In the last few days I have been doing the rounds each evening collecting the total earnings from each of my advertising programs, which I then enter into a little spreadsheet I have created that gives me all kinds of nice stats.
As I was doing this tonite I got to thinking. A month ago I was happy if I earned a couple of dollars in day, a week or two later I was happy with $5, then $10, and now I expect at least $20 a day. I find it interesting that once I have hit a certain level a couple of times that becomes the yard stick by which I measure subsequent days.
As the advertising day draws to a close for each of the programs, which starts at around 3pm and doesn’t end until midnight. I start to get worried if my stats are looking a little low. Is my site down? Is there another problem? Do I need to move my ads?, draw attention to them more?, and the list goes on.
Sometimes my stats are a little down due to the day of the week. Sometimes they aren’t down other than revenue, ie low value clicks. Other times the ad company in question has not updated their stats yet.
I am guessing that this is something a lot of site owners go through, but I don’t really know (or perhaps I’m just weird?!?).
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I have been browsing your website. Are you averaging $20 per day? Is that what you are saying? And is this from people clicking through??? Buck
Hi,
Thats depends on when you take the average from. If you take it from when I started trying to make some money online then no, if you take it over the last month, then the answer is yes.
With all the work I have done to attract traffic to the sites they are growing in leaps and bounds, and in fact the average would be just over $30 a day.
The sources that are currently generating revenue for me on a daily basis are adsense, interclick, fastclick, and chitika, some of the programs are CPC and some are CPM (CPC: Cost per Click, CPM: Cost per thousand - ie paid for displaying the ads).
Man, how many sites do you run? I could go for an extra $20 a day right now. See, you can either do one hard thing that makes you $100 a day, or you can do a bunch of different little things that make you $20 a day each. Anyways, guess I’m gonna read around on this site. Looks like it’s pretty obvious that your not going to make $20 a day right off the bat.
And it’s great that you seem to be making more and more money, but eventually your gonna hit the sweet spot, and you won’t get any higher than that. I was also kind of curious, what’s your visitor to click ratio?
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