I made the same experience with my first blog. While I do get visitors, they generally don't click. I feel in some niches the click rates are much higher than in others. You should measure Your success by the number of people You get, not how many click. Keep growing, keep learning. Then after a while start a new blog in a niche that converts and apply what You have learned.
The most critical eye I can bring to it is to say that it is too generic. You are calling it by the most over-used phrase in the annals of internet history after the Y2K debacle, and all of the ads are headlined exactly the same. It is monographically Web 2.0. And what you need to do is to bring specific and differentiated details and messages to the blog. The graphics are very, very nice. But you are giving only one message, and the internet is not only saturated, but so many people are in heaves about what Web 2.0 really means. You don't motivate sales by being monographic or monothematic. You have to make a definition of your Web 2.0, stand by it, and create more words that would be searchable keywords of value for the site. As a piece of artwork itself, all the "Web 2.0"'s sprinkled around create an interesting aesthetic. But it won't create sales, I'm afraid.
Well, it looks like you are focusing on "getting clicks" when I think a better approach would be to focus on "how to give more good stuff to people who visit on my site". As for promoting: check out this thread on getting traffic and these adsense tips for getting clicks
Yes that seems to be the case and probably because of the click-centric focus brought in by Adsense. There is Adsense all over the blog so that you barely even see the content. I think it is an interesting visual, but not an interesting sales pitch. Indeed, work on the content. There are photos and Adsense ads, and almost nothing for the search engine spiders to pick up on. I hope I'm not being too "tough love", but you are starting with a misconception and would benefit to learn how much you need to add.
What do you think about this wordpress theme? http://templates.arcsin.se/demo/dirtylicious-website-template/ I think that it will be also suitable for Adsense Of course, I will a little bit change its design
It's not surprising, you don't get clicks: You put two adsense blocks next to each other -> really bad thing to do, Instant ignore for both, once one is recognized as an ad. The first thing on your blog are ads, not content. Not the very best introduction. Imagine meeting a new person and before he even says a word, he hands you a flyer. Those visitors, that do not instantly leave your blog, scroll down and by the time, they are finished with the content, they have already forgotten about the advertisement. Too much graphic content on that blog page. A lot of the images look like banners too and give that page a false impression of being ad ridden. There simply needs to be more text and something substancial. Note: A blog is probably not the best place for a tutorial. Your ads lack relevance. You need to think: I gave my visitor information. Where will s/he go next? Which products could be sold via my content? Then try to find proper keywords to attract the right ads and even more importantly: Place your banners in the appropriate places. Here are some more AdSense optimization tricks. Maybe you can draw some ideas from them.
I couldn't agree more with that statement. You need to give people what the want. Get the traffic first, and then worry about conversion.
Any advertising should be crafted through the eyes of your customer. If you were a typical deviantart user and you landed on that page, what would catch your attention? What would you be looking for? Think like your customer. Actually communicate with users on that site and find out what issues they're dealing with. What problems do they have? What's important to them? What do they want? What would make their lives easier? The answers you get to those questions will tell you what products are more likely to grab their attention. Best of luck!
IMHO, try to create content with more texts (not just the graphics) and blend your ads in the content. Use different positions to test the CTR. I use Adsense Manager plugin and it's easy to reposition the ads. Another idea is to sell affiliate products related to your niche. Don't just focus on clicks. Diversify your income sources. Who knows, you may make more money doing this than hoping for Adsense clicks. One critical component is missing here: a list. Start accepting subscription and whenever you have new post, announce to the list by giving a snapshot of the article to entice them to read the post online which contains your ads. It's free traffic.
Worked hard today and yesterday.... And here is the result http://www.verbaska.com/?m=200807 Only 3 images on a page (hooray!). I think that the pages on my blog would be like this one. What do you think? I plan to place Adsense banner above the content (468x60) and a leader board 160x600 in that empty widget bar.