I have about 6 websites, each gets about 100-to-200 visitors (unique) per day, with approximately each website yielding about 150 page views per day. My Google Adsense is very adequately placed and the sites are not shouting ads all over (perhaps they should be). Adsense revenue is low about $0.20-$0.30 per day. My question is simple... How difficult is it to make $1/day from Google AdSense. I am very new to this all, so granted, I am making mistakes here and there, which I will eventually learn and correct for. But having said that, is it a difficult task to be earning $1/day based on 100-200 visitors per day?
I'd say it depends on your ctr. Do you have less than 1% ctr? Most sites would consider 5% good but under 1% bad so make sure that's not the issue. After that it depends on your niche, if you aren't in a competitive niche then it'll be tough to get higher cpc.
You say you're new, but not how long the sites have been up. 100-200 uniques/day is pretty good for a relatively new site. With traffic that good, that new, I'd think it will increase nicely and so will the ctr.
It actually depends upon Origin of Traffic & # of Impression you are getting, subject of websites... Real Estate Websites have usually high Paying rates if your web is keyword optimized..
I think you are in exactly the same position as I was a year back or so! I went through a stage of making around 15 websites, of which three are now actively making me a monthly income of anywhere between £100-£150 ($200-300 (with a larger bonus at Christmas based on the niche i target). I found the trick was to choose a niche that pays decent, and to focus on really giving each of those sites my time in regards to building links and good, original content. Also, read up on SEO - invest in a good ebook or dont be afraid to ask lots of questions. Good SEO helped me get top place in google for my keywords, which then provided the bulk of traffic I need. The other sites I made that failed, did so because I rushed them. Looking back now, I wish I had of kept things going one step at a time. However, I now have a foundation of income (not colossal, but enough to fund my hobby of webdevelopment) to try new things and keep things fresh. I hope this helps you It's really achievable, if you just make sure you don't take too much on at any one time.
Am new to the 'revenue' generation aspect of it - - but the blogs that I maintain are each over 4 years old. CTR was low on all of them, because I did not inundate the blog with advertisements all over. Just inserted one Adsense insertion on one side of the page, to make it less intrusive (for lack of a better word). I wanted to see what that would do and then have a baseline to work with - before trying to insert any new Adsense insertions. All the websites get updated 10-20 times per month, with sometimes 3-4 updates per day. So content is there and relevance is there too, hence the traffic (which is all generic so far).
Thank you for your valuable input. I appreciate it. Well I've been a passive reader of this forum for months now, and once I had somewhat a decent grasp of all the acronyms and terminologies used here in DP, I opted to sign-up. I want to write about what I can write about and have a decent command over it (as far as the knowledge domain is concerned). Having said that, I do not see in the immediate future trying to venture out into different areas (subject verticals) of which I may know nothing or something about, but would still by benchmarking... be considered a novice. Hence, I stay away. My niche is pretty well defined. So no issues there. Like with everyone here, I have ideas, but believe in taking it one step at a time, which for me would translate to - find for myself a working and revenue model that works, and then perhaps replicate it to areas that I might consider. Rather than paying too much attention on horizontal growth, I'm trying to tweak the vertical growth of the website as far as optimization is concerned and corresponding revenue. Hope that makes sense.
The two biggest factors in earning are traffic and content. I have been running my blog for about six months and I have earned 57 cents thus far, therefore, it takes time and effort.
YOU HAVE TO PUT ALOT OF DIFFERENT ADS ON DIFFERENT WEBSITES i just started to average about 1.40 something a day for the last few months but i have put adsense on like 10-15 of my sites . . . and use IMAGE ONLY ads they pay more
@Willking: Yes, I agree. One problem with blogs are repeat visitors (not a problem per se - actually a God send if you think about it). Repeat visitors tend to 'ignore' the Google Adwords... but they do contribute towards, traffic. If I can bump my traffic generically (and I can - over time, am confident of that) to say 1,000-2000 page views per day, then even placing a CPM based ad or two would yield a few cents to contribute to the $1/day goal. That $1/day goal is my initial goal. Would like to achieve that before I set a higher one. My content is very unique to my niche - barring one personal blog, which has no niche so to speak of, but gets traffic. How much traffic (unique) do you get and how many page views per day? (curious)
Try adding Backlinks to sites and you will see a visible difference in your traffic. While keeping your ads intact try putting some ad links to site as well, they can at least increase 20 to 25% in earnings. Blend the ads or make a Contrast. check with variations.
You mean within the text of my blog posts? How would that be possible with Google's Adsense? I know affiliate marketing programs can provide such linkages or do I just copy Link location from the advertisement itself? and link it to the text in my post? Is that allowed by Google's TOS?
Getting $1 per day is not difficult if you have lot of traffic. I mean more than 1k per day. Traffic from google search engine always been a quality source of traffic to increase adsense earning.
You don't have to get 1K traffic to make decent income from Adsense. It depends on want niche you are in and the type of traffic you are getting. Organic traffic is best so you will need to do onpage and offpage optimization. You need to work on buliding links to move up the serps. For example, i have sites that can make $3-$5 daily from only 100-200 impressions a day. Most of this is from search engine traffic and nothing from social bookmark sites. So if do some keyword research and pick the right niches you can easily achieve more than $1 day from site without the need of 1000+ impressions a day.
Great to hear that. Many keywords do bring my SERPs on the 1st page. But its event driven traffic, if a particular event kicks in - I get traffic, otherwise, I don't get the steep spike. Sometimes, its just user behavior! (go figure!).
find different genres of events that you can "compare" to the ones you currently write about . . . then you will get more traffic even if it is for a different event than youre still getting traffic . . .
No.It's not difficult atall. If you are in this field for a few months and not earning $1/day...I think you're lazy. Try to learn more techniques that drive traffic to your site... First concentrate on one site..drive traffic,build some backlinks and you'll reach that goal very easily.
I think overly cautious is the word - as opposed to lazy However, nomenclature notwithstanding, I have always been wary of back links - and the services being provided for here on DP. Does back linking from 1000s of directories and blog really make a difference? (as opposed to linking a few from content-relevant websites - which is slower, but retains relevance).