How to increase Google Adsense eCPM?

Google Adsense is one of the most popular Ad Networks you can use to publish advertisements on your website and start earning income immediately. Depending on impressions (CPM) and click-through rates (CTR), your Adsense revenue may vary from a few dollars to a few hundred per day for high-traffic websites. Optimizing your Adsense placement could potentially double, or even triple your Ad income if correctly implemented.

This article describes a few tips on improving eCPM (effective Cost-Per-Thousand Impressions), which effectively increases the Adsense income provided that you have constant traffic. For Adsense, eCPM depends on two primary factors: CPC (cost-per-click) and CTR (click-through-rate). The CPC depends largely on the content of your website. The more competitive keywords that your content serves, the higher the CPC will be. For example, the contents relating to "Web Hosting", "Merchant Accounts" and "Smart Phone" will generate higher CPC than less competitive topics such as "Toys & Games" and "clothing or Apparel". If you're writing a new topic for your website, try choosing topics that are more competitive or target keywords that have higher CPC. The second factor that affects eCPM is CTR. The more click your Ad generates, the higher eCPM will be. There are a number of ways to improve CTR, and they are:

• Improve your Ad placement by making your Ad more visible. Try using larger Ad sizes such as 336x280, 300x250, 160x600, and leaderboard (728x90) Ad units. According to Google Heatmap, higher CTR is achieved by placing your Ads on front and center at the top of your main content.
• Limit the number of Ad Blocks per page.
• Blend the Ads as naturally as possible.

Decreasing the bounce rate will also improve CTR. If you have a higher bounce rate, your visitors are leaving your website after viewing only one page. Provide a lot of relevant content on your website (essentially draw targeted traffic), so that your visitors view more than one page before leaving your website. Lowering your bounce rate will make your visitors stay longer on your website, and will increase your chances of clicking on your Ads.

Google implemented "Smart Pricing", which reduces maximum cost-per-click (CPC) bids for published Ads that are less likely to convert. If clicks your Ads generated are flagged as non-converting traffic, your Ads will be smartly priced and your CPC will drop dramatically. To improve your CPC, experiment with the following:

• Remove Ads from pages with low eCPM. Try bringing it back within a few days to see if eCPM improves. Perhaps doing this avoids being smart-priced. If it doesn't improve remove it completely.
• Add targeted Title tag, Meta Keyword, and Meta Description tags to make it easier to target the content of the webpage.