Hello - I am learning the ropes of Adsense with 2 seperate websites. Both of these sites were originally made as a joke, but now that a trickle of $ is coming in I have decided to learn more and see how much I can increase this. I've been reading this forum, and learning as much as I can. I've implemented as many tweaks/tips as I can, but there are so many areas to concentrate on that it's hard to know where to begin. I definitely need more traffic, and I'm starting to work in link-building. Anyways, any advice on the below sites would be sincerely appreciated! The sites are: The Farting Dot- http://www.dotfart.com - Currently gets anywhere from 300-1000 uniques daily, and has an Adsense CTR of 5.8%. This site has been around for about a year and has quite a few inbound links. Guess Whos The Jew -http://www.guesswhosthejew.com- Currently gets 10-40 uniques daily, and has an Adsense CTR of <1%. The ads are just starting to target the 'celebrity' theme, and the CRT is rising for sure! This site is only 1 month old, and has just a few inbound links. I hope I don't get reamed for this post!! I'm not looking for a handout, just some advice thank you in advance !!!
It's strangely addictive. It was started as a joke, but then I realized that it had the potential to grow into many hundreds of celebrity-keyword rich links. Most of the entries are user-submitted (even with low traffic) so this site self-propogates. My initial experience is that these clicks are high-value. The ad on the top only got 2 clicks today after 50 impressions, but it earned $.45. If I am understanding the Adsense world, that is a pretty good value for a click!
Oh brother Ok, the question was a plea for help, really! For example, should I invest time into cleaning up the designs or integration of the ads, or should I be satisfied with the 2-5% CTR that I'm getting and concentrate on traffic. There are so many options for getting traffic, I'm not sure where to begin. Certainly I need back-links, but they are so tedious to generate I totally understand the need to continually work on the site, and experiment with ads. But, if I have to choose one or two primary ways to increase traffic and revenue, what might they be? I seem to be spreading efforts amongst every cateogry and it seems unfocused. And, just to pre-empt any RTFM's : I'm reading everything I can find!
I would not do too much, but would plan on adding more to it, who knows, you may come up with additional ideas. This can really catch on. I've submitted Michael Eisner as Michael Dammann Eisner btw, that's his full legal name (you can change it to his known name )
I will try out a skyscraper, but I'm concerned that the page will become too loaded with ads and users will lose interest. The reason I like this idea is because of the concept of 'self-propogating-content'. It's like a forum, but when a user adds a name to the database they are really adding a page to the site. I hope to have many many names in there before long, and that should really help SEO. The comments will help, too.
I agree, I would have that area for links going to related stuff, cool stuff. If you find somethings to link to or create really quick, that would be the best!
-Build pages and websites on high paying topics for the best Effective CPM. -Your site has a fun activity which might get a few bookmarks..I suggest adding an email this to a friend button. -Format and place your Adsense ads for maximum Click throughs. Try checking out the Google adsence site..it has a graph to help you place ads in the best areas for your layout. -Promote your sites to drive targeted traffic to your Adsense webpages for maximum impressions. promotion can include posting your site on forums that are targeted at surfers interested in the same topic. -You can increase your Effective CPM by selecting topics that attract high bids from Adsense advertisers is sounds like you have a high click rate so you are doing good on that. -Write articles or free reports for other webmasters to publish and put your website address in the by-line...also content is attractive to Google so you will not lost on adding forms of content on your site -Add a blog to your site Pinging your blogs to a search engine is a fast way to get the search engine robots to visit your blog and attract new visitors to your web site I hope this advice helps ~~Corena