I had heard a lot about excellent sites not making much money from Adsense ads because visitors would stay for a long time enjoying their contents without clicking any Adsense ads. True or false?
i have never click any ads on youtube because i and all people knows where are the ads.and they do not check that parts. if a site's visiters are mostly the same people, that site can not earn from adsense. but if a site's visiters always new visiters, that site will earn a lot. for example one my blog's visiters are always new and CTR is %20. i am not sure but CTR can not be over %0.01 on a popular website like youtube.
I have one site full of excellent contents, about 100 webpages. Its log indicates that many visitors stayed around 1 to 2 hours. The money = not enough to buy a bottle of mineral water. Now I'm thinking of removing all Adsense ads and replace them with PayPal donation buttons with "Please donate since you love my contents so much!!!"
that cannot be true for all niche. in some niche, visitors are way too familiar with adsense ads and learned not to click on them
Now those donation buttons are a great idea! Here's an idea... Remove all the content and leave the donation buttons. Think they might get the hint you need some $? @ the OP Sites lacking content and visual distractions seem to do better for me. If the ads are more informative then the content, your CTR goes through the roof...
snowbird, You are great. I will: 1 Each webpage to have about three Paypal donation buttons (Anything against PayPal's tos?) 2 Since I have the slightest idea how to get those sexy alluring Adsense ads, I will remoce all Adsense ads. All of you here are in agreement with me that sites should lack content to get those Adsense clicks.
Don't know if it's against PayPal's TOS. It's probably a month long read. That would be funny though. You can bring attention to the button and encourage clicks! Maybe a big red flashing box 500 x 500 centered on the screen with 6 or 8 PayPal donate buttons in the middle. Some scrolling text saying donations are needed because nobody clicks your ads. Where's that rick roll guy when you need him. Add that to the page so noone can close the screen or go back - just forward through one of your many PayPal donation buttons! Seriously. The MFA'ers create sites that butter up the visitors and don't give them all the information they seek. They try to let their ads provide the information, or at least appear to be a good source for it. You will get a high CTR, but don't expect people to bookmark your site. I have a similar site that funnels visitors to ads and affiliates. People come to it looking to value the price of a variety of items. I tell them I am not an appraiser, and link them to my Affiliate products where they can pay to appraise their own products. I get reasonable sales and clicks for a site with minimal traffic and zero maintenance. The sites niche is a hobby of mine, so I enjoy it when I have time. For the last year or so, I've had no time for it.
a Excellent sites means that the visitor got the information for which he/she was searching for so they wont click to the adsense ads
The returned visitors will know the exact placement of Ads so it would be beneficial to rotate the ads placement.
The problem is not the quality Content problem is the design and strategy of engaging the visitors. Do you think why someone click on ad?
I think this is true. I have recently put up 2 sites within the last 6 weeks. One site is based on a popular key word but I developed it as a video site teaching people that key word. No ad sense clicks so far. Nor have I had linkshare ad clicks, but I am getting visitors and have created lots of backlinks. Another site I built 3 weeks ago is only one page with absolutely nothing of true value on it (yet). The info on that one page is about a certain line of products and the text is just info I got from catalog pages all over the internet to fill up space. I at least have received one .49 click on that page and have not even started backlinking that site yet to get visitors.