I have had Adsense on my site for almost 5 months and have made about only $65 dollars. During that time I've had well over 60,000 unique visitors and more than 90,000 pageviews. I'm still in the process of changing my site so some of the older pages still have Bidvertiser ads on them but my most popular pages all have Adsense ads. My revenue has been coming from affiliate commisions. My top 3 sources for traffic? Stumbleupon, Google, and direct traffic. Two questions for you brilliant people. 1. Whats up with that???? 2. What am I doing wrong? bonus questions I also clicked some of my own ads 5 months ago by mistake while I was viewing my page and Google hasn't banned me yet. Am I a banned man walking?
First -> provide more useful CONTENT Second -> get more quality TRAFFIC Third -> learn how to SEO Fourth -> NEVER click on your Ads
I get tons of emails per month from visitors giving positive feedback about the content and articles I've written for the site. I even had of few months of 100,000 or more visitors (pre-Adsense). So I don't feel content is the problem. However, there must be a problem. Besides SEO, how do I get more quality traffic?
I can't see your site. But I would dump all but ONE adsense Block per page that is visited. And with the kind of traffic you are driving I would purchase an Adsense Tracking Script and figure out what is being clicked on and where your Paying Traffic is coming from. If after your test you still don't make PROFIT progress. Then it's time to rethink the way you are monetizing your efforts. I would guess your site is of general interest not a specific niche and your traffic is not coming to buy anything. So you may need to change the focus of your site a bit after you figure out what it is your visitors are really coming to see.
What kind of site is it? Do you serve up lots of images/video? Those have a really low ctr (click through ratio, 1-5% is pretty normal). Is it your ctr that's the problem or the cpc (how much you make per click)? With 100,000 impressions in a month I'd be well over $100 and my ctr is on the low end so there definately is some room for improvement.
nothing wrong about your site. because your top traffic from stumbleupon, no wonder no $, stumbleupon traffic is just traffic
Have you tried and work on with different ads placement? Work on different combination and layout in order to get one that can increase your ctr.
I get zero clicks from Stumble traffic. It makes me warm and fuzzy, but Stumble just does not convert
it could be your adsense layout is not optimised. go around and look what is the best size, format or location to place your blog. becareful not to click your own ads anymore. you are not banned instantly but only when you reach eleigibility for payout
stumbleupon traffic doesn't convert for adsense.. but from my personal view stumbleupon traffic is good for affiliates.. try adding affiliates.and try adding good content if you are planning to add adsense.
01181 is right. Stumble traffic is horrible for AdSense. If most of your traffic comes from Stumble, then... well, you might as well be doing something else. Also, Ad placement is hugely important. My best Adsense sites are actually my ugliest ones - and they have the little AdSense gremlins placed in key areas. Usually, this means the left hand side of the screen - where a visitor's eyes falls first. I place them above content, or even within content (where a picture would otherwise go) and this is - provided you do it correctly - not a problem with Google, contrary to what some may have you believe. It's not enough to have AdSense on your site, you really have to make your visitor cognizant of them. Also, search engine traffic tends to convert well, the CTR from search is usually the best. Why? Because someone who goes and Google's a phrase is actually looking for something. They're in a completely different mode than, say, a Stumbler (They're probably the worst). Coloring / blending etc is still worthwhile things to focus on, but perhaps not quite as much as in the past. In the past, you'd make people believe AdSense was part of your site by blending it nicely in with your own colors. And you'd hope to use blue on white, because since the early internet days, blue text meant "click me" and so, drones as we are, we'd click the blue ads as well when they showed up. Now, however, people KNOW these things are ads, so that trick might not work quite as well as it used to. If you're getting one cent clicks you might have been smart priced. And it's pretty damn hard to make money with AdSense when you're smartpriced. Or do you run a celebrity site or something like that, to explain the silly money they're paying you per click?
Stumbleupon is a waste of time for traffic. Give YouTube a try, make a decent video and stick your website link in the video and you will get loads of traffic. Over half of my traffic comes from YouTube and converts VERY well!