AdSense earnings with 1k-4k daily traffic?

Where are the visitors coming from? Search Engines, Social, Direct, etc.

This makes a big difference on click-through-rates. Search referrals can have higher ad CTRs than social shares... you get the point.

Also, what niche you are in can make a difference. I have a tech related site that gets terrible ad clicks because the techies have more ad-blindness and more of them have ad-blockers installed.

You might be doing nothing wrong... I don't think you've really posted enough information for anyone to give you a decent answer.

It also depends on the niche... a finance or mortgage related blog with 4k daily visitors a month could earn someone a livable wage.

It all depends on the quality of visitor, and your ad placement.

If the blog you're referring to is the one in your signature then you really need to change your adsense placements. On each blog post (single.php file), put a 728x90 text ad block right below your title (and before content); put another 728x90 at the end of the content or a 300x250 with text wrapping around it in the middle of the blog post. You can split test the 2nd option. However the first 728x90 text-only ad block below post title will be your money maker.

Lastly add a 300x250 text ad block to the top of your sidebar. I assume your secondary sidebar isn't make much money so you can merge the sidebars into one which should give you room for a 300x250 block. If not then use a 250x250 ad block, text-only.

If your Geo targeting your home country "Finland", It could be that their is little to no advertisers targeting your niche. So you are getting ad placements that pay little to nothing.I'm not sure if Finland being a Tier 2 traffic country would also play a part, but it might.

Adsense/Adwords is really not my bag though.

Edit:
If it is the sites in your signature:
Just my personal thoughts on this. I would create an exclusive recipe cook book for a Christmas dinner party. Give it away for free to build an email list, or try selling it directly to your visitors and current email list.

Why do you have Amazon in between your article text instead of AdSense? If you try that and are only making $2 a day, then your traffic quality has to be the problem.

You only earn 2 dollars per day? Even with 1k TARGETTED visitors, you can make several hundred dollars per day/week with Affiliate Marketing, go with Amazon, Clickbank, CJ or anything else!

According to that Pinch Of Yum report, even using their own numbers, they are making only 18k from about 1.5 million page views. This is very poor - about one cent per visitor. I would not use them as the basis for a monetization plan. I make WAY MORE than double that per visitor with AdSense only.

Their $89 from AdSense is apparently based on the fact that they hardly use AdSense ads at all. I visited the site and certainly didn't see any AdSense ads. Well, of course it's $89 when you hardly even use it. That report is not a good basis for anything except to show that they are getting a lot of traffic. Since when is one cent per visitor a good result? LOL.

I've worked for years on sites in the the classic car and hot rods niche and have seen returns around $250 from about 5k UV per month. 5c per UV = $50 per thousand unique visitors. I'm not sure if foodies are as clicky as hot rodders but it might help to know.

Ever thought of making your own recipe book and replacing the 'My Library' with 'My Book'? THAT is where I think you'll get the most success, compared to fiddling with adsense.

Firstly, your photography skills are great - I'm not surprised that you're getting plenty of traffic from your pics.

But as others have said, referral traffic is not quite as good as for ad click-throughs.

Is your 1k - 4k traffic unique visitors or page views? Regardless, you should be making more than you are.

One thing - I've ALWAYS found that text ads outperform image ads by quite some margin and while I know many site owners think they look less appealing, it's all about earnings right? And the default Google colors have always led to a higher CTR than any attempt I've made to blend them with my sites.

Secondly, on a site I run with long posts like yours, I found that a 468x60 Banner at the very end of my posts would make just as much as the 160x600 Sky at the top of my sidebar because people often read the whole post and then clicked the relevant ads that followed.

Give that a try and let us know how you get on.

If you want to earn a couple thousand per day with adsense, you need to have a high-trafficked website. The only way to get there is to spend money on advertising to promote that site ... but then your adsense revenue needs to cover your expenditures. Adsense is just a way to monetise traffic and theres a lot more options that just that. But it is a good starting point to gain some experience in the game. But remember: the key to it is to have quality traffic, which can also be bought via PPC. Thats how I do it as its quick, simple and easy to calculate your ROIs to the penny.

Nick

If the CTR is low even after experimenting with many set if rules, one this that you can try is experimenting with by setting all ad types to text mode and/or image mode but not mixed. Then check which one converts better. The images ads pay you just because of the exposure, even without a click.

This isn't right. I have a recipe site that makes 4 figures a month with Adsense with 5K visits a day. Get in touch with a Google rep and they will help you with ad optimization

i had also got a blog where i made hardly a dollar on 6k+ daily traffic,
So yes it depends upon on niche or you can also try cpa, clickbank or amazon
I switched to amazon banner ads and results were good

I'm in the fitness niche and do fairly well with ads. In fact, I earn higher CPC rates at a higher CTR with food/nutrition related articles.

While I agree with experimenting with ad placement and size (I use 728x90 and 336x280 only), you could do more posts focused on fat loss foods. The ads that show up are very relevant and pay well.

Another tip ... this is fairly aggressive, but it works for me and the big magazine sites do it all the time, and that is publish your articles into 2 parts for more page views. This isn't as user-friendly and it is more aggressive (placing your Adsense account at higher risk), but it does garner me more a higher CTR and more ad clicks simply due to more page views.

Hello! I to had the same as you, I was hardly earning $2 a day on 3k days I was amazed as to how little I got.

However its all about the CPM in my opinion. I set up a new site which was more focused on travel, guides etc. I have disguised the ads in the content a lot better as well, so they don't really look like ads.

Now what I get is 5 - 10$ days for 1 -2k pageviews!

If you think about advertisers are paying a higher CPC for say health than music. So its all to do with your niche and what ads are being displayed and clicked. Hope that helped.

