Tips

Alternate Ads

  • Alternate ads – allows you to utilize your ad space in the event that Google is unable to serve targeted ads to your page.
  • Alternate Url – provides a 50/50 Revenue Share, full global coverage monthly payments automatic referral income, family safe ads, paypal supported and gives detailed stats.
  • AlterNut Ad – pays you a flat rate every month in return for you displaying thier ad rather than the PSA. Invite only.
  • Default Ads – load your affiliate or other ads into DefaultAds and generate a link to include in your Google Adsense alternate ad URL. They show their own ads 1 out of every 100 impressions for this service.

Adsense Chats and Forums

Miscellaneous

  • Google AdSense Stats Syndrome (GASS) - the compulsive need to check AdSense stats every 15 minutes or so to see how much you’ve earned since your prior login. more.