I am beginning to think that Adsense is not paying me full for clicks. I have 32 sites and all adsense ads are visable on over 100,000 indexed pages, so why do I make just $3.99 on average per day? My sites get quite a lot of hits a day. Im fed up, not selling anything, and not getting the rewards I think I am due. Why should I put other peoples adverts on my sites for free, because that is how it feels at the moment. Anyone else think adsense is ripping us off?
No, don't blame Google. Think how can you make things better for yourself. Try improving the placements and get your placements reviewed here. Try to keep improving. Never stop.
Well I can't really post a link so if I was to pm someone, could they advise me on my adsense placements?
You didn't provide URLs for your sites and you didn't say how many visits are "quite a lot" but your CTR is obviously very, very low. The reason that visitors don't click on ads are 1) ads are not relevant to their interests 2) ads are not related to the content or theme of the site, 3) ads are not easily seen by visitors, 4) visitors are mostly repeat visitors who are "ad blind", 5) content is totally satisfying to visitors such that they have no reason to click ads.
There are a lot of good points there. The main site is a classifieds site and ads are placed in side bars, footers and main page, all ssi, so every page produces relevant ads. For example, if someone visits the site from liverpool uk, the ads are relevent to liverpool. If someone visits an ad for a dog, the ads will display dog adverts etc. The ads seem to be placed in the correct places though.
That's a perspective I hadn't though of in relation to CTR. The advice is always to write quality content to draw visitors in and retain them as readers. Maybe we should try to deliberately leave out just enough that leaves readers wanting "just a bit more"? Jay
In an ideal situation, you would want a lot of visitors and a lot of clicks, but you still want them visitors to come back to your site. This is the ideal world, and hard to find. At the moment, I have the visitors but no clicks.
If you have quite a lot of visitors, maybe try switching from Adsense to a CPM ad network? That way you'd get paid a certain amount for every 1,000 ad views. Might work better if your users just aren't clicking. Jay
This depends on the audience and source of traffic. Some people do better with fewer ad units, because it looks less like a MFA site. Of course, if it is an MFA site, definitely use all the placements you can get away with, since the site content probably won't hold visitors. Jay
Yeah, if you're getting traffic, I would have thought that it is something to do with your ads and keywords.
Just to contrast 2 of my most hit articles. I rated quite well in a popular niche for two articles - #3 and #5 on Google. I doubled the length of my #5 article and watched it fall to #8 AND saw the clicks go down. My #3 article, which has recently dropped to a #5 - darn about.com - was quite long, detailed and told the readers exactly what they wanted to know. No clicks - ever. I took a look around at my competition. Their articles are pure fluff and either run the same info over 3 or 4 pages or give so little info that the reader has no choice but to click out of the site eventually - because they're not getting anything they didn't already know. But the competitor sites have increased their page counts and their Adsense CTR. Are they making good Adsense money - Yes. Am I...not yet. Depending on what your niche is and what your visitors expect too much info equals no clicks. You live and learn! All my new articles will be about 5 short paragraphs unless they are sales or affiliate pushes. If they run longer, they will be multi-pages. I've taken a look around some highly rated, very adsense driven sites recently. I've seen content of two sentences. Or boiler plated info. The rest is adsense, text links, referral ads and affiliate ads as filler. Valkerie
I have never made a blog or an article. I have only created websites offering a service, so maybe blogging in something I should get into. Where and how do I start?
The secret is not 300 gazilion sites, but few sites and lots of unique, relevant conten. Learn this and you'll be a happy guy. See? I'm a happy guy with only 3 sites!
Yes, that was my first question also. I have heard so many people complaining about horrid revenue generated from their large stable of websites. But it almost always turns out to be a bunch of MFA garbage websites. I found for me to succeed, I had to spend a lot of time writing about something that I am knowledgeable about, and something that interests me. I have unique content that I can provide through my personal knowledge and experience. Too many people just do a few google searches on a specific topic or niche, steal or "re-word" the information, slop together a cheezy website, and toss in the Adsense ads. One can't expect to ever make money this way. I am not saying that YOU have these kind of sites, but you might take a look at whether or not your content is unique, interesting, and useful in a way that isn't already plastered all over the internet. Adsense is slowly weeding out these kind of garbage sites, so we may hear more and more people getting banned, mostly from violations of TOS. Tons of these MFA sites do not keep current on Adsense TOS.