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Tons of Impressions, But BAD CTR...please review

Discussion in 'Placement / Reviews / Examples' started by slip, Jun 13, 2006.

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    I have a ton of impressions on my ads (around 20-30K a day)...I have preety bad CTR with my ads, therefore i am not earning as much revenue as I can with that amount of impressions...i cannot say the exact CTR because it is against TOS but you get the picture...

    I was wondering if anyone could review my site and tell me what I could do with my ads. Placement? Size? Color? Etc.... Anything helps and i hope to hear from alot of people so I can increase my revenue...

    Also I am recieving about 10cents a click....i thought myspace was sort of high pay but i guess not...any way i can increase this also?

    P.S. The site is www.sadstatue.com

    Thanks,
    Jordan
     
    slip, Jun 13, 2006 IP
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    slip Peon

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    I also looked at how much keywords cost for adwords publishers, they are alot higher than my CPC is (10 cents). I used googles site analysis which produced these keywords that related to my site: www.sadstatue.com

    myspace background music code $0.97
    backgrounds for myspace $0.79
    codes for myspace $0.65
    myspace backgrounds $0.64
    myspace backgrounds codes $0.62
    myspace codes $0.31
    myspace $0.22
    music codes for myspace $0.17


    Why is there such a gap between how much i make per click and what google printed out for me when i researched the keywords used by my website.

    Thank you for taking your time.
     
    slip, Jun 13, 2006 IP
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    slip Peon

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    could someone please review my website? or leave any comments? thanks
     
    slip, Jun 14, 2006 IP
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    dreamedia Peon

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    #4
    On the home page: move your 336 ad block to the top of the page, too just below "welcome to sadstatue".

    Go thru the rest of the site and place a 336 block @ the top of every page.

    add a adlink to the index.php just below the "header" & above the "body"


    but at the end of the day you have to deal with the fact, that myspace traffic sucks ;)
     
    dreamedia, Jun 14, 2006 IP
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    slip Peon

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    im not 100% sure on where you think the ads should go...i made a crude drawing in paint to see if i understood you correctly...take a look at it and tell me what you think

    [​IMG]


    THANKS!
     
    slip, Jun 14, 2006 IP
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    yes, switch it up there. And yes, the adlink there.

    goodluck
     
    dreamedia, Jun 14, 2006 IP
  7. slip

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    thanks....ill tell you when its updated and what you think

    one part i dont undestand is why the lettering is so close to eachother...how do i fix this
    (referring to the ad links)


    EDIT: also please read my second thread...it has another question...thanks
     
    slip, Jun 14, 2006 IP
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    terryuk Notable Member

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    The design in general isn't best for trying to increase CTR..
     
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    why? and what would you suggest?
     
    slip, Jun 14, 2006 IP
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    #10
    I'm a little confused. You say you are getting tons of impression but no click-thrus. Please define tons. As far as I can tell you aren't ranked on Alexa, so, it can't be tons. Your site is clean which is a good start. I would also consider putting a leaderboard where you said "links". Good luck.
     
    factchecker, Jun 14, 2006 IP
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    gastongr Well-Known Member

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    #11
    Posted by slip
     
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    #12
    If you are getting 20 - 30k a day, you should be ranked on alexa. Something is missing. The only thing I can think of is it's a few people playing games and everytime they play it makes an impression. Slip should check his/her web stats to see how many unique visitors a day and then judge by that.
     
    factchecker, Jun 14, 2006 IP
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    #13
    Impressions are as worthless as hits. The only number that matters is unique visitors.

    P.S. Wasn't this question already posted in another thread a while back, got a bunch of answers, and you didn't bother doing any of the things we suggested? So now you're asking again? Um, okay.
     
    jackburton2006, Jun 14, 2006 IP
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    #14
    I think the moch up you did is a step in the right direction... I am very new to this aswell so I am contemplating issues such as these too.
     
    rjb, Jun 14, 2006 IP
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    yes on alexa i was ranked in the low 1million about a week ago...and now all of the sudden i am not ranked. is there any reason this happened or has happened to someone else in the past?

    the suggestions that dreamedia have increased my CTR 2 fold...thank you very much :)

    my unique visitors per day average is: 9-12K...sometimes lower depending on the day but that is preety accurate
     
    slip, Jun 14, 2006 IP
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    my CTR has gone up 2+% since i moved around my ads...thank you very much for your help everyone...

    please refer to the second post of the thread...i had another question...thanks
     
    slip, Jun 15, 2006 IP
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    my CTR just went up another 3%....thanks so much everyone :)
     
    slip, Jun 15, 2006 IP
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    #18
    I believe the difference in the numbers you posted and what you get paid is the cut that google takes.
     
    Jdog, Jun 15, 2006 IP
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    the reason you may not be making as much as expected is that there are so many sites of the same niche, google doesnt/cant run the high paying ads on all of them so it will chose the ones with the most traffic.
     
    ColaDesigns, Jun 15, 2006 IP
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    yeah i understand...i make about 12cents in the mornings and 5cents at night....which im guessing means that the high paying ads are finished wth their daily limit by that time...am i correct?
     
    slip, Jun 15, 2006 IP