If you’re an Adsense publisher, I’m sure you do get some traffic from search engines such as Google, Bing and Yahoo. Image by michperu.

Do you know traffic from of these search engines give Adsense publishers the most revenue?

Is it traffic from Google, Bing or Yahoo?

If you integrate Adsense with Google Analytics, then there is actually a way for you to find out.

The following are the steps:

1. Firstly you’ll need to log into your Google Analytics account.

2. From the left menu, click on Traffic Sources > Search Engines

3. Click on Adsense Revenue tab.

4. The default view shows you a list sorted by revenue amount.

What’s more important to find out is the eCPM that each of these search engines brings in.

So to do that, simply sort Adsense eCPM by clicking on the header Adsense eCPM.

Once I did that, I got the following results. Continue Reading » Which traffic is better for Adsense publishers? Google or Bing?

A few days back I got quite a shock to see that traffic to one of my sites dropped by more than 20%. Image by nailbender.

Usually traffic on Thursdays and Fridays are the best days but not on 1st April 2010.

This downtrend worries me because when traffic goes down, so too is our earnings / income.

I started to panic and got worried that maybe Google has decided to stop sending traffic to my site, or maybe I’ve done something wrong and got a penalty.

At times like this, it’s really important to look at information that we have from different perspectives.

First thing to look at is stats from Google Analytics and under Intelligence, this is what I saw.

Notice how on April 1, 2010, the traffic dropped to near weekend stats, something very unusual. Continue Reading » Web site traffic drop by more than 20 percent since 1 April 2010

For Adsense publishers out there, today’s question to you is:

Do you allow placement targeting on your Adsense Channels?

It has been mentioned that by allowing our custom channels to be targeted by advertisers, there is a potential for us as Adsense publishers to earn higher revenues.

Because of this, a few months back I gave this a try by allowing all my custom channels to be targetable.

Once all channels are targetable, I realize one thing. Ads from a particular advertiser almost always appear on each blog post. Continue Reading » Do you allow placement targeting on your Adsense Channels?

Do you blog using WordPress?

If yes, then you should try to install this really neat plugin called After the Deadline

After the Deadline helps us check our spelling, style and grammar, thus helping us to write better. With the plugin, we also spend less time editing and re-reading our writing, giving us more time to spend for other work.

Getting the plugin to work is really simple. After you download and install the plugin, you will need to get yourself a free API key from AfterTheDeadline.com website which you would then insert in the settings page.

Once done, you should now see a new icon on your editor when you’re authoring a new post. Continue Reading » How to enable spell check and grammar check in WordPress