If your using Google AdSense as a means of monetizing your website or blog, did you know you can choose which ads appear on your page?

Lots of amateur publishers might be fooled into thinking, you get what you are given. This does not have to be the case, you could be showing ads that have no meaning to your website or blog’s content, this could mean you are missing out on higher earnings.

Their are a few ways to find out which ads are showing on your website or blog, the obvious being, visit your own page and see which ads are showing, their can be a huge downside to this. Let’s say you live in the United Kingdom and view your website from their. Google AdSense will notice you have a United Kingdom IP address, and show you ads based on your location. This also applies to the United States, Canada and so on.

One way to find out which ads are showing in the United States, is to use the Google AdSense Preview Tool. This nice piece of software will show which ads are showing on your website on lots of locations worldwide. So if you have a website or blog that is not just based around the country, you can now see which ads are showing in Australia for example. You might be wondering how this can help, well a few examples are, improve your earnings, and also take out any ads that have no relevance to your website or blog.

If you do use AdSense as a way of making some extra income from monetizing your blog, downloading and previewing which ads are showing on your website can not only make you more money, they can also improve the layout and content feel of your website. Your visitors are more likely to click on an advert that has relevance to your website, than one that has no meaning at all.