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for the first million
moi
What kind of site do you run? if you don't mind me asking..
It must be nice to earn that kind of money from something you've done and made on your own.
dazz
Many people here earn big money that's very good. This is a good working system. What I like about it is that this system allows a talanted person from a poor or developing country to do something like this and advance, thus earning a living and putting a bread on his family's table.
3 years ago I read an article in Financial Times about a teenage girl from Florida who was earning 5000 a month. So this is way possible.
Congratulations.. BTW the title says $100,000 (one hundred thousand only) , You are missing a '0'
Hobbs, are you on a mission today? (to get a smack!) ;)
sure they helped a lot but YOU made it possible
I completely concur. There's no better revenue generator than your own hard work.
Congrats Aircut ;)
TJ
Thank you very much for sharing. I hope you will not give me false hope. I gotta perservere.
[edited by: Mistra at 12:59 pm (utc) on July 17, 2006]
After nearly three years of solid work, I passed the same milestone last month.
What were the most valuable tips and lessions learned that you can offer us?
1) Write extensive, original, well-researched content which people value and can't find anywhere else. Ideally they'lll value it so much that they'll return to it, link to it, tell their mates about it etc.
2) Position adsense above the content.
and how i did it? quite simple really. for the last decade i have been collecting and writing articles about the making of widgets. i have a vibrant community behind the site and some 70 thousand articles. many of them where given free by magazines in our field. [hint hint content seekers....] our site is the biggest on the internet in its niche. its a small niche as i hear the numbers being made by other authority sites in more popular subjects... <P>
the ads are placed in a polite in between what google suggest and what a good user welcoming calling for.
most of the ads are in the blending color scheme. but we don't mislead the user for ads click as i see on other site who imitate site navigation by text links etc. we keep it a content site with emphasis on content, the ads are secondary.
and my advise, concentrate on content, quality content and a lot of it, the rest will follow!
many of them where given free by magazines in our field
Intriguing. Magazines these days invariably have their own website, they often don't want to freely give permission to reprint, and you would be viewed as a dupe by Google even if you did get permission to reprint.
So, I'm guessing that means a significant portion of your traffic is not direct free SE traffic?
And since you say "community", does that mean there's a forum that is a significant part of the activity of the website (giving hope to all the forum AdSensers with dismal returns :-)?
Did you learn HTML and CSS to begin with? What other languages and software related skills did you have to learn?
Do you not find it difficult to navigate through so much content as do your visitors?
In 70,000 pages, you are bound to have some (maybe a lot) of useless junk content I would think? Doesn't this turn away some visitors?
How many forum members do you have and how many posts do you get daily?
Thanks and congratulations once again.
I hope to follow you there someday.
giving hope to all the forum AdSensers with dismal returns :-)
There's hope alright Ronburk, forums can be a great money spinner with AdSense.
TJ
Either way that's quite good for 2 years. Congrats!
I gave up on adsense already. After I did a stupid thing of revamping the site, my revenue plunged. Now I'm looking towards tutoring. Sigh.
I'm sure many of us have made mistakes we've regretted with our sites, so don't be too hard on yourself. Lots of people here get their sites slammed in the serps or by smart pricing from time to time and have regroup.
You can always do what you need to do pay the bills in the interim and then start over with another site or two (if you think your current site can't be restored to a prior version or the current version is beyond rehabilitation.)
I'm not sure how much you made either, Aircut, from your posts but congrats whether it was 100K or a 1,000K.
[edited by: Jane_Doe at 3:10 am (utc) on July 18, 2006]
All the best man!
It's difficult because I got other work commitments coming up which cannot be neglected cuz it affects other people. Kinda like this in the social service industry.
Hobbs, consider yourself smacked! :)
Ann
Intriguing. Magazines these days invariably have their own website, they often don't want to freely give permission to reprint, and you would be viewed as a dupe by Google even if you did get permission to reprint.
yes and no, even when a magazine have a website it does not mean they are archiving all their content. with the correct business plan and website stricture you can create an attractive venue for them to put the unpublished material. in other cases YOU will be the archive of the magazine. its all about your information architecture and business model.
i am not saying every owner of a personal homepage or a blog would find this option useful, i am serving over 19 magazines who are happy to give me any pcs of content i choose from their print archive....and this goes back 30 years in some cases.....
So, I'm guessing that means a significant portion of your traffic is not direct free SE traffic?
all our traffic is pure natural SE traffic, we do not buy nor advertise for the traffic. our content serves as the fuel that runs the business....
Did you learn HTML and CSS to begin with? What other languages and software related skills did you have to learn?
absolutely, you must know the basics. actually i started website development back in 1993 and notepad was the editor of choice those days....
Do you not find it difficult to navigate through so much content as do your visitors?
not at all. the content is carefully categorized in subject, and you can navigate both horizontally and vertically through author/publication etc.
and with a good search engine installed your users can find virtually anything the look for
In 70,000 pages, you are bound to have some (maybe a lot) of useless junk content I would think? Doesn't this turn away some visitors?
pearl to someone is a junk for another...:)) but seriously, our content is monitored for quality, we don't archive chit chats, its all pure technical stuff... so it never expired :0
How many forum members do you have and how many posts do you get daily?
we don't run forums in the terms you see on this board or similar, we do enjoy some 6K uniques a day...
[edited by: Aircut at 6:05 am (utc) on July 18, 2006]
I'm a little confused... is that $100,000.00 or $1,000,000.00?
$100,000 it was...now it is $100200 LOL
