JollyK - 5:06 pm on Apr 18, 2006 (gmt 0)

For what it's worth, I get about the same traffic (7 - 8000 a day) on one of my sites, and a little over half my visitors are under 18. (Actually, I should say half of "registered users" which is more accurate, since I don't know the ages of all visitors who don't register.)

It is definitely not the most lucrative site, but after fiddling around with ad placement including link units and so forth, I've managed to get that site up to about $10.00 a day.

I would definitely recommend checking the Google "heat map" and seeing if you can place ads in the "hot" areas. Also, blending in link units has worked really well for me, as well as blending all the ads into the site in general. I've tried ads that stick way out as well as blending, and I have to say that blending has worked the best for me.

It also depends on the kind of site and the topic, too, but if you're only making $4 a day, you can probably make $1.00 CPM and have $8 dollars a day with a CPM network.

JK