Hello Friends, I had started www.BollywoodHott.com a Indian Bollywood Entertainment niche site/blog. I am currently monetizing it only via Adsense. I got 5300+ Unique visitors in May 2008 & 64% direct traffic, 27% Search Engine traffic (majorly 85% by Google) & rest is referal traffic... I had posted some 45 posts in the month of may. Had not done much marketing other than social bookmarking with some sites like IndianPad and a couple more only for some posts.. The site is making 50 Cents a day on an average. I have plans to start single page for every celebrity as a fan site in the same site with pictures gallery, biography and all info on them. The projected traffic for June is 10-12k Unique visitors and 25k page views. Is there any other improvement i can make ?? The CPM is just about an average of 1$ to 1.5$ which is low.. any optimisation ways then please welcome. Critics also welcome. Thanks and Regards Abhishek
I would recommend a change of adsense placement, change of theme, if possible a unique magazine style for your niche.
I think a magazine-styled theme for entertainment niche would be suitable for this blog. The current one is too plain and not so attractive.
Yeah.. I agree that i need to change the theme to a magazine type.. Entertainment Magazine type but the revenue coming from it is very low compared to high traffic in initial days... and nice SE positions also got.. Theme will be an expensive affair as of now as average earnings is 50cents a day.. and i m spending not more than 15-30 minutes a day for it
Hey why dont u improve the adsense placement by placing ads in a the middle of a post...I believe those people who check entertainment news are mostly normal guys and they have ads blindness and they might click the ads....Give it a try
The site is very user friendly and I think the ad placement is good, but I think you should consider getting a more unique theme for the site.