For many of you, my fellow readers, who have followed my blog since the beginning, I would like to share with you that I earned my first $100 with Google Adsense with in the first two months of blogging. At that moment, my two main sources of traffic came from StumbleUpon and Google Search Engine. This generated over hundreds of thousands of visitors from StumbleUpon. You would think that I will eventually became rich with all the increase in traffic? That’s not so true, thus far I have earned nothing else from StumbleUpon other than traffic which increases my Alexa Rank. Other than the increase in traffic the users from StumbleUpon have the reputation of not clicking on ads.

How will we earn money from Google Adsense then? Well for me, it was applying tips given by other bloggers. With as little as 2% of traffic from Google, I managed to earn $100 with in two months! Before I started blogging, I have read from many other blogs as to how they made money with Google Adsense. They gave me enough good tips that helped me to generate some income. Today I will past these tips on to you so you can make money, as well as teach others the same in the future. Does this sound like a good deal?

Focus On Where Majority Of The Traffic Is Landing
You all will agree with me that if you want to generate more clicks on your ads, you need to know where most of your readers are landing on your blog, that way you know exactly where to place your ads to increase visibility and clicks. For example, if the readers are coming from Google Search and they going to one of your popular posts. You would want to make sure that you have Google Ads on those specific popular pages where traffic is heavy. They says locations, locations, locations is key!

Blend Your Ads With The Color Of Your Background
If you blend your Adsense ads in with the theme of your background, they will look ‘at home’ and the ads will perform better. You will certainly notice an increase in your AdSense Click-thru-Ratio (CTR) if you follow this advice. Even Google Adsense Help Center suggests the application:

“To increase the likelihood that your readers will see and click on your ads, blend your ad units into the background of your blog. Choose a bold color for the ad title to help draw attention to your ads, then make sure that the background and borders of your ads are the same color as the background of the area where the ad is placed.”

Also, do not use borders to your text ads. Ad units without borders and has matching background to the site background color always perform well over other ad units.

Use The Color Blue For Your Links
Why blue? Why not green, black, white, or yellow? The reason behind it is that blue is the default color for Hyperlink on the web so the majority of people will recognize it easily. It has been tested that the color blue will likely perform better than any other colors. Well, red works pretty well too because it catch (hurt) the eyes!

Hope this will help you in some ways or another. At the same time, have fun experimenting with Google Adsense!