The topics that will be covered aim to clarify myths around general policies, hosting adult content and how to implement ads properly.
The objective is to help site owners understand how to generate AdSense revenue the right way, ensuring compliance – to avoid getting banned.

If you rely heavily on AdSense for your revenue, make sure you don’t miss this opportunity. For details, please visit Google’s AdSense blog

• Track Performance – individual ad units

CTR Theme doesn’t just rotate ads – it actually allows you to track the performance of each ad combination. Usually, you would know that your 728 x 90 block is being clicked , if you track it , but you wouldn’t be able to tell if it gets more clicks when floated right or left. And if you have been wondering if the performance would improve when stacked next to another ad unit or stacked below another one? With CTR Theme – you can stop wondering and find out for yourself.

• Aesthetics – Match Ads to your Theme

Sure, you can log into your Google Adsense Account and choose the color of the ad background and links to match your site. But with CTRTheme, you don’t need to bother with logging into your AdSense account and painstakingly modifying each ad unit to match the color of your theme. CTR Theme does it for you, automatically applying colors that match the selected subtheme. It also lets you manually override these settings if you want. Makes your life easy, doesn’t it ?

• Uses “pushdown images” to give your ads less competition above the fold

You can upload images on a sitewide basis or post-specific that will appear directly above your post title (and ad blocks), pushing your main content further down the screen (below the fold). This means that your prime real estate (above the fold) will be more images and ads… perfect for high CTRs.

• Includes post-specific controls

Want to hide ads on a specific post or page (Privacy Policy, for example)? Couldn’t be easier with CTR Theme. Just click one button.

• Get rid of distractions – let your ads enjoy all the attention

CTR Theme subthemes strip out all the garbage that people might click on instead of your ads, drawing their attention to the thing that actually makes you money. Clean themes, big ad blocks.

• Uses a fully-featured admin panel

Stop struggling with theme files or trying to learn PHP. CTR Theme’s intuitive Admin panel will have you find your way through the site in minutes. With its built-in SEO features, you don’t need an additional SEO plugin on top of your theme. Use CTRTheme to manage your on-page optimization needs. Meta description and keywords can be added on a per-post basis.

If you choose a “good” niche then creating a successful website becomes very simple indeed. Equally, the opposite is true and I’ve had sites that generated a ton of traffic yet made virtually no money at all.

Considering the importance of selecting a niche I thought it would be useful to discuss the four simple questions I ask myself about any niche before I put the time and money into actually building a site to attract those prospects.

Are They Passionate?

The more passionate that people are about a topic, the easier it is not only drive traffic but also encourage sales. Passionate people are on the lookout for new information and new products that appeal to them and are likely to share their findings with others.

Compare that to people who lack passion for a subject and making a profit from your site can be like trying to get blood out of a stone.

So how do you tell if people are passionate about a subject? Personally I use two different techniques. Firstly, go and have a look around your neighborhood to see if there are any magazines that cater to this group. If so, then the size of the audience is likely decent and they’re passionate enough to spend money on furthering their knowledge.

The second technique is to use Google to search for discussion forums on your proposed niche. Spend some time looking around; do people post often? Are there plenty of discussions and debates? Are people openly sharing tips, advice and resources? If so, you likely have a passionate niche well worth considering for your next project.

Do They Have Credit Cards?

Obviously your prospects are going to need credit cards if they’re to make purchases and earn you money. While this seems like simplicity you’d be surprised how many niches are mainly populated by those under the age of 18 who are consequently unable to spend money online without the aid of a parent.

Do some research into your niche and use tools like Quantcast to gain an idea of the most prevalent age-group in your niche so check that the vast majority of them are over the age of 18.

Another strategy I’ve used with success is to set up a Facebook page just for this niche then spend a few dollars on Facebook ads to drive likes. Thanks to Facebook Insights you’ll quickly be able to see not just how much your new fans interact (a measure of passion) but you’ll also be able to check their age demographics to ensure they have money to spend.

Are They Spending Money?

There’s no point in building a niche website if nobody is actually spending money. So, you need to try and get an idea about the value of your potential audience. You need to confirm not just that they’re spending money, but also how much they’re spending.

And arguably the best way to do this is with Google Adwords. Set up a free account and then log in to use the Google Keyword Tool (rather than using it when logged out like most people). The reason is that you can now search for relevant keyword phrases and see the average cost per click (CPC) of advertising to these people.

Remember that the higher the number is, the more advertisers are willing to pay to reach them. And of course these advertisers are looking to make a profit so it’s also safe to assume that the more they’re willing to spend, the more those people are actually spending themselves.

By comparing niches and finding those with the highest cost per click you can quickly decide on the most profitable niches for your own site building.

Are There Products To Promote?

The final point worth examining before getting started on your niche website is whether there are numerous products that you can promote as an affiliate? Certainly it’s possible to make money with Adsense and other display advertising options but in general the real money is in affiliate marketing.

So take a look around, examine the popular products in your niche and the commissions that they pay in order to confirm for certain that there are plenty of ways you can monetize that traffic when you actually launch your niche site.

Richard recently sold one of his websites for a five figure sum and has now published a book revealing his top blog promotion tips.

More power to you. Here’s a list of the new features -

1) New Sub-theme (Powerslider) with Slider Images.

- Introducing PowerSlider Sub-theme of CTR Theme.

Here’s a quick visit to the Dashboard.

- Upload the images to the Slider from Dashboard -> CTRTheme -> General Site Option.

2) Override Footer CSS with menu options to ease the difficulty in customizing the site color.

- Menus For Overriding CSS including Footer

3) Menu for Uploading background image and Background color.

4) Bullet Point Support.

