More on Click Through Rates

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I’ve been doing a bit of pruning since writing this post about click through rates.

Specifically, removing the adsense ads from this blog and some other reasonably high traffc, low performing AdSense pages.

The results are interesting - it would appear that Mark’s desire for a 10% CTR is eminently acheivable, you just have to be prepared to forego the chance for a little bit of income to get it! (Only run Adsense on pages which you know you can get clicks)

My best performing page for this month looks like accounting for about 50% of my income for the month, unfortunately there’s not much I can do in the way of duplicating what I did there - it was an accident!

Things have picked up appreciably in the last few days as well, not enough to salvage the month, but enough to make me think that we’re slowly heading in the right direction. I’ve got my average back up over a dollar a day for the last five days, which might sound like small fry, but believe me, with eight days where I earned less than $0.10, that’s some sort of acheivement!

Obviously there’s been a serious re-assessment of goals around here. A couple of months ago, I was talking about aiming for $3.33 this month (for a $100 cheque). I’m actually going to be somewhere around $0.50 a day, but there are extenuating circumstances which have come into play (My health’s been not too good, I had a son in hospital for some time etc).

I’m thinking about adding a “wish-list” to this blog. I’m a geek (albeit a technically challenged one!), I love my “tech toys”, so I’d like to write a bit more about that sort of stuff, and rather than start a new blog, I think that most of the readers here have more than a passing interest in this sort of thing, so I thought I’d assimilate it into this site.
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