Tips

"Write original content.
Set up a Google Sitemap, even if it's only in .txt.
Pray." fearlessrick

Buy & Optimize Sites

"Once you've worked out the most effective Adsense/Affiliate mix for your niche, keep your eyes open for other sites in the same niche that clearly haven't gone through the same optimization process - then buy them, fix their ads based on your accumulated know-how and watch the $$$ roll in." Edwin

AdSense for Search

"Don't turn your back on Adsense Search. The results it provides are pretty useful, so your visitors will be happy - and it can add meaningfully to your bottom line." Edwin

Affiliate Valuable Pages

"Use the channels to mine for your most valuable traffic, then go looking for affiliate programs on those topics. One particular page of my site only got a few thousand views a month and I paid it no heed at all - until I found what a click was worth! Now the affiliate ad I've set up on that page is delivering a sustained $200 CPM." Edwin

Pack it with Useful Content

"Serve the user. If your site has intrinsic value, users will come back, and you'll earn far more than you would from a single visit. (You'll also benefit from word of mouth and unsolicited links from other sites.)'

Absolutely. If the content is genuinely useful, it will be found by users. And if a site is packed with useful content, the probability of its failure over the long haul should be meager." ownerrim

Repeat Visitors

"Quality content. Give a reason for people to come back to your site." linuxguy

Add Value, do not Fool

"do try to move away from the 'fool them' type of thinking to the 'add value for them' one, it will profit you in the end." abbeyvet

Value Sites

"... about maximizing profits from a website.

Google says 'Thou shall not create a site for the purpose of displaying AdSense'. I have been following this rule, but not because Google said so. Look at it from this angle - you found a niche, like photography, where hundreds of advertisers will pay you 50 cents to 1.50 a click (we are talking max, not the average). What does it mean? It means that if advertisers are paying you that much, than these visitors are worth the money. So obviously you'd be stupid to create a site for AdSense only. Instead, why not create a resource for photographers and make money on software, e-books (tons of specialty e-books for photographers), drop shippers, paid listings, membership fees and AdSense.

The best way to maximize your AdSense profits is to think beyond AdSense. The real asset is the visitors." DavidDeprice

Operate Multiple Niche Sites

"People have been talking about this for years. Only amateurs create sites specially for AdSense and target them for lead paint, asbestos and other crap. Talk to any person who makes good money from AdSenseand you are likely find out two things - they operate multiple websites and their websites are niche. In fact, there is a simple way to find out if a nich you are targeting is good or not. If you picked the niche correctly, AdSense WILL NOT be your only (and likely not to be major) source of revenue. You'll be able to make money through affiliate sales, drop shippers, referrer fees, etc - depends on the industry." DavidDeprice

Find a Good Niche

"but find a niche that would have a number of keywords that pay 50 cents to 1.50 or above.

The fact is that there are hundreds of niches like that - many had great success with photography and DVD. But you have no know what you are doing - for instance - digital cameras are one thing and Photoshop are another. Also different brands of digital cameras pay differently. What you are looking for is to find a niche that would have subniches and would guarantee that there is large enough pool of advertisers so your website will bring in money for years to come.

For instance (real world example) - photography is excellent niche. In it, there are other subniches that pay well - digital cameras, photo equipment,Photoshop (and other software), image recovery, red eye removal (that one isn't very profitable), wedding photography ... There are hundreds of advertisers, so you'll never go broke and are likely to average 20 - 30 cents a click, provided you attract quality audience." DavidDeprice

An Article a Day

"long ago, i also tried something like this. i tried a few pages on a few very high paying keywords that. my average click value was not more than 3 cents ever.

then i prefered to stick to my niche with click valie of 10 to 15 cents ,writing one article a day.

running after high paying keywords doesnt make long term sense.

only if you are highly knowledgable about the 'high value word' feild, make a site focused on that.. write hundreds of articles on that.. you shall see very high value epc. and u may get ur 82 dollars also.

