hi im just wondering what yee expect be good for 1.5 million monthly impressions?? the reason im asking is i suspect google are screwing me out of good money i could be earning, and my earning halfed even tho impressions/clicks went up i noticed a sharp drop from exactly 1st october i emailed google but its easier to send a message to mars
It is very hard to guess how much you should make from 1.5 million impressions. The range can sway anywhere from $1500 ($1 CPM) to $15,000 ($10 CPM). It all depends on your CTR, type of content, makeup of your visitors, etc. For instance, if you are a new site and most of your visitors are return visitors, the ads may become less and less noticable to your fluent users. So you may have had a boost of revenue when you started out, but now most of your users ignore the ads. Advertisers bids can change as well from month to month. You usually don't see a big change, but they can dip and rise considerably if you are in the right market. I don't suspect G will respond to you. Hope the revenues climb back soon. Good luck.
its a forum and believe me its alot less than 1500! (i wish it was making that much ) u right about return visitors developing blindness
forums are notoriously bad earners, you could try experimenting with your ad placement and see how that affects CTR. I very much doubt Google are screwing you as they would gain so little from doing that anyway.
i dunno im sure just taking 1% larger share of the clicks will make them millions across all the publishers out there (its either that or im getin paranoid, godamn have to stop smokin that shit)
Forums are definitely poor earners compared with static text in my experience. We're talking a factor of 10:1 - again in my experience. I gave up on Google for forums and try to get sponsors instead. Even within the same field, incidentally, CPM varies wildly based on what your content is. My Valiant page has a bad CPM but NOTHING compared with my Rootes page which has CPMs in the pennies - not even a forum! Meanwhile I have a page with barely any revenue but the CPM is astronomical when it comes. (Not enough traffic to generate revenue whichis probably why advertisers are desparate - if you CAN reach these people it's worth it!)
yea true im experimenting in new fields making same amount from a site that has 34 times less impressions i just hope its not a downward spiral (forum using up more resources, on one of the dedicated servers of mine, its worying)
Do you do anything else to monetize your forums besides adsense? Adsense is not a one-size-fits-all mechanism for revenue. In a lot of cases there are other programs or options that will do better for you. Or even a mixture. You just have to do a bit of trial and error to find them. In some cases adsense doesn't make a lot of sense or cents.
i have amazon referals but only miserable $18 for 1000s of people i send their way and over $400 bought from them due to my referals in last few months