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In addition to participating in the AdSense network, you may also be interested in having your site ranked in organic Google search. In this post, I’ll highlight some important points for search optimization. While there’s no a magic formula to make your site show up first on a search results page, there are some good practices when it comes to links, design, content, and the structure of your site.

First of all, as a reminder, Google organic search and AdSense are independent of each other. Displaying AdSense ads on a site won’t change the ranking of the site in Google search in any way. So it follows that sites containing AdSense ads don’t receive special treatment in Google search.

Ranking in Google search is based on many different algorithms, and optimization for search is a long, continuous process. For these reasons, and because the techniques might violate our guidelines, we recommend avoiding any techniques that claim to optimize your ranking very quickly or radically. If you have concerns or questions, you can consult other webmasters on a number of forums, including Google’s official forum for webmaster-related issues.

We encourage you to monitor the quality of your site’s backlinks — links from any site directing to your site. To increase your site’s popularity, check if other sites that discuss similar topics or have a similar reader base are aware your site exists.

Outgoing links are also important and should comply with our guidelines. When you create a link to another site, we recommend first asking yourself: "Is this link going to be useful for my visitors?" or "Is this link likely to be clicked by my visitors?". Don’t participate in link schemes or buy/sell links that pass PageRank, as it is against our guidelines and may hurt your site’s performance in our search results.

Here are some tips for structuring your site:

• Your pages should have a clear hierarchy and relevant internal links. We also recommend creating a Sitemap and using Google’s Webmaster Tools. These tools are useful, user-friendly and will provide information such as where your backlinks come from or which queries visitors used to reach your site.
• Use <title> tags that are explicit and useful for the user. For example, avoid a title like "Homepage" or "Welcome to my site".
• For images, use ALT attributes to describe appropriately what the image is about. We’ve recently created a quick and useful YouTube video to further explain this topic:

   

Also, adding original and compelling content on a regular basis may help Google crawl your pages regularly. It can have the added benefit of attracting links to your pages too.

Finally, design your site with your users in mind, and be patient and consistent in your efforts. To attract quality backlinks and develop your optimization strategy, it’s important to keep a clear structure for your pages and regularly add organic content.

As part of our continuing commitment to provide publishers of all sizes with tools to improve revenue opportunities and productivity, we’re excited to announce Google Ad Manager.

If you operate a site with remnant ad inventory as well as reserved ad inventory that you sell directly to advertisers, then Ad Manager is for you. It can help you sell, schedule, deliver, and measure directly-sold and network-based inventory. Google Ad Manager offers a wealth of features, including an intuitive user interface, automated yield optimization, and proven Google speed and reliability. Best of all, Google Ad Manager is free.

Ad Manager currently addresses the ad management and serving needs of publishers with smaller sales teams and effectively complements the DoubleClick Revenue Center, which is focused on publishers with large sales teams. We’re excited to add DART for Publishers to our suite of products,and we’re committed to the continued development and enhancement of DoubleClick’s offerings.

To learn more or apply for Google Ad Manager beta, visit our website.

We’re excited to let you know that the AdWords Optimization Team is offering a new round of campaign optimizations. As we’ve mentioned in a recent post on the subject, requesting an optimization is easy. Simply fill out this request form and tell us about your specific business and advertising goals. Our optimization team will review your website, campaign structure, ad text, and keywords — then, within 10 day or less, they’ll send you customized recommendations to help you reach your goals. You’ll have complete control over which of these recommendations you choose to implement.

If you’ve had us complete an optimization before, we encourage you to submit a different campaign now. Whether you are a first time or a repeat customer, please be sure to specify which campaign you’d like the team optimize. You can do this in the ‘Your Advertising Goals’ section of the request form. Also, please keep in mind that this service is currently available for advertisers in the U.S. and Canada, for campaigns in English.

Depending on your business, it may be a bit late in the game to request an optimization for a campaign focused on the winter holidays. If the timing makes sense for you, though, please be sure to let us know of the seasonal nature of your campaign.

The optimization team is looking forward to hearing from you.

This is a very cool service Google is offering, since its free take advantage of it.

Jason