I don't get it. I see proxies for sale every day in the Sites forum. They all have decent click throughs. Somewhere usually between 0.5 - 2.0%, granted with a lot less traffic than I get. (Them: 300-600 imp/day, me: 25000+ imp/day) Yet looking at the sites they usually have horribly placed ads, and none on anything but the front page. I'm building a really good size network now. I have ads well placed, based on experimentation and I insert ads into the headline of proxied pages. Yet, I'm getting about 0.1% clicks. I don't get it. Is there some secret to monetizing proxies with Adsense I'm missing, or is it just that the owners of these sites click their own ads often, or what? I'd appreciate any tips, because I seem to be missing something here...
I reckon that the highest chance of a click for a proxy site is on the homepage hence others having 1-2% CTR as thats the only place they have it. As soon as you add adsense to proxied pages, then CTR overall would drop significantly as your getting thousands more hits but no clicks, which makes it arrive at your 0.1% CTR. If you start using Channels to track adsense on your homepage and adsense on proxied pages, my bet is that you would have a CTR of around 1-2% on homepage, and the proxied pages would have very very low CTR.
It's against the TOS to put Adsense on proxied pages, as the content is not yours. Given that, the sites you see probably only get 300-600 people seeing the homepage, but thousands and thousands of impressions elsewhere. If that's not the case, then they're getting quality traffic. US/UK traffic will be more likely to click the ads than Chinese traffic, which proxy sites tend to get flooded with.
maybe what you consider bad placements of ads are actually good? Try moving your ads to how they have thiers. My one proxy does well with only two ads. I use adbrite on proxified pages. Adsense isnt allowed. Good Luck
Interesting, thanks for the tips. As far as ads on the proxied pages, I'm not inserting them or injecting them in the page. The ads are part of the proxy header form itself. Also, I did track a couple proxies that had ads only on the home page vs everywhere. No one ever clicked them, like ever. Thousands of users and not one click. And I'm using the same templates as everyone else. So I don't think its placement. Anyways, perhaps there are better ways to monitize a proxy site? Are there any good CPM programs out there that I might be able to use instead?
Like others have said, it's still against the Adsense TOS to place ads on any part of proxified pages. I suggest Adbrite or Adversal (CPM) for proxified pages. The large rectangle ads on the home page give the best CTR results for me.
Well you seem to have been banned on one of your proxies. Also seems somewhat strange that when you click the link to the website of the top listing in your proxy topsites, it redirects several times from an adsense landing page. Have you been fiddling the code?
You may want to be careful with offcitygraphics.com/showmysite/. I had a vast netwrok of proxy sites about a year about, and like yours, many of them didn't have any written content on them. I got warned by google about this, as it is again their TOS. They state ads must be placed on a website with quality content. So it might be a good idea just to add a little bit of text here and there
Proxy sites always gives very less CTR.. the best way is go for a CPM network like Xapads (http://www.xapads.com).. There you will get paid for displaying ads.. the pay rates are too good and we the best of all is, we don't want all of them to be unique (Unlike other CPM networks).
if you go to a proxy and surf google.com on that proxy your viewing google on a proxified page What help do you want