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My Adsense cpc is extremely low

by Benignant
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Hey guys,

So I have this website with 1000-1500 visitors per day, it's in free online games niche.

I'm curious why do I have $0,05 cpc ? Maximum ever was $0,22 cpc.
can I increase it somehow? I think making $3 per day with 1500 visitors it's damn low !
#adsense #cpc #extremely #low
  • Profile picture of the author WiFi
    What theme are you using? CTR? This made a big difference for one of my sites.
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  • Profile picture of the author Benignant
    Yes and it's around 2-3%. What should I do? What kind of other themes there are? O_O
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  • Profile picture of the author pilotemt963
    the CPC for free online games looks to be around .53 for advertisers in the paid search results. The content network will be much lower than that and Google takes its cut. I would expect the CPC to be about where you stated.

    Your best option would be to work with ad placement to make sure that you are getting the highest CTR possible.

    Also look at the ads that are showing on the site to make sure they are relevant to your visitors. I have had some success blocking certain advertisers that were not relevant. For example, I created a site that was about car seats. The ads showing on the site were about cars and after blocking those ads, I was able to increase the CTR quite a bit.
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  • Profile picture of the author Benignant
    @pilotemt963,
    Seriously? That's all I get? How about switching to cpm theme? How much is in average for thousand impressions?
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  • Profile picture of the author Greenfatman
    Move on... The keyword you chose sucks, that's the main part of the game, one more thing, 1000/1500 is very little search, no way you will get $3 day with this amount of traffic,even if you are on the the top of the page.
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  • Profile picture of the author EZlivin
    Hey Benignant, sorry to hear that you are having trouble with your blog. If you ask me I think the #1 reason that your CPC is so low is because your blog is dedicated to "free" online games. Most advertisers do not want to pay a high cost per click for free niches, they want people who are looking to buy.

    With that being said, there are some things you can do to bring in some higher rated ads. I agree with you that you definiately should be earning WAY more than 3 dollars per day with 1,500 visitiors. I have several adsense sites that are brining in between $25-$35 per day and they only get about 250 visitors per day per site. It's all about the keywords that you are targeting.

    Check out this post, maybe it will help clear up some things...

    [Must Read] How to Increase Adsense CPC - Simple Tips
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  • Profile picture of the author 3000
    The free gaming niche has a very low CPC in general.

    Try switching to a new niche with a higher CPC if your goal is to make more with Google Adsense.
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  • Profile picture of the author Ammy Tisdale
    Originally Posted by Benignant View Post

    Hey guys,

    So I have this website with 1000-1500 visitors per day, it's in free online games niche.

    I'm curious why do I have $0,05 cpc ? Maximum ever was $0,22 cpc.
    can I increase it somehow? I think making $3 per day with 1500 visitors it's damn low !

    Industry or niche who have more websites or more ads frequently will have definitely low cpc.
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  • Profile picture of the author eguy
    Online games is a highly popular niche. May be you can try promoting some affiliate game products or services in this niche.
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  • Profile picture of the author Tips
    Online games are very different from blogging since most of it's content are the same and not unique. It's much simpler in blogging because of the uniqueness of it's content than gaming it's much tougher. If 1000-1500 is your visitor you say then 3 dollar is just very low. If you can PM me your site I'll try to analyze it for you. cheers...
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  • Profile picture of the author kevbo22
    I rank #1 for a free games niche site. CPC in google says around .63 and I get more like .09. Market Sam said the keyword was worth 7K/M, not even close, LOL.
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  • Profile picture of the author gulahmedsoomro
    Hi, Increasing CPC is not a difficult task here is tips for you in the below link hope you like it

    Learn How To Increase Google Adsense CPC Earn More Money
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