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What I don't want to do is to go through the rigmarole of setting up Adsense only to find it is not worth the effort.
This is just a guess but you should be able to do it.
Some keywords may pay you $10.00/click (example only) while others might pay you $0.05/click.
If you're looking for an easier answer, with the lower end of the pay rates you would need 500-1000 visitors a day to ensure that you make the $1/day you're seeking.
Many thanks
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is it worth the effort?
Yep good point. even though the adsense content is delivered through google it will still mean reading a dozen or so lines of extra javascript each time (adding slight bandwidth and disk space costs), and readers will experience a slight but hardly noticeable (except when the google server is overloaded or having problems) decrease in loading times. You als have to count the time involved in adding the code, maybe responding to fraud emails ;) and checking your stats every so often. Then take off bank fees. And any possible bad PR with your readers who dont like advertising - and several other possible cinsequences (eg. making sure you dont have negative words in copy) Also google pays minimums of 100 bucks so you will have to wait more than 4 months to get paid!
Not being negative at all but with any program you have to add up the expenses too.
Choose a good topic and even 100 visitors a day can earn you $100 per month.
From the answers I have received, the number of pageviews that I am looking will comfortably achieve that target, so it looks like I will be going ahead with an application.
We use SSI just one file to modify if ever needed to remove it etc and the ads are on thousands of pages.
One of the good points of our Adsense experiment was to add a php include to every page. That was a lot of work for just Adsense, but long term is highly cost-effective.
Now that drudge work is done we can change the adsense codes when necessary (and legal), add other common content, and take off code whenever we want over many pages in a couple of minutes. We even created some slighly different include files for different sections of the site and pages so that some changes need only affect a section or two.
Sure beats multi-file replace in NoteTab!
Ian, I'm doing several times the amount you mention on a site averaging a massive 24 impressions per day....
what? and you call yourself a webmaster?
silly me, I thought that anything below 1000 impressions a day is a shame and a reason to go home and start playing guitar for living (I myself have over 10000 daily)
I am deeply impressed that Google allows to use AdSense on such tiny web sites... this AdSense must be some kind of revolution indeed.
But coming to the question: "is it worth it". Yes! And it is not only for the money ... but for fun!
