Traffic is the ultimate weapon
This is especially true for newbies. Stop worrying about CTR or eCPM any more. They have their own limits, but traffic, for crying out loud, has no limit at all! When you finally manage to work out the secrets of getting sustainable high quality(by high quality, I mean targeted traffic to targeted content) traffic to your site, sky’s the limit of your earning potential.
Without big traffic, it’s simply not worth it to spend so much time trying every petite techniques in hope of increasing your CTR or eCPM. Effects take longer time to be observed, and experiments on a small base of traffic tends to be agonizing, continuously bewildering you. You log in your Adsense control panel dozens of times a day, just praying for more than merely one or two clicks. Time is so precious yet you have spent so much of it on trivial things like this, letting them bothering you.
What you should do is focusing on the future, wherein traffic as well as the quality of your site are the ultimate weapons. Adsense is only some means to generate revenue, probably the most handsome now, but still, there’s plenty of other choices available to make money with. So DO NOT pay much attention to Adsense itself nor ad performance when you are still small. Grow bigger before worrying about money. A click of $2.00 is really not worth the joy and likewise, one of $0.01 is not worth the depression.
Web is the best boss as of what I know, it rewards hardwork and creativity. Take the word for it and NO WORRY ABOUT MONEY instead.
Panzergrenadier said,
June 14, 2007 at 7:54 pm
I agree with what you said!
It’s traffic, traffic and more traffic before we really need to worry about the AdSense refinements. I am quite new to this AdSense and enjoy reading your articles!
All the best for your AdSense efforts too!
PanzerGrenadier
yangyang said,
June 14, 2007 at 9:21 pm
Thanks for the comment, Panzer.
I’m also just starting to learn my ropes about Adsense, and I’m quite glad that I could share with you guys this way.