Use Adsense?
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- xrusos
Anyone have any success stories with Google's AdSense?
http://bayareafreefi.com/city.ph…
what's your site? what kind of cash did/do you bring in?
- ribit0
Just testing it at the moment.. starting to get some relevant ads populating it (after barring our competitiors and some crappy links), but not sure if it is worth using all over our site (we usually search out more targeted advertisers and run our own adserver).
Seems you can't make it open links in a new window?
- xrusos0
yup, no new windows... it does everything through a javascripted frame.
but you can style it all nice.
i can't tell what are ads and what is content on your site... maybe that means more clicks. nice.
- xrusos0
i have no idea how that link got in the first post. i had that url copied for an email, not for NT! ;)
whatever... that's the site i'm trying them on anyway.
http://bayareafreefi.comnot sure what i can expect yet in pay. it fluctuates so much. but i guess it's done pretty well for a simple site.
- ribit0
we only have one advertiser right now (Corel)... we are so niche that relevant advertisers are hard to find to fill the banner space (although strangly they usually find us!)
- ribit0
btw... adsense ads are here:
http://www.cardesignnews.com/new…
- xrusos0
hmmm... that's interesting ribit.
it's worked alright for me so far. I've made $55+ in the first week.
i have about 1500 uniques and 2300 pageviews a day with an average clickthru rate of 3.5%.
do you think dedicated ads would be more profitable? i don't know if i want to manage them though. sounds like a hassle. adsense just works.
- ribit0
Our banner campaigns are usually specific stuff like:
- design conference
- design school application deadline
- design software companies
- design competitionsWe charge like $2000-3000 for a 2 month campaign... with traffic around 15000 visits per day on main page... So at that sort of price we are prepared to track down and negotiate with advertisers. It's not big money though (and advertisers are a little hard to find) so we'd like to mix in some network ads as well to fill available space if we can figure out the best systems.
We run our the open-source PHPAdsNew adserver on our server... http://phpadsnew.com
It's really elegant, and way nicer to use than the awful interface $99/mth Spinbox service we used to struggle with....
- xrusos0
wow! i don't know who would be interested in advertising on the http://bayareafreefi.com site, but if i could get $1-2k a month! I'd switch to dedicated ads.
my site is only a week old, and traffic is growing exponentially, so i'm hoping to be up to 5k pageviews a day. I think that's realistic.
we'll see.
- ribit0
You will have a fairly diverse audience, so you are probably best off with an ad network like Doubleclick... although they only get interested when you have 1-2 million impressions per month...there are others out there that handle lower traffic sites though... You could run your own adserver and mix your own advertisers (Wi-Fi or cafe related?) with more general ad network ads...
- xrusos0
i think i'll be hard pressed to find 30k visitors in the bay area per day interested in my little site. i guess i'll be happy with the 1-2k or so a year in extra fun that i hope to get from google.
- xrusos0
anyone else use adsense?
- xrusos0
bump. i can't believe only ribit an i use adsense.
- DutchBoy0
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