AdSense has a weakness.
It\’s not very good at handling images.
Fill your blog or your website with pictures of your cat, your family or your vacation in Yosemite and you might please your readers, but Google won\’t know what to make of it. Unless you have a sizeable amount of text on your Web page, its robots won\’t be able to decide what you\’re talking about. You\’ll get Public Service Ads that don\’t earn you a dime instead of nice, profitable AdSense ads that give you big checks.
That\’s a shame because almost everyone these days has a digital camera. And almost every hard drive is stuffed with pictures that would look great on a blog.
So what can you do to turn those images into AdSense earners?
The first thing you can do is talk about the subject. Instead of putting up a gallery, place one picture on each page to give you lots of ad opportunities. Link each page with \”next\” and \”previous\” buttons and describe what each photo is about.
So if you put up a view of a waterfall in Yosemite, describe where you saw it, how long it took you to find it and what you did when you got there. Try to toss in a few keywords to generate targeted ads and you should be able to earn revenue.
You can also describe how you took the photo. If you\’re a hobbyist with a sackful of expensive equipment then you can go on about which lens you used, what focal length you chose and the challenges that came with shooting the picture. You\’d be aiming at other photography enthusiasts, but there are enough of those to give you a good clickthrough rate.
And finally, whenever you talk about anything to do with photography, you can cash in with all of the product-related ad programs that work so well. So you can place affiliate links on the page or you could sign up for eMiniMalls and offer links to the camera you used to take the picture — or even the shoes you used when hiking to the waterfall.
You can earn from images with AdSense… but you have to talk about them first.