Website Casestudy - Day 7
Ok..there is a little gap but in the meanwhile i didn’t do anything with the site. I stumbled it and the first day it brought me 92 visits. The days after that the visits dried up. But yesterday something important happend…Google indexed the site and sebd me the first real search visitor.
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Yesterday was also the first day this site made money. $0.41 It’s not much but it shows that this site does have potential. I had 2 views of adsense ads and 3 clicks which brought in this $0.41 Not bad….but i always get a creepy feeling when i get a 100%+ clicks. This happens when 1 person on your site clicks more then 1 adsense ad. If your visitor count is low it will result in a Page CTR of more then 100%. I am sure this triggers some sort of alarm at Google if it happens to often. I hope to get the visits up soon when more pages are indexed and this happens not that much.
But the CTR on the sites i made with the same template is high. It looks a bit like thisgoogle.jpg
I used a big rectangle and no borders(in the image only for making clear where the ad is). colors of the link changed to the colors of my site and the text and url the same as the text. The bottom part of ads by google is below the fold when you use 800px screen. Of course it depends also on how many toolbars you use but on most it’s below the fold. And as Google displays relevant ads to the content it looks like a part of the site.
The CTR is above 20% but that is up to now and as i didn’t had a large number of visitors on these sites the numbers can change.
Tasks for the comming days will be collecting more inbound links. I’ll be looking for blogs that allow comments with no “no-follow” and are about the topic of my site and maybe write a press release. Never done that but heared it can give great results
Time already spend : 3 hours
Visitors to date: 101
Pages indexed: 2
Income: $0.41
