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  • Offline Pete

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on: July 13, 2009, 18:23:53 PM
I have made $0.50 in 5 months on my website, Im far too happy about it but it feels kinda good :)
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Reply #1 on: July 13, 2009, 20:10:12 PM
LOL how exactly? Care to share the work from home and make millions secret?
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Reply #2 on: July 13, 2009, 21:10:19 PM
Ive made £100 so far this month from my site with Google Adwords :)

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Reply #3 on: July 13, 2009, 21:23:12 PM
how does that google adwords stuff work anyway ?

I keep hearing about it... but dont know what it is... anytime i looked it up I couldnt find the info I wanted for all the people trying to refer me !
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Reply #4 on: July 13, 2009, 21:31:23 PM
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how does that google adwords stuff work anyway ?

I keep hearing about it... but dont know what it is... anytime i looked it up I couldnt find the info I wanted for all the people trying to refer me !


There are two sides to the coin. Adwords and Adsense. Adwords lets you set up adverts for your own sites that are then targeted using various criteria by google at other sites. These ads are then displayed in those little "ads by Google" boxes. Adsense allows you to place ad boxes on your site that are, once again, targeted by google, and you get paid every time someone clicks an advert through to the destination site.

Although I have to say Adsense is like fight club, as in the first rule of Adsense is you dont talk too much about Adsense.
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Reply #5 on: July 13, 2009, 21:32:04 PM
I got adbrite cos adsense didnt deem my site worthy.

Got a link Goblin? I wanna see a £100 site :)
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Reply #6 on: July 13, 2009, 22:31:29 PM
http://www.twitlonger.com

Its pushing close to a million page views a month.
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Reply #7 on: July 13, 2009, 22:37:38 PM
hehe nice
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Reply #8 on: July 13, 2009, 22:55:29 PM
Meh, the $$ symbols were in front of my eyes until I realised that my site only gets a few hundred hits a month so Id be in the 50c category :(

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Reply #9 on: July 14, 2009, 10:14:33 AM
It depends on your target market. If you have a very focused site you can make decent scratch with a lot less visitors, but if youre kinda scattergun (like Twitlonger is) the click through is very low, so you need big number to make small amounts.

It helps as well if you have a non-technical audience. Partly because they are less likely to use Adblock, but mostly because they are less annoyed by ads. I think Ive maybe clicked half a dozen ad links in my life, but a lot of casual surfers I watch cant tell the difference between an ad and any other link.

I see huge boosts in click through when the Jonas Brothers or Lance Armstrong have posted on Twitlonger, but not the same when its a more geeky celeb.
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