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After two months, I inserted some Adsense ads, and averaged $60 a month. By September/October, the site plummeted in the SERPs, possibly because of a sitewide text link I placed on another large site and forum of mine. Traffic is down to 600 uniques a month, Adsense earnings down to $10/month.
I debated on just uploading the same site with a new .com on another host provider's server, but then I read that Google might decide to ban both for duplicate content. The existing site is PR4 with a few PR3 pages, should I just take the site down altogether and start over again with a new domain name?
Looking back, I wonder if its worth the update effort to even continue for $50/month. If it was $200 or more monthly, it would have been a worthwhile addition to my Adsense revenues.
As long as you are covering your hosting costs, I would say just leave it and watch it grow; adding content when you can.
Hope this helps!
My point is that if you have left your site untouched and you are still making money why would you take AS off of it? Why not add just more content or create another site?
My point is that if you have left your site untouched and you are still making money why would you take AS off of it? Why not add just more content or create another site?
If I make $10 a month from the site, but I'm paying $8 a month for hosting, I'm not making money. The site dropped rank hard, its continuing a downward trend, and I don't see how its possibly going to reverse itself. If I was able to get great results in two months with this site, its worth wondering if I'll get great results with an identical site after shutting thsi one down, only being more careful with the links. That way I could be generating revenue that increases each month, instead of spending time wondering if I can salvage what I already have.
If I was able to get great results in two months with this site, its worth wondering if I'll get great results with an identical site after shutting thsi one down, only being more careful with the links.
You might have no Google-generated traffic at all, for the reason that you mentioned earlier (duplicate content). Of course, you might be able to avoid a duplicate-content filter by using 301 redirects, but that might defeat your purpose (i.e., to start afresh in Google Search).
In any case, I think you'd get better answers in the Google Search News forum, since your question has more to do with possible Google Search penalties than with AdSense.
FarmBoy
If I make $10 a month from the site, but I'm paying $8 a month for hosting, I'm not making money.
You're not losing money either.
Give it time. At least a year's worth of time. Add a page a week to this site while developing another site on a different subject.
Most of all, don't fret over it!
If I make $10 a month from the site, but I'm paying $8 a month for hosting, I'm not making money.
Ask yourself if its really worth all the hassle to earn a measly 24 dollars a year for your time.
Did you build this site for AdSense or do you have another method of monetizing the site?
I built it with graphics where Adsense hotspots would be, and then swapped Adsense for the graphics after about two months. I had only used Adsense to monetize the site, I suppose I could experiment with affiliate ads. The content matter was yielding some decent paying ads, though.
Ask yourself if its really worth all the hassle to earn a measly 24 dollars a year for your time.
That's not so much the question at hand. The question is, is it worth the effort to make $50 a month when I can make $50/hr working on a website. One of my hobby sites generates $300-$400 a month, I spend maybe one hour every three months updating it.
That's not so much the question at hand. The question is, is it worth the effort to make $50 a month when I can make $50/hr working on a website. One of my hobby sites generates $300-$400 a month, I spend maybe one hour every three months updating it.
I think you answered your own question:
A) You make $50 a month doing MFA site, spending hours to "beat" the system and not getting any satisfactory results,
B) You make $300-$400 a month spending very little time on the site, doing what you like (and still having enough time to make a lot of additional income doing something else).
The answer [hint: B] should be obvious ;).
No honestly I have a site I've been ignoring for the past year or so and it is generating about $15 a month. now my other site is kicking fair enough I decided to give it more time.
for me no site is useless specially not with a PR4. again if you want to sell PM me I'll take a look
