Close to giving up - need advice

Try to get your traffic up. 120 uniques/day isn't much. You can't expect to make much money with this kind of traffic.

 

IMHO the topic has a lot to do with it..
as already stated, there arent a lot of PHP or CGI fanclubs.. and the type of people that do come looking for this type of stuff are probably 'ad-blind' ..

 

I will try all suggested thanks.

So for tech sites is affiliate ads better then adsense?

 

Hard to read without proper English but I think I get you..kinda..

 

sorry james after 5 years didnt use my english my english skilles droped and i try to improve it again

 

That really depends on the type of tech site. "Tech sites" is too broad.

Plus, you can -- and possibly should -- do both affiliates and AdSense. Then, you disocver which one pays better and give that one the best ad spots.

 

key to sucess is patient. just my 2c worth

 

i agree with that

 

SourceForge has an Alexa Rank of 88. Obviously some one cares.

 

Just give up. There's total freedom in admitting you failed.

 

Hi Matt:

I'm not sure if you changed your site since starting this thread, but I am having trouble finding where you display your Adsense ads. Aside from the right column skyscraper ad and the odd 336x280 at the bottom of a few of your Article pages, I don't see any. Have you tried putting a 468x60 or 338x280 text ad above the fold on all pages?

Don't give up, Matt. I know it can be discouraging, but you just have to be persistent. As others have mentioned, you don't exactly have the best niche for good CTR, but you can still generate some money with this site. You may find you have to add more sites to your network in order to bring up the total $$ you earn with AS, but no reason to scrap this site before fully exploring the different ways to optimize it.

Good luck with it.

Vito

 

I see that you have about +300 pages indexed by Google. That should be more than enough to get a lot more than 120 visitors a day. Have you tried optimizing every single page to specific keyword phrases with high KEIs?

I'll bet that if you picked lets say 5 pages a day and optimized them for specific high KEI phrases to get better rankings, you would increase your visitor stats substiantially.

 

How do you tell how many pages are indexed? I give every page a unique title. What is KEI phrases?

 

I don't have adsense on every page, I have tried adding some ads other than adsense on everypage to see if I can make a sell.

 

Not 100% sure, but I believe you do this by googling:

site:www.scriptmob.com

Vito

 

Yup, If you use the "site" command as vito says you can see how many pages are indexed.

KEI is a term for number of searches for that specific phrase combined with the number of sites having that exact phrase somewhere on their site.

I believe that WordTracker has a free tool where you can check your phrases. If nobody is searching for the phrases that you have used as page titles, H1-tags, anchor texts of internal links etc. then that explains the low amount of visitors.

 

Let me give you some phrases that might drive some traffic to your site (Go for the highest KEIs first and work your way down). Remember to use the exact phrase as title and Headline tags.

No. Keyword - KEI Analysis - Count - 24Hrs - Competing
1 "_le php d'arme nucl?aire de livre d'amazone sugg?rent" 5625.000 75 46 0
2 "_hypoth?que rate11 du php q de recherche la meilleure" 2601.000 51 31 0
3 "aacheap web hosting php mysql" 252.000 42 26 7
4 "perl web site submission scripts" 206.439 92 56 41
5 "hosting php service web edsy2b" 142.231 43 26 13
6 "affordable web hosting asp business website web site e" 112.022 71 43 45
7 "free domain web site hosting free php mysql hostin" 100.148 52 32 27
8 "cgi hosting mail mysql php web" 88.000 44 27 22
9 "free web hosting with php mysql and ftp" 56.903 42 26 31
10 "free web hosting ftp mail php mysql" 54.382 43 26 34
11 "asp and dotnet in wilmington" 33.314 134 81 539
12 "free php mysql web hosting" 6.812 67 41 659
13 "free hosting php site web" 5.632 70 43 870
14 "banner free hosting mysql php site web without" 4.466 43 26 414
15 "free hosting mysql php support that web" 3.903 42 26 452
16 "asp free ftp hosting web" 3.427 44 27 565
17 "free php and mysql web hosting" 3.136 59 36 1110
18 "affordable ecommerce web hosting php directory" 2.876 47 29 768
19 "cgi free ftp hosting mysql php web" 2.753 49 30 872
20 "cgi php free web hosting" 2.665 51 31 976
21 "cpanel domain free hosting mysql php web" 2.664 90 55 3040
22 "really cheap php web hosting" 2.600 46 28 814
23 "free hosting mysql php site web" 2.536 54 33 1150
24 "affordable directory hosting php web" 2.463 78 47 2470
25 "asp time and attendance" 1.556 41 25 1080
26 "ebay auction php" 1.528 41 25 1100
27 "free web hosting with php mysql" 1.501 46 28 1410
28 "b2rdf php" 1.430 131 80 12000
29 "best hosting mysql php web" 1.244 50 30 2010

As you can see above going for the phrase "perl web site submission scripts" has 56 searches in Google a day (24hr) and only 41 sites targeting that phrase.

Hope it makes sense

 

Not particular a good advice.

Stephen Covey said, if you are in the wrong 'map', working hard will get you 'nowhere'.

my advice?

sell the site. You see, since so many people response with their suggestion to improve, may be they can do it better themselves (or they think they can). Sell it, and try other niche

 

did u give up on Adsense as I no longer see it on your site?

you have a nice looking site you maybe need to diversify your topics a little and ad a blog

well that is if you carry the gift of the gab like someone off the Isle of Gibraltar. Not Rock

TB

 

If you go for another niche then be sure to read, read and read from this forum to learn how to and how not to... Will save you a lot of time and trouble.