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**Slick Nick** · 04-07-2007, 10:38 PM

Im just wondering how good my website is doing. IMO its doing pretty good, but I want some second opinions.

*you can find the link to it in my sig*

so far i have...
-1953 unique visitors so far this month, 2974 visits, 9947 pageviews and 91671 hits.
-Last month I got a total of 7896 unqiue visitors, 13640 visits, 40914 pageviews and 357 000 + hits.
-We post a couple articles a day usually. Sometimes more.
-Most of our traffic comes from google (more specificly, a search for kotor 3, we are on the first page of results..twice if you count the digg story)
-We are about 6 months old now
-The forum has 242 registered members (admittadly, most of that is adbots, we only have about 6 or 7 active members)
-The forum also has close to 6000 posts
-An average of about 420 visits per day, 10k+ hits and 1400+ pageviews.
-Unfortunatly I make almost nothing in advertising. I have google adsense set up on the articles and reviews, but I only get a few clicks a week if that. Since i set them up in late february I have made a total of 7 bucks..

So what do you think? Are those stats pretty good for what kind of site we are (a gaming news site) and how old? Also, any suggestions on ways to improve?

**ADAM Web Design** · 04-08-2007, 01:54 AM

You've discovered the great problem with Adsense...it has a tendency to favour sites that don't have loyal user bases and that don't have the content that will generate those user bases.

If you've got a dozen solidly contributing members, you're doing very well. And I mean the types of members that really kick in quality content at least 5 days out of 7 (we can't all be on all the time).

I'd be looking for a CPM network at the point you're at. With 9947 page views in a week (assuming you mean April),that equates to about 40,000 page views per month. That may be enough to land a half-decent CPM network.

Check out www.adbility.com. They have a good list of networks that may help you out.

Your numbers look pretty decent overall, but the adbots may be contributing to that. Filter those out and see where you're at. You may find it's a lot less.

**Slick Nick** · 04-08-2007, 08:39 PM

Yes, adbots have been a pretty big problem, but thankfully I got rid of a majority of them. The remaining ones are probably contributing to a decent chunk of the traffic, but most of it seems to be from google searches (over 800 searches for kotor 3 have landed people on my site this month)

Thanks for the advice