2nd month < $5

Do I just need to be more patient?

[dwhitten]

I launched my site at the end of January, so I've had 2 full months of earnings - Feb & Mar. So far they are less than $5 each month with over 4000 visitors monthly.

I suppose I should continue and concentrate on building my content and traffic, but I was hoping to earn more and after 2 months I'm a bit discouraged. I'm not giving up but some encouragement, advice, or even commiseration would be nice!

Thanks,
Deb

[rbacal]

Find your highest traffic pages and put your advertising on them. Low traffic pages remove and replace with TF or Valueclick cpm. That will help with non paying page views.

Uh. I don't get this one. Why in the world would you want to take the pages with the lowest traffic, and put ads on them that are based ONLY on traffic volume?

[Jane_Doe]

Not a huge amount of content yet.

If you have the site I think it is a really niche topic in a local market with probably not real high paying keywords. The total amount of traffic you are ever going to get is pretty limited, and even then it going to be the same group of people coming to the site on a regular basis so the ads are not going to be fresh for them.

I think to make a site like that make more money you are going to have to add more content, go after a broader topic and/or focus on a much larger geographic area.

[ann]

because the small amount you are getting with no clicks will give you a few cwnts but the page will dilute your google ads bringing earnings down.

[rbacal]

because the small amount you are getting with no clicks will give you a few cwnts but the page will dilute your google ads bringing earnings down.

If anything will "dilute your google ads" (whatever that's supposed to mean), it's HIGH volume ads that aren't converting, not low volumes ads.

But you suggest taking google off of low volume traffic pages.

?

[ann]

I give up.

Let someone else explain it.

[rbacal]

I give up.

Let someone else explain it.

Works for me. I'm a little doubtful anyone will explain your thinking to your satisfaction, but maybe we can all learn if someone can step in and tell us what you mean.

[edited by: jatar_k at 3:51 am (utc) on April 3, 2006]
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[ann]

If a certain page is getting impressions but little or no clicks and no money to speak of then it is better for your site to remove those ads for awhile---later you can retest them....I am assuming you are using channels here.

the less low or no pay ads the better as the overall cpc should then rise....works for me.

Ann

Sort of the same thinking of using less ads on each page....I know all of you have been reading about all this on the forum, that's where I learned to do it.

[ann]

Sorry, I meant pay per click--PPC

[dwhitten]

Interesting - yes, I am using channels and I can tell which pages got the most clicks...

Thanks for all the great advice.

Deb

[Eazygoin]

Does it take long for the ads to be relevant to the content of the page they are on?
I have only run ads for 10 days or so, seen some unusual robots crawling my site non stop,so assume they are ad related.
However, most of the ads aren't relevant to the content of the page yet.

[nonni]

Do you need to be more patient? Yes, but it is also good to ask questions and try things - and that is what you are doing.

For my site, the first few months were very low, on par with what you describe. As content grew, so did earnings. It took several months for the search engines to index my site, and then for it to climb in the rankings. But that brought traffic (until then, think word of mouth advertising). Imagine $5 a month turning into $5 a day - work for it, and you can achieve it. Then set your goal on a higher number.

Because of the nature of my site, there are spurts and dips in income. Plus, Adsense can be unpredictable. But when I got busy with personal stuff and a slight illness and did nothing to the site for a month, the money kept coming in. Paradoxically, that was a huge motivator. Somehow, it made the investment more real. It reinforced the long term value of a quality site.

[adamovic]

5000 visits a month are nothing. 20000 a day is something. If somebody have less then 1000 visits a day he should in my opinion concentrate on traffic. If you don't have a lot of pages you could try to add more content. If you are poorly ranked on search engines you should try to improve your search engine rank.

Read Google guidelines. Those information are the best information for AdSense, IMHO.