I've often heard the top net earners talk about analytics and understanding how visitors navigate or interact when on your website. Like, most it went in one ear and out the other. I recently noticed that one of my top entry pages was one that contains a large single pic of a model and the pic changes daily. I use a thumbnail of the models pic, in my signature, on a lot of forums I visit. Of course that small thumbnail links back to my Model of the Moment page. I decided to try the free service from the guys over at Crazy Egg. It's quite simple frankly, it allows you to see what links and images your visitors are clicking on when they visit a page on your site. After installing the script on my Model of the Moment page, I ran a test over a 3 day period and what I discovered blew my mind! I made the ASSumption that most of those visitors would click on a link in the navigation bar at the top and proceed to other areas of my site. I was DEAD wrong! The test showed me that 90%(or more) of the visitors to that page didn't click on any of my links in the navigation bar, but they ALL clicked on the image of the model. Now the image is not a thumbnail. It's a normal sized image, so why my visitors were clicking on it was beyond me! It made me realize that all of those visitors were hitting this page then eventually clicking the Back button to leave the site. What a waist of traffic, especially since less than 1% of those visitors clicked on the Adsense ad at the top of the page. After a little thought, I decided that since they liked clicking on the image, I'll hyperlink it and send them to the main homepage of the website. After making that small change, I waited for about a day or two and the results floored me! My average daily Adsense earnings didn't double, didn't triple, but QUADRUPLED! It's been that way for the last 3-4 weeks!!!!!! Just by analyzing that one page and figuring out what the visitors were doing, I was able to capitalize on that behavior and increase my daily earnings with Adsense. I'm currently running the same test on all of my highest entry pages to see if I can find any other unrecognized 'hot spots' that I may be able to capitalize on. So if you're using Adsense and you've never paid attention to the behavior of your visitors when they're on your site...DO SO IMMEDIATELY! It may just surprise you. I hope my experience benefits others as well. D. Campbell
Damn, when you see a hot looking model be sure you're not looking at the damn header for sure. You're more like click click click and from reflex after you reach the homepage you click by mistake on ads. So danger google might ban you . Joking ofcourse. Nice to hear this, good luck on making more discoveries like this one . Next time you'll sextuple you're revenue .
very interesting! Data analysis is a must. I am a big fan of data analysis but I guess many people find it too difficult to get anything from it.