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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.

I dont see any ads in there?

P.S: This game is seriously fun!

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

#152

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.

Wow, finding (http://zty.pe) was serendipitous. Please don't include that world in the early levels, I'm not a good typist.

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

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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?

The site got hit by one of Google's black box algorithm adjustments. I spoke with folks on the Adsense team and followed their advice but it's never rebounded. It was mostly organic traffic, which means it depends on the whims of search engines. (It's not a reassuring position to be in).

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

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> There are a lot of people with adblock these days And it is soon to be built into web browsers, you have to wonder the impact that will have.

isn't ad block easy to thwart? Sites like forbes and fortune do

That's how you end up in hosts files.

Besides, filter lists move pretty fast and are usually self-update.

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

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I don't get it how do you guys get to million of visitors? actually - if you just tell me how to get to hundreds of unique returning visitors??!?!

Build a community site and wait for 9 years. I'm not joking. The first 6 years saw maybe 2k visits/mo.

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

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post #50

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I don't get it how do you guys get to million of visitors? actually - if you just tell me how to get to hundreds of unique returning visitors??!?!

Build a community site and wait for 9 years. I'm not joking. The first 6 years saw maybe 2k visits/mo.

What's the community site?

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

#157

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.

Great, I used the android App version of this. This is awesome.

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

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post #49

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i don't get it how do all you guys get so much traffic you talk about 100k's and millions of people visiting your web sites how do you make that happen?!?

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…

>We’re not on this stage just because of talent or ability, we’re up here because of 4 a.m

[I don't know if he said it, that's what I have in mind attributed to him]

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

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post #22

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Isn't Minecraft still popular? Why shut it down rather than let it sit there or sell it? I'd think with the increasing popularity of Netflix that'd still be popular as well.

It was a site about Minecraft mods which don't garner as much traffic as they once did. I did consider selling it at one point and even spoke with a web broker. The biggest concerns were trademark stuff especially now that Microsoft owns it. Letting a content site just "sit there" is the same thing as letting it die, which is what I pretty much did. You gotta keep on generating good content if you want to make $$ at…

I run a modding site and are always interested in small sites even if dead. Reach out if interested it might fit what we are looking for

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

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post #17

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> There are a lot of people with adblock these days And it is soon to be built into web browsers, you have to wonder the impact that will have.

isn't ad block easy to thwart? Sites like forbes and fortune do

How is Fortune blocking it? I'm using uBlock Origin and fortune loads fine with no errors or in page css popups?
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