How much money can I expect to earn from ads on my website?
It took me about an hour to add google ads to my site, and that was a bunch of fiddling I didn’t need to do. I put off doing it for a while because it didn’t seem worth the time. I wish I’d done it much earlier. Really, given the one-time setup, no-maintenance thing google ads have going on, even if you make $10/mo, your hour will pay for itself in a couple months.
It is impossible to tell. You just don’t know what the click-through rates will be. Some sites attract people who click, some just don’t. And, more importantly, you don’t know the per-click payment rates for the type of ads they give you. Google ads can swing from $0.03 to $3.00, per-click. So your revenue is the product of two unknowns. The easiest way to figure it out is to put up ads for a month and see how much you make. (Of course, once you do that, it will almost certainly be worth the marginal additional effort needed to leave it up.
I have no idea how much you could potentially make, but I hear adbrite‘s real nice. End users can buy ads space on your site from a link under the ads. Obviously, you could set this up yourself with programming know-how, but adbrite makes it all easy and slick.
Yeah agree with the above. I have a site that has far less unique visits, but I’m making enough off Google Adsense to at least cover the costs of the hosting, plus a little more. The best thing about these ads, is that you only have to work ONCE at it, and can then just leave it there to make money for you. As in many other cases, it takes a fair amount of testing to really see how you can optimize your earnings, and how much you can really make.
