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Re: Ask HN: How much ad revenue you make from your side project?

#101

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I disabled uBlock, still can't see any ads. Weird. Also, uBlock tells me it only blocked two analytics scripts, no ads.

When they said that the next generation of advertising was going to be invisible I didn't quite know what to make of it, I guess this is it :) Good CPM and totally untraceable. I could get used to this.

Next thing you know you're buying things online in your sleep.

Re: Ask HN: How much ad revenue you make from your side project?

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Keep on writing content where you can be good (it all starts with the passion). Healthy Desserts, Everyday 30-minute cooking, Asian cooking for Americans, etc. Learn from Google what the audience intent is, improve your content. Do this for four years; you’ll get 300K/month. Then there’s SEO, Pinterest optimization [1], better photography, Lightroom skills, video shooting & editing, etc. You’ll learn this along the w…

How often was it updated? Then there’s SEO, Pinterest optimization [1], etc. You’ll learn this along the way. Don't be so sure about that. People who are telling you "I can't imagine" are probably failing to get much traffic. I don't have that kind of traffic on anything and I boggle at the idea of getting it. So, a bit more detail and resource links would be appreciated. If a few blurbs were going to do it, then peo…

Content ... content ... content. Content is the key here.

No matter how much SEO optimization you will put into a website if the content is bad or not regularly updated (at least 2 - 3 times per week) you won't grow enough to see a significant revenue.

Re: Ask HN: How much ad revenue you make from your side project?

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I make about $600/mo pretty consistently with a typing game ( http://zty.pe ) - about 200k visits/mo. I once managed another project that had about 14m visits/mo and made a meager $3000. Bad target demographic.

What tech stack is the site by built with?

Is inpactjs.

Re: Ask HN: How much ad revenue you make from your side project?

#105

I make about $600/mo pretty consistently with a typing game ( http://zty.pe ) - about 200k visits/mo. I once managed another project that had about 14m visits/mo and made a meager $3000. Bad target demographic.

When sharing the link on facebook, there is no useful preview, mostly just a white block.

Re: Ask HN: How much ad revenue you make from your side project?

#107

I make about $600/mo pretty consistently with a typing game ( http://zty.pe ) - about 200k visits/mo. I once managed another project that had about 14m visits/mo and made a meager $3000. Bad target demographic.

I was wondering how you monetized it, until I realized my ad blocker was probably blocking everything...

Yeah, same here, sorry.

Re: Ask HN: How much ad revenue you make from your side project?

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People are accustomed to paying nothing on the web, unless it's a physical product nobody is paying for anything.

Yet Github, Dropbox, Fog Creek, Atlassian, and thousands of others aren't shutting down. Maybe it's time to raise the bar a little bit and stop funding these services that nobody really values but will use because they're "free". Ad supported companies have a strong tendency to invade people's privacy, track people around the internet, provide almost no customer support, and refuse service (or shutdown) on a whim. Go…

I agree. But I've noticed a similar "downvote" in physical conversations with people.

I think there's a strong desire for the whole "build a huge audience for your free product, then monetise somehow" model to be valid still (if it ever actually was). Because it's easy, I think.

The fact that it doesn't actually work any more is upsetting to people. So they downvote. That's my guess anyway.

Not that you'll be able to read this, because this post is about to be downvoted to oblivion too ;)

Re: Ask HN: How much ad revenue you make from your side project?

#110

I make about $600/mo pretty consistently with a typing game ( http://zty.pe ) - about 200k visits/mo. I once managed another project that had about 14m visits/mo and made a meager $3000. Bad target demographic.

Dude this game is fantastic. Especially how the individual letters split off. Great job!
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