Hey all, I'm very frusterated with Adsense... OFFICIALLY. I thought I was doing great until a few days ago. I was doing the random adsense research and found that my clicks pay very low. I'm averaging 4-6 cents per click (if it wasnt for my forum, probably 2-3 cents). Yesterday I got 76 clicks for just under 6bucks... I know my niche sucks as far as keywords go, but I really want to make money. I have a website that has free albanian movies. I don't know if I can run Chitika and be successful so: -Do you think I will make more money with Chitika than Adsense? -Can I run both at the same time? -How do their ads exactly work?
It's not adsense fault the advertisers are bidding low on your keywords. yes chitika can be run on the same page as adense, just split test the two and you'll have your answer better than anyone here can tell you
If you really want to make money then you will need to focus on niche areas that have higher paying keywords, so you could start another website or two to and add to your portfolio. Unless your site on albanian movies becomes a mega popular site, it will be difficult to bring in significant revenue.
My alexa rating is 381,120. It has an alright traffic base. I have 3 websites already, (the other two haven't taken off yet. Not much time to work on them). Turned out I had already applied for Chitika, they just never answered me. I sent them an E-Mail, and waiting for answer. As far as websites go, I have an alright plan for the future. Should have 5 websites by the end of the month (3 real quality ones). My SEO ranks and traffic suck because I never paid attention to SEO. I learned to design on my own. Never was the reader type until I got here to tell you the truth. I been reading here probably more than I read in my life.
Yes. You can run chitika to test, but chitika will work only if you have most of your traffic from USA. You can also try some other adsense alternatives.
Most of my traffic (70%ish) is from USA, with the rest being from other great countries like Germany, UK, Belgium, France, Italy, etc. (Albanians only migrate to good countries ) Back to the topic, I'm waiting for their reply. Once I get it, I will then use Chitika 50/50 with Adsense, (depending on placement). I tried Adbrite, they don't do much. I don't really want to get into others because it will be a waste of time. I had a few friends with simmilar websites who made crap w/ others compared to Adsense. BTW, is that your website? Adsense Alternatives? I seen you post it every now and then.
i think language is the problem here, there's a lot more americans bidding on english than albanians bidding on ... albanians, therefore english is worth a lot more
Yeah... I should expand to other languages, and I will soon... Its just that there isn't many talented Albanian Web Developers and it is a very easy market, which is why I'm in it. I'll give Chitika a try. If it's not good I will take it off. Nothing wrong with that.
you're lucky to have 2-3 cents per click, I get around 1,900-2,200 clicks/day and i only get $80-$100, thats around 0.03-0.04 cents/click!
They won't accept my butt. I applied and still got no answer. I just got accepted into Chitika, and put a leader and a banner on my website. Yet to see results but: Do they pay by the click or by the purchase? (might be a funny and stupid question ) I'm probably going to get quite a few clicks, but not as many purchases.
My average click are nearly same with you. this related with your site category .it's not a fault -Do you think I will make more money with Chitika than Adsense? (that depents on your site category and placement) -Can I run both at the same time? (yes , you can run them on the same page) -How do their ads exactly work? (i dont know , i have never worked with them)
NO i think the Problem is with Your Traffic, Click rate largely Depent of the type of traffic you getting, if you have us visitor you can make more money