Are you making money online? How much? Are you making just bunch of Pennies or hundreds of Dollars? It’s all about the engagement of users on your website. If you are new in blogging industry or operating any kind of online business then using too much advertisement will kill you overall potential of making money online. Let’s see how it happens.
Today almost 95% of online markets of website owners fail because of excessive use of advertisements on their web property.
Let’s Think from User Side
If you are visiting someone’s website and you do not get anything that you wanted you might searching for that on the website which is good thing and positive for your blog, but in case your advertisement which you use can easily caches the attention of yours to see the ads. Once you click on that ad you will forget the website from where you come.
By this way we are killing our users online just for getting bunch of bucks.
How to Increase User Engagement and Run Ads Simultaneously?
There are certain ways by which you can earn more money without losing single visitor, for this you can to do some experimental tasks. Let’s see what things can be done.
- Use fewer ads, not more than 2 to 3 for small sites and 3 to 5 for longer site.
- Use text ads more than image and banner ads.
- Place an ad unit in between your contents if possible to do so.
- Never use more than 1 ad unit of image and banners on sidebar.
- Interlink your posts in that a way by which user will visit your site more.
- Use related posts effectively.
- Use Google’s Customer Search Engine on your website and monetize it.
- Use local or private advertisements both and do not rely on any single ads publisher network.
- Colorize your ad unit in such a way that it looks familiar with your website design, but do not confuse users that they could not identify the difference between ads and your content.
- Keep testing the A/B test for a better position of your ad units, where you can engage you user on website more and earn more.
Sometime it is good option to show your own advertisements or in-house ads, because it will increase your CTR (Click Trough Rate) if you are really doing amazing artworks with in-house ads. In-house ads not only bring online users closer but also make themselves to like you website.
If you can earn better then you must try the Retargeting platforms also to make your website name remember able to everyone, because whatever shown most those are the sold most. Retargeting will help you in such a way, where user will see your ads only when they visit other kinds of websites and social networks.
Via following above all experiments you will sure able to solve the biggest issue of low engagement and low earning on any kind of website.
Responses to “How advertisement does kill the engagement of visitors?”
You are saying Ryt bro. Nice tips you have shared. Thanks for share.
Welcome Gautam… I hope you enjoyed it a lot…
I am using only 2 ads in my post , one at top and second at the bottom..
Additionally , the ads are of Yahoo/Bing network , and they are CPM so if I just put the ads in sidebar will it be ok ?
The pageviews are counted for the sidebar ads also ?
Waiting for your reply..
Hello Pritam,
Welcome here and thanks for commenting your query…
If you are using multi network ads then no issue with the numbers of ads, additionally you need to use one ad very top below the title or after a paragraph. This will increase the CTR. Below you can ads which falls in CPM categories, because they are clicked less and viewed more…
I suggest you to use 3 to 5 ads is possible in which use 1 ad unit (Prefer text ads) below the title of post page (Do not use on home page) and 2 at sidebar one vertical leaderboard and one block size (Prefer banner ad only) and you can use 2 more if you think it could be better below either before related post or after it.
I also suggest to use in-house ads to increase the user engagement.
This way you can earn more from your existing traffic volume.
That was helpful! But putting that in action is quite difficult..Btw I love what you write! You are such an inspiration.
Hello Anisha,
Thanks for your precious comments. Really doing all such things in real life is not as easy as written. Ads are worth it but anything has its own limit, an over use kills everything.
Keep visiting for more new stuff…