I know a lot of you guys use Adsense as your main form of income. Adsense is used by a lot of website owners as their primary or alternative forms of income.
Adsense is a service owned by Google that allows webmasters to get paid each time a visitor clicks on one of their partnered ad links. A lot of micro niche keywords will pay out between $0.25 and $1.50 per click in my experience, but do not be fooled! Not all advertising links are created equal! By this I mean some advertisers will pay you $0.08 for a click while others will pay $0.75 for the same exact competing advertiser keyword.
How do We Ensure We Have the Highest Chance of Increasing Our Adsense CPC?
There are two primary things that come into my mind. First of all, you want to set up your Adsense “Competitive Ad Filter“. The Competitive Ad Filter allows you to not allow certain advertisers to display their ads on your website. We want to do this because certain advertisers are notorious for paying low for certain keywords. We want the highest payment per click so let’s completely block these low-balling cheapskates!
What you are going to want to do in (the old) Google Adsense is go into the “Adsense Setup” tab. From there, you will see the “Competitive Ad Filter” option along the blue header bar. Click on that and in the text field, copy + paste this list and click the save button.
10-bestsites.com
10-top-sites.com
101soho.com
12-bestsites.com
12-topsites.com
1click.com
1s.md
1st-home-business.net
25-bestsites.com
25-topsites.com
5-top-sites.com
7-bestsites.com
7-topsites.com
8-bestsites.com
8-topsites.com
8-topwebsites.com
8bestsites.com
8topsites.com
9topsites.com
aavalue.com
advancedwebsearch.info
all-free-info.com
allcoolmusic.com
allinformationabout.com
allpspgames.com
alltheautomotive.com
alltheindustrials.com
amazon.co.uk
amazon.com
aprido.com
arcaderockstar.com
articlescafe.com
ask.com
atdmt.com
best-price.com
best3websites.com
best4sites.net
best4solutions.com
best7sites.com
best8sites.org
bestcomputingsites.com
besthomegardensites.com
bestwebdiscounts.com
bestwebpix.com
bestwebpix.net
big.com
blinkbits.com
blogstream.com
buymp3music.info
chosenresult.com
clobo.com
computer-offer.com
consumerincentivepromotions.com
consumersearch.com
coolringtones.com
coolstartpages.com
cv2006.biz
dbmoz.biz
dbmoz.com
dbmoz.net
dealtime.co.uk
dexigner.com
digg4it.com
dirkw.com
discussit.biz
download-it-free.com
downloadrings.com
downtown-internet.com
drift-kings.com
e-isn.com
e-nternet.com
eanimationschools.com
ebay.co.uk
ebay.com
ebay.com.au
emotivationalvideos.com
ephotoalbum.net
everyclick.com
everyrule.com
ewoss.info
ewossnewsbar.com
ewossuk.com
expert-expert.com
extreme-rides.com
ez-tracks.com
ez4search.com
factguide.org
fastcoolrides.com
faster-results.com
feedzilla.com
finditonline.ws
finest4.com
flashingblinkielights.com
free-lyrics-online.com
free-pictures-photos.com
freedigg.com
freelanceworkexchange.com
getacoder.com
getinfoon.info
getmusicfree-jump.com
getmusicfree.com
getworldpassport.com
giantexplorer.com
gr8info.net
greatinfo.biz
growinglifestyle.com
gubaara.com
guideya.com
haohao99.com
hot4sites.com
idesktopwallpaper.net
imusicsearch.com
incentiveleader.com
incentiverewardcenter.com
indeed.com
info-on.biz
info.com
infoforyourhealth.com
infoscouts.com
infosearch4u.com
inhunt.com
internet-downloads.net
ivue.com
knowledgestorm.com
ldsplanet.com
links-4-you.com
linxbest.com
local.com
logo-lites.com
mediataskmaster.com
megasearch.biz
monstermarketplace.com
morpheusultra.com
movieadvanced.com
movies-all-free.com
mozsite.com
mp3musiq.com
mpfree.com
mqsearch.co.uk
myipodownloads.com
mylot.com
mylot.info
mylot.us
myluxuryyachtcharter.com
mymusicinc.com
mywebgold.com
oceleb.com
oninformation.com
ontheweb-offer.com
pictures88.com
picturetoplist.com
pimpingyourspace.com
pimpmyride.com
popularq.com
professionaladvices.com
purebusiness.com
puredirectory.com
qckjmp.com
ratedsolutions.com
rebrandsoftware.com
reviewsbykrystal.com
ringringmobile.com
ringtonemusic.info
ru2006.com
rw2006.com
searchemu.com
searchignite.com
searchinaflash.com
searchtorpedo.com
seniorpeoplemeet.com
shopica.com
shopping.com
simpli.com
smmsite.com
starware.com
successuniversity.com
sureresult.com
thinktarget.com
tntdownloads.com
tools4myspace.com
top-10sites.com
top-3-sites.com
top4search.net
top8sites.com
topbestsites.org
toptensites.org
toseeka.com
toy-offer.com
truelocal.com
usefulfaqs.com
usnom.com
vertippdich.de
webfinder360.com
webzsearch.com
wisegeek.com
world-click.com
worldslastchance.com
This list will block out a lot of known low paying advertisers. Feel free to add or remove websites off the list as advertisers constantly change their marketing budget, but this list is great to start out with.
Making Sure Your Ads Have Relevancy
One other quick tip you can use for increasing your CTR is something you should be doing when doing keyword research. Go to SpyFu and type in your keyword. You will notice how many advertisers there are for that specific keyword. Obviously, when the more advertisers compete, the better it is for you. You not only get more money for the advertisers to appear on your site, but you also get assured that you will have multiple relevant ads displayed on your site. I like to make sure there are 6+ advertisers though a little less is OK and a little more is great!
I would like to hear if you know of any other ways for getting your conversion rate and CPC up. Post your ideas in the comments section below!
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ahh yes, I picked this up somewhere before. Was it from you? Its a great tip none the less!
I think I might have mentioned it before. A couple people have lists on the internet so the cool thing is you can keep adding constantly!
this tip sound interesting, actually i am facing this problem….will try this and get back to you thank you.
no problem! good luck!
thanks for the quick and easy tip. I didn’t know about this tool. great post.
Thanks for the complement Fede! Hopefully this tip boosts your earnings as much as it did mine!
Thanks for the cheapskates list. I had not seen that before.
My tip is to use the Adsense section targeting HTML tags to hi-light the most relevant sections of your content so that Google serves ads based on that content only. I have a site that is about learning Spanish and I don’t want Google to pay attention to the Spanish example text, as all of my readers should be English speakers.
that is a pretty cool tip! thanks for sharing!
it is really cool how a few minor changes can really change the way ads are presented to the customer resulting in much higher conversions. doesn’t take much to compound profits
Cool. Thanks for this list man.
No problem! Hope it helps!
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