How much should I be making with Adsense with a site that is getting around 8000 uniques/mo?

It depends largely on your niche and the average $$$ per click. If you average 8000 UV/month, at the typical 1% conversion rate it should be around:

8000*0.01*$0.1 = $8 per month @ $0.1 per click

or

8000*0.01*$1.0 = $80 per month @ $1.0 per click

It all depends on the value of the clicks.

Great. Thanks.

And what is your suggestion with regard to the offer that someone made me regarding buying adspace on one blog post? What formula should I use for that seeing that each blog post is going to get a different amount of traffic? Or do I base it on what the site gets and divide it by the amount of pages that are on the site? But please keep in mind that I am always creating new blog posts, which adds more pages.

I know that I could ask the person to create an affiliate program, but I believe they are just asking for traffic to their site that has links to sites of which they are an affiliate.

$70 for the year? Is the guy on crack?

Are you saying 8,000 unique visitors or 8,000 unique page views? Advertising rates are usually based off of page views.

Have you tried Adsense? Unless you are in an extremely poorly performing niche, I have a really hard time believing you couldn't do better than $6 a month with that traffic, even if it is only 8,000 page views.

I say forget his $70 and promote the affiliate programs he is.

i have a website that visited everyday about 9000 unique visitor. Adsense gave me $150-$300/month. I totally have earned $7000 from adsense. I used this money to buy little car

You should be able to get 400 clicks/month pretty easily (if your niche supports it).

$70/year? That is 75c per 1000 views...ridiculous. I wouldn't take any less than $70/month.

around $150-$200

We can't offer an answer to that question without knowing a little bit about the market, let alone keyword. The cost per click and market CTR would be the deciding factors.


$70 is way to less. Don't even expend effort thinking about it. Instead, focus your energy on building the site up so you can get much more by using adsense.

alexbbbh,

What does the guys advertising banner promote? What industry is it in?

Once you find out, go to Googles Traffic Estimator tool and run a search with a keyword that would likely be used to search for something he is promoting. You'll be able to find out the average CPC an adwords advertiser would have to pay to be highly ranked in the sponsored listings of SERPs.

As an example:

An advertiser may have to pay $0.74/click to rank in a high spot.

If we assume just 1% click through his banner ad, that would equate to 80 clicks/months. (Your 8000 visitors x 1% = 80)

If he were to advertise in Adwords he would have to spend $59.20 to get that many clicks, per month! (0.74 CPC x 80 visitors clicking on his banner = $59.20)

This doesn't mean you charge him the full $59.20 because otherwise he's not getting value for money and may as well advertise on Adwords. This just gives you a rough figure for how valuable that ad space might be.

This is by no means the only formula that should be used when trying to determine how much to charge for advertising, but its a starting point!

If you were to use this method, I would advise to track how many clicks his banner is getting per month to adjust how much you may charge him in the future.

If his banner ad is related to what you blog about you could likely get a higher conversion rate (amount of your visitors clicking his ad), maybe even 2%, which is a big difference!

If you do put his banner on your website, definitely track how many visitors you are sending him!

Btw, $70/year is an insulting offer. He could be trying to pull a fast one in which case call him out and see what his response is like, or leave him altogether and find someone else to advertise on your blog.

Depends on too many things ie. optimization techniques, niche etc.

Correct me if i am wrong but doesn't Google have a $100 dollar minimum per month before they start writing the cheque or does that add up over time

It depends on ad positioning and the earnings per click.

The more popular the niche, the more you'll earn per click - typically.

Russ

This depends on a lot of factors such as ad placement, niche (some just pay low), if your filter out the low paying ads, etc. If you want to PM me your url, I will see if I can help.

Adsense is free to use so why don't you just put adsense there and see how much you make, if you then don't think it's worth it just remove the adsense ads. There is no way anyone can tell you what you should be making, some people with that many visitors can make $2500 per month while other people with the same amount of visitors make $50 per month.

The direct answer to the OP is that there is no direct answer. There are FAR too many variables involved. Your best bet is to install Adsense and see how well it converts. If it does better than $6.00 a month then you know the answer.

on average 30$ -40$ a month

how do you identify low paying advertisers?

Thanks for all of the advice. It's 8000 unique visitors per month (not pages), and it's based on the AWSTATS stats.

I agree. $70/yr is not going to cut it. Granted it's on one page of my site, and the site has 172 pages, 163 of which are blog posts, but I still think that page is worth more.

I just logged into my Adsense account (I don't log in that often since I'm not earning much), and I'm earning about $10/mo.

Here are the stats from last month:

Adsense for Content
Page Impressions 4,091
Clicks 7
CTR 0.17%
Page eCPM $0.92

Adsense for Search
N/A

Referrals
N/A

YouTube
$0.0 (even though the video has received over 6000 views since I signed up for ad revenue for that video (can't remember when I signed up))
Is that possible? How does Adsense from YouTube work?

Adsense for Content Host (what is this anyway?)
Page Impressions 4,486
Clicks 16
CTR 0.36%
Page eCPM $1.67
Btw, what's the difference between Total Earnings and Host Earnings? What does each one represent?

Yeah, I know those stats are pretty sad, but that's why I'm here! I just find it odd that the page impressions are half that of the amount of unique visitors that I am receiving per month. And Awstats says that there were 44,213 page views last month. Of course those weren't unique page views (I don't think), but I would think that the page impressions would be much closer to that number.

Also, Google Analytics seems to give numbers that are far less than those of Awstats. The amount of unique vistors, according to Google Analytics, is around 4600. Is that normal? Also, my bounce rate is at about 88%. I know that's quite high. I tried a month without having a lightbox opt-in popup, but the bounce rate did not change. There's a lot of valuable content on there, so maybe the theme is not the most user friendly, even though it looks nice.

By the way, back in 2007 I applied for a adsense account for this site, and I was rejected because it said that I already had an adsense account, which I did. I was using it for another domain. So, I just copied and pasted the same code into this site. Is that OK? Do I have to get each site approved?

In the email from Google Adsense, they said that as long as the new abided by their TOS, that I could just copy and paste the code. They made no mention of having to get the new site approved. How do i check and see where the clicks and traffic is coming from (meaning, which domain of mine is the one that is bringing this traffic)?

Thanks.

I have sites with much smaller amounts of traffic earning me a lot more than figures suggested around here.

Question - what is your forecast cost per click. See how much ppc advertisers are paying in your niche and divide by two (crude but sort of works)

Also are you going to optimise your site for adsense so it becomes your main income. If you position and format your ads properly you can massively increase CTR and the amount you get paid too.

The quickest route to profit maybe to sell some affiliate products. With that amount of traffic I would definitely create my own.

John

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John

First things I'd do is look at your ad placement. You are talking about putting ads at the bottom of the post. I'd make sure they were 'above the fold' meaning you don't have to scroll down to see them. When the page loads, its already there. You should look around plenty of sites and get an idea of what good ad placement is. You can have more than one ad as well. You can have up to three of varying type and size, plus link ads. You can definitely slurp a lot more money out of that many visitors. Click Through Rating is the place I'd start by looking at ad positioning.

It depends on your niche, and your pages and content are structured ( what is the flow of the content)

$70 per year is nothing, I would not bother...