The Big Money Tips Project Day 14
Well I have achieved my first milestone in the Big Money Tips Project of achieving $1/day. And it definitely wasn’t because of the AdSense. Thanks to affiliate sales I have hit $1.90/day on the site and hopefully I can continue that upward trend.
The site currently is getting 100-400 pageviews a day so I have to work on increasing traffic while continuing to add content. I added a banner ad at the top that I don’t expect to convert at all, but we will see what happens.
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11 opinions for The Big Money Tips Project Day 14
francey
Apr 19, 2005 at 3:33 pm
I just had an “oh my god, I get more page views on my site than one of scriv’s sites” moment. Yet, I make about $0.20 a day from my site - which is fine with me, since my objective isn’t to make money so much as make sure the hosting bills are covered.
Scrivs
Apr 19, 2005 at 6:10 pm
Yeah, well I am sure Google is more generous with your site ;-)
Kyle
Apr 19, 2005 at 7:19 pm
Google has not been spreading the love for me. On one of my abandonded sites, I still get ~ 80-100 views a day, yet Adsense has slowly (not suddenly) decreased my “views” to about 5 a day…
Sometimes, I just don’t get search engines.
Although, congrats on the amazing turnaround for such a low pageview count. I think that’s a pretty impressive conversion rate.
Scrivs
Apr 19, 2005 at 9:36 pm
Yeah the conversion isn’t bad, but my promoting is what’s lacking at the moment. Don’t think I am getting the targetted users that I need. But if you want free traffic all of this takes time.
Ryan Latham
Apr 19, 2005 at 11:20 pm
Lately I’ve been more into hustling the internet. Still looking to be a part of the 9rules Network, but expecting that rejection letter any day now. Before I was just doing it because it is what I love to do, and money was just a perk that would come here and there.
But in the last month I have practiced more discipline in my manor. The tactics I use, frequency of updating, and how I choose to write. And it has paid off big; we all know Google doesn’t let you say how much, but at my current rate…I will have doubled what I made last month via AdSense (I attribute some of this to the two new blogs, but channels tell me very little credit is due there so far).
Additionally getting an Amazon store indexed always helps out. Sales aren’t great, and hell they never will be. I’m probably averaging around 6 sales a day, which I’m not sure is good, but I think its not bad for only being indexed for a month.
Finally Dreamhost rewards. $485 this month, not bad, not great. It has been hanging on $485 for a while now…started with fire up under its ass, ended being a dead fuse.
Congrats on your first milestone. Here’s to many more…hell, I’ll drink to that.
Mike
Apr 20, 2005 at 7:43 pm
I would bet that if you changed the format to allow the google ads to be placed ” in ” the content/articles, that your AdSense revenues would increase. The fact that they are located below the content allows the reader to look away as son as he/she finishes the article.
It has worked for us on all of our sites that have AdSense enabled. For an example, just click on my name and go to the Articles page when you hit the site.
For my taste, which I’m sure matters little to you, your format is much, much too busy. Too many choices for the reader. We have several sites with that amount of traffic, or less that do exponentially more $$$ than your example.
Not that you need it, but if you’d like to email or call, I’d be willing to share more. Or ask here and I’ll share with everyone.
Peace,
MIke
Ryan Latham
Apr 21, 2005 at 12:49 am
I think I agree with Mike here. Typically I am against that, but I have been considering experimenting with google ads in a floating div in articles on some of my posts.
I battle this partially with my header approach, which is most likely where all my clicks are coming from. Maybe I’ll play with that for a week.
Scrivs
Apr 21, 2005 at 10:58 am
Good call there Mike. However, another major issue is that most of the traffic is coming from other sites in the network so it seems people are coming to see what the site is about and then leaving. That just means I have to tweak things more and continue running tests.
Scrivs
Apr 21, 2005 at 11:00 am
As for the lengthy articles, I agree that they are really long, but those are intended to fill up the content on the site and give it more of an authority feel. Plenty of shorter articles are planned which should do better with AdSense and affiliate sales.
Scrivs
Apr 21, 2005 at 2:51 pm
Okay I did some inline ads on Big Money Tips and Web Drug Database so we will see how those pan out. I will of course make sure to keep you updated.
Mike
Apr 21, 2005 at 6:55 pm
Paul,
I’m not against lengthy articles, just against articles that don’t have the AdSense ads imbedded in them. You have to catch them, the reader, in a reading frenzy and present them with a blue link, which they are conditioned to click. If you wait til the end of the article or if there is anything else on the page, link wise, you’ll lose them and their ” I need to click something ” stupor. Go to the site that I listed and go to the articles pages and see that when they read an article, they only have that info available. No link to take them anywhere but to one of google’s offerings. If they want more info, they have to click an offering, close the current page or hit the back button….guess which is the easiest of the 3 choices ?
You might also offer newsfeeds and RSS feeds that have been turned into HTML. Easy to do, in both cases. It adds a lot of ever changing content, which brings the spiders/bots by on a regular basis, without you having to do any work after the initial setup.
Ryan,
Beautiful Gallery ! You too could some of the previous advice, if you’d like to test your CTR. Once they click on an article, have nothing on that page except google offerings. No way to leave unless they click. Options only confuse the reader. Make them take the action that you want them to take, which is clicking an offering so they can further their knowledge.
Also, both of you could test the use of a popup, stay calm and read thru this, like a yellow sticky note available at instantattention.com. ( Note: I did not use my affiliate link ) Use one on entry to announce the Article or Tip Of The Day ( make sure it loads a new browser page ). That way a large percentage of visitors will click thru and read the article. Listing it as Tip Of The Day will get them to come back everyday, hopefully. Also, give them a chance to join a list to announce new articles. That way, when your list reaches, oh say, 10,000 subscribers, you can announce a new article to the list and can be assured that, hopefully, a very large percentage will go to the link you provide them and read your article and maybe, just maybe will click on an offering from AdSense. Kinda like printing $$$, while educating your reader.
Hope this helps,
Mike
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