advice Have traffic but not income

[maya-zir]

I have news website ExpressDigest.com that posts DailyMail.co.uk news.
I have around 80 new posts each day.
They are not unique but pure copy-paste.
It works already 2 weeks and just 5 days ago I noticed a lot of traffic.
Around 150 unique visitor each day.
They read posts, not just coming to see and go.
I dont understand well in Google Analytics so I use Wordfence to see visitors, thier IP, country and what posts they read and how many time they stay reading those posts.
The same stats as Google Analytics.
I know they are real visitors, not bots, I used Wordfence more than 1 year monitoring visits to my other sites so I know the stats is real.
Anyway.. Google Analytics shows the same number of visitors.
5 days ago when I suddenly noticed traffic I got 0,17 cents, the next day 0,87, the next day 0,52 etc
Yesterday it was just 0,02 cents and today also just 0,02 cents.
But the traffic is the same, even a little more.
I ve got just 2 clicks since last 5 days with around 150 visitors and 600+ viewed posts.
I tried to limit ads to 3, then again put 6 ads in content, 2-3 in sidebar and 1 in the header, but it is the same..
I just get cents for show ads.
Google shows 3800 indexed pages and I have there more than 2000 posts.
What is the problem? What is wrong? And if there is a solution?

PS: Visitors come from Google.co.uk, Google.ca, Google.com, Google.co.in, Google Turkey, Google Taiwan, Google Russia, Google Peru, Norway etc...
All direct or via Google.
All direct visits come from Norway, from the same visitor who reads posts, not just looking at them, he stays a few minutes on each posts and then continues to read another ones... Come during all the day.. So all direct traffic comes just from this visitor.
So, the rest of traffic come from Google.

 

[enlytend]

I have never clicked an ad while reading a news article, have you? Ad blockers are another possible reason...
You might do better with something like viglink or skimlinks, which creates inline text links... or cpm ads, if you have enough traffic.

 

[briguy]

@mayazir Just visited your site on mobile.
Only seen two ads at the very top, one for a payment processor and the other for a hosting site

Is it possible to have less articles (stopped counting at 30) shown when scrolling and have a "read more" at bottom? I did this and ad revenue went up

Maybe add Amazon..

Do like the layout of your site

 

[TRY]

"Smart Pricing" AdSense. Probably due to duplicate content your diminished earnings could be due to Smart Pricing. Google it for more info.

 

[TRY]

Have you tried creating your own banner and link it to another page on your site and measure CTR?

 

[Gofresh]

If the ads are not producing revenue try one of the URL Shortners like shorte.st or no_url_shorteners

The money may be less but much more consistent.

 

[Gofresh]

Thanks.
Could you explain it, I have no idea about Shortners etc. .

Anyway ExpressDigest.com has just 4 month old as domain and just 1 month as news portal. So my question is also about if these cents and few clicks are normal for so young website?

Open an account with shorte.st they pay per visitor to their ad popups. Use the "Shortest Monetization" Wordpress plugin on your site. Have been using them for close to a year and for hard to monetize sites has produced some income. The payment and software have been very good. Hope this helps!

 

[Blueforever]

Be careful to copy and paste as well... can get in trouble with copyright theft, especially images.

 

[maya-zir]

@Anlytend,
190 visited posts
499 viewed ads (so, not all ads were blocked)
0,03 cents income

But the amount of visitors grows each day.
Daily income from 0,05 to 0,50 cents.

I will try shortners.

 

[MapleDots]

Fantastic website, I checked it out. Did not see any ads and then remembered I had my ad blocker on.

I will white list you when I return to read again. It's not often I bookmark a site anymore but yours is very good.

 

[maya-zir]

@mayazir Just visited your site on mobile.
Only seen two ads at the very top, one for a payment processor and the other for a hosting site
Is it possible to have less articles (stopped counting at 30) shown when scrolling and have a "read more" at bottom? I did this and ad revenue went up
Maybe add Amazon..
Do like the layout of your site

Thanks.
I changed infinite scroll to pagination.
I have 1 ads inside HEADER.PHP and 1 ads inside HOMEPAGE.PHP.
So, the Homepage has 2 ads - one from header and one from its own.
I use plugin to add ads inside the post content and TEXT WIDGET to put there code.
I noticed sometimes I have problem with see ads posted inside the article with plugin.

 

[maya-zir]

I tried shorte.st but I dont like it much.
I left there just pop-up, I dont like thier exit and enter a few second screen block pop-up.

