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Subject: Monetizing a Website
Category: Miscellaneous
Asked by: emaley-ga
List Price: $10.00
Posted: 11 Dec 2005 13:18 PST
Expires: 10 Jan 2006 13:18 PST
Question ID: 604471
How much traffic does a website need to have before it can
realistically begin to generate revenue from advertising,
sponsorships, or something like Google AdWords?
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Subject: Re: Monetizing a Website
From: lucyrio-ga on 11 Dec 2005 19:05 PST
 
A website that generates a penny for each unique vistor from adwords
wouldn't be unheard of.  You'd need about 10,000 visitors to even
begin to make money from Google Adsense.

In the near future Yahoo will roll out its own publishers program that
some will find to generate quite a bit more income then adsense.

A lot depends on the type of website. Some sites don't lend themselves
well to contextual advertising. Personally, I haven't had much luck
with affiliate programs. Conversions (the number of vistors who
subsequently purchase from the affiliate), have been much to low in my
experience to generate any real income. Again the right site with the
right affilate could be very profitable with no more than a handful of
visitors. Say you have the authorative site on ladybug jewelry. No a
hot topic, but there's a really good chance that those searching for
it would  a) find your site and b)purchase from a recomended affilate
listed on the website. If just 5% of your vistors made a purchase that
resulted in a commision of $10 you easily could earn $600 a year on
100 vistors a month.

cj.com and linkshare.com each have hundreds of advertisers for every
type of product or service you can imagine.
Subject: Re: Monetizing a Website
From: superiormp-ga on 19 Dec 2005 10:59 PST
 
It depends on the website.  A highly-targeted niche website that
provides useful information to its visitors would generate plenty of
Adsense and/or affiliate income with very little traffic since the
people coming to the site have very specific interests.  Therefore,
Adsense ads or other affiliate ads targeted to such a narrow niche
would have instant appeal and would result in a very high click thru
rate on ads on the site.

Additionally, if the Google Adwords Adsense ads on the site are high
click value ads (people bidding large dollar amounts for those ads)
then your Adsense income would be quite high per click.  Advertisers
with a product that fits the niche would also be willing to pay a lot
to place an ad on such a site if the traffic is so highly targeted.

For more information on this, check out http://www.superiormarketingpartners.com

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