My Weekly Adsense Report - Learning, Experimenting & the RESULTS Week 2 -- 2009/05/17

Please Note: This report is being listed under Writing Tips & Tools. It, in no way, is aimed at producing results more on one site than another.

This article is about Adsense Mechanics - Unlocking the secrets to gaining treasure from Adsense, MONEY!

My report is a couple of days late, but, here it is!

START WEEK 2

So, you're probably wondering how did Experiment #1 work out?

Recap:

The theory behind the experiment was to see if an article, once it has been tweeked with keywords, gained more revenue. It has been suggested each keyword appear three times in an article, I selected three of my many posted articles located on this website. I did not put them in three times each. I put them in once on one, twice on one, and three times on one.

Results:

And to keep the experiment in some sort of control I used only one keyword for each. Those three articles have generated revenue up to 80% of the time, meaning within this past eight days.. It wasn't anything to write home about, and all were under $1.00 each day, but, they did generate, opposed to stacks of others that did not.

These three articles are my only articles which have been tweeked using keywords.

I'm still left wondering if it was my content, or the keyword, or both that produced the money? For the time being I'm going to accept it to be the keyword. This will allow me to setup Experiment #2.

For Experiment #2 I'm going to use the same three articles, but, this time maximize them on keywords, but, inserting each keyword only three times. And, if I can't use the keyword/phrase three times I will not use it at all. This will keep Experiment #2 in a controlled format.

My impression of the Google Adsense Keyword Tool is a mixed bag. It's a good tool for getting ideas, but, I am beginning to wonder if our minds are not a better tool? I know this sounds pretty weird, but, here's what I've been doing this past week.

Obviously, we would have to train ourselves to recognize keywords that are of our own creation. I've been trying to get a grasp on this theory. Here's what I did to try and get a grip on this.

Using the Google search engine I typed whatever came to mind into it. When it returned results for my search I looked through the results posted on the first page of all the results generated.

Some of those generated pages (on the first page of “results”), such as Wikipedia, have the keywords listed at the bottom. I have been looking at the keywords used for a particular page that caused it to be selected by the search engine and, thus, being the reason it ended up in page 1 of the results.

To give an example I picked out of the blue an old TV actor, “Andy Devine.”

The first hit for Andy Devine was:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Devine (1)

At the bottom of the Wikipedia page are its keywords. Now, right in front of me are the article and the keywords.

By looking at the keywords, and seeing how they are inserted into the article I can begin to see the “model layout,” and get a feel for good use and placement of the keywords, which, to me, are actually TAGS, metatags, and/or metadata.

TAGS:

Everything you ever wanted to know about TAGS (1):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_(metadata)

Wikipedia defines TAG as:
“A tag is a non-hierarchical keyword or term assigned to a piece of information (such as aninternet bookmark, digital image, or computer file). This kind of metadata helps describe an item and allows it to be found again by browsing or searching. Tags are chosen informally and personally by the item's creator or by its viewer, depending on the system. On a website in which many users tag many items, this collection of tags becomes a folksonomy.”

Google BAD Words: (produce Public Service Ads (PSAs) = $0)

Here's an article which gives information about No-No words, and provides a link to an unofficial list, but, still worth keeping:
Google Stop Words--How to Avoid Those Pesky PSA's
http://www.xomba.com/google_stop_words_what_not_to_say_when_you_write

After reading the above article, and believing I understood what I read, and looked at the linked-bad-word-list, I immediately went and did a repost as a 2nd edition. The 2nd edition had all the “bad words” removed and replaced with more Google-PG-13 words.

I wanted to have both my first edition and my second edition posted at the same time so I could compare. Well, there was nothing to compare. The reworded second edition still displayed PSAs. So, I deleted the second edition. Changing the words proved fruitless.

Now, this really puzzled me! Then, I remembered my first edition had also been published on Hub Pages. I ventured over to Hub Pages just to see if I was getting the PSA over there. AND, guess what? No PSAs!!

I wish I could give everyone an answer, but, I can't. Hopefully one of our Adsense PHD's can explain why here I get PSAs, and not over on Hub?

Go look for yourself! (I shortened the URLs to avoid the bad word, so, as, to not jeopardize this article's posting.)

Xomba:
http://adf.ly/4BZ

Hub Pages:
http://adf.ly/4BT
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UPDATE (18 May 2009)
Talking this morning with our Xomba Moderator He expressed a point which should be taken into serious consideration and that was:

"Tags should be used to highlight precise key words or phrases and not just a laundry list of things found in the post..."

It is worth your time to go and read our entire exchange of conversation -- He makes very clear solid points.

HERE IS THE LINK TO OUR ENTIRE CONVERSATION:
http://www.xomba.com/‘anvil’_chorus

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Next week's posting will give some more stats on those three articles of mine I selected for keyword tweeking. Should you have a particular question that is driving you crazy maybe you could post it here and we might find the answer. Even if no one offers an answer I will do my best to research and present what I find.

Adsense is proving to be one hard item, a lot like finding the Holy Grail. If we could just achieve getting the hood open, we could start looking at some real mechanics.

So, where is the latch for the hood?

Thanks for reading, even though I think I may have confused you more than giving any help.

Other Weekly Reports:
WEEK 1:
http://adf.ly/4C4

WEEK 3:
http://xomba.com/my_adsense_report_unlocking_secrets_adsense_week_3

WEEK 4:
http://xomba.com/my_adsense_report_unlocking_secrets_adsense_week_4

WEEK 5:
http://xomba.com/my_adsense_report_unlocking_secrets_adsense_week_5

WEEK 6:
http://xomba.com/my_adsense_report_unlocking_secrets_adsense_week_6

(1) Some information used in this article came from:
Wikipedia
http://www.wikipedia.com

Here is some additional reading I found some good points in:

Is Xomba Really Worth It? My Strategies
http://www.xomba.com/xomba_really_worth_my_strategies

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This article was written by Joseph E. Howard and
is Copyright © 2009 Pink Taxi Communications - XCM Inc.

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