Well My Adsense Payment For May 2007 Finally Came And.....

I went on a mini shopping spree! (I didn't spend all of it however). But here I am back now.

Since this isn't the end of June I still have a few more days to go before the month tally for June is complete.

A lot of you that are new to Adsense will probably do this kind of thing too - especially if you're anxious to get to that $100 mark that assures your Adsense payment. You will keep checking back to see how well you have done and how much further you have to go.

One thing I will say that this month my daily earning average has gone up a little and I suspect that the longer my pages have been up the more earnings I will get though it doesn't always work out that way. There is no sure fire way to predict how how your earnings will be affected. Your earnings may go up or down with no way of you possibly knowing how it happened. Even though there seem to be a lot of so-called Adsense experts out there no one can predict the future. So one of the best things that you can do is to remain true to your blog or website and provide very good content.

The Agony Is Almost Over!

I was never so happy to see such a line in my life!

After all the agony that I have felt and have poured out here in this blog I finally get to see the Adsense "Payment In Progress" line!

Now the only thing that I have to do is wait for the payment to show up on my account! Knowing what I do about these kinds of transactions I'm keeping my fingers crossed!

It can be a terrible thing waiting for your Adsense payment! In the last few days I have been surfing all around the Internet trying to find out if there was any news about the payment for May 2007's earnings. While I found no official reason from Google or Adsense, I did find some interesting information from other Adsense publishers - mainly the one coming from someone who mentioned some specifics about how Adsense processes and posts payments. And in this case he was entirely right!

I remember a while back that I posted in this blog about how I thought that I had seen that May 2007's payments were going to be finalized by June 10th? Well if you take a good look at the picture above a similar line has been posted for June 2007's earnings. If I was right in my assumption that May 2007's earnings were finalized by June 10th then wouldn't the payments be processed sooner and we would have gotten paid sooner?

So Now It's The 25th Of The Month!

and still no Adsense Payment! We're just getting off of the weekend and I thought for sure that I would at least see the "payment in progress" line on my account but it is not there!

It is just agony waiting for that adsense payment!



Here is a quote from Adsense:

Why am I paid on a different date each month?

Your Payment History page may show different dates each month for payments. All earnings are reviewed and audited before being processed, to ensure that publishers are paid correctly for their participation in the AdSense program. We process all qualified payments as quickly as possible within approximately 30 days of the end of the month. However, as the audit process may take longer for certain payment cycles, we cannot guarantee a set date each month on which your payments will be processed and sent.

Here is another related comment:

Usually about 7:00 pm eastern time (4:00 Pacific, just after the banks close) on Tuesday of the last week of the month.

"Payment In Progress"

"Payment In Progress" is the line that you are supposed to see in your Adsense account's "Payment History". As I have mentioned in other posts the payment date is usually around the 25th of the month.

Of course I am anxiously awaiting my payment and for some reason it seems that it is taking longer this month! Remember when I said that the payment usually comes around the 25th? Well of course I was hoping that it would be earlier because there have been times when I have gotten my Adsense payment before the 25th of the month. It is now the 23rd and it's also a Saturday. Tomorrow the 24th will be a Sunday and just in case you are curious I have never seen a "Payment In Progress" line on a weekend! So I guess that means that I will have to wait until Monday which is actually the 25th.

It is agony waiting for that Adsense payment!

I Have A New Client!

Yipeeeeeeeeee for me 'cause I have a new client!

This client is new in every sense of the word! First a blog has been created and set up for them. Since I just created this blog today I won't post the address until a few more entries are added. Before you can use Adsense you have to have a website or blog set up first and this is what is being done.

These first few entries will have content added to it to help optimize the earning potential of the Adsense ads. Now that Adsense is tightening their rules about who can and can't join the appropriate steps have to be taken to make sure that this blog will be accepted by adsense.

So besides adding some entries to this blog I have also added a counter to help track traffic. In the next few days I am going to add a stats tracker so that the traffic can be monitored and analyzed.

If you would like to become a client of mine just visit my Adsense Consultant page for more information.

Adsense Success Stories

Want some more motivation and inspiration? Check out the link above to read about some of the Adsense Success stories! People like you and me who took a single interest and turned it into a money making success story.

Don't feel bad if you are only making pennies per day using Adsense. Hopefully it will help you to know that lots of people have made even less when they started using Adsense. I even read somewhere where someone said that you shouldn't count on making anything for the first 5 or 6 months of using Adsense.

