Alright, try to stay focus. At the end of this paragraph will come an important question to me. Let's say I were to build a really cool looking site. A site which is geared for just learning. An informational site. Let's say for example, it's a Martial Arts site. A site where there isn't very many other sites that offer the same info. Then I hand type my own content, which is over 800 pages in totals in categorys of describing Weapons, kinds of martial art, history, training, etc. Just a whole load of absolute unique content. Let's say that this site is off the hook for looks. It's one of the best looking sites for martial arts infomation in the world. Then I get a nice sitemap, good metatag going on, gather some heavy organic traffic, break into a pr 4 or higher, 1000's of backlinks, digged, stumbled, and referals like mad. Now it's doing well and the clicks are comming in from google. Now here's the question I want to ask...... Can you predict how much each click is going to work? I have a big project that's comming together and I don't really want to take a loss at money. I'm going to be depending on adsense to payout well. Considering that I am hand typing a "FREAKIN" book almost all unique the clicks would be worth a lot. so..... -minimal types of sites like it (under 20 in the world) -unique content not on the internet -good adsense placement -SEO-ed I say again. Can you predict how much each click is going to work? Because I need to know and estimate becuase I don't want to do this site if I'm going to find out that it gets 1 to 6cent clicks.
Hard to tell. I have a blog that gets very little traffic. However, clicks are worth 32 to 60 cents. It all depends on how much advertisers are willing to spend.
yea, I mean if you dont have advertisers with martail art content or content related to your site, then the ads google displays on your site may not interest your users therefore little amounts of clicks. There is not way to really tell though. Mike
Short answer: NO Nobody can predict with any certainty - the only way to know is to give it a try. But also keep in mind that if you do all of those hypothetical things you will be getting butt-loads of traffic. With a lot of traffic you can monetize your site with many more things than just Adsense.
Find out how much it costs to run martial arts keywords on the adsense content network and divide that in half. That's how much you will make per click.
If you are doing all this JUST to make money then I'd argue that you are probably going to struggle for motivation in the first 12 months because the reality is that it really is a hard slog for the first 12 months with little returns. As for can you estimate how much each click is going to be worth - you can make a rough guess, and if I was making one I'd say around 5 - 15 cents. But how much you make per click isn't nearly as important as how much traffic your site receives, and how much traffic you will receive is virtually impossible to predict.
5 to 15cents. That's not a good prediction. so if I pull 5000 clicks a month on a 10.99 hosted site then its' either $250 or up to $750. That way to much of a gap. As far as traffic goes. It's easy to predict if it's planned. I havn't launched the site but I know where its keywords will top on google, how many searches per month, refered traffic, as well as some powerful relivant links up. Overall I'm just afraid that if I spend the time to put this together It'll end up like my arcade which gets fair traffic which doubles every month, but only receives an average of .05cents a click. that's awful. How much does google take? Mother of pearls.
You're right that is a terrible prediction what was I thinking - I will just jump into my time machine for you and go see exactly what you will earn per click. Dude seriously your expecting freaking exact answers from people that can't give them to you. Bloody Google can't give them to do. I'm sorry for taking 5 minutes out of what is my very busy day to actually help give your a "rough" guide of what to expect, and trust me I had a million better things to do than look that shit up for you. Here is the reality mate - no matter how great your plan is you still have no idea how much traffic you are going to get - because at the end of the day if you are relying on organic traffic from Google it can be very hit and miss. I have launched a few sites in my time, some have taken off to get hundreds of uniques per day and list in Google within a couple of weeks - some sites with exactly the same launch formula and careful planning 18 months later still haven't made it. I have some "ideas" as to why, but at the end of the day I will never "really" know because Google doesn't want us to know. Sure you can say there are simple principles to apply in regards to SEO, and there is, but there are still so many factors that effect the Google index that are rarely taken into account for. Google is an ever changing monster and if you think you have it all worked out then blow off your Karate site and launch your "tell all formula" because people WILL buy it and the best part is you can set the price than getting us honest people here at DP to guess your EPC rate for you.
Listen, Your not thinking 4th dimensional. If its impossible to predict a close-to amount than there really isn't any point in choosing what site to run if your using adsense. "What's the differance, right? no one can tell". No, no, no, it's not like that and here's why. Certian sites are known to be worth more and certian site are worth less. A site with no unique content obviously won't do good, same as a site with "NO" content. This is obvious. No time machine needed. A site that has ablolute unique content that has never been shown on the internet "should" have a better click price on it. This site I'm working on will take the same as a 300 page novel all done by myself and I assumed that someone around here could confirm that its worth it or not. Besides, your 5 minutes isn't worth anything here. I don't owe you anything for your words. If they are too valuable then get lost with yourself. What the heck? Just so everyone knows. That Martial arts was an example. E.X.A.M.P.L.E. It could be a informational. For all everyone knows it could be about "dog hair" information, or a "sodium" site. The example was made to be able to come close to let people have a taste of the kind of site it is to tell. If I said Arcade, then people would know it gets a low click price tag, I was curious on fully unique content, 800 pages of raw infomation in order of paragraphs and links that come from my head and my keyword.
How much is your target market willing to spend. If they are spending loads of money, then yeah potentially a lot of money in there. If not, guess it's not worth all the effort. ~G
So basically what you are really asking is... "If I give you guys essentially no useful information on the content I'm writing about how much exactly will I get paid per click...?" Dude, I'm going to break it down for you - a click is worth exactly what someone is willing to pay for it. So what does that mean and how do you work out to and actual dollar and cents value? So you say you have all this wizz bang completely unique and rare content ready to throw out onto the web. Now that may be all well and good, but what really matters is how many people out there DEMAND that information (ie - will go to your site to read the information) and how many advertisers are there out there willing to pay you to SUPPLY your visitors to them, and in addition to how many advertisers how much do they stand to gain, usually in revenue, from the average visitors that comes to their site. So if your site is about "pigeons" well there aren't probably a whole lot of people out there interested in reading information about them and there wouldn't be a whole lot of advertisers out there wanting to get your visitors to their site, and even if there were a couple I can't think of any great products to sell related to a "pigeon loving" audience that would net the advertisers a good return - therefore you're not going to get a good EPC. Now if your great content is about the "Perfected Art of Picking Up Women" you'd argue that there is a big audience - as in 50% of the population would at least be interested in reading what you had to say - assuming like you said it is the best of the best, unique and uncommon knowledge. So not only do you have a big audience but you also have lots of people to sell the traffic two and some of the advertisers you'd sell to have VERY deep pockets. What can I say, "sex sells". So like everything in life - it all comes down to SUPPLY and DEMAND. In regards to how much you will make per click - well if there are LOTS of advertisers that stand to gain a LOT from your targeted visitors and like your say there is limited SUPPLY of places for them to advertise then you may have a winner. Though mind you, you will only have a winner if you can get the traffic to your site - but you seem confident in your ability to pull it off. So - seeing you're not willing to share more specific details about your industry I'm sorry to say that is the best answer anyone will be able to give you as to how much you will make per click.