It is depending on the niche and the traffic source. If the traffic is at least 50% from united states, canada, uk, au, and other first world countries, then you might be able to earn at least 10$ a day with that kind of traffic ( 1k-2k visitors ). If you niche is good you can make 20-50$ a day, but you need to work with your ads a lot.

Users are blind to ads. They will ignore it if it is place in the header or sidebars. Also, below content or above it also does not work.

From my 7 years experience in generating good income from Adsense. ( My main income is not coming from adsense anymore but I still have some sites with it), I can tell you this:

1. Less is more. If you place too many ads, you can increase your click trough rate, but your income might be lower. In most cases there are not enough ads to fill all your ad spaces and if you palce a banner in the header where no one clicks, it will get the highest paying ads. While on the content ad which gets the most clicks you will get only pennies.
2. The best place for ads is in content. There is the only spot that is not ignored. Not above the content, not below content, int content. There are adsense plugins that can help you with that. If you want to do it yourself you will need php and wordpress knowledge. I suggest you to use this plugin: WordPress › FS Revenue Maximizer « WordPress Plugins . An in content ad can have 5-10 times higher CTR than any other ad on your site. Try to remove most of the other ads as they are garbage. You can leave some link units on the sidebar because they are not real ads and not take the hight paying ones.
3. The second best place to put your ads is on the top of the left sidebar. That is the only place where it worth to put your ad ( except in content ). If you try to put your ads in the header, right sidebar or bottom left sidebar you will only make a few cents a day.
4. Link units are worth it. They take less space and they do not take you high paying ads. When visitors click they will be directed to another page filled with ads where you will get money for every click. They will receive lower CTR but when a user clicks he will go on multiple pages and this will skyrocket pay per click.
5. Test test and test. Remove ads with low CTR, add new ones and test again. If an ad get low CTR but good CPC try to remove it so the highest paying ads will get to the highest CTR ad.

I think, if your visitor comes from/by PTC then you not get Earning!

I have 10 to 12 K unique daily visitors a day. Around 60 - 80 K page views per month. As per GA. I earn now around 25 to 40 $ per day.

The main factor is the geographical area of the reader. If you compare US/India you can expect 5 to 6 times more revenue in US with same number of visitors. At least in my case. My site (in fact my client site) is a news site with worldwide readers. This is because CPC in those countries are sold at higher bid.

But being the site my earning was one third just one year back (with almost same number of visitors). I did following to increase (around 350%) of my adsense revenue

1. Changed the server to make page loading fast

2. Added wider banners where ever possible. 300x250 728x90 and 160x600 are cash cow banner.

3. Placed ads immediately below the content

4. Followed Google recommendations

5. Made my ads andoid/iphone friendly

Thanks

Thanks guys for the tips, I'm in the same situation as the OP. Got traffic but little revenue (with AdSense).

Guess I'll have to change the ad placements.

Try changing theme of your blog.

As per my experience 2 column blogs permorming well than 3 column.

Also try large rectengle ad block and text verticle sky scrapper on left side. I am getting maximum clicks from this 2 ad blocks.

I'll say forget about Adsense and think about Ad space,so you can sell some ads spots on your page and get good monthly income if you are receiving that much traffic...search on google

Put Adsense ads right below your images in the posts.

That is what I would start with. Try text ads with for example blue links or red links. You can also test image ads but most likely text ads work best.

Hi elviira,

It's so sadly when I heard your income from Adsense with a quite good traffic. Generally, with 1K UV/day, you can earn at least 10$ regardless of your niche.

I have a look over your site. Poorly when I said that your theme not so good. In my opinion, 2 columns is always better than 3 columns website.

- About font style: you should change to same font style with Adsense font style
- If you still want to keep 3 columns theme, you should place a 160_600 ads format in 2nd column (instead placing in 3rd column)
- DO NOT display too much post in homepage/category page, ... Because visitor only focus on reading and will not click on ads
- DO NOT show all content in one post. I can see that a post in your site is too long. You can separate your post into some shorter posts or use a slider to display your post. Never display all of content in a straight like the way you did.

Well, I have to go out now. If I have free time, I will post later.

I manage a couple of sites. One blog which is of tech niche gets about 500 visits per day and the traffic is from US,UK & India mainly. That blog earns me about $5-$6 per day. Whereas, a same kind of blog which is also related to the tech gets its most traffic from Bangladesh, Pakistan & Thailand it earns me about $2-$4 from about 2000 visits per day.
The thing is the sources of traffic is very important to earn you more. Traffic from high tier countries will earn you more.

click on adsense ads only depends on your website niche and earning from that clicks depends on from where you got that clicks.

suppose if your niche is about downloading free software then you'll have max ctr.

#goodluck

AdSense can only work great if you have an enormous number of visitors or if your niche is very popular with advertisers on Google. I think that the problem with your site is that the source of your traffic is such that you need massive traffic in order to really score with AdSense. If you intend to keep on with your current startegy of attracting visitors you better swing into high gear! This kind of traffic sources will work only with much bigger numbers. In this case also place the AdSense blocks the right way. You don't need too much AdSense on your site, just 2-3 well positioned blocks will do the job. More than that will make people ignore them all together.

Amazon? Hm, it all depends what kind of visitors you have. If they are passionate about something that there are related products on Amazon then Amazon will be a good option. But if many of your visitors are teenagers or kids then Amazon is no no.

You could place on your website a small questionnaire so you could find out who your visitors really are. How many males and females, what age range..and so on

This way you would easily find out what products to offer (yours or affiliate).

Since you have a decent number of visitors each day finding out what they would like to have on your site would be a very good plan.