No my goal is to get the best RPV (Revenue Per Visitor) i can on my sites. If you have a 100% CTR that means every visitor just looked at one page and left. They are never going to come back, never going to blog about your site, never tell their friends on their site. If you have each visitor viewing 10 pages a visit, than a 10% CTR will get you the same amount of revenue that you one-page visitors got you. But if users were looking at 10 pages of information, chances are they will come back and tell their friends about it. And then over and above CPC ads, establishing a relationship with a visitor gives you the opportunity to get money from affiliate links. If someone is visiting a site that they know and trust, they are much more likely to click on and follow up on any recommended product you might have for them Then if you start building really useful content you can start charging for subscriptions for your content. Worrying about CTR and getting as much traffic as you can from SEs and CPC campaigns is short term thinking. I'm into websites as a long term, passive revenue stream. You do that by building quality sites. If your building sites with maximizing CPC revenue in mind you are building MFA sites. If you are building sites that you think users find useful, you are not building MFA sites. It's all about the intent.
Here are my suggestions - Are you looking to make a MFA site using RSS feed or similar scripts(blackhat) becasue if you are than you are probably asking this question in wrong forum. Black hat don't promote, they spam to get traffic to there MFA's but you can surely make MFA with some decent content for a particult niche mostly on the topic which is related to celeb,music,games or news. In any case You will never get much traffic from search engines, so pormote a catchy MFA it through community sites. I think a MFA on "How to make Money Online" can really get you good money.
Because it´s very likely that after optimizing your site to a 40% CTR the advertisers will get a higher fraction of visitors not performing the action desired by them (name it low quality clicks)
The traffic isn't low quality and the ad units aren't setup to deceive the user, they look like links if they click its because there interested in the product. To get a high CTR you don't need to trick anybody into clicking.
sorry to bring this up again but just looking through old threads I was just wanting to know what did you do with the ads? Ive never seen the ads displayed like that before. Talking to jabb here about wisegeek.com
That depends on your definition again, like i said most of my sites are MFA yet they have unique helpful content. I make sites around high paying niches and design them to get a high CTR, but i use unique content so its still an MFA right? You guys need to stop thinking of MFA as a page of ads and nothing else Its not my site, they can display ads like that because there a premium publisher.
This topic could be simply renamed: how to promote a website. Why is it important if the site is MFA or not? Build a website, get traffic and then think about monetization.
This is a good advice. And also try to get links from relevant websites (exchange or rent). I would also put up a professional design to make the site looks better.
The way you get traffic to an MFA site is different then a non-MFA site. If your site has real content you get people to link to you (aka linkbait). With an MFA site you need to rely on search engines, or obtaining your own links to them, no one is going to link to you willingly.
Glad someone finally brought up Wisegeek. I've long admired Wisegeek as one of the first Arbitrage 2.0 sites. A well thought-out, content-rich MFA site. But it's still MFA, no doubt about it.
Jabb you are so right about too many directories. Your site is useful and I didn't have to drill down 5 layers to get information. Congrates