Some people say that getting backlinks is the key to getting hits, MORE VISITORS = MORE CLICKS = MORE MONEY. So i've been going nuts exchanging links. But recently i've been adding mass quality articles to my site hoping one crazy keyword in a page can be picked up by a search engine. Therefore the more articles I write the more visitors I will get because there is more wacky/different keywords that my pages consist of. Now I know you all will say I could of told you this, but I just got the picture. And this will be the best way to gain adsense revenue Your thoughts?
I had a forum, with adsense and no CTR to talk about, I attached a news page for motorsports onto my site, put adsense in the left corner of the articles, I get alot of traffic, and seeing a great improvment in my CTR, I have a long way to go, but things are heading in the right direction.
Good idea, adding articles to your website means more content, google and other search engines will consider your website "important" You should also try writing articles yourself and posting it to hundreds or article directories, this will really get you more traffic than link exchange, but make sure your article has genuine content.
I'd recommend you do some more reading on the forum. While some of your ideas are good, you are off on a few big points...such as link trading. Brandon
Don't get me wrong I do some link tradings. www.DumbNerd.com/links.php Just hard for them to link back 4/6th's of them sites are not linking back. I gotta seed out the non backlinking sites.
You can boost your revenue in two ways. 1) Improve your traffic. eg you get 100 uniques a day, one of them clicks your ad = you get $0.10 You boost it to 1000 daily uniques and in theory youl have $1 2) Improve your ad position/format. Some websites are really crap for CTR. Forums tend to get low CTR. If you were still getting that 100 daily visitors by tweaking your ads you could get every 10s visitor click your ads = $1 a day without any increase in traffic. I think in most cases its better and quicker to just improve your ads instead of trying to improve your traffic.
you can also improve the QUALITY of visitors. I have two sites running at 14% ctr and 7% ctr, raffic is not massive but it doesn't really have to be at those ctr's.
I second what MightyB said, but there is a point where your traffic can be so low that no position tweking will really help your ctr. It took me several months to suss that out. Then I came here
Take my forum for example http://www.thelocalforum.co.uk/forum/index.php i get minimum amounts of clicks. I guess i could stick adsense all over the place but then it would not be a forum. Old Welsh Guy I have a whole theory about this. You get people who are just lurking around. Some might get curious and click on the ad. However if you get targeted traffic and your website does what people need there wont be any need for them to click on the ads. So in theory you need to have targeted traffic + related ads without actually giving people what they want in which case they will click on the related ads and carry on looking...
Two words -> Content is King. Wait, that is three words... Anyway, I think writing articles is a great idea. Golly, if you call it a "blog" then it is a golden idea.
I'm totally with you. It's the most stable way of generating traffic - picking up obscure phrases and what-not. A site with a few thousand pages covering a topic and it's sub-topics entirely that updates frequently is always going to provide a nice stready and stable revenue stream no matter how far it dips down or rises in rankings as there's so much scope and variety of keywords naturally littered all over it. Pete
BINGO give the man a cigar The tip is to follow the magic formula for selling. Attention Interst Desire Action If you tell them what they want to hear, you have their attention and interest. If you tell them what it can do for them, they will desire it. ALL that is then left is where to get it! (whatever it may be) If they can't get it from your site, they have the option of an adwords link.