How Much Do you earn?

[mneylon]

Although the Google terms of service do not allow you to discuss specifics, such as clickthrough rates etc., you are allowed to discuss your overall earnings.

So, if you are using Google Adsense, how much are you earning per month?

 

[rsynnott]

Per month, I assume? Currently close to €400; hoping it'll rise a bit

 

[mneylon]

Per month - yes - sorry!
I'll go back and edit my original post

€400 is a tidy sum .. should keep you out of trouble

 

[Cormac]

Per month, I assume? Currently close to €400; hoping it'll rise a bit

Rob, do you mind me asking on how many websites is that figure based on? and wich websites. Thanks

 

[rsynnott]

Rob, do you mind me asking on how many websites is that figure based on? and wich websites. Thanks

Trade secret

Nah. Just (http://findmeatune.com)

Which started off as a little script on a college machine that I wrote for fun, so moderately happy with that.

 

[Cormac]

well done rob, according to the web stats package that comes with my host i'm getting approx 5,000 hits on one of my websites per week. Altough i take those figures with a pinch of salt, i think i will venture in the world of adsense. It seems fairly profitable. I'd imagine it would cover my hosting and a few luxury items. Happy times!

 

[mneylon]

It makes sense to set yourself a reasonable target. If you work out how much you need to make and can make that much, then you will be a happy bunny

 

[rsynnott]

well done rob, according to the web stats package that comes with my host i'm getting approx 5,000 hits on one of my websites per week. Altough i take those figures with a pinch of salt, i think i will venture in the world of adsense. It seems fairly profitable. I'd imagine it would cover my hosting and a few luxury items. Happy times!

I earn that on the basis of 5000 or so real views per day, btw. (Or 20,000 hits)

 

[CGorman]

I earn that on the basis of 5000 or so real views per day, btw. (Or 20,000 hits)

Hmm... your site is now almost the year old, thats a nice amount of traffic - does most of it come from the search engines? 3mts in with my site and i'm hitting about 100 unique visitors a day (600 hits a day)... althought that is triple what it was last month, so things are improving rapidly.

 

[rsynnott]

Hmm... your site is now almost the year old, thats a nice amount of traffic - does most of it come from the search engines? 3mts in with my site and i'm hitting about 100 unique visitors a day (600 hits a day)... althought that is triple what it was last month, so things are improving rapidly.

Nearly all from search engines, the remainder from regulars.

 

[georgiecasey]

about $2000 a month these days. Around this time 2 years ago I was making $5000 a month but then got lazy, site crashed and I couldn't have been bothered fixing it. I'm feeling motivated again so hopefully I'll be making more soon.

 

[mneylon]

That's impressive!

How many sites are you running?

 

[georgiecasey]

just the one. www.free-ringtones.ie huge money in ringtones.

i know a guy pulling in over 100k a month on em.

shoemoney.com, you mite have heard of him

 

[mneylon]

That is serious money

We should all bow down to you

 

[georgiecasey]

well, bow down to yer man making 6 figures a month anyway! unbelievable.

 

[RedCardinal]

about $2000 a month these days. Around this time 2 years ago I was making $5000 a month but then got lazy, site crashed and I couldn't have been bothered fixing it. I'm feeling motivated again so hopefully I'll be making more soon.

Whats the deal with royalties and the like? How much have you to pay ack to the music cos?

 

[georgiecasey]

An external company manages that for me, but I dont pay much as I give away free ringtones and make money from ads alone. You can get around it like that. I only pay royalties on ringtones I sell.

Cheers for the blog post, was very surprised when it popped up in Google Reader there!

 

[RedCardinal]

Cheers for the blog post, was very surprised when it popped up in Google Reader there!

Heh? Sorry I think we have a crossed line somewhere?

So out of curiosity you are just buying the ringtones from a third party and because you give them away you pay no royalites? Very sweet. (don't worry bot interested in opening another Irish ringtone site just at he moment )

I can see a tonne of backlinks going into you but dont see you in the SERPs? How are people finding you?

 

[mneylon]

Heh? Sorry I think we have a crossed line somewhere?

I think he's referring to this:
Free ringtones is where the money is!!! » at Tom Raftery’s I.T. views

 

[RedCardinal]

I think he's referring to this:
Free ringtones is where the money is!!! » at Tom Raftery’s I.T. views

Yeah presumed that - actually thats how I came across this thread.

Was just wondering if I had a blogging doppleganger somewhere that I didn't know about

Funny thing is that I reckon there's going to be quite a few new ringtone MFA sites popping up with the AOL data (lots of related keywords in there).

At he moment I've got 7 of the 10 files loaded into MySQL but with each additional file MySQL is eating more and more resources to index the table...and I'm talking hours now to index

Some interesting Irish sites doing quite nicely though. Will be blogging some Irish queries from the dataset in the coming days.