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So how can we make more money from Adsense? Once you’ve made the decision to place ads on your blog, you want to make sure you’re getting the best returns possible on your time and money investment.

Spending the past 12 months developing my blog, I’ve learned a lot when it comes to how to optimize Adsense placements, and I wanted to share some of the best tips I’ve learned.

Easy Adsense Placement Techniques

Place Your Ads Inline

As you can see from our sister-site FinancialPlanr, if you want to have users click on your ads, you need to make sure they’re seeing them. If you’re not sure where your users are clicking, and where their mouse activity is, you can use a piece of free software called ClickHeat. As you can see, all of my activity is in the main left pane.

Place Linkunits As Menu Options

The key to getting users to actually want to click on your ads is to make them useful. Placing linkunits at the top of your page creates directly relevant content available for your users. To see it in action, head over to FDIC Loan Modification.

Prior to finding this out, I always thought the linkunit was a worthless ad piece, but now I’ve found that this ad-size has the best returns for me.

Hopefully these tips are useful for you, if you enjoyed this post, please hit the Stumble button, we definitely appreciate it.