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How much money do you make from people goofing off at work?

         

potentialgeek

2:25 pm on Jun 9, 2008 (gmt 0)

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Although my site has an international audience, I think I make most of my Adsense money from people goofing off at work. What about you?

I think I read somewhere that it actually helps productivity at work when employees can use the net for personal use a little. Of course some use it too much.

Just a quick internet search and I see this title, "Americans Waste More Than 2 Hours a Day at Work - Personal Internet Use Ranked As Top Time-Wasting Activity."

"Personal Internet use was cited by 44.7% of respondents as their primary time-wasting activity at work."

"a follow-up survey of corporate Human Resource managers, employers actually expect the average employee to waste about an hour per day, in addition to the worker's lunch hour."

Courtesy Salary.com:

Top Time-Wasting States

1. Missouri 3.2 hrs/day

2. Indiana 2.8 hrs/day

3. Kentucky 2.8 hrs/day

4. Wisconsin 2.8 hrs/day

5. Nevada 2.7 hrs/day

What would your AdSense income be like if nobody visited your site at work?

Helping the Internet Economy,

p/g

Jean

2:48 pm on Jun 9, 2008 (gmt 0)

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Most of my users are European and I can definitely see a peak in my stats in early afternoon weekdays. This is obviously due to people at work who think that they have done a morning's work, had a lunch break and don't feel like working for their employer too much in the afternoon. It's definitely more fun to check out what could be their next holiday destination. Quite understandable.
But am I making MORE money from them? I am not sure. I guess that if they couldn't check this at work the pattern would shift: less surfing in the afternoon and more in the evening (there is also a second peak in my stats in weekday evenings) and at weekends.

vero

4:44 pm on Jun 9, 2008 (gmt 0)

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My site has NOTHING to do with work-related topics, yet our traffic and CTR are highest on weekdays, not weekends or evenings.
So - yeh, thank you people who goof off at work!

Pepito

8:05 pm on Jun 9, 2008 (gmt 0)

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My site is more or less 70% European and 30% from America, mostly USA. It is curious how the traffic start to raise after 8 am CET when we are starting to get into work, and going up till 19.00 where USA and Europe traffic merge. After that time start to decrease.