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If 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?
by jasonlotito 10y ago
If 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!).