Need some tips on how to earn more with adsense on my site.

Okay. I have this website, http://www.ptctalk.com

Last month it got 350k unique visits, and I barely earned over $200.

This month it has gotten almost 200k already, but I am only making between $3 and $10 a day.

It has a forum with over 1,000 users, and almost 150 members online per 24 hours (probably 300-500 active users total).

I am really trying hard to get more revenue from adsense, I see so many people on here talking about how they make $10,000 a month and whatnot..Id be happy to make $1-$3k a month. $3,000 a month is my goal.

I just recently updated a lot of things on the site, and added some new features in the past few days, which have already caused a significant jump in my traffic, and I also just added some more adsense skyscrapers to a few of the higher traffic pages of the site, and am waiting to see how that goes.

I could really use some tips on how to get more people clicking adsense, so that I can hopefully at least come close to my goal!

I would have posted this in the Placement / Reviews / Examples board, but I am looking more for tips and tricks, and maybe something I should do to get more clickers than positioning, although all tips are helpful, I honestly feel that this is the best place for this post.

Thanks for your help!

 

Why don't you try to implement ad links on your forums? Ad links work wonders for forums, also; don't rely on adsense as a sole revenue generator - you should try Kontera too. It works wonders for forums.

 

What do you mean by Ad Links? Is it a different service from adsense? Or is it the link units from adsense? If its the link units, I have them in every topic.

 

Adsense under the first post for example would work great.

 

I have a 728x90 leaderboard text/image unit under the 2nd post, and a small link strip under the 1st and 5th.

Now I changed it, leaderboard is under the 1st, and the strip is under the 2nd and 5th.

 

Anymore tips would be great. Also, what are some good ways to increase traffic?

 

Blah. I checked my stats again, I was looking at the wrong site before (a site I cant put adsense on...), I have only gotten about 100k uniques this month so far, and around an average of 150-200k per month. I expect it to rise though.

 

Put some link units on you site. They do well for me.

 

Ya, I was talking about the link units. Try changing your ad at the top, replace it with a leaderboard.

 

You need a 728x90 on the footer of your main page. Color match is with the background.

And definatly a color matching Google search someplace close to the index. You have the traffic to make a lot but there just isn't any ads around your site.

 

Unfortunately, a leaderboard is too long to fit up there with my banner, so it automatically makes a break and goes under the header, lol.

 

I will add these. Thanks for the tip.

*Edit* Alright, I added the search. Let me know if you think its in a good spot.

 

Don't forget to add pics of some goats on there too! That's sure to get people clicking like crazy!!

 

Thats hilarious, I am seriously laughing so hard wow I can't breathe, goats HAHA............................................

 

We want some tips on how to get that much traffic.
My best site gets maybe 5-10, and my worst gets none.