Take a Look at My Site--Your Input is welcome

Discussion in 'AdSense' started by fchtrading, Jul 28, 2008.

  1. #1
    Hey All,

    Take a look at my site if you have a moment. Let me know if you see anything I can do to get more clicks. I'm a Work in Progress with this Adsense thing...

    http://howtomakefreemoney.net
     
    fchtrading, Jul 28, 2008 IP
  2. squat

    squat Peon

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    Do you have a low conversion rate? The ads stick out at me (they're the only thing I see when I load the page, I have to scroll down to get to the content). They look nice and are blended well with the site. If you have a decent ctr the issue is probably with traffic, not the ads. How many visitors per day do you get?
     
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  3. fchtrading

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    CTR is 3.12 % with about 20 visitors a day. Pretty crappy...I know.
     
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    3.12% is fine, you just need more traffic. My site that's 1.5 years old get 50-60 unique visitors a day and my ctr is under 1%. You need to increase your traffic and you'll do better. Try some web directories, submit your site to different social bookmarking sites... anything that'll raise your pagerank. You could also try trafficswarm.com but it's time consuming.
     
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    Thanks! You've been very helpful.
     
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    #6
    nice design, simple and clean. i like the ad placements. try changing the navigation to the left side and see if you get more impressions. i know blogs usually have navigation on the right but i think the left panel is more heat sensitive on click maps. also try making more use of the menus up top in terms of content organization if possible.
     
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  7. Abhik

    Abhik ..:: The ONE ::..

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    #7
    Its quite good imo.
    What you need is to work on getting traffic.
     
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    Looks nice to me. Traffic is the key. Consider some 3way links.
     
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    Good site, with good content. Please don't write about pay to click sites, that's all i'm asking you :)
     
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    I just saw one adsense unit in your site.. Try to consider adding Link Unit's too... Link units are doing pretty well for me :)
     
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    #11
    Let's see...
    • The domainname is "wrong". The promise of "free money" is running rampant throughout the web. Sure, there are still people looking and falling for such promises, but most will simply think "scam ahead" and not visit your blog
    • The first thing I see on your blog is an AdSense block. Seriously, what gives? Let's say we meet in real life and before I even introduce myself, I hand you a flyer. What would you think?
    • Your blog entries are generally to short and shallow. If you want readers, you have to offer more substance. A good article takes some time to reseaarch and write.
    • To me, neither color scheme nor site logo appear to be well adapted. Personally I prefer cooler colors (warm is for passionate sites). You are taking about making money, so a shade of green might suit you better as well as a logo, that somehow symbols money in a non obnoxius manner.

    Here are some more tips on making money with Adsense. Hope they help.
     
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    lycos Well-Known Member

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    Basically the CTR figure given by you should be normal and looks to be on the average side. Maybe you want to try and experiment with different ad placement but I doubt that will do any help. Maybe you can also monitor whether ads served by google are relevant or otherwise. Sometimes this could be one of the reasons.
     
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    Thanks to everyone for the input. Very helpful.
     
    fchtrading, Jul 29, 2008 IP