My blog is getting between 100-200 views a day and I'm getting no clicks on my Adsense ads, and even less on my Commission Junction banners. I'm posting good, new content every day or so, and submitting my site to every conceivable place on the planet. Is it just a matter of time and patience, or is there anything else I could be doing to get my traffic and clicks up? my site is www.tourgolfblog.com
The best advice I could give is to scrap the standard blogger theme and have something that is unique. To be honest I bet most people visit your site and see it as just another blogger blog and move on. If you are posting fresh creative content I think your blog theme should be the same. You could also work at integrating the Adsense ads closer to your content on your individual posts. This is something a more custom theme would make easier.
You could also invest in a website that is already getting a few hundred unique visitors, is already generating a few dollars per day and build from there. Make sure the website has a decent amount of backlinks and has positive pagerank.
Thanks for the suggestions. I know a couple hundred views a day isn't that much..I'd really like to get it up to a couple thousand a day, which I'm still working on. I have a good host that I like and have used for years...which I could switch my domain name to, but would there be a way to do it so I don't loose all of my current blog content? I'd like to make the switch to WordPress, I'm just not sure of the best way to transfer everything over. I'll email the hosting service and see what they recommend. I'll play around with the ads more and see if it makes a difference...My Commission Junction affiliate ad's don't seem to be doing squat..as in making ZERO money.. I guess traffic is the key to all of my concerns.
Well upon further investigation, my current hosting service doesn't support MySQL, which I understand is required to run WordPress. Could someone recommend a good hosting service where I can use WordPress, isn't too pricey, and will allow me to transfer my current domain over from BlogSpot? Thanks.
I used HostICan which is $3.5 per month for the first year if you enter in a coupon code. I'll give you the coupon code if you need it
Add a 468x60 banner at the bottom of all your postings. Your viewers are most likely skipping over the top banner because they're visiting your site to read your "content". After they read your article they are more likely to read what the adsense ads say.
I'll give that a try...let me ask you, is there any way to fix that ad so it's centered between the outside borders...take a look the page and you'll see how it's overlapping the left hand border and looks tacky. Do you know of a fix for this? Thanks. www.TourGolfBlog.com
your current ad block location in the middle of the text will work better if you make the title text of the ad red, instead of blending it in black, like it is now. you have made the same mistake that a lot of people out here make... the human eye will skim right over the ad when the title text doesn't stand out.
Ok...I'll give that a try too. I've heard a lot of people say that the ads should be similar in font and color of the rest of the text on the page, so as to not tip people off that it's an advertisement. I can see how they would get lost in the text if you do that though. I'll flip to red and see if I notice a difference. Besides changing the size of the advertisement, is there any way to get it to fit better in that area of the page....see how it extends into the border and kind of looks bad. Can that be fixed.?
to the best of my knowledge, No... adsense block sizes are standard. That's why you need to fiddle around with your blog theme to accomodate them.