fair earning for my hard work?

how much im i suppose to be making with such a traffic

[wasconet]

I have a tech blog with averagely 8000 daily unique visitors, 15,000 daily page view, 100-150 adsense click and 0.12-0.20 CPC.

i earn between 10 to 20USD daily.

I have tried to improve but nothing seems to be working, sometimes traffic increases but still earning stay same.

Im just worried to know if for such a traffic (im not saying its a big one) is it okay the amount im earning or anything i can do?

[trebuchet]

I'd expect earnings 2-3 times that amount, based on that amount of traffic.

Yours might be a traffic quality issue. What countries do most of your visitors come from?

Ad config is also a big factor in earnings. What units do you use and where do you place them?

[wasconet]

Looking at my google analytics for yesterday by country:

1. Kenya = 1,995
2. Nigeria = 1,624
3. India = 1,535
4. Indonesia = 886
5. United States = 669
6. United Kingdom = 330

So maybe thats why and my ads placement:

1. i have a Text/image, 336x280 which is on every page after the first paragraph of every post.

2. I have a Text/image, Responsive ad at the top of the page in the head section.

3. I have an Ad links, 200x90 on the top right-sidebar

Thats all the ads on the blog

[trebuchet]

Yeah definitely a traffic quality issue. You need more visitors from US, UK, Canada and Australia. That will bump up your EPC. Everything else sounds fine.

[wasconet]

yea, thanks mate

[netmeg]

Also, tech users tend to use ad blockers more often than civilians, and might be a bit less likely to click on ads. Maybe if you wrote some stuff that was a bit more consumer oriented, you might get a better return. Might be worth trying.

[philipsong702]

Wow, you should definitely be getting more income for that amount of web traffic. Looking at the traffic, it almost seems like a lot of the traffic you are getting is low quality or even bots. Also netmeg has a point about techies using adblockers.

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[surfgatinho]

I have a site with around a quarter of that traffic that nets me $2-$3 a day so you're not alone. I put this down to many of my visitors being teenagers and the fact most of my visitors are using mobiles.

On the other hand one of my top performing site gets half the traffic yours does but nets around $60 a day.

The point is its all about who is visiting your site. Since Adsense tends to target the user I don't think it even matters what the subject of your site is an ymore (except in terms of who it attracts)

[trebuchet]

The big money in Adsense is when your visitors come to you in the buying cycle, e.g. if they're shopping around for cars, cameras, insurance or whatever, and your site happens to have content or reviews pertinent to those. Tech blogging sites are probably not great for Adsense because visitors go there for information, not product advice. And as netmeg says, visitors are often tech savvy and alert to online advertising. When your visitors aren't in the buying cycle (as mine almost never are) then you need a lot more of them.