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SFW.

Copycatted a concept, added my own twist. Got lucky and got into a great niche without much competition. Grew from there.

Freelancer marketplaces. You'll find a good one for every 50 crappy ones.

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 w…

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…

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 li…

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 i…

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 signif…

A few dozen sites, with a couple doing about 80% of revenue. About 8 million uniques.

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 …

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 co…

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 tak…