that was in Jan 2005.. I mean the traffic has more then tripled since then.. He is making 30-50K/month I wonder why the digtalpoint.com looks so terrible? I mean for such a giant site as this.. you'd think he would make the main pages look nice ^_^ As for server thing.. he doesnt want to invest any money into the site..He just wants to earn and earn.. Though the price of the server is WAY to high.. 80K for a server.. That is BS i could buy all those parts on ebay for 6K brand new(or comp store for 8K).. I guess you get a nice backlink.. ~Joecool6101
im not sure if its true, but.... source: http://www.webrankinfo.com/english/seo-news/topic-15745.htm that was 2 years ago. and adsence used to pay a lot more then now members and trafic has increased i would say about 15k/month
I am sure Shawn must be making that.. or even higher than than.. these days there are many many people (even here on DP) who are making easily $30K+ But we were talking about the DP forum and not of DP. There is a big difference.
You can read about his Adsense earnings in an article from the New York Times. It's at the bottom of the page.
that's a looooooooooooooot of money hehehe i'll be so happy if i reached $100/month, but it always took me 3 months to earn it on adsense >.<
I think most of us have read those old posts at NY times and joel's site. Do anybody know how many page view each month DP FORUM (not DP) gets each month?
Holy Crap!!!! I heard he got a huge boost by some local publicity, which then lead to national publicity, which then launched his site into the stratosphere. Free publicity seems to be the key...
The New York times says: http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?url=http://digitalpoint.com From alexa forums get 93% of all traffic. I doubt the other 7% is making more than the forums. As for your experiment what was the CPM you paid? Pierce