$200 per day with Adsense

[Jon12345]

I want to build a free content site with Adsense on it. How many pages of free content would I need to earn $200 per day? 100? 1,000? Guestimates please.

Jon

[loanuniverse]

You will need an average:

3,1415.9265358979323846264 pages represented among the top three search engines to achieve exactly $200.00 in revenue per day. ;)

Seriously: As few as 1 and as many as 1,000,000

Remember that revenue is a factor of topic, layout and number of visitors more than it is a factor of how many pages you create.

[luigi]

The relevant is the number of pageviews. You'll not have a single dollar with a 100000 pages site if nobody visits it.
If rate click is 2%, and each click is $ 0,15, to make $200 a day you need around 70000 pageviews a day.
If each visitor open only 10% of the site, you need 700000 pages with 1000 visitors, or 1000 pages with 700000 visitors, or something in the middle.

But rate click could be from 0.1% to 10% and each click could be from 0.01 to 2.00... make yourself some calculation.

;-)

[peterdaly]

Start building pages for your chosen topic and see how your numbers work out. This is something that only experience on your site with your content with your visitors can tell you.

This is impossible to estimate with any degree of accuracy.

[surfer67]

Do you honestly believe that there's an answer to that question?

There are a number of factors that determine revenue. Site traffic, content type, site design, CTR, demographics, etc...

If you're starting from scratch and are looking to earn $6000/month, you'll have to put in a huge effort in order to earn that amount.

[jomaxx]

I have to pile on here as well. Unless you know what you're doing, you can create any imaginable number of pages and not reach $200/day.

[irock]

I don't make $200 average with 9k visitors. AdSense is a very weird program whose cost per click varies in a huge degree from day to day.

[digitalv]

I don't make $200 average with 9k visitors. AdSense is a very weird program whose cost per click varies in a huge degree from day to day.

Heh, this statement is more correct than Google would like us to believe. It's important that the original poster realizes that he could get enough clicks to make $200 today, and get the EXACT SAME number of clicks on the same ads tomorrow and make half that ... or twice that.

[ogletree]

I really wish this question would stop cropping up. I think the adsesne forum needs to be pre-moderated. This question is impossible to answer. It is a science based on lots of hard work. Some of us know the answers but would never in a million years tell anybody.

[ChrisKud5]

It is not allowed as per the adsense TOS to build a site for the sole purpose of hosting adsense on it.

[digitalv]

It is not allowed as per the adsense TOS to build a site for the sole purpose of hosting adsense on it.

It's not really that black & white ... what Google is trying to do is prevent "advertisement" pages and sites that have no real PURPOSE other than hosting the ads.

There are MANY sites that were set up for the sole purpose of hosting AdSense ads - but as long as those sites provide decent content they're not in violation. You may decide one day that you know a lot about a particular subject and AdSense would give you a reason to put up a site and share that knowledge and information with others. Technically that's setting up a site for the sole purpose of hosting AdSense on it, but it's not a violation :)

[sailorjwd]

According to my calculations you'll need 800 pages of content like mine to get $200 per day. So is it against TOS to add a page to your website knowing that it will generate added revenue while at the same time providing information to your vistors? How can an informational page be considered as having the sole purpose of getting adsense revenue - when no one will visit it unless it has content that is of interest - isn't it content that counts?

[ownerrim]

some of the adsense tos wording is pretty bad, but i agree that they're talking about real junk pages in this regard. As long as a page has some (potentially) intrinsic value to the users who visit it, it doesn't seem as though it should be a problem.