A little help with getting started please...

[thebluesquire]

Hi everyone,

I've been a lurker on this forum for some time now but have finally decided to get serious with this and created an account so I can join in with discussions.

I was casually browsing the web and I stumbled on a keyphrase (2 words) I thought perhaps was very unsaturated. I looked it up on the google keyword tool and it gets about 5400 searches per month. I know this is relatively small traffic but I wanted to start off easy. Even if I made $100 per year I'd be happy, as I know if I made 99 more sites, I've already got an extra income of 10k a year.

I registered the domain as keyphrase.net and from 24 hours of creating the site (using a good SEO wordpress theme I customised slightly) I was listed half way down the second page of google for the keyphrase. The only external seo work I've done is post a single comment on a low pr blog linking to my site. A couple of weeks after the sites creation i moved into position 9 on the first page of google for my keyphrase. I stayed at this position for a month or so (whilst I completely forgot about the site) and recent I have moved up to position 8.

This month so far I've had 140 page views and a CTR of 1.4% which is obvs too low. This converts into 2 clicks and they were on the same day so guess by the same person.

My website is an information website with 5 pages - its not buying or selling anything. The 5 pages are quality information and would be of good use to anyone researching the keyphrase. I have 3 adsense ads, sidebar, below title, middle of content. Any help or advice in general or specifically for raising my ctr? Is ranking #08 in a term with 5400 monthly searches an issue? Do I need to be higher?

Many thanks

[strategic seo services]

To increase the CTR, you can try changing the colors of the ads so that they blend in more with your site.

[thebluesquire]

Originally Posted by strategic seo services

To increase the CTR, you can try changing the colors of the ads so that they blend in more with your site.

My ads usually are shown as images? Is that a bad idea? Should I set to text only?


Thanks for quick response.

[strategic seo services]

Originally Posted by thebluesquire

My ads usually are shown as images? Is that a bad idea? Should I set to text only?


Thanks for quick response.

I would try both. Test, compare CTR, & see which format works best with your site.

[thebluesquire]

Originally Posted by strategic seo services

I would try both. Test, compare CTR, & see which format works best with your site.

Thanks for your advice I hadn't thought about caring if they were image or text ads before.

With my keyphrase that gets 5.4k searches a month, what earning potential do you reckon I could get?

I really wanna make loads of niche websites because I'm excited at the money making potential, it's just I wanna see some mini-success before I can believe it's possible for me to do.

[Aplletree]

If you can get more return, you can make it higher I have started my website about one month, and I didn't use the SEO, so far we only get two orders so far..Once I talked with Facebook and Google search, but they asked for the high pay, I have put my products in a very lower price, so I'm afraid how much I can get if I pay for the Facebook and Google search, Now I get a conclusion, they SEO is needed if I want to do my business well So this week I decide to do the SEO.

[Brian Alaway]

I'm not an adsense specialist but 5 pages sounds a bit thin for an adsense site. The more pages you have, the more opportunities for placements. If it were me I'd continue adding pages while testing both image and text ads. Try to blend the text ads in with your content. Make sure you track your views and clicks so you can adjust where needed, expanding what works and eliminating what doesn't. As you get more pages you can target additional related keywords.

[thebluesquire]

Originally Posted by Brian Alaway

I'm not an adsense specialist but 5 pages sounds a bit thin for an adsense site. The more pages you have, the more opportunities for placements. If it were me I'd continue adding pages while testing both image and text ads. Try to blend the text ads in with your content. Make sure you track your views and clicks so you can adjust where needed, expanding what works and eliminating what doesn't. As you get more pages you can target additional related keywords.

Hi Brian,

I think 5 pages is appropiate in this case... my keyword is a financial term and theres not a lot to say on it - i have a definition page, historic examples, etc. I dunno if that's the problem as I'm already ranking at 8th place?

I'm going to work on backling as apart from wikipedia taking the top position, I dont think the other listings are gonna be too much of a problem.

[eljeffe77]

Are the 5400 monthly searches BROAD or EXACT. Big difference, make sure you're checking exact for the most accurate search data