It’s not even worth it
The ads on RuneScript Tracker have a click ratio of under 0.10%. We’re getting nearly nothing in return for the ads shown there. Out of 15,000 page impressions, we got 15 clicks. That’s terrible.
Talking to other people who run sites, they also are seeing this. Ads just don’t make much money anymore. We’re not even making enough to clear the $100 withdraw limit on google adsense by the end of the month [or even next month's withdraw date at this rate..]. It really sucks.
People just ignore ads, they filter them out mentally. The only way to get people to even look at ads now-a-days is fooling them to think it’s content. That sure isn’t easy without annoying a good number of people.
On the up side, our Project Wonderful ad got around 50 clicks. It’s too bad it only pays you per day the ad is shown. To help things out, I swapped out the 6 ad block on the bottom with one big ad, hopefully that’ll get a few more bidders for the spot.
June 15th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
I think you may have posted this a little prematurely. We’ve made enough on Google ads today that we’ll make well over the 100 dollars in this month.
June 15th, 2008 at 4:26 pm
@ spling - Yes well that’s AFTER I placed ads in the context of the site.