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I mean surely you can do it on a site with 5 users in a month but it's more interesting to see where the break-even is :-)
So that you have some money at the end and not just bunch of ads on all the pages.
I wouldn't expect much from Adsense if you are under 1k visitors per month. You could probably make a living from Adsense on 4/5k visitors per day.
Scott
Eric
The topic of the site might factor into the decision.
100 visitors a day could make $1,000.00 a month with the right topic and well written content.
Or it could take several thousand visitors a day to make that $1,000.00 with other topics and content.
But it's so easy to run Adsense, why not give it a try and see what happens.
A site with one visitor could have a 100%+ CTR, which could trigger an alert.
Best to wait until you have at least a few hundred uniques per day, if not more. Also, you're likely to get better ads, since the AdSense spider will have more chances to index your pages.
I tend to agree to wait until you have good traffic, but the minimum criteria is, is it worth the trouble in order to earn 10c a day, or a dollar a day? How many hours are you going to spend researching and implementing and monitoring the code, and what do you value your time at?
At 25 per day, and if you could manage 4% clickthrough that is 1 click a day.
If you average click is $.15, that would be more than $4 per month and could cover your hosting.
It obviously isn't going to make you rich converting at that percentage without some serious traffic.
brandon
I started with a brand new site that got about 30 uniques a day. Just seeing that I could actually make some money on that inspired me to make another site, rich in content but with adsense in mind.
It's been about 3 months from the first site and though I'm pretty much in the sandbox with both, they're making money.
I think if your site is sandboxed and hardly receives any traffic from G but receives a steady flow from other sources then why not get paid from the very company that sandboxed you in the first place.
At least all your hard work will be bringing in some other revenue whilst waiting for the almighty bang!
As a follow up can anyone tell me the length of a piece of string.
Twice the length from the center to either end :)
I put adsense on my site where i only had 20 visitors per day and i had like more than 20% of CTR. But still those are money to cover hosting. And also a very good inspiration that your site really can make you profit instead of just a hobby site.
Puttign adsense in your site at an early stage helps you maintain the layout also.
I'd grow pale at anything less than 5,000 uniques per day, more if your ads get large money, less if your ads get small money. Even if all your ads were for used chewing gum I'd never go below 2,500.
I am totally off-base here?
I have another site I've been building which is now up to 500 uniques a day. It has many links from authority sites, including a feature from USA Today but I'm loath to put adsense on it.....Why? Because one problem with the new site (could cause both sites to be removed from adsense.
This isn't an irrational fear, I received an invalid clicks email a year ago, and my acccount was temporarily closed for a week with thousands of dollars pending.
Thankfully after exchanging emails with adsense support, they concluded I wasn't responsible for the invalid clicks and my account was reinstated....Still that experience has remained with me. I'll wait until the new site reaches a thousand a day then re-evaluate.
I wish we could have seperate adsense accounts for each site. I heard of one guy who has 20 mini sites each bringing no more than 30 visitors a day, the same adsense code on all of them. One account of invalid clicks and his whole network could be wiped out.
Also if you want to sell one of these sites in the future, it may be a deal breaker if potential buyers learn the site is permanently banned from adsense.
Maybe it's paranoia, but I just don't feel comfortable having all my golden eggs in one basket. For now I'll keep the new site ad free, (People seem to like to link to these sites more) and perhaps include a couple of affilate programs - but no adsense yet.
