In this article, I’m going to show you how to immediately increase your Google AdSense earnings with a few simple, basic changes that has worked for me personally on an entertainment news website that I run. It gets about 600,000 to 700,000 pageviews a month. I’ve included this data, so you can get a good idea of exactly what I’m working with here in terms of traffic. Ok, now here’s how you increase earnings with Google AdSense. First and foremost, you have got to put the AdSense ads where you know people will see them. I know it sounds pretty basic, but I’ve seen a lot of webmasters screw this up.

Because you only get paid when people click the ads, it’s essential that the units are placed in the right spot,and you need to know whether they should be image or unit ads in that particular spot. For example, I use a combination of image and text ads, but in two completely different areas on my entertainment news site. I display a 160×600 image AdSense unit on the top left and right-hand sides of my content area. This completely works better than placing the text ad units there because my readers tend to be more visual when glancing in that area. The image ads also tend to have a higher cost per click than the text ad units. But now here’s the magical formula that sent my earnings over the top. I decided to place a 300×250 text AdSense unit just below the content, so they basically show up underneath all my articles. This one simple change sent my earnings from $600 a month to $1500 on my entertainment news site.

What happened is, when people read my articles, they tend to read whatever is underneath them,and click like crazy because Google is really great at matching ads that are similar to the content I write about,and most importantly, the ads are directly in a place where my readers will see them. So, the magical Google AdSense formula is placing the right type of ad units in the right spot,which can be done through simple testing. And I can almost always guarantee that text AdSense units should be placed directly under all of your articles for maximum clicks and earnings. Also, depending on your particular niche, you might wanna test placing image or text AdSense units on the left and right-hand sides of your content. And whatever you do, always make sure those AdSense units are going to be in a place where your readers will see them. If you do just that one simple thing,you’ll always have,at the very least, some descent earnings if you get enough traffic. If you don’t get that much traffic, it will be hard to earn a lot with Google AdSense,but at least with these techniques, you can up your “click through” ratio with whatever traffic you do get.

Chitika ads actually rescued me a couple of months ago when I got layed off from my job. I knew about Chitika before,but for some reason, I would never use them. Well, I got desperate at the time,and decided to give them a try.

Much to my amazement, I actually started making more with them alone, than at my measly little job, I got laid off from. That’s when I became self employed. They’re awesome.

The ad units I use are the Chitika “Linx” ads which are inline ppc ads which double underline certain words in your content,and when people scroll over it, it brings up an ad. If they click on it,you make money. What’s so unique about them, is that they pay way more than any other inline ppc ad networks I’ve ever worked with before.

They pay between 0.12 – 0.32 per click,and that ads up if you get a lot of traffic. I used them on my entertainment news site, ontheflix.com,and made like $300 in one day from them alone. It fluctuates from day to day as the traffic does. But there is no doubt that they are the best.

As far as the auditing that they do goes,I’ve always earned the full amount that they show on the screen. I’ve heard that they used to audit payments,and the earnings would be lower,but not for me. They also pay me at the end of every month through paypal. So as far as I’m concerned Chitika rocks.

Chitika pays more than Infolinks, and definitely Kontera. They’re about even with Vibrant Media,but since Vibrant Media’s ads don’t show up enough, I actually earn way less with them,so I had to remove them.

I currently run Chitika in tandom with Infolinks.It’s a good combo. Infolinks and Kontera currently only pay like .04-.07 per click for entertainment news content. They may pay more in other niches. I can only tell you the experience I’ve had.

I also run Chitika’s 334×100 premium unit under my single page articles on my entertainment news site. It complements the Chitika Linx nicely. I’ve gotten around 0.18 cents per click on those, before. They generally earn less than the intext Linx ads,but they compliment them so it’s ok.

For me,it’s all about getting as many ad networks to complement each other, to earn a big pay check at the end of the month. To date, I’ve currently made about $3,000 with Chitika in a 3 month period.That money coupled with money I make from other ad networks, allows me to blog full time.

The site I run them on currently gets between 10,000 – 15,000 uniques per day,and between 16,000 – 20,000 pageviews per day. I plan to run them on this site in the future,once I get more content on it.

I’ve been using Adsdaq ads now since about January of 2009 on one of my other sites. Not this one at the moment,since I just started it. I will be adding them to this one in the not to distant future, once I get more content on this site.

Now, the way Adsdaq works, is they allow you to set your own cpm rate on the ad units that you display on your site. They have the 120×600,160×600,728×90 (leaderboard),and the 300×250 box display units.

I currently run all of them except for the 120×600 unit on my entertainment news site,ontheflix.com. The 120×600 doesn’t seem to have a lot of ad inventory so I stopped running it.It would also have a low fill rate,like around 14%. The 0.70 cpm seems to be the magic number for me. I get about a 60% fill rate at that price.

I haven’t tested the 0.80 cpm range yet,but I could guess and say that it would fill around 40% to 45% at that price. The good thing about Adsdaq is they let you add backup tags to your units so any impressions that adsdaq can’t fill,gets filled by your other ad network that you’ve chosen to use as a backup.

The site I run them on gets between 10,000-15,000 uniques a day,and about 16,000-20,000 pageviews a day. I currently make around $500 a month using about four Adsdaq units on that site. They also pay on time by direct deposit right into my bank account so that’s really nice.

They let you choose to be payed by Paypal or check as well. They have multiple payment options,but yeah Adsdaq is the real deal,and probably the best cpm ad network I’ve worked with to date,and I’ve worked with quite a few.

What sets Adsdaq apart from the other cpm networks, is they let you choose your own cpm rate. I’ve ran one of their units at $5.00 cpm once. It only filled about 300 or so impressions,but I still made around $2.00 since it was such a high cpm.

I would say,though, if you get a lot of traffic or any decent amount of traffic like 5,000 or so uniques a day, that 0.60 to 0.80 cpm will add up to a nice chunk of change at the end of the month for you,since the fill rate will be high.