Comments on: Flying Business Class On Turkish Airlines Boeing 777-200

By: Tomaz

Tomaz — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 03:23:04 +0000

Joe, If you check facts about smart pricing, you'll see that CTR has no effect on smart pricing...

By: joe L

joe L — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:39:17 +0000

yeah you’re right tomaz, that is good that you have a high paying website which isn’t MAF

Also very interesting about your smart pricing – i wonder if you were smart priced on your adsense account because of the placement below the chitika ad on the vacuum site? That would have resulted in a lower CTR – the smartprice surely couldn’t have been your traffic quality because you get a lot of American uniques and search engine traffic (as far as I can tell).

I actually remove low ctr ads and find fewer ads is more.

By: Tomaz

Tomaz — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 10:36:40 +0000

They removed Adsense only from the vacuum site, the rest still work. One benefit from that was that my Adsense eCPM (or average pay per click) rose 200%.

I was obviously smart priced and didn’t get the max amount per click on other, much higher paying niches.

Yes, I would put back Adsense but would test how it affects my overall Adsense earnings (the overall pay per click would drop again) and my Amazon earnings would probably drop too…

The net effect would still bring more than now although I actually like having a nice earning website that cannot be classified as an Adsense site…

By: joe L

joe L — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 09:59:44 +0000

would you put adsense back on you vacuum site if you could (or when google get round to responding)?

did they just stop your vacuum site and not other sites in your network?

By: Tomaz

Tomaz — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 03:26:05 +0000

Hi Dian,

I haven’t tried Amazon without the pop-up. Google stopped serving Adsense to my site (I didn’t take it down) because there was a page where font color in the text matches font color of the ads and Google claims it was confusing to the visitors.

I’ve corrected the problem but Google hasn’t responded…

By: Dian

Dian — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:07:51 +0000

Awesome.

I notice though that you use in-context link with a pop-up. Have you tried using the same link without a pop-up ?

Do you find that amazon alone is better income-wise compared to amazon + adsense in one page ? I remember your vacuum wizard had adsense on top of the page before.

By: Tomaz

Tomaz — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 03:59:31 +0000

Yes, Amazon still earns most. The 8% commission starts to give nice numbers…

By: joe L

joe L — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:06:57 +0000

wow – if the ticket price was 10% of your earnings you must be well over 20,000.

What is your biggest earner? Is it still amazon?

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 21:30:01 +0000

Thanks for sharing. It’s definitely motivating.

By: Roni

Roni — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:06:08 +0000

Hi Tomaz,

I’ve come to conclusion motivation is key for any achievement, let alone success. Some say motivation is like taking a shower – it doesn’t last, you need a fresh “dose” every day. So you need to have your motivation plan (your goals) close at hand and review it every day or any time you don’t feel like working on your sites.
My current motivation plan:
- Me & spouse can quit our dayjobs
- spend more time with my family
- pay off my home
- travel (up to months per year)
- sail (several months per year) on my sailboat

My main motivation (beside money for obvious reasons of how our world turns) is time. Time I now have to spend at my job & avay from my familly & friends will never be returned…