11 Responses to “I Got My 21 Cents…”
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Have recently re-introduced adsense to my blog as well, but results aren’t really good I must say. Although I have made about a dollar, I don’t really consider that to be a reason to keep it up. Asides from that the clicks I generated all came from older posts, so I’ll probably end up disabling adsense ads in my newer posts and simply use adsense as a way to get some little extra money from those older posts which people find through the search engines.
Myself I use the shylock plugin, really loving how you can set ads differently for older and newer posts with that
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Actually the CPM ads usually pays without the clicks, anyways adsense rocks, it’s a good way to make some money to pay your bills!
Hi Stephen
You will earn the odd few cents here and there without clicks – for the number of displays of some ads – I think, but I’m not really up to date with it anymore.
I think the “Adsense Blindness” often cited, is one reason why click throughs are sometimes lower than expected. Having said that, I often read Adsense ads and have sometimes found some little gems when I’ve bothered to check them out, so I would never discount Adsense as an additional revenue generating tool even though I don’t use it at present because of other programs. Glad you’ve seen your first hit though
Slevi, I’m still nowhere near a dollar, so I’m jealous!
I suspect Adsense really won’t make much on this blog. My target reader is a little more technical than the average internet user and they are known to click less. Also my content doesn’t lend itself to Adsense success. People at a knitting blog are more likely to click on an ad for knitting supplies, than someone at this blog is to click on an ad for a blogging service. Still I’ll have fun playing with it for a while. If I had more time, I’d setup another blog with content that would work better with Adsense, as RT from UntwistedVortex.com has done.
I’ll have to watch where the clicks come from. It may be that I’ll find the same thing as you, in which case I may disable it on newer posts. The more I hear about Shylock, the more I like what I hear.
Article, I thought CPM was for a thousand impressions – I haven’t reached that many yet in total, let alone for one particular ad.
Hi Maurice. I have to say that personally I am Ad Blind (not just Adsense either). The funny thing is that when I look at the ads showing on my site, I occasionally want to check them out (but can’t because you can’t click ads on your own site)! I guess I need to start noticing ads more on other sites. I hadn’t appreciated that not all ads are for paid services – free services are advertised too.
AdSense does well on some of my sites, but not the tech-related ones. I think that people who read tech sites have more AdSense blindness.
CPM is for a thousand impressions indeed, but with adsense don’t place your hopes on that. It’s not even displayed on the basic reports anymore from what I can see.
Note: Don’t mix up ECPM with CPM, the ECPM is an indication of what you’re making for every 1000 views.
But well yeh, I got the same problem as you. The audience is pretty tech-savvy so the click-thru rate is minimal. I’m on 1/3rd done of the first payment since I still had some on it left from the past, but if it continues in the same pace I’ll need another 350.000 impressions before I actually reach the payment point
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hey 22 cent are much better then nothing. lol i see it this way i don`t have to do nothing more for the money coming from google ad. so just have it on our site and grap the money for doing nothing.
Teia, I agree with you, so I’m not expecting much.
Slevi, thanks for the information. I’m not placing my hopes on Adsense at all. I’m up to 26 cents now. At this rate it will take 14 years to reach the $100 payout figure!
Hoto, I agree, 22 cents are better than nothing, but it’s no good if I have to wait 14 years to get it. I’ll keep it here for now, but I don’t know if I will keep it. I’ll probably play with the configuration a bit.
At this moment, I just want to get to $100 from Adsense – then I will decide if I remove it from my blog (about 80% decided to do so) …
As for the displaying ads plugins, allow me to add this one: WordPress Plugin – AdMan II
Cheers!
Hi Nick,
I didn’t know you had any plugins. I’ll have to check it out. Downloading it now. Cheers!
Same here: CTR is very low on my blog and visitors are ONLY from search engines. NO SU, NO DIGG. And is below 1% no matter what. Maybe the information they find there is too good and they don’t need to click the ads. The answer is in the articles.
Switched to affiliate marketing but conversions are very low. Should I start using crap content so people click the ads for an answer to their problems??