Adsense veterans - can you give some tips?

Stop using Amazon and clickbank. I was using different affiliate links on my site together with adsense and they where not earning that much so when I removed all the other affiliate links the adsense earnings went up 50%.

Also try to use different colours and ad placements to see what works the best for you.

There are people that say that this link colour or that link colour is the best but you could be surprised what works for you. I found black to work best so far but there is till many other colours and combinations I want to try out.

Maybe if you let us know your site you can get more accurate advice.

Aplogies for pointing out the obvious but if you have written over 1000 articles and for the return something is seriously not right. As suggested already focus on one means of monetisation and rather then putting all three on one go.

It might be an idea to go with Adsense and see how it pans out. Optimse the ads to get the maximum possible click through. The article directory listed in sig file of poster above is a good example of decent adsene placement.

With 400 impressions you should be making more lot more then the current situation. There are some niches that just do not convert usually because the ads are not relevant.

Drive traffic.

you have to draw traffic. so think easily as common user
Pick an easier keyword to target.
Improve your backlinking strategy.

It seems doing a little reading around these forums could help you a lot. If you have done 1,000 articles and get 400 visitors a day and aren't having results, something is really wrong.

If you are using all of these methods to monetize my first thought is that your site and your traffic are both not well targeted.

It also makes me think that you haven't done the research on your topics/keywords before you started writing.

More traffic will do you no good if it is not targeted. You need BUYING KEYWORDS. If your visitor doesn't end up spending money down the line, you make no money. (They may spend it on a physical or information product to solve their problem)

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Just pick ONE method of monetization unless you really know what you're doing.

In my experience there have been VERY few (if any) niches I have found in which it made sense to show adsense as well as amazon and clickbank. If it's a product you want to promote on amazon, CPC is usually low for adsense, and you can't buy the physical product on clickbank, or some conflict like that.

If it's adsense, make sure advertisers are spending money on that keyword (and that their ads are relevant to what your reader wants!!!). Use the google keyword tool to tell you. Double check at spyfu.

If it's Amazon, you can make sure people are actually buying that item (if it has reviews, or if it's on amazon's bestseller lists is a good indication).

If it's clickbank, a good indication is how long that product has been around, the product's gravity, if people are spending PPC money on it, etc.

There are more ways to find out if people are spending money on things--google it. Search the warriorforum to find out the details.

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Figure out EXACTLY what your traffic wants and give them EXACTLY what they need. If you aren't sure of either of those, you can still make money, but conversions will be lower or non existent.

How are you getting your 400/day traffic? You didn't mention this so it's hard to help without round n' about answers.

Think about what your traffic needs. If they arrived through a search engine term like "lcd tv", "acne", or maybe "foot fungus", it's likely too general or these users are just trying to research, and not really buy anything yet from clickbank/amazon. However if they're searching for "get rid of acne" or "foot fungus removal" you know EXACTLY what their problem is and what they want to do about it. And also, if it's with adsense, and your reader still wants to learn more, you'll probably get curious clicks on related ads. If your page is optimized for a high CPC word you will be able to earn.

If your traffic arrived through an ezine article about Oak furniture vs. particle board, then send them to your furniture site, they may buy something. But someone searching for that kind of information probably still has a lot to learn before spending hundreds of dollars (while your tracking cookie expires).

Or let's say you have a site about weight loss and post in weight loss forums for signature traffic. What are you posting? Does it make sense? Will the reader trust you enough to click the sig? Does your sig show promise to the audience that they will get what they're looking for?

And once they arrive at your site, how are you showing them how to lose weight? Exercise, magic pills, surgery? Was the thread about any of those--exercise, magic pills, surgery? or were they looking to do Master Cleanse or something entirely different? Maybe your audience (people reading that thread) doesn't know what they want, but the site you send them to sells some really expensive product they can't possibly be committed to buy yet.

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If you have time to write 1,000 articles, I would imagine you should have time to learn how do things right first. I also see that you're part of the War Room (of which I am not). If I can learn from just the free section, you should have that + more.

The lowest traffic sites I have still have adsense clicks of 5%-40%. Usually 5, 10, 15 visitors will still provide a click if the site was well targeted.

Lastly, if you're in debt and new to internet marketing, it can be tough. I would suggest getting some sort of definite income (another job) while learning how to do IM. "Success is buried under a pile of failures." But learn from the failure, and do it on terms in which your health isn't on the line.

The pressure can be a big killer, and can make failure even tougher. There are SO many tasks that may require learning and patience that it may not fit your desired timeline.

This is all making some assumptions based on what you originally posted, so sorry if this all comes out the wrong way . Hope it helped.. even if just a little. Alright.. sleepy time.