my traffic is crap crap crap!

[nezter]

so I sent about 5k+/day of pay per click traffic to my MSRS site for about 10 days and after I stopped the cpm went from an average of $5 to $1.5

it's obvious that the return users know the difference between the ads and the content but this means that basically return users have no real benefit to MSRS sites... what am I gonna do ? place a banner and a pop on there with th low CPMS nowadays lol

[alexisthemovie]

do you track your ad sections? 80% of my ad clicks are on content_after.

[fryman]

Content after? On all my sites that is the section that really sucks, terrible ctr.

[BonkerBids]

That is something that I have been thinking about also. I guess it is good to have users coming back to your site to get more stuff for their profiles. After all it can give you another link back to your site that someone viewing their profile may use. But could it be better to have a crappy site, or script that when a new user lands at your site they recognize the problems that may be there and decide to click on an add instead of content on purpose.

[nezter]

I dont track them separtely but even if I did it does not change anything about this

it's the truth that return users on sites like these are not worth much unless the site gets 100k/day uniques and you have popups on it. only then does it work

[Fishfinger]

But could it be better to have a crappy site, or script that when a new user lands at your site they recognize the problems that may be there and decide to click on an add instead of content on purpose.

That is why I always had a feeling that first impression clicks on index page ads is a factor in google "smart pricing" your sites, it would also explain why when you take out the index page ads on a msrs site like MrGeek did ecpm goes up......pure speculation but would make sense. If a site is no good you are more likely to click an ad than go to another page.

[dzerv]

i am getting the most money from the content_before...
Also i have noticed the problem that cpm drops when i don't have new visitors...

[piplewis]

Same here, content_before is doing better than the index and nearly double that of content_after.

Pip