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The AdSense Code: What Google Never Told You About Making Money with AdSense

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I wrote a detailed criticism/ critique of this book, but it didn't get published...??? So here's my concise re-review: The authour spends far too much time plugging his own web sites and software than giving deep suggestions and information. This book may be ok for novices w/ AdSense: a few good tidbits here and there, but frankly, you can get far better, far more reliable and far more UNBIASED information from Google's AdSense homepage and the myriad blogs etc. on AdSense. I'm very suprised that the overall feedback for this book was as high as it is! Save yourself the money, go to the source at Google directly.

Comm's book unlike the title suggests - provides no more and in many ways less and certainly outdated strategies for making money with AdSense. I would recommend people ignore the many biased reviews - who are these people anyway? These glowing reviews read like they were manufactured by a motivational seminar writer! If this self promotion is obvious to you, save your money! My free advice: simply go to the Google AdSense page, read everything, then Google "AdSense" and read more analysis and best practices... you will be on a better path to riches than this or any book could possibly provide.

Joel Comm's book "The Adsense Code: What Google Never Told You About Making Money with AdSense," is among the better books in the show. Google AdWords and AdSense topics are usually bound as one book, but the principles for success are different.

Before readers start drooling over the concept of making money from nothing, understand the most important fact: content counts. The second fact: well-designed sites are key to success. Content first, design second, and Google is, in a big way, third. That order is crucial to finding value in Comm's book, or any of his competitor's books.

If you have AdSense already, but have never read about the better strategies, this book is for you. If you have a content-driven site, finding ways to smartly integrate AdSense will be natural. Comm can help you figure how and where you can use AdSense. It will help to have a general knowledge about how AdSense works.

A big value to AdSense in a niche site is that if your customers are simply not interested in what you offer, the ads displayed might serve them better than your site did. they came to your site believing you might have what they need, whether it was a product or knowledge. Probably, this is because your site showed well in results of a keyword search on Google. For this same reason, your site will have ads along the lines of what your customer is looking.

Learn to strategically exclude the competition, or off-color ads. Google wants good ads on your site. Whomever is advertising wants his good ads on your site. Your customer wants good ads on your site. And you want good ads. By excluding what you consider bad ads, everyone is happy. Your click-thru increases, and you make more money.

My credentials: I manage a 300+ page website dedicated to Hungarian culture and products. As a niche site aching for traffic, I use Adwords to attract customers, and AdSense to make some money to pay for the site. Professionally, I am the webmaster for a bilingual, dynamic and hard-coded, 7,500+ page site for a major hospital. Knowing Google is an important part of my small site, and my large site.

I fully recommend "The Adsense Code: What Google Never Told You About Making Money with AdSense" by Joel Comm.

Anthony Trendl
editor, HungarianBookstore.com

You will get better information by just doing a little research yourself. I found this to be a "fluff" book so to speak. Large print, many blank pages between chapters, and the same points scattered throughout the text to fill it out. You will learn something perhaps, but save money and put an Ad sense search in Google and you will get better and more timely information. Believe me, they are not hiding information from you as the title implies.

This book is a concise guide on how to make money online using Google Adsense. It cuts to the chase and tells you what to do, how to do it and when to do it.

I applied the information in The Adsense Code and began making money (albeit not a lot) the very first day I added adsense to my blog. But, by continuing to apply the tactics laid out in the book, my adsense revenue has increased virtually every day.

The book lays out in a very specific and detailed manner what you need to do to implement Google adsense, how to maximize click throughs and how to set up adsense to generate the most revenue.

This book is great for beginners or advanced users of adsense. Joel explains many ways to use adsense and places to include adsense that I'd never considered.

An added bonus is that the book also gives you many new ideas for generating new traffic to your blog or website.

This book is a must for every serious internet marketers bookshelf.

I read the book in an afternoon, made a list of tips that were appropriate for my website and applied them to 10 high traffic pages of our 900 page website. My Adsense revenue doubled. I am slowly going through and applying the tips to every page and the revenue keeps growing.

Sure, you can sift through thousands of posts on Adsense forums to get these tips, you can also sit and do your own A/B tests with color combinations, format sizes, placement, etc...
Or you can buy this book.

The book is a bit heavy on the self promotion and you don't *need* any of the tools that the author is pushing.
What you do need is a functioning website with good content and lots of traffic for this book to work.

I'm giving the book five stars only because it is the first book in a long time that has put money directly in my pocket.

The AdSense Code provides about half a dozen simple good ideas on how to juice up AdSense ads on a website or blog. Most of the tips are available from the AdSense tutorial provided by Google. The few unique tips do help. I personally wouldn't recommend this book except to people who find it easier to read a book rather that read the online tutorial.

One tip from the book is to make your AdSense ad look as much like your weblog as possible. People try to ignore ads and this way you may get more "clicks".

I had already set up Adsense on my weblog, [...]and had chosen this look to begin with.

Google Adsense provides a great opportunity for anyone with a website or blog to monetize their effort. There are a thousand ways of implementing Adsense, and that's where the confusion lies. With all the options available, what works best?

Joel's book demystifies Adsense and provides no-nonsense advice that can help you move the decimal point a few spaces to the right in your revenue. This isn't rocketscience, but he makes it easy to get a headstart with Adsense with techniques that have been proven successful. I know, I've followed his advice and reaped the rewards.

You could collect this knowledge yourself, scouring the Internet, testing and trying various things until you learn through experience. Or you could save yourself a lot of time and get this book. It will easily pay for itself in no time.

I enjoyed this book and definitely learned things I did not know about optimizing page layouts and ad styles on web pages. The author also provides a lot of links and information about tools that can be used to manage and monitor your adSense account. The only slightly negative thing to say is the author spends quite a bit of time advertising his own products, but hey we live in a capitalist system. This book was worth the money.

I had a few sites with adsense ads on them prior to reading this book. What I learned after reading this book was that I, like so many, was using the adsense code both with the wrong content and with the wrong strategies. After over a year, I had made a whopping $18 (I only have 5 more years to go until I got my first Adsense check---Wooo!). Mr. Comm's book is obviously not for Adsense insiders---it's for the rest of us. It's well written, to the point, clear, easy to follow, and very intuitive. I was very pleasantly surprised and inspired. One of the more worthwhile books I've read in a long time.