Reached $100 milestone

in 4 months

[conjo_guam]

CTR has stabilized at 1.8% and pending work is still 20% on the website.
Looks like a promising adventure with google.

For more success on my website features and services also adsense revenue, iam considering
1) Moving to a dedicated server hosting
3) waiting for ZEAL/DMOZ editors to list my website
4) Exchanging links.
5) Aggressively pursue Google Adwords

Is there anything you guys would like to add here?
thanks

[Zygoot]

I would work on improving the CTR because 1.8% is still rather low. If you can double it then you may hit $150-$200

[asp4bunnies]

I wouldn't go the adwords route if you are only making money from adsense. At a 1.8% CTR you'll be lucky to even break even.

[Undead Hunter]

Did you reach that with a mass of content, or just by picking high-paying content? Or did you have existing traffic that you're monetizing?

Why move to dedicated hosting? Why add the extra expense? We're on shared hosting, have been for seven years, with no problems.

CTR is "low" although one of the Google employees once said 2% was the "network average" at least last year.

CTR isn't necessarily low depending on the content. Content, not just placement, is an important part of the equation.

[loganz]

unless you are catering to millions of visitors and/or a lot of database queries.. there is no point in switching to a dedicated server.

[Radejr]

it took me 3 mmonths to reach my 100 i will actually be getting around 150 in total of 2.5months forgot my first month was half a month.

I don't even get a 1% ctr

of course part of it is because i have my ads on the forum

[conjo_guam]

Thanks fpr all your responses.
I will answer in detail here.

I have very large number of database queries and users come to different pages directly.
Also, i have lots of content related to the service, my website gives.
Again, my users are from 10-12 countries and user base is growing slowly.
As my website performs poorly on google search engine, i had to go for Adwords. Iam still going with Adwords.

I got very less hits from yahoo and MSN and other search engines. Most of the hits are from Adwords.

Again, iam almost breakeven with Adsense and Adwords.

My ads are not intrusive and are respectably placed, where they should be.

I have started working on Link Exchange programs manually.

Thanks for all your suggestions and comments.
I am still working on it.

Good thing is, my website user base is growing and google Page Rank is improving.
Bad thing is, google indexes all my webpages but they fibure in nomans land on google search engine.

I am really angry with website scrapers. They are everywhere with my contents and with really long domain names with Hiphens.
Iam not sure, what i can do with that.

Conjo

[activeco]

"Again, iam almost breakeven with Adsense and Adwords."

If I understand you well you reached $100, but you have to pay almost the same amount for the traffic?
In that case you can reach $10,000 milestone using the same formula.

[conjo_guam]

Yes.

If i that much money, i would have gone ahead with that formula.
Reason? Iam getting registered users. So, i may make money later on.

[activeco]

That is a good strategy Congo_Guam, but it is not $100 profit milestone as your header imply.

[conjo_guam]

I have tried to imply that, i have reached $100 mark (not profits).

thanks