I want to say Goodbye to Adsense.

[jason77]

I want to say Goodbye to Adsense....it all started ok in 2003.
In the meantime, what Adsense is paying out is getting ridiculous.

1. all ads are competitors - so I am sacrificing my own customers.
All other ads pay hardly anything.

2. I feel like wasting money every day - so many impressions and clicks from the United Kingdom in the field of "dating". On Adwords you need to pay 70 pence to get a decent amount of daily traffic. But what I get paid is a joke.

I need non-competitive ads with a decent CPM.

Any ideas? If there is someone out there who wants to sell my adspace, let me know - I would even pay 50% commission if the CPM is good.

I have 7 million monthly page impressions and about 50,000 clicks (United Kingdom)

[Lexur]

I don't lnow your numbers but
- 50.000 clicks on 7.000.000 pageviews is a 14% CTR (too much)
- 50.000 clicks for, lets say, 10c are 5.000$/month (not so bad, man)

Without know your site I can adventure myself to say you should concentrate your efforts in your website and build new content or services or anything to do it more interesting for them and have a competitive product.

Or maybe you could live with this state of the web and make a life sending traffic to competitors. It seems you know how to collect traffic better than them.

[edited by: Lexur at 11:57 am (utc) on Mar. 26, 2009]

[jason77]

50,000/7000000 = 0,71% clickthrough rate. 5000 USD would be too low, this is only 0,70 USD CPM. I want a CPM of at least 3 USD, better 5-8 USD.

[BriGuy20]

Grab a time machine and go back to before the internet bubble burst (1999, maybe). Or make your site a finance site.

Those 2 would probably be the best way to get a CPM of over $1.

[adamxcl]

Seems like it depends on the market. I am trying to do other things as well, had no idea what to charge so I went with $15 - 20 CPM and am almost filled because the sections are extremely targeted on pages that have top organic rankings.

[explorador]

Sorry to hear that. Why not try to put an "your ad here" on your site? I get X clicks a day via Adsense, but my regular ads get 50X click a day.

[jason77]

p.s.: I am back at 3,00 CPM now! but only by removing Adsense from parts of the website with low click rates.