sorry if it's a rude question, but I'm curious between two different advertisers, I'm making 3-4 thousand dollars a month off of my hobby site. I'm really ecsatic it's working this well- I'm pretty young (18) and to match this sort of income I would have to be working 40 hours a week at 20 dollars an hour. my only expenses really are my host (79$ a month) since I don't work at all (I'm a student) I was really pleased when this started so how much do you make online, and where does the money come from?
wow! 3-4 thousand? thats amazing! me? you might be disappointed =( May I return the question to you? Where your income come from?
from two seperate advertisers. we get ~15,000 uniques a day and around 100,000 pageviews a day I'm going to try my hand at affiliate sites next and see how well I can do there
God, I love the internet ! I'm not making quite that much yet, probably in 3-4 months, since my sites are all new. But, I'm selling products, rather then doing the affiliate/advertiser thing, so I think that's a whole different ball game. All that I know is that my business allows me to live quite comfortably, I can work from the hammock in my front yard & I get to surf every day. I came from making $58k per year in Corporate America and I'll take this lifestyle any day!
yeah, even though I'm sure actually selling things opens up tons of extra doors to making money, it just seems like so much work for me. I like the idea of being able to build something, leave it, and make money from it
Now duplicate what you are doing (choose another hobby) and you can get your income to increase. Those who smartly do this are making more than you and those who are not working SMART are making less than you. Then, soon you too can be in the 5 Digits to the Left of the Decimal Point Club (-: $xx,xxx.xx (monthly)
plug in "final fantasy" into the DP suggestion tool combine that many searches in a very non-competitive field where virtually no one knows anything about SEO and it's not that hard, really
Disgust, What made you decide to do a final fantasy website? Is it an interest? Are you overseas or in North America? I looked at your forums and was astonished at the traffic. Maybe I need to re-assess a few things. I play vids everyday (more sports then rpg) and maybe I need to do something with it. hmmmm..... domain registered. server accessed....... hehe Disgust, that is awesome for you! PS: Were there any copyright infringements etc.. you had to worry about because of the title etc..
technically I suppose there may be copyright issues (although I'm not positive?) but the publisher actually encourages fansites. there are literally hundreds of them out there. I originally joined the site as a member, I just stuck around for a long time, no one was doing much for the place, so I started to add content and do SEO. the traffic increased from there
This thread just made me feel about two inches tall I guess I can't complain. By using the web, I've been able to solicit over $40 of goods and services for my show truck. The adssence revenue is ok on the site, but I'd love to have the time to build a site that gets that kind of traffic and that kind of revenue.
Oops, I just realized I omited an important word from my previous post. That should have read $40 Thousand dollars. LOL
You're on a good wicket there Disgust. That's good money for a single site - mainly because revenue originates from 2 advertisers - very manageable. The biggest thorn in any distributed online endeavor (ie dozens of sites) - is manageability. The same applies where affiliate programs are concerned. They need close watching, and constant management. Whatever you do in terms of affiliate arrangements, make sure you can centralize management and keep the time to a minimum. Student life can be quite demanding as you know. If I'm not mistaken, you've got a cash cow with minimum overhead (time wise) and a refinable dev/marketing model that's probably worth ten times what you're making from the one site. How about sharing some basic info like when you started the site (or marketing it), linkage acquisition methods, things you figure drive traffic to your site (ie is it G, Y, others, all), milestones (ie when did significant things happen and what were they), do you see a lot of churn or an established/loyal userbase, etc etc. As for your question - the money I earn online - I operate a number of sites, none of which earn that much independantly - close, but not that much. The irony is my (current) biggest earner doesn't even rank on G and sees maybee 600 uniques a day if that. Congrats on your success - I wish I'd enjoyed similar when I was 18
$4 thousand a month is definitely great income for a college student. I also wish I had that kind of income when I was in college.