venetsian, I just gave you a tip that will save you 1 year of running around and promoting a dud man. What's a better tip than that. You could start another site and promote it for a week and already be doing better than that dude will do. CTR? What for? so you'll make $1 per day instead of 92cents? seriously, your not going to catch gold with this. The market is impossible. Little towns that have a population of 1,000 people have a real estate site that is a minimum of pr 5. The adsense is pretty good. I suppose a lin unit right down in the footer may help a little, but the placement is ok. You need to use the multi-color patlette system so your top 728by90 changes colors a bit. Optimizing the CTR can be a little tricky if there is nothing actually wrong with your ad placement. There's more the this than many think. What boosts CTR: Where the traffic are comming from How long they stay in the site after they have clicked the ad Which keyword they used to access your website (is it high paying?) etc.
Hi, gravetzt It looks like your still reviewing and ive just made my very first website on a things that i love reptiles.. so if you could let me know how i could get more traffic and more clicks that would be great thanks. www.rep-care.com
I would like to know if my adsense placement on www.boredgames.co.uk/17whckboss.html is ok and also is having the Asbestos niche even though unrelated better then having the game niche as one click on an asbestos ad is like 20 on a game ad? Thanks
LukeG28 Said: Sure, Finally something I enjoy. I have a retail pet store. Actually I'm sitting in it now so this is up my alley. Working within your site: 1. your banner does not have an ALT title. Put one in. 2. That 468by60 Adsense banner is covering the banner. Come on Luke, you can do better than this. Get rid of it. 3. Add a 728by90 under the reptile caresheet links. Be sure to use round edges, and multi-color patlettes when making it. 4. You need more content in order to have more adsense and although your site is very content friendly, its not very optimized in any form. You should take that writing you got on the main page and make it a 1000 word article. Make it single line so don't be putting all of the line breaks every sentence. Once you are done you probably can put a banner on the right side with the words and the article will just merge on the left side sharing the space there. Maybe a 200by200px. 5. Find should type of script/code to add a links section to your site. Maybe on the footer and start exchanging links because you can really start to get more traffic that way. 6. Where it says "Thanks For Visiting Www.Rep-Care.Com", make the Rep-care.com a link going to your main page. I won't lie and tell you that anyone can do this webmaster thing. Its not easy. Maybe you should consider the wager that you will put in your time because your site needs a lot of work. The articles are fine but it needs a better banner, a few more options, and a better template. Its extremely plain. You could probably grab a free php template from 1 of the millions of sites that offer them but then you'll be stuck with their copyrights at your footer.
Almost anything is better than the game niche since the average for a game click is like 03cents, and I should know because I have an arcade that makes $70 per month and you should see the amount of clicks that baby needs to reach that!!! Your adsense placement on that page is fine. You should get rid of that loose weight ad with the competitive ad filter, no one will click that ad.
Thank you so much - what fantastic advice, i will be implementing these shortly. I do own the Mummybrain site as well - it's a lot older and been going for a lot longer of course. I would ask for a review on that one, but i don't want to be greedy
Thank you GrAve for your insightful review, I'll analyse your advises and will see what I can do to test and maybe improve on the current status of my ad placement. If I can help you in any way, don't hesitate to ask me via PM. Cheers, James
Hello GrAveTzT, Seems like your still reviewing websites so I am throwing mine in the mix. I would like you to review http://www.footballchatforum.com I have been running adsense on it for a while but last week I made some major changes to the ads I have been using to try and get my CTR up. My CTR and earnings have since increased over the last week but I would like to get your input. I have been reading you reviews and I am very impressed with your advice. I think you would find a way to better optimize my ads. Thank you.
Hello Gravetzt, Could I get a quick review of www.easymortgageloanmodification.com Thanks for all your help
Rizzo Said: Well, I suppose a adding a few adsense ads would be good at mummybrain. 1. A 728 x 90 ad will do wonders above your welcome message but your members will be upset. What you do is you simply tell them that if you can make revenue then you will be able to use a large amount of the revenue to bring in more excellent members and the community will grow a lot. Of course, don't tell them to click it or you'll get banned. 1. I wouldn't want to slap a bunch of banners because it'll wreck the quality of the site so if you want one more then put a 160by600 skyscraper under your "Please PM me with a photo that you wish to enter into....." table box. I know its a big ad but its out of the way and just to provide something for the rare person to click. It also should match close to the left side now. 3. You can put a link unit under the "Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd. Mummybrain.com" copyright because it won't clutter the site. A centered 728x15_4 will do fine there. SENSERELY said: Sure, you can fly down here and help me try to make this new pet store work. I just started this business and its either going to make me lose my shirt or rich. On a serious level there's really only one thing you can do which is join the Pembina Valley Pets group on facebook. I've been pushing to get more members there so one more is always good. If your crazy in helping you can invite a wack load of your friends to there as well. http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=118151935757&ref=ts LukeG Said: Sorry, don't do MSN. I'm strictly online for business at all times other than the rare hour where I enjoy those street fighting videos. Yes, I'm a street fighting video fan. You can help by doing what I asked "Sincerely" with the facebook group thing. Theinsider said: Its good that you've read the other stuff I wrote for others because its usful for not only them, but others. Your site is down so I can't directly check it out. I'll have to see later.
