How much money should I make with 200-400 uniques/day?

I know its a very broad question, and depends highly on the niche of your website, but does anyone know a guideline for how much (approx) your site should be making at given traffic amounts?

I'm sort of new to Adsense, I used to be making big bucks on YPN (getting easily over $1/click) so with a few hundred clicks I was rolling in the dough. Eventually YPN thought my websites weren't sending them enough conversions and they closed my BETA account, so I went back to Adsense. I'm getting more clicks, sure, but obviously a lot less CPC.

Only have the ads up on one site (sold my larger sites), and it doesn't get that much traffic. Question is -- what is a good upper limit and reasonable CTR to shoot for with Adsense? I'm used to a crappy CTR but great earnings from YPN, so now I'm happy with my CTR, but I'm not sure what to aim for.

Should I work more heavily on increasing traffic or improving the CTR?

Thanks in advance.

AR

 

Whats your niche?

 

It is a broad question it depends on how you are monetizing the traffic.

 

Monetizing purely by PPC networks (Adsense).

Niche I guess is closest to Humor/Pranks (low paying keywords usually, but I've had a few good clicks).

 

yes, we all should

hard to say how much you will make. not only depending on your niche but also based on your CTR. just place the code and see how it goes. you can always play around with ad positioning for better CTR

 

$1 to $3 if you have a good niche... less than $10 if you have bad niche with couple of cents per click..

 

From 200-400 Impressions I think you'll be lucky to make $5 a day

 

with 500 uniques, average 800 pageviews, humor niche, smart add placement... about dollar and half

 

Well them I guess I'm going much better than that and I should be happy.

200-300 uniques getting me $5+ on an average day.

Go me.

 

Dude what's your CTR?!! 30% ??

Congrats anyway, you blew me up, maybe I should try humor niche hehe I though that they give max 0.10$ peer click average ...

 

CTR isn't even double digits because I have a good amount of pageviews (considering the site has like 10 pages).

Ironically enough, revenue + CTR went up because the website was broken for a week, and I think my visitors were frantically clicking around trying to see what was wrong :-P

 

Yes, I noticed that when I stop adding content ( i add it almost every day ) my CTR doubles, but that's just mean hehe

 

yes, because the more content you have, the more indexed page by google... more indexed page means more visitors..

 

Not exactly. For example, visitor comes from Google SE ( that means 70% of total for me) , chances are that he will click the add much more higher if they can't find the information they are looking for at your site => they will keep searching and you have "relevant ads" which should help them to continue their search. That's how things work in my niche

 

"Should I work more heavily on increasing traffic or improving the CTR?"

You need to work on both. Traffic = $$$. So try to increase the traffic. But CTR is also important. Try different ad placements and see which one gives the best CTR.

 

Yep, thats what I've found out that works as well.

 

I have one site that pulls in around 400 visitors/day... It seems to make any where from $2-$7/day... sometimes more... sometimes less.

I have another site that also gets around 400 visitors/day... and it makes less than $1/day... so you can see it depends greatly on the niche... content... and type of visitors...

 

I have one that is about in that range, I generally make $5-$15 a day, but my niche pays pretty well (.5-$2/click) so that might skew me upwards.

 

It's uncertain, 200-400 uniques can sometimes bring you $4-5 for a single click

 

If you are doing with some high paying niches here, then you are the winner..