Google Ads - Cents per Click By Page

Some of my pages typically get 0% of visitors clicking through. Other pages get 15% of visitors clicking an ad. On some pages each click earns one or two cents, on other pages sometimes a dollar or more per click. Play with page layouts and ad formats to see how it affects the number of click-throughs and cents-per-click you're earning each day.

For UK residents Google will send you a cheque in good old British pounds. And I daresay they might even send you a cheque in Euros if you were so inclined.

Practical example of google ads: getting paid by google

It's now several months since I posted the google ads code onto one of my web pages. Having got the code on one page I've simply copied and pasted the same code onto several of my web pages on various sites - no need to go back to the google site each time.

The cents-per-click has gone up a bit since I started. Could be that Google monitors which ads people click on and put on your site the ones that earn the most revenue - i.e. max cents-per-click x average number-of-clicks-per-day. That's how I'd do it if I were Google anyway. Or maybe advertisers are starting to bid up the price-per-click to appear on my site, though this seems less likely as I can't imagine advertisers even being aware of my humble little sites, let alone bidding to appear on them.

Google Adsense Ads - Best Formats

Google say that some Ad layouts attract more clicks than others, also that advertisers pay more for certain Ad formats. The 160x600 Wide Skyscraper, as at the top of this page, performs well as does the 300 x 250 Medium Rectangle. And the 728 x 90 Leaderboard is apparently one of the best at generating advertising revenue:

Google Adsense Link Units

In addition to 3 blocks of ads, you can also have a "Link Unit" on your page:

Will I get rich by having Google Ads on my site

Will Google AdSense make you rich? Er, no.

Unless your page gets hundreds of thousands of hits a day maybe. My experience has been that if you get a few hundred hits a day you might earn a couple of dollars a day. No doubt this varies greatly. Advertisers can bid to pay anything from 1 cent each time someone clicks on an Ad on your page.

So, I'd speculate that if your site is found with unpopular or uncommercial search words you're going to be in a-few-cents-per-click territory but if your site is popular and found with very commercial keywords my guess is you'd surely get a lot more per click. For example, if Boeing sold planes on the web and your site ranked top for searches on "I want to buy a plane" Boeing might be prepared to pay you quite a lot each time someone clicked through to them from your page.

Google Adsense For Content Channels

I've finally figured out Google Adsense Channels.

I have half a dozen web sites but don't have Google Ads on every page of every site. Hitherto my Google Adsense Reports have shown totals across all pages/sites. Great, but it gives you no idea which pages get the click throughs or if the cents-per-click varies by page.

Channels provides the answer. You can define each page as a channel and thus get reports by page: number of visits per day, the number of click-throughs, the percentage of visitors who click through, and cents per click. All per page.

Channels also lets you track individual ads blocks. For example I could make each ad block on this page a channel and thus see not just how many clicks this page gets but how many clicks each Google Ad unit on the page gets.

If you're a novice it'll take about an hour to sign up and and get ads working on your website.

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