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How much did you earn through Adsense in the last 12 months?
And how much traffic does it take for a humor site to earn that kind of revenue? The PVs must be huge.
Assume 100k uniques/day.
Ipod, free computer give away etc. Pays $1.10 a email, conversion rates are around 40%
Charge for 2 week links etc, throw up 5 links for $500/piece
Backfill with ad-brite/adsense and throw up some banners and popups.
Assuming your site is decent you can see 15% CTR from uniques. 15,000 clicks/day should earn you some decent money.
Ipod, free computer give away etc. Pays $1.10 a email, conversion rates are around 40%Charge for 2 week links etc, throw up 5 links for $500/piece
Could this be translated into English please?
pod, free computer give away etc. Pays $1.10 a email, conversion rates are around 40%Charge for 2 week links etc, throw up 5 links for $500/piece
Could this be translated into English please?
Let me dust off my English to English dictionary here....
1) I think this means IPOD ads pay $1.10 for leads
2) you can sell 2-week duration sponsored links on your site via AdBrite for $500/ea.
Assume 100k uniques/day.
No. Assume 500 uniques a day. I'm building my recip links, but it's hard to get good numbers. I think I have a core readership, and they come for the humor, not the ads.
Still, things are picking up... slowly.
1) I think this means IPOD ads pay $1.10 for leads
OK, I found an offer for one of these and, of course, they are USA offers only. This may sound stupid however can non-US publishers feature these promotions?
The demographics for my sites are pretty evenly spread throughout the 24 hours only rising slightly late afternoon/early evening GMT.
2) you can sell 2-week duration sponsored links on your site via AdBrite for $500/ea.
Really...interesting. Without getting blownout by AdBright for being too small/not enough visitors etc, how many PVs are required for the minimum?
Are there loads of contractural obligations etc for these kind of promotions? I have a business to run and Adsense complements my necessities nicely since I don't have to deal with any agencies and not really concern myself whether "their" ad is performing.
You need to look at it like a magazine cover. Is that a joke book or Vogue? The post was depressing and the site wasn't funny. Maybe theres some good jokes there but your 3 seconds are up.
so from what I gather you try to match the content closely to the ads in the thread. I just blasted my site with adsense last month - I have lots of content - travel and in an awesome destination. I just sat back for a month and let adsense crawl and adjust to the environment, now I want to get rid of some unrelated ads and tune in on the related ones better.
My traffic has been doubling in uniques every month for the past 4 months - it lagged a bit in January (only grew by 50% instead of 100) but it seems to be doubling again this month
So this month I will break the 1200 unique visitors mark, could this mean Im finally out of the sandbox? Ah thats a whole other topic. I launched it last June new domain - shared host server.
Useful affiliates for travelers (and some local stuff on approriate pages) adsense income? Well I'm up to $20 (at this rate I should get a $100 cheque by May)
Not worried though (as long as things keep doubling every month) now I just need to merge the adsense threads in with the content on my pages. Am I on the right track?
Most recently I *finally* clicked with the advice to remove the 3rd block of ads below the fold... and CTR and CPM went up with slight increase in revenue. I hope *smart pricing* will kick in soon, too!
Anyway, I am seeing near $80 days now... averaging around $55 a day this month. This is the first month I will top $2K. I'm thrilled, but I have a goal to pay off the mortgage... so I am building/tweaking almost daily.
I also have several smaller sites that I'm building now to be profitable later. I don't get more than a few dollars a week from each one, but I am piggy-backing them off the big site.
Traffic = about 1/2 million PV currently (monthly).
I am looking at link exchange with sites of similar traffic that my visitors would enjoy... mostly to improve PR.
Alexa ranking is growing... approx. 150,000 right now.
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Question on new TOS...
I am being contacted by some of the advertisers appearing on my site through AdSense about direct advertising and/or link exchange. Does responding to them now violate AS TOS?
You guys are great... I read here several times a day.
