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Most webmasters know that Adsense
generates a sizeable source of additional advertising income. That
is why most of them use it to go after high paying keywords. They
have with them the lists that tells what the keywords are and have
already used various methods of identifying them. And yet, after
putting up these supposed-to-be high paying keywords into their
pages, the money they expected to come rolling in is not really
coming in.
What is it that they are doing wrong?
Having the pages is with the proper
keywords is one thing. But driving visitors to those pages is
another matter and often the factor that is lacking.
The thing is, to get visitors to your high
paying keyword pages, you need to optimize your site
navigation.
Stop for a moment and think about how
visitors are using your website. After a visitor has landed on a
certain page, they have the tendency to click on another page that
sounds interesting. They get there because of the other links that
appears on a page that they initially landed on. This is site
navigation. It is all about enabling visitors to move about your
site. And one way of
maximizing your Adsense earnings.
A typical website have menu links on each
page. The wording on these links is what grabs a visitor’s
attention and gets them to click on one of the links that will take
them to another page of that website. Links that have
“free’ or “download” are oftentimes good
attention-grabbers.
This navigation logic can also be applied
to driving traffic to your high paying pages. There are some
websites that are getting a lot of traffic from search engines, but
have low earnings. The trick is to try and use come cleverly
labeled links to get the visitors off that pages and navigate them
to the higher earning ones. This is one great way of turning real
cheap clicks to real dollars.
Before you begin testing if this same
style will work for you and you website, you need to have two
things. Something to track and compare and some high earning pages
you want to funnel your site traffic to. An option is to select a
few of your frequently visited pages. This is ensuring fast result
to come by.
Now, the next thing to do is think of ways
to get visitors viewing a particular page to try and click on the
link that will take them to your high earning pages. Come up with a
catchy description for that link. Come up with a catchy and unique
description for the link. Think of something that people do not get
to see everyday. That will trigger their curiosity enough to try
and see what that was all about.
You can also use graphics to grab your
readers’ attention. There is no limitation to what you can do
to make your link noticeable. If you are after the success of your
site, you will do everything it takes just to achieve that goal.
Just be creative. As far as many Adsense advertisers are concerned,
there are no written and unwritten laws to follow regarding what
they write. Just as long as you do not overstep the guidelines of
the search engines, then go for it.
Also remember that it is all about
location, location and location. Once the perfect attention
grabbing description has been achieved, you have to identify the
perfect spot on your page to position that descriptive link to your
high paying page.
There is nothing wrong with visiting other
websites to see how they are going about maximizing their site
navigation. “Hot pages” or “Most read”
lists are very common and overly used already. Get to know the ones
that many websites are using and do not try to imitate them.
Another way of doing it is to try and use
different texts on different pages. That way you will see the ones
that work and what does not. Try to mix things around also. Put
links on top and sometimes on the bottom too. This is how you go
about testing which ones get more clicks and which ones are being
ignored.
Let the testing begin. Testing and
tracking until you find the site navigation style that works best
for you site.
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