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So as long as you've got a huge enough following, that is willing to pay for anything you give them, it should be no problem. Not realistic for majority of site
by overcast 10y ago
So as long as you've got a huge enough following, that is willing to pay for anything you give them, it should be no problem. Not realistic for majority of sites.
Reminds me of big musicians, giving their new album away for free. After thirty years of making millions. Very poetic.
- jasonlotito 10y agoIf you don't have a huge following, if you don't have a huge audience already, what kind of money are you really making with an advertising network?
- overcast 10y agoA living.
- jasonlotito 10y agoI'll bite: what does that mean exactly? "A living" implies something different to me than you.
- overcast 10y agoIt means enough to pay bills, like everyone else's definition of a living.
- pbhjpbhj 10y agoA nibble of data for you: I'm getting between 1800 and 2600 page-views per month, eyeballed [mean] average 2100 on my blog. I just decided before Christmas to drop Amazon ads. Amazon made me something like 80p [~1USD, ~1EUR] last year, for the whole year. Google Adsense made me about £80 [100USD, 94EUR] for the same period. Which pays for the hosting and may be a meal for the family, or a piece of computer equipment but nothing else. I basically do nothing to optimise my advertising, I just stick it on there and forget it. Occasionally I've mentioned a product in the blog but never had anything significant in return. Google has the best position (top-right sidebar), Amazon had the most impressions (repeated automatically in the sidebar down the page IIRC, I have ublock!).