Searching for AdSense

Posted by james on Aug 11, 2007 in wordpress | 2 comments

I took this little idea straight from Garry Conn‘s blog. Though his is a LITTLE more devious than mine (linking to search results in posts 8-) ) I think it’s a great way to monetise traffic that is most likely going to be leaving anyway.

The idea is to add AdSense to your search results.

Ok, I could use Google AdSense for Search, but that’s just not the same. I don’t have as much control over how the page will look as I’d like. And if they arrived via Google, then they’ve already seen the search results Google’s most likely going to show them.

To take a look at what I’m talking about, try out the following search:

Canon EOS 40D

The reason I say that this traffic “is most likely going to be leaving anyway” is because my blog is not exactly massive, and after reviewing the search queries that users have been entering, I know that I don’t have any of that content anyway.

Now, we wait and see if it will work…

2 comments

  1. Garry Conn
    August 12, 2007

    And if you want an even more search engine friendly way of doing things you can do this too:

    http://homedeco.geniosity.co.za/search/canon+eos+40d

    instead of…

    http://homedeco.geniosity.co.za/index.php?s=canon+eos+40d

    Good luck with your test!
    :)

    Best Regards,
    Garry Conn

  2. james
    August 13, 2007

    Thanks for the visit and the idea Garry.

    I guess making the search results SE friendly just means I’ve created another “category” page for Google et al to index…

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