I have made a blog recently and started writing. And in few days only I have been earning atleast 0.8-1$ daily from blog posts. And What I did is just put one square banner on top of post in single post page. And one unit I added on left sidebar since according to Google Heatmap left side gets noticed more. But currently single post square layout gets noticed more.

So how are your blogs performing. What layout of Adsense you use on your blogs to maximise earnings?

use wide sky scrapper or side bar and large rectangles below the posts. It attracts visitors and the result is good clicks.

I suggest you to put 125x125 ads on the sidebar like one of the site's blocks.
if you got 2 sidebars on your blog put a skyscrapper on one side..
also, if you're using WP you can make custom placement... for example: you can make a links unit only in homepage...
you can see a live example for what I told you in this post on http://www.pseffect.com
you can also google this expresion: "wp layout adsense" and I'm sure you'll fond what you're looking for.

use sidebar so that the add gets catchy

Before you write one line of code:

* Do keyword research to determine what keywords you want to target

While constructing your website you should do the following:

* Use markup to indicate the content of your site
o Optimize your <title> tags on each page to contain 1 - 3 keywords
o Create unique Meta Tags for each page
o Use header tags appropriately (H1 > H2 > H3)
o Use <strong> and<em> tags if appropriate
* Optimize your URLs
o Use Search Engine Friendly URLs (for dynamic sites)
o Use keywords in your domain (http://www.keyword1.com/)
o Use keywords in your URL (http://www.example.com/keyword2/keyword3.html)
o Use dashes instead of underscores to separate words in your URLs (keyword2-keyword3.html)
* Optimize your content
o Use keywords liberally yet appropriately throughout each page
o Have unique content
o Have quality content
* Use search engine friendly design
o Create a human sitemap
o Do not use inaccessible site navigation (JavaScript menus)
o Minimized outbound links
o Kept your pages under 100K in size
* Design the navigational structure of the site to channel PR to main pages (especially the homepage)
* Create a page that encourages webmasters to link to your site
o Provide them the relevant HTML to create their link to you
o Provide them with any images you may want them to use (although text links are better)
* Make sure your website is complete before launching it

Immediately after launching your site you should do the following:

* Submit your site to all major search engines
o http://www.google.com/addurl.html (Use a https://www.google.com/webmasters/sitema...view?hl=en)
o http://submit.search.yahoo.com/free/request (Use the page list option)
o MSN (Finds your site via incoming links)
o Ask (Finds your site via incoming links)
* Submit your site to all free directories
o http://dmoz.org/add.html (also powers Google Directory)
o http://www.joeant.com/suggest.html
* Submit your site to relevant directories
o Find more at http://www.isedb.com/
* Begin a link building campaign (attempting to get keywords in the link anchor text)
o Put a link to your website in your forum signatures
o Reply to relevant blog posts (Don't spam please)
o Submit articles to relevant websites

If you will pay to promote your website:

* Submit your site to pay directories
o http://docs.yahoo.com/info/suggest/
o http://www.goguides.org/addurl.html
* Purchase text links from high PR (Pagerank) sites related to your site

Finally, as part of an ongoing strategy:

* Continually update your website will quality, unique content
* Continually seek free links preferably from sites in your genre

Do NOT do the following:

* Make an all Flash website (without an HTML alternative)
* Use JavaScript for navigation
* Spam other websites for incoming links
* Launch your site before it is done
* Use duplicate content
o Point several domains to one site without using a 301 redirect
* Use markup inappropriately
o Style <H>eader tags to look like regular text
o Hide content using 'display: hidden' (for the sake of hiding text)
* Use other "black hat" techniques (unless you accept the risk - Banning)
o Doorway/Landing pages
o Cloaking
o Hidden text
o Keyword stuffing

Additional Tips:

* Usable and accessible sites tend to be search engine friendly by their very nature
* Be patient! High rankings don't happen overnight
* Don't obsess with any one search engine. They are all worth your attention.



In other words you have SEO in mind before you start your website. And only submit once you have a complete website.
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