what is wrong? 1500 uniques zero income

15 years ago

I went to your site, and I don't want to sound rude but it's hard to determine what the site is about. Your domain name has nothing to do with the content. Also, it's very difficult to see what you are promoting on there - I see links to some books and auctions though. It just seems like a broad entertainment-type blog and when people see it like that, it's going to be hard for them to get into the buying mindset.

The content is difficult to read too, as some of it doesn't make sense and it isn't broken up into digestible short paragraphs. To be honest, I think it's going to be extremely difficult to make money from that site. If I were you I'd probably put Adsense on there - that will give you a better chance of making some money I feel. Other than that, my opinion is you should turn your attention to a site or sites about a specific topic with good quality content and that is clear to the visitor what they can buy from visiting. Good luck, and sorry if I came off as harsh or rude.

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jurojin 15 years ago

If we exclude your clickbank and ebay short posts (your landing pages), you don't have any content whatsoever.You need quality unique content in order to make people interested in whatever you are promoting.It doesn't have to mean that you need to write unique articles, that's pretty difficult for most of internet marketers as hard to believe as it may sound, but what you can do is add posts containing internet pictures related to your niches, but make sure you edit them to change their size so that google can see your posts as unique.You can also add more targeted youtube or other videos in each post (which you are alreadt doing but randomly so far).Offer them something to see and you will make money either in adsense, clickbank or whatever you are promoting.Overall traffic will increase also if you tweet each post from 10 twitter accounts or more.
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dolgov

15 years ago

Originally Posted by Liam Hamer

I went to your site, and I don't want to sound rude but it's hard to determine what the site is about. Your domain name has nothing to do with the content. Also, it's very difficult to see what you are promoting on there - I see links to some books and auctions though. It just seems like a broad entertainment-type blog and when people see it like that, it's going to be hard for them to get into the buying mindset.

The content is difficult to read too, as some of it doesn't make sense and it isn't broken up into digestible short paragraphs. To be honest, I think it's going to be extremely difficult to make money from that site. If I were you I'd probably put Adsense on there - that will give you a better chance of making some money I feel. Other than that, my opinion is you should turn your attention to a site or sites about a specific topic with good quality content and that is clear to the visitor what they can buy from visiting. Good luck, and sorry if I came off as harsh or rude.

thank you you r not rude at all.. if my site sucks so it sucks. but even if it sucks i have some traffic.. living persons..... 10000 of them and not even a single click?

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peter gibson

15 years ago

Originally Posted by dolgov

thank you you r not rude at all.. if my site sucks so it sucks. but even if it sucks i have some traffic.. living persons..... 10000 of them and not even a single click?

I haven't the opportunity now to check out the site, but judging by what others are saying, IMO most viewers won't click on anything but a back button if they feel they were slighted by non subjective content, or if they get paranoid that a site might be disingenuous.

Any football fan will click on a site and expect football info. Once the content is so obviously NOT about football your viewers will feel a tad misled - thereby not wanting to click on anything within your site for fear it's some sort of a scam leading to malware or some other nonsense. It also doesn't help that they end up seeing a heading with the word "sex", because that's gonna further fuel paranoia that any click will get them viagra emails until they bleed from their eyes.

Remember, most folks aren't savvy like we are, and even the slightest misdirection or confusion can cause normal cats to want out of a site quickly - just in case the site has potential to do harm. It wasn't that long ago that we all had to fight for authority just to get folks to consider buying online because everyone was so scared their credit cards would be stolen and used to buy expensive vacations for hackers. That paranoia is still hard coded in the DNA of many non savvy viewers.

You're likely not getting clicks cuz the confusion between topic and content is too wide a gap with no discernible reason.

Just sayin'.

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dolgov 15 years ago

Originally Posted by Liam Hamer

If I were you I'd probably put Adsense on there - that will give you a better chance of making some money I feel. .

i have google adsense over there.
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- Liam Hamer 15 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by dolgov
  
  i have google adsense over there.
  
  Oops, sorry - I have an adblocker on so probably didn't see it.
  
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Adie

15 years ago

Originally Posted by dolgov

Hi there i have this site for about an year. i am basicly doing nothing but still i have the traffic a hundred visitors per day but no income whatsoever. i am thinking to close the site or may be you may give me some suggestions what am i doing wrong. i may think that 100 visitors per day is not enough even for a single click but if you multiply 100 * 30 *12 month you will get a 30000 a year and still no single click?? is that possible? i know i am not allowed to write the link yet couse my post counts is too low ...

but may be the moderators will close their eyes for once.... the site name is followmanu with info on the end..... moderators can i just say i am sorry?

