Thanks for the Testimonials

You Can Do It Too.

[kazisdaman3]

After reading last month a member just recently hit $100 a day mark for the first time really inspired me to work on my site. We know what’s possible is possible for us from personal experiences and testimonials. So I went to work, and just within the past 2 weeks I've been able to increase ad revenue by $5-10/day by simply adding content, and blending my ads into the page.

The last couple of days I hit my first 100 click mark, and the last 4 days it has retained that average.

Thanks to the webmaster world adsense team, you've inspired me, and everyone else can do it too.

[oddsod]

Well done!

Now look ahead. $1,000 a day isn't that difficult. :)

[joeking]

keep on keepin' on!

[idolw]

yeah. and keep improving your site so we, the advertisers, can think of spending real money on content network.

[boskeo28]

I've just joined Webmasterworld. My niche site (financial, value investing) has been running for a little over a year and a half. Last month was my first ever month over $100 after several months of $40-$90. The site has a lot of dynamic pages, but I'm starting to work a lot more on the static content...articles, etc.

Admittedly, stats are well down this month -- it doesn't look like another $100 month, sadly.

[SkyDiveDad]

Well.. I've got to tell you. My site was averaging a measly .30 cents a day for who knows how long. Well over a year at least (thank goodness it's a hobby site!). Some days I didn't even get that. I've studied every thread webmasterworld has every had and I've tried everything under the sun to monetizing it. I've studied the heatmaps and tried some of the most ridiculous color schemes on the net..LOL.. WOW! It was more than scary sometimes.

About 7 weeks ago, I accidentally moved an ad to a "wrong" location on the pages. When I realized what happened almost immediately, I went to put it back where it was intended to go. Took a look at the logs to see how many people may have seen it and bam, FISH ON! Two clicks showed up on the adsense tracker just that quick! When I saw that, I put that "Google bait" right back in the wrong place! Nothing fancy, just a borderless generic colored ad. Been hitting near double digits every single day for the last 7 weeks!

As all of these much more experienced members have been trying to tell us the whole time, ad placement is everything! It's not always what the heatmap shows that I can confirm! It's a fun challange at the very least ;)

[SkyDiveDad]

Now I feel bad! I meant to congratulate you kazisdaman3! Please accept my apology, I didn't mean for it to look as if I took over your thread!

[koan]

About 7 weeks ago, I accidentally moved an ad to a "wrong" location on the pages.

Please share what that wrong location was so we can make the same mistake ;)

[ken_b]

kazisdaman3;

Congratulations and welcome to WW and the Adsense forum.

Thanks for posting your story.

[SkyDiveDad]

Everysite is going to be different, but mine is literally at the bottom of the page. I mean.. nothing else around it like it's just floating there. To me, it looks really stupid and way out of place!

But.. it gets clicked so it stays stupid :)

[koan]

Everysite is going to be different, but mine is literally at the bottom of the page.

Yeah I hear you.... actually the heat map does show good performance at the bottom. Apparently, after reading an article, people are interesting in browsing around and those links are right there for them to click on. I don't get high Ecpm on those since the ad is usually 2nd on page, but the clicks do add up.

[GiveMeMore]

congrats :) this is really good to hear, I hope I will reach the $10 a day too it would be soooooo nice

[SkyDiveDad]

It is a tutorial type website, so the idea of putting the ads at the bottom of the pages to give them something to do afterwards naturally makes sense.

Well, what makes this so odd for me is that fact that I've had text links and leader boards on the bottom for months on end with poor results. They actually complimented the look of the site.

The "new" ads are the largest 328's and doesn't compliment the site at all.. but.. they get the clicks.

One more oddity I haven't mentioned. I have a single 250 square just like the heat map at the top of the page. Blended very nicely with the rest of the content. If I remove it (I've tested this several times) to try to avoid smartpricing.. the visitors quit clicking on the bottom ads!

My only thinking on this is that they may make a mental note of how the ads are blended in with the content, but when they get to the bottom of the page, see links NOT blended in, they click it?

[koan]

My only thinking on this is that they may make a mental note of how the ads are blended in with the content, but when they get to the bottom of the page, see links NOT blended in, they click it?

I can't help you with that, it's still a mystery for me too, however, I have used the multiple background colors for an ad that google offers to display randomly, and I tried to give it a blended look and a slightly unblended look and it seems to work well. Must be helping against ad blindness.