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i make nothing god dammit
There's also some decent tips here:
[webmasterworld.com...]
Adsense does ok on the forums I run using some of those tips.
people dont wanan give me cash
people dont wanan give me cash
No, people don't seem to be interested in clicking on the ads you're displaying.
Either they're not "seeing" them, or they're not seeing anything that interests them.
You need to experiment with Ad placement, colours, the area of the page that mediabot pulls content from and possibly rotating combinations of those.
You can't just expect AdSense to be plug and play. It is to an extent, but to maximise your revenue you need to put in a little time and effort.
TJ
also gadsense doesnt show related ads it shows bull#*$!
These can be really helpfull getting targetted ads on forums.
Freq---
thats so ironic and sad and evil
I agree this. Same situation with my sites. Our visitors read average 17 pages per visitor (Medical books). They ignore add on relevant topics. In this way they read more than 70,000 pages per day; with only few clicks.
So I have made some other pages on some other interesting topics (Other than medical topic); and try to divert these visitors by my own banners; and I am now successful to cash these visitors at another topics.
Again this type of thinking is short term because eventually you'll be slammed by smart pricing and your clicks will be worthless, you might as well go for the cpm model
If you really want to monetize your forum - heavily interlink it with an "articles" section where you write about related topics, and make your money on those pages.
Forums are hard to monetize, but not worthless - use them as a net for catching visitors from the SERPS on a broad range of keywords and phrases - then lead the users to the pages where you DO make money.
Forums are for repeat visitors.If you really want to monetize your forum - heavily interlink it with an "articles" section where you write about related topics, and make your money on those pages.
Forums are hard to monetize, but not worthless - use them as a net for catching visitors from the SERPS on a broad range of keywords and phrases - then lead the users to the pages where you DO make money.
Thanks. A light bulb just went on.
That's worse than "terrible", that's a catastrophy.
And how much money did you make with these 2 clicks?
10 cents? more?
I suggest you change your business concept.
You have to keep changing colors, make them blend in and out in the same time and lot of other small "changes"
Don't expect to put the code there and cash-in everyday. You have to work and analyse and see what is good or what is bad, and in the end you can have 30 clicks for 6000 page views so easily.
Good luck
I'd avoid Chitika until you read up on their recent troubles and see how things unfold on Jan-15-2006.. [webmasterworld.com...] amongst other recent threads on WW from around the Nov-30 timeframe that I can't locate right now.
1. Never show ads to logged in members. There is an easy way to do it with most sofwares.
2. If you are sending email digests or newsletters every day - make sure to work out a mechanism to not show the ads on the landing pages of the links from the newsletter. At least not adsense - you can use some other affiliate programs, cpm banners etc.
3. Reduce the number of ads being shown and make sure to follow the optimization tips given by Google. It's also a good idea to have a adlinks unit near a hot spot.
4. Make sure to make it easy for users to search your board. Search traffic is the best in terms of conversion - add your adsense on the search results page.
Hope this helps.
If you get lots of traffic from regular users, then you probably do have some good information. But forum threads are rarely the most convenient way for someone with a question to get that good information. That means opportunity for you.
What topics are generating the most views and interest? Find those, and turn them into edited content that takes those chaotic threads and turns them into organized summaries of useful information. Now go back into those threads and point to your new static, not-in-the-forums web page. Make sure AdSense is turned on for this web page. Whenever that topic comes up in the future, add a note to the thread that points users there. Use forum features to encourage users to do the work of pointing newbies to these resources.
People often hope forums will mean other folks will do the work of making good content so they can reap the benefits. When it comes to AdSense, it might be better to view the forums as giving you free input for the process of making salable content.
