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1- Day one years back I inserted 2 ads in each and every page on my site and watched the single digit cents roll in.
2- I used Referral ads for a while as alternate ads and later found out it was a nono!
What's yours?
What's the point of tricking people to go to other sites? It'll just result in a lower conversion rate anyway.
1) Initially for almost 6 months never tried different ad types and running only skyscappers, but once shiftred to large rectangle there was dramatical increase in the revenue.....so I lost good amount of revenue in the first six months.
2) Second Mistake was carried for longer duration. That is for almost 1 -1.5 half years to placed more three ads along with the adlinks. When I started running just one ad, I started recovering fast.
3) Third mistake was to run search and referels. Its absolutely not for my site.
4) Last but not the least which is still going on. I am still not sure about section targetting and avoiding it. But now thinking seriously to apply on my site.
Right now I have many long pages and I am showing as many as "wide skyscraper" ads as possible (but never more than 3) - depending on the length of the page: i.e., 1, 2, or 3 stacked on top of one another. In fact, they are in a separate column so I didn't think it was a big problem.
There's a theory that says my eCPM (even per-page eCPM) may *increase* if I go with just one ad on every page.
Let's test it!
I have about 25,000 impressions per week on a channel with eCPM around $1.50 and another 25,000 per week on a different channel, with eCPM around $3.00. I am going to force only ONE ad to show no matter how long the page is and will post the updated results in a week.
Last but not the least which is still going on. I am still not sure about section targetting and avoiding it. But now thinking seriously to apply on my site.
It depends on how relevant you think the ads are currently. If they are well targeted then I'd avoid using it. I found that using section targeting gave me some unexpected results with ads selected, and income dropped.
Google AdSense Referral:
Many millions of ad impressions
Lots of signups
ZERO earnings
Even if I get $100 for each signup, it wont make up the lost revenue,
so much pay per action.
(Just to be fair, my firefox referral is converting and paying well)
You get paid when the signup leads to at last a $100 earnings in the first 6 months.
I was playing numbers game, if I throw in millions of impressions, I am bound to get hundreds or at least tens of signups (and I did), which eventually would surprise me with an additional $100 every now and then in my earnings.
It didn't happen, not even once!
I am thinking that webmasters like me probably don't click but make a mental note and sign up on their own later on after seeing the ad, but I did generate tens of thousands of clicks!
Test for yourself and see how it goes, you might do better, hell anyone can do better than I did!, I am justifiably a non believer in this specific referral product for my specific web site.
[edited by: Hobbs at 2:08 pm (utc) on July 30, 2006]
Google AdSense Referral:
Many millions of ad impressions
Lots of signups
ZERO earnings
I thought one gets 100$ plus 15% of the money made by the signups, but I just checked again, and now it says you only get 100$, what is true?
An earlier post suggested that Google may not be doing enough to entice potential referrals with their landing page after you draw the click.
I guess it would turn into a "non-stupid" moment by doing adequate preselling and fully explaining the benefits. Anyone try this successfully?
I do have the signups, lots of them, but no money for conversions.
What is one supposed to do? Offer private lessons to each and evey signup for them to generate that first $100? I can earn much more elsewhere with much less baby sitting.
If I had the time for something like that I would probably consider it.
Can anybody please turn back the thread to the topic "AdSense stupid moments"? Its interesting and we get to learn a lot for other's mistake but the discussion is going off track now (as usual?)
turn back the thread to the topic "AdSense stupid moments"
Good participation,
But I'm afraid some "old" or "vintage" members are still reluctant to share their blunders.
Perhaps it's the word "stupid" in the title,
how about calling it "silly moments" instead?
I've gotten over that idea. The monthly checks helped. :)
