How much a adsense site costs

Including every thing!

[Enthusiastic]

Hello!
Good Day!

If you are in this business then please reply to this thread this will be ultra helpful to me as well as all the newbie and I believe there should be no hesitation to answer this.

When started =
Doamin = $$?
Hosting = $$?
Content = how much pages at what costs.
SEO = $$?
Advertising = $$$$?
Other expenses (no environmental expenses) = $$? for what.

Thanks for Participation,
Wish you Best of Luck,
Addies.

[jetteroheller]

When started = 1996
Doamin = $10 per year
Hosting = around 100 EUR per month
Content = 4453 pages self written content
SEO = myself
Advertising = myself
Other expenses = just coming back from 1600km car travel. 3 days on a fair hunting for interesting news.

Journalists are well supported on this fair.
Free WLAN in the press center, free entry, free parking and a press party with free food.

But 1600km in the car is still a money investment.

[youfoundjake]

When started =2005
Doamin = free with hosting
Hosting = $70 a year
Content = 100 pages of text, no graphics.
SEO = let t=time
t/wife+kid+full time job=helpful forums like this one
Advertising = $150
Other expenses (no environmental expenses) = laptop to work on site at local coffee shop $1000 (which will later be used to design c++ programs.

[frox]

When started = 2004
Doamin = Domain cost is negligeable. You
Hosting = abt $40 per month
Content = abt 20.000 pages. Cost is VERY difficoult to estimate, about $3000 live costs plus a few months working on it
SEO = my own work, included in the above
Advertising = abt $150
Other expenses (no environmental expenses) = $$? for what.

[Green_Grass]

I think he is in Pakistan..

More realistic figures for him will be

Domain : apx : Rs 400 / yr
Hosting : Cheap : Rs 1500 / yr
High quality : Rs 5000 / yr
Content = niche = Brain power... Value yours yourself.
Advertising : I suggest adwords : Rs 50-100 / day
SEO : Do it yourself or be prepared to pay upto Rs 10,000

I am giving India figures ...should be comparable ..after all we are neighbours ..even if?

[Enthusiastic]

I think you are very true, I will soon find my best, Let's hope for the best. There should only be content to do good or there may be some things which can be considered.

Addies.

[david_uk]

When started = site started early 2000, joined adsense jan 2004

Doamin = Cant remember - not much. Registered a new one, so didn't have to buy an existing one.

Hosting = I think it's about $100 per year.

Content = how much pages at what costs. probably about 3000. Cost is in time to add and maintain the site. I don't pay for articles as I write them myself, and some of the site is users contributions.

SEO = none - do it all myself. yeasr of contributing to a newsgroup on my topic, exchanging links with quality sites, natural traffic.

Advertising = None currently, but when I have something new on the site I want people to know about I'll spend about 5% of my adsense earnings on adwords. But it doesn't make me a profit. I sometimes manage to break even though. I think the ads may indirectly pay for themselves, but organic traffic is much, much better than paid for traffic imho.

Other expenses (no environmental expenses) = Probably about $200 per year on utility programs such as log analysers, and the rest on purchasing newly published articles to blog / write pages about.

[Tearabite]

When started = Jan 2006
Doamin = $40?
Hosting = $6/mo
Content = 100 pages, cost only my time
SEO = only my time
Advertising = $40 in Adwords and some banners (didnt help)
Other expenses: Wife griping about me "always on that stupid computer" then seeing the smile on her face when she sees my first Google check? -PRICELESS

[Moosetick]

Basically you can get a domain for as low as $10/year and it isn't hard to find hosting as low as $10/month.

Items like content, SEO, advertising can cost as little as nothing or as much as you have to spend. Most here make their own content and do their own SEO. They generally hope those two bring in the traffic and therefore don't spend much on advertising.

Therefore, assuming you already own or have access to a computer and the Internet, you can get something started up for under $50 and some time. If you want to have a huge site with lots of traffic from day 1 and have someone else create all the content then you could be looking at $10000+ as an initial investment. Neither way will guarantee success financially.

[sven1977]

Wife griping about me "always on that stupid computer" then seeing the smile on her face when she sees my first Google check? -PRICELESS

So funny! This is exactly my experience.
Today: "You are always on the computer!"
Next day: "How much did we make? Wow!"

:)

[david_uk]

I note the change from "You" to "We" when money is mentioned!

Exactly the same as my experience. From from "you are always fiddling on the pc" to "our site", and finally to "My site" because it's in her name for tax efficiency. I now get "So why haven't you made another site that earns the same yet?" and no real say in how the money is spent as it replaces her income. Still, it makes all of our lives easier so I'm not griping :)