Do people no longer click on link?

shahab6 · 03-17-2007, 10:15 PM

I have a link on a few websites, those website get anywhere around from 4,000 to 7000 visits per-day, but I only get a few clicks on my link.Not even one percent click on my link. Do you guys have the same problem.

rightit · 03-18-2007, 02:55 AM

just 1st time i hear it. Waiting for some posting regarding problem solution.

AnaB · 03-18-2007, 02:21 PM

Sometimes what happens is this-

Is your link something that people want to click? No, I'm not talking about the website address or whatever. I'm talking about how targeted is the link? where in the page does the link appear? How is the link presented?

What does it say? Weight loss tips...yeah nice..but what about click here to discover the shocking weight loss secrets that experts don't want you to know..
second will guarantee more clicks..

Your anchor text is the headline of your product (your website.).

This is where your links may not always be well seo-ed. You have to decide what's more important, traffic or seo for that link.

adv4all · 03-19-2007, 12:33 AM

Some Times The Ads are Being Blocked In Some Countries

dizyn · 03-19-2007, 02:40 AM

don't thinks so, if this is happening then why people are buying links on good sites.

majali · 03-19-2007, 03:52 AM

What is your source of this info “website get anywhere around from 4,000 to 7000 visits per-day”?

If that’s right, these visitors are targeted or not, in other word how they generate their traffic, search engines, surfing, or any other way.

If they are targeted the problem will be with your link itself, the place where they do put it, the gravity of your words, the relationship between the words you use and the website’s main topic.

noob78 · 03-28-2007, 10:09 AM

I share your pain too. Though my site gets about 500 visitors, I'm lucky to get 5 clicks a day. People have advised to merge the ad's with your content, or make it look like your content. Ultimately, this is to trick your members. Does it work? yes! will your members click the ads again after learning the lesson? no! Since my site is driven by return members, I couldn't do that. But, if most of your visitors come through search engine then I'd use the trick.

MikeinOregon · 03-28-2007, 01:43 PM

You have to throw out a bigger net than 7,000 hits a day. I have a pal with a site that gets upwards of 250,000 unique hits a day and he is lucky if he gets 100 clicks.

It is my theory it is because of internet saturation. Everybody has links to this and that, people are just getting tired of links that are not relevant to what they might be wanting.

This is a webmasters forum sooooo, it is all our fault. We need to be making websites that have relevant information with associated ad links. ADWords for the most part will look at your domain name and then show ads based on your domain name. For instance, if you have something like www.usadomainbank.com Adwords will show all kinds of ads that have "DOMAIN" relevance. It sucks, because you are showing ads of your competition. Their supposed filter does not work very well.

We have a few Adsense and Amazon enhanced websites at http://www.adcentswebsites.com they work pretty good for clicks because they create relevant information. Not just some blind link to something that a viewer is not interested in.

Mike

john587 · 03-28-2007, 02:14 PM

If it is just a link and not an ad then it still has to look attractive to the visitors and also be something that they are interested in to click on it. Plus the link as to also be located in a good location on the site just like ads just so that it can get a higher CTR.

charlesgan · 03-28-2007, 08:03 PM

i think you better asking "do people still click on ads link"
if concern is about ads link, then its very low.

if its normal link, then yes.

probably future the ads will bind inside content

King Justice · 04-09-2007, 06:43 PM

Do you mean advertisement links or links throughout your website? If you mean links to pages throughout your site, you may be getting untargetted, meaningless traffic.

Comenius · 04-12-2007, 07:07 AM

The key is also to

(1) put your ads in the right spots

(2) make them seamlessly blend into the design of your site

A helpful link is Google's Heatmap: https://www.google.com/adsense/suppo...y?answer=17954

maverick123 · 04-12-2007, 07:20 AM

I think visitors know that if they click on ads on website , the owner will earn $$ , and in todays world its known that it hurts to see others earning more than you......jeolousy..........my perspective.....may be right......may be wrong.......but i share your view that people dont click on ads , there are very few of them.....

ClassTopic.com · 04-16-2007, 01:30 PM

Maybe people are getting to your sites by accident and just correcting their mistakes instead of actually looking at your content. What kind of sites are they? If they don't actually provide any good content, then people probably aren't staying at them long enough to look at your links.

niclasb · 04-18-2007, 06:44 AM

You can use google webmastertools https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/siteoverview to see how long your visitors are staying on your site and what pages they visit.

allette · 04-24-2007, 08:19 PM

i work for this company since last week ...and my current task is to promote this website..and i have no idea how to do this ... totally a dumb job...it looks like nobody click on my link too....frustrated...

allette · 04-24-2007, 08:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by allette

i work for this company since last week ...and my current task is to promote this website..and i have no idea how to do this ... totally a dumb job...it looks like nobody click on my link too....frustrated...

oh by the way....it's http://www.popsnail.com/iphone

NothingButNet · 04-26-2007, 08:36 AM

I don't get it. You work for popsnail? And you have to promote it? What's their budget? AdWords still work and people still click on the Google sponsored links (not talking about AdSense). Try PPP - to generate buzz and V7 contextual for valuable contextual links. Subscribe to some related forums and stay away from self-promotion at least till you reach 100 posts. You need to gain credibility before advertising your own products. There are many other online channels you could use…

yorije · 04-27-2007, 07:31 PM

Better placement, matching with the site colour and back ground can help improving clicks.

Ian C · 04-29-2007, 08:12 AM

Getting click-through: a few quick thoughts

It’s the traffic vs. relevance ratio. Having links in higher traffic areas will generate more clicks, but more important is relevance. How relevant are your links to the pages that they reside on. Is your anchor text and surrounding text relevant to the page content? Is your link off to the side? Is it in a banner? Or is it embedded naturally within the page content (where more people are actually likely to click on it?)

I said this in another post but I’ll say it again here… I’d rather have way less traffic (but highly focused relevant traffic) than a mass of unfocused traffic where my content isn’t relevant to them.

Get your links on pages that are relevant to you and both the traffic and quality of viewer will improve.

Best wishes…

Ian Cunliffe