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Please elaborate. I am making huge income with my site.
If I reinvest in a dedicated squid maybe I can increase users, as short loading times were Googles and Yahoos success stories with minimal loading times and minimalistic graphics.
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Why must you know?
Would you elaborate on what it is specifically you are doing, what industry, how much content, ad placement, specific keywords you target, age of site, how much content how many visitors, type of content, and any other specific information you can tell us about your site(s) and its/their income?
at least 6 websites and the ups club ;)
Ann
If I reinvest in a dedicated squid
I knew a dedicated squid once... but then I got hungry and he made delicious calimari.
Some people say just build 5 sites like your first and you are there. Not so simple though I think, since the first site contains about thousands of pages and images and is very high in the serps. Sadly it is just a very low paying area. Perhaps my target should be to generate more traffic - thus getting more revenue. Currently getting about 3000 uniques a day with 1% ctr.
I knew a dedicated squid once... but then I got hungry and he made delicious calimari.
Great
The people who pay you work in the same building that control how much traffic you get. Google will decide where we will all be.
4 years ago we thought that the CPM flashing banner was the way to our dreams. We were all sent in the direction of making sites that generated huge page views. Now it is click through ads and Google is telling us that we have to build sites that pull in visitors. Yes Google is dictating what we all do.
So do not dream of where you will be in 12 months. Just grab each month with glee and hope that the day of something new is a long way away. Do not plan your retirement on Adsense earnings, nor plan your dreams on where you will be a month from now. Just because you earn $10 today does not mean you will be paid that in 5 weeks time.
I hope that something comes along that will give Adsense a kick in the teeth. Make them realize that they are not the internet God that they are aspiring to be. I also remember the day when advertising firms actually spoke to the people who were making them money (US). Google and Adsense shroud themselves in a veil of secrecy keeping fear amongst their publishers.
This veil of secrecy and fear is not because they do not have the time or resources, I am sure that they could afford a few publisher relations managers. Yet here we all sit hoping that Adsense Advisor might grace us with his presence so we can all say 'Hail to the ASA' or WOW Matt Cutts has updated his weblog.
Where will we be in 12 months from now. Ask Google. (If you could)
4 years ago we thought that the CPM flashing banner was the way to our dreams.
Speak for yourself. Four years ago (or even nine years ago), many of us believed that the future of advertising revenue was in targeted ads, which we're now getting with AdSense and, in some cases, through direct sales or specialized channels such as the Travel Ad Network. Run-of-network ads (the kind of banners delivered by most traditional ad networks) have always been the equivalent of low-CPM "occupant" direct mail or ads in weekly shopping supplements.
We were all sent in the direction of making sites that generated huge page views.
Again, speak for yourself. Many of us knew what publishers in traditional media have always known: That niches can be more profitable than the mass market, and quality traffic is more valuable than pumped-up generic traffic.
Now it is click through ads and Google is telling us that we have to build sites that pull in visitors. Yes Google is dictating what we all do.
Google isn't dictating what "we all do," and in any case, we aren't all doing the same thing. As for building sites that pull in visitors, that's just a matter of common sense if you hope to profit from advertising. Publishers were trying to reach audiences long before Google, the Web, or the Internet were born.
Now it is click through ads and Google is telling us that we have to build sites that pull in visitors.
Wait, you didn't pull in visitors for your banner ads in the CPM days?
No wonder you're bitter, your earnings must've been pitiful ...
Yes Google is dictating what we all do.
Maybe they dictate to you, I do as I please. The only difference in my site is now there are Google ads, other than that nothing has changed.
This veil of secrecy and fear
OK, I think I hear the black helicopters and the theme from X-Files swelling now.
If you're afraid of Google, maybe you should take them off your web site as living in fear is silly.
Back to the topic:
My goal is to rake in as much Google money as possible before the well dries up.
What other goal could there be? Take AdSense to the prom? Out to the movies?
I might get a bigger rake though.
"I might get a bigger rake though."
I second all of that!
The goal for me is to make as much RESIDUAL income as I can in the least amount of time possible with a VAULABLE SERVICE. While spending most of my effort in the initial CREATION of new income streams and minimal effort to maintain them.
Not partial to adsense if there are other way to reach the goal.
re-invest in what zygoot? your own business or stocks or sumthin?
