Adsense advice needed

[Michigal]

Originally Posted by GaryJay

My question is---how does one find the keywords??

GaryJay,

Decide what words you want people to find your blog by when they type a search into Google. Those are your keywords, in a nutshell.

For example, if you are selling "blue widgets," you look at Google's Keyword Tool, and determine what is the most typed search to find "blue widgets."

Let's say the search term is, "Cheapest blue widgets."

Now those are the words you want to sprinkle throughout your posts (not heavily...once or twice is enough) so when these people type their query into Google, your page will be near the top.

About keywords on a personal site with no specific topic, you're going to have a lot harder time coming up with keywords that will work. And as a side problem, your Adsense will also have a hard time coming up with the keywords needed to place ads on your site. Remember, Adwords is selling stuff, so if your blog isn't related to any product, you're going to find you have irrelevant ads showing, and thus a low click through rate.

I hope this helps clear up your confusion. As always, feel free to PM me if you have any other questions.

[GaryJay]

Michigal: Thanks for the helpful information regarding keywords and the problems of a random versus niche blog ---so google had a keyword tool, cool. (PS. I gave your rep a boost , my way of thanking ya for the help).

[Michigal]

Duh, GaryJay, I forgot to leave the link to Keywords tool.

Comes with my advanced age, I guess.

Here it is:

Adwords Keyword Tool

P.S. to the above.

A personal blog can still earn money, but you'll have to do an occasional post about products or something.

Added:
And here's a help page at Google Adsense that can help you target specific keywords if you wanted to see ads about a specific product by having Google specifically see (or ignore) parts of your posts:

Section Targeting

[GaryJay]

again thanks for the great advice and assistance, now will spend much of my day (days??) working on Keywords and usage of--------