Hi, i launched www.whoisthemonkey.com a little over a year ago. I feel the site has good content and is a good place to go but im only getting around 1500 uniques a day. It is only making around 7-10 dollars a day.. which i think is pretty sad. What do you guys think about it? Suggestions? I must be doing something wrong!
That's probably pretty good actually compared to a lot of people's adsense earnings here. My first thought is "hard to navigate." I mean, it's easy enough to get to the videos and such, but you have a lot of content there. You do have some categories listed, but I think maybe breaking them down more would be good. They're kind of limited now, and digging through page after page for things can get tiresome. If you show people how to get to exactly what they want, maybe they'll stay longer? I don't know. My other thought is that people don't really have a need to click on your ads, b/c they're accessing the content w/o any need to be looking in your right column at ads. You're giving them good stuff. Why would they want to leave? Maybe other ways of monetizing the site would work better for you. If you're able, what about selling ad space to play before videos launch? If it can be built into the player that way, when it's spread virally, your advertisers get more bang for their buck. It's a cute site name. It might also work on merch. Maybe that's another way to monetize things.
You need to improve the placement of the ads to increase CTR and clicks and earnings. With 1500 uniques a day, you can easily be earning more.
I agree, you need to place the ads in a place for people to see and click. Just don't over-due it Maybe at the top?
I dont want to have more then 2 areas with YPN ads. So do you guys recommend getting rid of the ads to the right... and place a random videos or top content of the day there instead.. or get rid of the ads right below every video and game? My theory was to have the ads to the right so people might accidently click them.. or might read them as they are scrolling.. and to have the ads below the videos so they can see them while the game or video is loading or during the video or game. My CTR is .2% so obviously my theory failed
I could be completely wrong on this, but I think the right column is supposed to be one of the worst places for ads, b/c of ad blindness and people being so used to them there (so they just ignore them). That's why above might work better... they'd be forced to at least see them before viewing videos and such
I agree with her. I wouldn't even look at the ads there especially when it says yahoo ads at the top. However, if you put an ad in between every 3 videos or something like that, I would have to look at it, even accidentaly... And if I would see something that I noticed accidentaly for a second and it does interests me, I would click and check it out. Or if you are going to leave it at the place it is at right now, at least get read of "Advertisemets" title on top. Why would someone purposly look at the advertisements? I agree with Rosie also... If you have 1500 uniques a day, and if it is quality traffic from search engines and such, you should be getting at least $25-40 from adsense. As for design - I would suggest to use more actegories also, and change the eay categories look... Make a drop down menu or something more attractive than what it is there now.