I'm new to this forum, but I'm not new to blogging or Adsense. In fact, I've read a lot of forums, blogs and even books about Adsense and have done / tried everything that was suggested there. Yet my CTR is extremely low and so are my earnings. (I think we're not allowed to mention any numbers here, right?) My blog (zoomingjapan.com) went online in November 2011 and I started using Adsense in August 2012. While I know that my traffic is still quite low, I've seen some blogs with similar traffic earning some decent money (e.g. 3$US / day). Here are some stats: Average of unique visitors per day: 300+ Yesterday: 780 views and 396 unique visitors Today: 850 views and 313 unique visitors Where are the visitors coming from? 32,75 % search engines 46,07 % referral (most come from Facebook) 21,18 % direct The ads that are shown are related to the topic, so that is not an issue. I've tried various combinations in the past 7 months (color, ad-units, position, size, image only, text only etc.), but nothing seems to improve my earnings. I can't even cover my running costs with the few bucks I've earned in all that time. As I've tried everything that blogs, forums and books suggest, I just don't know what else I could try anymore. Is my traffic still too low? Will Adsense not work with a blog like mine? Or am I just doing something completely wrong? I really hope that the more experienced people here can give me some feedback or advice. Thank you so much!
You need good content, unique content, and to make sure the traffic from facebook are interested in your content, your ads should be based on your content, if they're both completely different, no one will visit them.
I don't know if my content is good or not, but I try hard to make it good. My content is unique on top of that I only use my own photos - something people can't find anywhere else. My Facebook Page is about the same as my blog. Currently I have almost 3000 Likes and that generates a lot of traffic to my blog. And more and more of those people who discovered me via Facebook sign up to my RSS feed and leave comments on my blog, so I guess it's a good traffic source. The ads shown are all on topic as much as possible. I've done a lot of SEO work and my content is keyword-targeted, so there shouldn't be any issues with that.
Try adding some ads before the blog post for each post, so its the title then ad then post content, it may increase it, it also looks like on your home page your ad placement is very minimum, maybe increase some more?
I already have a smaller ad-unit right under the title of each blog post. Yes, I was thinking about increasing / changing ad-units on my homepage, but I think I need to re-design it a little first.