Hello Friends, > I recently started a Bollywood Niche blog www.bollywoodhott.com (Indian Entertainment) > I did with unique content written by my own extracting various online, offline, news paper and television sources. > I did not promote it much with link building or any other campaign, just did small social bookmarking in free time.. spent around 20 minutes a day creating a post a day sometimes 2 or 3 and bookmarking in Indian Bookmarking sites. > The Blog ranked well in Search Engines within a small period of time and all was automatic and traffic started pouring and with theme i had just one ad placement which was changed to my pub ID myself.. and later i started placing ads in all potential places. Now I think ad placement is proper and also reasonable and ads are not over-crowded. (started in mid april so april was dry earnings) Also got 5300+ Unique visitors(12k+pi) in May 2008, and estimated traffic is 10k+ Uniques in this month i.e., June 2008 The main problem i am stuck is the earnings.. The average earnings is just about 1$ to 1.5$ per CPM which i think is not rewarding I am getting 50 cents average daily So should i develop more and wait or do what ?? Any other monetizing method or trick or anything please suggest.. Critics and ad placement suggestion also welcome.. Thanks and Regards Abhishek
@abhishekdaaga - I presume that majority of those visitors are from India. You would see a lot of low paying CPM ads from Indian advertisers in your case. Send me a PM with a list of those page from your site that receives the highest traffic (top 5 pages only) and best CTR. I will help you improve the CPM and CPC. If you don't know which pages are receiving the highest CTR, use adsense channels and then let me know after a few days. Will be glad to help.
Majority of visitors are from both India and USA.., though if not to believe completely from Awstats, I will install google analytics, which will let me know exact figure, Majority traffic received is by some posts.. I am sending u the PM now