50% Increase in Adsense Revenue

[mysticmadness]

I have got 50% increase in adsense revenue last month. My blog mystic madness is just 2 months old now. the strategies i used to attract visitors are
1) news submission
2) bookmarking
3)forums
4)groups
5)squidoo

traffic from google is still less. i hope it will increase with time.

I look forward to
1) write for article directories
2) hubpages

right now traffic is 50 unique visitors and 150 page views with 5% bounce rate.
any other advice from my friends in this forum for my blog and to increase visitors...........would really appreciate that.

[RJlogs]

Hey, just wanted to say the design is very pleasing to the eye. I like it, the images make it more live.
Although the header somewhat ruins it...

[SimonaRich]

I think the header is okay, it is clean and neat.

[mysticmadness]

Thanks for feedback RJ and simona. Earlier also I got feedback from our fellow member David cain and thereafter I did bit of changes. I will definately see if something more can be done about it or it can be updated with something new.
Thanks again for taking time out and visiting the blog.

[sirkinm]

Thanks for the tips, Mystic. As far as your Squidoo page, did you just make a page dedicated to your site, or what? I have "make a Squidoo page" on my agenda, and I'm trying to determine how to go about. I could put a series of articles on it, for example...

[mysticmadness]

Hi Sirikmn,

Both had pointers to my site through introduction and RSS feed. the topics in squidoo were
1) Shoe thrown at politician
Shoe Thrown At Politicians
2) Think Different, Think Tangential, ROck Life.
Think Different. Think Tangentially. Rock Life

Those are basic as of now and I would grow them with time.
Basically the idea is to leave various pointers to your website at different places on web.
Next in line is Hub Pages which I might try soon.
Important- traffic is not much but then it would remain forever and if their popularity grows, it will send readers to my site.

Hope this helps.

By the way- Nice podcast- I would certainly request you sometime to tell more about it.

[iammad802]

thanks mystic this is very informative. what is your greatest source of traffic.

[mysticmadness]

Google organic followed by places from where I have received the trackbacks.

[runningbird]

In addition to hubpages and squidoo you could try quizilla and a wordpress.com site, although I haven't had yet gotten any traffic from any such sites. Have you?

[mysticmadness]

No, I havent ot much either. I might drop this strategy.

[Curtis2011]

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Have you experienced this 50% gain from a 50% increase in traffic, or from changing the layout or look & feel of your website/ads?

If it was traffic, well then an increase is expected. If it was changing the layout, however, I am definitely interested in hearing about what you did to achieve the gains.

[mysticmadness]

Yes Curtis. If you see my posts there is two adsensnse block and links each in the post and one in sidebar. Bringging adsense inside the post gave me better results. But i made sure that it does not interfare with content much.

regarding traffic, SEO is helping me much.

[mysticmadness]

Just an update for fellow memebers who had asked me to keep them updated- On 12th of this month I am half way through the income of last month. Not sure what would be percentage increase this month. Even though clicks are ok, the ads in personal developemnt yeild very low pay per click.

[iammad802]

Thanks Mystic. his is helpful. I am constantly following you and think your site is very good. I hope by now you must have achieved your targets. By the way how much cpc you are getting on your personal development blog.

[SMA]

Just a quick note to say that article posting does bring traffic, and usually fairly targeted traffic at that. Not many people will click through to your site after reading your article unless they are interested in you and/or what you have to say or offer. It's possible your competition might check you out, but even then if your content is good you may get another blogger to link to you from an article even if they don't post your article.

Article marketing works for SEO on a couple of levels and helps increase your overall exposure and the perception of expertise - definitely worth a try. Make sure your articles are good ie. valuable information and not just spammy or ad-like.

SEO can be complex and time-consuming and is different for everyone as site content and owner intentions differ, but there are certain basics and articles seem to be one of them. Keep up the good work!

Cheers,

SMA

P.S. Your site/blog looks great!

[mysticmadness]

Thanks SMA

I read many stuff on SEO and then a week back I started using wordtracker to to help me with ideas on posts. To my luck traffic on some posts has indeed increased and it is acting like a gateway for my other articles.

Next- I plan to take trial of wordtracker (and yes SBI-site build it -- about which you hear in other threads) and see how more efficiencies can be achieved. I am sure SEO atleast helps to bring a reader to your blog and good content helps you to retain them for longer.


802- till today I have equalled my figures of last month in adsense and now for next 10 days anything above it would be a bonus for me.

[UnleashReality]

commented on the design in your other thread.

what bookmarking and news submissions are you using?

don't see many comments on your site, find that ups revenue especially for affiliate products (not so much adsense but more the investment orientated stuff)

...also, if you've got adsense channels running, which of your ads is doing the best out of interest?

well done all round
alex

[mysticmadness]

thanks unleash.
i am using onlywire and everything it supports inside it.

I am not sure if there is some golden rule to get more comments, but my readership is increasing but comments are stil thin. i can see lot of commnets in your site. any golden rule for that

[fairyblogmother]

We haven't done particularly well with AdSense. I feel like I could spend my whole life trying to learn about AdSense alone! I read as much as I can....

[Daffy Duck]

Hey Lisis, it's nice to see you post here. I like your blog.

[runningbird]

By news submission do you mean sites like digg (how many do you submit to)? Bookmarking means sites like stumble and facebook?

What does groups mean?

[TonyToneTone]

I like your site, it's very clean and organized.

I would put a link in your signature on here. People will click it to see what you are talking about.