What am I doing wrong?

[WillCast]

Hello,

I would like to know where and what is my mistake.

First at all... I have a domain with 10.000 uniques/month... all of them from type-in traffic.

It was parked in Sedo... generating around $8/month. I move it to Namedrive and I got slighty less income monthly so I put it back to Sedo.

One week ago, I parked it at AFD... and I was pleased... I was doing almost a couple bucks by day... so I decide to put a minisite on it.. which I did yesterday.

My site is a dot com.ve version of a venezuelan goverment website (the National Electoral Council, a gob.ve site).

Well... I made a minisite, consisting of 15 content pages + automatically update venezuelan political news from Google News, in spanish.

I made what I think are good Adsense channels (CNE for the site, HEADER, SIDEBAR and BODY for location and 125x125, 468x60, etc for size).

I leave it alone and now, 24 hours later, I checked my Adsense stats and this is what I found:

Page impressions: 391.
Earnings: THREE FUDGING CENTS!!!!
My own stats shows around 150 unique visitors.

So... What in heavens am I doing the wrong way?

 

[netmeg]

Your content is probably distracting from your ads.

It's a nice looking site, but it will probably never do well in AdSense. The people who are interested in a news site aren't necessarily interested in buying something or clicking on ads. Oh, a few might - but if shopping for goods or services of some kind isn't a focus of your site, you're not going to make much.

 

[exsedo]

Very nice work on the site, maybe your homepage is a bit too 'busy'. The less there is to browse, the more chance they will click on your ads. Just a possibility and maybe worth thinking about. Good luck.

 

[WillCast]

Thanks for your comments.

I clean it up a little bit (get ride of the featured content).

I hope it improves... Let's see how it goes.

 

[netmeg]

You have to start thinking like your target audience.

Who is going to want to come and look at your site?

Does your site do anything to capture people in a buying cycle? (hint - the sites that do are the ones that make money. Not so much the ones that merely aggregate information)

 

[WillCast]

Hey,

Well... I tried to explain the nature of that domain: 100% of its traffic is type-in, people pretending to go to the goverment site (except, the people going there from this thread, of course).

That said, obviously 100% of the people to reach that site is willing to look for electoral information.

When it was parked at sedo, it has a CTR of around 6-7% with a EPC of 2c...

When it was parked at AFD, or the CTR was of 15-20% or the EPC was around 5c... not sure, given that AFD only gives Page impressions and Earnings, not clicks.

All I want is people clicks on the ads... I don't want them to buy anything: Just click.

So if they click on the ads of a parked page I though they could click on an informative site... giving me a better EPC.

Does it makes sense or I just have to leave it a AFG?

 

[netmeg]

Then you're better off having a parked page.

If you're not interested in people buying anything, only clicking, then pretty soon you'll be smartpriced by Google - looks like you already have. The advertisers want GOOD traffic that buys things. Not traffic that just clicks and wastes their money.

People just looking for information - and finding it - have no reason to click at all.

So turn it back into a parked page.

 

[verbster]

with 10K UV per day, you should be at a premium parking service, not Sedo and such.

 

[WillCast]

Which one would you recommend me?

For a mysterious reason Parked does not want to accept me.