I have 3 popular gaming sites... each one gets a good amount of uniques a day, most are from search engines. There are no forums. Its great content and people give me great comments about. Every day, adsense shows 10,000+ page views in my ad reporting. Problem is, my CTR is always less than 0.40%. I have tried EVERYTHING. Changing the layout, changing the colors, changing how many ads I use, I went from 1 ad, to 3 ads, nothing changed. I changed the places of the ads, I tried blocking major categories, I tried EVERYTHING possible! I am very sad, because I worked a long time for pretty much nothing. I make like 5 dollars a day, and can never break that. On some days, I can make 10 bucks maybe, but that is all. CTR is always very very low. CPC is not bad at all, Ive seen even 1 dollar for a click. But CTR that is my biggest problem. Should I just give up on gaming sites? Do gamers NEVER click ads? What am I doing wrong? And if so, can you guys please tell me which categories of sites get a decent CTR? Financial sites? Business sites? Travel sites? Excercise and bodybuilding? Because I will stop, and try to make those types of sites instead. I am tired of every day waking up to crappy earnings, despite working on my websites every day, updating, creating walkthroughs for games which take days. Sometimes weeks. My content is original, and even the content I have that is NOT original (submitted) I spice up to make it look better and easily accesible to the visitor. Should I stop making GOOD sites? Maybe people dont want to leave my site that is why they never click. Anyway sorry for the long post. I am very frustrated. I have tried everything, only to get lower and lower earnings every day all because my CTR is always less than 0.40%. Thanks for your time, I really hope you guys can give me some advice...
The more computer literate your audience, the less they click ads. Pretty much. Spoken as someone who has major issues getting CTR over 0.3%.
Adsense is about matching User intentions to Advertising Inventory. Clearly people come to your site to use the content. Thus there is no reason for them to click on any ads. If the ads match the reason that people come to your site then they get clicked. 1-2% is a fairly average click through in most niches. In your case you would be well served to limit the number of ads you are serving for adsense. If you have not done so already you should really dig into your traffic analytics and see which pages get visited and which keywords are used to find those pages. Then adjust your advertising campaigns accordingly. Making money with Adsense requires you to really understand the motives of your traffic. And if your content is so good and it's free... then perhaps you need to figure out another way to leverage what you are doing for more profit.
I also have a similar problem.. I have the very same websites that I owned in back 2008 .. then my ctr used to go btw 9-15%... bUT NOW IT IS REDUCED TO 1-3% or may sometimes slightly go higher.. All I ever did since then was add few more pages to my those very same websites.. Nothing extra domain / website was added ,, what could be the main reasons behind it..?
Digital08, the game niche is maybe even the hardest adsense niche there is. Most of the time text-ads are useless and even image ads don't have a high CTR or CPC. I don't have any good tips for you since i am in the same position. If your site is big enough you could try cpmstar, bigpoint publisher, game server ads or selling game related ads.
If your site gets enough traffic, I'd recommend implementing CPM ads along with Adsense. How you tried Vibrant Media along with adsense, or Kontera? If people are coming just for the content, then you can easily monetize it - just don't keep your eggs in Adsense. You need to diverse. Sites in the games niche usually sell in-house ads, or have various ad networks running.
Not sure whether you try this - dont use text only or image/text ads. use image only ads in skycrapper or leaderboard
Have you tried private advertising? Since your sites get good traffic, perhaps you can cut the middle men and directly look at companies that would be interested to advertise on your site.
I think its good if your traffic is too high and it really depends on what type of visitors you are having, so according ot me this is good ctr
see try to put ur adsense between the post u are saying that u have good number of visitors then really it can help u to push up your CTR adsense is just implementing
As you said it is paying less for more than 2 years, I think you should research for a new niche that has high CTR and of course pays well.
Sure it is.... its like having less traffic and say you should keep it that way to avoid to many impressions?
Are your ads game related? First make sure that the ads that are showing are actually game related.. If they're not, then I would find a game related ad network that would serve 100% game related ads.. Obviously your clickthrough is low because your visitors are not finding any interest in the ads.. For a game site, game related ads are the way to go..
This is REALLY bad.. 0.04% only for 10K pageviews? maybe you should give up on Adsense.. try CPA or u just sell links to others.
man forget gaming niche i had one and i got 0 earnings every day hehhe although i had 2500k impression now i turned to forex niche www.3rb-web.net lol now i earn 5-11$ aday with less work lol