Affiliate Marketing

Increase Adsense CTR - No Longer a Guessing Game

** THIS IS NOT A PAID POST **

If you are a webmaster and use Google Adsense, you know how important your ad positioning is. The problem that most people get stuck up on is their ad positioning. They don’t know where to place them, so they just guess, and their Adsense earnings suffer.

Fortunately, there is a service that has been out there for awhile now that will help you with this. It’s called CrazyEgg. Despite the silly name, this service can really help you decide where to position your ads. In result, your Google Adsense account balance will skyrocket!

What this service does is absolutely incredible. It will show you a heatmap, as you see in the picture in this post. With that, it will show where people clicked, which can easily let you see what portions of your site are important, and once you know that, you stick your Google ads right there and watch the money roll in.

There are five different “plans” you can choose from on CrazyEgg. The first is a free plan, which is what I use, and then the other four plans are paid plans that go from $9 per month, all the way to $99 per month. Depending on how many different niche sites you run and how many visitors you receive should be taken into consideration when buying a plan.

The CrazyEgg service is great because you can place it on any type of site. Whether it’s a blog or landing page, it works great for any type of site. Not only will it show you a heatmap, it also shows a list of what was clicked by different traffic sources. If you ever wanted to know what type of traffic clicks on ads, CrazyEgg can will show you this through their Confetti chart.

Overall, CrazyEgg is a great service, and if you want to boost your Adsense revenue or just generate more sales, then CrazyEgg is definitely something you would want to look into.

Do What You Do Best, Outsource the Rest

Tom Peters, the owner of a popular consultant company, once said “Do what you do best, Outsource the rest“. That quote is so powerful and very true. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen people fail at affiliate marketing or making money online because they can’t do a certain task.

For example, they could be an amazing copywriter, but when it comes down to landing page designs and layouts, they spend days and days on it, or just get fed up and quit. No, no, no! You have to outsource the work you can’t/don’t/aren’t good at.

There are many sites out there that offer you to post jobs that you would like to outsource free. A very popular site that allows you to post your work you’d like to outsource is oDesk. Another popular site is GetaFreelancer.com. Those should get the job done in finding an efficient freelancer. If not, Google is your friend ;].

But isn’t this going to cost me a lot of money? 

It depends on what you’re outsourcing. Obviously, a landing page design or layout is going to cost more than a few banners. But the point of outsourcing is so you can continue to do what you do best. So while your freelancer you hired is doing the landing page design (for example), you are already sitting there copywriting for the content on the site.

It’s a win-win situation.