I constantly receive roughly the same amount of impressions per day and my earnings as you can tell are abismal. Am I doing something wrong or is this normal?
We need some info from you. First, what's your CTR on each of the two sites. If it's good CTR, then you're just getting low paying ads. If it's bad CTR, then we have something we can actually work on improving. Treat each site differently, since forums have notoriously low CTR (ppl are there for info, not to click ads).
I can see on your adunits you need better blending, you need to move ads into more noticable positions aswell liek right under the flash banner things on celeb utopia and blend it into the back ground, make it look like part of the menu.
As for the ctr I thought we where not allowed to say they per TOS? I am not sure though. I can tell you now that I get about 60 clicks a day on my celebutopia site and about 45 per day on my image upload site. Better blending? They look like black text. I do not know what else I could do. I run multiple LARGE forums. This is the only one that I have adsense on.
WOW, dude First of all I must say, Your flash banner is COOL !!! okay, i agree with Connections, You might wanna try to place the same background colour for the ads.
Which ones? The ones on the sides of the page? I can't seem to find the exact hex color to match. It is driving me insane.
maybe adsense isn't good for your site, why not promoting affiliate products? And put away the popup, people hate pop ups.
No no. Never ever use affiliate products. I have tested two hosting companies and three software affiliates. They are getting traffic and me NULL, NIL, $0
Which means absolutely nothing in the real world. Perhaps you chose badly targeted CPA offers, or the fact that you're pushing CPA offers on knowledgable users could have resulted in the lack of sales. Webmasters and the such are the hardest market to sell to.
Trying to be objective from a user's point of view I popped onto the celeb site first. I would say the ads are blended well but if I was there I would never look at them. Your forum site looks like every other forum site I have been in in that I know where the content is, I am drilling down for information, not browsing. Try placing some more of those half-naked celeb pictures off to the sides and then putting the ads next to them. Onto the uploadem site. The only reason I would go there is to upload a picture. That means I am there with one goal and I have 5 boxes to get through to reach that goal. Again, I know where the meat is and I am not browsing. CPC ads lend themselves well to people who are browsing, they are looking around, they see something cool (picture, flash graphic, ad) and they try to clock on it. You need CPM ads. These are my thoughts and I am a complete newbie.
I agree, pay per impression ads can range from around $3 - $5 per 1000. So 49 X 3... you should be making around $147 - $245 a day with them. You might want to switch over Oh, this also depends on the # of uniques (assuming the 49k is mainly unique visiters)