No shortcuts apply here in long run." Sobriquet

Pre-Content SEO

"Don't spin your wheels when adding new content. Do some research and find out which keywords that are related to your site topic actually get searched for a fair number of times at the major SE's. The old saying 'I work smarter, not harder' applies in spades here. You'll spend roughly the same amount of time writing each new page of content, so it only makes sense to do so with keywords that have a good chance of bringing your traffic." Swebbie

Buzz Effect

"I personally never cared what keywords get searched for at the major SE's. My advice is: Don't rely on SE's and create a website that people will talk about." John Carpenter

"Thats the ticket!" l3vi

More Fresh Content

"write your stuff EVERY DAY, grow EVERYDAY, and you will make more money than 10k a month" jimilives

SEO Takes Time

"Basic seo is the key, most over look it and look for fast easy tricks. Its a long road, great stuff does not come from over night, and is not easy." l3vi

Pages + SEO = Traffic

"I'm getting over a million page views per month and have never spent a dime on advertizing. I do have 1,400+ pages though. But 'basic seo' is what has driven the page views." ken_b

Pure SEO

"Believe it or not, many webmasters here have managed to get their websites on top of the search engines in various keywords without spending a dime to achieve million or so pageviews.

We don't do PPC ever; we don't buy text links on other websites but we are well placed in not one but hundreds of well-trafficked keywords. Just plain white hat SEO (heck, we don't even have H1 or whatever on our website yet we are doing extremely well on the search engines). Word of mouth, longevity of the site, quality of the site that makes other people link to you without you asking them are some of the factors that can help a website win via pure basic SEO.

It CAN be done. ... And many Adsense publishers are doing just that." alika

Link Building

"Since you are after highly relevant links I am going to assume you are in the game for the long haul with your website. Best advice I can give you is create content for your site that will naturally attract industry links." Justilien

Starting is Harder

"The biggest knowledge I can empart is that getting from $1-$20 is much harder than getting from $20-$100" emodo!

$60K/month

"there are people making more than $2000 a day" Zygoot

Buy Sites

"Yipee, this morning i have just for the first time broken through the 10K barrier! what a kick it gives you. I'll be smiling through each hour of this day. last month was just below 9K.
I have a portfolio of about 10 sites covering many subjects. Traffic for the total is 2 million page views. Nothing tricky, all above board. Just hard sweat and long hours at the keyboard. My traffic became so heavy for my multi-domain hosting account that

I have moved over to my own server which is administrated for a low fee by a superb hosting company. My bandwidth useage is now around 130 Gig per month.

My advice is that as soon as you can afford to, leave your employment and do this for your living. Buy established domains from sedo that are under- optimized, do your SEO on them, keep link building, keep experimenting, and see the Adsense income steadily build up." somerset

Buy Sites

"The way I see it is that the easiest by far way to generate significant revenue from adsense, is to simply buy established websites that have been around a while and have a history of traffic. Place adsense on them if it is not already there, and away we go.

Scratch building websites or pages is not in my view the way to go.

So in summary my look on this subject is to establish a portfolio of established websites, covering just about any topic, the topic does not matter as long as it is not violating the TOS. By doing this it is perfectly possible to have a composite impression rate of 1 million impressions a day, if not a lot more than that ,and if one gets say 2% clickthrough at say even 5 cents a go, then that is a significant income with very little ongoing overhead." James

Good Money

"I do make around $4500 each month from just a SINGLE site that is currently hosted just for $4.95 per month. Homepage not in cache of G at this moment of writing. Incredible, but real." GuluGulu

The Long Road

"I so much agree, back in the day when I was a newbie I counted by days by dollars and hoped that I ended the month with 50 more then I had before. Now of days I count in the 6-10k growth a month, I expect it, I want it, its all I think about while others spend their time mucking around wondering how to get it cheap and easy.

You can do is the sneaky way and try to run faster and faster till you lose, or you can take the long road and make a site like no one else has ever done before!" l3vi

Visualize

"This game starts in the mind. If you can't imagine that kind of growth I guarantee - guarantee! - you won't get it.

