Help! Can I Make Money From This Website with Adwords??

Thermidor

steve1980 wrote: »

I currently take in £25 per month from my adsense on my forum. That's where the figure comes from. Not sure if you read the entire thread but I have mentioned this previously.

Hi Steve,

Is that £25 a month for just one advert? Or do you have several Adsense adverts?

Another thing, each Adsense banner can hold more than one ad I understand? So when you say 'each adsense ad' do you mean each Adsense BANNER -or each Adsense ADVERT ?

Many thanks!

Thermidor

Seraphim wrote: »

Actually, you can make a very good income out of online advertising (I do ). I think the key thing is that if you are making a good living out of it, you aren't going to plaster HOW you do it all over the 'net so everyone else becomes a competitor!!

£25/month for 500,000 impressions is very low - they key here is that it is a forum and these tend not to be brilliant in terms for RPM. Different sectors and different kinds of website (forum, blog, information, etc etc) will have massively different RPMs.

In terms of using AdWords to drive traffic to a site in order to get clicks on Adsense - don't bother. Google will be taking a large chunk of the amount the advertiser pays them BEFORE giving anything to their publishers - and that's before you even consider things like click-through-rate (even with the best website in the world, it's highly unlikely that one click on Adwords will generate one click on your Adsense ads on a regular basis). However if you are looking to generate some initial interest in a website in the hope that users will stay long-term and therefore you will recoup your Adwords budget in the long-term... that has legs

If you are doing the blog because it's something you enjoy, go for it If you are doing the blog because you want to become mega-minted, I wouldn't bother.

Good luck with your project

Hi Seraphim,

Thank you!

I must admit I thought £25 a month seemed very low, but that seems to be the general opinion so far.

I hate to sound stupid, but what is RPM?:o

Are you also saying that a forum/blog type website doesn't make much in the way of money from Adsense?


This part of your post:

However if you are looking to generate some initial interest in a website in the hope that users will stay long-term and therefore you will recoup your Adwords budget in the long-term... that has legs

I'm a bit confused. I don't know what an Adwords budget even is. This is getting embarrassing!:o How will lomg-term users help make me money? I need to be direct, because I just don't understand it all.

Also, what is the difference between Adsense and Adwords?

Another thing, some people say you don't get paid for people clicking on Adsense ads (per click) but I read somewhere that there are people who do that from home for pocket money? So I'm terribly confused. Who pays those people? It can't be Adsense. So I imagined the person running the website got payment from Adsense and they paid the 'clicker' a percentage? Or am I totally wrong.

What I really want to know too , is do you get paid PER ADVERT? It seems that some Adsense banners hold about 20 adverts in them - do you get paid per banner -or per advert (paid for EACH advert in that banner)?

Sorry if I sound super-thick, I'm just geting a bit confused.:o

I know I won't make lots of money, but I did think £25 a month was very low for so many visits. Are you saying that you can make much more than that? I think you meant that.

One other thing, is each VISIT a unique person? In other words, could the same person visit your website every day, and that would make 30 visits for the month? And what's all this stuff about clicker-farmers? Are they the stay-at-home clickers? This is another thing that confuses me - if the site owner doesn't get paid extra for people clicking on the adverts, who pays the clickers? It wouldn't be the advertised company, and it wouldn't be Adsense - and it wouldn't be the website owner, surely?

Many thanks!

steve1980

Thermidor wrote: »

Hi Steve,

Is that £25 a month for just one advert? Or do you have several Adsense adverts?

Another thing, each Adsense banner can hold more than one ad I understand? So when you say 'each adsense ad' do you mean each Adsense BANNER -or each Adsense ADVERT ?

Many thanks!

steve1980 wrote: »

I have 3 sets on my forum (the maximum that Google would allow on one site).

I hope your friend is declaring all that extra income!

steve1980 wrote: »

3 sets of adsense adverts. I didn't want the forum to be overtaken by Google.

1 x 468 x 60 banner

2 x 728 x 90 banners

As I said before, I don't want Google Ads overtaking my forum.

Thermidor

Hi Steve,

Thanks for that.

Look, I'm sounding really thick here

What exactly is:

1 x 468 x 60 banner

2 x 728 x 90 banners

I understand they're banners, but I don't know what the numbers mean?

468 x 60 banner - is that size or quantity?

I'm not computer savvy (as you can tell) I just want to know:

Do you get paid for EACH advert in each banner?

Or do you get paid just for the banner, regardless of whether or not it has ONE advert or 100 adverts?

Thanks in advance!

steve1980

Thermidor wrote: »

Hi Steve,

Thanks for that.

Look, I'm sounding really thick here

What exactly is:

1 x 468 x 60 banner

2 x 728 x 90 banners

I understand they're banners, but I don't know what the numbers mean?

468 x 60 banner - is that size or quantity?

I'm not computer savvy (as you can tell) I just want to know:

Do you get paid for EACH advert in each banner?

Or do you get paid just for the banner, regardless of whether or not it has ONE advert or 100 adverts?

Thanks in advance!

They are the size of my banners.

You get 2 adverts in the smaller one and three adverts in the larger one. Payment is based on the advert being there.

Google put a limit on how many adsense boxes you can have on your site.

Thermidor

steve1980 wrote: »

They are the size of my banners.

You get 2 adverts in the smaller one and three adverts in the larger one. Payment is based on the advert being there.

Google put a limit on how many adsense boxes you can have on your site.

Thanks for that, Steve.

So would you happen to know what the Adsense banners are that hold about 20 ads? I've seen them on websites and there's an arrow you click on and more adverts come up - sometimes as many as 20?

Sorry to keep asking.

steve1980

These are the ad styles that are offer from Google.

https://www.google.com/adsense/static/en_US/AdFormats.html

David.

Hey Thermidor

eCPM is the earnings you get per 1,000 times the adverts are displayed
is not correct
eCPM is what google estimates you will get with the ad being displayed 1000 times
you get paid per click

also just had a quick read of this thread so I might have missed it but if you are setting up a site to try and make money from adsense you need to know the cost to advertisers per click
now this is not what we get but if it only costs advertisers 5p per click we are not going to get much from that
obviously if you get 2p per click as opposed to £1 per click you need to have 50 clicks to make the same money
so my advice do your homework first

David

breadlinebetty

I had a chat with my friend again and she said I'd got it wrong! She doesn't make £750 a month, not sure how what made me think that...


I think Adsense and Adwords are two different things for what it's worth and GoogleAds are different too:cool:

David.

breadlinebetty wrote: »

I think Adsense and Adwords are two different things for what it's worth and GoogleAds are different too:cool:

Adwords is when you pay to advertise and adsense is when you place them on your site.

So you pay to use adwords having your ad placed on other peoples sites and the search results and adsense pays you if a user clicks somebody elses ad on your website.