Hi guys. I run a somewhat popular 'social networking' site. I am getting about 175,000 page views a day but I have not been able to monetize that very well with Adsense. I have been stuck at about $20 a day; and you can imagine how low of a CPM that is. I would love to get $1CPM.. because that would mean $175/day. Any ideas?
Try setting up a CPM chain to fill 100% of your inventory. You can start off with ADSDAQ. I make $120~ a day with them with just 100k impressions. So you'd make more. Since they wont fill 100%, you can set a backfill network. You can use Adsense or another CPM network like Burst Media which is paying me 0.50CPM. These two networks like US traffic. If you dont have much US traffic, I suggest trying out Morning Falls as well.
If you have OpenX then try to split test adsense along with other PPC networks (adbrite perhaps?) if that doesn't yield good results then try to do another split test with CPA offers, there are many that could yield better results per CPM...