How much traffic do I need for AdSense?

[kay]

Hi everyone.. this is my first post :)

I look after a couple of sites that I think would work really well with AdSense. What I'd really like to know though, is just how much traffic should the site have before I consider applying?

Thanks in advance!

[digitalpoint]

I don't think there is any set amount of traffic you need.

[hexed]

There are no traffic limits. But if you have about 500-1000 visitors a day with good content, you would probably be looking about about $5-$10/day in profits.

Hexed

[disgust]

it can vary so, so very much.

with my site stats, someone estimated that I'd be making, well, a LOT of money- this was using fairly conservative numbers. with a 2% CTR and $.20 a click I should be making well over 150$ a day.

I'm closer to making that a month.

I KNOW there are sites that get one tenth the traffic we get and still make more money. traffic isn't everything, it's just one of three major factors (the other being your click through rate and your earnings per click)

[kay]

Thanks guys, one of the sites gets around 500 uniques a day, so I'll probably apply for that one. If it makes enough to get me a check every quarter or so I'll be happy enough with that!

[GuyFromChicago]

Thanks guys, one of the sites gets around 500 uniques a day, so I'll probably apply for that one. If it makes enough to get me a check every quarter or so I'll be happy enough with that!

After you get approved for Adsense you can use your Adsense code on any of your sites...assuming they are not in violation of the Adsense TOS.

[misohoni]

Can you do that? I thought they each have to be approved?

[NewComputer]

My understanding, and it comes from here, is that you can use your adsense code on any page that you would be considered a webmaster for. I think here, we have deferred our webmastery to DP for the purpose of using our code on these pages. Please correct me if I am wrong.

[Bernard]

Once approved, you can paste your AdSense code anywhere you like as long as it is consistent with the TOS. You only need to provide Google one site for reference with your initial application.

[Weirfire]

I think I will apply for that as well.

Does google decide what adverts will go on your site or do you have a choice?

[Bernard]

The adverts are targeted to the subject matter/keywords of the page you place the code on. It is done by a computer algorithm - not a human. You can block up to 200 specific ads/sites from showing too.

[misohoni]

So I could give my Google Adsense code to a friend to place on his site? Cool...

[cobaltlady]

I'm not so sure about giving your code to a friend. Not a good idea plus might violate TOS. I believe you need to be webmaster.

[GuyFromChicago]

So I could give my Google Adsense code to a friend to place on his site? Cool...

I suppose you could, but if your friend does something on his or her site that violates Google's Adsense TOS your account would be shut down.

[Foxy]

So I could give my Google Adsense code to a friend to place on his site? Cool...

I would definitely not do that!

On your own sites, like we do, no problem as everybody else has said, and, if you place them well you can do some good numbers, but do not give away your control.

[Staring]

After you get approved for Adsense you can use your Adsense code on any of your sites...assuming they are not in violation of the Adsense TOS.

You need to be approved for each and every domain name that you host for adsense, websites need to be checked separately before being accepted. You can't copy your adsense code for one website onto all of your other websites. You will be violating TOS.

It amazes me how many people on these forums do not read their contracts properly before agreeing to sign up. One day you'll sign your souls away for sure!

PS: If you are not too sure about any answer go directly to the 'source', look up Adsense in google for its FAQs. Don't always rely on forums for correct answers - when the source to anything is easily available. - Thats lazy! :confused:

[khudania]

Have you noticed, the ads changes from page to page. I am not sure how this is happening.
:confused:
<a href="http://our.affiliatetracking.net/wordtracker/a/11395">Wordtracker</a>

[Foxy]

You need to be approved for each and every domain name that you host for adsense, websites need to be checked separately before being accepted. You can't copy your adsense code for one website onto all of your other websites. You will be violating TOS.

It amazes me how many people on these forums do not read their contracts properly before agreeing to sign up. One day you'll sign your souls away for sure!

PS: If you are not too sure about any answer go directly to the 'source', look up Adsense in google for its FAQs. Don't always rely on forums for correct answers - when the source to anything is easily available. - Thats lazy! :confused:

Actually I don't think that is quite right.

The TOS says:

You are at least 18 years of age and agree that Google may serve third party and/or Google provided advertisements (collectively, "Ads"), related Google search queries, and Google Web and/or Site search results (collectively, "Search Results") in connection with the Web site(s) that You designate (each a "Site") using Google's advertising serving and search technology. Multiple accounts held by the same individual or entity are subject to immediate termination unless expressly authorized in writing by Google (including by electronic mail).

That means you hold one account only for your sites - NB Multiple accounts are not permitted - and that you "designate" your sites. No prior approval is stated here.

And later:

You may select a format approved by Google for the display of Ad Units in connection with the Site(s), but You acknowledge and agree that Ads: (a) shall only be displayed in connection with the Site(s), each of which is subject to review and approval by Google in its discretion at any time; and (b) shall be subject to the placement guidelines set forth herein.

That means that if you have site(s) that you own that are part and parcel as trading names of your company then the agreement that is with you (your company) covers all. That right is non transferable to sites that you might manage, for example, or if you were to sell on the site (business) the agreement does not transfer.

It also means they come around and inspect when they want - it is not a prior condition.

Having said that I'm pretty sure the initial site we did had to have approval.

