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I know a lot of people on HN are not a fan of monetising with ads. That said, an alternative to writing a whole book before seeing if people will pay, is to wr
by 35mm 4y ago
I know a lot of people on HN are not a fan of monetising with ads.
That said, an alternative to writing a whole book before seeing if people will pay, is to write a blog.
You’ll get validation in smaller chunks and can iterate.
Currently the display ads on my blog pay between $15 - $30 per thousand visitors, and many blogs earn a lot more than that.
If you’re writing a non fiction book in a technical niche, it’s fairly easy to get traffic from Google if you write in depth posts around 1,500 words each.
- baby 4y agoI’ve been blogging since 2013, have had a lot of traffic on my blog, yet would make almost no money from ads if I had some (I know from having successfully and not monetized many websites) Https://cryptologie.net
- bemmu 4y agoWhat topic has a CPM this high? I never saw anything like this when I played around with AdSense on some small websites I had in the past. Or maybe things have changed in the past few years?
- 35mm 4y agoThis in the home improvements space. I’m also using Ezoic which in my experience and from what I’ve heard from others pays a lot better than Adsense. Once you get over 50k or 100k uniques per month, you can qualify for Mediavine and AdThrive respectively, and they pay more than Ezoic.