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"He's one of a rare but growing breed: the independent blogger who, through smarts, dedication, and a bit of luck, turns a profit. In August alone, his all-cell-phones, all-the-time website, <snip>, earned him $4,600. Given the time he put in, that works out to about $70 an hour."
"...Mobiletracker serves more than 300,000 pageviews a month to 140,000 unique visitors, according to Web-tracking sites. And every time a viewer clicks on one of <snips>'s Google-provided ad links, the search engine giant kicks back some money to Gales, depending on what an advertiser is willing to pay. Generally, the more expensive the products or services advertised on a site, the bigger the payout..."
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[edited by: Jenstar at 10:34 pm (utc) on Oct. 25, 2004]
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He's talking about his pageviews, not his adsense impressions.
Maybe the reason he gets away with that and with the article quote is because he is with G? I seriously doubt it, but I can't believe he would risk having his site found to be in vioaltion simply for having a quote in an article.
The site is nothing else, but the information from the various sources summarized into one page. I really doubt, that 19 years old boy with no college degree and no real work experience can write a confident review on such hi-tech subject as mobile technology.
This site services 3 ad units, two of them are identical.
So what we should learn from this? Violate TOS? Build a site about "something expensive" to get more money from advertisers? Do not go to college?
This is my opinion.
I really doubt, that 19 years old boy with no college degree and no real work experience can write a confident review on such hi-tech subject as mobile technology.
Well, he is proving you wrong and making ~$5k / month from it. Not huge, but not bad either. Good thing he doesn't believe your statement ;)
Whether this guy received permission, I don't know. But I am just making people aware of the fact that he might have ;)
As for PSAs, if he was suspended, there would be nothing appearing where the ads should be, so that is not the case here.
No Point, It's already done if its posted here.
Essex_boy, I haven't seen the site but if a site is violating TOS - and thereby possibly cheating advertisers - is it OK as long as they aren't "bothering" anyone?
Google OK'd the release of the numbers, they are big fans of the site too (it's making them money as well). They also added me to the press list for good AdSense cases... Because I *am* a fan.
I write all the articles. It's a lot of work.
What point does the site have besides only serving AS ads? Isn't creating a site for the specific purpose of serving ads a violation?
Actually, it's one of the best resources for mobile phone news on the internet. Thousands of people have the site book marked and check it every day to get up to date in the industry. It's a little insulting to say that all the hours of labor have no point. I have nearly 1400 hand written articles that are all timely posted.
I really doubt, that 19 years old boy with no college degree and no real work experience can write a confident review on such hi-tech subject as mobile technology
This is down right offensive. Whatever your age, I am not impressed that you can frequent a message board and demean another person's intelligence.
I *personally* get cellphones for review from the major co's and carriers. I photograph them with a professional digital camera and put them through their paces.
People like you are exactly why I don't advertise my age, you see a limitation. I see possibilities.
People like you are exactly why I don't advertise my age, you see a limitation. I see possibilities.
Nice, very nice statement...
Curiously, why would I be seeing PSAs on your site? I checked it when this thread first started and got PSAs then and still do now. I'm in S.E.Asia - would have thought you'd pick up a lot of readers out here as it is cellphone mad...
About the PSA's--I see regular ads. On the front page the targeting is a little rough (it changes lots of times a day, about a lot of different topics within cell phones). Permalinks have the best targeting.
It could just be towards the end of the day and people our out of budgets. Not sure. Earnings are on average though.
Yes, some sites are out there putting "not so good" content, but this is definitely not the case in the site mentioned in the article. It is a quality site with great content. If a publisher was not on the up-and-up, I can't see that he/she would draw so much attention by being featured as an entrepreneur success in a well-read business magazine.
And as I said in my previous post, many publishers have received permission from Google to give out stats for publication in articles - and jonknee confirmed this as well.
In my opinion, age has nothing to do with how well someone can or cannot do on the internet. I know publishers in the 10K FedEx club who are in their late teens and early twenties - with quality content sites.
Kudos to jonknee for doing this, and hopefully it will bring you even more traffic and earnings ;) I am sure many publishers here would like to be in your shoes right now!
That's it? How about links?
I actually have the site in my RSS feed reader, since I'm in the same mobility area (or close), and I think it's a great resource.
It takes dedication and guts to commit yourself to a site and idea and run with it- especially at the beginning when you really have o believe in it because the income is zero or very low.
Hats off to JG!
Jonknee,
I'm sorry if I offended you. I was quite impressed, actually, by the content of the site. I think that it provides a very useful service and is well written. My TOS question to the group was regarding the disclosure of revenue -- not whether or not the content is well-written. I think your site is exactly the kind of site that AdSense was created to support.
I'm glad to hear that you received permission from G to publish this. I think it's about time that people can share with others how successful AdSense can be.
That's it? How about links?
I think links come under seo...
Edit: heh for got to say well done ;)
