How Does This Website Earn Over $300 a Day from Adsense?

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I've heard that the uglier a website looks, the higher the CTR. Of course, I might just be misinformed, so in your experience what works best? An attractive looking website, or one with a very basic layout containing no pictures?

According to the Adsense 100k guys, one of their websites: www.cnatrainingclass.com was earning over $300 a day. However, I'm skeptical.
#search engine optimization #adsense #affect #ctr #design #website
  • If you don't care about making quality sites than this theme is the way to go, ugly and plain. Why anyone would mass produce these kinds of sites is beyond me, even if you make good money from them now, I doubt these type of sites will be around in the near future.

    You could make a micro niche site that looks good with quality content, but for some reason I don't see many of those.

    Edit: Honestly I hate these kinds of sites, I don't even like to share the same page as them.
  • You have every right to be skeptical.
  • I'd like to know what is the key factors that make your site win more than $ 300 a day ?
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    • Not hard. How much does training cost? Or schools in general? A lot. Many people are in 100k debt because of school. Where do you think they spend some of that tuition money? Marketing.

      It's easy to get $300/day when you target the right niche.
  • The appearance of the site =/= the earnings of the site.

    Its all about the traffic & ads placement.

    For that site, not sure about the traffic but their ad placement is quite good and they blended the color of the ads together with the text on their site.

    However, I would prefer to build better looking sites unlike that site where it shouts MFA everywhere.
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    • I would never place ads this way on my own sites. Way too misleading for most regular visitors (that's just an opinion, of course). Plus the site looks like ****.

      Making $300/day isn't hard, all you need is a converting niche and lots of traffic. I doubt they're making that much right now though.
  • The reason that site gets so much revenue is that it has disguised their PPC ads to look like normal text on their page. The "ugly" lack of graphics further helps make the PPC links look internal instead of outbound.
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  • I'm really surprised no one mentioned traffic? Obviously the site gets quite a few unique visitors to make $300 a day.
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    • Many of us mentioned traffic, just read through the replies...
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    That sites not ugly (link in OP), it's simple & yes simple pages do usually get a higher CTR.

    Traffic doesn't like to make decisions & they usually don't stay focused on one thing for very long, so keeping the page clean usually helps with a higher CTR.

    Look at how simple Google SERPs is, Google keeps those SERPs very simple for a higher CTR on Adwords (no silly distractions).

    I have no idea & really don't care about the $300/day claim.
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    Definetly the most ugly site ever, they didn't even use txt padding on the front page so now the txt connects directly to the images. I really don't like the bluesense theme.

    Especially when they show an image skyscraper in the left sidebar, it kills the whole layout / design of the site, and in the right sidebar the search box sticks out of the frame. Really not my thing.
  • The pictures are not even fit properly . But I'm not gonna hate. Props to them. Now just do you.
  • I think the key words are 'was' and 'earning'. this is exactly why the guy sold it because he knew it didnt have any long term potential.

    I saw a similar site on flippa sold for $80k. it belonged to the adsenseguild guy.
    https://flippa.com/80874-2y-old-educ...monthly-profit
    Try reaching that site now. I mean somebody got robbed.
    you could buy a proper brick and mortar or even online business for $80k.
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      I would never ever buy a website, especially not in these times, and especially not if it heavily depends on Google traffic. What a waste of money that is.
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    • I have been curious as to what happened to that site. Since it totally disappeared, I have been wondering if the buyer has sued the seller.
  • Longtail rankings + multiple traffic sources = traffic
    Butt UGLY website + adsense CTR tests = Higher CTR
    high adsense payout keyword + focus on traffic location = $$$

    add them all up = $ on adsense

    Definitely possible, lots of people here make that amount daily
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    • Nah. Lots of people here claim to make that amount daily.
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    • Well there you go people - earning $300/day is very possible, as long as you go after the right niche/keywords.

      edit: getting your sites ranked and making them stick is a whole other story. Especially after Penguin. This stuff was about a hundred times easier just 6 months ago.
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    • Hi Michael,

      Does your Blueprint discuss/teach the elements required to get high CTR. Do you sell themes like the one you used? I am desperate to improve CTR for my sites beyond the current pathetic 3% average.

      I can tell that a lot of people here seem to be more like artists and designers rather than business women. It makes me laugh when people scoff at a $300/day site because it is not "pretty". It is equivalent to refusing to invest in Micrsoft in 1980 because Bill and Paul were not handsome enough.
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  • ^^ be careful with that. Ads on that site (the link unit right below the header) are very misleading and CAN get you in trouble. I showed the site to 3 different people yesterday and they all thought that the link unit was one of the menus (because ads are so well targeted as well as placement and colours). That's just plain misleading.

    What have you tried in terms of tweaking CTR? I find that people like to complain, but don't actually test much (if at all). Use something like clicktale to see what your visitors are doing.
  • That website is from the 'old days.' You won't launch a POS like that and earn big money these days. You know why? Because Google is all about user metrics now and not relevancy. Users hate that site and Google knows it.
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    • Amen to that. It was all so easy last summer, lol.

      Too bad most newbies don't realize how outdated current Adsense/Amazon guides are. hurr durr, I'm out.
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  • The site doesn't look too bad, considering how well it's optimized for Adsense.

    Adsense "navigation bar", plus the skyscrapers on both sides and if it's getting decent traffic, then $300 days would be possible.
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    Dude its a PR 4 site and have a good alexa. and the most attractive part is its ad blending. have you noticed that ads are very confusing? its the best thing to get good clicks on the ads.
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  • A nice looking site, however, will gain a steady flow of recommendations, which in the long run will bring customers more likely to buy and buy big.
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  • Hmmm.. Im not quite sure about that but it might be possible..
    Some websites are not that really good but as long as they have good quality contents on it and if they have good traffic, I guess thats all that matters.. xD
  • 300 a day!!! how how do they get the traffic?
  • I believe the theme of that site is the bluesense theme.
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    How Does This Website Earn Over $300 a Day from Adsense?

    I've heard that the uglier a website looks, the higher the CTR. Of course, I might just be misinformed, so in your experience what works best? An attractive looking website, or one with a very basic layout containing no pictures? According to the Adsense 100k guys, one of their websites: www.cnatrainingclass.com was earning over $300 a day. However, I'm skeptical.