How Much Do You Spend Per Month to Maintain Your Website?

9 years ago

This question s really hard to answer. I no longer pay for third party services so my spending is just for domains and hosting (around $5 per site per month).

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niloydaemons

9 years ago

It depends on the site and niche.If the niche is competitive then you have to invest more.

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D4nie3

9 years ago

I suppose including renewal feed, vps's, and cloudflare.. $150-200/mo

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avowzone

Banned 9 years ago

I am spending $100 per month for my blog and will continue more 6 month.

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DURABLEOILCOM

9 years ago

SEO- $50-200

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Anne Laidlaw

9 years ago

Spend about 50 bucks a month

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Newbie11

9 years ago

For those that don't spend any money or only pay $50 per month, what is your page rank and traffic volume?

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Alexa Smith

Banned 9 years ago

Originally Posted by Newbie11

For those that don't spend any money or only pay $50 per month

"Only $50 per month"? I spend a small fraction of that.

Originally Posted by Newbie11

what is your page rank

I don't know. I don't look. It doesn't interest me any more. It used to, back in the days just after I'd started and still believed that having high page ranks would actually affect my income.

The reality is that "page ranks" are on the way out (even Google has publicly announced that they regard stopping publishing them altogether as a long-term objective), page ranks are a very small component of site rankings anyway (we can all see this for ourselves from the ever-increasing frequency with which low-PR pages outrank high-PR pages in Google's SERP's), and I'm an affiliate marketer, myself, so search engine traffic isn't of much use to me anyway.

Respectfully, I think you may not be looking at the most helpful parameters.

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Newbie11

9 years ago

Hi Alexa, what are the most successful parameters and how do I achieve them?

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

"Only $50 per month"? I spend a small fraction of that.

I don't know. I don't look. It doesn't interest me any more. It used to, back in the days just after I'd started and still believed that having high page ranks would actually affect my income.

The reality is that "page ranks" are on the way out (even Google has publicly announced that they regard stopping publishing them altogether as a long-term objective), page ranks are a very small component of site rankings anyway (we can all see this for ourselves from the ever-increasing frequency with which low-PR pages outrank high-PR pages in Google's SERP's), and I'm an affiliate marketer, myself, so search engine traffic isn't of much use to me anyway.

Respectfully, I think you may not be looking at the most helpful parameters.

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JohnMcCabe 9 years ago

Originally Posted by Newbie11

Hi Alexa, what are the most successful parameters and how do I achieve them?

One look at our pictures will tell you I'm not Alexa, and I'm also in the "under $10 a month" group.

Since it sounds like you're in this to make money, concentrate on the factors that measure money.

Things like cost per sale vs. revenue per sale, cost per subscriber (if you run an email list), revenue per subscriber per month, and the biggie - Lifetime Value of a Customer.

If your numbers tell you that each customer you add is worth an average of $100 over their lifetime, you know you can spend up to $100 to acquire that customer. (Or use a lower figure if you want the closest thing to a "guaranteed profit.)

Say you want to make a 50% return on your investment. If you know that you can spend up to $50 to generate that $100 LTV customer, you can test any traffic source available to acquire that customer.

Then work it backwards...

You can spend $50 for a customer. How many leads does it take, on average, to make a sale? Divide it out, and you how much you can pay for a lead.

How many visitors does it take to generate a lead? Again, divide it out and you know how much you can pay for a visitor.

If you use paid traffic, you can go one step further. How many exposures does it take to generate a visitor? Divide it out, and you know how much you can pay for exposures for that source.

Keep in mind that the numbers I used here are purely for illustration.
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Alexa Smith Banned 9 years ago

Originally Posted by Newbie11

Hi Alexa, what are the most successful parameters and how do I achieve them?

I can answer you only from my own perspective as a full-time affiliate marketer. For me, the two most important parameters (because they determine my income) are ...

(i) How much targeted, non-SEO traffic can I drive to my niche websites? (This is how I do that, myself.) And ...

(ii) How efficient is my site at collecting the visitors' email addresses? (I'm not referring to the numbers of subscribers, but to the quality of the list built, because that's what affects my income, which is why I don't use squeeze pages to do that job: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post7939758 .)

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Jack Gordon

9 years ago

Here's some perspective for you.

A quick calculation in my head tells me I am spending over $3k/month to keep one of my web sites up to date. That does NOT include all of the related overhead of running the business around that site. Just hosting, content, and the human labor to prepare the content for publication.

Of course, that business returns many, many times that per month in revenue, so it is $3k I am happy to spend.

Now, I am not an affiliate marketer. I have original content that I sell access to. The point is that this is what it takes to make my business model work, and it is well worth it.

If you are trying to do what "everybody else" does and it is not working for you, maybe you need to reconsider your business model. Opportunity is everywhere. Learning to recognize it, however, can be a bit of an acquired skill.

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melprise

9 years ago

When I work on other sites as a gig, I may outsource to a minor extent ($50-$100 or so). When I do my own sites, I spend zero beyond the cost for a domain, hosting, or using paid software I have already acquired. If the keywords are well selected and not too SEO-competitive, and the SEOed content is unique and decently engaging, a minor link building campaign (100-200 good contextual links) is all the push needed to deliver relatively stable SE traffic.

Contrary to some here, medium to high PR links still have a central role in building a site that reliably establishes its authoritative value. Google may be phasing it out, but while it exists it remains one of the main concrete factors (rated by Google itself) that is dependable in moving pages up in the SERPs, in the sense of a formula (X number of hi PR contextual links with low OBL, equals better SE traffic). Other ranking factors still remain 'fuzzy' or comparatively less reliable at this time.

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datingworld

9 years ago

My sites varies in terms of SEO spending,
some of them just cost me domain costs etc,
others are $5-$15 / month
and few of them are $20-$40 / month (only SEO costs)

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RyanGillam

9 years ago

I have an ecommerce website where, excluding stock (which totals tens of thousands of pounds each month), I spend probably £2,500 every month on advertising (printed materials, PPC). I write the content and do SEO myself.

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amittripathi321

9 years ago

$0 , because i am using godaddy website builder tools , without hosting

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ryanbiddulph

9 years ago

About $16 for kick butt hosting, where my blog is fast, and stays up virtually all of the time

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10kaday

9 years ago

3000$

Yes that is a lot of money to run websites right?

Well i am making 12k per month with my sites It does not matter how much you spend you need to figure out whats right for you and what you can get a return on.

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