I think the biggest problem is that you onle have one google ad on your page. you should post a vertical banner under the "top games section" and maybe another horizontal ad like the one you already have under the first 4 or 6 games displayed. I think you'll increase your CTR a lot if you do these things. Best of luck!
Hmm, I thought that he paid for traffic from godaddy. Although, I do agree with you that Digg traffic can't really make you any money in the short term but it can sure create lots of backlinks and return visitors if your site is good.
The thing with that i am limited to where i can place the ads because its all php and in the template there are none of them game boxes.. its just banner... 15pixel high middle section.. then the footer. i am going to change the color if its possible to perhaps make it look better then make the ads to match it. Ill report back shortly to ask you guys to take a look.
My Arcade site http://www.gamesaim.com earns around $5 to $6 with 6k impressions it used to earn above $20 when there were thumbnails next to ads, but as google mentioned its not allowed any more so by removing ctr droped. Still i think its not bad, please have a look at my site its CTR is still not bad, if you can make something similar to it, and do put few the other two ads above games for more clicks.
i have updated the site look in order to put more adds tell me what you think - www .greatergaming. com... tell me what you think please i need someone to help me place ads on this site because i need mroe but i cant effective put them with it sticking out. Last 7 days - 7,100 impressions 10 clicks 1.31 SINCE JULY!! - 48,000 impressions , 76 clicks 26.37 (my actual sites were not created till November) which is when i really got traffic So as you can see i really do need some better ad placement and a way to get better SE traffic.
http://www.greatergaming.com >>> Maybe make the header border color same as of bg color for better blending. http://strathcl.com >>> here again make ads background same as of site background color, and if possible move up if not possible at left make it first at right. Maybe try one more ad unit above FeaturedReview. Best of Luck, you better know when you test them all for few days.
That is definately your answer - godaddy is a domain name registrant - not a place to go to look for targetted traffic. If using adsense I would definately never buy traffic from such a source as it could be automated traffic that would violate adsense TOS. The key for you is to start targetting keywords and promoting your site to gain organic traffic which will be more targetted and you should see improved results. Gaming is not a very high paying niche and it makes sense to use more than contextual advertising - using affiliates as well can help. However, any gaming site can have a review section that has sufficient text in the review to attract organic traffic from search engines that would help increase CTR if the ad placement was inside the review part itself. I noticed the linkunit was at the very bottom of greatergaming - why not have it at the top (either above or below the header banner). The main thing is definately organic traffic rather than paying for obsolete traffic.
don't buy traffic -- so many times that traffic is not targeted and only stays on a site for 1 second --- try teaming up with other sites in your niche - gaming forums/blogs - get people to your site that want to be there and they will reward you with clicks -- when i first started my site i did a traffic thing -- b4 adsense - and the traffic was a big increase but they didn't stay and weren't loyal - it was a waste Good Luck
The numbers here don't seem to strange to me... i had a revenue of roughly 85$ for 150.000 impressions in december. Since i'm into the psychedelic art that isn't so bad i think