If it is specialist and you get decent traffic considering your genre then you should be able to go and find your own advertisers and make more that way as long as you can establish trust with your advertisers as regards the figures you give them, use a 3rd party tracking tool.
Well if your not ready for a lot of work then there would be little point complaining of a lack of success/income.
Yeah, but, no, but... What I mean is that I have a site up and running that has a small number of high-quality visitors. I hoped that this could lead to a useful income via AdSense. It doesn't seem to be working out this way. I don't want to change my "line of business" by building site to put AdSense on, and if AdSense is not profitable on my existing sites then I will think again.
Indeed, that is why perhaps you should source your own advertisers and get more, it does work for many people but obvioulsy google take their cut and you need a few advertisers in your genre to push up the CPC, perhaps you could approach businesses and offer small banners for a set fee on your site giving them specific targetted traffic and you a more stable and rewarding income.
The problem is that the left-bar is generated by postnuke and the centre portion be phpBB2 - and it is phpBB2 that needs to serve the ads
Giving up on AdSense early doesn't make much sense to me. Over the 7 or 8 months that I've used it, I've found that more work always seems to end up giving more ad clicks. As my websites slowly become more popular (it takes time), the amount of work needed to optimize the site for AdSense goes down, leaving me with more time to work on content. If you're expecting to make more than minimum wage on your website, you have to work just as hard as a job that makes more than minimum wage: there are no freebies. In 2006, Google will make huge strides in decreasing the AdSense revenue for "fake" sites and increasing the revenue for real sites with real content updated regularly. If you can't focus on the long run, don't bother with the short run: the payouts will be much worse. I've been a business owner for over 15 years (I'm 31) and NO business made quick money easily. Some businesses took me 5+ years to break even -- AdSense monetizing is no different. I've been lucky to have one website make money right away, but my 2 favorite ones make very little. It is just how it is -- give it time, nurturing and attention.
I guess the problem is that I want a site that is useful, and happens to have ads, rather than a site for ads.
cool, so dont think about putting ads for now, devote sometime in developing a "useful" website, and then after u r satisfied with its content+layout, try making some space for adsense, or ask any expert here for some tips.
If that's your site in your sig ... wow! Really specialised! The idea of tracking down advertisers is probably the best bet for getting an income but if the traffic to your site is low, you may find that to be disappointing too.
The question is why you use the adsense, if you go for quality and want to make some easy money with at the side it's perfect. I will never make a site that is there for the purpose of adsense alone. If you just have a site because you like it, why worry about adsense or revenue? I made a site out of passion for 5 years and it brought me great success after a while. If you have a small dedicated audience the DONATE button by paypal is said to work nicely.
Wow, the site is really specialized. I don't even know what MFX is. The problem is that there won't be many advertisers fighting over top billing for ads for that topic (I'm guessing, since I don't know what the topic is). It's really hard to monitize a site like this, even though it has top-quality content and is well respected among its limited audience. Maybe if you determined other related topics that your visitors might be interested in, write a few small articles on those topics, and place Adsense ads on those pages — assuming the topics are more commercial than your main topic. The expanded topics would also give you a better shot at increased traffic from a broader search engine exposure, which is key to making adsense revenue. Good luck.
MXF is a system for storing and distributing video and audio that is being adopted by pretty much every major broadcaster in the world as well as being behind the fortcoming digital revolution in cinema.