Low Paying Keywords/Considerable Income?

[RogerZF]

Hi,

I was wondering if any of you out there are running sites with low-paying keywords (about 5 cents per click) but actually making a considerable income?

I'm not looking for people out there that have optimized their site for high-paying keywords as there aren't really a lot of high-paying keywords in my niche.

So if you are making a considerable income from low-paying keywords, do you mind sharing with us your CTR and income?

I'm sure many of us would appreciate the extra information.

Thanks,

Roger

[SincerelySandy]

One of my best money makers had an average CPC of 5 cents last year. The best parts about this site is that it is a website that I created for "a good cause" with the intention of informing people about what I consider to be one of the worlds "injustices". I will not tell you how much the site makes, not many people are willing to divuldge that information.

[ken_b]

I'm a little above the 5 cent average, but not a lot. I tell folks I live in the land of the "five and dime" clicks.

And yes, you can make a reasonable income at that rate, IF you get enough traffic and clicks.

[europeforvisitors]

I'd guess that most news/entertainment sites with AdSense are getting low rates per click, but they have enough traffic to justify running the ads.

[wonderboy]

I run relatively low paying ads on my main site, but a decent amount of traffic makes each click important. Currently working on a site that (apparantly) has some decent keywords that relate to the topic of the original site, so perhaps some obvious linking would be in order.

Europeforvisitors, I went on your site and noticed you are compriced of a team, but Durant fronts this team. Are you in fact Durant or do you all post under this username? Just wondering! Oh, and nice site.

W.

[edited by: wonderboy at 7:20 pm (utc) on Jan. 2, 2006]

[annej]

I have a hobby site that gets mostly 5-10 cent clicks. There are plenty of ads available and my pages are always well targeted. It makes a nice steady income. You won't get rich this way so it depends on what your goal is. You do need to have good traffic to your site.

[ncreegan]

My 2 cents is that 5 cents a click is more than most affiliate marketers average per click, and there are plenty of them that make a decent if not considerable living.

[europeforvisitors]

I went on your site and noticed you are compriced of a team, but Durant fronts this team. Are you in fact Durant

Yes.

[markbaa]

My main site averages 9c/click, does about $30/day. Obviously, gets lots of traffic (#2 in Google for a popular, competitive term - 6m results).