Lots of things are wrong about your site.

1. Your title is Manchester United but your site actual title is "sex and lifestyle"

2. Are you planning to have your adsense account banned? I see ads that says "horny"??? not to mention the word "sex" in the title.

3. And you even have a post title that says "fukk him" on it...

I think you should totally change the site content and layout and focus blogging about Manchester United only.. no sex, no horny, etc...

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Alexa Smith

Banned 15 years ago

I wouldn't worry too much about posting your site-name - nobody will be deleting your post, I think: it's clearly an "honest request for help/advice" rather than an attempt to draw traffic from the forum.

The usual reason for plenty of traffic and no income is a mismatch between the traffic and the income-source (i.e. you're selling/promoting/showing something for which the traffic isn't targeted). So, naturally, am wondering if this might be the case here. Where's the traffic coming from? This is, I think, the big question?

I must admit the site content surprised me, because I expected from the url that it would clearly be a football site connected with Manchester United: that's what "manu" normally means in url's, I think? So rather a mismatch there, too, perhaps? :confused:

To be honest, I don't quite know what the site's about, what it for, or whom it's for ... sorry if this sounds very critical. It's not all that easy to read either, to be honest (though if you want people to click on ads instead of reading the text that isn't necessarily a great failing, I suppose?). :confused:

Edited to add: I was typing while Liam and Adie (above) replied, and hadn't seen their posts, but basically I agree with their observations.

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talfighel

15 years ago

Your site is all over the place. A person doesn't know what the topic is about.

You have to talk about ONE topic on ONE niche and that's it.

Again, this site is all over the place and has no meaning behind it.

Tal

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matt5409

15 years ago

must be a joke. no way that site is getting 100 uniques a day. if it was, you'd likely get a few clicks from people just wanting to get the hell out of there.

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John Romaine

15 years ago

Im sorry. I got as far as this and forgot what the thread was about.

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Liam Hamer 15 years ago

Originally Posted by matt5409

must be a joke. no way that site is getting 100 uniques a day. if it was, you'd likely get a few clicks from people just wanting to get the hell out of there.

You might want to read this - http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...inesslike.html

Originally Posted by ramone_johnny

Im sorry. I got as far as this and forgot what the thread was about.
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- matt5409 15 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Liam Hamer
  
  You might want to read this - http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...inesslike.html
  
  just stirring it up, how dull would this place be if we were all so emotionally sterile??
  
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talfighel 15 years ago

Originally Posted by ramone_johnny

Im sorry. I got as far as this and forgot what the thread was about.

I think Alexa is the only lady here who loves to change her picture a few times each month.

Love her posts.

Tal
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shuvo

15 years ago

I have just to remember how many times I have heard that complaint from many of the site owners.This is all about quality visitors,converting articles and related ads.

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Banned 15 years ago

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dolgov 15 years ago

thank you everybody!!!! to be honest i did not expect that much responces.....

well i understand that this is not an interesting site but my question is with all the traffic i have how come nobody wants to click google adds?

buy the way the site at the beginning was about manchester fans. and all i got was 25 visitors every day. and then i did asingle thing (here we go) i changed meta tags from manchester to SEX (that is all i did) on the next morning i saw that the amount of visitor had doubled!! i was shocked... how could a single word change that much/
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Karan Goel

15 years ago

Here's the reason for your zero income:

Domain: followmanu.info
Title: Follow Manchester United
Blog Heading: News sex and lifestyle
Blog description: … a small blog about everything
Header image: Fruits
Posts: Preparation of Mayan Coffee, Natural Horse Therapies

I think it's enough of a reason!

Karan

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dolgov

15 years ago

Originally Posted by Karan Goel

Here's the reason for your zero income:

Domain: followmanu.info
Title: Follow Manchester United
Blog Heading: News sex and lifestyle
Blog description: ... a small blog about everything
Header image: Fruits
Posts: Preparation of Mayan Coffee, Natural Horse Therapies

I think it's enough of a reason!

