Bitter disappointment.

Posted by stuart as

After a reasonably succesful first month with Adsense (averaged over a dollar a day), this month so far has been a bitter disappointment.

After losing around five days at the start of the month due to hosting troubles, I’ve averaged well under a dollar a day for the month so far.

I’m not sure whether this has anything to do with the earlier hosting troubles, or what has happened. Traffic to a couple of sites has dropped off significantly. Even one site which has been around for a couple of years, and was getting a reasonable amount of natural SE traffic, has died off completely.

I have four “mini sites” waiting for a little bit of search engine love. Just five or six page sites, very specifically targeted, SEO’d up the wazoo, set and forget type stuff, so we’ll see what the future brings for them, but I would imagine that we’re a couple of months away from any kind of results with these sites.

I’m thinking I might concentrate on putting together a blog for one of my sites, it’s the kind of thing I can add content to quickly and easily, and hope that that brings some more traffic, and more clicks.

I know I’m on the right track with adsense optimisation etc. I get great CTR’s on all my sites, and the eCPM is more than acceptable, my traffic just seems to have died!

It’s getting harder and harder to justify to the missus the time spent in front of the computer, when you get one click worth $0.03 for a whole day!

I know this is not a get rich quick thing, but give me strength, I’m starting to think that Google have created some sort of slow, painful, psychological torture device here.