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So how much cold hard Adsense cash did I get yesterday? I must have cleaned up for that giant traffic spike! Alas, 4 clicks out of 30,000 page views for a total
by Tycho 16y ago
So how much cold hard Adsense cash did I get yesterday? I must have cleaned up for that giant traffic spike! Alas, 4 clicks out of 30,000 page views for a total of $2.76 :) So don't expect a goldmine from Hacker News traffic.
I wish information like this was more forthcoming in other blogs like this.
- phirephly 16y agoWhen I hit HN I got almost $40 from 10,000 hits, but that was mostly because I accidentally had the link back to the homepage right above an ad unit.
- dtran 16y ago"Accidentally" It's funny when unintended changes and mistakes lead to better conversions. An example that comes to mind was PlentyOfFish's poorly resized images leading to higher profile clickthroughs since people wanted to see the images with correct aspect ratios.
- unwantedLetters 16y agoI'm not sure, but I think that saying stuff like that can be interpreted as indirectly encouraging users to click on ads. Interesting article and discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2049105 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2049105
- narad 16y agoThe reason for low clicks could be due to the ad-blockers, which most of the users (hackers) would have installed.
- beagledude 16y agothat's a good point