Comments on: How to Get Higher Ad Revenue From Your Website (Lessons From the AdSense Era) https://www.latenightim.com/getting-high-adsense-payouts/ Building Internet Businesses With Affiliate Marketing One Night At A Time Fri, 03 Apr 2026 13:07:08 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Mark Mason https://www.latenightim.com/getting-high-adsense-payouts/#comment-1450 Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:46:14 +0000 http://www.masonworld.com/?p=1303#comment-1450 In reply to Faith Wiedenheft.

Sure — happy to help. The URL for the feed is http://feeds.feedburner.com/MasonWorld When you click on that, or add it to your reader, you should get an option to subscribe. Are you not seeing that option? Thanks!

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By: Faith Wiedenheft https://www.latenightim.com/getting-high-adsense-payouts/#comment-1449 Mon, 27 Apr 2009 17:49:11 +0000 http://www.masonworld.com/?p=1303#comment-1449 Hi, I cant understand how to add your site in my rss reader. Can you Help me, please 🙂

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By: Mark Mason https://www.latenightim.com/getting-high-adsense-payouts/#comment-1448 Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:21:07 +0000 http://www.masonworld.com/?p=1303#comment-1448 @Rahman — Thanks! You are exactly right. You can use the google adwords tool to make sure that there is advertiser competition.

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By: Rahman Mehraby https://www.latenightim.com/getting-high-adsense-payouts/#comment-1447 Fri, 23 Jan 2009 08:47:47 +0000 http://www.masonworld.com/?p=1303#comment-1447 I learned useful points from this post and would like to contribute a little more:
I agree with you on the fact that some niches are paying more, but I have some experience with a travel niche. It depends on which travel destination you select. If it’s not a destination with lots of competition over its keywords, you’ll again fall into the same trap of insufficient upfront study. So, I’ve learned that hot travel destinations generate more in Google Adsense checks.

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By: Carolyn Cordon https://www.latenightim.com/getting-high-adsense-payouts/#comment-1445 Fri, 23 Jan 2009 06:58:03 +0000 http://www.masonworld.com/?p=1303#comment-1445 I can’t imagine ever making enough clicks to earn money with Adsense. It’s a mystery to me in some ways, and I suspect I’m in it more for fun that money (going online and playing with blogs). Any clues to kick start me onto a money making path?

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By: Mark Mason https://www.latenightim.com/getting-high-adsense-payouts/#comment-1446 Fri, 23 Jan 2009 06:55:00 +0000 http://www.masonworld.com/?p=1303#comment-1446 In reply to Carolyn Cordon.

@Carolyn — I completely understand, and I do have two suggestions.

For inspiration regarding what is possible read this post from Garry Conn. Garry is a normal guy that I know personally. He is not super-human, and he is not using any “tricks” to make money with AdSense. He makes thousands of dollars a month with AdSense.

For a free guide to getting started on the right track, download the free $5 Formula Report. If you follow that report, you could be making $5/day on AdSense from a single site after only a week or two. Build 10 or 20 sites like that, and all of the sudden you are talking about a house payment….

Good luck.

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By: Mark Mason https://www.latenightim.com/getting-high-adsense-payouts/#comment-1444 Thu, 22 Jan 2009 22:39:17 +0000 http://www.masonworld.com/?p=1303#comment-1444 If I understand your question, the answer is “section targeting.” AdSense has a feature called “Section Targeting” which allows you to pick sections of your text and HTML content that you’d like them to “emphasize or downplay” when they match ads.

Google is not really clear on exactly what that means. They claim that by providing Google with your “suggestions,” you can assist with improving your ad targeting. They recommend that only those familiar with HTML attempt to implement section targeting — which means you need to edit your HTML to add the tags.

All you do is add a set of special HTML comment tags to your code. These tags will mark the beginning and end of whichever section(s) you’d like to emphasize or de-emphasize for ad targeting.

You can read more about it here:

https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=23168

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By: Question https://www.latenightim.com/getting-high-adsense-payouts/#comment-1443 Thu, 22 Jan 2009 19:29:44 +0000 http://www.masonworld.com/?p=1303#comment-1443 I have a question for you – what if my blog is about free cheese but for whatever reason I started writing about lawyers and dui. Now I am seeing adwords that are for lawyers and not for free cheese. Is there a way to set what I want the adsense to display??? Please look past the examples.

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By: Mark Mason https://www.latenightim.com/getting-high-adsense-payouts/#comment-1441 Thu, 22 Jan 2009 16:45:50 +0000 http://www.masonworld.com/?p=1303#comment-1441 In reply to Kent F.

@Kent — What niche (are are you making a statement across all niches)?

