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Secondly, how much can a one person business expect to make? I know this is dictated by traffic and click through, but I would like to hear some "light at the end of the tunnel" stories. Just curious to see what kind of returns similar postitioned people like myself are making? If we do not discuss income, I understand.
That's not to say that I don't know my demographics very well. But I think there's a lot of visitors who click on ads out of curiosity, perhaps especially more when they are not used to seeing such unrelated ads on your site.
But you should look into replacing the PSA's with your alternate creative.
Seems like I have a boatload. I am getting all kinds of volunteer and health related websites and very little computer related.
You're getting an inordinate amount of public service ads. Assuming your site is computer related it sounds like mediabot and the AdSense algo are having a problem determing what the pages are about. Blocking each of these ads will really not do much good since AdSense will continue to try serve something similar unless it can determine relevant ads to deliver.
First, check you robots.txt file and meta robots tags (if either are applicable) to make sure you aren't blocking mediabot from spidering the page.
Then, do a bit of basic SEO. Check page titles, heading text, body copy, etc. Run a couple of pages through Brett's Sim Spider [searchengineworld.com] to see the pages as a spider would. Check to see that the page's topic is readily discernible.
Also, there are certain stop words and subjects such as murder, disease, death, disaster, catastrophe, etc., that might force AdSense to serve public service ads. Something like "Disaster ensued because of a catastrophic failure of the network," might be enough to inadvertently trigger this.