Once you start seeing how this is possible, then you start imagining what you need to do to get there... and away you go down the road." Undead Hunter

Work & Earn

"A 100 clicks a day? How about a thousand? Three thousand? Easy. be nice and good and honest and hardworking and reading WW and thats all you need.

Not one trick, not one borderline experiment - plain, clean content and basic SEO." wanderingmind

Planning

"Doing the math really worked for me! Knowing how much I wanted to make, finding the amount of the average click, then figuring out what I had to do to generate enough quality traffic/clicks to reach the goal. Piece of Cake (but a lot of work...not for the weak)" TammyJo

$80K/month

"A Good site in a nice market can easly make 80k a month if you know what your doing and are good with SEO." l3vi

Returning Visitors

"Give your users a reason to come back and you should make a lot more money then you would by just adding more content." markus007

Display High CTR Ads First

"More blocks on the page actually works to your advantage. The key is in understanding the way that google serve ads:-

They serve the highest paying ads first.

Understanding that is critical to making good money on the AdSense program.

You want your highest CTR channel ads in your HTML code first.

Having three blocks on each page becomes extremely valuable when you've adapated your page layouts to cater for that.

Look at your page code and see which blocks are being requested first. Redesign your pages to ensure that the highest CTR positions are requesting ads from the server first in the page code." trillianjedi

Experiment with Low Sites

"Experiment with sites you don't have much other use for. Apply learnings to future sites." Sierra_Dad

Static URLs for Dynamic Pages

"Use good title and description tags, plus Urls that look static even on a dynamic site. Helpful not just for Adsense, but to get search engine traffic as well." Sierra_Dad

Targeted Articles & Ads

"It really helps if your article is targeted and the ads shown are what your visitors are looking for." Atomic

Sequential Content

"Create sequentially related content spanning multiple related pages and encourage visitor flow." justgowithit

Format Content Neatly

"Use proper grammar and spelling so that your articles are professional. Use bullet points and bold headings for sections." Atomic

Traffic Stats, Focused Articles

" Watch your server logs - I have noticed that sometimes I will just mention something in an article for one sentence that brings in a lot of visitors so I go and write an entire article on that subject. The results have been stellar. You've been given a big hint that people are interested in this and if you ignore it you are missing a big opportunity. I have more than a few articles that have been linked to all over the web because they are almost the only decent material on this subject.

Write content that is as specific as possible. Don't write an article that is super long unless it is necessary. If you can break it up if it seems logical to do so." Atomic

Ad Targetting & SEO go Together

"Think of AdSense as somewhat of a window into the soul of the search engine and fixing the targetting on AdSense will have SEO benefits as well. If your AdSense ads are completely off target your SERPs can't be as good as you think either.

<title> </title> Fix your spider food, <h1> </h1><h2> content etc. to highlight the page content properly and reinforce the right keywords and not only will you fix AdSense targetting but you will most likey improve your SERPs." incrediBILL

Static Names for Dynamic Pages

"If you have a site generating dynamic pages then you should issue a unique page name for every page displayed if possible." incrediBILL

Write about Searched for Topics

"Write about things people are actively searching for. This should be obvious, but so many sites seem to forget." arrowman

Use Channels

"Use channels to analyze. My best performing pages do 100 times better than the worst. Know where to spend your time." arrowman

Split Long Pages

"split long pages into several smaller pages with one ad block on each page. Optimize for slightly different keywords (within subject) on pages." sailorjwd

Link to High EPC Pages

"remove adsense from low EPC pages. ...

advertise your high EPC pages with link on the low epc pages" sailorjwd

Reinvest your Earnings

"Plough your income back into content. Think of every $ you don't spend on pizza now as $10 next year." vincevincevince

Weed Off Low Performing Ads

"Don't be tempted to splatter each and every page on your site with three adsense banners, one adlinks banner and a google search box! Use channels to track every banner, and if it isn't paying then dump it. The resulting increase in CTR will probably feed through to an increase in earnings." david_uk

Widely Test Content

"Also, experiment with different topics for content. I create 30-40 pages of content on a similar topic for a new section. You will make amazing discoveries about your site's revenue potential." wanderingmind

Expand to Well Paying Sub-Topics

"Broaden your view of your content topic(s). Some very well paying, very relevant, subjects are completely missing on many sites.