For most of you AdSense users out there, who are looking to stay updated with the latest news on Google’s AdSense so that you don’t anger the Google Gods, here are some places you can follow regularly. Needless to say, you need to make sure your website complies to the AdSense TOS (could vary from country to country) as well.

- AdSense’s BlogSpot Page

If you haven’t heard about these recent changes – you really must read Google’s most recent post here ( 27th March 2013) about personalized recommendations. Yes, its personal now. Using an easy-to-understand graph, you can check the revenue projections for proposed changes and decide whether to make those changes in an informed manner, instead of randomly shooting in the dark. Caveat  – you need to make sure your ad units are running the latest AdSense code.

- AdSense’s YouTube Page

Lots of interesting videos get posted here from time to time by Google so it might be best to subscribe to this channel. And if you missed the “Meet A Product Manager ” Q&A session – you can catch a recording here – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwanQ_T69Ws

- Adense’s Google Plus Page

While I haven’t seen too many responses from Google itself on the comments, I see users helping each other out quite often , with some very useful tips. So this is worth following for sure.

If you have any other blogs / pages you think we should add to this list , please leave a comment and let us know.

More power to you. Here’s a list of the new features -

1) Ability to enable / disable Top Menu Bar.  You can now choose to display

- An Ad Link Unit

- Your Site’s Tagline

- Or disable the Top MenuBar completely (NEW)

You can control this using the Dashboard Settings.

2) Hover tips for sub-theme titles during selection (Dashboard). We know it can get confusing – so we have tips that show up when you hover your mouse over a sub-theme.

Now get rid of the ‘Older Posts’ and ‘Newer Posts’ label on your website and get the best selling CTR Theme with high class look of Pagination. Increase traffic and user experience with better navigation on your website and it has been widely reported that pagination increases the SEO of your site by providing more links to your content.

The features includes the following:

1) Pagination enabling and disabling option.

2) Different look and feel for all the subthemes pagination.

3) SEO improvements : Pagination done on SEO guidelines.

In total we have 6 subthemes within CTR Theme to create Premium and high quality Adsense sites with high CTR.

To overcome the problem of being downgraded by such algorithms and to figure prominently in the search results when relevant keywords are typed it is suggested to use exact match domains which allow the users to find the necessary links easily. An exact match domain provides the type of online branding that can increase the traffic to the website tremendously and make the website figure amongst the very best. The use of many keywords also helps while trying to make the domain figure on top of the list.

The latest Google Panda update has been deployed lately and has been developed to rank EMDs and place them down the results if they are understood to be representing something other than what their domain name speaks of. Also many micro niche sites stand to lose ratings if their content has not been modified, upgraded or if some additions are not carried out on regular basis.

• Micro niche sites have been traditionally very popular and have seen a steady stream of visitors trying to seek information using a particular keyword combination.

• Micro niche sites include specific content on the keyword and even blogs on the same.

• The latest Google EMD update runs on a new algorithm and since the time it has been deployed, it has been found to be diverting traffic away from the micro niche sites and in some cases the drop observed is in the range of 80-90%, which is quite high.

• The micro niche websites which did not receive much traffic and don’t normally do not have much traffic from exactly matching keywords have survived the Panda and Penguin algorithms and their updates, but all such domains failed to get through the Google EMD test. This has led many online users and owners of micro niche domains to believe that the survival of such domains in itself has become a question.

Previously as a standard practice, many bloggers would generate many small blogs with a few pages with some related static content. When such blogs managed to include good keyword rich domain these blogs always garnered good traffic. But the recent update has changed all this and proved to be a major setback for such sites which is a very bad news for a lot of such micro niche sites. Micro niche sites which rarely receive any new content are the ones that are significantly affected. On the other hand, the micro niche sites which are frequently refreshed with the latest content are some of the least affected sites by the EMD algorithm update. Another strategy being widely discussed involves combining of many micro niche sites together to create larger site to attract larger traffic.

Search optimization algorithms are designed based on the choices of human graders and the pattern that they follow while assigning a domain a high or low rank. These algorithms and their updates have made the search very precise and user friendly but at the same time are causing the micro niche websites to die a slow death, but a few simple steps can ensure that these sites remain afloat and receive continuous traffic for a long time to come.

Important Tips for your Micro Niche Websites

1) Have regular update of content. It means the content needs to be either added or updated so that the search engine considers it as an active website or blog

2) Check the backlinks. Use genuine link directories, preferably have relevant content in the article from where you are linking back to your website

3) Avoid keyword stuffing on your website. Don’t put too many outgoing links, irrelevant to the content.

4) Avoid too many Ads above the fold.

As part of CTRTheme changes, we have developed the following additional features into our themes and subthemes to help in social media integration and improve content accessibility for end users and SEO.

1) Having social media icons and social sharing icons, makes it easier for your users to share your content links on social media networks like twitter, facebook, google+ and much more.

2) Having Menus and Submenus on the page, making it easier for users to access content easily and google search engines to index content easily without too many deep links

3) Use google adsense alternatives like amazon products, affiliate links or any other advertisements easily.

4) Having breadcrumbs for better SEO of the page

5) Use pagination to give access to more content pages on your website

6) Use other affiliate products or Adsense alternatives in your website.

You can also get access to content writer services with our content ready websites with quality content. The content is written by native english speakers with 30 day refund policy. There are custom quotes for more than 1 website or more content writing on your sites.

1) Ability to have Menus and drop-down menus upto 5 levels.

2) SEO improvements : Have breadcrumbs in your posts and pages

3) New look and feel with site headers and colors

There are total of 6 subthemes within CTR Theme to create Premium and high quality Adsense sites with high CTR.