3 months ago...while my web directory didn't had PR.. I was getting like 150+ uniques per day..and I was using AdSense on it. My daily earnings were between 0,3$ to 3,9$(max). After I got PR3 on it, I decided to let it free. Now the traffic was 350+ uniques per day, but my earnings dropped like shit(not even 0,5$) per week(can't explain myself the phenomena).On the other hand, I noticed that my detail pages got serious traffic from Google and I decided to enable the Google Ads only on the detail pages, and now my earnings are increased a little bit And my question is... Do you really earn from AdSense on your directory ? Because I see a lot of free web directories that have 2 big square adblocks just on the main(lol)... If you noticed...allmost all the free directories have AdSense on them. I think the webmasters want to earn from Google what others earn from selling links.
If your content is webmaster related and your Ads are not targeted like they should, those clicks that generate 15$ a day are accidentally given. A webmaster clicking others ads is like paying from his own pocket
Adsense is useless on directories. People go to directories to submit for backlinks, they dont pay attention to adsense. Adsense would only work on a niche directory if you had normal users as webmasters dont really click adsense.
I think you are better off selling text links instead, the earnings will be alot higher. But be careful because google might say you selling links for page rank. But what difference does it make if you only have a pr 3.
The next step for my directories are the mods from link forever(the advertising ones and not only) and I wil keep the Ads only on detail pages. But I saw that there are some... who got their directories from PR0 to PR5 and the submission is free, AdSense enabled. I would like to know if any of you do earn from AdSense and how much...
I think it is a bad idea to put adsense on detail pages as I feel it takes away from the site that has been submitted. The purpose of detail pages is to help the site listed provide more information to the viewer and therefore it is only fair that the site listed get that traffic. But if you are earning good money from it then I guess you may as well keep it. But out of respect to the submitter I would'nt have them there.
The whole lot is confusing to me, what exactly can a person do in black n white ? sell a link ? how does that differ from selling advertising space having an adsense on your page
There is a difference between an advert (for traffic) adsense (for traffic) and text links (to pass PR and manipulate google rankings)
Ive never tried Adsense on my directories and the reason is that ive always read that it does poorly on them, i read that lots of times and have pretty much taken their word for it. Also ive seen potential submitters in threads saying to someone that if they removed the Adsense or at least if there were less ads then they would submit. So some submitters not liking adsense, combined with adsense not doing good on directories speaks for itself.
It depends on the traffic and how you blend your ads. If you have decent traffic coming directly to your category pages people will click on the ads if its category specific. Blending them in an attractive way also helps. Adsense on the homepage will not result in click throughs; so it really all depends on what kind of traffic is coming through.
Hmm.. they do poorly but still add some revenue. example : www.h-log.com has earned like 40-45$ over span of 1 year Nothing is better than something
and by using adsense it may have looked unprofessional, you could have lost over $200 in customers who turned away.
As Mike points out, the increased revenue could have been there if adsense had not been in place. I use adsense myself, just never on my directories, i would maybe use it on a niche directory, blended well.
Lolz really ? Does ads make look digitalpoint unprofessional and turns away customers/visitors ? Where did you get that notion from, that ads on directory make them look unprofessional to an extent they turn away customers. I still get featured link submissions(even with those so called gawd damn potential customer repelling ads called "google adsense", so shows that customers do not give crap about google ads on site, as they just want their links to appear on site. Oh by the way definitely if you run ads all over a directory that looks crap already(some crappy template on it) its ofcourse is going to turn away everyone be it customers or visitors. And at this stage i can say www.h-log.com does not have a crappy template off the block. Oh and by the way when you run a directory thats free, i see no reason why ads should not be on it ?
I can say that I don't really care for adsense on directories and would not pay to be listed on one with adsense. I personally think that is clutters up the directory and speaks to a sense of desperation by the owner to get a couple more cents on a click through. I think it is actually funny when I see the tricky ones that place the adsense right by the submit button on the submission page in hopes for an accidental click. Based on just what I think of it being there I would have to agree that others out there probably feel the same. As far as dp goes, I am not paying them to review my site and place an advert to it so I guesss that might be a difference. But that is just my opinion and everyone is entitled their own.
read the reply above my post. bruce isnt the only one to think that. many have said it, jg123 for example.
You are already directing visitors to websites which is what directories are for. I don't see why you shouldnt blend ads to make some extra cash? Although some are only making 60$ p/ year, if done correctly you can make an extra 30-40$ per month with Adsense and still receive a constant submission ratio. Imagine if you had a huge network of directories with each making an extra 30$ per month...
Many people do this with blogs and we typically call them MFA - But directories made for adsense are just another MFA and definitely not a quality directory of resources any more than a MFA blog that scrapes content is a quality blog. imo