Hehe, yeah, I'm happy with the 6%, but it's getting the uniques up there that is my problem I guess. I mean, I've gone from about 250-350 uniques/day up to about 800-950/day, which is great and all, but some of my competitors are getting like 10,000/day. I've been struggling with the SEO and while the efforts have paid off some, I'm starting to feel a little overwhelmed. I mean, they have marketing teams, content/writing teams, daily news about Spain, forums, experts to answer questions, etc. Sometimes I feel like a lowly wannabe, even though I know my content is better, and my site definitely looks better. I'd also like to start getting more outside advertisers for banner ads and stuff, and I think with such a high CTR they should be happy... What kind of eCPM is the going rate these days? Some of my competitors are charging between $35-$50 per 1000 impressions. I don't have the software to manage that yet, but am pretty sure I can find some open source stuff when the time comes. So any ideas? How can I get traffic up there like to the 5k/day mark (uniques)? Just more content I guess?
I just broke the $1 a day barrier last month. My site has been up for just over 4 months. This is a good thread, it really shows that making $$$ with PPC is tuff but if you keep at it you can make some good dough.
I think i am doing something wrong here. I have website with round 10 000 unique visitors a day with a click true rate of 1.1% and i am just making round 30 USD/Day
I think you mean 10000 page views a day. And, you are not the only one here, 1% is expected for returning visitors. Otherwise it means that the ads are not very well placed and users are ignoring them. FFMG
Of course almost as soon as I post that I haven't had below a $4 day for many months I get a $2 day. Is somebody watching!!??