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

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Post by dave333 »

archildress wrote: post #5

I hate to hijack, but I'm facing the exact same issue you are. The rates that I've heard quoted for AdSense just aren't happening for me. My rates are very similar to yours, samblr. I think that part of my problem (and it could be yours) is that I don't have a ton of written content around my free giveaways, which is the core of my site. Basically: plenty of cake, very little frosting. Can anyone offer advice for inc…

I would add a h1 heading with keywords "Lightroom Presets" (?) near the top of the page. But I think the main thing to do is experiment with the size and location of your ads. My highest clickthrough pages just have a stack of three ad blocks in a left side or left-middle column above the fold. I have never been able to get a good result with the horizontal banner style ads.

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

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Post by goostavos »

squeakynick wrote: post #111

I write the blog http://datagenetics.com/blog.html In 2016, it delivered 4.3 Million PVs I have a single Google AdSense advert on most pages and revenue generated in 2016 was $1,124.95 It pays for hosting, and the occasional steak dinner, but no, it's not a fulltime job :)

Just wanted to say that I absolutely love your blog. I purposefully bought my younger brothers Battleship for Christmas a few years ago just so that I could crush them with the strategy I read on your blog. ^_^

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

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Post by econnors »

phoboslab wrote: post #26

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.

Awesome games, you create great atmosphere

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

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Post by GroupsOne »

I am completely a Rookie here. http://groupsone.com/ targeting whatsapp/telegram group aggregation. Biggest problem I see for my Ad targets is the country based traffic. Currently integrated with Chitika and they need US traffic. So I have been earning <10$ with about 10K visits per month. Just posting here to help newbies out here. I Will be waiting for other 4 months for Adsense approval which can help much more revenue to me . Let me know if any one have suggestions that can help me out as a newbie.

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

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Post by dejv »

nitramm wrote: post #120
dejv wrote: post #4

I have couple of small side projects that which are monetised through ads. Portfolio of those web apps are 7 years old and traffic is growing linearly. The problem is revenue, which is basically cutting in half every 12 - 18 months: both CTR and revenue is going down. There are a lot of people with adblock these days, but also mobile traffic is not that profitable and people learned to ignore the ads as a noise. I am…

Do you think that it's more related to adblock usage or rather people ignoring ads completely?

Hard to say. I guess it is combination of different things. I also suspect remarketing campaigns plays role in lower CTR, but I haven't really investigate it.

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

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Post by kanakiyajay »

I have got two sites averaging about 50K a month and used to earn close to $50 a month. But I got bored and earnings and visits crashed. I have now got a renewed interest to look at it and try to establish a basic business model not based on ads which is just not sustainable. Affiliate networks is something that I am excited about or a job board site. Tl;dr ad revenue is nothing as compared to what you can make due to affiliate networks or a paid service. For people who were asking: https://jquer.in and http://angular-js.in

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

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Post by travisty »

quadrangle wrote: post #114

I have some YouTube videos that total half a million views, which is not much, but enough that I could be monetizing. I don't turn on monetizing because I don't feel okay pushing more ads on people. So my total is zero. I would like to make a living producing positive value to the world. I don't want the additional job of promoting advertisements that I would not necessarily endorse just because my work is popular en…

You didn't give any data, so why even post?

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

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Post by latenightcoding »

jaden wrote: post #90

One of my sites ( https://riddlesbrainteasers.com ) has been a wild ride, reaching a peak of $18k/month and down to an average of around $500/month now. Monthly traffic is generally around 300k unique visitors. Another site ( http://coincollector.org ) was making $300/month as long as I kept posting but after several years I grew tired and now it earns next to nothing.

How did you go from $18k/month to $500 month? ad blockers?
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