So I'm looking to set up a website and I am clueless as to the dynamics of doing so. All that I have is an idea and I'm trying to figure out how to make it work. Well, Im actually trying to figure out if it's even worth setting up. I have contacted a programmer/designer and awaiting a quote on startup costs for my site. Generally speaking, my idea is a gaming site and would be free to sign up and play on so I wont be generating any revenue there. My question is pertaining to advertising on a website, is it all about generating large amounts of traffic and hits to your site to make money through advertising? Can I assume large amounts of daily users would translate into revenue? I appreciate any responses, thank you.
In short, if you can attract traffic to your site... and run ads that appeal to that traffic, then yes, a certain percentage of visitors will click on or see those ads and you will earn revenue. (Depending on whether your advertisers use a pay-per-click, pay-per-impression revenue model or other kind of pay-per-action model). Alternatively, you could charge for the games. But if the games aren't that superior, unique or addictive compared to other freely available games then an advertising model may be the way to go.
hi yes money making from your site only and only depends upon how much traffic your website has if you have no traffic you cannot earn a single buck from it. so dnt be slow promote your website massively.
Traffic equals money so lots of traffic equals lots of money. There are lots of ways to promote your site for free like social bookmarking and forums.
Quality Traffic is more important that junk traffic. A lot of webmasters are starting to calculate average profit per visitor as well. You can have a basic media site getting 10,000 visits per day from social marketing and not make nearly as much as a professional services site getting only 50 visits per day from interested decision makers.
Really appreciate these responses. What do you guys consider good revenue off strickly advertising? Is making $1000+/per month wishful thinking?
Much like posters have answered before, being able to make a certain amount of money (e.g., $1,000+ per month) really depends upon what your website is offering, to whom it is offering its products/services, and how you promote the site. It is not wishful thinking for youtube.com to make $1,000 or more per month. But it is wishful thinking for a lot of webmasters who quickly throw up a 'me-too' site with no real business plan. As is the case with all good things in life, getting to where you want to be requires intelligence, hard work, and some luck.
Hi! Oh yeah. *major* wishful thinking. Ah! We've all read the ads..make money while you sleep..blah..blah..blah. Fantasy. Or at least fantasy unless you're able to come up with <add trumpet sound> The next big thing! and you garner their attention and they buy you out for 12Mil. Sadly..people don't even take into account how long it the builders to build the site...the $$$ involved..dedicated servers..prgrammers..paid moderators..etc..etcc..thousands of dollars to make these sites even open for day 1. They fail to take into account the hours the founders spent working on bugs and concepts..well..you get the picture. The only thing you hear about is blah.com sold for 12Million..not about the work involved. A successful site takes a heck of lot of work. Most sites have no business even thinking about ad revenue until they have established traffic and repeat users. This is normally not the case. Many think about it first..which doesn't usually work. If you have a succesful site..then you can think about decent ad revenue income. Bryon