Adsense on a travel related site

[dreamlord]

What are the typical earnings and CTR rates for a
travel related site?

Is 3% CTR and $20 daily earnings achievable?

[benevolent001]

:) YES

[ember]

Absolutely achievable. Much more is also achievable.

[europeforvisitors]

There's no such thing as "typical." It all depends on your topic, type of content, traffic, and audience.

Just to give you an idea of how wide the variations can be, the ratio of the highest to the lowest eCPMs on my site has been nearly 50:1 at times. (If all of the 4,200+ pages on my site were image galleries, I'd be making hardly anything from AdSense; if all of those pages were about planning luxury vacations and I had the same amount of traffic as I do now, I'd be rolling in dough.)

[dreamlord]

europeforvisitors, Do you have over 4000 pages with unique travel related content?

If you have enough traffic you must be breaking the $100 mark everyday...

[OptiRex]

europeforvisitors, Do you have over 4000 pages with unique travel related content?
If you have enough traffic you must be breaking the $100 mark everyday...

WOW EFV! Does this mean the beers are on you? :-))

dreamlord - read and learn what your travelmaster has to say...

[kempozone]

If you have enough traffic you must be breaking the $100 mark everyday...

lol.

If you have been following all the threads posted by EFV. You should have guessed that he is well over $500 a day.

kz

[dreamlord]

Well...I just found his site...
The design is not that great....But he has lots
of interesting content...
And he has +500.000 visitors...
He did his homework :)

[europeforvisitors]

For the record, I'm sure that I don't make nearly as much from AdSense as some of the SEO and e-commerce crowd do. (Most of my revenue comes from affiliate bookings; I use AdSense to monetize pages that otherwise wouldn't generate revenue. I'd guess that's pretty typical for an editorial travel site; most of my corporate competitors earn their revenes with a mixture of affiliate links and ads, too.)

One item worth mentioning: My pages that generate the most affiliate income aren't my most successful pages with AdSense. Some of my best-earning AdSense pages are purely editorial pages that were written without AdSense (or any specific revenue source) in mind. I suspect this is because, when they have a choice between related affiliate links and ads, readers will go for the affiliate links. On pages that don't have directly related affiliate links (e.g., an article on a barge cruise or a page of links to resources for disabled travelers), readers will pay more attention to the ads.

[dreamlord]

europeforvisitors, I´m not thinking of using something else besides adsense.

Currently I have about 2k to 3k visitors a day.

I think my daily goal of $20 is reachable.

[europeforvisitors]

Sure, it's reachable. But consider affiliate links, too, if your topic lends itself to those. It's always a good idea to diversify instead of relying on one source of revenue.