A Plugin that Makes Adsense Convert Better
A few weeks ago, Alex from Net Entrepreneur wrote an article about using Adsense on a site related to the MMO. What he said is that people in MMO have become blind to ads and normally won´t click on them (although Griz is proving otherwise with his MMO blog and gives many reasons why it can work, all throughout his blog).
There is one point Alex makes though, which probably indicates the difference between Adsense working well or not at all, and that is the type of traffic you get and how they arrived at your site. He suggested to manually put in adsense ads, only on specific pages that started picking up on organic traffic, arriving at a certain page through a search engine, looking for specific information.
I thought that was a pretty cool idea if you are only running a few sites and you can spend quite some time on checking all your stats and tweaking and twitching every single page to “perfection”… but what happens if you are running many different pages, 20, … 30, …. 50, …. 100 or even more?
Well, it looks like I found that answer when opening up my inbox this morning and found a post by Court, How to Show Ads to Search Engine Traffic. (BTW… congrats on breaking the 3000 RSS mark!)
Court has found a plugin for wordpress, making it possible to select which type of traffic sees adsense ads. For example, you can set up your blog in a way that only traffic coming from searchengines will see Adsense ads, while visitors coming from social sites, entrecard, regular visitors who have bookmarked your blog etc, won´t see the ads at all, therefore probably increasing your CTR and thus in the long run getting more revenue per click.
Could this be the answer?
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Nice idea! Adsense works great for me when I have tons of traffic visiting…but I get more revenue from my eBay and Amazon links as well. I wonder if the plugin could be tweaked to handle that?
Thanks for the headsup,
Barbara
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hi Barbara,
yes, I believe it does, by putting your ebay or amazon code in the “Add Ad code” box instead of adsense code
Thanks for the links on googles adsense… scrapping a few quarters a day isn’t cutting it. Hopefully this helps.
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Thanks for mentioning me Mirjam.
Seems like a great plugin! Whoever thought of that is a genius.
I will run and install it, before I get smart priced.
Cheers,
Alex
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LOL thought it seemed a pretty neat plugin
Great adsense plugin! i use this!
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Pretty happy with my Adsense placements at the minute but I’m sure it’ll help a lot of people out.
Just dropping by to give you a look at my new blog Mirjam.
Will have to add you to my blogroll again
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Hey Carl!
I didn´t notice you sold your former blog :O
Hope this means things are going very well for you :D:D
Yup, I thought it was time to pass it on and take a new look on things I’d learnt.
I’m still managing a few things there like the content etc until that’s done but that is in the past.
New ventures are always fun!
Best Wishes Mirjam,
Carl
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cool, hope you made a good sale
I just changed my blogroll, just so you know
I was lately trying my good luck with adsense, and this plugin would help
Thanks Mirjam
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Sounds like a great plug-in! Most traffic from StumbleUpon or Digg won’t ever click on AdSense
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@Chetan and Micheal, that is exactly why I posted on it
Wow! Sounds like an amazing stuff. Hmm.. But if we hide the ads from them will the impressions count? Impressions are worth some cash too right?
If the ads don´t show up for certain visitors, there will be no impressions. And no, ONLY the clicks count.
Sounds pretty good. This plugin certainly would help a lot of people out there. Plus it sounds like fun to try out. Thanks for sharing.
its really a nice plugin , good thinking on how to make adsense CTR better
Just passing it on to you guys
Yes… You’re cent correct. MMO blog is not having that much CTR with adsense because most of the visitors to our blog is the webmasters of MMO blog. So they seldom clicks the adsense ads.
I must say that Court has done a fantastic job by finding this plugin but one does’nt feels ensured that they will escape from the vulgar trafic!
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