content is king and get a decent amount of revenue, not much, but no trickery.

or

black hat if want to make money out of adsense like $5 a day (but where’s the proof?).

Anyway – if you don’t want to annoy your readers by having adsense in the content of the post, then why not consider having them appear in the post itself after a week or 10 days or something. That way you’ll only be serving the adsense ads to people who find you through search engines – they are much more likely to click on them anyway.

Your loyal readers will get their feed, email notification or just stop by every week or two without having the ads in the post whereas your joe (or joanne) blogs who comes from google on some random query will happily find what they are looking for or will leave on a link that you get paid for… everyone is happy!

It works for me and my blog that gets around 1400 unique visitors a month (yes I’m working on that!) produces an average CPM of $13.00.

I appreciate that it’s about the type of person who visits and their demographic and the fact that if you get a random stumble or digg your CPM drops through the floor, but surely something like this could help in your quest to up your CPM?

I use a plug in for this very thing:
http://www.whydowork.com/blog/whydowork-adsense-plugin/

I look forward to reading more of this lovely argument/post!

Anyone got any decent CPM from directories?

For last five months My Google eCPM was hitting rock bottom,……its more than frustrating…..But I am not changing corners and will be sticking with Google adsense…..Believe me, its still the Best!!

So…
1) A little research into keywords doesn’t hurt. Like you mentioned, the topic is key. But it’s the topic of the page first, and the overall blog topic second. My politics blog has some NAFTA content that got me higher paying clicks (before I removed Adsense because I felt it was too sneaky in general, which bothered me) because it was kind of economic/financial research. If I’d bothered figuring out the keywords triggering those clicks, I could have probably made more.

To make a long story short, do some content network ads on AdWords, figure out which keywords and ad inventory are generating higher CPC and write around those (at least partly).

As a bonus, you’ll have content that can pull search traffic on popular keywords and increase your Ms (the M from CPM…). MHMmmm…

2) Look for patterns of untargeted/poorly targeted ads on your network, blog by blog. Contact your current advertisers and mention that inventory (i.e. site targeted ads). The more advertisers you get interested, the higher your clicks will pay. Besides, I’ll bet you get a higher CTR when readers see the 125×125 graphical ad and the adsense ad from the same company. To make a long story short, get the word out that you have cheap inventory and on what keywords. Advertisers will follow.

Now the question is if you’ll put in the work to make 400k/mo … ?

Regards,
Gabriel “looking to advertise on Ensight Adsense in the near future” Goldenberg

But first of all let me state, I am not a fan of Adsense, but I still think its one of the best bets for the small and independent publishers. Though once you get big in terms of traffic you get many more attractive options than Adsense.

Now other thing is if you are getting 30c eCPM for you ads, it means you traffic is not of high quality. You must be getting most of your traffic from images.google.com or like, where most of the people are only interested in images and not content. Since your top 5 sites are all about celebrities/TV gossips which don`t convert well, so I am not surprised for such a poor eCPM. Your best bet is banner ads. I would have been surprised if your gadgets/lifestyle sites doing less than $2eCPM (ad unit).

One more thing I don`t agree with you is about Adsense Customer support, we have a dedicated Adsense Account manager which has helped us by tweaking small things to raise our earning by a good margin.