4k impressions per day but CTR is low

[moonkey]

i'm running adsense on few sites. even i've lots of impressions (4.000 per day), i'm getting few clicks, earning only 0.5$. what should i do?

how much earnings can i espect with 4k impressions per day? anyone knows?

tnx

[jchampliaud]

It depends on your topic and the type of site is it. What type of site do you have? Sounds like a forum to me.

[bobothecat]

how much earnings can i espect with 4k impressions per day? anyone knows?

Only Google truly knows... and they're not talking.

[moonkey]

it's about jokes. 4k impressions are made of 500 unique visitors :(

[jchampliaud]

Then maybe joke ads pay poorly.

[moonkey]

probably. there's many advertisers with subdomains, but i removed them through the adsense panel. my CTR's very low, today i tried changing colours of links and backgrounds. we'll see how it depends of making better CTR :)

tnx

[Lipik]

I would be happy with 0.5$, on the other hand it is better to have 0.1$ clicks with 10% CTR rather than 0.5$ with 1% CTR.
There are so many factors : CTR, impressions, visitors, EPC, etc...
Typically for jokes of course is that one visitor generates many impressions, this results normally in low CTR.
Conclusion : don't ask what to expect, it's like asking for the lotto-numbers ;-)

[hunderdown]

You're not going to get a really good CTR with a joke site, IMO. People come to your site looking for jokes, not looking to buy something. Sites that attract people looking to buy things, or researching a vacation, or looking for legal advice, do better.

Now, if you developed a section of your site where you reviewed the best joke BOOKS, and made it good enough that it became seen as an authority, then you might make some money there from affiliate sales AND from AdSense, because you would have better, motivated traffic.

[hunderdown]

Actually, make that reviews of comedians on DVD, funny movies, etc. Higher price point.

[moonkey]

thank you all!

after i removed subdomain advertisers, it's getting twice better :)

[evibgyor]

First tell me how you are getting 4000 impression per day. If you are using Auto surfing then disable that on to the page on which you are sending your autosurfing traffic other wise your account may be disable by google. So Beware of it.

[moonkey]

i'm not using autosurfing, i know it is against of adsense TOS. Visitors like my content so they are visiting more pages (average 14 pages visited per visitor :)).