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Probably one of the reasons Google linked to them, is that they have so many Google ads on their pages (3 of them - quite disturbing to me). And Google takes a
by ekr 13y ago
Probably one of the reasons Google linked to them, is that they have so many Google ads on their pages (3 of them - quite disturbing to me).
And Google takes about 32% of the price paid by the advertiser.
Just a back-of-the-envelope calculation: let's assume 217000 page views, with a 1% CTR, and a 1$ CPC. The result (of that 1 day) : ~2000$.
- proexploit 13y agoThere's no way $2000 even factored into Google's decision of who to link to.
- paranoiacblack 13y agoOr because they had good alternatives to Google Reader that would be updated and voted on by a good user-base? No, nevermind, can't be that.
- babuskov 13y agoBoth 1% CTR and $1 CPC are more than you would expect from average website. Across all my websites I have 0.38% CTR and $0.27 CPC. The result is then ~ $200, not $2000.
- raawmarkus 13y agoI'm not interested in arguing about Google's reasons for linking to us but I just wanted to point out that it was not 217.000 pageviews but rather "users" or "uniques". Pageviews were 2-3 times that number.