Can somone plz tell me why i only have $3.50 lol

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I just built my first site and its called fedorfight.com. its kind of a video blog on wordpress. I made the template from scratch with artisier and threw some adsence in there with a few amazon widgets and a pinnacle sports affiliate. zip from the amazon. zip from the sportsbook affiliate and $3.50 for adsence. Now my site has been up for 3 or 4 mons now and I am getting some traffic. I get about 4000 visits a month at this point..why are my ads doing me no good?? can somone PLEASE look my site over and give me some pointers??
#$350 #lol #plz #somone
  • Profile picture of the author J smith
    i am surprised you are getting that kind of traffic with the site 9fedor isn't really that popular) Where are you getting traffic from? Also, what countries is it coming from?

    Anyway, there are a few problems here:
    1) People who come to your site aren't really looking to buy anything, (I got 7$ from about 7k of mma related traffic to a blogger blog) so while 3.5$ for 3-4 months is low, it's not going to get astronomically high no matter what you do.

    2)Your ads are on the sides, there is no need for visitors to look on the sides since all the info they need is inthe middle. Imo put an add in the middle (like say in the new's section, you should have an add block after first or second news entry) Think of the adsense sites, most have a block ad near the title/in the middle of the article.

    3) try some alternative monetizing methods? Partner with someone who sells streams for a few bucks and put up a banner/link on your site (ie. say 5$ for a high quality stream, if you get 2$/user you could make a few hundreads whenever there is a ufc event) Of course it's probably illegeal to do that. (which is why I mostly gave up on my mma blog, given its horrible monetization for same amount of traffic compared to most other niches, it's a waste of time compared to other things I can do)

    Regardless, I'd try changing up ad placement so people are forced to look at them. See how that goes.
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    • Profile picture of the author justinsane187
      wow thx that helps out alot. I just wanted my first site to be somthing im interested in so that I can get more into it and learn the ropes. I have alot of free time on my hands and i just wana use it wise. Ive heard alot about niche marketing and affiliate so i thought id give it a try. As well its my main domain and all others will be add-ons so it works out better that way i would think seeing as it is a pretty big site compaired to small niche sites. can i pm you with my adsence and webalizer details? how do I find out where my traffic is comming from? my guess would be youtube..
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  • Profile picture of the author Fun to Write
    It's more of a celebrity/entertainment site. According to those in this niche, they're hard to monetize. I suggest, looking at other types of niches.
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