My KTB Site Update
August 7th, 2008 by KenricBack in February I noticed that the most popular pages on my site were the posts that had photos of kitchen tile backsplashes. I decided to spend $6.99 and get a new domain name and break out my photos to a separate site.
I wrote, “When you think about it, you should be able to make your $7/yr back on any domain name. With my kitchentilebacksplashes.com domain I am experimenting to see how fast I can make back my $7.00 with no further action.”
It took 41 days for the site to make $7 and break even without me doing anything.
I have done a few things since that time. First, I noticed that I was getting alot of page views and visitors but hardly any ad clicks. So I changed the layout around and made the ads more prevalent inside of trying to blend them in.
The was a good article on Net Business Blog about adsense which talked about blending in adsense ads. It basically states that either your reader knows or doesn’t know that it is an ad. If the reader knows that it is an ad, why bother blending it in?
I also reduced the total number of ads. The theory behind this is that the top 3 or so ads that show up on your page are usually the highest bid ads. By cramming a bunch of ads on your page, your reader may click on the cheaper ads. What is better, 3 ads that pay an average of $1 per click or 10 ads that pay an average of $0.40 per click. What are the chances that your reader will click on more than 2 ads if you have 10 showing?
So about 6 months from the day the site was launched, my site has made $77. Not bad for a $7 investment.
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