I am stumped. I have several niche sites that are ranked at the top of google. They get anywhere from 200-300 uniques a day, and I'm getting no adsense clicks on those sites. Seems a waste.
Any ideas why?
Maybe I should take adsense off those sites and try a CPA or something.
Mike
Edit: I just noticed that 75% are leaving after ONLY 5 seconds or less, and I'm telling you these sites have great, relevant content, and look good too! What the heck is going on?


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Thread: No clicks and good traffic
- 01-11-12, 21:27 #1azguy_9Guest
No clicks and good traffic
- 01-11-12, 22:28 #2geartalkGuest
Too small? A couple of hundred visitors is nice, but you need 10 times that number to really earn money. Are your ads being properly targeted? Post a URL for the site.
- 01-11-12, 23:01 #3azguy_9Guest
((login for URL))oogle is showing a ton of non-relevant ads too! So that's not helping me at all.
- 01-11-12, 23:36 #4geartalkGuest
Time is what you need. Your site has been up for 9 months. Work on your SEO. Buy some Adwords or Facebook ads. Build on what you have there. I've got 100 times more visitors than you but I stared in 1999! and have used Adsense since 2003. For the first year I used Adsense I was lucky to make $3 a day. It takes a while.
Are you using the WP SEO plugins and the Sitemap submission plugins? Have you configured Webmaster Tools and such? Do you have a Facebook fan page and a Twitter page?
- 01-11-12, 23:47 #5Dogs and thingsGuest
What Geartalk says is true.
If it were my site I would blend the ads, I would give the blue title the same #333333 as the rest of your site's links and the green url #aaaaaa.
In my opinion the color scheme of your ads screams "I AM AN AD!" and that's no good, at least on this site about golf stuff.
Did you try other color schemes?
- 01-12-12, 01:30 #6azguy_9Guest
Originally Posted by Dogs and things ((login for URL))
You mean make the Blue Title Links Black, and then the URL's what color?
- 01-12-12, 07:40 #7Dogs and thingsGuest
Blue ad unit titles: #333333.
Green ad unit urls: #aaaaaa.
- 01-12-12, 12:41 #8azguy_9Guest
Originally Posted by Dogs and things ((login for URL))
You mean like: ((login for URL))
- 01-12-12, 13:33 #9Dogs and thingsGuest
Right, that looks much better to me.
You could do a ((login for URL)) using for instance the following code that will show a different Ad Unit with a different colour combination on every page load:
PHP Code:<?php
$numberofadunits = 3; // Number of Ad Units
$random = rand(1,$numberofadunits);
$Ad_units = array();
$Ad_units[1] = <<<EOT
PLACE YOUR ADSENSE CODE HERE
EOT;
$Ad_units[2] = <<<EOT
PLACE YOUR ADSENSE CODE HERE
EOT;
$Ad_units[3] = <<<EOT
PLACE YOUR ADSENSE CODE HERE
EOT;
echo $Ad_units[$random];
?>
PHP Code:$numberofadunits = 3; // Number of Ad Units
PHP Code:$Ad_units[3] = <<<EOT
PLACE YOUR ADSENSE CODE HERE
EOT;
PHP Code:$Ad_units[4] = <<<EOT
PLACE YOUR ADSENSE CODE HERE
EOT;
- 01-12-12, 13:48 #10azguy_9Guest
Originally Posted by Dogs and things ((login for URL))
I'm bummed out at the crappy, non-relevant ads google is showing on those sites. They have great, unique content, so I don't know why google is doing that.
Mike