I never did really understand why getting a few pennies for sending people off your site was a better business model than, well, almost any other.

I'd be looking to make $0.50 to $1.00 per unique visitor off that traffic, assuming it's targeted.

Cheers,

Neil

I don't think adsense is dead...I mean thats how Google makes a lot of their $$$$

What type of traffic is it? Celebrity? Porn?

adsense has never worked for me too. I just don't have the patience for it since waiting to earn $.05 or even $2 is not for me. If there are CPA offers in your niche try them or promote clickbank products. They all work better than Adsense. To know if there are offers in your niche and which netword has the offer visit offervault

Thats why everyone should do keyword research, i know some people getting 10% ctr or more.

Probably your content has ****ty CPCs. I mean, Adsense is keyword based on the payouts for the most part. Try writing about keywords that have a high CPC??

Getting a lot of traffic don't mean a thing unless its targeted. if its general traffic than your adsense ads are going to be general and usually low paying or unappealing to your audience.

Also your layout / ad placement might suck. Try using a more Adsense optimized theme?

There are a lot of factors involve in profiting from adsense such as your niche, your site or blog layout, the CPC of your keywords, your click through rate and others.

If you miss anyone, you are in for trouble (less money). There are lots of good threads on how to make $$$$$ from ad sense on this forum. I implore you to check out the PPC/Ad sense section for more info or better still use the search box above.

John

I get an average of $0.25 per click and sometimes as high as $3.37 for a single click, the problem is the very low CTR

I have tried changing the adsense units/colors/placement etc, it does seem that image ads do slightly better than text ads

I'm going to try some CPA offers, the blog does does target a specific clickbank product and does get the occasional sale

I was just woundering if others have been seeing this trend

I have not only never made money with adsense, but I have never clicked on those Google ads on any other site either, and I'm pretty sure other people are the same way.

People just don't generally click on Adsense ads anymore. I think most of the population has evolved some sort of blindness towards them.

Hello.

Sometimes I'm conflicted - just when I am about to change an ad position from Google Adsense to a different ad type, I get a $2 click. The problem is, it is not nearly often enough at that per click amount.

What to do... what to do...

I have a site which generated many clicks and all of a sudden has dropped significantly.
I think it has to do with the advertiser.
I believe they are testing more and more ADS which end up impacting the our adsense revenue.

Adsense is certainly not dead. However, it's not as easy to make money with adsense as it once was. Older and more trustworthy sites will get more high paying ads displayed than newer sites. One site i have gets about 3000/4000 visitors a day and makes me about $100 a day on average.

What's your niche? my website gets about 14k uniques a and i get at least $50 a day. I think it may be because the ads on my site are related to money making.

Yea i do have the same problem but it is due to More publisher and less advertisers

10,000 unique visitors per month is a very small amount of traffic, I used to get 40,000 per month and was making like $10-$20 per day. so you see you need to be getting well over 100,000K uniques if you want to make substancial dollars with adsense

I think people have started to realize that those are paid advertising and the adds are almost invisible to them at this point.

Do it right, and Adsense is a phenomenal business.

bfas

If you already worked on your ad placements, and the the problem is still there.
Try to put keywords with higher paying

Is it dead?

Ask Ezine Articles that question.

I have to agree adsense has died for me as well.

I run a high quality fitness site with 100's of original articles and I get plenty of traffic, but adsense especially in the last 3 - 4 months has basically died for me (I understand that my niche is more popular in the first 6 months of the year)

Anyway lately I have noticed strange ads appearing, some in chinese, one for a male enlargement device, basically rubbish ads and my CTR is extremely low compared to what it use to be.

I have tried everything you can manage, swapping the whole layout of my site, text font, size, colour, all the different ad sizes, interest-based ads on/off, banning certain domains, 3rd party ads on/off

But nothing has really worked, because the fact is no one is interested in the ads that are being served.

I know I would get a much better CTR if I had the same ads that the premium publishers get, but alas there is no chance of that at the moment, they get better ad formats that would fit in much better on my site.

In the end I decided to design my own ad banners directing visitors to various affiliate offers that are related to my content. My banners get a ctr up to 10 x greater than adsense and I am making far more money from them.

So look around there are far more methods for earning revenue than adsense.

At the end of the day do what is best for your site and your income.

One more thing I don't understand about google. They say they want to give the internet user the best experience. So why do they say put ads above the fold and in the middle of your content? What do they want? people who have used their search engine to come to your site, immediately click and ad and leave your site? How is that a good user experience and how is that good for your site in the long term?

If you're not doing well with adsense it doesn't mean that adsense is dead at all. It's very well alive and some are making a decent income from it. Including me.

Unbelievable with huge traffic like this but generate only small click.
CRT is too low.
May be you need to change the adsense box or changing position of theme

As has been said, Adsense works wonderfully well, if you treat it as a business, and do it right.

If Adsense has "died" for you, you're either doing it wrong, or haven't approached it as a business model.

I make well into 6 figures on Adsense. But I have learned how to do it effectively, treat it as a business model, and apply myself to it.

bfas

I've had much better luck with Adbrite then AdSense.