Now if you have been using Adsense over a year and haven't made anything yet then its time to consider finding out why your Adsense ads aren't getting clicked. Ask people to look at your site and give honest critique of your site. Find out what others love or hate about your site. If need be hire a professional adsense consultant (like me) who can analyze your site to see how it can be better optimized for your adsense ads.

Today is the 20th of the month

Normally you have until the 15th of each month to let Adsense know of any changes that you want to make to your account. If you wait until after the 15th of the month then your changes won't take effect until the next month.

I did a little checking with my payment information and I noticed that it (on the average) takes 9 days from the 15th of the month before you will see that "Payment in Progress" line on your payment information.

I have also noticed that as the months go by my payment date moves up a day or so. I'm wondering if this has to do with the number of adsense publishers and whether or not as those numbers decrease that the rest of us get "bumped" up in the payment date?

So here it is the 20th and according to my calculations I still have 4 more days before I see that "Payment in Progress" line

Clicking Your Own Ads? Accidents Do Happen

Adsense made a very interesting and useful comment in their blog. The title of the post is Accidents Happen.

Adsense says that they can understand the occassion "accident" when someone clicks on their own ad. Some of the publishers even notify Adsense when they accidently click on their own ads. If you have done this Adsense wants you to know that you contacting them is very much appreciated and they can understand the occassional accidental click. These accidental clicks will not be counted towards your earnings. However anything more than the occassional click will definitely rouse Adsense's suspicions!

So you want to keep your accidental clicks down to a minimum!

Don't Try To Trick The Adsense People!

Adsense has rules as to how many adsense ads you can have per page. You can have 3 text link ad blocks, 3 links blocks and 2 refferals.

If you try to put more than this on your page you will only get the number of ad blocks allowed per page. I don't know what kind of software or coding Adsense uses but it is very astute and it will know if you place more ads than is allowed per page.

One very good example that has been brought up a lot is the fact that a lot of people would like to put their Adsense ads between the posts in their blog. Well since you are allowed only so many Adsense ad blocks no matter how many times you put the coding in you will still only get those number of ad blocks that are allowed.

I know that its very tempting once you start to get a taste of that Adsense money coming in to do things to increase your revenue but you don't want to run the risk of being banned from Adsense and being banned from using the Adsense program!

You Have Until The 15th of Each Month.....

You have until the 15th of each month (generally speaking) to let Adsense know of any changes that you want to make on your Google Adsense account. This includes changing the way you get paid and/or any address changes that have to be made. If you don't notify them of these changes before the 15th of each month (generally speaking) then it could take another 30 days before you receive your payment for the past month.

Now I say "generally speaking" because on Adsense's payment information page are some diagrams showing how and when the payments are processed. Your month's total earnings are processed the first week of the next month. Once they are tabulated then your account is checked to see if there are any "holds" on your Adsense account. If not then your account is cleared for the payment process to begin. Usually speaking the payment arrives somewhere around the 24th of the month. Now since this month the 24th falls on a Sunday that means the payment could be earlier (which is what I'm hoping)

or your payment could be later (which is what I'm not hoping)

Adsense Playing Tricks With My Mind?

Actually I think its my fault! I could have sworn that somewhere online I saw that Adsense was announcing that they would have all the totals calculated by June 10th, But now I can't remember where I saw that or if I really in fact did see it or was it just my mind playing tricks with me?

You see if Adsense finished their calculations for everybody by the 10th of this month then that means (hopefully) that we all would get paid like a week earlier than usual. (Usual Adsense payment date is around the 24th of the next month).

But since I haven't seen this information anywhere for a second time, I think I just made it up in my mind but what can you expect from someone who is anxious and ready for that Adsense money!

How Do I Increase My Website Traffic?

The best way to increase traffic to your website or blog is to let as many people know about your website or blog as possible - that is a good and very basic way to increase traffic to your site.

However to get increased CLICKS on your site you should let as many relevent people know about your site! - What does that mean? It means that you should define the target market of your site. For instance the target market of my blog is those that are new to Adsense and those that want to know more about Adsense. As you can see from my counter below I have managed to get a good number of visitors so far. And so far I have done this without spending any "marketing" money.

You have to realize that there are a lot of free marketing things you can do to increase the number of visitors to your site.

So to increase the number of visitors (and the number of clicks) to your site define your target market first and then go after them!

When Adsense Pays...

