45 clicks and only $1

[Encore]

Is it just me who sometimes gets such poor results?
Perhaps its something I'm doing wrong but it seems each click is only worth 2 cents which I would deem very poor ....

[Jenstar]

Are these stats after 24 hours? The stats update at different times, so if that is what you are seeing from this morning, it might not be accurate.

[Encore]

I've been using adsense since January, and there are many days in which I recieve a relatively how amount of clicks, but earn so little ...

My site is a fansite of a famous artist so perhaps that counts towards why clicks are worth so little .. but is still dissapointing.

[budapesttips]

Maybe it's just an end of the month effect, advertisers might have run out of their monthly budgets...

[webmastertexas]

As most people said, some sites earn more than others. Some don't earn anything at all. I used to think mine was part of the latter, but lately I've been improving earnings by experimenting with new ad layouts.

[PhraSEOlogy]

encore,

find yourself a good list of high paying keyowrds and you can make more money.

Rewrite the entire content of your site to match those keywords.

[Kanna_Brown]

I've just started using google ad words and experimenting with different keywords. So far in a week I've had 15 clicks. I was expecting more. Does anyone have any tips?

Are there any shortcuts to finding out what key words my competitors use?

[Macro]

>> Does anyone have any tips?
Yes, only about one million of them.

>> Are there any shortcuts to finding out what key words my competitors use?
Don't worry about the shortcuts. Your best bet is to browse these forums and read and read and read. For most people that's too much of trouble. They go away. And it's their loss.

Welcome to WW.

[Fairla]

I haven't had anything quite that bad, but I am routinely getting under $3 for 45 clicks or more. In fact, I just removed most of my AdSense ads for this reason. It's too bad, because targeting has improved and I was happy to expand Adsense's presence on my site recently, but it just isn't paying off sufficiently.

Google isn't paying well at all, and Google wants the right to display its own ads on my site for free... well, Google, guess what, I'm not a charity, and I can make better money elsewhere.

[Kanna_Brown]

I'm thinking my low click rate may be to do with the service I'm offering - consulting and coaching, rather than a product people buy. My ads appear with one off product purchases. Any thoughts anyone?

[webmastertexas]

I think when you hear about people here making major bank from Adsense it's because their entire site exists for the sole purpose of making money off Adsense. For everyone else, myself included, we got into this with orignial content that we enjoy, and we figured, hey, if you can make money off it, why not? IN this case, we're not "targeting" Adsense, thus our revenues will be much lower than, say, someone who creates a website for the sole purpose of EARNING through Adsense. At least that's what I seem to understand from reading here. I could be wrong, of course.

[hyperkik]

webmastertexas, I think you make a valid point, but not one that applies universally. There are some "FedEx Club" members here who make a point about how bad and spammy their sites are, and how they achieve high CTR by serving "crappy" content.

But there are some people here who focus on making good content, even for a site that is largely "made for AdSense", and others who happened to successfully monetize a hobby site in an AdSense-friendly subject area, who make a lot of money while serving very good content.

[webmastertexas]

I've seen some sites that PRETENDED to be content, but it was full of those "targeted keywords" repeated over and over. It's ridiculous. The entire site was just one big Adsense nest. I don't think they even bother to update. It's toss something together, slap on Adsense, and put it on the net kind of deal. I guess it works, because a lot of people are doing that.

[Encore]

See that's the opposite to what I'm doing. My intentions have always been to make the best < artist name > fansite and if I can earn at the same time, all is well. The lack of revenue is not at certain times of the month, so I can only assume it's the fact that the main keyword < artist name > is popular and therefore not worth much per click ...

[webmastertexas]

See that's the opposite to what I'm doing. My intentions have always been to make the best < artist name > fansite and if I can earn at the same time, all is well.

That's how I approach my site. I enjoy updating it and doing it. And right now it happens to be making some nice change, but that's just a side benefit.

[Kanna_Brown]

I take back what I said yesterday. My site is a one pager for my coaching service and out of the 15 clicks in my first week with Google. I have two customers. Maybe it just pays to be a little patient.

[DamonHD]

Hi Y'All,

[bleeding-heart mode on]

It's definitely a shame that a few people seem to wake up each morning with their first thought (well, maybe second after visiting the bathroom), is "How can I rip off X today?" where X happens, for our purposes, to be AdSense.

I set up my site as a public service (free Web-quality photographic content) in the days when scanners/scanning and digital cameras were expensive, ie 1997, and now I even run some AdWords to promote my site to raise its profile.

I *do not* and *would not* put up a SPAMmy site to screw AdSense/AdWords and its customers and I am sad that some do even though it is demonstrably inevitable; I hope that G manages to weed them out effectively. I heavily subsidise my service to "give something back" to the Net, but obviously if AdSense starts to cover costs I can afford to expand the service. That's one legitimate use of AdSense, IMHO.

[bleeding-heart mode off]

Rgds

Damon