Adsense Completely Ineffective

I’ve been running this site since the end of October or so, and so far I’ve managed to get my Alexa under 100k, get some nice PR pages, a ton of backlinks and a very nice stream of daily organic traffic. Outside of 3 PhpBay commissions, I haven’t really made any money at all off the site. In fact, this is probably one of my lowest earning sites that I own.

I’m not really looking to make a fortune off this site. My initial goal was to develop an authority site, and so far I’m well on my way. Last week, just for kicks, I decided to add adsense on my post pages. I added a large square block at the beginning and end of the post. I’ve found that while this format does not look the best layout-wise, it is really effective and I have quite a few other sites using the same adsense format that make a LOT of money.

Anyway, after a week of testing and a huge amout of page impressions, I can now report that AdSense is completely ineffective on this site. I would have to go back and check, but I believe I have not received even a single actual click. I think I’ve made a total of less than 10 cents for the week, and that was all from CPM AdSense.

I didn’t have high expectations going into it, but I have to say I’m pretty dissapointed. The good thing is, now I can take the AdSense back off the site and it will look much nicer. Then I’ll never wonder what I’d been missing.

The bottom line – there are a lot better ways to monitize this kind of blog. If you’re running an internet marketing related blog, don’t expect AdSense to put your kids through college.

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