understanding Adsense
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Hey guys,
I'm new to this forum but started internet marketing back in April. I built a couple dozen niche sites since then which have grown and am getting decent traffic. My site logs and wordpress stats plugin indicate about 10,000 unique visitors a day. These sites are basically perfect for adsense, so i have optimized my adsense ad types and colors and placed them nicely on my sites.
The problem:
I'm not making much with adsense (10-20/day). I've done the research and these niche sites should have a high cpc. Also, the click through rate is way too low. I know adsense isnt counting nearly the actual amount of clicks i get. Usually it says i get 20 clicks a day and has a total of 2,000 page impressions. First of all, i have 10,000 unique visitors a day.... which each visitor will make at least one or two page impressions. Secondly my ads are very relevent and i would guess i should be getting at least 5-10% of my visitors clicking on the ads... and thats at the least.
Heres the interesting thing.... even though i use channels, adsense kind of combines the click through rates of all my sites. So for example, if i have a bad site that does poorly and never gets any clicks, that will interfere with a site that does get good clicks, and adsense will lower my clicks count/earnings for my entire account.
I removed all of the poorly performing sites and did notice a slight increase in earnings (went from 5 to 20-25 per day). Still, i think i should be making much more???! Is there any tips or hints, an adsense expert can give me?
my only guess left is that i have a lot of referral spam and maybe adsense is counting them as visits and since they dont click on my ads, it lowers my click through rate as well as my cpc rate....
any help on this mystery is greatly appreciated.
I'm new to this forum but started internet marketing back in April. I built a couple dozen niche sites since then which have grown and am getting decent traffic. My site logs and wordpress stats plugin indicate about 10,000 unique visitors a day. These sites are basically perfect for adsense, so i have optimized my adsense ad types and colors and placed them nicely on my sites.
The problem:
I'm not making much with adsense (10-20/day). I've done the research and these niche sites should have a high cpc. Also, the click through rate is way too low. I know adsense isnt counting nearly the actual amount of clicks i get. Usually it says i get 20 clicks a day and has a total of 2,000 page impressions. First of all, i have 10,000 unique visitors a day.... which each visitor will make at least one or two page impressions. Secondly my ads are very relevent and i would guess i should be getting at least 5-10% of my visitors clicking on the ads... and thats at the least.
Heres the interesting thing.... even though i use channels, adsense kind of combines the click through rates of all my sites. So for example, if i have a bad site that does poorly and never gets any clicks, that will interfere with a site that does get good clicks, and adsense will lower my clicks count/earnings for my entire account.
I removed all of the poorly performing sites and did notice a slight increase in earnings (went from 5 to 20-25 per day). Still, i think i should be making much more???! Is there any tips or hints, an adsense expert can give me?
my only guess left is that i have a lot of referral spam and maybe adsense is counting them as visits and since they dont click on my ads, it lowers my click through rate as well as my cpc rate....
any help on this mystery is greatly appreciated.
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