I have a friend who runs a blog. speaking to me he was explaining that he doesnt know how to place adverts well on his site. he said he gets an average of 10,000 page impressions a day but isnt making as much money as he thinks. can some experts help make him earn more money. he's my friend and i want him to do well. kind of feel sorry for him and i told him i'd try to help him. that's his site www.thehiphopchronicle.com Please guys, your help would be appreciated. if you want money for the help, i'm sure i can muster something up lol.
First off, the header is a mees and needs tidying up. Personally I'd get rid of the adsense banners at the top. There's not enough written material so the Adsense engine doesn't know what contextual ads to display. That's why I can see the Spammer Known As James Caan's adverts everywhere.
how does he tidy up the header? I'll tell him to take the banner off. Contextual adverts make more money? How can you do that? im sorry if these questions sound simple. thank you so much for your help btw.
Don't worry Adsense are "contextual" ads, meaning that the ads displayed should be related to the content on the page. At the moment, Google is having a hard time determining what those pages are about because there's not much text to read. Therefore, you're getting unrelated ads that nobody will click on. The owner is going to have to get some text on those pages to let Google know what kind of ads to display. Tidying up the header: removing the Adsense from the header would be a start.
ok. i have spoken to him and he's taken the adsense banner off. more text on the site you mean? ok i'll tell him that too. is there anything else he should know? should he be making $10 a day? that's what ive seen on these forums. are you on msn? you can add me if you like and be more helpful, like you have so far. thank you thank you. you have no idea how much this means. i really feel sorry for him and want him to be making $10-15 a day off the adsense alone.
There's no "should" really. It all depends on how many visitors the site gets, the niche (because advertisers in some niches pay more) and how well positioned and blended the ads are. Do you know how much traffic they are getting? It's not unusual to see click through rates vary from 1% tto 3%, so it's a simple numbers game: basically, if the site gets 1,000 page impressions per day and your CTR is 1%, you will get 1/100 * 1,000 = 10 clicks in a day. Each click varies in how much it earns you. Clicks on one of my sites earns me around $0.10 - $0.30 usually. I'm not sure that hip hop is that lucrative for Adsense, but I might be wrong.
he told me that the site gets 8000-10000 page impressions a day from his google adsense reports. today his ctr is 28%. is that bad? where would you position the adverts and what colours would you use for his site in your opinion. You must knowledgeable.