well , Tony, if you want to sell the site, just shoot me the url, traffic stats and monthly revenue. For 100 plus a month, frankly , it's not worth the time after 11 months. David
I have most earning from web directories, blogs, discussion forums and free tools and services pages mostly
I am aiming to hit this goal this year. I was very close toward the end of last year, then got knocked down greatly by jagger. Now that I have my rankings back, I hope to be in this area. Adwords, other PPC- I have only tried adwords, but did it during a time I had good rankings so I really didnt notice a difference. I mean, I seen how many people were coming from adwords clicks, but it didn't convert to an equal amount of increase in revenue at the time. I may try it again at some point, but for now I will continue on without it.
Huh? My advertising *income* from the site is over $1,000 monthly. I'm saying I'm only currently spending about $100 a month on Adwords. I was asking about stats of Adwords expended vs. increased Adsense revenue. But no, I'm not interested in selling. The site also brings me $60k or more in consulting work yearly
I already had a few high traffic sites when they brought out adsense, I remember reading on one forum that it may even cover your hosting costs Its come a long way since then, so I never built sites up to get over $5 just needed to add some code and monetise it better.
For $100 per month, you might get 2000 visitors which is small compared to your uniques. So a bigger budget would help assuming you have a good way to measure conversion. I use AdTracker and append my url's so I know where traffic comes from. I spend $XXXX per month, sometimes that much per week. I try to bid around $0.05 and not worry if I have many "not active for search" words, I'll get some search and some content network traffic. The people that come in to my sites are researching business and technology topics and got there by clicking ads so they are prone to click more ads.
I can measure conversion, and we're similar in concept: tech based, and I get most of my traffic through searches. As I said, my experience even at $300 a month was that it added nothing visible to my revenues - I do the $100.00 because it's almost nothing so what the heck. What I'm wondering is for those that have tracked this stuff, if you invest $1,000 in Adwords what return do you expect from Adsense (or what kind of traffic increase which is pretty much the same thing) So you guesstimate $100 brings in 2,000 extra visitors - I don't see that; more like a few hundred - maybe I'm paying too much.. I see your point: if I'm paying 50 cents per click, $100 gets me appx 200 visitors - an invisible amount, and worth maybe $2.00 or less in likely Adsense revenue.. seems like a losing game to me so I must be missing something.. ??
1) How long did it take you to get there, from when you were doing just $xxx / month Day 1 2) At any point did you start seeing exponential growth, or was it linear growth throughout ? Linear.
I signed up for Adsense in June of 2003, but my site had been active on the web for many years before that, so it made money immediately. Income fell off by about 25% starting April 2004. I attributed that to the spread of Adsense. In December 2004 I redesigned my whole site, changing Adsense placement, colors, etc, and got it back up to where it had been. It's been steady since then, growing slightly.. I've experimented with adding in Yahoo and Chitika and those pushed my total income down a bit - I have left them in at a greatly reduced usage rate just to see if they will get better - if they don't, I'll go back to 100% Adsense. I have tracked ad channels six ways from Sunday, used Asrep to track even more closely, played with this that and the other thing, and my final conclusion is that while you certainly can affect income by placement, colors, ad types etc., if you are basically doing what Adsense Faqs suggest, you aren't going to make any significant difference by little tweaking - the real gains come from increasing traffic. Spend more time worrying about your content and getting eyeballs than Adsense mechanics (assuming you are doing the basics, of course).