you are asking why it's not earning more money, right? i just told you why... it's mfa crap, it doesn't have any content on it. you don't know what epc is, what ecpm is, and you don't have a clue how to use the competitive ad filter to get rid of crappy advertisers... look at the www-Naruto.info ad, how much do you think that they are paying per click?
epc = earnings per click ecpm is the earnings per thousand page views. google gives you the ecpm, in your case it should be something like $0.76?? if i did my math right. now see if you can calculate your earnings per click, but don't post the number of clicks you are getting, because it's against the adsense tos to do that... you have already told us too much.
you think nothing is wrong with it because his ecpm is far better than yours... but both of your numbers suck compared to my ecpm. that is the difference between crap, and real unique content.
i saw where you posted that you did some of the graphics yourself? release a new graphic *that you created* every couple of days or whatever, advertise it on other naruto sites. why do you have links up without the "rel=nofollow" attribute? do you realize that google may think that those are paid links?
and btw, my worst traffic that i listed above comes from image search results, maybe not a lot different than your graphics... except that i have a lot more text content on the page, and none of it says anything about wallpapers and such... i was guessing that the "wallpaper" keyword doesn't pay much. some of your pages only have one graphic per page, down at the bottom where there there are no ads.
Richard K, I wouldn't pay any mind to the people who are complaining about traffic... it took me over a year to generate decent traffic, and I still made a modest adsense revenue in the meantime. And don't pay any mind to the people who are screaming "How come you don't know what epc" and "epm" is? You don't need to be an expert in acronyms to understand the basics of adsense. My suggestions-- 1. Blend your site well. Make your text size and link colors match. Use the same color links for your adsense ads and your link ads. If your ads are a different color and font size, they stand out and scream "WE'RE ADVERTISEMENTS." And the eyes automatically avoid them. If they're the same color as your links, people can't help but read them. 2. Take the "link to us" thing off your homepage. Stick it on a separate "link to us" page. Make your homepage one that will interest the user and make them want to come back. 3. Add some written content to your posts. And stick the adsense in the middle of it. People start reading, scan over the ads and continue reading. Then they get distracted by the ads and click on them. It really works. Good luck!
you can't optimize page design without knowing the basics of adsense. don't tell people to ignore things that you don't understand.
What's the problem with you guys? This site is absolutely ok. But I cannot see any ads. Have you removed them?
I've removed the ads for now, but they're going to be added later in better places, I hope. I've added the "rel=nofollow" attribute, and I've made it so the links open in a new window, so the visitors stay at Naruto Pictures for longer. I'm going to be adding more images and posting about them on Naruto forums like you said danimal.
I understand it all now... but I was making $50 a day long before I knew what epc and cpm was. Anyone can put up a successful adsense site so long as they blend well -- optimize and learn the acronyms as you go along. You don't need to be an expert to set up your first site-- you just need to generate traffic and set up ad styles that people will actually click on.
You can put the ads back, while trying to increase your traffic. I think its ok to have your ads live, no need to remove them. Anyway, its your decision
OK well, if I may offer some suggestions... I owned an Avatar website a couple of years ago...with a terrific name for the SE's (albeit horrible for initial type-in's), Avatar.name. Anyways, traffic was pretty decent within the first month due to my meta tags as well as the file names I choose for my avatars and the gallery I used (I think that gallery really helped by being SE optimized). I notice that your avatars names (for instance) are merely numerical values. Go through and change them to stuff that people are looking for in the genre'. Sooo, if seekers are looking for "George the Naruto" or whatever, rename one of your avatars "George_The_Naruto.jpg" or whatever... but be specific as it will bring in visitors from the image searches, which is VERY important!!! Also, your Meta tags are somewhat lacking... try adding the following (specific to YOUR site): <META NAME="revisit-after" CONTENT="3 days"> <META NAME="robots" CONTENT="index, follow"> <META NAME="rating" content="general"> <META NAME="distribution" content="global"> Regarding the bold Meta above, be sure to change that to a specific time frame to your schedule of when you update/how often you add content. You MUST also include MUCH more text! If it were me, I would make each image clickable to it's OWN page with image specific (e.g. UNIQUE) written content telling the description and perhaps history of each image you are hosting. Make a small forum too (to begin with), allow users to make image requests, submit comments (etc) without having to sign in (but use image verification to post in order to discourage spam bots). Do these things and I can practically promise you a 100 % increase in traffic at a minimum (and likely revenue) within 2-3 weeks.. it will take work, but will be well worth it. BTW, my eCPM is currently at $5.55, not amazing, but not bad either.
Hey, I don't know what those meta tags mean, I can't add things that I don't have a clue about. I can't make a page for every image, I've spent today reducing the amount of pages because whenever I needed to edit something I had to do it manually for 60+ pages. I'm not going to make a forum, sorry.