The Most Effective Google Ads for Website Placement (With Illustration)


Hi, now we’re going to talk about the most effective Google Ads for website placement. There are many tutorials that discuss where to put ads, even Google itself. But how to make the ads that we put in strategic places that work well?

In order to make the learning process easier, I highly recommend you to read the previous articles below:

Google AdSense, SEM, and SEO.

Maximize the use of WordPress widgets and themes.

Google AdSense Match Content Unit.

Illegal way to cheat AdSense.

Done? Let’s Move to Google Ads for Website Placement

If we are discussing advertising, then we will agree that as good and expensive as an ad will be meaningless if it can not be seen. In addition to making the ad not reach the target, the ad also means die from circulation. Often I see an ad, but it turned out that the ad reached me when the validity period is up. Usually, this is found in discount ads or events that are not routine. Of course, this is detrimental to advertisers and also to us as publishers are “forced” to give up our advertising columns used by useless advertisements. And Google also assumes the same. Google will not put high-value ads on websites that have low traffic.

Well, how to make ads that appear on our web pages hit the target? Let’s look at the illustrations below:

This is the time spent by your reader while reading your article
(The number made for illustration only. Actual time may vary, use a proofreader to get the actual estimation):

And these are the suggested Ads placements:

Both combined:

Look how fast your readers pass through the ads that have been put in these strategic places. Which means, these ads will not give more earnings (except when clicked, this is called with the term call to action). Relying on earnings per thousand impressions it will be difficult in this way. For that, we rely on the duration of impressions.

How to do it? The illustration above supposed to be self-explanatory. But to make sure we do not misunderstand, it’s good if I explain.

The trick is to “intercept” the reader in the area where we have placed the advertisement. This can easily be done using in-feed ads. Right. But it would be easily missed if the reading material does not “intercept” the reader.

Let me give you another illustration using a modified illustration from above.

This is the time spent by your reader after we put the “traps”. Don’t think anything negative or using creepy stuff, that will only make your reader leave and look for another web to find what they need. Well, unless you have one of a kind website, I think this method will work. But, I still won’t encourage you to do that.

So, what kind of trap is legal for us to use? We can put tutorials, video with certain durations that we can easily ember from YouTube* and other time-consuming things. Such as how to hold breath for 60 seconds while reading and some quizzes. Have you ever been on a website that held a polling without significant result? That’s an example of a good trap. The keyword is “time-consuming”. Hold your reader as long as possible in all of your web pages.

*Also, read how to make your own video website that earns you money.

But make sure the time they spend is beneficial to them!

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Facebook Messenger Kids Not Available in Some Countries


Facebook Messenger Kids has stirred up controversy and reaped much opposition from various agencies that focus on children. How not, Facebook that previously forbade children under the age of 1 years it launched a chat application that targets the market for children aged 6 years. It seems this is a Facebook strategy that is aware that they have been abandoned by teenage users. Please read the story here. Maybe they think, in the future teen market will not disappear when the prospective Facebook users have brand awareness of Facebook.

Also, read about Facebook abandoned by teenagers.

It’s the same thing that Microsoft did a few years ago with Microsoft’s education system in developing countries early on.

The Facebook party argues that Messenger Kids is a necessity because it can not be denied again, internet users are getting younger. And they (Messenger Kids supporters) say they are also parents.

But this opinion is considered invalid and biased because they have a financial bond with Facebook.
Unfortunately I myself have not been able to try Facebook Messenger Kids because the application is not yet available in my country.

My personal opinion is, it’s good to facilitate children with special internet apps for children because the internet is increasingly inevitable. That’s better than them having to use their mother’s messenger app and suddenly get a DP photo.

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Google AMP on Gmail. Good or Bad?


Google will enliven the trend of “story” that previously we know through the status WhatsApp, Instagram, Snapchat and even Facebook. But, unlike its predecessors, Google also integrates this story system through what they call the AMP.

The name AMP is familiar to web makers, explained better by its long Accelerated Mobile Page, AMP is used as a substitute for the landing page of a web (and other) multiple levels before the visitor actually opens the real website.

Also read how to install SSL and have your own HTTPS.

The Facebook users might experience this whenever they open a link to a website on Facebook and view the website without leaving Facebook. Facebook uses the term, “Facebook Instant Articles”.

That’s great for productivity, for people who are just too busy to open several websites to find what they really need.

Gmail Integration

Google will use AMP into GMail for better user experience. For example, news addicts can read the Newspaper they subscribed to without having to leave their email, interact with the web, and switch to their next subscription. Imagine how cool will that be.

But…

This will also mean more advertisement in your email since I believe that’s where the most advertisers will prefer to put their advertisement on. Since most people already have at least one Gmail.

So, which one would you prefer? AMP on Gmail, or deliberately open some websites yourself?