Hi, An odd thing this. I had a website which had content on it, well optimised, and good backlinks etc. I also had adsense on it. I was doing ok with earnings, but nothing really amazing. Last week I decided to change my site to a blog (wordpress) to make it easier to update and maintain. I added the SEO pack and some other plugins, resubmitted my content and did some 301 redirects in the .htaccess. Over the last week I have seen a significant increase in daily clicks and earnings. It's crazy. I'm not offering anything new, it's just a blog format rather than a website. The layout is similar to how the site was of both adsense and content. At first I was hesitant to change over to a blog format as I thought I would lose traffic, but it's completely opposite. I had over 5k uniques in 4 days since the change over plus an unexpected rise in adsense earnings. Amazing! If anyone is having similar thoughts I suggest you go for it. Wordpress/blogging is working brilliantly for me, and my blog isn't even popular compared to the thousands and millions of others out there!
I don't think so. I think thats the changes made when optimizing the website, but still I'm not 100% sure. Cheers.
I'm using the All in One SEO Pack plugin for wordpress. As I said though, my website was already SEO optimised. Perhaps even better. The difference I think is the audience. Blog readers maybe click more ads? I also found that the blog "format" has got more visitors. Maybe web users prefer blogs to sites nowadays?
So same traffic but higher CTR? Congratulations on your higher earnings That's why it's good to experiment with adsense
I never thought about turning a website into a blog. It's an idea worth trying and with your results, it's more incentive. What is an seopack and why would it affect traffic?
As i said, I had great SEO before. Optimised page titles, meta tags, keywords in text, optimised header tags, all sorts! I really think its more of a user thing. It's the CTR thats increased. I was still getting good traffic before. I just thing people prefer blogs and they are easier to find. People links from blog-to-blog, and there are many blog-searching sites like technorati. I also think digg users prefer blogs to sites.