anon_builder

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by anon_builder 14y ago
SFW.
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by anon_builder 14y ago
Copycatted a concept, added my own twist. Got lucky and got into a great niche without much competition. Grew from there.
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by anon_builder 14y ago
Freelancer marketplaces. You'll find a good one for every 50 crappy ones.
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by anon_builder 14y ago
Their huge reach. There's no network with the same amount of advertisers and publishers. Especially with smaller sites, they're the easiest way to monetize, and sometimes to only way at all.
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by anon_builder 14y ago
I assume you can't share what company that is? Or the market you were operating in? I can't imagine that a publisher doing 25 million of revenue per year couldn't get in touch with anyone at Google.
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by anon_builder 14y ago
1) Depends on what you call a niche. 2) Yes. 3) How many what? Links? 4) I started out in the niche without knowing any SEO at all. Started building a product and built a lot of links for traffic. The authority and product I built then were
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by anon_builder 14y ago
Nothing that's not obvious. Surely, there are methods to squeeze more revenue out of Adsense, or any display ad for that matter, but you'll risk being banned. So that's not worth it, especially when you get bigger. I do recommend trying out
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by anon_builder 14y ago
None, it would be disastrous. I would probably work with other ad networks, but that wouldn't be cost effective to monetize my long tail of smaller sites. It would lead to a significant, if not huge, drop in revenue. You do get in personal
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by anon_builder 14y ago
A few dozen sites, with a couple doing about 80% of revenue. About 8 million uniques.
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by anon_builder 14y ago
1) 6 years 2) 8 million monthly uniques 3) Hard to say. I can take a month off and it'll probably go fine. If it crashes, I'm on it 24/7 (if I care for my wallet). I do work on it full time, but that's working on growth as well as managing
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by anon_builder 14y ago
You're not doing something wrong per se. I started out at the right time in the right niche, that helped me get away with a lot. I started out when in high school, when I had no costs of living, which is a great way to learn risk-free. As a
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by anon_builder 14y ago
In august I made about $122,000 from display ads, mostly Adsense. 5-10% of that is spent on stuff like server space and freelance employees. I can imagine that this will not be taken seriously due to lack of details, but for anyone interest