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I'm hoping the "see someone else's UA" feature helps the new site grow a little faster.
Somewhere between -$30,000 and -$60,000 I think. Even though they weren't successful (two) projects, it's always disappointing to see how few people are willing to spend their own money on something.
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You are right. We have around $3000 worth of lighting equipment, lens, etc. But we acquired them along the way. Sponsored content is a good chunk of money (close to 30% every mom) but its nonscalable.
Can you elaborate some more on this? What kind of equipment and resources for learning more about this?
I can speak for the food blogging industry. This is my wife’s blog[1] A good food blogger focusing on the US/High GDP audience can get CPMs from $1-4[2]. Where it gets interesting are the RPM numbers. If you can manage multiple ad networks, execute 100% fill rates, bid between networks and become a preferred partner, you can rake up to $12-15in RPM [3]. Here’s more of multiple revenue sources for a successful blog [4…
Your top right logo is 2.3meg https://www.alittlebitofspice.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03... It can be much smaller and still get the 'retina' effect, saving load time and bandwidth.
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You are right. We have around $3000 worth of lighting equipment, lens, etc. But we acquired them along the way. Sponsored content is a good chunk of money (close to 30% every mom) but its nonscalable.
Can you elaborate some more on this? What kind of equipment and resources for learning more about this?
Have a look at Strobist which is specifically aimed at flash photography.
Otherwise just look in photo or recipe books, food blogs and shamelessly steal until you get the hang of layout.
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…
Unless your content is for kids, where they probably don't have the choice to watch them or not, why not monetize?
If it's your viewer's choice whether they see ads or not, and if the money might help you provide more or better content, it could be a win-win.
http://www.samurai-sudoku.com makes about $500/month on 170k page views/month but it only has one ad block for a better user experience. Also one page view can take hours solving the puzzle.
I like the sodoku designs. What technology do you use for the site?
Many people have commented that their revenue has dropped due to Ad blockers. Can you suggest any alternate business model for side projects other than ads