Reddit is one of the most popular social link sharing platforms. Content that is upvoted at reddit gets a lot of traffic. At binarytides we regularly post our links to reddit, to get more visitors and traffic. The amount of traffic varies from post to post and time to time. It depends on the quality of the content and timing too. This time once again we got very good traffic from reddit, but with little [...]

Bloggers are always looking to share links on social bookmarking websites and reddit is one of the most common. For blogs on software programming and technology reddit can send quite a lot of traffic if there is quality content on a post/page/website. Here is screenshot of a recent traffic spike, that we got from reddit. We post our links on reddit.com and reap good traffic. However there are certain things to be kept in mind [...]

I use google ads here on binarytides.com to monetize the blog. On 18th dec 2012 got my highest earning in a single day. The figure was around $48. Here are some screenshots Most of the traffic came on the article on . I posted this article on hacker news and reddit. On hacker news the article made to the main page within 30 minutes of posting. However it could not persist for long and slowly [...]

All publishers are looking for ways to increase their adsense earnings. The simple idea is to get more clicks and higher cpc per click and your earnings go up. Improve CTR CTR or click through rate is the number of clicks that take place every 1000 impressions. So more clicks. Add Google custom search Direct ad units are not the only way to generate revenue from adsense. The next important adsense product is the custom [...]

Cost per click is the amount google pays for a particular click that was generated on an ad on your website. This is not constant and can vary a lot depending on various factors. It can be as low as $0.01 (which is not uncommon) and be as high as $20 (it can be even higher, that is rare). Cpc depends on the amount of money paid by an advertiser. Higher they pay, higher is [...]

Smart pricing is considered to be one of the main reasons why google adsense might be giving low cpc to ad clicks on a website. When I came to know about it, I tried to gather information on what it is and how exactly does it work. Does it work on per-site basis or effects an entire account. Most blog/forum posts were unsure and there were a mix of views on how it effects your [...]

Google adsense is supposed to show ads related to the topic of your website. However sometimes it might show ads that are not related to the topic in anyway. This can happen for a number of reasons. The most common ones are : 1. No ads available for the given topic in the given geographical region of the visitor. In such case adsense will show backup ads (these are low cpc ads). 2. Google is [...]

Adsense Cpc Cpc or cost per click is the amount of money you are paid for each click that occurs on the adsense ads. Higher the cpc higher the earning per click. So publishers are always looking for ways to increase their cpc. So what does cpc depend on. Simply put, it depends on the amount of money the advertiser is willing to pay for his ad displayed. One of the theories about adsense says [...]

Adsense Adsense is one of the most common money making programs used by blogs/websites from small to big. It is a click based ad program, where a website gets paid per click it generates. The earnings depend on the revenue generated from each clicks which is more technically called cost-per-click or cpc. The cpc primarily depends on how much the advertiser is paying. If the advertiser is paying more, cpc is high, if not cpc [...]

Most if not all adsense publishers are looking for ways to increase their ctr (click through rate) to increase their adsense earnings. Ctr is the percentage of clicks per 1000 impressions. In other words increasing ctr means to increase the number of clicks at the same level of traffic (visits or pageviews per day or month). So is it possible to increase the number of clicks without increasing the visitor count? Depending on how poor [...]