Google AdSense

transfer2BGSU · Post by **transfer2BGSU** » Fri Jun 16, 2006 4:48 pm

Thanks Rocketfootball. Now we have that same OSU crap at the bottom of the page

Post by **ZiggyZoomba** » Sun Oct 22, 2006 9:58 pm

After 6 months.... Here's what Google AdSense says has happened:

Page impressions: 1,729,953
Clicks: 405

Wow... 1.7 Million page views in 6 months... that TOTALLY boggles my mind....

Thanks everyone!

Falcon Fanatic · Post by **Falcon Fanatic** » Sun Oct 22, 2006 10:44 pm

ZiggyZoomba wrote:After 6 months.... Here's what Google AdSense says has happened:

Page impressions: 1,729,953
Clicks: 405

Wow... 1.7 Million page views in 6 months... that TOTALLY boggles my mind....

Thanks everyone!

Does that translate into enough $$$$ to run the site????

TG1996 · Post by **TG1996** » Sun Oct 22, 2006 10:58 pm

ZiggyZoomba wrote:Wow... 1.7 Million page views in 6 months... that TOTALLY boggles my mind....

Me and my job would like to claim 1.2 million of those.

Post by **ZiggyZoomba** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 6:37 am

Falcon Fanatic wrote:
ZiggyZoomba wrote:After 6 months.... Here's what Google AdSense says has happened:

Page impressions: 1,729,953
Clicks: 405

Wow... 1.7 Million page views in 6 months... that TOTALLY boggles my mind....

Thanks everyone!
Does that translate into enough $$$$ to run the site????

No... but it helps.

Post by **ZiggyZoomba** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 3:28 pm

I just kind of stumbled into the Google AdSense reports this afternoon... We've been on the program for almost 1 full year now (started in on 4/20/06). I'm staggered by some of these numbers!

Since the inception there have been 3,993,504 AdSense ad's displayed on ay-ziggy-zoomba.com. Of those 3,993,504, people have clicked on one 754 times.

The busiest day thus far was March 21, 2007, which had 25,990 ads displayed. To contrast that, the slowest day (not including the first partial day) was June 17 of '06 with only 2,494 views.

Average daily views is 11,187.

Just thought those were some cool numbers to share!

BGDrew · Post by **BGDrew** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 5:16 pm

I've had AdSense since November, and have gained $.03.

I shall assume A-Z-Z.com is doing better.

Post by **ZiggyZoomba** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 8:19 pm

BGDrew wrote:I've had AdSense since November, and have gained $.03.

I shall assume A-Z-Z.com is doing better.

Thanks dude... because of you, I just registered a-z-z.com

1987alum · Post by **1987alum** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 12:54 pm

We don't AdSense much, but where we do, it's VERY productive!

NWLB · Post by **NWLB** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 3:01 pm

I’ve been running Ad Sense and tried Ad Words for most of my non-personal sites, MACsportsFans, FalconGames, and especially RCIfan.com and now CruiseAficionados.com.

But it really has been the cruise sites that are really doing well, relative to the number of visits. The click-through rate has consistently been between 1.8% and 3%. When the visits to the site pushed above 150 unique visitors per day, I noticed the pay per click doubled, and above 200 visitors, it jumped over the cost of a pair of national newspapers.

Curiously the click/response rate of 2% about matches direct mail responses I’m familiar with. I think having a site which is found and viewed by people with an active interest in taking cruise vacations helps the click-through rate. Plus there is a large pool of people that want to advertise on sites like my own.

Ad Words is really where I learned the most about how the entire system works. I’ve learned enough to get a job doing this kind of thing, were I to want too. The system is smooth, and effective. During the experiments I ran, I could roughly double traffic to a site at a modest expense. With more practice I could likely get the flow of traffic in and clicks through, to pay for themselves.

Tactics seem to be everything with Ad Words. If you Google Cruise Travel, or Royal Caribbean, you get a ton of ads along the side, each one of those paying a few dollars for that ad to be there, if you click on it. The further down the lit you go, the less they are paying, and eventually you get to the ads that are being paid for by the 1000s of impressions, not clicks made.

But, what I did, was target more specific things. I ran ads for RCIfan.com, paid by 1000 impressions, for search terms like Cruise Critic.com, Royal Caribbean Blogs, etc. Off beat terms, which nobody uses. Since Ad Words is auction based, you get listed based on what you want to pay. Over time, your ads stop running because the cost goes up. How and if the cost comes down, I don’t know

What I’m working on now, is blocking domains using the impression model. I know a few domains are really getting tons of impressions at little cost. I want the ads people are clicking on. In as far as that goes, I’ve heard Yahoo does better. But yahoo has a third of Googles marketshare.

TG1996 · Post by **TG1996** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 5:01 pm

754 clicks. Cool.

Jacobs4Heisman · Post by **Jacobs4Heisman** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 5:36 pm

I like how there's now an adsense ad for adsense on this page.

Bleeding Orange · Post by **Bleeding Orange** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 6:43 pm

Jacobs4Heisman wrote:I like how there's now an adsense ad for adsense on this page.

That means the earth has reversed it's polarity.

TG1996 · Post by **TG1996** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 11:18 pm

1) Put the beer down.
2) Watch double posts disappear!
3) Screw double posts, drink more beer.

See below.

TG1996 · Post by **TG1996** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 11:20 pm

This just popped up on the bottom of the main forum...

(insert really long img code for the "Ice Horizons 2007" ad you all can see for yourself but won't post as an image with img tags here.)

Huzzah to relevance!!!!