So Many Visitors, So Little Income

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I have racked my brain trying to monetise this website.
I only started it mid May and have tried most methods to monetise.

Tried Amazon, CPA, adsense, list building. Any ideas???
$12 from 21K uniques bites I reckon

#income #visitors
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    • Profile picture of the author Craig McPherson
      Originally Posted by x3xsolxdierx3x View Post

      Did the $12 come from a combination of all the methods, or, just, say, Adsense?
      Believe it or not the $12 came from just 3 adsense clicks.
      Tried text ads but they flopped. Changed to image ads and got 3 clicks
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  • Profile picture of the author Fernando Veloso
    Probably a market of information seekers? Can't think of anything else, really.
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  • Profile picture of the author cashcow
    It would be easier to say if we knew what the niche was and the layout of the website.

    Have you tried moving around adsense placement? Do you collect emails and have an ar sequence geared towards selling them something they want to buy?

    Lee
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    • Profile picture of the author Craig McPherson
      Originally Posted by cashcow View Post

      It would be easier to say if we knew what the niche was and the layout of the website.

      Lee
      Hi Lee,

      It is a wordpress site about Planking. People submit photos of themselves and I throw them up. It is a basic layout with a sidebar on the right. I have a 468 adsense banner above the title and an Amazon banner in the sidebar at the top.

      I guess people just wanna see others doing this planking stuff.
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  • Profile picture of the author BinaryQwest
    Believe it or not the $12 came from just 3 adsense clicks.
    Tried text ads but they flopped. Changed to image ads and got 3 clicks
    Cost per click is high so that's good. The 468 banner for images or text has never worked well for me and many users are blind to it. Maybe trying a 250 square in the content area or as Chris Kent said about the 125 square ads. Does it seem like the ads are relevant to the content? Could be adsense picking up a weird keyword and showing irrelevant ads.
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    • Sorry to state the obvious, but you've picked a niche that has no advertisers. There are planking products but they're made of wood. :-) Since no one is bidding on the term "planking", you need to broaden your scope a little bit so AdSense can work its magic.

      Maybe it's my bias as a writer and marketer, but I would go the comedy route. If you're not comfortable writing funny material, hire someone to do it. Right now the text is all very obviously oriented towards getting you ranked for *best planking website* and begging for Facebook likes but it doesn't do anything else, such as entertain.

      Or devise an amusing rating system for your user-submitted planking photos and let your visitors vote. Anything to generate more rich content and context.

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  • Profile picture of the author sscot
    Sound is too uncommon. you need the help of specialist.
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