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My question is; are there really people out there making real money from Adsense? (like over $100 daily) and what sort of (real) visits numbers do I need before I'm able to acheive this?
Seb
When you guys calculate the page impressions per day, do you include forum visitors? because I can easily get over 15k from my forums, but I heard forums pay very bad.
Otherwise, I have about 4,000 daily page impressions. Is that good enough? other things being the same, would my earnings pass $10 if I get my page impressions to at least 10k per day?
Thanks
on my site:
5,000 to 7,000 visitors/day = $30-40 average daily
Anyone know of good optimization techniques ?
potentialgeek; I've read tooo much already.
you have make me ask! Januuski; who are you using?
I do sell ads directly to advertisers or ad agencies. I'm sure you can make good money with GOOG but if you want to make real money you have to figure out how to sell ads directly.
Januuski, Great suggestion! Do you have any suggestions of sources for learning the process of selling ad space directly to advertisers?
Januuski, Great suggestion! Do you have any suggestions of sources for learning the process of selling ad space directly to advertisers?
Try contacting some larger ad agencies. They need to be familiar with your product. Have competitive rates. We charge anywhere from $2 to 15 per CPM per ad.
These days I do see demand for geo targeted banner ads. If you can deliver ads based on user location you can increase your chances. For example: AT&T was running campaign in Philly and we were able to deliver requested impressions to the users from Philly area. Second advertiser (car maker) was targeting Los Angeles. Third Advertiser wanted west coast traffic. You get the picture. If you can do that you can score some nice campaigns.
These days it is even easier as you can use Google Ad Manager to serve your ads and the Ad Manager has this functionality.
5,000 to 7,000 visitors/day = $30-40 average daily
That's almost exactly what I get, too... a few years ago it was double that.
YM
Try contacting some larger ad agencies. They need to be familiar with your product. Have competitive rates.
Januuski - what do you consider the minimum traffic level (in terms of impressions or uniques) to be able to do that? People have given me all kinds of numbers from reasonable (500k impressions/month) to insane (2M uniques/month). What's your take?
Yes, over $100 daily is possible (I make a lot more). You will need a quality website and at least 10.000 visitors per day.
Over $100/day is possible with a much smaller volume than 10k visitors per day... less than half that much. Its also possible to make much less than $100 on 10K visitors/day. The point is, you can't generalize without being specific about niches and other site/page dynamics.
I make a little bit, but sheesh, Khensu and Markus.... wow, you've inspired me to work harder :)
Now earnings are virtually in line with a $1 per 1,000 unique visitors.
based on my experience i believe when i have that amount of traffic, i will be smart priced and my ecpm will drop to less than 50% of what i am currently have.
Two of our sites that deal with the same topic actually have a 16x eCPM discrepancy. One is tiny compared to the other and, surprise surprise, it earns 16x per visitor what the big site does.
But overall the big site still brings in considerably more revenue because its ads are more diversified (naturally more networks want to work with the big guy, etc).
[edited by: CentennialEmpire at 6:21 pm (utc) on June 12, 2008]
