Hi guys and girls. Ive been reading this site on and off for the past month or 2 and id like to ask for some advise. I started my site October 2006 using a wordpress blog software, then using google adsense for adverts, i got my first payout of $100 Sep 07 so that took 11 months for me to make my first pay out. not good. I decided this october i would redesign the site and make it easier to use and publish content. i moved hosts and created a brand new site. www.airsoftsniper.co.uk Im currently running 3 adsense ads on my site, one right at the top directly under the website banner, one on the left under the main links, which goes between the usermenu when users log in. and then one right at the bottom for when people get to the end of the articles. I think the new design of the site has improved my CTR as ive already accumulated $48.65 since september 1st which is not bad considering the site was down pretty much the whole of october, so the majority of those earning would have been end of october / november till now, if going by the old site not generating much income. once the site was redesigned i sent a press release to a few Airsoft news sites, i have direct links in my signature on 2 very busy forums related to the subject, and a couple of other sites link to the site, im number 1 in search results for "airsoft sniper" on google which you would expect with the domain name and site content. ive had 30,151 page impressions since 1st september, with a CTR of 1.04% is that low? The counter on my website to the left records unique IP's and thats been running since the site started, and was started on 0. Im guess im just looking for ways to improve my CTR to generate more income, atm the income covers my hosting and domain name costs, but it would be nice to maybe increase it so im getting $100 every 2-3 months. Thebauer
Have you used channels to see which ads on your site are getting clicked the most? This site would be tricky to optimize further due to the layout. Check your PM.
we had plenty of extensive threads earlier see http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=228283 http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=237454 http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=178570 your ctr SUCKS - that s NOT low - thats down hell normal ctr is 2 digits anything less is NON-optimized and needs a FIX! i am talking about MIXED topic sites - special sites may have MUCH higher CTR !!! and only a very few a ctr 5-10%. most will have definitely higher than 12% overall ctr the key point when reading is to do EXACTLY as suggested by those who REALLY earn $ ( really means MANY k$/m !!)