Over the last few months I’ve been running adsense on a wide variety of sites with varying degrees of success. I have been using adsense since the program first launched, but I’ve been using it on a wider variety of sites over the last few months.
One thing I have noticed is that although higher levels of traffic help it is not the deciding factor.
Has anyone else noticed similar trends?
A possible explanation is the topics themselves which give higher payouts per keyword.. but even then that would not explain the overall results, as I don’t have any sites or pages that lend themselves to the really high paying keywords
Things I have noticed:
Forums do not pay out as well as normal pages
Blending pays dividends
Adsense for search does not work (at least for me)
Text links are more popular than I would have thought even when it is blatantly obvious that they are not part of the site’s navigation
The competitive filter may take hours to update
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I’ve always suspected that the forum thing is simply because there are few clicks in fora and what clicks there are are likely to be more random (the first ad shown is always the highest-paying, and usually the most attractive, but a lot of forum clicks would seem to be mistakes).
Blending may annoy users.
And yep, don’t think search works well for anyone. Nor do referrals.
I wonder does search work for anyone apart from Google.. As for the referrals thing please don’t get me started 🙂
Just a side note for adsense publishers, Adsense media bot indexes / spiders content!