Often, it isn't any kind of stretch to include some or all of these sub-topics. It's just that they don't pop up often in general discussions, so some (I'd say many) webmasters don't realize the value of commenting on them on their websites." ken_b

Track Keyword Performance

"Use channels to track pages which are triggering different keywords than the bulk of your site. See if you're getting a better EPC for those pages. Make more pages like that." universetoday

Exhaust the Subject when Writing Content

"When it comes to content, take the time write the best article you can. Don't write a bunch of rehashed garbage ... Write something fresh and recent with new sources. Also, don't make the article short just because you don't like to write. Write until you've exhausted the subject. This will help you avoid duplicate content penalities, increase the stickyness to your site, and put out more 3,4,5, etc. keyword combinations that you can pick up traffic on." Freedom

Improving on Revenue

"There are several ways to boost revenue like trying different ad sizes, colors, positions, more ads, less ads, adlinks, ... But don't forget to publish new content and try to get more traffic." Zygoot

Add More Pages

"In terms of numbers of pages ...

1 - You can write pages of content yourself, devoting a few hours every workday to it.

2 - You can farm out the writing chores by using one of the many online freelance writer services (will cost you about $5-$7 per 300-word page in most cases if you don't require a lot of rules to be followed)." Swebbie

Build Pages around Good Keywords

"Lastly, you'll want to build each of your pages around one or two useful keyword phrases (different phrases for each page). This is perhaps the most crucial part. Don't pick keywords randomly - you may end up with very little traffic. Use a service that tells you which keywords get a good number of searches." Swebbie

Diversify for Stability

"But I digress. I'll echo the others here by suggesting that you build more sites and vary the topics to spread out both your appeal and your risk" Swebbie

Unique Content

"Content that is not available ANYWHERE is all thats important, and good sharp tageting with accurate careful seo brings a good 11 to 13 percent click thru as well. And I use one block, one tower per page and take notice of googles heat map, but not to the detriment of your visitors.
...
Be genuine make sites for visitors with a passion, about things you understand and give valuable information and you will eventually do well, with any add company long after google has gone." Nitrous

Funny Advertising for More Traffic

"'how can someone attain a higher level of revenue?'

Get a few thousand visitors a day instead of a few hundred would be a good start.

I find good cheap advertising works, like standing at a busy instersection during rush hour wearing a sandwich billboard with my web site name on it while swinging a cat over my head and screaming like a chicken 'CLUCK CLUCK CLUCK!' at passing cars. It's a real good form of viral marketing and they tend to remember the site name when you show up on the 6 o'clock news being straight-jacketed and dragged off for observation." incrediBILL

Good Content More Traffic

"traffic..
making good content, people will visit and revenue goes up.. there is no other way." webnoob

High Stability Sites

"'Fire and forget' sites.....

1. Lots of content. Lots of keywords/phrases - not just the high paying keywords, (with which you will be in loads of competition for), but also the 'lower paying' keywords/phrases where there is less competition - but a chance of making a more regular income.

2. NO LINKS OUT - absolutely vital. Forget about link building, two-traffic, reciprocal linking etc.

The secret is......

Your content, and your SEO should be soooo good that the only links out are the Google Adsense ads generated by the content of your webpage. If someone wants to know more about what you've written about - they'll have to click on a Google Adsense ad to find out - neat, eh?" send2paul

Comprehensive Coverage

"I think that my secret is that my primary blog -- which generates probably 3/4 of the income -- is about a real niche hobby. While there are lots of sites touching on various aspects of the hobby, mine is the only one that brings it all together. The blog is a year old now, and I've put up 1,500 posts in that time (mostly a few sentences, in the blog style)." jretzer

Buy Sites for Growth

"I've bought sites." homeblock

Forums Performance

"Forum sites generally don't do well with AS" Freedom

Low CTR

"I've noticed that sites with internet-smart visitors make $0.00." neonrider