Let me know if I left anything out that would be important... I don't want to give actual check amounts at this time. No sticky's please. ;-)
yesmom
My own skills are pretty limited. So my site is just static HTML pages. Adding some dynamic database driven functions would make the project a lot more webmaster, and maybe even more user friendly. Now I can afford to pay someone to do build those sections for me, if I choose to do that, without taking money I'd rather use for other purposes.
Trust me: learn php and how to use a mysql database. I wish I had years before I eventually did. It makes everything easier and faster and it's really not hard to learn at all -- and you can do so much more than you're doing now. The time you take to learn how to do it is paid back in speed of updating/changing your site in the future.
Pretty nice to mention. I'm (for 2 weeks) 17 years old and I'm in UPS club. Nothing is impossible.
I'll bet there's some serious investigations going on at the Plex!
Ever felt anyone looking over your shoulder?
markus007: .....Poker sites do, I know some people who started a web cam site for about 10 grand.. They are making 3 million a month now, another cam site does 8 million/month. There is that kind of money in nearly every major industry. To make real money you have to charge for a intangable service.......for the first few months adsense was up i was only making a grand a month. Then i caught on :)
.....I've seen sites do a million a month in the first month, others take years. There is no rulebook, it all comes down to marketing skills.
Hi Markus, Extremely impressed by the kind of money you and others you know are making. I have 2 main questions I am hoping you will be so kind to answer about what you said?
What do you mean "intangable service?"
What do you mean "then I caught on :)?"
Thanks for you help.
I mean, is it a real organization like a club?
They will deny it physically exists to the dying breath just to keep their VIP access to the swank UPS Club parties at the GooglePlex.
AdBright for being too small/not enough visitors
I don't think they have any minimums, go check them out.
I signed up and then didn't put them on my site as there's no targetting whatsoever.
You can either run their "network" ads which is a hodge podge of whatever, or you can sell ads directly and filter out what ads/advertisers you want on your site. You set the price of your ads too, revenue split is 75/25 in your favor, and get paid 90 days later to avoid chargebacks and let Adbrite earn a little interest on your cash :)
Considering I already have a bunch of sponsored links on my site that I see direct and a merchant account, I didn't see AdBrite as too appealing for my purposes. I would give up 25% of my cash and put a 90 day delay on payments for no particular reason except to access his larger base of advertisers.
BUT - you can't run AdSense and AdBrite on the same page, so pick one or the other
What do you mean "intangable service?"
I meant intangible product, basically something you can't touch or feel, has no wharehouse, shipping costs etc.
Also, can you PLEASE explain what you mean when you say "......until you caught on" :)
Do you have any examples of such sites and services?
Just think about it for a minute....
Web Hosting, Photo Sharing, Music Files, Downloadable Software, etc.
Basically, ANYTHING YOU CAN BUY/USE DIRECTLY ON THE INTERNET is intangible, as long as you don't get a box in the mail.
Do you have any examples of such sites and services?
There are some important lessons you can learn from these forums. BUT, other people won't chew your food for you. You need to be able to read between the lines, be able to do some background research.... or at least know how to use a dictionary.
Obviously I only said that because Markus talks about the biggest successes I have ever heard of using Adsense (read all his posts in the thread). I was merely trying to get more information and details from him and prolong the discussion with some more feedback and discussion.
IMO the comments from markus were incredibly significant and valuable to all of us, perhaps the most potentially money-making stuff ever appearing in the forums, if only we could get more details from Markus.
In particular, would like to know what his "until I caught on" quote means?
I wish I could get a major search engine to spider my site, though. I have 40,000+ pages of content (sweet, sweet PHP/mysql,) and a few links on forums, but still no spider.
He's got 40k pages on his site. His site hasn't been spidered yet.
Question is, is it worth getting a foothold into this game/business now or is it at the end of the gold rush for anyone to start making money (that can pay bills or more)with Google Adsense with say a niche travel info site or a technology info site?
In a way, is it still possible to compete with more well established longer running sites and cream some of the revenue they are making?
