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I have been a silent reader of the forum for quite a while now(very informative). I have a question, what is the possiblility of earning lets say, 2 to 5 dollars a day running adsense. How many hits approx. I know about the click to impressing ratio and all the variables that take affect when calculating something like this. I would just like a ball park figure. The reason I ask is because I run a website that gets a small amount of traffic. Paying the hosting cost with money generated by adsense would be great. I just don't want to put ads on my site for no reason, possibly annoying my visitors. By the way this is a content driven site.
Any replies would be greatly appreciated
The ads are just about the least "annoying" addition you can add to your site (as far as advertising goes).
Try it out for a few weeks, test a few different ad placements, and if you don't like the results, dump it and move on :)
so with 5000 page views you should get $2.50 per day everything else would be a bonus
People would hope they achieved higher than this so anything else is a bonus
steve
Personally, I don't think there should be ANY discount on 5 cent clicks. That's already rock bottom.
Go for it, it's possible to cover your hosting sooner than you may think.
Personally, I don't think there should be ANY discount on 5 cent clicks. That's already rock bottom.
Have you seen any clicks getting you less than 3 cents?
Even the other ad networks wouldn't offer $0.05 CPC. Of course their CTR is horrible, but really.....
5000 views per day = 150,000 views per month
So a banner on a site like this would pull in $750 per month or $25 per day. Beats $2.50 per day and you don't have to worry about click throughs.
Getting discounts on the $0.05 ads does not make sense to me.... Hasn't anyone heard of a floor?
Discount for $0.05 is $0.04. That is what I see on the cost of AdWords content targeting.
Why not sell one banner at $5/M impressions. If your site is highly targeted in a competitive industry you should get this or more.
5000 views per day = 150,000 views per monthSo a banner on a site like this would pull in $750 per month or $25 per day. Beats $2.50 per day and you don't have to worry about click throughs.
Which network do you recomend for that medium-low traffic and allowing you to get in?
I had been looking something like that but the most of the networks are asking 10 times # impressions per day you are talking about...
CS.
Which network do you recomend for that medium-low traffic and allowing you to get in?
adsense
well take some realy low figures and anything else is a bonus
5000 page views / 1% ctr = 50
50 X lowest click 5 cents = $2.50
This seems really low. Steph, I don't think I would base my decision on this. Of course, there is absolutely no harm in trying it out. Any revenue is, after all, revenue.
As you get more traffic, this software will help you start rotating multiple banners multiplying your money. Why use a network when you can have all the money for yourself?
It's not much work at all when set up and instead of a few bucks here and there you can make hundreds of dollars a week on a busy well targeted site. Too many webmasters are happy with nickels when they can make dollars.
Why not sell one banner at $5/M impressions. If your site is highly targeted in a competitive industry you should get this or more.
5000 views per day = 150,000 views per monthSo a banner on a site like this would pull in $750
woah! what banner ad network are those figures from? If you use tf or burst or fastclick, you will get $2cpm max. for a 468 banner....of which they will keep 40-60% for themselves....so your $750 then becomes around $150.
selling ad space yourself on a site so small is going to be one long wait too.
Previously, I had refrained from advertising as I didn't want ads for casinos on a creative writing website. The ads on my site are for proof-reading services, writing courses, writing holidays, creative writing software etc. I see them as a benefit to my readers.
Previously, I had refrained from advertising as I didn't want ads for casinos on a creative writing website. The ads on my site are for proof-reading services, writing courses, writing holidays, creative writing software etc. I see them as a benefit to my readers.
I had AdSense on my writing-related site, and it kept displaying ads for subsidy presses, book doctors, and other services that prey on aspiring writers. I think there are some topics like writing, health, and finance that don't lend themselves to advertising unless the publisher has direct and complete control over the ads that run.
Thanks for the help
I had AdSense on my writing-related site, and it kept displaying ads for subsidy presses, book doctors, and other services that prey on aspiring writers. I think there are some topics like writing, health, and finance that don't lend themselves to advertising unless the publisher has direct and complete control over the ads that run.
Very good point. I'll review the ads on my site and look out for these. (Amusing side note - it's not against the TOS to ask people to NOT click on the ads is it? :) )
Steph, good luck with AdSense.
