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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.

Wow, http://zty.pe is really fun!

3100 score, wave 21, fun game!

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

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A couple of years back, I used to make about $1000/month from about 150K page views. Nowadays, it is about $400 from 50K pageviews despite better CPC but ad impressions have come down.

Such calculators are worthless. There are tens in not hundreds of factors to determine ad revenue.

Site is http://www.gtricks.com

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

#173

I'm small fish here, but since question was asked I will share. https://random.country/ brings me around 40$ passive income monthly. Around 5K visitors monthly. Probably it could bring me more money with one more ad.

Hey, a small tip: I got the same country twice in one quiz, which is less fun

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

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post #167

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

Charge money for your product/service/content?

I understand the concern with some ads/ad networks. But advertising can be the best way to provide no-cost content and resources. As this thread shows, ad-blockers, though understandable, cause harm to those providing valuable and genuine content and services.

I pay for many services, but there are also many services I would never pay for, but happily would put up with ads. To me, your suggestion implies that enough people with ad blockers would otherwise pay for all ad-supported services. I doubt that.

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

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I have an adwords site that sends affiliate traffic to a few merchants. I currently pull in about $300k/year in revenue and $80-$100k/year in profit. I use a number of credits cards for the ads to get points, so I consider it a source of revenue and vacations. It's not easy to make a site like this and it as been a long road, but a worthwhile one. (Posting anon as I prefer not to disclose revenues publicly)

Wow, that's impressive - thanks for sharing. One question though, what do you mean by Adwords site?

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

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I wanted to practice a little more more with nodejs. To me it's pointless to learning a programming language without a project. Eventually, I will convert it from PHP (codeigniter) to angular 4 so that I can learn angular 4.

I also was banned from adsense, for machine generated content. Regardless, I really like amazon and my product you can't really use adblock, so I put together a website that monitors amazon daily prices.

I get most of my hits on facebook feed.

Regardless I don't make as much money as I would like, but it gives me something to do when my job is annoying me.

Http://www.bestoftheinternets.com/Deals

I might be looking for a growth hacker...

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

#177
post #167

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

Charge money for your product/service/content?

Are people willing to pay for quality content?

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

#178
post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> A good food blogger focusing on the US/High GDP audience can get CPMs from $1-4 You're taking a risk here. By mentioning this, a good fraction of the 300K Hacker News daily uniques will visit your site as I did, and some may be gourmands. Excellent uncluttered presentation and mouth-watering photography by the way. On the other hand, you tipped off the largest gathering of highly motivated, entrepreneurial web deve…

I think it's been proven this fear is overstated. Startup ideas are rarely stolen.

Not startup ideas but my app ideas was stolen twice and my competitor (was friend, ex-friend now) got more resources and beaten me out of market. I don't share app idea with friend now.

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

#179

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…

You should reach out to Ryan at Esthetic label.

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

#180

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Yeah, same here, sorry.

I used to be very anti-ad blockers. But ads seem so much more annoying these days, can't really live without one anymore :(
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