I have a gaming site www.thepublicenemy.net. This site is based off of battlefield and I am trying to increase visitors as well as clicks (who isnt?). Everywhere I read people say add more content for better advertisements, views, clicks, etc. What content are you guys referring too? More pages? More images, text? Do I just need to come up with more ideas for my site including images, pages, etc? My site is mostly forum and arcade.
EaglezEye Usually when talking about the content of a site, the text - articles are the key. However text and images is also content. And bots usually pick up the text of a site, and so does Google's bot in order to send the correct type of ads to your site. The more text - the better fit between the ads and your content.
exactly. Keep it relevant. google rewards relvancy and you should see better rankings than an off-topic article.
More pages, more "stuff"... I started letting my users create content for me when I ran out of stuff to write..
normally arcade sites have low cpc.. but, you can improve the ctr by blending ads.. and adding more and more games, tutorials.. etc.
The rule of thumb is: Find out what your visitors want and come to you for, and give them more of it. So if your visitors come to you for Battlefield game information, give them nothing but Battlefield gaming information. What interests gamers? News about their favorite game, news about upcoming mods, strategy, walk-throughs, hints, etc. Let users submit their Battlefield gaming experience -- pictures, screenshots, whatever. That kind of thing.
My site is a hybrid site/forum.. there is a forum-only section, but members can make threaded posts/comments on any regular "page" of the site also.. The Google Spiders love to eat it up..
Although content is the king, orginal content is the king of the kings. So get articles done on your keyword say- battle field game (some what like this) Or seek the help of wordtracker or overture to select your keyword. Do it yourself or select any article writer either from Rentacoder or Scriptlancer (cheap coder are available here) for writing articles on your selected keyword. Upload the articles in your webste. Wait for one month to get good number of visitors.
IMO Google spiders love to eat any kind of content that they find...even when it is borrowed from other sites. Search Engine Spiders
So if I change all of my meta keywords to words that generate high paying ads will google remove my adsense priviliges? Do I have to have meta words that are related to my site? I understand that is what you would do to have search engines point to my site for Battlefield but all of my battlefield traffic will come from our game servers and match site. So I don't care about search engines and those people reaching my site. I just want to get some good ads so when my traffic does click on them we will make some good money. To answer one question above: I didn't make the site for adsense by any means. I was referred by a friend to use it to help pay for our $140 a month game server instead of relying just on donations. Thanks for all the help.