Yesyerday I advertised heavily, with Y! as it seems I have better resluts with them. That, coupled with good old fashioned hard work and I saw a spike in my traffic and AS revenue (best day ever!). This morning, I wake up and find that my eCPM has gone thru the roof! (relatively speaking) Does anyone think that the quality of traffic had the effect on the ecpm? I got worried for a minute so I checked my logs to rule out foul play (invalid click bombs etc) and I seem fine. Plus I got my google analytics invite this morning, whcih I hear is superior to all tracking programs, so I will keep you posted on what develops. Thanks to all my DP friends for the advice and help
Well, that's awesome dude. What kind of hard work did you put in? As for the advertising, are you bringing in traffic cheap enough that your Adsense makes up for it or are you selling something?
Well, to date I have paid someone to manually submit to 100 directories (not hard work on my part). I have joined forums that focus on my market and been active, applied live links in the signature area. Before I paid someone to submit to directories as stated above, I was dilligent in doing it myself. Much of my hard work came from continuially revising the design of my site until I found a balance of it being astheticlly pleasing and adsense optimized. As for the advertising, I use AW and Y!, I do not sell a product, I offer free information, so it is a balance of more coming(adsense) in then going(adwords) out. Now if only my gf would stop complaining that I am on the computer too much... edit: much of what I now know I learned in the DP forum, work would have been far more difficult if not for this place.