I Am Packing It All In

As far as I am concerned Adsense are taking the piss with their prices in July. I thought it was maybe just a one off over the last week but yesterday I got a load of clicks and it all averaged out to 1 cent per click. Now here in the UK that means for every 100 clicks I am getting 50p. Well I am sorry but I am not that hard up for money to be writing on 4 websites for 50p. Anyways I just want to thank everyone that gave me help and advice, take care and I hope all your sites do well. For me I have had enough. !

 

Sorry to hear it mate, Google are just becoming cheap !

 

Hey, Badcompany. I'm only new in here, but I am sorry to see you go. You have obviously been prepared to work at getting Adsense income, as I still am. And you make some helpful posts. I think this forum will be less without you. Anyhow, mate. Don't burn your bridges. Take a break for a week or two and maybe pop back in and say hello.

Cheers,

 

I also had lots of low clicks yesterday, Adsense is keeping a few more cents for them i guess... :/

 

I take it you have tried moving adsense around the site or changing the general layout of the ads,have you tried another setup like Adbrite ???? Just because it has not worked this time it may come good by tweaking it,i had one small site which had terrible revenue but before i decided to pull the site for good from the net i just altered it to one big white banner add at the top and revenue started to come in slowly but surely not enough to retire on but it kept the upkeep of the hosting.

 

I think google should be paying out more. I'm in the UK also and have moved to affiliate marketing instead.

From what google get per click of the ads they should be giving us a bigger %

 

Well I just got 27 cents for 1 click, I usually get at least 10 cents a click. Adbrite seems much more professional to me and pay out a bit more.

 

Surely it's just a numbers game - improve your CTR and work out if you're in profit... if/when you get into profit then just create another site and another and another - you'll be raking it in before you know it

 

Hi All

Apologies for the upbeat message, but I LOVE adsense.

This month i am averaging around 10,000 page impressions per day which is double last year's average. Admittedly the actual cash in the bank in not much better than last year, but this is mostly because the click rate has dropped significantly. That is not caused by Google. It is caused by visitors not clicking.

After earning close to 50,000 dollars from adsense over the last 3 years I am certainly not giving in to short-term gloom and despondency, and I urge you all to stick with Adsense.

So brothers and sisters, listen to what uncle Chris is saying. My biggest piece of advice is to accept the random fluctuations and ignore them. So what if you earned 20 dollars yesterday and 20 cents today? In the longer term that is unimportant. What does matters is the averages over longer periods. I don't even bother to compare metrics of under 100 actions. We really should wait till we have at least a thousand clicks, views or whatever before you compare them with a previous day/month/year etc.

Stay positive, don't try to cheat the system, build nice useful websites and enjoy the monthly cheque.

 

Thanks for that.. $50k is a nice profit for 3 years.

 

That's a shame. I am not getting much per click either, but i have to live with it.

Maybe you should try a different ad network instead?

 

Don't quit - take a vacation!

Funny thing is I have websites which I have stopped working on - no new content, etc. Yet, ever so often, wham, a high paying click appears from them.

Right now, Google's revenues are down - with a lackluster US economy advertisers are temporarily dropping their budgets. History shows that this will change and ad revenues will increase again and our part of pie will grow as well.

So if you want to take a vacation until the cycle starts upward again, why not? Leave your sites out there - they probably will make a little money, no matter what, and you can resume with the work when you want to...

 

have you ever heard of "filtering"
my ads are preforming very well

 

I think you should just leave adsense running on 10 websites, and do affiliate marketing aswell.

That way is your making 1 dollar a day per website times 10 = $10 x7 =$70 X 4= $280 per month which aint bad for not doing much.

Affiliate marketing is what you should focus on, as it pays high but its not that easy to get sales Unless you know what your doing and most don't. Call it the learning curve

 

I agree, just take a rest from the sites, implement a few other revenue models (affiliate links etc.) even try Adbrite - and weather the storm, so to speak.

Good luck!
tasty

 

Packing it in after just a couple weeks is a bit brash isn't it? I'd wait until august or september before I decided to pack it in. I would certainly start looking into other forms of ad revenue but I would still keep adsense around for a while.

 

Could always try the affiliate route. You don't tend to observe 1c per click if you put a bit of time into it.

 

Could you try a pay per impression??? Do advertisers still do that?

 

Take a break mate...... even my site lost all the indexed pages, but i am not going to quit. I have never quit and will not. We all are here with a few dreams and we want all our friends to fulfill their dreams.....

 

Thank you for your encourage. I will still on.