Comments on: December 2008 Site Stats http://www.richmondwiki.org/blog/2009/01/december-2008-site-stats/ A community resource for Richmond, VA Mon, 03 May 2010 14:00:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: RichmondWiki Blog » January 2009 Site Stats http://www.richmondwiki.org/blog/2009/01/december-2008-site-stats/comment-page-1/#comment-26 RichmondWiki Blog » January 2009 Site Stats Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:29:39 +0000 http://www.richmondwiki.org/blog/?p=116#comment-26 [...] longer timely. That article alone was the single biggest traffic driver to date, according to the December 2008 site analytics. January 2009 Site [...] [...] longer timely. That article alone was the single biggest traffic driver to date, according to the December 2008 site analytics. January 2009 Site [...]

]]> By: Andrew http://www.richmondwiki.org/blog/2009/01/december-2008-site-stats/comment-page-1/#comment-25 Andrew Sun, 11 Jan 2009 21:03:10 +0000 http://www.richmondwiki.org/blog/?p=116#comment-25 Traffic to the wiki has slowed considerably after the holidays since my <a href="http://www.richmondwiki.org/wiki/Tacky_Lights_Tours" rel="nofollow">Tacky Lights Tours</a> article is no longer relevant. I expect that AdSense earnings will slow proportionately. I don't check the stats very often other than to create my monthly site analytics posts. And no, AdSense ads aren't great at targeting ads for my wiki pages. I have no proof of this, but the targeting seems worse (i.e. nonexistent) on new pages and gradually improves over time as the Google Adsbot has time to crawl the new pages. I have a plan to take out the AdSense ads and replace them with some dynamic in-house ads, possibly encouraging people to edit the article they are viewing or contribute a new article. Since I'm not trying to make any revenue anyway, I would rather have more content. Traffic to the wiki has slowed considerably after the holidays since my Tacky Lights Tours article is no longer relevant. I expect that AdSense earnings will slow proportionately. I don’t check the stats very often other than to create my monthly site analytics posts.

And no, AdSense ads aren’t great at targeting ads for my wiki pages. I have no proof of this, but the targeting seems worse (i.e. nonexistent) on new pages and gradually improves over time as the Google Adsbot has time to crawl the new pages. I have a plan to take out the AdSense ads and replace them with some dynamic in-house ads, possibly encouraging people to edit the article they are viewing or contribute a new article. Since I’m not trying to make any revenue anyway, I would rather have more content.

]]> By: Laura http://www.richmondwiki.org/blog/2009/01/december-2008-site-stats/comment-page-1/#comment-24 Laura Sun, 11 Jan 2009 20:16:42 +0000 http://www.richmondwiki.org/blog/?p=116#comment-24 Really cool that it looks like you're on track to get a Google Adsense check in a sane amount of time. We had the ads on our site for over a year and a half before we finally cracked the $100 amount. I'm hoping we manage to get a check at the end of the month. Do you find that Google Adsense actually does a good job of serving up relevant ads for your wiki in terms of picking up relevant keywords in the title and the article? Really cool that it looks like you’re on track to get a Google Adsense check in a sane amount of time. We had the ads on our site for over a year and a half before we finally cracked the $100 amount. I’m hoping we manage to get a check at the end of the month.

Do you find that Google Adsense actually does a good job of serving up relevant ads for your wiki in terms of picking up relevant keywords in the title and the article?

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