Hi guys, I receive up to 1000 visitors a day and I have a CTR below 1%. I'm wondering how I could optimize my Adsense ads and their placement to get a better CTR. Any advise? Most of my visitors land on the index page, but end up on the video's page for most of their visit. Here's my site: http://url-press.com Thanks in advance, -AJ
Google has several examples of improving CTR. Where should I place Google ads on my pages? http://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=17954 What colour palettes are the most successful? http://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=17957 Emphasise important content with section targeting. http://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=43872 However looking at your site it is not the CTR you need to improve it is the number of visitors.
If you're basing that off my Alexa rank, it's still in the process of updating. It's only been a month for me and I've manged to scrape up 1000 visitors a day. I think that's pretty decent, no? Thanks for the links.
Where are you getting your 1,000 visitors? As I have seen your blog at Google, you only have 2 back links which means you may not be attracting search engine traffic. Remember that it is the visitors from search engines who are most likely to click ads, and not visitors from social traffic. In fact, you might even be a victim of smart pricing since the ad clicks may not be converting into sales. The worst thing that can happen is your account might be banned due to suspected click fraud. Google might think that you're inviting your visitors to click your ads even if you do not. That is, if you are NOT getting ad clicks from search engine visitors.
I get 80% of my traffic from Youtube. Demographically, 60-70% of my traffic comes from the US and the UK. I get the rare search engine traffic every now and then. It comes through Google, Live, Yahoo, and Ask. Backlink wise, I have several thousand backlinks in forums throughout the web. It's just rare for people to click through. As for click fraud, I don't think it will happen if nobody is clicking. I'm in the process of updating my site, as in a complete revamp with a different template. I'm optimizing it more for Adsense. Hopefully I'll see better results.
Yup, Plutoscript is correct. Yu have to be very patient in this.. I got MY PR2 after 2 months of my blog lunch...
Youtube traffic should be high quality, assuming that they are click through links on the youtube videos that are relevant to your site's content. Make sure the video's content and your site's content are the same niche.
My Youtube video is very relevant to my site's topic. So the traffic is highly targeted, and of good quality. One video is bringing in most of my traffic, and it receives 3500-4000 hits a day. ~1/4 of that follow through with the link. Here's a little screen shot of the new website I'm working on. Let me know what you guys think. http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o180/RC18MT/ScreenHunter_04Apr020711-1.jpg
Your theme is not ok and only 3 pages are indexed from your website so put more unique content as much as you can and change the look.
well i have few suggestions for your site #1 get a new design for your website #2 add ads below and above the videos or may be on left or right like that so that your site visitors could see relevant ads while watching videos! #3 try link ads #4 also add some information about videos you have added to your site so that google can show more relevant ads follow these simple tips and see the results
need more and different kind of ads. Also blend them in a little better. Put a couple different types of ads on the top of your pages.
Really? I don't see what the problem is. But if that's the case, I'll put it underneath the text that pertains to the photo. I do think it's stupid though that Google would ban publishers for putting ads in optimal positions. It's obviously an ad.
You can post Adsense near and around photos you just have to make sure you delineate the two. Check out lovetoknow.com. (Not my site and not affiliated-we go head to head in a couple of niches.) Whenever I have a question about placement, I check the positioning on their sub-pages. Since I have gallery sites - it's an important question. I also emailed Google.