I hate Adsense! I have been trying to make money off them for 2 weeks now through Article Marketing. I am getting an average of 50 visitors per day to my acne niche site, but almost no one is clicking! I put the Adsense on top of article, since I think that gets highest CTR. Maybe I should do some testing... The traffic I get is targeted since they're from Article Directories, but I don't think using Adsense to monetize those traffic is right... I am now thinking of using Affiliate Product instead of Adsense. I REALLY think Adsense pay too little and many people probably ignore ads anyway...like me. If you're thinking of using Adsense alone to monetize a site...I don't think it is a good idea at all
I get $50 eCPM from Adsense on some sites, obviously you are doing soemthign wrong . And 50 visitors is not enough...
Even if it's been two weeks. What, you don't believe that only one-quarter to one half of a percent of visitors click on ads? What's your site's URL???
acne is a very competitive niche...you will do a lot better with a long-tail niche. Anyway, 50 visitors is too few to get many clicks..I am happy when I get a CTR above 1%.
I have had over 500 visitors so far since starting 2 weeks ago, but no one click. Here is the site: http://www.honestknowledge.com/Acne-Niche.html I use a domain to create a redirect, so no, I don't use that URL in my articles
Not sure what you meant by that. Yeh. Adsense is wiered. My girl friend got a travel related blog to which she gets around 300 uniques a day. And her adsense CTR less 3% with an horrible ecpm and she earns less than $1/day from that site. I got a technology related site which gets around 30 uniques a day and I get more than $4/day from that site. So it really depends on your niche also. And like others mentioned 50 uniques/day is too less to find out what exactly is wrong. But if none clicked on ads after 500 uniques, then you might want to try a different ad format. Changing the site template and color schems also will help. Also make sure your adsense publisher id is correct. Best of luck mate. Neo
You're gonna want to kick my ass for sounding so discouraging, but I don't mean to, but...they are on an acne site now. Just about every single (NOT ALL) of your visitors won't click on the ads. It's like that with most products. You would think they would, but.... All the veterans will tell you the same thing: John Chow, Shoemoney, Askmen, Davesdaily, iVillage...and other magazine type sites.... That's why you should either inclue more products than just those acne ads. Like, "30 days To Oil-Free Skin," and or do incredibly far out ideas. One idea could be to do a review on each of those ads. That first ad is HelloMetro.com. Take his site and product apart, and review it. Put the ad just above your review. Also use thumbnail pics. This can be trickey, though, as Google frowns on that shit. It can be done, though. Act like an authoritive figure, and you will be. Get them curious about each ad. You will then have increased your odds in people clicking on the ads. All you have to do is to get them to click on it! Can you get the ads to open a new widnow? If so, maybe you can get them to click on two ads! Hey, it is possible, especially when you use your imagination, combined with telling them to do so in a review. But why do just adsense? You've had over 500 hits so far, right? I know you would have made some cash if you also put in affiliate links, among other things. Also, where are your free tips??? Where are your before and after shots of acne sufferers??? Don't give up. There is so much you can do with this. I have so many ideas that just now popped in my head, but you can make it work. Although I'm smarter than them, hee, read shoemoney and John Chow's blog. You may not care too much for them, but they have tried different things through trial and error. Read shoemoney's homepage right now! He is not telling the whole story, just like John Chow didn't with his story on his September's earnings, but at least it will keep your ass going. Good luck.
Your ad placement is not bad so if nobody clicked after 500 visits I think your traffic is very untargetted, they are uninterested in your website, your bounce rate if probably huge. To increase your CTR focus on search engine traffic rather than whatever rubbish traffic you're getting at current.
can I give you a sugestion?.. drop the adsense ads.... you ar just waisting your valuable time.. and you ar just going to be even more unhappy about the situation... adsense is dead anyway... there are a lot more ways to monetize your site.. other then adsense.. remember.. just a hint.. don't take my work on it
Thank for that Perry. I never looked at it like that...I was just expecting them to click. I still have a lot to learn and feel like it after reading your suggestion I never said it was dead! I do think that you need a lot of traffic to make money from adsense though. Which I don't think is worth it in the long run.
50 visitors is not a lot. Additionally, you may be misreading the "impressions" as visitors. You're problem is not AdSense. It's that you do not have enough traffic. Perhaps, you are not article marketing right or you are not article marketing enough. Also, there are other forms of marketing you may want to try. If you have money, you could invest in PPC advertising for your site.
In reality, most people do not make a lot of money on just one site off Adsense. There are some who claim huge money but they are the first ones to jump at the first offer on here to make $.50 . Adsense is just a way to make a little bit to help pay for your site. Other ways are affiliate marketing, selling blog post, selling links, banner ads, and selling a product. There are a few who have hit it big by using Adsense but the majority who are making money have several sites and are making a little on each site. Adsense is far from a get rich quick scheme and two weeks in is not enough time to make much. Chances are you are getting 50 visits a day but they are not unique visitors. You need to work on building good traffic that are really interested in your niche. Try advertising on related sites; buy ads if you have the budget, if not, ask for a link trade. The biggest point is not to put your eggs in all one basket. Find other ways to make money off your site and work on getting hundreds and then thousands of visitors to really make any money off Adsense.
That's generally good advice, allout, but I wouldn't bother getting more income streams with only 50 visitors a day. With that few, there just won't be enough clicks to covert, so there is no money to be made. Thus, it is a waste of time and effort to sign up and work with different ad networks and programs. Instead, I'd say put all your effort into getting more traffic (the most important part of which is making a great site with regularly updated content). Once you have traffic and are making money, then you can diversify. In analogy, there's no point in putting your eggs into more than one basket when you only have 1 egg (or no eggs as the case may be). Thanks, Scott