April 01, 2005
AdSense Revenues Reported
Google recently changed its AdSense Terms of Service to allow users to report how much they are making by placing ads on their sites. It seems that Sam Ruby makes about $1/day and Mark Pilgrim makes about $9/day . Learning this has made me ponder placing AdSense on my blog to help cover the cost of my hosting. Don't worry though - if I do decide to sign up for AdSense, I'm only going to place ads on archive pages that are more than 30 days old. I don't want to annoy my regular readers, but I am curious as to how much I could make.
Posted by Dirtae at April 1, 2005 12:22 AMAbout $0.
Posted by: Erik J. Barzeski at April 1, 2005 07:27 AMHonestly, it's hard to say, without trying it.
Your particular ads matter a lot -- some days I'll get several times as much revenue, but with the same number of clickthroughs.
I haven't tried to "game" the system by figuring out what is the most lucrative, but there is a meaningful variation.
Assuming, this is an "average" blog with average traffic, typical traffic, etc., I think it's a reasonable goal to offset your hosting costs.
Posted by: Joe Grossberg at April 4, 2005 06:23 PMI have just launched a website for sharing and comparing AdSense revenues. Please check it out at:
http://www.admoolah.com
