Hello, I purchased www.chatmaker.net recently. I get about 150,000 visitors a month and 30,000 uniques from around the world. Google adsense revenue is $5 per day. I previously tried OpenX Ad rotating banner ads using commission junction and obtained a very low click through rate. Took these off. Any suggestions for further monetization are welcome. I have been asked for private chat channels and I am not sure how to price this feature.
Yeah, change the font, Verdana would match the graphics. Also change the colour of it. make the text in the grey box white instead of black. The chat room is nice, and works well - only thing I'd say about that is put the logo from the front page into the header. If you're trying to make more money from it, it may work out better on your site to give the ads a different/random colour from the page. You could probably also get away with placing more if need be.
same here you should change that as well. otherwise i like ur site... sounds like u took some time to make it.
Your problem pretty much is, that your users do not look where the ads are. They focus on the chat area (and no, it's not a good idea, to put the ads there). Even if they would look at the ads, they'd probably just find more chat opportunities, which is like putting flyers for different brands of cars in newly sold cars (no reason to switch). If you want to monetize, you should look into offering a secondary service. As you already have a userbase, a forum might work (though of course click through rates wont be that high there either).
hello the ads are located to high and to low the best location for google ads are in the middle when the page loads thats the first thing they will see when the visitors stare at a screen they gaze in the middle the first thing they see they click also try using this color for the ad title link #00FF00 just above the navigation menu will do to increase ctr. and also a rectangle size ad format will do better as it will show much better and more expensive ads