I apologize for that GrAveTzT. Do you believe that's the first time it's been down in over 6 months. ugh. I already contacted my host, they are doing some emergency repair on the server and it should be back up shortly. Thanks for even giving it a look. I look forward to your review.
Harjitgill said: Sure. 1. I made a story that you should read. It doesn't directly relate to you, but is sort of the case: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showpost.php?p=13087169&postcount=35 Site Opt. 1. That main title needs to be with a logo. Get a logo and put it beside the title words on the left. 2. That Right margined table with the "meta" and what not. You should move that whole thing to the left side. Now your main content table will be centered. The off center thing is over-rated. Its junky for the public to read. 3. Take that skyscraper ad on the "now rightside" and make the background color of it the same color as the background color of the box its in. While you are editing that ad you might as well change the link font to BLACK. 4. You need more ads badly. Put a 300 x 250px ad under the Pages category thing. When you make it in adsense use the "Rounded corners" option too. 5. Read this topic to understand that I don't like reviewing blogs. Chowbow said: As said about 10 times in this topic I don't review blogs. I hate them and there is a few other reasons. Read the whole topic to know why. Sorry. Theinsider said: It happens. I can see it now so meh. 1. Most of your ads are really creating gaps on your forum. Your new visitors must be stressing out. Get rid of those two big square ads. Sheesh, they are taking all of your space man! 2. Replace those two squares with one 728by90 ad. Obviously you know how to blend the colors so make the ad the same way. Do me a favor and use the ROUNDED CORNERS as the rest of your site is rounded so it'll match good. Also Center it. 3. In the posts where you got two link units in the "Football Chat Forum" erase those and put another 728by90 ad and center that too. 4. Those link partners are a cluttery mess. If you are allowed you should put those 5 smallest one's right above "All times are GMT +1. The time now is 12:10 AM." in the footer. Don't put them on top of each other. Side by side and split them like this: | 5. Put a 180x90 link unit ad where this little flashy annoying gfx's are. I 6. Organize those bunch of annoying boxes so that the biggest to the smallest are in order top-to-bottom if allowed. Erase one's that have not gotten you traffic in like two months because they are really bad. There are much better ways to link exchange without the 91by31mini banner thing. I used to do it in 2001 but I figured it was gone until now. 7. Put a link unit of the size of 728x15_5 Under "Skin Purchased from CompletevB". Make sure there is a one line gap <br>. 8. The ad in the content of topics is good. Accept change the font from your blue to the lighter blue, then black, etc)Use the multi-color patlette). 9. Use the VB addon where you can make the search intigrate with google search. Google search doesn't pay much but enjoy the increase. Now even though you have less adds your visitors will stay for longer, more will come, and you'll probably get more clicks.
If you're still up for giving me a word of mouth, that'd be cool. Just double checking, I've done the correct thing with the placements. on both http://findabusiness.org and http://findabusiness.org/search.php
mayankoneman said: Only one. I'll chose the one that needs the most. mmusicz.com Where to begin...the site. 1. You gotta do something about that inner-page link keyword trick you are trying to pull. Yeah, you may get pr for it but link farming is a serious offense to google search engine and they will rank you the same and it'll be near impossible to increase because of those what? 80 links at the bottom. Put 10 there, and then a "show me more" button centered under them and make a new page and load them in there. 2. Bring down that gap above your pill banner by rasing the banner top higher. only allow a max. 2 font lines, not 20. 3. Put your who.among us traffic counter beside "Not registered" at the top. Customize the button to color match a bit more. The who.among us button editor is actually pretty easy and good to use to customize it. 4. Move the "signup to ycan" content up under the pill logo. 5. Put an adsense 468 x 60 ad centered under your social bookmark images. When making the ad use slighly round edges. 6. Make a 728x15_4 link unit and put in dead at the bottom of your site. Not even in the white table. Dead Bottom. Also make sure the background is the same as that gray you are using. 7. Move the copyright content under your link farm thing and above this copyright written stuff put your alexa and going up banners above. I would completely remove both of those myself and just use Google anylisis but meh. Your choice. 8. I don't know what to do with those yellow tables, but what would look great is if you had them on the right up high, and the search totally beside them on the right. You'd have to move the "playlist, etc" someplace but that way you could put in one additional google ad of the size of around 300 x 250. 9. Fix the link with your logo title pill banner. When you click it, it doesn't work and there is no ALT Title. 10. There's more you could do but once you make a bunch of changes its much more easier to see. 11. Anytime you see a gap like this. Make it smaller so everything moves up higher. Higher is good for websites. Word of mouth? what do you mean? Edit: Oh yeah. my stats are showing a spike in my earnings for adsense today. Although the clicks are down the earning is insanely high. I should be excited but just as a warning to anyone here, don't click in my sites' google ads because you may be thanking me or something like that because google will log your ip and if they suspect you of this kind of behavior then its possible that they will choose get the least power publisher in trouble by either secretly lowing your CTR in order to balance it out, a possible secret infraction that they may use that no one knows about. Don't do that. On a plus today is at $31.63 and my record was $27.23 not including a major advertising system I paid for. Heck, I hope that I double the record!
Well, after making several changes recommended, my CTR dropped below 0.17% over the last 3 days. I'm not too happy about it, yet it's been only three days. I will have to make some further adjustments, however.