roughly how much should I expect to make?

[disgust]

hi.

I run a non-profit site, I pay for the hosting out of pocket. we get ~6,000 unique visitors a day.

how much, roughly, do you think I could make with adsense? I'm basically just trying to recoup the cost of hosting- but if it's something very small, I'd rather not bother my users by displaying it.

also: I've heard that people will buy links from sites with certain PRs? we have a pr6, how would I go about finding someone that wants paid placement?

[Freedom]

Totally forget about selling your links based on PR. For one, you're not high enough (6) and two, if Google figures it out, you could get a PR Zero.

If you have 6,000 uniques a day, my strong advice is to use AdSense. You will make money. Probably more then you expect.

[robotsdobetter]

Google shows the ads over and over a lot of times. Does your visitors come back a lot to your site?

You may what to get a banner rotator.

[disgust]

the majority of them are one-time visitors. is that good or bad as far as adsense is concerned?

I know you don't want to give an estimate because there's no way it'll be exact, but please, what do you mean by more than I would expect?

just something really really rough would be fine :\

[asinah]

If your visotors change by day it is good and not bad. Repeat visitors don't click that much on the ads.

Regarding the PR6 site, don't offer it to anyone. Keep it. We have around 30 PR6 pages and around 4000 PR5 pages we wouldn't share them with anyone.

[Freedom]

Disgust, check your stickymail.

[disgust]

thank you for the help everyone.

I'm definitely going to try it, but I have one question:

are your results dramatically different from displaying the "big" adsense banner vs the "small" one? ie the one with two instead of three or four ads?

[asinah]

As I saw your website already go for the 120x600

[disgust]

thanks, but I'm still curious.

how much different have you guys noticed in clicks with the different banners?

[Powdork]

Everythings going to be different for every site based on on page factors as well as what category you are in, and to what extent you are willing to give away your premium space. I have actually had decent luck running a leaderboard at the bottom of a page at times while on leaderboards on the top of my photo gallery pages I have gone thousands of impressions without a click. Fortunately, with channels you can test them and see whats working and whats not. The one thing you have to worry about is that your giving up control of some of the content that appears on your site and you don't always end up with what you expect. The money is good though, unless your site is about downloadable music.

[mrfragger]

hopefully enough to cover your hosting costs. It does that for me so I can continue my hobby site even though traffic is through the roof and cost way more than I could possibly afford to pay for out of my own pocket.

[Zygoot]

Well you can expect anything from $50 a month to $800 and more..