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It is infact by a channel study which I took for an entire week recording all none-logged in users and logged in users via a PHP session.. the session indicated if a member was logged in or not and the appropriate channel was written like this "<? echo $channel_id;?>" in the quotes.
Anyway the study showed for 1 weeks data, my members click more than the public do.
Infact I make most of my revenue from my members who existantly use my site on a day by day basis.
So why don't you channel your valued members, is taking away ads from their pages a really good idea?
Regards,
GP
A possible simpler explanation is that new unregistered visitors find your site more interesting than old registered ones who still come back hoping for something new, don't find it and click away in disgust ;-)
Please run it for more than one week GP and come back and update your findings.
Always good to know more about what makes people click.
Thanks for sharing.
<?
if (isset($_SESSION['USERID']))
{$channel_id = "logged_in_member_chan_id";}
else
{$channel_id = "logged_out_member_chan_id";}
?>
--adsense script--
blah = blah
blah = blah
channel blah = "<? echo $channel_id;?>"
--end adsense script--
When I ran this exact same experiment I had absolutely opposite results.
This is why testing is important - what works for me might not work for you.
TJ
--New Users--
Is the user a fresh new user to your site that day? after 10 page hits drop a cookie on their machine reflecting old or new user, and channel accordingly.
--Adwords ROI--
Is the user from adwords set a session id on a page entry url and log to see if they convert adsense for you by giving them a channel id.
--How many page views does it take to convert to a click--
Setup 10 channels reflecting page views for example a channel for 10,50,100,200,400,600,800,1000,2000 , view all of these and see where your ads really pay off. for that particular member.
You can do this by incrementing a number in a cookie or session, where this does an IF check in PHP and results in a Channel ID accordingly.
It may be plausable to concider that I should stop running ads for none-members in which they will have a more succesful sign-up rate and less likely to leave unless they totaly have no regard to be on my web-site.
I really concidered dropping ads for my valued members until I realised that would of killed my Income
I dropped ads for registered users, because I'm afraid they would click only to support me.
Try putting them up for a few days, see how your earnings go, drive by Adsense baning could occour when a "drive by visits your site for the first time see's your adsense and frauds your account", however a member is more loyal and has more respect for your site, without your ads there may be no funding.
I dropped ads for registered users, because I'm afraid they would click only to support me.
Same here. Most users are oblivious to the ads, but there will be some who click now and then believing they are supporting the forum. And that would worry me too much.
