Showing posts with label click thru ratio. Show all posts
Showing posts with label click thru ratio. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Home Business, Affiliate Schemes, WTF?

Ok, we all want to get rich and we all need money. I have been making a very small amount from this site and others using adsense and the odd time I have dabbled into Clickbank and others while trying to get something a little more lucrative.

What I have found, every time I click on an add proclaiming "home business!" "earn your monthly income in a year!" always seem to be the same. A bloody Pyramid Scheme!

OK, I know they are not all like that, but it certainly seems that most of them get you to sign up, then you get paid for more people who sign up using your affiliate ID link. This is basically a Pyramid Scheme and although a lot of other affiliate schemes do sell other items, a great many of them in my research seem to fall back onto the pyramid model as a staple income.

I have never made a cent from Affiliate schemes but to be honest, I spend more time on trying to maximise my adsense revenue from this blog amongst others. I suppose I feel that if I make a site to gain traffic, then only to send that traffic off in search of an affiliate sale, then I myself am somehow selling out, but then I never had a head for business I guess....

I like adsense because all the ads are relevant to my site content. But I have also added Clickbank links to some pages which are relevant to the article and yet, even though I have plenty of hops and clickthroughs. I get so cash.

Has anyone else out there had any luck with this? (add to the comments!)

If you can recommend a decent affiliate scheme I'd love to know. I get plenty of traffic to this site so if I get no responses or very few, I will consider the matter a waste of time and maybe so should you.

Muzzerino.

Sunday, August 17, 2008

Adsense, does it work?

I have had AdSense on my sites for a while now and only a wee trickle of money has dribbled in over the last year or so. When I mean a wee trickle, I mean a "Wee Trickle!"

but its getting better, I get around 10,000 Page Loads a month on my widescreen wallpaper site and its increasing, but still only about 0.3% - 1.0% of visitors click on my ads, resulting in a terrible Click Thru Ratio (CTR).

How does one improve this situation? These guys reckon they have it down and these guys too have a variety of tips on how to do better.

I have read them both but still lack in a decent CTR.

I will persist however, I think basically high quality content (text) + high quality keywords = High quality ads.

Fingers crossed!