I'm a newbie in this ads revenue business. I'm trying to figure out what I can do with what I know best. I'm an expert MATLAB programmer, so I can easily start up a "good quality" MATLAB blog. What I want to know is how much I can make from google adsense on a MATLAB blog on blogspot.com. I can have 30+ unique good articles. I can have links from .edu sites with PR 4-5. I can build links to my blog from various forums on the web. But you know the search volume for MATLAB is not high. So, can you help me in figuring out a good estimate on how much I can earn from this blog? thanks
Well your problem would be that you are competing with many other EDU sites... I'm not familiar with MATLAB but I know it's an entry level college course which means you are going to find a lot of .edu, high pr articles already... If it's low search volume, and high competition, it's just not worth it... Plus it's a very directed search. Students are seeking answers or help, most likely nothing else... I'm guessing not too many people are intrigued with MATLAB and are looking to find their information and exit out, so your click through ratio is going to be crappy. Just my thoughts
Thanks. A correction: MATLAB --aka Matrix Laboratory-- is not an entry level college course. It's a software used by engineers and scientists across the world. It's originally developed for numerical computations but it can handle analytic closed-form expressions as well. When I compare "matlab" vs. "celebrity" using google-trends (http://www.google.com/trends?q=matlab%2C+celebrity&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0) the search volume for matlab does not seem too bad.
MATLAB is still used by a huge amount of companies, so i really think it's a good idea to start blogging about it. Many people would be interested, and it would be pretty easy to end up on Google's first page using "matlab blog" as a main keyword. PM me if you're really into it... I could help you with a little bit of SEO and stuff...
I'll admit the only times I have looked for MATLAB things online are when I need a way of doing something, meaning I never visit the site again after that. But this does actually sound interesting, I would want to see how it turns out.
Can you support your answer with some data and/or an example of experience? For example, from google-trends and from google-keyword, what can we conclude? I'm asking these because I'm a totally newbie. Thank you very much.
There is no way to tell what you will earn from the blog from the onset. It is dependent on many factors -- how many people are looking for information on MATLAB (i.e., the number of visitors you get), how good your articles are, how savvy your visitors are (are they inclined to click an ad?), how much advertisers are paying to have their ads show up on MATLAB blog, etc. My suggestion is to just do it. From the sound of it, it should be very easy for you to generate good content. Build it up and worry about monetizing it as it matures.
Good. Let's try to estimate those factors: Number of visitors: I compared "matlab" with "flower", "celebrity" and "mortgage" using google trends. The search volume for "matlab" is slightly less than half of "flower" and about one-third of "mortgage". (here is the query: http://www.google.com/trends?q=matlab%2C+flower%2C+celebrity%2C+mortgage&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0" ) Assume that I write good articles. The visitors will mostly be engineers, people working for science/tech. companies, and college students. IMO these people are NOT inclined to click to ads. I don't know how much matlab ads are up there. Is there a way to figure this out? Thanks.
matlab omg i haven't heard that name since college - i don't know if there's a big audience for that tho
A google search for "matlab blog" brings a few blogs. One of them is http://matlabdatamining.blogspot.com/ which claims that it had ~65K visitors since Feb 2007. Is this a good number? Here is another blog having adsense: http://www.ecogito.net/matlab/ Not all of the ads are relevant to matlab. Does this suggest that there are not enough ads on matlab? The first blog above has PR 5, the other has PR 3. These are big numbers, right? Does this guarantee a good amount of money? Given all these, is "matlab blog" still a good idea to make money?