$10 a day in Adsense on my site - where next?

For me Adsense is just a waste of time, one of my site gets 40 unique hits per day & I make more than $2000 from it by selling a product created by me.

Try to sell some stuff to your traffic , try CPA offers What is your site is about ?

Selling a product is difficult as I'd have to create a new comic book. It's not impossible, but it would be a massive project for me.

The site is about comic books, I review them and post about things like 'The Top Ten Superhero. Comics' etc.

Unless the Ads are for rare comic books, I would be surprised If the CPC was very high. IMO, about all you can do is increase traffic.

If your not building an email list, start doing that now, at the very least a Feedburner email list to help retain traffic.

I seriously doubt any CPA exist for comic books, I could be wrong, but I've never seen anything that even remotely would be suitable for that niche.

Sure there's random CPAs to target people in general, but that's just a haphazard way to try & get conversions. Reminds me of people trying to sell Krispy Kreme donuts outside of Walmart (get the H of my way) lol.

Let me just begin by saying, "congratulations!" I'm actually a little surprised that no one else mentioned it, but it's not necessarily easy to generate $300 in recurring monthly revenues exclusively from Adsense. It's not unique, many others have done it, but many, many, many others have failed to reach that number. Generally, successful Adsense sites are themed around a very commercial buying niche where inbound traffic comes from search engines serving up results for people who are really looking for an opportunity to buy what your site is themed around, like shoes, as opposed to information. Adsense serves commercial sounding headlines, which normally turns people off somewhat, but is exactly what an Adsense-motivated traffic source was searching for in the first place.

Even with highly commercial sites, with traffic coming from "commercial" keywords", it's not at all guaranteed that you'll get the clicks. It's a little hard to predict what will work and what won't. I'm guessing that your site is succeeding despite the fact that it breaks many of these conventions and assumptions about Adsense traffic and conversions. So, congratulations.

It's a little hard to evaluate whether page layout and adsense block placement might enhance your site's performance without first seeing your site. Google has good information on ad placement. Beyond that, the other posters are correct, your next move is to add more traffic and/or add a monetization strategy that delivers a greater per transaction payday. In my experience with many niches, CPA offers are going to be much more difficult to convert, but others have clearly had great experiences. It's also a lot harder to sell an info-product than to obtain a click on an Adsense block. I mean, with Adsense you may have no sales skills at all and still clean up, both the market-fit and the copy is being worked out by others. But, I see no reason not to add another monetization strategy and test it out -- so long as it doesn't alienate visitors.

Best of luck!

I absolutely agree with @Brandon martin. There are thousands of people are making more than $300 per month. Even $1000+ per month. But millions have failed and given up with adsense.
I would also like to congratulate @Harrylepoo and wish him best of luck and success for the future.

Keep writing and building traffic, take the 10$ a day and invest it back into your site, hire an SEO guy if you want, or learn how to do SEO. That way you can get more traffic.

Or use it to hire writers. Then keep building up, or take the 10$ a day and buy another site. Just get creative you'll do fine.

Thanks Brandon, Dale and Slin. From hanging around this forum I know that $300 is a drop in the ocean, but I enjoy what I write about, I get a kick out of interacting with people who come to my site and the extra cash lets me buy more graphic novels to read and review. It's a sweet deal, but I just think I'd kick myself if I didn't try to make more out of it.

There aren't any CPCs that I'd be comfortable offering. The products available just don't relate to the niche enough.

I was thinking of trying Amazon, but I have read from some sources that Google frowns on Amazon affiliates and could penalise my site, meaning I'd lose traffic and lose adsense income.

This might sound stupid, but I also think that if someone on the site clicks through an Amazon link, then I'm losing a person who might have clicked a Google ad. And Google Ads pay me for every single click, whereas an Amazon click through probably won't result in a sale. Don't you need a massive volume of Amazon clicks to make anywhere close to $300 a month?

If your looking for using CPA on a site like this you will more than likely not find anything comic book related.

However... if you look at things like Google ad planer, and quantcast etc...

You can target the audience on other things they are interested in, that there may be a CPA offer for.

So your not targeting the niche, just the audience interests outside comic books.

I wouldn't worry about being an amazon affiliate, never heard that it'll push you down in the serps.

You could always make a review page or something, your favorite comics, with links to buy them from amazon.

Or, get those subscribers, and you could email them whenever you find some new cool comic or something on amazon, email an offer like once a week, if you get a big following you could probably do pretty well with that.

keep the site 1 or 2 months and sell it on flippa for more than 2K $
take that money, build 4 sites like that one, sell 2 and keep 2, do it again over and over and start making XX,XXX$ a month

You have 2 things which you can sell in your website First is T-Shirts printed with Comic Book Stars or whaever & second I would suggest you write your own Comic Book , If you can't than just hire someone from Fiverr or Odesk..But start building an Idea & Concept of it.

If your traffic is of Comic Lovers I am sure they would love to purchase a new one now just imagine your earnings grow:-

You make a Comic Ebook Set the price to $9.99
Sell T-Shirts for $29.99
With 200 Unique Targeted Hits 1% will convert for sure
Total Sale from Comic Book in a day is $20
Total Profit from selling 2 T-Shirts a day is :-$25
Adsense Earning:- $10
Total Earning in a day:- $55
Monthly Earning:- $1650

You don't need any CPA offers Just use your brain & create products...

You can even sell Accesories Printed Mugs, Posters, Bands, many more...


You will have to do Little more Hard Work if you want to make big bucks don't just relly on Adsense it's for Lazy People...

$10 a day from your existing traffic suggests that your viewers are getting motivated to take an action, after reading your reviews, and so they click on your Adsense ads. I think a better bet would be to place Amazon affiliate link at the end of each review (and also somewhere in the middle) with a specific call-to-action. This should get you more money than Adsense.

But I am not 100% certain that you can use Amazon affiliate with Google Adsense, so either read their TOS or wait for Adsense expert to chip in.