I put up a new website just over 2 weeks ago. I am averaging about a 7% CTR (up to 12% over the past 2 days) and the earnings per click are OK. But I only have 50-100 visits per day and I want to get that into the thousands. I have added more content to the site, submitted to various relevant directories, posted in forums with the link in my signature, wrote an article that has been published on various sites, used social bookmarking, posted in Facebook groups, etc. I do have pretty decent SERPs already for some of my keywords but not for the ones that get the most traffic. Do I just need to be patient since it's only been 2 weeks? Do I just keep doing what I'm doing? I don't think I can post my link here since I'm still new but the site is www dot cakesandkids dot com. If you can see anything I should change, please feel free to let me know. Thanks!
In my opinion you should change your ads color to match the background of your site... Unless thats the look you want, i like mine blended better....
Yeah, just keep up with what you are doing as far as marketing and such goes. If your game is making money online, don't expect to simply get a site up there and get some traffic continuously. Websites that are successful have a large amount of time put into them.. It doesn't stop, so keep working at it!
The site no doubt is good. But better place the ad sense banner on the top and then enter some text. Changing the color combination of text and the background of the ads will also help you, Rest is fine . Continue what you are doing.
Hello, It is normal for regular website, keep working in your sites to get more traffic, more backlinks and add more content Best Jakomo
Thanks everyone! I'll keep doing what I'm doing and maybe play around some more with the ad placement and colors. I'm really only doing this to earn a little extra money as I have a full-time job but I'm enjoying the learning experience.
Very nice site. Patience is one of the most needed virtue here But if you want your visitors to come back, some new features would be interesting, like for instance one page per recipe with picture and comments/votes, recipe of the day/week, picture from amazon for the cake and topper part (btw, I have a vertical scroll-bar on the third column on that page)... I know most of those things will need programming, and it depends a lot on what kind of site you want to build. You can get free content on Wikibooks (see http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookebook:Vancouver_Cheesecake) and Wiki commons (see http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cake) to illustrate it. Reword a bit the recipes and check the rights on the pics, and voila! (of course check http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikibooks:Copyrights for the source/link back if any).
My advice is to wait for more traffic and in the mean time, start adding more contents to your site and building backlinks since it is fairly new one. Analyze your source of traffic and check how much is organic...
I like the site design; very clean. Keep in mind, Google AdSense marketing is a form of internet marketing. Getting the user to click you ads is what you want. Try experimenting with different ideas, locations, colors and so on. Make sure to keep track of the data so you can compare & contrast. On a side note, you're site is fairly new. Once you start ranking for your targeted keywords you'll see an increase in your AdSense clicks. Be sure to focus on: 1) Great Content 2) Inbound linking 3) Article Submissions 4) Blog Postings 5) Directory Postings Having amazing content will edge users to link your site as a reference. Offering users something that is useful will greatly increase your publicity thus creating mass inbound links. Think if the "Laughing Baby" example with YouTube. Keep focusing on getting those direct inbound links. Submit useful articles, these will get linked around. You have to be aware though that the duplicate content issue may come up. For articles be sure you write specific articles for the submission and not copy those articles from your site. Blogging - More useful information for the public. Directory Submission - Attempt to get listings on higher PR directories. Many of these are now paid directories if you want results fast. You figure you get what you pay for. The problem with free directories is they require rhetorical links. I'd only exchange for a rhetorical link if its category specific. You can submit to about 50-75 paid directories for under $400.00. (PR 3-5). Its a constant battle, the #1 thing is provided the world with useful information.
Your site is doing very well for only being 2 weeks old. My forum site still has a hard time reaching 100 visits per day. I'll have to start advertising in facebook I guess. My advice is to be patient, you'll get better serps as time goes on and eventually most of your traffic will come from that.
Get into Adsense with a horizon of nearly 2-3 years. If you can have that patience, this will yield big benefits. Btw, good site.
Yes. You have to be Patient. It's only two weeks old..and it takes a few more weeks for google to perfectly crawl and index all your pages..so,you'll get better SERP's and more targeted traffic. If you aren't submitting to Digg,..try to submit it..it can drive you a fair amount of traffic.
it seems like you are on the right track , just be patient and I believe that the high performing keywords are more competitive than the othes.
Thank you again everyone for the helpful and constructive comments! I'm going to focus on more content and inbound links for now.
just be patient and keep building links to your site, and the traffic will come. you will earn very little from 50-100 visitors a day if you are just using adsense, consider another affiliate programme with some banner adverts linked to the niche of your site and this may also help.