Time to leave AdSense? HELP!

[NyahKon]

First thing's first - hello! I'm new here.

With that out of the way, I have a question: Is it time for me to leave Adsense and join with someone else? I own a gaming site (Final Fantasy) that gets around 600 unique visitors per day and quite a number of pageviews. I have multiple Google Adsense ads on both my site and forum, but there's a problem: Not only is my CTR quite low, but when I do get clicks, the amount of money I get is VERY small. For example, today's first two clicks have netted me a total of $0.02. The other day, I had 12 clicks for a profit of $0.49. And the one before that, six clicks for a profit of... $0.14. Hmm...

Yes, I'll have a lucky day or two when I get more than a dollar, but it's been on a steady decline for quite some time now. Just doesn't seem right.

Do you reckon I should switch to someone else? And if so, who would you recommend for a site like mine? Adbrite? Kontera? Both?
...someone else? I need some advice.

Thanks. Appreciate it!

 

[forest]

First questions : Wheres your original traffic ? If International traffic then it is normally for a gaming site.

 

[NyahKon]

The majority is US traffic, followed by UK and Japan as a distant third.

 

[bluearrow]

Its normal for this this keyword as well as most of low paying keywords. Also this month really sux. But still there aren't really good alternative for AdSense so far.

 

[Sina]

Join bidvertiser!(as I did) and choose to select ads that want to be shown to your visitors.
then don't accept for example ads giving under 50/40/30/20 cents, and approve others!
then some clicks may give u even nearly $4 !
Hope this help u...

 

[NyahKon]

But have you actually received a payment from them yet?

I guess the problem is that I've read a lot of dodgy things about many of these alternative companies. For example, not being paid or clicks not counting. However, I really hope to get some more advice, because yet another day has gone by and all I've earned is a not-so-impressive $0.14. A wasted opportunity in my mind.

 

[Sina]

NyahKon, bidvertiser is one of the best!
I heard a lot about them! and the minimum payment is only $10 ! and to paypal!
so, I got about $8 from them till now! and heard they really pay! I will tell you when I got the money...

 

[Keral_Patel]

Have you heard about smart pricing?

I think you should read about it a bit. And try to find the solution of existing things.

 

[sufi]

You should also block some low paying MFA site ads which might be showing on your website. It might help you a lot.

 

[NyahKon]

Thanks for the suggestion, -Nick-. Will do.

sufi:
How do I know which advertisements on my site are low-paying MFA sites?
The idea is good; I just need to know how to implement it.

 

[whitebark]

Thanks for the suggestion, -Nick-. Will do.

sufi:
How do I know which advertisements on my site are low-paying MFA sites?
The idea is good; I just need to know how to implement it.

Use this website to ditch those low-paying MFA websites:
www.adsblacklist.com

bidvertiser - beware of these jokesters. I've been battling with them to return money for ad campaigns I had running. They clearly allow a lot of bogus traffic, extremely low quality traffic, counting clicks that never did come to my websites etc. If they treat their advertisers that way, I tremble to think of how they treat their publishers.

 

[sufi]

Most of the times, they consist of just search pages or bunch of keywords. You can visit these URLs without clicking your own links (Just copy/paste the ad URL and extract the advertisers site URL inside that paid adsense ad URL). Adsblacklist.com is also a good website to study in this regard.

 

[Miyavi]

As suggested, http://www.adsblacklist.com is a good resource for helping get rid of those low-paying MFA websites; however, it will only do so much.

Unfortunately, a lot of it comes down to your site topic.
Some topics have a lot of high-paying advertisers, some don't.

You may want to look into some affiliate programs as well. Perhaps earn commission for game and soundtrack sales/etc.

 

[death001]

Use this website to ditch those low-paying MFA websites:
www.adsblacklist.com

bidvertiser - beware of these jokesters. I've been battling with them to return money for ad campaigns I had running. They clearly allow a lot of bogus traffic, extremely low quality traffic, counting clicks that never did come to my websites etc. If they treat their advertisers that way, I tremble to think of how they treat their publishers.

Yes, beware, I and many others have had problems with bidvertiser, for me clicks didn't seem to be countered and ads loaded very slowly for my users.

 

[Sina]

Well, according to you guys, I'm getting worried!
but I contacted their support several times and got fast response and complete responses! I thought their support is nice!
Also, as I approved only ads having +50cent revenue, my revenue that sometimes get made by my own clicks grow fast! I have about $9 till now.
and after I got my $10, I will tell everybody if they pay or they dont! so dont risk till I get my revenue!

 

[arejayell]

my revenue that sometimes get made by my own clicks grow fast!

Be carefull with that, they track all clicks.

 

[whitebark]

Be carefull with that, they track all clicks.

It's things like that that have me asking for a refund.
:td:

 

[Pointer]

you get smartpriced + you just need to make better ads placement + research keywords which bid higher in adsense.

 

[bojianh]

If you have high-quality traffic, try Intellitxt by Vibrant Media. They are quite good/

 

[NyahKon]

How can I avoid smart pricing? Or if I've already been smart priced, is there a way to reverse it? I apologize if these are silly questions.