0.3% click rate per 1000 views

What am i doing wrong?

[kidwithshirt]

I started this site about a week ago, my first website. EVER

I know it's kinda new And it became really popular in gamespot and some other forum

I checked all my advertisement content, they are all like "themes, css, wordpress blah blah"

I think there is something wrong with this whole "contextual" thing, do i need more keywords or it just take a while for google to recognize the keywords.

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[edited by: martinibuster at 7:09 am (utc) on Jan. 21, 2007]
[edit reason] Removed URL. See TOS [webmasterworld.com] [/edit]

[kidwithshirt]

sorry mods i havent really went over the TOS =\

thanks for not deleting it

[mzanzig]

You need patience with Adsense. Even if ads show up immediately, it can take up to six weeks for the ads to be really targeted. Once that has happened, you will see better ads and (most likely) better CTR.

[kidwithshirt]

today, a brand new day, i got around 700 views already

but only 0.13 click rate

1 click in 700

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[martinibuster]

There are many variables.

It depends on your Topic
Some topics do not lend themselves to shopping. For instance, if you have a site about pictures of flags of the world, you're probably going to get lots of schoolkids downloading flag pics for school projects. The intent is all wrong. Look to the Intent of your site visitor.

It depends on the keywords people are using at the engines
You could be about red widgets, but the keywords used to reach your site is FREE widget downloads. The intent is all wrong in that, too.

Format
Is it a blog or forum? This speaks to Intent, too. In a blog or forum they're there to read gossip or have their news regurgitated (hopefully with a clever spin), or to chat with others. This is about Intent, too.

Are you seeing a pattern? There are some smart people in this forum. I'm sure they can come up with more reasons. But take a look at your site and what people are there for and how that aligns with shopping or not.

[Pengi]

It sounds to me as if either the ad targeting is not very good (yet) ot you need to get better content on your pages to provide something for the ads to target.

[kidwithshirt]

i basically find news about tech/gadgets and write reviews about them, or i just lead people to a link of a tech product

for example i found a black nintendo Wii on ebay, then i posted it on my site

I did include keywords in my article, like "gamer, video gaming world, nintendo, wii"

But all the ads i get are "css themes, wordpress themes" all that stuff

Maybe it DOES take a while for google to recognize my content correctly

I just redesigned my layout, hope everything works out

[martinibuster]

mzanzig's probably right. When I start a phpbb forum, I'm initially plagued by php ads. Keep adding content, it'll snap into focus.

[ronburk]

for example i found a black nintendo Wii on ebay, then i posted it on my site

And exactly how many words of original content did you end up with on that new page? How many words total are there on that new page (that is, including navigation and any other visible text, even if duplicated across all other pages)? Did the title element specify exactly what the page is about, using the appropriate important keywords?

[piatkow]

Whenever I add a new review to my site the initial ad on the page is rubbish. After a while a better targeted ad kicks in - trouble is of course that it may target using a quite unintended phrase in the review.