Comments on: When Money Motivates Blogging

By: Linn

Linn — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 08:12:08 +0000

Excellent post, probably one of the best about adsense point of view. One of my sites, I enabled adsense, in 3 days, i got legit $3.5 click. But yes, I didn’t put adsense or any ads past 5 months, just to make the site looks unique and informative as much as possible. you are right, it will be highly very lucky to get massive amount of ads.

Most of the ads would be about 5 cents to 10 cents, that’s absolutely for new site, So, it is safe to say that google determines the quality of site content as well as like you said, relevancy of the site. I think high pull traffic sites will tend to bring more rates on ads, but I don’t think I actually have focused on niche rather than focus on what I love to do. One of my sites is about SEO/MMO, but it goes 800k in alexa ranking after next update even though I don’t bother installing alexa toolbar or submit my site to DMOZ.

Your suggestion to readers are very well-thought, especially the part you mentioned about SEO and keywords related.

very much fun to read. cheers for sharing.

By: Ron

Ron — Sun, 13 Feb 2005 04:26:08 +0000

A great many �webmasters� have looked into this approach or dove in to find that there expectations were unrealistic. As Dane Carlson said continuing with the weblog becomes a chore.

Also marring the search engines with keyword laced filler content stuffed with adsense ads is in poor taste. Especially on this topic. Those prices are driven by law firms fishing for clients, but at least the law firms can provide some value.

This is a more positive example of high click through blog targeting, as to the content actually being useful to searchers.

By: Michael Moncur

Michael Moncur — Thu, 10 Feb 2005 15:23:42 +0000

Good article, Darren. I was going to write almost the same thing.

If you read the comments on Buffington’s site, you’ll see your reality check has already reached him:

And so far, my estimates on click through rates are way off. Like, I was smoking crack off. It’s too early to tell at this point because Google doesn’t give you specific ad stats until three days of data exists, but my guess is that current click through rates are a little over a $1.00.

By: Rick Blythe

Rick Blythe — Thu, 10 Feb 2005 15:19:48 +0000

I have to agree with Dane’s comment on this one. I have abandoned a couple of blogs in the past because they became a chore to maintain.

By: Dane Carlson

Dane Carlson — Thu, 10 Feb 2005 13:03:56 +0000

Excellent post, Darren!

Though building a profitable weblog is easy, it is definitely not a short term endeavor.. If you don’t choose a topic that you can get excited about, you will not be able to keep it up. My advice to those wanting to start out: look at your hobbies and interests first. Only after you’ve settled on a list of topics that you wouldn’t mind completely dominating your life for the next 18 to 24 months should you look at the potential Adsense revenues.