Adsense advice needed

[GaryJay]

I hear and read any number of references to "keywords" but I am totally ignorant of what the key words are and how to use them??

[shahid1]

Try a different place for a month and see if you get any better results

[Educator]

Originally Posted by CaffinePhil

A lot of the time prices for linking (as in text links) are still normally worked out by page rank. If your site has PR3+ check out the buy sell trade section here and over at digital point.

I have a PR3 tech blog that I have sold over $300 worth of text links on this month.

If you have any questions feel free to PM me.

I heard that selling text links is a sure fire way to get our Google PR reduced pretty quick? True/false?

And, why do firms / web sites prefer text links vs actual ads? I've never been able to figure that one out.

Thanks!
Dan

[peteranswers]

Originally Posted by Educator

And, why do firms / web sites prefer text links vs actual ads? I've never been able to figure that one out.

Two reasons that I am aware of. First, I believe that click through rates on text link ads is better than standalone advertisements which people are tuning out. Second, by buying a text link ad you are also buying Google Juice for that keyword.

[Educator]

Originally Posted by peteranswers

Two reasons that I am aware of. First, I believe that click through rates on text link ads is better than standalone advertisements which people are tuning out. Second, by buying a text link ad you are also buying Google Juice for that keyword.

Really peteranswers? Do you, or anyone of course , have any studies showing that text link ads have a superior CTR?

What about what I had heard that Google some how frowns on them and having text link ads can cause it to reduce the Google Page Rank?

Thanks!
Dan

[GaryJay]

it sounds like alot of people, not using the google blogger new plateform have issues regarding ad sense---course I am new at using ads on my blog, and I don't have a large readership--yet, but week by week my blog is growing, and I am seeing a few pennies here and there being added----Rome wasn't built in a day---pretty sure it took the better part of a week to get Rome up and running (lol)

[bbrian017]

Originally Posted by mrfelton

My site CodeGobbler.com has been up for about 1 month now. I have a decent amount of traffic (1 month of service - CodeGobbler's first month site statistics | codegobbler.com) but my adsense earnings are next to worthless. I'd really appreciate it if someone could take a quick look at my site and tell me where I'm going wrong, or how I could do better with the ads.

Page impressions: 4193
Clicks: 12
Page CTR: 0.29%
Page eCPM: $0.04
Earnings: $0.17

I'm going to assume it's the Google link ads you're using! Image ads always work better so try that for a month! Also people that use image ads to advertise with Google tend to pay more per click I think! Some would also say it's your targeted keyword that simply might be low paying per click in general!

Google is very tricky!

[GaryJay]

Its taken me almost five monthes to reach the same level of stats that you have in one month. good luck

[Bloggeries]

Always play with your placement. I should be doing it WAY more then I currently am. http://www.patrickokeefe.com/ that's a great example.

[GaryJay]

Play with my placement?? meaning I should be shifting my ad locations on my page or what?