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Discussion in 'General Marketing' started by wokaka, Sep 3, 2007.

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    Since one week ago, I got around 8000-10,000 page impression per day. But the sad thing is, I earned only around $5-$7 a day with adsense (CTR is only around 0.5-1%). I tried to change the ads placement frequently, when I change it, my CTR will go up to 2%. But one week later, it will go down again until I change my ads placement and even colour!

    For example, four days ago my CTR was 2.1%, then the next day it dropped to 0.9%. I didn't change the ads placement and in the last two days, I only earned 0.6% CTR and 0.55% CTR. :(

    I tried to find out why is this happening. Then I realize that 60% of my traffic are people who typed my website address in their browsers. The other 30% from Google, 10% from other websites. I want to know, how to monetize my website if I don't want to continue using adsense?
     
    wokaka, Sep 3, 2007 IP
  2. digitalphoenix

    digitalphoenix Peon

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    #2
    Sinc you have a lot of pageviews join a good CPM program like burst media
     
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  3. quikfind_jerry

    quikfind_jerry Peon

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    #3
    Thats pretty nice!!!:)

    Join our affiliate program, you will earn good for sure from this ;)

    all the best
    Jerry
     
    quikfind_jerry, Sep 3, 2007 IP
  4. wokaka

    wokaka Peon

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    #4
    what is your affiliate program?
     
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  5. wokaka

    wokaka Peon

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    Today i have changed the ads placement again and guess what? My CTR is increasing again. If yesterday i got $5.5 in 24 hours, today I got $5 in 5 hours. To be honest, I don't want this situation is keep going. I need a stable income.
     
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  6. MrOrange

    MrOrange Peon

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    #6
    Whats your % of returning visitors? If you have a high % of returning visitors they might become ad blink. Like on DP, how often do you click the adsense? Never. You learn to ignore it/skim straight past it.

    Why not use some php and randomly change the colours of your ad blocks on the fly or even randomly change the ad placement. I wouldnt go overboard though, it could get rather annoying with high contrasting colours changing every page. Worth a thought though.

    This is just a real quick example, but would work.
    
    $rand = rand(0,3); //Random number between 0 & 3
    $arrcolours = array('2871C3','2BA94F','F2984C','B3B3B3');
    
    PHP:
    Then in your google adsense code, you'd do something like this

    echo 'google_color_bg = "' . $arrcolours[$rand]. '";';
    PHP:
    There's obviously better/more manageable ways of doing this but it gives you an idea.
     
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  7. wokaka

    wokaka Peon

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    my returning visitors is around 60%. Yes, it is high because I keep updating my content just like many people suggested all of us.

    Thanks for your advise, but is there any other method to monetize my website? (i.e.: affiliate marketing maybe?)

    about DP, so they earned very small recently? Because they never change their ads placement.
     
    wokaka, Sep 3, 2007 IP
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    webcosmo Notable Member

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    Think you can earn better from adbrite, text-link-ads etc selling text links/banner ads.
     
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  9. wokaka

    wokaka Peon

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    are you sure? why did you think i can earn more from adbrite? They are PPC too.

    about selling links, I won't sell links, I just need to know how to earn a stable income in long term. Selling links won't get long before Google penalize my site.

    Today stats: Page Impression: 11,625 (until 4.00 PM, Pacific Time), earning: $9.45, CTR: 0.69%. Sux...I tried to bring this problem to adsense forum but no satisfying answer.
     
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  10. Creep

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    #10
    Sign up for cpm at www.valueclickmedia.com and get paid per impression. You'll probably get a steady $5-$6 per day, while adsense will fluctuate up and down, and you can put both on the same pages.
     
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  11. zxlk21e

    zxlk21e Well-Known Member

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    PM me your url. I'm earning 10 x that with about 1/2 the traffic, it might just be a simple change of placement/colors.
     
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  12. wokaka

    wokaka Peon

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    @creep: what? with 10,000 page impression, i will only earn about $5-$6? Wow, it is smaller than my last three days income. (although my CTR is only around 0.5-0.8%)

    Anyway, like I told all of you above, I think the problem is my visitors. 60% of them are people who typed my website address directly, 30% from google and the other 10% from the other sites. Do you think my CTR is very fluctuative because of this statistic?
     
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    #13
    Hi

    i had the same problem it took ma a while to find out. What is your url so I can have look, it might be very simple. PM your site,

    thanks
     
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    gkgk11 Peon

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    If you are ok with popups you can make $10 a day with adversal.
     
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    #15
    If you do not mind "ADULT",you can sell your traffic,the price is $5 for 1K

    visitors.Check your pm box,i am going to pm you the address where you can

    have your traffic sold.
     
    cleanwater, Sep 3, 2007 IP
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    syedwasi87 Active Member

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    #16
    is your site a sort of forum or some other type of site..

    also are your visitors repeat? do you also track them?
     
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    #17
    I was in a similar situation to you.

    I lowered my repeat visitors (by targeting a different group). My CTR doubled, and my earnings doubled.

    The problem, though, is that my CJ affiliate sales went down.

    Now, I'm left wondering my regular visitors were the ones that were buying the merchandise.
     
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  18. wokaka

    wokaka Peon

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    no, not a forum.

    about visitor, 60% of them are direct visitors. I don't know if they are returned visitors because I often uploaded videos to dailymotion, youtube, etc. Maybe I got many traffic from there.

    yesterday: page impression: 13,135
    CTR: 0.65%
    earning: $10.30. Finally I got $10 in one day, but my CTR is so low....
     
    wokaka, Sep 4, 2007 IP
  19. wokaka

    wokaka Peon

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    i have changed the ads placement in my homepage, just like someone's suggestion in here (since 3 hours ago). But my CTR today (until: 03.20 AM, Pacific Time) is still 0.67%. Darn....Do I need to lower my website quality so there is no returned visitors or what?
     
    wokaka, Sep 4, 2007 IP
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    Opposite problems: you got traffic and CPM 0.67, I got less traffic and CPM 1,5-4.
    :)
     
    inatmo, Sep 4, 2007 IP