Did your earnings grow proportionally with your content pages amount?

May you expect more incomings with more pages?

[silverbytes]

This question may look obvious but:
Did your earnings grow proportionally with your content pages amount?

Longer explanation: if your websites earn U$1000 / year and you have 200 pages you can try to produce some other 200 and expect a growth (perhaps U$2000 the double?)

I'm sure this plain concept has factors to consider, so the question was: in your experience, as your content pages grow, do you notice earnings grow proportionally too?
do they grow slower?
do they grow at all?
do they grow more than proportionally?

What your experience is about it?

[jomaxx]

Your earnings are not really connected to the number of pages on your site. They're connected your site traffic and total number of page impressions you receive.

Now, if your traffic comes 100% from Google search results, then it would be reasonable to expect that doubling the number of pages might result in a doubling of impressions and thus earnings -- with a considerable margin of error.

On the other hand if your traffic comes mostly to your home page, through static links or direct site visits, then the effect could be much much smaller.

[jetteroheller]

When I would not expect a increase in income by making more pages, I would not create so many new pages.

[mzanzig]

I share the opinion that the revenue is not directly linked to the amount of pages on your site. Having said that, a higher number of pages increases the probability that a page on your site is indexed an subsequently hit (and then finally, hopefully, an ad is clicked).

So, no, the number of pages alone will not increase the revenue from AdSense, but the traffic attracted by your content will most likely increase your revenue.

[silverbytes]

Your earnings are not really connected to the number of pages on your site. They're connected your site traffic and total number of page impressions you receive.

Thus your earnings are connected to the number of pages in your site. We are talking about a website already having earnings because all of it's pages are indexed in google and being visited.

Now: assuming traffic it's constant (in case wasn't mentioned), to more pages added, you get more impressions, and probably, more earnings too.

The questions points to experiences in websites that added more content pages and how that affected earnings.

[europeforvisitors]

Now: assuming traffic it's constant (in case wasn't mentioned), to more pages added, you get more impressions, and probably, more earnings too.

How can you make that assumption?

[jomaxx]

The point I was making is that "number of pages" has a very very weak connection to how much you can earn. You could add millions of pages and not make an extra cent. Your analysis has to be much more specific and much more rigorous to be of any value whatsoever.

[hunderdown]

I think I can definitely say this: if I add more pages like the ones that I know do best with AdSense, my earnings grow. Just adding pages doesn't do it.

[Hobbs]

There is a saturation point beyond which building more pages generates less traffic and less revenue than it used to, with huge traffic over a long period, things settle down and your average impressions per visitor becomes a fixed number, your earnings stabilize, and your financial growth rate income wise will depend on the % of fresh new visitors you get each day, adding more content will grow your earnings slowly at this point, all this is from experience not theory or even logic.
Then throw in smartpricing which the more I read about the less sense it makes!

[leadegroot]

It does, but there is a time delay in two parts - firstly, while the bots finds the new pages then secondly, there seems to be a delay while the new pages settle into the index (I'm mostly talking about Google - its my biggest supplier; I don't have a large enough sample from the others to confirm they do the same thing)
There is a period where a new page is in the index but isn't returned for reasonable queries that you would expect it to. I have a very tightly meshed navigation and quite often an older page with the new page in its nav-bar will be returned for a query qhich should return the newer page. Annoying.
So, yes, but with a delay.

[abbeyvet]

Did your earnings grow proportionally with your content pages amount?

The answer to that, if you really mean proportionally, is a simple no. It may grow even more than that, it will very likely grow less, though it will almost certainly grow.

Although extra pages bring additional traffic in the normal run of events, it is not likely to be exactly the same amount per page as before. Nor are the ads necessarily going to be of the same value, or as attractive. Smart pricing on those or the original pages may/probably will have some effect also.

There are so many variables and income is dependant on so many things outside your control and fluctuates so much anyway, that proportional growth - as in with twice as many pages I will have twice the money - just isn't going to happen.

[europeforvisitors]

Although extra pages bring additional traffic in the normal run of events, it is not likely to be exactly the same amount per page as before.

Yep, it might be less than you'd get with an average page, or more. Same with ad revenues.

In my own experience, a new page or article can be:

- A good traffic generator, but a lousy revenue generator
- A lousy traffic generator, but a good revenue generator
- A good traffic generator and a good revenue generator
- A lousy traffic generator and a lousy revenue generator

On my site, how the page performs (in terms of traffic, revenue, or both) usually depends on the page's topic more than anything else.

Also, I don't expect every page to perform well in terms of traffic and/or revenue. I'll often write coverage that I know won't perform well, because--on an editorial site, at least--man doesn't live on caviar alone.

[uhwebs]

All pages are not created equal.

In my experience, having *quality* pages benefits my site overall (and means more earnings). Sometimes I can't tell which ones are going to be really successful, but generally if they add to the overall quality of my site, then people regard it as more of an 'authority' which means more referrals.

I have about 3 pages that are absolutely amazing in the # of visitors they bring. Most of my visitors view 11-12 pages average, so that means if I only have a few top pages they come through, they are probably going to see some of the others too.