No one clicking your adsense ads?

This is one of the biggest problems stated by those setting up a new wordpress blog or setting up niche websites.

Personaly when I’m searching for something in particular and find a useful page I am 100% more apt to click on their adsense ad. If their page isn’t helpful and is just full of the same old “free” articles available everywhere, I won’t click anything except the BACK button!

I know you’ve heard it before, but unique content is the BEST way to provide good useful content to your visitors. Do not use PLR articles or articles from the hundreds of free article websites that have the same articles as everyone else. It is duplicate content in it’s extreme form! I know, I own an article website and the same articles are posted to hundreds of similar websites. Seldom is anything unique unless I write it myself. Articles DO have their use, but that is to get yourself traffic from your own good Unique articles on key article websites.

Another reason could be, because your choice of ‘keywords’ used in your content doesn’t match the main topic of your page. Adsense uses keywords to know what ads to place on your website, if you’re posting randomly about several topics, adsense has a hard time figurng out what your blog / website is about. If you are using wordpress (or other blogging software) and you post about multiple unrealted topics, make sure you create categories to place your posts into. Another thing you can do in wordpress is to set the maximum amount of posts to show on the front page of your blog. To do this in wordpress: Login then go to ‘Options’ then click on ‘Reading’. The default is set to 10, try setting it at 7 or 5 and this may help some.

You might also try scheduling your posts so you’re posting similar topics on a few days in a row and then post your other topics on the other days. This will better group similar posts for at least a few days.

This one seems obvious, but make sure there are adsense ads available for the topic you’re writing about. Do a search for it and look at other websites or blogs, are they using adsense and is it on topic?

Maybe your niche / topic is too broad and you need to focus on a smaller niche. You could always create another blog for the other topics you write about. Breaking your blog into two seperate ones will focus each blog better on a topic.

There are several other reasons your visitors may not be clicking your ads, but I’ll touch on those in later posts.