:)

[Will.Spencer]

I'm not so sure about giving your code to a friend. Not a good idea plus might violate TOS. I believe you need to be webmaster.

Well, I put my AdSense code on the Digital Point Forum... :D

[Help Desk]

it can vary so, so very much.

with my site stats, someone estimated that I'd be making, well, a LOT of money- this was using fairly conservative numbers. with a 2% CTR and $.20 a click I should be making well over 150$ a day.

I'm closer to making that a month.

I KNOW there are sites that get one tenth the traffic we get and still make more money. traffic isn't everything, it's just one of three major factors (the other being your click through rate and your earnings per click)

Your site looks very professional, however where are the AdSense ads? If you put them inline with the content you would have crazy results!

[disgust]

that was a fairly old post. I'm doing much better now.

the adsense ads aren't on the main page, but they're on the subpages: www.ffshrine.org/ff7/ff7.php is an example.

[Help Desk]

I'm getting these errors from your link...
Warning: main(): php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: Name or service not known in /home/ffshrine/public_html/topnew.html on line 66

Warning: main(http://www.ffshrine.org/googlead.php): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/ffshrine/public_html/topnew.html on line 66

Warning: main(): Failed opening 'http://www.ffshrine.org/googlead.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/ffshrine/public_html/topnew.html on line 66

[Geir]

I see the same errors on the top of the page.
The content seem to load underneath though...

:) Geir

[fryman]

Disgust, I have always been impressed about the crazy traffic your site gets, with an average of 10k uniques per day. Wow! However, I can only see a tiny adsense ad on your pages. Is that the only source of income you have? How much does a site with that massive traffic traffic give you in profit? I'm sure your hosting costs must be very high.

I get 1.5k uniques per day, and I have been trying to get a way to make it profitable. As yours, my site is targeted at young people without much cash in their pockets, so putting up some affiliate ads selling stuff wouldn't help much.

Any ideas?

[disgust]

the error are fixed now, sorry about that.

I can't reveal specifics because of the adsense TOS, but adsense combined with an advertiser that approached us is enough to make me more than happy- I was really surprised I was making this much from it. my EPC fluctuates a LOT (and stays at whatever rate it's at for days), if it stayed at the higher of the two I'd be making a ton of money.

if 1.5 uniques is all you can squeeze out of it (that very well may be the case), then just move on to another site. keep on setting things up until you find one that really works.

[fryman]

Well... I only get about 2 lousy cents per click with this site.. the only thing that is saving me is another site that gives me much higher payouts per click.

How much bandwith does your site use? It sure has loads of images...

[disgust]

if you're only getting 2 cents a click you should definitely try experimenting with another site that has a more desirable source of advertisers...

a good way to guage how much your EPC will is this: use the adsense sandbox, see what the advertisers are selling. how expensive is it? how much are they likely making per sale? what about the other advertisers? the higher all of those are, the more likely you'll get a decent EPC.

you can also look on the average EPM on cj or something to get a good idea to start.

we use about 400 gigs a month.

we have a dedicated server that has 1.2TB of bandwidth a month for 79$.

[fryman]

I have no idea why, but yesterday I tried to log in at CJ and it turns out that my account has been cancelled! Made me so mad... I signed up again, but now they want me to fill out some weird tax information page, even though I don't even live in the USA...

Screw them... I will look for other affiliate networks...

[digitalpoint]

Why was your account canceled? Maybe they prune accounts that don't generate any transactions for a certain amount of time or something?

[disgust]

really? hm, I hope not.. I built a bunch of fairly small affiliate sites but they haven't done anything yet because I'm still waiting for google to deepcrawl them (the index is in, but nothing else).

[fryman]

I guess so, Digitalpoint. I was waiting to get some decent traffic before picking a couple of affiliates to add to my site. Well, now that I have the traffic, I got my account cancelled. No previous email, no warning, nothing. I now get this when I try to log in:
Our records indicate that your account has been deactivated.

Sucks...

[misohoni]

Yeah, I had my old account cancelled also because I didn't set it properly. I had to re-register also, glad I didn't lose any money though.

Yes, I was wondering about the tax form to be filled out also. I'm based outside the US - so is it still neccessary?

[thsadmin]

A:D t the moment I have around 30 blogs, all are through blogger, everytime I add a new blog I register it on my google account and add html tag between the head and title tags, but I only do this because usually my site is active within google in a matter of days, but at the moment the majority of my blogs share the same adsense content which is always based around blogs, while the clicks are averaging 20c I was wondering if there is a way to change the adsense content? do I just change site description between tags?
and I read that you need to register each site which you place adsense on and I believe that to be untrue as I have plenty of sites I didn't register and had no drama so far.

[whitespider]

You need to be approved for each and every domain name that you host for adsense, websites need to be checked separately before being accepted. You can't copy your adsense code for one website onto all of your other websites. You will be violating TOS.

It amazes me how many people on these forums do not read their contracts properly before agreeing to sign up. One day you'll sign your souls away for sure!

This is incorrect. You can only have ONE account but you can put the ads on as many sites as you like providing each site meets TOS. You apply for the account using ONE site but can add others after that. When you add to new sites Google checks it.

[vivekwig]

there is no limit on this

[sussane]

Traffic limit is infinity....

[Pierce]

this thread is over a year old..