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I was surprised that just putting an adsense unit on the side of my personal blog (4k hits/month) manages to generate $25/month. It's a highly technical blog,

I was surprised that just putting an adsense unit on the side of my personal blog (4k hits/month) manages to generate $25/month. It's a highly technical blog, mainly documenting my personal electronics projects, but covers pretty much anything I want it to, which rather limits my readership. Having a more cohesive, single subject would certainly raise the glass ceiling on readership.

SeoxyS 16y ago
I don't know about you, but I don't think $25/mo is worth cheapening my blog by plastering tasteless ads on it. I'd have to be pulling significant income from it before I would even consider putting ads on my blog.
- rorrr 16y ago
  That's $300/year. Why would you throw it away?
  - biot 16y ago
    This was on HN recently: http://www.sebastianmarshall.com/we-dont-get-out-of-bed-for-less-than-10000-per-day http://www.sebastianmarshall.com/we-dont-get-out-of-bed-for-... TL;DR: the cost of that extra 82 cents a day is having your site cheapened by advertising that you don't necessarily control and that negatively impacts your credibility. If the spare change isn't going to make a big difference, the perception that you don't need the money is of more value.
- swaits 16y ago
  Umm, then don't put ads on your blog? Wow.
- phirephly 16y ago
  http://kennethfinnegan.blogspot.com/ http://kennethfinnegan.blogspot.com/ Text ads, top banner and bottom of right bar. $300 a year; as a college student, yeah, that's worth it.
  - thekevan 16y ago
    I reloaded your blog after disabling adblock and barely noticed the ad. I don't blame you for keeping it there. Why don't you have any ads on your C Programming Tips site? I'd be interested in the number of hits that gets compared to your blog.
    - phirephly 16y ago
      The C site does has ads, actually. Far right, right under the Contact Us link. Hits in last 31 days (5 month running CTR avg): http://kennethfinnegan.blogspot.com/ http://kennethfinnegan.blogspot.com/ - 4,574 0.33%CTR http://ctips.pbwiki.com/ http://ctips.pbwiki.com/ - 544 0.14%CTR http://www.ducttape.pbwiki.com http://www.ducttape.pbwiki.com - 1,073 0.14%CTR http://kwf.dyndns.org:5821/ http://kwf.dyndns.org:5821/ - 164 (Mostly script kiddies attacking my Chumby) 0.86%CTR The C tips site was a half-finished project. There was a lot more work to be done and I never promoted it. And yes, all of them are very stale unformatted html pages. Web development isn't my interest or skill, and plain pages like those have never bothered me. Most of it is useful notes to myself, which I think others will find useful. The Duct Tape site actually pays much better than my blog per page view, bringing in 2-3 cents per 1k, where the blog almost never brings in anything per 1k, but the blog pays $0.30-$1.50 per click, where the tape site only brings in 5-15 cents per click, so the blog brings in about 95%, the tape site the next 5%, and the C site brings in 2 cents on a good month.
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  - alphamale 16y ago
    Damn bro, Looks like you just stepped out of the 1970's Microsoft pic. Bro hit up my site for a makeover at alphamal.es
    - kirse 16y ago
      I never understood this, what sort of "alpha" male goes on the internet and looks for advice from other people on how to be a man? The first step in being a real man is not looking to others on how to be a man. (Or at least finding a mentor with true character, not Maxim magazine articles and other garbage) I still think your site has a great potential for an audience though, I fell for the same sort of BS when I was a freshman in college. Took me a couple years to undo the stupidity I had come to believe about what being a "man" really meant.

SeoxyS 16y ago

I don't know about you, but I don't think $25/mo is worth cheapening my blog by plastering tasteless ads on it. I'd have to be pulling significant income from it before I would even consider putting ads on my blog.

rorrr 16y ago
That's $300/year. Why would you throw it away?
- biot 16y ago
  This was on HN recently: http://www.sebastianmarshall.com/we-dont-get-out-of-bed-for-less-than-10000-per-day http://www.sebastianmarshall.com/we-dont-get-out-of-bed-for-... TL;DR: the cost of that extra 82 cents a day is having your site cheapened by advertising that you don't necessarily control and that negatively impacts your credibility. If the spare change isn't going to make a big difference, the perception that you don't need the money is of more value.
swaits 16y ago
Umm, then don't put ads on your blog? Wow.
phirephly 16y ago
http://kennethfinnegan.blogspot.com/ http://kennethfinnegan.blogspot.com/ Text ads, top banner and bottom of right bar. $300 a year; as a college student, yeah, that's worth it.
- thekevan 16y ago
  I reloaded your blog after disabling adblock and barely noticed the ad. I don't blame you for keeping it there. Why don't you have any ads on your C Programming Tips site? I'd be interested in the number of hits that gets compared to your blog.
  - phirephly 16y ago
    The C site does has ads, actually. Far right, right under the Contact Us link. Hits in last 31 days (5 month running CTR avg): http://kennethfinnegan.blogspot.com/ http://kennethfinnegan.blogspot.com/ - 4,574 0.33%CTR http://ctips.pbwiki.com/ http://ctips.pbwiki.com/ - 544 0.14%CTR http://www.ducttape.pbwiki.com http://www.ducttape.pbwiki.com - 1,073 0.14%CTR http://kwf.dyndns.org:5821/ http://kwf.dyndns.org:5821/ - 164 (Mostly script kiddies attacking my Chumby) 0.86%CTR The C tips site was a half-finished project. There was a lot more work to be done and I never promoted it. And yes, all of them are very stale unformatted html pages. Web development isn't my interest or skill, and plain pages like those have never bothered me. Most of it is useful notes to myself, which I think others will find useful. The Duct Tape site actually pays much better than my blog per page view, bringing in 2-3 cents per 1k, where the blog almost never brings in anything per 1k, but the blog pays $0.30-$1.50 per click, where the tape site only brings in 5-15 cents per click, so the blog brings in about 95%, the tape site the next 5%, and the C site brings in 2 cents on a good month.
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- alphamale 16y ago
  Damn bro, Looks like you just stepped out of the 1970's Microsoft pic. Bro hit up my site for a makeover at alphamal.es
  - kirse 16y ago
    I never understood this, what sort of "alpha" male goes on the internet and looks for advice from other people on how to be a man? The first step in being a real man is not looking to others on how to be a man. (Or at least finding a mentor with true character, not Maxim magazine articles and other garbage) I still think your site has a great potential for an audience though, I fell for the same sort of BS when I was a freshman in college. Took me a couple years to undo the stupidity I had come to believe about what being a "man" really meant.