Should l Drop Adsence For Paid Advertising?

[tagiscom]

Hi all,

My site is at around the 5000 visitors per month, (should go to prepanda levels of 6000 eventually) with about 55 pages.

My Adsence revenue has been doubling every month, even with the Panda hit, but it should give me about $20 this month; not a lot but if it continues, l will be up to $1000 to $2000 per month in 6 months time.

But l could get rid of Adsence and just go with paid advertising that, (based on competitors sites, advertising space) could give me $500 per month?

So, has anyone out there experienced the doubling of your Adsence income, every month, and did it continue, indefinitely or did it reach a ceiling?

Or is it possible to offer a small banner above the heading, and button ad's on the right, while still having Adsence as a large square below the heading, and possibly further down on the page, or can l have my cake and eat it too?

Appreciate, any feedback.

Shane

[razorhound]

Just curious, did you mean $20 per day this month?

[nandla]

In my personal opinion, Adsense has no alternative yet besides direct affiliates advertisement

[tagiscom]

$20 per month Razorhound, it has taken almost a year for it to get to this level although it hasn't made a cent this month, so far?

So eventhough l could use the extra money, l certainly don't want to pull something that could make me some serious money long term!

In my personal opinion, Adsense has no alternative yet besides direct affiliates advertisement

So l assume Nandla, that your Adsence income has overall gone up, and pulling Adsence to make a quick buck, may damage my long term profit potential for this site?

Or is the doubling every month an illusion, and it will stop eventually?

Shane

[Barry Unruh]

I'd be much more interested in determining how I go from 5000 visitors per month to 5000 visitors per day.

Your Adsense earning will not continue to double UNLESS:

#1 - You improve CTR with better ad placement.
#2 - You increase traffic to your site.
#3 - You start getting higher CPC ads on your site.

It will not matter what ad network you use unless you think about those three items anyway...

I'd stick with Adsense and start working on your real issues...

[Daniel Wilson]

It took a year to get to $20 a month and now you are confident you'll get to $2k in 6 months?

[xvisionxx]

If you really get 20$ a month from 5500 visitors,you keywords are really low paid,and your CTR is also really low,you should try your paid advertising and see whats better.

[webdevpro]

For small traffic websites Adsense can make some money but it will be difficult to sell ad space for such a low traffic and that too for $500 a month. First you need to concentrate on traffic then the chances for selling the banner spot will be high.

[EricBaglio]

If you're bringing in $20/month, I'd try swapping out your ad blocks for CPA offers. You may find that a niche related CPA offer brings you more than that based on your 5000 visitors/month.

If that doesn't work, maybe try Amazon.

[tagiscom]

Phew, sooooooo many replies.

For small traffic websites Adsense can make some money but it will be difficult to sell ad space for such a low traffic and that too for $500 a month. First you need to concentrate on traffic then the chances for selling the banner spot will be high.

Yes, the site l am basing my research on is a site with 30,000 visitors per month that is making about $4,500 per month with advertising.

Since my site is one sixth as large as his/hers for traffic, l thought that if l scale down then it would still be affective. I have one page up the top of the SERP results with paid advertising around it that pays up to $300 per month. That is where the initial idea came from, if l could approach them and let them know that l am only charging $97 per add, instead of Adwords which charges more it would be a viable thing for me to do.

Then after visiting my competitor l structured my idea to include all pages instead.

Like to get your feedback on my line of thinking.

It took a year to get to $20 a month and now you are confident you'll get to $2k in 6 months?

Hmmm, obviously it wont go up forever, and l had almost made $10 last month, so l assume that l will get $20 this month? Time will tell.

I'd be much more interested in determining how I go from 5000 visitors per month to 5000 visitors per day.

Your Adsense earning will not continue to double UNLESS:

#1 - You improve CTR with better ad placement.
#2 - You increase traffic to your site.
#3 - You start getting higher CPC ads on your site.

