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My site's bringing in around $3 a day, adsense revenue, from 500 pageviews... but the site I run actually pushes 30,000 pages a day, I just haven't stuck adverts on all of them.

So with this in mind, if I put adverts on all the pages, would I be making $3 x 60 ... $180 a day?
I have a feeling I'm going to be disappointed

Also...

I'm about to put Adsense adlinks up next to the navigation, I'm guessing others here have implemented something as 'deceptive' as this before, and I just wondered how much that would bump up the CTR? 10%? 20%?
 


I know how you can find the answer: try it. It won't hurt to put ads on the rest of your pages. If you get alot of return visitors don't over do it to scare them away. Meld the ads into your content, make it look nice.
 
yea, make your ads LOOK like the content so they dont stick out as much.

what i did for a sidebar navigation one time was this:

made a nav box look exactly like the "link box" that adsense offers (you know, the header and then 4-5 text links going down). I also made MY site navigation and another box or two look exactly the same as the ad. this bumped my ctr up to around 10% or so. i took the site down a few days later so i dont have a longterm view of it, but it worked out good.
 
Dude.. you need ads on all of the other pages anyways! Why are you even asking us this when you could possibly make close to $200 tommorow by doing nothing but adding a few lines of code?

Seriously guys, I see questions like this again and again and again. This isn't like a brick & morter business where it is expensive, time consuming, and takes a lot of research to make something happen. You don't need a loan to build a website. You don't need to spend months or weeks researching every possibility before you do something. Just do it. Thats the secret to making lots of money. Trying every possibility, measuring the results, and then replicating what makes the most money.
 
Andrew said:
Dude.. you need ads on all of the other pages anyways! Why are you even asking us this when you could possibly make close to $200 tommorow by doing nothing but adding a few lines of code?

Seriously guys, I see questions like this again and again and again. This isn't like a brick & morter business where it is expensive, time consuming, and takes a lot of research to make something happen. You don't need a loan to build a website. You don't need to spend months or weeks researching every possibility before you do something. Just do it. Thats the secret to making lots of money. Trying every possibility, measuring the results, and then replicating what makes the most money.
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This is an extremely valid point and I respect it alot!
I've always gone for the prize, and have always worked my nuts into the ground :)

Unfortunately I'm making hundreds of changes to the site all the time, and I really don't have the time and patience to

make change-wait-check
make change-wait-check
make change-wait-check

I have no real way of learning which tactic is best... a bit like my efforts at SEO :D

Maybe I should be setting up many little sites for microtesting?

Also, more to the point, I'm concerned for having my account banned for such sly tactics
 
sknydave said:
What you are asking is impossible to answer
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hi sknydave,

The question is also a little more general than the way I've prepared it.

Basically, do things in theory and math ever work out as exact (or even close) in the end?

Maybe some of my pages have greater staying-power than others... and I shouldn't expect the same ratio site-wide!?
 
I mean, in theory, it should work. In theory, communism works....in theory.
 
Nope.

Yes, you WILL make more money with ads on all sites.
But people clicking on ads is more of a probability than a given, so no, it does not work out exactly.
One reason you can find in your stats / weblogs. Most likely, some pages (index and some other favs) are visited by far more visitors than others.
Then there is also the question of entry/exit points, waypoints (sites that are just "passed by" in the attempt to reach a goal), etc...

But, as a little, gentle side note :note:

GET THOSE ADS UP!

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Chris, that is a pretty hard answer considering we don't know any of the following stats:
  • Source of Traffic
  • Google Indexed Pages
  • SERP Ranking (if you are getting traffic from engines)
  • Inbound Linking Methods
  • and not even the URL of the site
But why don't you just hire someone to do it? A lot of young kids here would work for a really cheap price:
http://youngentrepreneur.com/

I got a couple of kids working with me on MySpace and they are pretty talented since I am teaching them a couple SEO Tricks and trades along the way as well as some marketing ideas.
 
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