Relevant Ads, but Low Earnings Per Click

Need Tips for Improving Low AdSense Earnings

[gradoj]

I am sick of getting 50 clicks per day and still only earning about a dollar.

The adds all seem to be related but they just don't pay anything. Is this just what my target market pays or is this common across markets? Who can make any money on 2 or 3 cent clicks?

Any comments?

[hunderdown]

gradoj, first of all, welcome to WebmasterWorld!

Spend some time browsing the threads on this board. You'll see people reporting a wide range of individual click values, and a wide range of average click values. I see a wide range just on my one site.

This is not something we can discuss in detail, of course, or we run the risk of violating the AdSense TOS.

In your case, it's possible that you are indeed in a low-cost area for advertisers. If you feel comfortable doing so, you might say a bit more about your site and some people might have suggestions.

[gradoj]

It is a free public service site related to the pet industry. Is that what you mean by saying a little bit more about my website? or did you mean what type of google ads, etc.

[gradoj]

Upon further examination - it looks as though only my frontpage has appropriate ads - the other pages are close but not really what I am looking for.

I added in all appropriate keywords that I had on my frontpage that got the right ads yesterday. Google hit my website lastnight after the change but their ads didn't change.

Is there anyway to force adsense to recheck my content?

[JohnKelly]

I've read that changing the ad size (switching from large rectangel to medium rectangle for example) will trigger an AdSense bot visit.

[hunderdown]

Search the AdSense Help area for "section targeting." You can use it emphasize a section of a page, or tell the AdSense bot to ignore it. This can help if it's not picking up the right keywords.

[gradoj]

I have done some section targeting and added appropiate keywords that I know worked on the main page. The problem is google isn't updating or recrawling the sub-pages. So the adds are still inappropriate. I need to let adsense know somehow that the content has changed on the page.