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Viral with adsense!

by James Gould
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Hey guys!

My new site launched yesterday, 20 forum threads later I got 11k views and £10 adsense.

May not seem like a lot, but when I've worked with AdSense before I never reached 11k views in total!

I don't want to give my link away, but is there any way to improve the CTR?

It's currently under 0.20% and I'd like to raise it to around 2%/3%.

Currently on 7k views today already, adsense timer clicked over at 8am GMT so 4 hours ago. Not bad eh?!
#adsense #viral
  • Profile picture of the author Andrew Polanski
    Hello,

    Are you testing different ad colors? Testing different sizes? And is your ad above the fold? These are all very important to get a good CTR. Testing is the most important to determine what ad format and ad colors actually work best.

    Regards,
    Andrew Polanski
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  • Profile picture of the author James Gould
    2 468x60 ads above the fold, surrounding the main focus area.

    There's a text box with text they have to look at, and the banners sound that. So they're definitely seen.

    Both are image ads, I never liked text ads but are they worth it?

    I find that images ads on other sites catch my attention more, text area look a little boring.
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  • Profile picture of the author Amitywill
    Originally Posted by Jamie Gould View Post

    Hey guys!

    My new site launched yesterday, 20 forum threads later I got 11k views and £10 adsense.

    May not seem like a lot, but when I've worked with AdSense before I never reached 11k views in total!

    I don't want to give my link away, but is there any way to improve the CTR?

    It's currently under 0.20% and I'd like to raise it to around 2%/3%.

    Currently on 7k views today already, adsense timer clicked over at 8am GMT so 4 hours ago. Not bad eh?!
    Hey Jamie, nice going that's a lot of traffic.

    To increase your adsense ctr you're going to
    need to split test your ad placement to see
    what gets the best ctr. You could also split
    test different text colours too. It's all about
    the testing!

    With all that traffic you may want to try
    placing some targeted banner ads on your
    forum instead of adsense too see if you can
    make more money with an affiliate program.

    Or how about adding an opt in form and
    building a list!

    So yeah, nice 1 Jamie!

    Will
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    • Profile picture of the author James Gould
      Originally Posted by Amitywill View Post

      Hey Jamie, nice going that's a lot of traffic.

      To increase your adsense ctr you're going to
      need to split test your ad placement to see
      what gets the best ctr. You could also split
      test different text colours too. It's all about
      the testing!

      With all that traffic you may want to try
      placing some targeted banner ads on your
      forum instead of adsense too see if you can
      make more money with an affiliate program.

      So yeah, nice 1 Jamie!

      Will
      My target audience is more interested in making money than spending it, so affiliate marketing isn't worth it.

      I tried to place a skyscraper which would catch eye level attention, but due to div tags and failing CSS, the ad was unclickable.

      As I said before, ads are around the main focus of the site (the whole reason it's there really!) and are both images.

      What's your opinion on text ads over image ads?
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      • Profile picture of the author Amitywill
        Originally Posted by Jamie Gould View Post

        What's your opinion on text ads over image ads?
        Both serve a purpose but I find the payout is more
        with text ads.

        I wouldn't let a little technical glitch stop you from
        testing banner ads though. There must be a way to
        fix it. Are you using vbulletin or what?

        And I wouldn't assume that your visitors aren't willing
        to spend money just because they're interested in
        making money. It's because of the fact that they're
        interested in making money that they may be willing
        to pay for information on how they can start making
        money or make more money.

        Will
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      • Profile picture of the author James Gould
        Originally Posted by virtueinfo11 View Post

        how to use adsense on blogger? i placed adsense on my blog but still no any improvement in my account.

        i think i m doing some wrong....

        please advice me......
        start your own thread, don't attempt a hijack

        Jamie.
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  • Profile picture of the author James Gould
    No it's an original script in PHP, designed to go viral

    I'll give text ads an experiment after today, want to see the kind of traffic I'm looking at

    Affiliate marketing might work. Clickbank seems to be a good call, I'll give that a go in a few days
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    • Profile picture of the author paulgl
      You have to actually get more targeted visitors. Pumping up
      page views for page view's sake is not even treading water.

      Placement along with colors, will have little impact if the
      traffic and ads are not targeted.

      Why not override the CSS, div, etc. and manually place the ads
      exactly where you want them?

      And forget about boatloads of just traffic. Get targeted traffc
      and use the ad filter.

      You're not getting a bad CPC, just uninterested traffic.

      Paul
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      If you were disappointed in your results today, lower your standards tomorrow.

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