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I only want 3 advertisements on mysite .. 1 above fold .. 1 mid and 1 bottom.. tough deicision where to put stuff.

I also completely skipped over the fact that you cn add keywords.. i remember reading it but never bothered with it.. on my way to take care of that now.

keep it up!

I forgot to mention, I used adbrite for a few weeks. Best day it made 48 cents no matter what I tried so I dumped them. Did I miss something?

Surely if it was their software alone doing it, the functionality or PSAs would remain the same over the weeks if nothing changed. I now believe google humans check the site & decide click through rates, or if PSAs run sometimes… it is not all automated, or keyword dependant. esp. on sites that get thousands of daily page views. They get regularly reviewed by real adsense people.

I tested this by running adsense on a non-porn site where no obscene words were allowed, but was an over 18 forum discussing very adult topics. Adsense has been running properly for months at it, with very related adult ads. The click through rate is very good too. So their claim that their bots only
decide if something works, PSAs, & the ads used is a line of bull.

How well your ads do will depend a lot on who from google personally reviewed your site, & how well they like it or want to cut you a break, or if they hate it. I track all my traffic. I track google isps clicking on some links, threads, posts, & links, entirely skipping over others. Surely if it was just bot controlled they’d be clicking on everything equally. Also the most interesting or contoversial sites, posts, & sites, the google isps stay on for a long time clicking on stuff within that section… long enough for a real person to actually reads them, where a bot would quickly scan right through them, taking longer on pages with the most on them & less time on sections with the least on them.

I also run galleries where the only text was “next page” & the images are named something im001387.jpg & not named real words. To my surprise after a week or so google correctly ran ads related to the pix with no text descibing the pix.

But after a few weeks using adsense at all my pages, I could only make $30-$60 a day, & the constant problem of PSAs appearing & disappearing on very clean, original-content pages.

I started using Chitika on pages with PSA problems, or didn’t make much, even though they may have getting 25,000 visitors & hundreds of legitimate ad-clicks.

Chitika made as much as with adsense for the first few weeks, & after a little tweaking 25%-50% more than adsense. But I do have to change the 50 more so Chitika ads at all my pages 1-2 times a week… very time consuming. But at least most days they’re paying $40-$70 a day for my effort.

If I worked harder at it I could have got adsense, & Chitika to pay more, but in a little under 2 days Yahoo! Publishing approved my application & I started running their ads.

At first I was making $30-$50 a day on yahoo with much less ad clicks. I found most of the ads were rarely even vaguely related to the context of the sites, but for that much extra per day, at much fewer ad clicks, I decided not to screw with it at first.

But my sites are a labor of love, not built for maximum premium ad clicks. The ads where installed much later after a site’s creation to pay bandwidth costs & my time. I noticed the pages with yahoo ads started getting less visitors. My best & favorite page went for over 25,000 daily visits to 8,000. I don’t care how much they pay, I didn’t want the ads ruining my sites & scaring away my following.

The yahoo ads were constantly running attorney, ambulance-chaser legal aid, court or divorice services, loans, & banks, even though none of my sites mention or even hint of such things. They were running ads on just about everything most of my people hate a lot.

I started filtering the yahoo ads, blocking all ads from the legal, & finance industry. Whoa! They immediately started making $85-$150 a day with yahoo. The ads are still totally unrelated or only vaguely related, but are no longer from industries that annoy my people. They’re ads for flowers, support stockings, camping equipment, uniforms, & corperate logos… none of which are related or hinted about at my sites. They’re lower paying ads now but get more clicks. It is possible to get $85 with only a dozen yahoo lower paying ad-clicks.

My goal for October was to make $1200 with ads. I made a little over $1300. My goal for November was to make $1600, & hoped to make $2000/mo. by Jan. or Feb. with ads.

It looks like if things continue like they have for the rest of November, I’ll make over $4000 this month… maybe even $5000, with much more than half of it just coming from Yahoo, & much more coming from Chitika than adsense.

The bottom line is potentially you can make much more from adsense than anybody else, if you design a page around generating lots of clicks on decent paying ads, it’s something adsense really likes, or possibly cheat a little.

But if you’re like me where your sites are a labor of love or a work of art, & your visitors are like thousands of friends, adsense may not pay much or may not like you. I frequently pull all-nighters typing out 50-100 pages about something I’m passionate about, post hundreds of pix of my travels & adventures, or even compressed videos of them. But I don’t want ads all over the pages, get hundreds of clicks on the ads, only to find out adsense only paid $5-$20 for all those clicks.

If you want to make pages that you & your visitors love, get high ratings, everyone links to, that gets rave reviews from major news & internet networks, adsense won’t be very profitable. Yahoo & Chitika will be many times more profitable for you.

You might think you know everything and that these tips are really basic, but read them carefully and make that extra effort and I am sure you will notice more cash.

http://www.chitikatips.net/tips2.htm

http://www.feedbuzzard.com/blog/2005/10/24/chitika-blogger-how-to/

but I can’t get it to work, I’ve asked Chitika support and they referred me to that site. If someone experienced in html could give me a hand I’d be happy to post the solution here.

I have experienced the same thing as Darren – a drastic drop in CTR for one day, and then this most recent report showing a very nice bounce back.

‘but from what I can see – the first day’s reductions in income seem to have rebounded a bit in the last stats. For me they are not as high as they were before the changes but a lot better than the reduced days.’

I never said they have completely rebounded. I think I was pretty tentative in my statment and made sure that I was referring to my own experience.

I also never said that I was referring to today’s stats but the latest ones that I can see.

Here’s how my stats went:

15th – slightly less than the day before which was my record day
16th – considerable downturn in earnings (around 40% less than the day before)
17th – an increase in stats from the 16th (still around 15% less than 15th)

I accessed those last figures this morning when I got up.

In terms of them giving notice – I’m not sure what you’d prefer they did. I’ve never had Adsense, Amazon, Fastclick or any other major affiliate company email me to give me advance warning of a downturn in earnings because of a change. Most of the time changes in these programs are without warning, at best they tell you a day or so after the changes on a website or discussion forum.

As my site is a fan news site… I do have repeat fans, sometimes more than once a day if I post an earth-shattering news item (lol)

At the moment Chitika does have a prime position (top left hand column) position… culling my repeat clicks or my international visitors means I will have to re-think my situation after the end of this month.