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The hardest part in getting a website off the ground purely for Google Adsense,
known as a 'mini-site', is coming up with a topic that hasn't already been done
to death and then researching your keywords with the likes of WordTracker and
Overture, and so on. In comparison, writing the content is a doddle?relatively.
Google Adsense is great; it's basically free money once you have invested
some time. If you already have a website that is selling a product, pasting
some html code into the pages only takes minutes and you have paying ads
immediately. But what we?re talking about here is Adsense targeted pages.
Perhaps the best advice for copywriting for Adsense is to not provide the
entire skinny on the topic you are writing about; simply give people a taster
so that they will hopefully click a related ad on your page in thinking that
the site they are clicking through to will teach them further.
Google doesn't actually care how your copy is written. It doesn?t penalise you
for not mimicking the writing prowess of William Shakespeare. Google works by
looking at the distribution of your keywords on the page, keyword density,
is the keyword in the title and page name, and originality, and so on.
Aesthetically-speaking, the reason you want your site to look good is for the
visitor, whom on pondering your site for the few nanoseconds it takes for the
human brain to decide whether your site is any good or not, will stay there,
browse the content and click on an ad if they feel enlightened.
You don't particularly need to worry about making it pretty for return
customers, as people who keep coming back to your pages are less likely to
click on an ad anyway; which is the whole purpose of making the site in the
first place. What you want are unique visitors to the site and to get them to
click through.
A few basic tips on copywriting for Google Adsense:
The first couple of paragraphs are the most important, particularly the very
first one. It's great that you have written thousands of words on the subject
that you know inside out, but unless you sound convincing on the first
paragraph, there is a greater chance your visitor will hit the back button.
About 300 words per page is a good amount to aim for, which is about the optimum
for getting the correct keyword density on a page. Any less than 200 words and Google,
et al, will give that page less weight as it assumes, perhaps incorrectly, that
you cannot possibly describe a topic with this meagre amount of words.
Your chosen keyword phrase should appear several times in the text, but not too
much as that is considered spamming and will likely fetch you a penalty. A ball
park figure is about twice in the first paragraph, twice in the last one and
perhaps once in the other paragraphs; one or two of which should feature your
chosen keyword phrase rewritten slightly differently.
Target only one keyword phrase per page - it's not a good idea to target single keywords,
unless unique, as they are already very highly contested. Bold type the
keywords a few times throughout the content; this will help the search engines
and may also halt a roving eye. Use bullet points when listing several topics
to break up the monotony of sentences and paragraphs; unlike the way this page
is written.
Punctuation and grammar should be kept fairly tight, although, again, don't kill
yourself on this as Google won?t mind if you miss a comma here and there. As
long as the copy is flowing and the reader doesn?t think you are a complete
amateur. Just be mindful of your 'your' and 'you're', and your 'it's' and
'its', and so on, as faltering here really will make your site look amateurish.
Refrain from putting too many graphics on your pages, as many people are still
on dial-up and any longer than a few seconds for your page to load up and it is
likely the visitor will hit the back button. The same goes for those pages with
the likes of 'Enter Site Here' once you have already clicked through from the SERPs?annoying
to say the least.
Following these basic pointers will help you construct copy for attracting Google
Ads more efficiently. If you are selling a product on your site,
however, you will need it to sound as enticing as possible to attract visitors
and to keep them coming back.
Many people will even struggle with copywriting for Adsense, let alone
for a site that needs to sound professional and refined. By far the easiest way
to get your site off the ground in this case, is to acquire the services of a
professional copywriting website and also have them do your SEO (Search Engine
Optimization) to help boost your pages up the rankings quickly.
Good luck?
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