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adsense question and help

[3DdesktopsUK]

Hello all and a thanks to everyone here for sharing some very interesting topics.

I have run my website for a while now and am starting to generate a little money from the adsense program. However, after reading alot of the threads here, I feel I am seriously under achieving. What I would really like to know is how to really maximise my adsense for greater revenue. I current recieve around $1-$3 a day from 2000-5000 page views a day. Is this about norm or am I missing a trick here. Any help would be greatly appreciated to this adsense newbie - Thanks

[deano6410]

send me your URL and i will have a look.

How many uniques do you get per day?

[3DdesktopsUK]

hi and thanks

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last weeks I have seen between 800-1500 uniques a day

Hope this is allowed to post the url - pls this is not meant to be spam

[edited by: Jenstar at 1:02 pm (utc) on July 19, 2005]
[edit reason] No URLs / site reviews, as per TOS, thanks! [/edit]

[alika]

1. This is a case of of ads that are too blended in the content that the ads are soooo easy to ignore.

2. You may be in an area where costs per click is minimal.

3. Check the heatmap of Adsense. Your ad format, ad location and colors are so easy to overlook.

[3DdesktopsUK]

Thanks, apart from the heat map issue which I will definitely take a look at, what sort of colour do you think would work best, something completely diffent the the rest of the site? Thanks for the advise, that had never crossed my mind that they would be missed :(

[vincevincevince]

First, you're not allowed to post your link here (TOS), and if you don't remove it, a mod will soon!

Second, I did look at your site, and wow, I can see why you're not getting clicks.

I couldn't even find the Adsense without searching for it. Nobody looks in the top right of the site. And your ads are so well blended your users will think they are part of your top banner.

If I wanted to increase earnings there, I would place a wide but short ad unit just below your "________ The Top 4 Wallpapers Rated By Users ________" title. And I'd take away the border, so that it blends totally with your page.

On your internal gallery pages I would put the ad unit just the same, below the large title for that category.

Overall, I don't think that adsense will perform well for your sector, although I may be wrong.

[3DdesktopsUK]

thanks alot for all your advice, told you I was a newbie! Will take everything on board and vincevincevince, I tend to agree that my sector will not make me millions - thanks guys

[indias next no1]

good work, but change the top right side 468 adsense and blend 336 x 280 somewhere in the middle of the page, so that you can get more CTR and earnings.

best of luck

[qbert]

I think my ads are in a decent place...my problem is simply getting visitors to my site.
I would kill for 2000-5000 visitors, but sadly, on most days, I get less than a hundred.

[TheDonster]

Not sure what your site is about but I'm guessing it's free wallpaper backgrounds judging by one of the posts. If it is, the bad news is that ads for wallpaper sites are among the lowest revenue generators there are.

[qbert]

It's a vrey small site, with free wallpapers, pc files, geek news, humor, flash files, etc.

[epraawn]

even my earning is also as like yours.....visitor 2000-2500 .but in some days earning $10+ only

[TheDonster]

Well, I would suggest removing or at least minimizing ads from all pages offering free wallpaper. I have a small section on my site to get better SERP's and so far this has helped my site tremendously. The problem is that you tend to think, I'll plaster AS all over these pages and make a mint. But the average CPC for these kinds of ads is really low. If you check the Overture keyword bid tool, you'll find the maximum anyone will pay for a keyword ad regarding wallpaper is about 15 cents. And remember, that is the max so most advertisers are paying much less when someone clicks on these. The only way to make money on these types of pages IMO is if you have CPM ads that pay a guaranteed rate per thousand impressions along with a huge traffic supply to generate revenue. Keep these pages on your site to help get traffic from the search engines but minimize the advertising you display on these pages. Also try to provide prominent links on the wallpaper pages to higher revenue producing pages within your site.

[Nitrous]

I average 3500 page views but earn 100+ daily. It depends on the viewers, the add relevancy, how savvy the users are, etc. And how much you get per click on your topic? And your click through rate.

Mines between 11 and 14 percent. Across a bunch of small hobby sites in different fields.

[qbert]

My site isn't about wallpapers, but I do have pages offering wallpapers. I think most people going to my site probably don't even notice the wallpapers link. My visitors really go for the humor and other geeky stuff.

[DXL]

Somebody break this down for me. I just signed up for adsense, I put it a limited number of pages on a site I run.

So in the last 24 hours, I got:

11,228 impressions, 74 clickthroughs, 0.7% Page CTR, $0.62 Page ECP and $6.94 in earnings. But there are people here saying they are getting several times what I am for less impressions. What am I missing? Do I make more money if the percentage of clickthroughs per thousand impressions is higher than what it is now?

[DXL]

no ideas?

[Rodney]

You may just need to test different adsense ad placements sizes and color combinations to see if you can increase your earnings.

Here's a thread with more tips you can use:
[webmasterworld.com...]

Just test test and test again to see if you can find a combination that works with your particular site.

Some site themes (like forums) have generally reported lower click through rates and earnings that more traditional content based sites (not sure if your site is a forum or not...just throwing that out there)

[DXL]

I am putting the ads on a forum as well as the main part of the site. But again, how does the pay work in terms of impressions vs. clicks?

I can't figure it out from the adsense site. If I get 1000 impressions, I get paid regardless if anyone clicks, right? But if I get clicks, I get paid for that too, right? So do I make more money per click or per thousand if the ratio of clicks to impressions improves?

Im trying to determine if I should pull adsense from certain pages with less chance of a click through, or limit ad blocks to one per page instead of two, in order to improve the percent of clicks. But only if that means more money per click or per 1,000 impressions, which nothing on this forum really specifies.