How much traffic on your website do you need to make $10 per month.
In terms of advertising dollars. Anyone have experience with this. If possible break it down by the different advertising routes, google, yahoo etc...
Also what are some tips to get advertisers to pay.
I am trying to cover the cost of my hosting for my website with traffic and wanted to know what I need to do to make enough for this. ( For starters )
You can leave an optional "tip" with Mahalo's virtual currency, Mahalo Dollars. If you are asking a difficult question that might require some research, or if you'd like a wide variety of feedback, a higher tip often leads to more answers to your question.
M$4 Answers
Google Adsense and many other low volume website advertising opportunities work on CTR or Click Through Ratio. In basic, general terms, you're paid every time someone clicks on your ad.
The performance of a CTR (the number of people who click on an ad) is directly related to the content on your page. One of the reasons that the Google Adsense ads are so successful is because the ads that are displayed relate directly to the content on the page that they are displayed. This is called a contextually generated ad and the CTR is always higher for ads that are the most relevant.
Click through ratios are generally below 1%. So less than 1% of the people who view your site will click on an ad. Increasing the CTR is the goal of all online marketing and is exceptionally difficult to predict.
The best advice that you can be given is to ensure that the content on your page is compelling and that the ads are as tarted to that content as possible. Carefully review your CTR using an analytic tool such as Google Analytics and carefully adjust both your content and your ads based on performance.
I know a thing or two about traffic. Literally, 2 things... that's it :)
You can leave an optional "tip" with Mahalo's virtual currency, Mahalo Dollars. If you are asking a difficult question that might require some research, or if you'd like a wide variety of feedback, a higher tip often leads to more answers to your question.
M$
However I'd make the following observations...
Apart from the volume of traffic, your earnings depend on two other things, the click through rate as Rob discussed, and the likely value of the ads on that page.
Both those depend heavily on what the page is about.
If the page attracts and is helpful to people who are making a purchase decision about something, they're more likely to be in the frame of mind to click on an ad.
If that purchase decision is about a moderately expensive item, then each click will most likely earn you more than if the items are very cheap.
You can see some of how that plays by looking at the Mahalo pages I manage.
My pages on iPhone and iPod Touch are roughly making M$6 per 1,000 visitors. (Which since we're sharing revenue with Mahalo means the total ad revenue from those pages is more like $15 per 1,000 visitors.)
On the other hand, a page about Rafael Nadal is earning more like M$1 per 1,000 visitors, and the Kate Winslet page is only making maybe 12 cents per 1,000 visitors.
It's likely that people who visit iPhone pages are either thinking about buying an iPhone, or own one and might be interested in buying an accessory. Whereas people who visit a page about a tennis player are more likely looking for news about them, and not particularly looking to buy anything. They may be tempted to look at ads for a Wimbledon ticket or a new racket, but they probably weren't so much in shopping frame of mind to begin with.
It's also hard to predict any of these things in advance. Why does Kate Winslet get fewer ad clicks than Leonardo DiCaprio despite having a lot more visitors? I really don't know! (But one possibility is that someone with really sucky ads bought a lot of advertising space from Google for the keyword "Kate Winslet" this last month.)
Anyway to answer the original question, to make $10 a month from ads you might need as little as 500 visitors a month, or you might need 10,000 or more.
You can leave an optional "tip" with Mahalo's virtual currency, Mahalo Dollars. If you are asking a difficult question that might require some research, or if you'd like a wide variety of feedback, a higher tip often leads to more answers to your question.
M$
Difficult part is to get traffic . You have to do basic traffic generating tricks like
Article submission
Directory submissions
Social media submission
Book Marks
Start your own blog
So once you do all the above mentioned steps you can get 200 - 500 page views per day and this would be sufficient enough to get your web hosting charges .ie more than $10/-
You can leave an optional "tip" with Mahalo's virtual currency, Mahalo Dollars. If you are asking a difficult question that might require some research, or if you'd like a wide variety of feedback, a higher tip often leads to more answers to your question.
M$
Statistics will vary, but more traffic = more money. So you'll need at least 250-300 visitors/day to your site, in order to make 10 dollars a month.
I use Google Adsense.
You can leave an optional "tip" with Mahalo's virtual currency, Mahalo Dollars. If you are asking a difficult question that might require some research, or if you'd like a wide variety of feedback, a higher tip often leads to more answers to your question.
M$
