How much traffic do you need to make $1,000 a month with Adsense?

I have several niche directoires that are in the legal professional I am considering running adsense. How much traffic do you need to produce $1,000 a month in adsense revenues? (just a rough estimate will do).
Thanks!

 

1 000 000 visitors daily !

 

Well traffic isn't really the thing... you can get 1 click with 999,999,999 visitors
And 1 click with 999 visitors...

But for 1000$ per month... than per day you need probably over 25k uniques in total on all your websites...

As they are directories there are probably a lot keywords which will you earn more

Greetz

 

Heres something worth thinking about.

Legal niche? high paying ads i imagine, a niche directory of this meaning some visitors are companies, webmasters, so some not clickers.

For the visitors will they click, they do? but do they convert for the advertiser? if they dont you get lower and lower paying ads as your directory becomes less desirable for the advertisers, avoided more and more.

So it becomes even more of a challenge to acheive that $1000 month in adsense.

Also the adwords advertisers are competing with sites listed in the directory in the categories, they may instead choose to submit to your directory (so potential one off payment) and leave it at that.

Now even harder to achieve that $1000 a month in adsense.

I highly recommend anyone with a plan for adsense to literally read all you can about adwords for a week (if you dont already use adwords) and you will see why adsense incomes can go from good to bad or bad to worse.

Sorry i couldn't provide a rough estimate on traffic, but looking at a situation from a different angle can sometimes provide you with answers.

 

Get about 2 million a day, and you'll be okay for your $12k a year.

People don't visit websites to click adverts, never mind adsense. They seek information, not adverts.

If you have the right information, people may click on adverts providing their targeted to the search the visitor is doing. They won't click on any adsense ad purely because it's there, I guarantee you that.

It's been my experience that adsense can make a website look very bad, and combined with a naff looking directory script, a site has just screwed itself big-time. The sites that do well with adsense probably had an amazing amount of links way back many years ago, and 'get away' with quite good adsense earnings because of that. These sites did not just set up yesterday, with 100 links and an adsense block.

In other words their established - for years! But even so, they probably don't make the kind of cash you're talking about, few make anything at all from it. Displaying adsense could do more damage than good, many don't like it, they hate the look of big blocks on what maybe a very good website, and click away from you. Ofcourse some won't care, but question is will they click, just because you or I say so......... Many won't click on adsense for many reasons:

They hate Google and it's products
They hate webmasters
They hate directories (many do)
The site is unattractive
Site is untargeted
Empty website etc etc

You can't force people to click on something, especially something that looks crappy. You may make some dollars out of it, but when I ran adsense I hardly broke $150 for an entire year, and mine is a highly used site of 1 million visitors plus per year.

Interestingly when I removed my adsense, my traffic increased significantly, amazing what happens if you don't follow the herd isn't it

 

I disagree, sometimes on a clean looking site a nicely blended ad can even compliment a clean and tidy layout.

Adsense on some sites can fill some white space nicely, especially when theres maybe just one ad placed.

I have noted that you said "can" and not does.

A rather new site can do very well with adsense, its in no way connected to website age.

 

Forget that... a million a day... the only way I could get a million visitors is to spend a 1/2 million a day for adwords. Not a good business model...

 

Yes, there is a lot of white space about it seems. That isn't inviting for visitors and planting adsense blocks to fill empty space isn't what I call useful content. lol, some sites have 3 or more adsense blocks -

Really, I disagree due to the very large facts:

1. Too many chase links just for adsense purposes - so they can drive more adsense clicks. So a brand spanking new, never been heard of website is going to make a shed load of cash from adsense, and how is it going to do this without a ton of links mmmmm?

2. By the time a website gets enough links to make any significant earnings at all, it will be at least 2 years old, so you're wrong about the age thing.

I've done this myself, so know exactly what I'm on about. The newbies need to know this is not a walk in the park.

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If the collar and cuffs match - so be it. If they don't, either learn or get crushed as part of the consequences.

 

Exactly, ofcourse. That's the whole point and is why Google invented adwords


It's not that it's (advertising) a bad model, just that many can't afford it, and anything other than advertising not covered in the '101 ways to SEO guide' is trashed in about 2 seconds flat. hehehe.

You just need to know how to market for low cost.

here are 2 ways of doing it, but it's not without at least a few hours work, some thinking and cashflow to build it and promote it.

I doubt it's even workable on a directory or adsense filled website. Providing you even get it right, it's risky on crap websites and won't work.

1. Viral link method - 100% free for life

2. The igniter - which you can't afford anyway and probably won't work on these websites because their the wrong type of website attracting the wrong traffic.


So that leaves only 3 options:

1. Spend years link hunting

2. Forum/blog link drops

3. SEO

 

I agree that nothing is ever a walk in the park, but on the other hand - one individuals opinion does not a quorum make.

 

Extrapolating from some of my sites... you would need 2 000 00 UV per day to make $1000 per month in adsense. It would also depend on niche. Finance / real estate sites might have better figures.

 

You need only 10000 visitors per day on your site. And I am 1000% sure that you will get minimum $30 per day that means per month $900 but $900 is miminum that means you reach $1000.

 

Here's a good thread for you to check out.

Same niche. Be sure to check out the whole thread, adsense earnings changed over course.

That should give you a real life example, rather than some of the wildly varying numbers here.

 

A hell of a lot, my CTR is less than 2% if that gives you an idea...

 

More than 20K UV.

 

Who can tell?

Adsene is based on the keywords and content of the page. So it all comes down to how competitive your keywords really are and the click frequenzy of your visitors.

Just as pipes said, you might lose earnings over time as well.

I have niches (in Health) that gives me about $1/click, but I have others sites making a few cents per click as well. It all depends on the content...

 

Specialist websites will have better traffic coming in for sure. Still 2000 returning (uniques) visitors is a heck of a lot, and I'd even suggest that many niche sites won't get 2000 visitors in total, never mind that amount returning. (due to them being start-ups in the wrong niche).

It's more like 2000 visitors overall, most of traffic will be total junk and untargeted, with maybe 300 returning regularly - and that's being generous where general directories are concerned. We used to run a general directory with 60k of links, and were just touching about 11'000 visitors a month, with about 3'000 uniques, so it's not much compared to some sites.

Granted, we didn't run adsense on our general dir, but we did on the niche one and it did badly, not breaking past $150 a year. So it shows that adsense won't work on all sites and isn't the answer to great cash.

 

Entirely correct.

 

totally depends on the keyword. To make $1000 from a directory, it still depends on its niche

 

Adsense simply does not work well on directories, believe me I've tried.