New website with no adsense earnings ??

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Ok i just started a new website and it gets a lot of traffic i use a wordpress plugin for my post ads and i got over 300 views today with one click and earned 0.01p ? how can this make sense ?

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  • Profile picture of the author Nelapsi
    I think you should be asking a different question.. Why would anyone click an ad?
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    • Profile picture of the author samuelcooke77
      well that is how you earn money on a site right ?
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    • Profile picture of the author Carl Brown
      As far as the tech tips site, too much clutter for an adsense site. The images, and all the tags, share buttons and color distractions (blue, black, red) are too distracting.

      The 160x600 ad you have to scroll way down to see, and it's on the far right. I'd move the square ad block over to the left too.

      As far as the low value click, on your front page, I got an ad for Comedy Central--not at all related to your theme.
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  • Maybe you should go with a network that does cost per impression rather than cost per click? That way it's easier to calculate your income. There are a number of networks that does it, I use Komoona (www.komoona.com) and I'm pretty happy with it.
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  • Profile picture of the author twilightofidols
    The design of the page itself is quite good.

    There are a couple problems.

    1. Your ad placement is poor. Text ads always convert better than banner ads and it's too far below the fold. The text ads that you do have often overlap with your images and don't seem natural in the posts.

    2. Poor ad relevance. Nelapsi is right. Why would anyone click on your ad? Is it relevant to them, is it going to help them solve a problem? This might not be your fault entirely, it could just be the nature of the tech niche (I'm not familiar with this market, or what the ad payouts are like)

    You're site is rather broad. For example, you have an article on iPad batteries, and another one on ebooks. To be more profitable you either have to rely on massive amounts of traffic and other promotions, or narrow your focus.

    An ipad/iphone tips web site would convert much higher than what you have now with the same amount of traffic. It's all over the place right now. Which isn't a bad thing. But you just can't expect your conversion rate to be very high.

    I would build this into an authority site. Look for keywords with good CPC and base your articles around solving a specific problem and hopefully Google will serve up ads relevant to that post. Focus on ranking your individual post pages and not so much on the domain itself.

    Something like, "Help! I've got a computer virus. What to do when you're infected" is a potential article topic. Someone who reading an article like that is much more likely to click on an ad especially if it delivers a solution to their problem.

    Look at spyfu.com to see what kind of ads are being served for what keywords and tailor your content to what your advertisers are putting out there.
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  • Profile picture of the author johnben1444
    Looks like you are going about it all wrong..

    Here is a few tips on how to make money with ad sense:

    1. Niche - You want something that your users will click on your ad sense ads. From my experience, some niche have higher click through rate than others. Like the MMO niche is the least, simply because a lot of the users know ad sense ads and will barely click on them.

    2. Keywords - Depends on how you want to go about it, i have seen some people going for keywords with less than 500 global searches and picking about a 100 or more of them. The strategy is, once you make your domain an authority, the other pages will easily rank for the relatively low keywords with no BL. Alternatively, i suggest picking low competitive keywords with 3, 500+ global searches or more for easy ranking.

    3. Site Layout - One of the primary reason a lot of dude don't make money from ad sense despite receiving tons of traffic daily is because they have a poor non converting site. WP has a few good made for ad sense theme.. They are ok, but i have found more success using a simple html page with two or three strategically placed ad sense ads.

    4. CPC - This is the amount adword users are ready to pay per click. $1+ CPC is the best for 3, 500 global searches to generate at least $200 with the right design and niche. However, if you find low CPC and high global searches you will still make money.

    5. Traffic - You can't make money without traffic, you need to rank on position 4 and above for keywords generating reasonable amount of queries per day to profit from it.

    I probably might have missed something but i can't remember.

    If you have everything mentioned here in place, you will earn atleast $250 per 3, 500 global search with a CPC of $1+, right niche and good site layout..
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  • Profile picture of the author GeorgeFloros
    I noticed your website is brand new. No PR assigned yet. And it looks like your pages just got indexed. Which means that no traffic is being generated yet, at least not from Google. And quite possibly, not from any other search engine.

    Note that the page views you're getting could be from search engine bots trying to access your website or even yourself, doing changes and viewing pages on your website.

    Unless there's something else I'm missing here, it doesn't sound like you can STATE you have a CTR problem just yet. It's just that you have no visitors, other than yourself and bots (possibly) visiting your website.

    When you start getting visitors, you can review your CTR and if you think your site can do better, proceed with testing different ad placements. CTR is not solely affected by ad placements of course, there are more factors to consider.

    In my opinion, you should never try increasing the CTR in expense of user experience. Last but not least, certain methods used to increase CTR violate Google's AdSense ToS (ads not clearly identified from content, ad text color being the same to that of your content, ads close to navigation menus etc).

    P/S. In my experience, CTRs increase as your site does better in the search engines. That's due to the fact you're getting more targeted visitors as you progress higher and higher in the SERPs.
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    • Profile picture of the author twilightofidols
      Originally Posted by GeorgeFloros View Post

      I noticed your website is brand new. No PR assigned yet. And it looks like your pages just got indexed. Which means that no traffic is being generated yet, at least not from Google. And quite possibly, not from any other search engine.

      Note that the page views you're getting could be from search engine bots trying to access your website or even yourself, doing changes and viewing pages on your website.

      Unless there's something else I'm missing here, it doesn't sound like you can STATE you have a CTR problem just yet. It's just that you have no visitors, other than yourself and bots (possibly) visiting your website.

      When you start getting visitors, you can review your CTR and if you think your site can do better, proceed with testing different ad placements. CTR is not solely affected by ad placements of course, there are more factors to consider.

      In my opinion, you should never try increasing the CTR in expense of user experience. Last but not least, certain methods used to increase CTR violate Google's AdSense ToS (ads not clearly identified from content, ad text color being the same to that of your content, ads close to navigation menus etc).

      P/S. In my experience, CTRs increase as your site does better in the search engines. That's due to the fact you're getting more targeted visitors as you progress higher and higher in the SERPs.

      If he had 10 page views yesterday, 300 today, and 10 tomorrow then yes it would be an anomaly. I highly doubt that it's bot traffic. I wouldn't need to see his adsense stats to be able to tell there would be a CTR problem.

      Ad placement is one of the biggest things that determine CTR along with relevance and visitor intent.

      It's about compromise trying to increase CTR on your ads doesn't necessarily harm user experience if the ads delivered are relevant and help the user find a solution to his or her problem.

      There are always going to be some sacrifices made for the sake of proper ad placement when it comes to site design, but that's the price the web site visitor pays to be delivered free content. It's the reason you sit through commercials during your favorite TV show.
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  • Profile picture of the author jxam69
    I strongly recommend OP reads the Adsense TOS and decide if you want to keep publishing your Adsense stats.
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  • Profile picture of the author awj888
    you earn money not buy just publishing ads, but by publishing them in the right palce to get a good CTR,

    getting 300 visits doesnt mean anyone of them were interested in your ads, you can limit the chanels you allow to display ads, or play around with where you place ads, I notice they are far down the page, if you have a high bounce rate, or low time spent onthe site, maybe most people didnt even see these ads
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