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too much ads, use less ads to get the top 3 of 5 highest pay ads to show up....and lose the main image, it distract the viewer attention away from the images next to the ads

and same question fenryr asked....
 
You are not testing and tweaking, go back, don't ask, test and tweak so much that you start to wish you were never born. Then come back and ask a question ;)
 
You need to pick niches with decent click prices.

Use the Overture Bid Tool to get an idea of what's hot and what's not. http://uv.bidtool.overture.com/d/search/tools/bidtool/

Hot: Mesothelioma
Not: American Flag

As a very, very general rule of thumb, I would say AdSense click prices are in the neighborhood of 30% of what you see in the Overture bid tool. Google then keeps 40% as commission.

In short, find niches/keywords that have $3+ bids in the bid tool.
 
awesome tool. just for the run of it I did seo (which to me seems a bit saturated) and I was surprised at it's bid range.


I take that back, I searched the word above, Mesothelioma, and I see what you mean now... wow
 
chris were you serious about that- so there topics to avoid doing arb on since they are too high profile and google might notice and get pissed off easier?
 
Someone said:
You need to pick niches with decent click prices.

Use the Overture Bid Tool to get an idea of what's hot and what's not. http://uv.bidtool.overture.com/d/search/tools/bidtool/

Hot: Mesothelioma
Not: American Flag

As a very, very general rule of thumb, I would say AdSense click prices are in the neighborhood of 30% of what you see in the Overture bid tool. Google then keeps 40% as commission.

In short, find niches/keywords that have $3+ bids in the bid tool.
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im a little confused.

im using the tool: https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

to find "hot keywords". when I typed in your suggestion of Mesothelioma, and used $10 as the calculate estimates using MAX CPC, i get an estimated Avg. cpc of $6.77

so, the higher the price of the estimated avg. cpc....the "hotter" the keyword correct?
 
The CPC is what advertisers would pay Google, not what you would get...

you should look at ads w/ a CPC of .50 - If you see a high concentration of at least 4-6 as your ad ranking then you know you probably would get at least .20 for a click on the top ad on your page.
 
eyekon1 said:
im a little confused.

im using the tool: https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

to find "hot keywords". when I typed in your suggestion of Mesothelioma, and used $10 as the calculate estimates using MAX CPC, i get an estimated Avg. cpc of $6.77
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This is the average CPC price that you will pay Google as an advertiser. AdSense bids are 20-50% of the normal search network bids. I don't trust Google's estimation tools, because in my experience as an advertiser, they're always considerably off. I like Overture because it tells you exactly whose bidding for the inventory at what price.

so, the higher the price of the estimated avg. cpc....the "hotter" the keyword correct?
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Yep. But, also keep in mind, you need to pick niches where you think you can get a decent amount of traffic. Use this tool to see Yahoo's monthly stats:

http://inventory.overture.com
 
ok i've done a few modifications but I'm still not making any profit.
i spent an average of $.06 per click. my earnings since I've started are $23.30 but i've spent $42.76. i've had a few niches but realized they weren't doing well, so I dumped them. these are my current two niches.
http://www.articleelf.com/antispam
http://www.articleelf.com/equity
According to the research I've done, they should be doing a lot better than they have been. are there flaws in my layout or perhaps my niches still aren't good enough? i'm using searchfeed...should I switch to 7search? any helpful advice would be appreciated
 
Hmmm....

My arbi site (only 1 active campaign yet, waiting for searchfeed to approve the second one) has a CTR between 13% to 63% and I still managed to profit every day.

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searchfeed sends a nice amount of traffic but their ctr% is SHIT. id get a ton of traffic from them, and hardly any (or none) clicks. i guess it really depends on the niche.. sometimes i wonder where the hell they generate traffic from.

i tried out searchfeed and wasted a nice amount of dough there.. i guess my niche just sucked. my most recent one is doing fairly well using searchfeed.

you might want to check out 7search, their clicks are lower and slower but ive noticed ad clicks and ctr% have gone up since i started using them.

i recently just signed up with adwords and have recieved only 2 clicks for the past 4 days.

next on my list is miva and kontera, hopefully some good come out of this.
 
it all comes down to that being a horrible template and you probably bidding too much.
 
what about my niches? are they decent niches or am i still not in the right area? and the layout? the only reason i haven't used 7search yet is b/c it wants an email address that's not free and i dont have one, unless they'll accept my email address from one of my domains?
 
I actually registered the exact same site and campaing (even more KWs) with 7search and got exactly 0 ... zero... nil... zilch ... &c clicks from them.

What gives?

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