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http://edwardbetts.com/postoffices/ and http://edwardbetts.com/postboxes/
I think both these sites went live in 2008.
Here are the AdSense figures for this month so far (May 1st to May 27th):
* $52.94 earnings
* 21,708 Page views
* 147 Clicks
* 0.68% Page CTR
* $0.36 CPC
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additionally if you're going to be pulling down public data sets there are probably more interesting and useful ways that you can restructure/reorganize that data. There's a lot of useful data out there that is a real mess that I'm sure some niche would actually pay decently to presented in a more usable fashion
But would they pay $2,000 per month?
I've been lurking HN for awhile. This article have finally made me create an account and post here. I recently made a website that scrapes a popular message board and displays the archived posts. My goal wasn't to make money, but rather scratch an itch for the users of the board myself included (the message board deletes old posts and does not allow users search for posts based on user handles). I was thinking of put…
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The people I've known who were eligible to but refused to use food stamps did not feel it was "beneath them"- I'm pretty sure they felt that they didn't truly need them, and that there was someone worse off who needed them more than they did.
are the food stamps really limited in number??
How to make an extra $10,000 per month: Find 12 people who conduct significant business online, tell them this story, and set your bill rate accordingly.
Thomas is, if anything, undershooting what this is worth if you're capable of pulling it off with a data set adjacent to a liquid affiliate market. I think this specific article sort of underestimates the amount of effort involved ("Now that you have a site, just add marketing"), but if you're totally skeptical about it ever working, a) take a look at BCC's sales and b) think of what they would be in a niche with $50…
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The people I've known who were eligible to but refused to use food stamps did not feel it was "beneath them"- I'm pretty sure they felt that they didn't truly need them, and that there was someone worse off who needed them more than they did.
Actually, the amount of paperwork and hassle to apply for foodstamps is crazy. It can be embarrassing because you have to provide so many details about your life and give them legal permission to dig into all kinds of records. I realize the need to prevent fraud but there has to be some kind of balance to allowing someone in a bad situation to keep a little dignity. Then there is the craziness that you can buy things…
On the contrary, that would be counterproductive.
At low levels of income, there is virtually no relationship between earnings and consumption. So if a person's utility function is proportional to consumption, with a slight disutility for working, they will choose not to work.
This happens in the US up to the $30k/year level - i.e., a person earning $0k/year and a person earning $30k/year will consume roughly the same amount of goods and services.
http://crazybear.posterous.com/why-the-poor-dont-work
However, if you make receiving food stamps/welfare/etc unpleasant (i.e., more unpleasant than actually having a job), you would encourage some people to work for a living instead.
On 150,000 pageviews a month I make about $50.00 from adsense. "1.6% CTR with 0.85c CPC" seems pretty unrealistic to me.
In April, I had a 1.78% CTR.
The shitty thing is, it is an AJAX app, so there is only the frontpage, and each lookup does not refresh the Adsense ad. The average time on the site is about 12 minutes.
This is also not a very high volume search term. So the upside for me is pretty limited. Even if I ranked #1, ahead of the .gov site, I do not think I would come close to $2,000.
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> I've done no link building You have 1,211 backlinks. You have no meta descriptions on any of your pages. The links to your content pages (e.g., http://yakkstr.com/posts/3635-Cute-Friday ) aren't inside a H1/H2 tag on your index pages. You are letting Google crawl/index your tag pages (pointless/bad). Your robots.txt isn't pointing to a sitemap. Are you using Google webmaster tools? Get rid of the /posts/N-title and…
What resources do you recommend for learning more about SEO?
I am not condoning such methods.
Has anyone successfully sent Facebook traffic via paid ads to their adsense site profitably?
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Actually, the amount of paperwork and hassle to apply for foodstamps is crazy. It can be embarrassing because you have to provide so many details about your life and give them legal permission to dig into all kinds of records. I realize the need to prevent fraud but there has to be some kind of balance to allowing someone in a bad situation to keep a little dignity. Then there is the craziness that you can buy things…
I realize the need to prevent fraud but there has to be some kind of balance to allowing someone in a bad situation to keep a little dignity. On the contrary, that would be counterproductive. At low levels of income, there is virtually no relationship between earnings and consumption. So if a person's utility function is proportional to consumption, with a slight disutility for working, they will choose not to work.…
The modern welfare system does not allow non-disabled people to draw an infinite amount of assistance - it's very restricted and for a finite amount of time. They must constantly show real proof they are looking for work and even with part-time jobs their assistance is immediately scaled back.
Assistance shouldn't be a punishment, it should be care and kindness while someone gets back on their feet. You aren't going to make assistance less attractive than a minimum wage job, it's impossible.