For those who are experienced with Adsense, do you have a rough correlation between traffic (either views or visitors/month) and income ($/month)? I realize it's an oversimplification, but let's make a few assumptions: -It's an information website with new content posted daily. -It is fairly targeted and has a high % of return visitors (nearing 50%) because of the content. -It doesn't promote any products or sell anything. It's purely information. I've been lurking here for a little bit and have some numbers in mind, but I'd like to know if there's a rough estimate of views:income. Thanks!
It depends on the niche and CTR of course, but a RPM (revenue per thousand page view) of $5 is correct / average. So by using this figure you can estimate the monthly income. 100,000 page views = $500 of course if you find out that you get less than $5 RPM on your own site you have the opportunity to optimize your CTR with ad placement until you reach at least $5 RPM.
There is only ONE way to know what kind of earnings your website, with your traffic, and your content will generate from Adsense: Put it on, and try it. ANYTHING else is just speculation and guessing and in some cases already posted here, worthless attempts to run-up post counts.
Come on Tearabite, I'm sure you have some experience Me I'm talking about $5 RPM not as a maximum or any average, I'm talking about it as a minimum goal to achieve for any "correct" site.. I mean if a site can't do that, then I'd still be working on improving its CTR until it does.. But some sites, due to the high CPC, it's so easy to reach $5 RPM that it is not worth talking about it.. But in general, I think $5 RPM is correct, like I think CPC $0.1 is correct (and so CTR 5% is correct) After several years of playing with adsense we can say such things as a RPM of $5 is correct with adsense and sometimes easily reachable, most of the time by making sure your CTR is top notch.
Thanks for the replies. I'll elaborate a little more: it's a blog in a fairly specific niche (similar to self improvement but more narrow), but hosted on my own server. I don't know if that will affect it or not. What kind of traffic should I be looking at before I plug in adsense? I plan on having ~25 posts/month (has only been going for 3 weeks so far). I'm up to 100 views/day (according to Analytics). I am aiming at 1000/day by end of November. I don't want to add it before there's enough content for it to properly crawl, and I'm guessing having some backlinks (outside of just other forums) would help as well.