Close to giving up - need advice

True… we all need to have the patience & it applies to all part of life.. “Don’t make a wrong decision of losing battle before the right time of triumph comes”

Always remember one thing – “There is nothing called failure, all are setbacks” – Believe me if u can esteem this line for yourself then your look to every aspect of life ll change.

About choosing a topic – do whatever u like, the subject may be old, may not be money yielding but if it excites you then go for it. You can change all the old thoughts and believes if you have the right attitude.

 

i give you a tip:

on a content page, place the ad block on the bottom of the page between the detailed info (author etc) and the content itself i think ctr will be a lot higher this way

 

You have a good site
I feel your ad placement is just not good. Get the ads to your content area. More like the places where you have gotomypc cj ads. And the places like, between the title and content or within the content itself(post the code in content itself ??)

You must be able to get atlest 4% CTR on these kind of sites. If its not happening - just understand that your placement is not good.

 

I think your problem is the topic. People that find your site are looking for a script to do a specific thing. I can imagine that most people's eyeballs move down the page to the code part, copy, paste and leave. I'd highly recommend moving the ads up above the code.

If you have a few scripts that get alot of traffic, I would promote some affiliate programs for software or tools that solve the specific problem that script relates to.

 

Where are your adsense ads?

The first problem is you target audience. I hate to burst your bubble but from my expericence the tech savvy crowd is the last place you want to make a site for. You are best off to make sites geared towards computer illiterate people...perhaps dumb secretaries at work? What kind of sites do dumb people like? Just an idea....

But don't give up... I'm only on my sixth month of putting a full time effort into adsense, and lately things have been going crazy! I've already made over $50 today and it is just now 6pm.... and all of my adsense sites were started from scratch... but they aren't MFA sites, they are all blogs and I spent 12 hours a day or so for 7 days a week when I first started off.

I would try different niches- if it doesn't take off, try something else. Repeat process until you have a bunch of sites that work.

 

I cann't find the WordTracker free tool? Can you give a url?

 

Hint: get 10 more sites doing the same thing and then 100 and do the math. Thats $1200 baby. Daily

 

You have to go to wordtracker.com and sign up for the free trial

 

7 months and $40? You should promote your site more, get more traffic. I know you and I exchanged links. Find script forums, join them, and put a link in your sig, and refer to your site often. 120 a day isn't bad, but with double that, I'd bet you can make at least $1 a day, to pay hosting and whatnot. Good luck.
Patrick

 

if it was easy, we'd all be rich

 

Honestly, focus on traffic.
All the ad blending and re-arranging is not going to do anything until you get some traffic. 120 uniques a day is not enough to be worried about what kind of ad blocks or blending you are doing.

Unless of course you just remove the ads in hopes of creating a return audience. Just work on building traffic. Once that is done you can worry about the other stuff.

 

yeah, you need to focus more on traffic. you're niche isn't the best idea either, like people have mentioned. i just put my site up 3 days ago and have had 536 unique visitors since then (so about 179/day). if i can do that, i know you can. it's not easy, but keep plugging away. lord knows i'm far from where i would like to be!

 

i'm definitely going to further research KEI

 

Agreed, adsense is not the most efficient money maker for those who know better

 

Same here. But my site can't compare with yours, your site looks more better. But some guys tell me that webmasters are blind in ads. This is your difficulty.
Good luck and be patient.

 

You can always give up but what are you going to achieve with that?

 

I kinda agree that with these types of sites, visitors will basically quickly scan through what they need, copy, paste and they're gone.

Perhaps you could come up with more "study" kind of content, where folks have to linger longer on a page. More chances of them clicking on an ad.

 

536 unique in 3 days how?

 

536 could come from 1 hour of spamming. Not that it is what he did, but I guarantee if you really wanted visitors, spamming would do it, although for one, it is illegal, for two, it gives you a bad reputation, and three, the visitors just look and leave. It is tough to say what it may be. Targetting traffic is the key. 40 really interested visitors are better than 150 non-interested just browsing visitors.