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By: Mark Mason https://www.latenightim.com/getting-high-adsense-payouts/#comment-1440 Thu, 22 Jan 2009 16:44:59 +0000 http://www.masonworld.com/?p=1303#comment-1440 In reply to Patrik Berggren.

@Patrik — I have heard others mention issues with other markets (non-US). I have very little experience with that.

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By: Mark Mason https://www.latenightim.com/getting-high-adsense-payouts/#comment-1439 Thu, 22 Jan 2009 16:44:18 +0000 http://www.masonworld.com/?p=1303#comment-1439 In reply to Forest.

@Forest — I have not seen any problems with indexing since I started using 1WayLinks to deep link into my new sites. I am getting sites indexed the same day.

Let me know next time you launch a site and we can run a test.

Regards,
Mark

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By: Kent F https://www.latenightim.com/getting-high-adsense-payouts/#comment-1438 Thu, 22 Jan 2009 16:34:47 +0000 http://www.masonworld.com/?p=1303#comment-1438 I tend to agree with Forest. I’m pretty good at kw research and writing, but the clicks never really amount to much regardless — to be honest. I haven’t gotten quite so paranoid yet – lol.

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By: Josh Spaulding https://www.latenightim.com/getting-high-adsense-payouts/#comment-1433 Thu, 22 Jan 2009 15:48:54 +0000 http://www.masonworld.com/?p=1303#comment-1433 Excellent post, Mark. When I first realized that a couple years ago is when I started to see some of my biggest adsense checks!

It’s all about the market you’re targeting. Many people are targeting low-paying niches and wondering why they aren’t making much money with Adsense.

I’ll take a site that gets 5 $1 clicks equaling $5 over a site that gets 5 $0.20 clicks equaling $1 any day of the week.

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By: Mark Mason https://www.latenightim.com/getting-high-adsense-payouts/#comment-1432 Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:21:12 +0000 http://www.masonworld.com/?p=1303#comment-1432 LOL — exactly, Patrik. Never once have a refunded a click to Google because it was too low.

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By: Joe https://www.latenightim.com/getting-high-adsense-payouts/#comment-1442 Thu, 22 Jan 2009 12:17:55 +0000 http://www.masonworld.com/?p=1303#comment-1442 I’ve been seeing penny’s from adsense ever since I started using adsense. but I DO target small niches and these usually have really low adsense clicks. I honestly never really paid much attention to adsense as I was always focusing on affiliate product sales. But its a trade off right… Today I have sites that are designed to be more adsense driven and others that are more product driven (ebay affiliate, etc). From the sites where adsense doesnt pay, it is usually compensated by affiliate sales and vice versa.

But it wasnt until I read Josh’s $5 formula ebook that things started to make a bit more sense and I really started going after the higher paying keywords. I stll dont have enough content on these sites to entice the traffic but I’m building it slowly. One article at a time.

Thanks Mark for the post!

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By: Forest https://www.latenightim.com/getting-high-adsense-payouts/#comment-1437 Thu, 22 Jan 2009 10:30:59 +0000 http://www.masonworld.com/?p=1303#comment-1437 I get mostly low clicks and often wondered if i am smart priced. However every now and then a big click and it gives me hope!!

Also I am seeing that my new sites take an age to get indexed, even if they have links and social media submissions…. Like everyone, I think Google is out to get me 🙂

Anyway great post.

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By: Patrik Berggren https://www.latenightim.com/getting-high-adsense-payouts/#comment-1436 Thu, 22 Jan 2009 10:16:39 +0000 http://www.masonworld.com/?p=1303#comment-1436 btw, for the swedish market it is really hard to find any competitor paying >$1/click

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By: Patrik Berggren https://www.latenightim.com/getting-high-adsense-payouts/#comment-1435 Thu, 22 Jan 2009 10:15:20 +0000 http://www.masonworld.com/?p=1303#comment-1435 Everyone like to have these $1 clicks and it is a bit more competitive now (after Josh free report). All “make a living on adsense”-webmasters are only checking and making websites for those keywords, wich make it a lot easier to target a little less payed per click.

I always take 2 $0.30 clicks than ZERO $1 clicks, any day of the week (learn a new english phrase, thx Josh)

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By: Mark Mason https://www.latenightim.com/getting-high-adsense-payouts/#comment-1434 Thu, 22 Jan 2009 09:55:52 +0000 http://www.masonworld.com/?p=1303#comment-1434 Thanks Josh — I should have mentioned that this information is also covered very well in your excellent free eBook — 5dollarformula.com

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By: Patrik Berggren https://www.latenightim.com/getting-high-adsense-payouts/#comment-1431 Thu, 22 Jan 2009 08:18:09 +0000 http://www.masonworld.com/?p=1303#comment-1431 Everyone like to have >$1.00 clicks, who is going for the $.30 – .40 clicks? I promise You, I’ll take them all, everyday 🙂

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