 

[maya-zir]

"Smart Pricing" AdSense. Probably due to duplicate content your diminished earnings could be due to Smart Pricing. Google it for more info.

The problem is not a low CPC.
If I have clicks I finally have from 0,05 to 0,65 cents for click.
The problem is there is almost no click.
Around 80 unique visitors, 300 visited pages today and more than 700 viewed ads and 0 click.
But traffic is more with each day and almost all visitors sent from Google.
Some come from Facebook shared posts, it could be great share some interestning post there, but I have 30 days ban on Facebook

 

[TRY]

The problem is not a low CPC.
If I have clicks I finally have from 0,05 to 0,65 cents for click.
The problem is there is almost no click.
Around 80 unique visitors, 300 visited pages today and more than 700 viewed ads and 0 click.
But traffic is more with each day and almost all visitors sent from Google.
Some come from Facebook shared posts, it could be great share some interestning post there, but I have 30 days ban on Facebook

Maybe Try "image only ads" for a day or 2 and see if enabling and disabling the interest based ads option they refer to as personalized advertising.

 

[cooljub]

I have news website ExpressDigest.com

Hi, nice looking site. In case you missed it.. the date at the bottom says 2016

 

[maya-zir]

Maybe Try "image only ads" for a day or 2 and see if enabling and disabling the interest based ads option they refer to as personalized advertising.

They all "image only" ads.

 

[alcy]

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[maya-zir]

Hi, nice looking site. In case you missed it.. the date at the bottom says 2016

Thanks. Corrected.

 

[maya-zir]

Have you tried creating your own banner and link it to another page on your site and measure CTR?

I also have AdSense on AncientMayanRuins.com
I have there around 20 unique visitors monthly, coming from Google, Bing, Yandex..
I have around 3 clicks monthly - from 0,35 to 0,65 per click.
But this is enough specific site, so there is no big traffic, it is more just for fun.

 

[maya-zir]

Interesting..I know there is a Amazon.com (USA) and a UK version.
Not sure why you were getting "Spanish" ads.

Maybe I didnt configurate something properly?
I could miss some options.
I will try to check it again.
But I remember I had all in spanish, anyway, worth to try again.

 

[Blueforever]

Have you tried marketing your site with a facebook business page. I did the same for my magazine site Pmsl.com,
I post funny videos daily on my fb page which therefore bring traffic to my website.

 

[maya-zir]

With 150 visits per day... that's around 4500 visits per month. Unfortunately, with that traffic volume, you shouldn't expect much revenue at all. Keep in mind this traffic comes from various countries and it's not targetted traffic so the conversion/ad click thru rate will be low. Then add to that that most people are using ad blockers these days, realistically I would be surprised if you were making more than a few cents per day with this traffic.

Also how well is your site optimzed for mobile traffic and are you able to check if most of your users are on a computer or are they mobile users?

Just a suggestion, maybe you should throw up some good quality Amazon product reviews in your site as well... these reviews can link to the actual product on Amazon with your affiliate link. Doing this would help monetize the traffic that is being wasted by people using Ad blockers. An amazon review article won't really have any ad's just some content about the product and why you think it's awesome and then a link to the product on amazon so it won't get blocked by ad blockers.

Thanks a lot for your suggestions.
I dont expect right now high income, I bust want to improve the traffic and get more visitors.
If I mention now income it is just to explain the situation.
I earn now 3-10 cents by day and if I have click then 0.20-1.00 more.
But these few cents show that I go to the right direction, thats all I need, each few additional daily cents make me happy just because they prove everything is ok.
I will try your suggestions tomorrow and I hope they will help.

 

[maya-zir]

@deez007,
I think I will change my hosting plan and set 1Gb db and will separate news from temporary and fixed.
Temporary will have just 1 year, after 1 year I delete one month, then another one.
Temporary I mean sport results for example.
Breaking news, showbiz gossip and viral news I rewrite and leave archived.
Build FB page but not 100% dedicated exactly to this site, but some kind of magazine where I post from few news site portals, few travel sites etc....
One page for all.
What do you think?

 

[maya-zir]

It posts from feed list.
Each feed goes to specific categories.
But I also can make it post by keywords

 

[maya-zir]

If the ads are not producing revenue try one of the URL Shortners like shorte.st or no_url_shorteners

The money may be less but much more consistent.

Thanks.
Could you explain it, I have no idea about Shortners etc. .

Anyway ExpressDigest.com has just 4 month old as domain and just 1 month as news portal. So my question is also about if these cents and few clicks are normal for so young website?