Karan

yes but i still have some people that visit my site. it`s not that i want them to buy anything i just want them to click a perfectly good add....

i`ts not that people can say ok the site is about manchester with an apple on the front page.... so let`s not click his adds

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Karan Goel

15 years ago

Originally Posted by dolgov

yes but i still have some people that visit my site. it`s not that i want them to buy anything i just want them to click a perfectly good add....

i`ts not that people can say ok the site is about manchester with an apple on the front page.... so let`s not click his adds

Well, why would I visit a Man U site to click an ad (not add) related to cooking?

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petevamp

15 years ago

Originally Posted by dolgov

yes but i still have some people that visit my site. it`s not that i want them to buy anything i just want them to click a perfectly good add....

i`ts not that people can say ok the site is about manchester with an apple on the front page.... so let`s not click his adds

Just look at your ads on your page as many have already stated. Your ads need to be relevent to what you are offering on your site. There for a fan site or what not is not going to draw the attention to sex related objects and vise versa.

If you would focus your ads just a little more you would see a much better improvement in both clicks and revenue.

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Nigel Greaves

15 years ago

Hi Dolgov,

I don't want to appear rude but to offer this as constructive feedback. Your site's tagline is "a small blog about everything" and I think that sums up the problem.

In selling there's a maxim that if you try to sell to everyone you'll sell to no one.

There's the additional factor of using sex to sell.

Let's be honest, sex draws attention which is why it's used so often in marketing in one form or another. But just because it draws people in doesn't mean it will be a guaranteed buying crowd, there's a far greater likelihood of them being people looking for free porn.

I do have to say, on a more light-hearted note, that I can see the connection between Man. Utd. and sex though, because everytime I hear they're on television I go "oh f**k not them again!"

Nigel

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omk

15 years ago

This site is all over the place! If you don't know what the site is about, then how will you know what to market? Even the most free form site can still have a main theme. For example, a site that follows the owner around to different locations and destinations may try and push travel or lifestyle related offers etc. Make it easy for your visitors to see what the site's main goal is. Are you trying to help them with love, travel, cooking, style, work etc.? Just make it clear and then you'll have a better understanding of how and what you should market.

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dolgov 15 years ago

got it. thank you
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Jason Perez O'Connor

15 years ago

I too thought the site might be about the football team.

Which brings me to wonder alexa, where are you from? Sometimes I think the UK, but then other times the US. Unless you made a search, I wouldn't have expected you to know about Manchester United let alone Man U, or red devils, but you didn't mention that one.

I do think ramone should propose by now, he's complemented you enough already over a long period haha. I hear long distance relationships can work ;D

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Alexa Smith

Banned 15 years ago

Originally Posted by Jason Perez O'Connor

Which brings me to wonder alexa, where are you from? Sometimes I think the UK, but then other times the US. Unless you made a search, I wouldn't have expected you to know about Manchester United let alone Man U, or red devils, but you didn't mention that one.

LOL, I'm only about 60 miles from Manchester.

Originally Posted by Jason Perez O'Connor

I do think ramone should propose by now, he's complemented you enough already over a long period

He's most charming. I apologise for the distraction from the business of the forum, and will take my avatar away if I sense that it annoys/irritates people. :rolleyes:

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Jason Perez O'Connor

15 years ago

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

LOL, I'm only about 60 miles from Manchester.

He's most charming. I apologise for the distraction from the business of the forum, and will take my avatar away if I sense that it annoys/irritates people. :rolleyes:

Ah, so you are from the UK. If I'm ever in huge debt, I know who to contact

And Ramone is fine, don't spoil his fun

I've got to answer to my gf if she sees any attractive pictures while I'm surfing, so I'm merely putting up some defences if she ever happens to see threads in which you speak too haha

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Liam Hamer 15 years ago

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

LOL, I'm only about 60 miles from Manchester.

I knew you were in the UK(seen you mention it before), but had no idea you were a fellow northerner :p I just assumed you were a southerner for some reason
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Aarron

15 years ago

To be honest the site is a little misleading, I mean the description of the website is Follow Manchester united so you'd expect it to be a football site but it's very hard at first glance, to understand what it's about.

Think about when you visit a site, you give it literally a few seconds and that's it you're decided whether you understand the contents, the theme/topic so really you need to either to change the content to more of a football then (general football content / soccer if you are from the US) or it needs to be aimed specifically at Manchester United.

Done right I think you could make a fair amount of moolah but you'd need to focus on specific products or affiliates (just my 2 cents)

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