I’m not a genius or anything when it comes to Google’s Adsense, but I’ve followed all the experts’ advice about how to “maximize my revenue potential”. I seem to be getting relevant ads when they show up, but yet, in the 18+ months I’ve been running adsense on my two sites (this one, anc www.cmsportal.net), I’ve managed to earn 78 clicks, which for me equates to $33.78. In 18 months, I’ve made less than $34. That comes out to be about one click every four months, and about $1.78/per month in “maximized revenue potential”.

I guess my question is, does ANYONE know what the hell I’m doing wrong? I’ll grant you that my traffic figures aren’t spectacular, but from everything I’ve read, my Adsense numbers aren’t porportionate to the traffic I’m getting. I must be doing something wrong.

*Please don’t start clicking the ads on this page, just because I’m complaining about how poorly my Adsense campaigns are doing; Google would only look on that as a bad thing*

I have a couple of domains for sale. One I bought with the intention of developing some content for, and then selling it to a startup or organization or something. It’s called www.mycredit.cc. The other is www.justwantfucked.com, which I had no intention of doing anything with but selling. I realized quickly that I wasn’t going to do anything with mycredit, so I promptly added it to my “for sale” list. I listed them both on Sedo (www.sedo.com). If you clicked on either link to my two sites, you saw that it’s just a parked page with ads on it. Well guess what, in the 13 months I’ve earned better than $160, which is a little more than $10/month. It’s not great, but it’s 5x more money than I’ve earned with Google’s Adsense. And, Sedo is only hosting the ads there until I sell the domain(s), so this money is just a litte bit of a bonus. Once every three months, I get paid enough from Sedo to pay a hosting bill, which is ok with me.

So what’s my problem? Where am I going wrong? Should I just pound the pavement (which should be in my Buzzwords post) a bit and try to spike my traffic figures? ARHG!!! Help The Average White Guy!