I know those that are new to Adsense want to know when they get paid. Here is the answer. Adsense gathers up all the data containing the information about all the "clicks" that your account has received. Since they do this monthly don't expect a check or bank transfer on the first of the next month! For example today is June 9th which means that the month of May's total clicks are over. I reached the minimum balance last month so I will be receiving a payment for the month of May but I won't be expecting that payment until somewhere around the 24th of this month!

Why does it take so long? Well to be quite honest I wondered that very same thing at the beginning only because I was sooooooo anxious to get that adsense payment. I'm assuming that it takes that amount of time because for one thing there are so many people (and businesses) using Adsense so that means that they have a lot of accounts to calculate and for all of the accounts that Adsense does have I'm impressed with the fact that they can make payments within 30 days (sometimes less).

So you will have to be patient in order to get that Adsense payment?

Adding The Adsense Codes(s)

To be quite honest I add the adsense codes manually by using the "Notepad" program. I have been creating and editing websites for so long that I don't need a big program to do minor editing.

In the case of my blogs it has to do with how my layout is set up. If I have the older template version of my blog then I can just go in and add the codes manually. But if I have Blogger's new template version then that gets a little bit more complicated. But to make a long story short I am still able to add the codes after I go through a few steps.

While others may feel comfortable with letting Blogger add the adsense codes, I'd rather do it myself manually.

Remain True To Your Blog!

I know that once you get a taste of that Adsense money coming in you may try to find a way to "speed it up". Thus the onslaught of blogs that don't have too much content but what they do have is minimum content and sometimes these sites look like they just have lines of text containing words that they think will bring in the bigger paying keyword phrases. So you get a lot of blogs (and websites) with a lot of gargled content on them.

I hope you resist the urge to do this. Some of the more successful Adsense publishers managed to earned a good deal of income while remaining true to the contents of their site(s) and you could do the same thing too! The most important part of this - I think - is having a theme to your blog. No matter how insignificant you think your subject matter might be there are probably a good number of Adsense advertisers that will appear on your site.

Remain true to your blog. If you add your content the right way you will increase both your traffic and your click through rates. There are a number of profession content providers out there and I am one of them. We provide content to your blog or site that will help increase your Adsense revenue by providing relevent content to your site. Say for instance you have a post that you are ready to add to your blog but you want to optimize it for better Adsense revenue - you can submit your posts to one of us professional content providers and your content will be re-worked to provide better optimization and still keep with the purpose of remaining true to your blog.

So many people have posted saying that the ads that show on their sites aren't relevent to the content of their sites and all that they have to do is re-word that content so that the ads that do show will be relevent to their site. It may seem hard at first but once you get the hang of it it will prove to be quite fun!

Adsense Cheaters..................

Of course it shouldn't be surprising that there are adsense "cheaters" around. Groups have been formed wherein members click on each other's adsense ads to generate more clicks thus creating more earnings.

Although I'm beginning to find more and more of these groups I can't condone participating in such groups. All Google's Adsense has to do is be notified of these groups, note the members (and this wouldn't be hard because the member list can be easily seen by almost everybody) and take the necessary action.

It's such a shame that there is a legitimate to make money using your blog or website and then something like this comes along and may possibly ruin it for those of us that adhere to the rules of Adsense.

Click Through Rate

I'm striving for at least a 10% click through rate with my adsense ads. Sometimes I have gotten as high as 50% but 10% is what I want to at least average and I think that 10% is a good starting goal for those that are new to adsense.

That means for every 100 visitors to my pages at least 10 of them will click one of the ads.

I have got some surprising results such as one visitor clicking on more than 1 ad and then my stats showing that my click-through rate was more than 100%!

One thing that you're going to find out when you're looking at your adsense statistics is that you're likely to get different kinds of stats. For instance the Memorial Day weekend proved a little bit disappointing as far as my Adsense clicks went but there is no truth to the rumor that you won't get any visitors during a holiday weekend! On one of my pages I have this widget that says how many people are online and the number is something like 2 BILLION! That's a lot of people on the internet! And that is a lot of potential visitors to your website or blog!

Other Affiliate Programs?

There are some sites that Google's Adsense Program will not approve. These kinds of sites include sex-related and gambling sites. However there are other affiliate programs out there that are specifically geared towards sex-related websites. I'm currently finding out about one in particular but I don't want to post about them until I do know more about them.

Niche?

It is to your advantage that your website or blog have some kind of theme going. It can be anything from about where you live to about your pets. For instance my first blog is about interesting things that I have found on the Internet. This blog that you are reading now has one theme in mind and that is Adsense.

So give your site a theme. It's a better way to make the most out of the Adsense Program.