It will not matter what ad network you use unless you think about those three items anyway...

I'd stick with Adsense and start working on your real issues...

Yep, that is fair enough, but l don't really want to make my site 3 times bigger than it is now, for $30 a month, lets say?

I am also developing products, which is showing far more potential, so if it comes down to a month of hard work, on my site for a pocket money income and serious money by developing a product instead l will choose the product.


Thought that l may finally get some decent money back from a dead-horse website?

Shane

[Barry Unruh]

Originally Posted by tagiscom

Yep, that is fair enough, but l don't really want to make my site 3 times bigger than it is now, for $30 a month, lets say?

I don't remember saying anything about making your site 3 times bigger...

I said you need to test your ad placement to increase your click through rate, which would increase your income with your existing traffic.

I said you need to increase traffic to your site, which will probably mean working to get your existing content ranked higher.

I said you need to get higher CPC ads on your site, which would come by carefully targeting phrases which pay a higher amount, or working within your Adsense dashboard to restrict some types of ads.

Now, adding some more content would just make good common sense, but where you inferred from my comments you needed to triple the size of your site I have no idea.

Barry

[melovedogs]

Originally Posted by paulbrown

Google has disable my adsense account several times.sometimes without no cause they suddenly disable it .i want you to advice me what i should do to regain my strength in adsense program. sometimes frustrating up.

That's why do not depend your revenue on adsense alone, you should try to find other methods to monetize your site. I must admit, by far, Adsense used to become the easiest monetization for all my websites, however when the revenue becomes bigger and bigger, I became lazy to find other methods. When last week Google disabled my account for no particular reason, my revenue becomes $0 all of sudden

I guess I have to live without adsense from now on and find other ways to monetize my websites. However, I also notice after my websites clean from adsense ads, there are some advertisers approach me to place their ads on the web. Coincidence? I don't know, but I do hope with adsense-free page, I can attract direct advertisers coz the web looks more professional now.

I just hope that you can find other ways before it's too late, why do you keep on depending on adsense after Google disabled your account over and over again?

[gerimar]

Go for paid advertising

[tagiscom]

I don't remember saying anything about making your site 3 times bigger...

I said you need to test your ad placement to increase your click through rate, which would increase your income with your existing traffic.

I said you need to increase traffic to your site, which will probably mean working to get your existing content ranked higher.

I said you need to get higher CPC ads on your site, which would come by carefully targeting phrases which pay a higher amount, or working within your Adsense dashboard to restrict some types of ads.

Now, adding some more content would just make good common sense, but where you inferred from my comments you needed to triple the size of your site I have no idea.

Barry

Hi Barry just using an example, l optimized my Adsence add placements, l few months ago thanks to the 100K blueprint product. And then concentrated all my efforts onto 3 high profit pages for a few months.

The results after backlinking with articles, video, etc weren't too impressive, and l then had to start a business course and didn't really have the time after that.

A few months later, those 3 pages haven't shown any movement on their own, although traffic from other pages have clicked on those high CPC pages now and then.

I just watched an impressive video from the 100K Blueprint creators, showing results from $80 up to $3000+ per month from one site. They wouldn't let me know what the site was about, but l suppose that l probably should work on this site, add new content using high CPC keywords, and backlinking it when l can.

His site went up in spurts, instead of doubling like mine has.

And l have also tested different Adsence formats above and below the fold, and found my present format to be the best one.

I suppose that l should put most of my time into product development, and work on my site, in my spare time, or only put my advertising space on one page only, if that is worth doing?


Sorry to hear about that Paulbrown, Google kicked me out of Adwords recently, so l know how annoying that can be, but there is a good alternative on these forums - an Indian company that is also based in the US, that could be worth looking into.

And l am instead using Microsoft advertising, the interface may not be as user friendly, but not having to pay a fortune because of the Adwords quality score, and being hassled about what l am selling is a breath of fresh air.

Shane