My New WordPress Blog

[edwardlee]

Hi,

I'm having a wordpress blog which is located at http://www.mymortgage4u.com , The site content is Mortgages Guide and Informations with some Google Adsense Ads, this site is up and running nearly 2 months.

My unique visitors for Aug is about 100 only, and i don't even make my 1st $10 from Google Adsense.

Anyone of you here mind to take a view on my site and please don't hesitate to leave me some comments here.

I hope any Adsense Expert here may give me some advise that how can i increase my traffic and also increase my Adsense Clicks.

Your comments reply is much much appreciated.

[swami]

hi

If I were you, I would set the reading options to show one post per page. This enables you to lead the reader on to inner pages and hopefully more clicks on adsense.

Also, in the right sidebar, I would move ( or even remove) the part, and also the author details(sorry about this, but your visitor is looking for info on mortgage, not about you).

I would see if I can classify my posts under more subcategories, making it look like a niche site with many topics. May help the visitor to decide what he wants info on, and navigate to the right post immediately. Once he is finished reading the post, he may end up clicking on the ads.

In the post itself, I have experimented with a left aligned 336x280 ad on the top of the post (not wrapped around the text) and one at the bottom. If done on your site, you will have for each post 2 large rectangle ads and a wide skyscraper ad.

If you can shift the right sidebar to the left, where people normally expect to see navigation links, your blog may look more like a niche site than a blog.

I love the link units you have put on top, but would personally prefer if the content area is narrow, rather than have it so wide that I have to scroll sideways - I prefer scrolling down to sideways.

The search box right on top, is it your blog search? Why not make it google search, so you can get a lil bit of money from people who do search? (have any statistics that tells you what people search for? If you prefer to use your site search, then use a plugin called site meter that tells you what people are searching for on your site. It can be revealing, and you can add exactly the content that people are searching for.)

Of course, take all these with a pinch of salt. What works for me may not necessarily work for you. Test, and then stabilise on what works.

I have a site at homeremediesandcures.com that pulls in consistent adsense clicks (around 30%, mainly cos once the visitor is done with reading the scraped article, he clicks away through the ads).

Given that mortgage is difficult to rank in SERPs for, you can dig out related search phrases (even distantly related) and run a ppc ad with low bids to get traffic. Having said this, I must warn you it is a dangerous game and you can lose your shirt if you aren't careful.

The next best way is to submit articles.

While you are doing these to pull in short term traffic, focus on SEO and link building for moving up the ranks on the SERPs.

Hope this helps.

Swami

[edwardlee]

Hi Swami,

Really Thanks for your such much good quality and useful comments. I'm appreciated your comments.

I will try my best to change my site and running the test as soon as possible to see how was the Adsense revenue going's on.

Best Regards and Let's cheers for our Success.

[edwardlee]

Hi All,

I've just made some small changes on my site and will be re-locate if the response is not well, feel free to take a screenshot at my site. Thanks

[edwardlee]

I checked my Google Adsense account today and i found that there's less than 20 impressions, 0 clicks and $0. What a bad luck day........

[WordpressConsultant]

Originally Posted by edwardlee

Hi,

I'm having a wordpress blog which is located at http://www.mymortgage4u.com , The site content is Mortgages Guide and Informations with some Google Adsense Ads, this site is up and running nearly 2 months.

My unique visitors for Aug is about 100 only, and i don't even make my 1st $10 from Google Adsense.

I hope any Adsense Expert here may give me some advise that how can i increase my traffic and also increase my Adsense Clicks.

Your comments reply is much much appreciated.

This is my little advise for SEO (Someone who are SEO expert correct me if I am wrong), try not to put in direct link to outgoing site at your main page, I realise that is not good to have direct outgoing link, it will reduce your SERP rank.

Mayb you can try something like www.yourdomain.com/link/outgoing.html. outgoing.html is a re-direct page within your site. It's show a internal link in your website to search engine spider.

[edwardlee]

Hi Steven,

Thanks for your advise, that means my partner link page have to be saperately folder, am i right?

[bizolink]

Hi Edward,

I think your site got some problem, is not accessible. Also I think is not wise to release your site to public when it is still under construction, I started my site 3 months ago, I did not really advertise it or swapping link until I have get people to review it, usually I will get coll, friends, relatives or other forum site to review and I will be making changes based on their review. When I feel is time to release, I will put all the effort to market it.

After working on the site for several months after office hour and working from 9-5 sacrifice my TV time at home setting up the site is tiring. Now part of my time is doing SEO and pagerank, also will be part of the time lookup on competitor site and study them. Hope this could help you.

[edwardlee]

I'm very sorry that there's some SQL problem with my hosting company, i will fix it as soon as possible.

Thanks for your comment.

[bizolink]

Originally Posted by edwardlee

I'm very sorry that there's some SQL problem with my hosting company, i will fix it as soon as possible.

Thanks for your comment.

Is OK, it look pretty good. Not quite sure what is your primary goals and additional goals, your site is pack with ads. What's ur target audience? seem like u are choosing a highly competitive keyword.Just my opinion, it will be hard to relate blog and mortgage. You should be hard to get content at some point. Correct me if I am wrong.

Anyway, Good Luck !