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I've been using adsense for the past two months. So far I've had over 1000 impressions, but I've only $0.61 cents to show for it. How do I convert these huge numbers into major cash?
I've been using adsense for the past two months. So far I've had over 1000 impressions, but I've only $0.61 cents to show for it. How do I convert these huge numbers into major cash?
If by that you mean you have put out only 1000 AdSense impressions in total over two month. Then its not really a huge number. 1000 impressions a day is not a big number, 10,000 impressions per day is not a big number.
Have you really put in the correct figure for your impressions over 2 months?
1000 impressions a day is not a big number, 10,000 impressions per day is not a big number
There's no satisfying cornwall :), when I used to serve 10k ad impressions daily, I used to pull some very good cash, but cornwall would then counter that $100/day is not good cash, $200/day is not good cash, $300/day is not ..
kaymeis, since July you say?
I'll leave you to the claws of cornwall then! :-)
Seriously looking back at 200 impressions/month is a waste of anyone's time including yours (nothing bad meant by this), if you can't get decent traffic, work on content, links and traffic first then let's see how much you will earn, good content calls for many visitors which translates to better money.
I agree with Hobb that you should concentrate on creating content. As a new webmaster you might be impressed by 1000 page impressions made. But after a while you will realize that 1000 page views in several months is actually very low.
You should check out the page impression made daily by one of the most famous lady bloggers on the web (* Hint initial M. M.). Average page view per day = 115,065.
everything the person above suggested
I agree with Hobb
My site is serving over 1,000 impressions while I am typing this, I deserve some respect D@mit!
:-)
kaymeis, don't let what's ahead of you or other's view of your numbers intimidate you, everyone has to start somewhere, just start.
How many clicks have you received? That may help explain part of the story. It's also likely that in getting your site ready and checking on the site over the past few months that many of those impressions -- though hopefully none of the clicks -- have come from you simply maintaining the site.
You may very well not be optimizing the ad placement on your site but your real problem at this point is generating traffic.
Constructively for the OP, you should aim, depending on your niche to be in the $1 to $10 eCPM. Realistically you cannot expect to get much more than that (OK there are some earning much, much more than $10 per 1000 impressions, but I will use $10 as my example)
Google will only pay you when you get to $100 (if my memory is correct), so you are going to have to put out at least 10,000 impressions if you get $10 per 1000, and 100,000 impressions if you get $1 per 1000. 1000 impressions over a month or so will never get you anywhere.
Basically until you get substantially more impressions, then you will not get paid. It is sometimes difficult when trying to judge the humour of people from another country (OP is from Ghana I see), I was picking up on the use of 1000 impressions as being a huge number
for you and J_Evans, both of you may want to also evaluate how popular is your topic if getting good traffic is hard. I can think of 2 reasons:
a) Your website topic is too popular and competitive, (too many other sites about the same topic), in that case I would advise you to drop the site and start over in something else you are interested in.
b) Your site topic is unpopular (no one is interested), in which case you need to broaden the topic to cover related topics.
In all cases, everyone is advising you to build content, and get related links (get traffic)
in which case make sure that you are reaching your target audience and content yourself with the thought that $100 in 18 months or 2 years is $100 more than you would have had otherwise.
Get a good sized empty cookie jar (eat the contents first).
Cut a rectangular hole in the top.
Every time you gain a new impression on your site drop $1 into the jar.
As you can't be far above 1 - 2 impressions a day for 1000 over 2 months, you won't notice the money going in.
Voila!
Instant riches!
Otherwise work hard to get more impressions.
How many pages do you have?
You have a good start to build from. Is your traffic increasing month to month?
If it's true that you're from Ghana (I didn't look myself), where is the target market of the site? If your visitors are mainly from Africa, the ad market and rates may be in line with your earnings.
I could make some suggestions, but don't want to make too many assumptions.
