Hi, I am trying to increase my AdSense earnings and I already covered all the basics, with all that already done: - Good site content; - Good amount of content; - Good ad placement; - Good ad colours; - Good ad formats; - Good number of Ads; - Traffic is related, mostly organic from Google searches (firts place for the main keyword among over 1 million results); - Blocked MFA sites using Google AdSense Preview Tool (all Advertisers at this moment that advertise on my site via AdSense/AdWords have real company web sites); - Included google_ad_section_start to increase relevance; - Included Keywords with High Overture; - Included Keywords with the Highest CPC in my field (a branch of Education); - Included Keywords with low competing sites (results on Google); - Included Keywords with high number of Advertisers on AdWords; - Included Keywords with a higher number of estimated clicks on AdWords. Some more info: - Site PageRank is PR3 (was PR4 before the last update); - Around 100 uniques a day; - Site is 8 Eight years old; - Traffic is almost all from Brazil, from portuguese-speaking visitors (site content is also in portuguese); - A not good point is that the number of site pages is very low since I am reestructuring it at this moment; - CTR is quite good, above average; - Estimated CPC, from AdWords, is mostly from US$5. to US$10. THE PROBLEM The problem is that I only make US$0.10 (ten cents) per click, maximum 15 cents and even though only occasionally, what is certainly too little. This is happening for about 2 two months now. THE QUESTION - Can I find out exactly how much each Advertiser is paying and this way also block those bidding on the 5cents/10cents keywords? - So, since I can not change of field, because there is where I work, what else can I do to increase my earnings from AdSense? - Is there anything else that I am not covering? Thanks in advance for all your support.
$5 to $10 I would say it's a good CPC. Of course it depends on your site's domain. I think you should increase your traffic, because 100 uniques a day is really low for a 8 years old site.
The problem is that you are wasting your time on this junk when what you should be doing is increasing that 100 uniques a day traffic. It doesn't matter if you find out your advertisers are paying you $500 a click if you don't have the traffic to convert with.