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Replacing AdSense Defaults With Paid Ads

If you use Google's AdSense program to earn money from your website, you could be missing out on additional income by not replacing unpaid PSA ads.

Many online ad programs, including AdSense, will sometimes show default ads, or public service announcement (PSA) ads, when they have no paying ads to show. This can happen for many reasons, especially when their spiders crawl your pages for content.

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  1. The simple method...
  2. What's the down side?
  3. Other options...

The simple method...

What many webmasters do not realize, however, is that you can easily replace those unpaid ads and earn bonus revenue from your website. All you need to do is make a simple change to your ad codes.

In the case of Google's AdSense program, this is done by adding an alternate URL to your code. It is a very simple process that will typically take you less than five minutes. Using the AdSense online wizard, you simply add an alternate ad URL to your code, then copy and paste the new code into your pages.

You can view a sample of an AdSense alternate URL integration at:

http://www.alternateurl.com/demo.php

Once you have made the change to your ad codes, you will show an alternate ad of your choice in place of the PSA ad that would normally have appeared. Alternatively, you may also select to show a simple background color in place of your PSA ads, but be aware that won't earn you a dime and it can look strange to display a blank space on your pages, whatever the color.

So you've decided to add an alternate URL to replace those unpaid ads. That's smart. It's actually amazing that so many AdSense users do not take advantage of this process. Google makes it very easy to do, but for whatever reason, most webmasters simply ignore this option and forego additional profits from their hard-earned traffic.

Read more: What's the down side?

 

 

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