I just launched a site called Statbrain.com, it is a free service that estimates the number of visitors any site has.

When I launched the site I put it into a couple of forums for reviews in order to get some feedback. This was very helpful and I got tons of feedback. I made a lot of changes some of them right away and other changes were a bit more low priority.

One the low priority changes was changing the look of my Adsense ads. I’ve had several posts saying that the ads looked bad, because the ads were not in the same colors as the rest of the site. The ads were default Google Adsense colors.

Making sure that the Google Ads are an integrated part of your site and look like the rest of the site is not revolutionary news. It is an old Google Adsense tip and you might have heard the tip before, but I think this is interesting because this is an example of the exact result that a minor change like this can do. I have nothing to hide so I’ll give you the exact numbers of the effect of this very small change.

The numbers are based on 4 days before the change and 4 days after the change. Here are the numbers:

Before:
Pageviews 882
Clicks: 1
Click through rate: 0.11%

After:
Pageviews 1125
Clicks: 8
Click through rate: 0.70%

The numbers are not huge because the site was just launched, but I think they are large enough. This was amazing to me. A minor change like this increased my earnings 7 times – pretty wild.

I hope you can learn something from this, I certainly did. Let me hear your comments or if you have similar stories. It would also be interesting to hear if 0.70% is high or low compared to others.

Regards,

i tried my website, and then several other major websites, and then several small websites, and it couldn't estimate the number of visitors...maybe that part should be worked on more?

I think that you would get more clicks because it blends in better, and some average internet users may not even realize its an ad. But I've never used adsense, so I'm not sure.

Same problem here, couldnt estimate the traffic..

I tried my site and not even a single result was correct like alexa rank, backlinks and also visitors per day.

that's not good..

I tired one of my websites, but the visitor numbers are way off.

My experience is that the number of visitors reported was way out but the backlinks and alexa ranks were almost spot on.

Interesting idea you got for that website. Like some others posted, my backlinks a Alexa were dead accurate, but the visitors per day were off by quite a bit. I think you are going to have a nice site though once you get the problems on the visitors stats worked out. Good job.

Thanks everybody, I've made some changes already.

I tried it... 1 site was close, 2 sites were way too high. I'll try it again in a few days after I know what the Google PR update did for my traffic.

interesting good luck with the site

Hey I'm not a cop or anything, but I don't think you're supposed to disclose AdSense numbers. Just a heads-up

Confidentiality. You agree not to disclose Google Confidential Information without Google's prior written consent. "Google Confidential Information" includes without limitation: (a) all Google software, technology, programming, specifications, materials, guidelines and documentation relating to the Program; (b) click-through rates or other statistics relating to Site performance in the Program provided to You by Google;

https://www.google.com/adsense/localized-terms

It's a very nice-looking website, good luck with it.

Hi dpakman91

I tested your site Hear The Issues and was working just fine, try this link:
http://statbrain.com/result.php5?dom...rtheissues.com

Hope it gets close

Regards,

Zach,

My name is Michael and I'm the VP of Marketing for from www.ivescreative.com. We provide professional website audio voicemail and telephone recording productions. Your site sounds very useful. I'll definitely check it out!

Thanks,

Michael
www.ivescreative.com