My site usually gets blasted by Reddit and sometimes Digg hits, but my CPM is really low. Recently I got maybe a 60,000 hit post on Reddit but made about just 12 bucks in it... mostly in CPM rather than clicks... while Im reading of other guys with much less traffic with higher payouts. Does anyone else suffer from low payouts with social hits or is it just me? My site is http://www.motorthusiast.com if ytou want to comment on ad placement. Im trying to keep away from sticking ads within the post but I may consider putting a small one such as a 468x60 in the middle to see how it goes.
There is a great free plugin for WordPress called Adsense Under Image it places Adsense ads directly under an image. You can see it here http://freedesktopwallpaper.me/ Click an image on the front page and see. Works wonders for me, I have several Wallpaper sites all using this plugin.
I would make $2500 for 60,000 page impressions... wow did you forgot to put the ads??? $12 ???? are you kidding me???... wow!
I ear that social sites is not the best cause the people on this social sites regularly dont clic in the adsense ads
I will try this out mate Well as I said, the traffic is Social Network based...so as kenshlipknot mentioned, people rarely click them. nonetheless I need to get publicity, so I dont mind. I'd also be looking for a more useful comment that trying to take a crap on my low numbers Yea quickly realizing this. Im still gonna use social networks though to get the site name out there.
Are you joking . How you can make $2500 with adsense by getting 60,000 Page impression . I will be happy if you can share few tips and niche by which you get such a high CPM rate .
you can and i recommend you to still keeping posting to social sites cause against the bad convertions who represents, stills provide you a backlink to your site.
Well I finally decided to try to ad in the post thing, and I gotta admit, seems a pretty decent move. Already started getting a sudden increase in clicks. Will see how that goes.
The users on Reddit are a different breed. They are less likely to click and less likely to stick around on your site. I've had some surges of traffic from Reddit and if you look at the Analytics data, they read and leave, read and leave. I've been using Reddit for 3 years or so. I like your website, even though I'm not a 'car guy', but from a webmaster stand point.
your sites has cheap keywords, if i would make an adsense site i normally target keywords of $1 to $2 in the technology niche, with only 100 clicks you get $100 , 2 years ago i got $1500 in one day from 8000 visitors on my site on 1 day
What's the sense doing a blog that I don't like? Plus there are so many tech blogs these days. Did you really check my site? There is already ads within content and so on. Might need to clear cache if it's not showing.
I suggest you to use a CPM affiliate network like tribalfusion.com rather than Adsense. I have heard that they pay $0.5 to $3 per 1000 ad impressions. Even if you get the lowest $0.5 for 1000 impressions, you can earn; $0.5 x 60 = $30 for 60,000 pageviews with just one 300x250 ad unit. This is much better than $12 from Adsense.
Indeed. Im trying to build a constant stream of traffic though because I know a couple like Tribal, FastClick and so on have minimums which you have to satisfy before they approve you.
I agree that social site are having lower CTR but it wouldnt as worst as your case. Change the ads size and placement and see what's going on, you might need to spend sometime on it and sure it will increase your earning
Oh, I just checked your site's alexa rank now. I thought your site is in xx,xxx range. However, you are running a text ad unit in the middle of your posts. Try to use an Image ad unit there and see if CTR increases or not.
Ok, will do. Yea dude, still a new site so that's why Im not taking some of the comments too seriously yet. I actually didnt have that in content ad there till last night. It's actually been better but Ill switch it to image only and see how that goes.
You nailed it. I was about to say the same alternative. CPM networks will be great in your case because most of the traffic coming from social networking websites like Digg reddit, Mixx etc usualy are webby people and fequent internet users, and they are well aware of Adsense ads and that is the reason you'll get low CTR. Ask yourself, Would you click somebody's adsense ads these days, when you're an adsense publisher and know about it? So in that case Impression based networks likes Tribalfusion can be your best bet.