How Many Monthly Unique Visitors = Success?

i think the answer is a combination of the quality of the traffic + the conversion rate once they arrive at your site. make sure you analyze your traffic (what keywords brought them there, the bounce rate, conversions, etc.). tweak your content and ad placement, etc. to see if you can improve your conversion rate. add more backlinks to your good keywords to get higher rankings (traffic). good luck!

I've got this site, which is creeping toward 3k / month unique visitors: Shooters' Journal | For the new generation of gun owners.. I run it with some friends.

It's rather poorly monetized with Amazon stuff, and we aren't focusing on making $$ with it right now. We make about $10 / month on Amazon commissions as it is. We're more interested in building authority and a community first, and plan to sell ads directly eventually, along with launch a couple of our own products.

1000 visitors a month is good for a new site.

Since you've mentioned Amazon, I assume you don't sell your own products.
If the site is the one on your signature, you need to experiment more with Adsense ad placement, colors etc. About $40/month is realistic with Adsense.

1000 is a pretty good number for a new site. You see, many people have to through months to achieve their first $100 on Google Adsense, and you already got your first sale on Amazon just base on this number, so you're doing very good! My suggestion is try to change your ads' layout, it may make your earning better.

One of my website is hitting 7k Uvs a day with around 500k + impressions a month. But still I only make around 30$ a day from adsense. Thats sucks doesn't it?

Fail or success all depends on your niche IMO. I have experienced it, and with the kind of traffic I get, if I had a health or insurance website I would be minting around 5k-10k a month very very easily..

Traffic is depend upon keyword means on which keyword you do more work for optimizing our website and traffic on keyword...

This is kind off topic, but I have found that in many cases, driving up your UV count is simply a matter of continuously adding unique content and just "sticking with it".

I have canned so many websites before they even had a chance to go anywhere...

conversion rate is my indicator

My conversion rate does suck. I already have three adsense ads on the pages, so I can't add any more. I just put the one in my sidebar and within 24 hours got my first click. Thanks to a Warrior for that advice. I've been pretty fastidious about putting new content up every other day, so I'm averaging 3-4 articles a week. I've got 39 unique posts so far. Since it's gardening season, I'm trying to ramp up my posts. I'm also going to work into Fall and Winter gardening so my visitors don't plummet over the winter (hopefully international visitors will still keep things going with their opposite seasons).

Thanks so much - this site is my baby and I have worked really hard on it!

Your ads aren't clearly visible.
1. Try increasing the ad unit sizes.
2. Test with disabling image ads. (I'm seeing image ads about 'phone systems')
3. Try disabling interest based ads.

If you haven't done already, link your Analytics and AdSense accounts. Then you can find out which websites/keywords bring you the highest payout visitors.

I'm sure somebody else has mentioned this already,

It's not about numbers, it's about results.

Now that you have a consistent stream of traffic you can start tuning your ads and site to improve your results.

I think it depends on "succes" which you mean..If you want to earn $100 a day i think you need 100.000 visitor a day..That's my opinion..

1k visitors are good.

Keep up the good job.

But...

Are they targetted traffic?

Targetted traffic = someone searches for chicken coup and they find a chicken coup page on your site. Targetted traffic converts highly (higher AdSense CTR and Amazon sales)

Less targetted traffic = long tails. Not so good for conversion.

e.g.

How do I know?

From experience.

I have sites which have over 100 pages, an authority in its own rights.
Mind you, these are not standard 400-word articles. These are LSIed and high quality articles that range between 600 - 1200 words, some even 2000 words long. But I didn't mind because it's a hobby site, cycling.

But, there are NO backlinks done to the site. If there are, very few.

Results?

The site has a bounce rate of 88% (pretty high, which is not good at all) according to Google Analytics. In other words, less targetted traffic.

100% of the results came from long tails like

"stoker chainring wear"
"bike jersey" + "how to buy"
"stoker chainring wear"
plastic bikes for toddlers
is a tandem faster than a road bike
gearing for single speed mountain bike
age of use for tag-along bikes
- and the list goes on for 380 long tails like similar to the earlier ones

Visitor count matters very little. Depends on your conversion rate and if there is $ in the niche you are in.

I don't really think there's a secret formula. I have a site that gets 50,000 uniques a month and only makes about $30 a month. I have another site that only gets 1,000 uniques a month and makes $150 a month.

1,000 is good for a new site if you have a high conversation rate and it depends on many factors. Your competitors and the content of your website. Also you should know that usually people buy from known websites even if its an Amazon product and they go to Amazon for paying it.