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I'd rather have a clean webpage w/o ads than tricky google adsense. Please share your experiences with google adsense?
500 visitors is hardly anything, so you get paid hardly anything. If you want to make more money then that, get more visitors there.
Certainly I know of no other program from which I could earn so much for so little effort on my part.
I'd rather have a clean webpage w/o ads than tricky google adsense
~500 visitors/month
Heck, I get more bots a month than that!
Honestly you need to be getting 500 a day to start earning reasonable money, it is possible on 100 a day in a good paying niche.
How old is the site?
But google must be drawing some money from these major companies pass down some peanuts to us
Work on your traffic first. The money will come. And if adsense doesn't work there are other ways to monetize it.
Many new webmasters think they should start earning lots of money right away.
Just keep adding quality, original content to your site, and it will happen for you. It just takes time and patience. Patience is not my long suit either, but these days with so much competition, it just takes longer to start earning good money than it did back when I started this in 2003.
~500 visitors/month
You need a lot of more work to get some money. I'll say 500 per day should be your goal right now and then keep going. It also depends on your niche, but 500 per month is too low.
Focus on building a rich content site with original and useful content, then build traffic on that.
Focus on building a rich content site with original and useful content, then build traffic on that.
In every forum I've participated in over the years, even before AdSense came along, that is precisely what newcomers don't want to hear.
It means hard work!
Heck every person I personally know with a web site found it took at least five years to show results from affiliate income. AdSense then just became the cream on the cake.
Now it's the cart before the horse.
I don't think Adsense is a rip-off entirely - I say "entirely" because I would like to make more money with it myself but its myself that has to do the work to earn more money with it.
I'm sure that if it were possible to leave a link to your site people would be able to tell you specifically why your site is not earning as much money as you would like.
Focus on building a rich content site with original and useful content, then build traffic on that.
Or be the first on something not original. But it's a bit late for that now (I think).
(I host lyrics and pay the proper authorities to do so. Nothing written by me but still successful as site)
If you want a poor performer I signed up with an AdSense competitor quite a long while back but never actually did anything because of the dismal reports from others.
Of course they write every so often trying to get me to give them a try and I've never bothered. Today I get another email and; this is true.
[paraphrasing]
"Ian, you're missing out on a fortune. If you had placed our code on your sites we estimate you would have earned annually..."
WAIT FOR IT...
$one and a half AdSense daily income.
I choked on my coffee, it's not a rip-off but it is a sure fire poor performer. Even poor old Kontera blows 'em out of the water on a monthly basis.
Stick with AdSense folks unless you have a good affiliate network that performs better for you.
1) Forget about Adsense for now.
2) Get the traffic needed to monetize properly through affiliates.
3) Then entirely forget about Adsense, because at the end you'll give up huge screen real-estate for a program that is un-managable.
(And no, it's not a great program anymore.)
<quote>I'm sure that if it were possible to leave a link to your site people would be able to tell you specifically why your site is not earning as much money as you would like.</quote>
I'd very much like to know the opinions of my fellow forum members on his site - is posting a link to the it allowed?
I'd very much like to know the opinions of my fellow forum members on his site - is posting a link to the it allowed?
Not allowed. TOS #13
Please do not drop promotional urls, signature files, nor specifics that would lead people to your site. Signing your name is fine, however commercialized posts or resume signatures will be edited. We tend to err on the side of caution to protect the integrity of the system. Affiliate based URLs are not allowed anywhere on the system.
Forum page views
Photo gallery page views
E-commerce page views
News page views
Review page views
How to page views
etc, etc, etc.
They all will probably earn at different rates, even if they were all about the same basic topic.
Then toss in and endless range of topics and it gets even harder to make sense of simple numbers (xx,000 page views).
Talking about visitors per day/month/year isn't much more helpful, if at all, when it comes to understanding an issue. Too many different sources for traffic, too many possible motivations for each visit. etc, etc.
Now toss in the range of page views per visitor and things get real mucky, real fast.
Still, traffic is the key to start with.
No traffic, no clicks, simple.
Lots of traffic, could be anywhere from no clicks to a ton of clicks, depending on the site.
To be honest: increasing you traffic might be easier if you temporarily turn off your ads.
Honestly you need to be getting 500 a day to start earning reasonable money, it is possible on 100 a day in a good paying niche.
I teached last year somebody to create a new site with AdSense.
He started June 2008.
Now he is at 14000 visitors a month and a little bit above 500.-EUR a month.
I find that visitors from search convert MUCH better even with adsense than visitors from social media or links dropped around the net in blogs and such. Traffic quality matters more than quantity in the long run but you do need both.
5,000 visitors a day will probably land you somewhere near $60/day US assuming an average niche with average conversion.
If your website is about door knobs - then write content about door knobs and sell door knobs as well.
One sale might be worth 100 AdSense clicks.
