I maintain a total of 3 sites, with a total of 15,000 unique users per month, an average of 1500 visitors a day, and a total of 500,000 page impressions, and I'm only making about 65 bucks a month total from google ads. I'm really in a rut here because I was expecting to be making a bit more with this kind of traffic and its barely covering bandwidth and capital expenses. Is there any way that I can increase my revenue? I applied to CasaleMedia but was turned down due to each individual site having less than 10k uniques individually and was turned down by FastClick because they have too many gaming sites right now. What other advertisers are available? Should I stick with Google? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Forget about those kind of networks, they pay via CPM, and if you want to make money with them you'd need to be getting your 15,000 uniques every day and not in one month. Gaming ads pay very little, you'll be getting 3 cents per click, so don't think you will be able to earn decent money with your theme. Only suggestion I can give is to play around with adsense colors and placement, move your banners around and see if the CTR goes up.
Sites like tribalfusion boast a $5.00 CPM rate with 65% going to the publisher. Do they go by number of uniques that see it or by page impressions? Another problem I'm getting is that none of my ads are targeted to my audience. For instance, any google ads on my forums automatically go by whatever is on the page, which is really troublesome when they usually arent anything that anyone would click on. I've only seen like 20 ads that are actually about video games, the rest are just random stuff thats loosly connected to the page's content.
Well, at least you've identified your problem : your ads are not targeted, so they won't generate interest and catch attention of your surfers. You need to review your page from the meta tag to the content to make sure that it really fits with your topic. Have you build your pages and content with specific keywords. Google is smart enough to find the topic of the page : if ads are not targeted, that means that the content of your page is off topic. So 1) Check your code 2) Add content related to the topic you want to adress, Ethic Cash
Hmmm...try to post adsense (content related ads), try to get emailadresses (send newsletter with ads), try to market adult sites (if your content allows that...but it´ll bring in cash)... Greetings. Jabz.biz
How is your traffic generated? If you can prove your numbers and your traffic is organic; then I'd be willing to discuss buying advertising space on your site. PM me if you are interested.