Well... My frustration comes from hearing how much some people make with a certain number of clicks, and all this happens because they have websites, even dinky ones, that target popular keywords. I have a well established, PR1 educational website. Less traffic than the popular niche sites, but if it was a popular niche site I would be making enough. So, what to do ? Let it be and start building other sites for money? Stupid question, I will !, LOL, but I am just frustrated with having clicks that make little $$. Here is an example - this month, July, is the best month of for me so far. And I am happy with what I get, but it is not enough ! I feel like I am handicapped because I am successful at creating a popular site - sorry, wrong keyword ! Well, here are the numbers: this month : 2800 clicks made me $ 400. Sometime I think Google should subsidise successful low paying websites - to support education and exchange of information. What would happen if everyone went after the buck ? But then, hey, it's capitalism. What's your advise ? I think I will go for the buck - if I make enough I will be able to devote myself to the platonic education stuff. I've tried donations button on my website - got $5 in 3 years, LOLOL What do you think ?
well i find that all new sites start off good with adense and then get smart priced if you are not firmiller with that term run a search and you will get lots of results here on the forums. the site that made you the $400 why not keep adding content and building traffic?
Yeah, that's exactly what I decided to do. it just feels like I have to work a lot to make little in comparison with working a lot and getting a lot. With a ringtone, cellphone or any site like that with 2.8k clicks I should be making at least $1.5k, right ? No choice for me though I see. I know, if I want to make more bucks from my website I have to expand it and try to attract more keyword searches. Thanks for your opinion, it helped
$400 from one site isn't so bad. Use that money and reinvest it into building another site. You can also use the traffic you already have from this site and drive some of it to your new site. Create your own mailing list for your site (if you don't already have one) so that you can get your visitors back to your site more than once. Just a few quick thoughts...
Look for other ways to monetise your site. Link sales? Find some good products with an affiliate program that fit in with your theme? If you've set this up for getting money, then looking for popular / high paying words makes sense. On the other hand, money isn't the only reason.
You're not looking at the big picture. From your numbers, you're doing .14-cents per click. A lot of people would kill for that kind of rate. A lot of sites never surpass .05-cents a click, so your .14-cents is pretty darn good. Mind you, it's not gangbusters, but it ain't as bad as you think it is. Having said the above, your problem is that you average less than 100 clicks a day. I can't say if that's low or not, because you didn't give out any solid numbers. How much unique visitors do you get a day? Forget impressions, just the unique count.
Heya jackburton2006, Unique visitiors stats: Date Month Unique Visits 1/1/2006 January 21,815 2/1/2006 February 21,390 3/1/2006 March 30,790 4/1/2006 April 31,255 5/1/2006 May 37,985 6/1/2006 June 42,706 185941 Unique Visits so far this year. What do you think ? I think it is not bad. I am just confused by Shoemoney's talk about how he used to make 1-2 bucks a click and then after doing something 2-5 $$ a click. I think it was ringtone related.
Hey Jeremy, what do you think about this ? How can I make more money to be able to do a non-profit ? Sponsorships don't work from my experience, unless sponsors have a way to profit somehow from the whole thing, let it be keep the government grants renewed and job contracts kept. Let me know when you will become a philantropist, lol
Shoemoney runs affiliate programs for ringtones. He gets paid a high amount (can be in the $12 range) when a user signs up for the service - ringtone affiliates get nothing for a click.
Okay, so you're doing around 1400/day, and it looks like a steady increase every month. That's not a bad number, but it's not that great. Think of it this way -- theoretically spekaing, if you can double your traffic, you'll double your earnings. So instead of starting a new site from scratch, you should concentrate on building up traffic for this established site. It would be a lot easier than trying to start all over, I can tell you that from experience.
jackburton2006 - that's what am figuring out... This is just one venue though.. I don't want to be limited to one website, right ? Well, I shouldda shup up on that one - since the advise it to look for new niches, opportunities and son on, etc... But with this one website - I think your are right jackburton2006. Increase traffic - it does directly translate into $$. I will do that. It is tough though, because of a very narrow and specific keyword I target. I think my solution is to expand the keyword base, and make more side but related projects around those new channels. Expand in other words. Do you agree ? I guess you just said you do, lol Still, I don't want to limit myself to one source of income, putting all eggs in one sack. I gotta make new websites - so there I am to square one - make and promote, read more DP , lol
Oh, one more thing - my website traffic is seasonal. Double the clicks in summer, win ter becomes cold. Still, doing nothing, just with the way the internet grows, I get double $$ and clicks every year due to the expention of the net users,. That's one positive thing, If it goes same way, I'll be making a 1k a month in June 07, and so on.
Yes, there's no need to limit yourself to that one site. Keep putting quality time into promoting it, while you're working on your side projects. The question now is, how much to invest in the side project, and how can you gauge its success or failure? You don't want to have spent months on a site that has no customer base...