Free for All Fridays

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This site is way too new for anything like this to attract interest at this time, but I’d like to be more open and accessible with this site and to break down (as much as possible) that invisible barrier between blogger and reader that I usually lovingly hide behind.

So Fridays are wide open. Ask me a question. About affiliate stuff, about anything. Comment and I’ll answer it.

Working on a site of your own? Comment and leave a link and I’ll check it out and ramble about what I think.

Have a great business idea? Let’s hear it.

Looking for great stock tips? Ask someone else, as I’m getting walloped in the markets these days.

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  1. 1 On December 22nd, 2006, Jordan from HighOnPoker said:

    I got one for ya. Monetarily speaking, how much can be made from Adsense or a similar advertising scheme. I was under the impression that the rates were mere pennies per click, so adding those adverts would only bring it a couple of dollars at most per month. Let’s assume you have 100 readers every day on your site (a nice round number). Realistically speaking, how much can you make with AdSense?

  2. 2 On December 22nd, 2006, ScurvyDog said:

    Jordan,

    To borrow the poker phrase we all know and love: “It depends.”

    What you make on Adsense clicks depends on what people are willing to pay on the Adwords side, when they create a campaign and set their budget. Google makes it annoyingly hard to get actual numbers and they don’t tell you what percentage they keep as rake for offering the system. But you can get ballpark figures for poking around and doing legwork and guesstimation.

    Yesterday I got 3 clicks on Gadooney.com on Adsense ads, and made exactly $0.37. So let’s just guess that the people paying for the ads were paying .15/click at Adwords and that Google pocketed .02-.03/click as their cut.

    Those are fairly average numbers in general, and reasonably indicative of what to expect per click for many sites. That said, some niches are very different, with advertisers paying $15-$20 per click. That’s right, per frigging click. Advertisers paying > $1/click isn’t unheard of at all, despite how crazy that may seem to you at first glance.

    So yeah, most clicks pay mere pennies, but not always. Keep in mind, though, that the higher the per click payment, the greater the competition, for all the obvious reasons.

    Most successful affiliates that focus on PPC/Adsense, though, play the volume game. They’re overjoyed if they can build a site in a week that makes a paltry $4-$5/month from Adsense clicks, which is just making $0.15 or so per day, especially if the site can do it consistently moving forward with little to no maintance. So they build 4-5 sites like that the first month, which collectively generate $25 or so each and every month, moving forward.

    Then you get better at the game and go after more lucrative terms, and all the while the older sites are still generating income for you. Over time you essentially accumulate many, many pages, which indivdually aren’t making you rich but which collectively add up to a decent amount of scratch.

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