$$ from a site

Sid23 · Jan 19th, 2008, 11:05 PM

In terms of scale, how many people have to visit your website on a monthly basis to make $500 a month? $5,000? $500,000?

Just looking to get an idea...

Mr K · Jan 19th, 2008, 11:24 PM

LOTS ...

I actually saw something about this a while back, and yeah you need HEAPS.
I had a site that was during over 500 000 impressions a month - was making $150 a month.

In the past week, I've had just on 1500 people visit my blog: http://www.studiowhiz.com & I've made $0 .. then again I did manage to get kicked off TextLinkAds

royemunson · Jan 20th, 2008, 06:58 AM

it depends on your niche and your business model. lets just say you are just throwing up google or yahoo ads.

i have a travel site and i need around 500 visitors a day to hit the 500 per month figure. it stays fairly consistent from that standpoint.

in terms of selling other items and whether or not you are selling a service, selling an info product from a direct sales page, etc. this will vary.

JOe

6.0_bull · Jan 20th, 2008, 08:26 AM

There are so many variables to this , that to give you an exact answer to this question would not do it justice , I have some information on this somewhere will see i i can find it and post it up here for you .

PurEnergy · Jan 20th, 2008, 11:52 AM

I had no idea the amount of traffic required to make any money on a site is as high as what I'm hearing.

I guess the consumer will eventually let you know by the amount of traffic your site recieves whether or not you actually have something of value.

LamboMP · Jan 20th, 2008, 12:14 PM

Sean,

The answer is, it all depends.

If you have a subscription business, which charges $20.00 per month, and you have 100 subscribers, thats $2000.00/mo.

Therefore, 100 users generated $2000.00.

The question is, what is it your offering them, for them to go into their pockets and cough $20.00 per month?

MP

Originally Posted by SeanS

In terms of scale, how many people have to visit your website on a monthly basis to make $500 a month? $5,000? $500,000?

Just looking to get an idea...

Analyzer · Jan 20th, 2008, 01:34 PM

Depends a lot I've seen a site with 100k unique vistors/month making about $100/month, I've seen 50k/unique visitors making $5000/month and I'm certain there are people with nuch less visitors making way more.

I think that if your not selling anything and lloking to make money from adsense or something similar the trick is to look for words/seaches that get high bids and then build good content around them. With some SEO should make you decent money with a reasonable ammount of traffic.

biophase · Jan 21st, 2008, 02:44 AM

Originally Posted by SeanS

In terms of scale, how many people have to visit your website on a monthly basis to make $500 a month? $5,000? $500,000?

Just looking to get an idea...

If you had a site with just adsense and you made $0.20 per click, you can back calculate it.

Assume you have a 2% click through ratio, 2 out of 100 visitors click the ad. Then you need 5 clicks for $1, 500 clicks for $100, 2500 clicks for $500.

2500 X 100 / 2 = 125000 visitors.

So you would need 125,000 visitors per month or 4,000 visitors a day to make $500/mo.

Now you can fiddle with the click through ratio and $/click tailor it to your site.

yveskleinsky · Jan 21st, 2008, 05:15 PM

Originally Posted by royemunson

i have a travel site and i need around 500 visitors a day to hit the 500 per month figure. it stays fairly consistent from that standpoint.
JOe

Are you making money from ads, a product or monthly mbrships?

Jorge · Jan 21st, 2008, 06:12 PM

I had a site on parking -on namedrive- (wich I sold last week) that had around 250-300 visits a day, from wich 50% clicked the ads. The site was making around 80usd per month. Consider that visitors were from latin america so clicks are worth a lot less (about 0.05 per click)

Andrew · Jan 21st, 2008, 06:39 PM

Throw all the speculative numbers out the window. You can't come even close to guessing accurately until you have real, first-hand, numbers to work with.

The internet is all about filtering and sorting traffic. I can send you 500,000 visitors who are worth less than $5, I can send you 5 visitors that are worth $500.

Things are basically broken down in to 2 categories -- user demographic/geographic location, and market. Figure these things out first by running tests, and then extrapolate on the data that you collect.

Mr K · Jan 22nd, 2008, 04:11 AM

Andrew - great answer ++ for you

Jan 19th, 2008, 11:05 PM	#1 (permalink)
Sid23 Level: (6) Mercedes Joined: Aug 2007 Posts: 460 Thanks: 22 Thanked 19 Times in 13 Posts	$$ from a site In terms of scale, how many people have to visit your website on a monthly basis to make $500 a month? $5,000? $500,000? Just looking to get an idea...

Jan 19th, 2008, 11:24 PM	#2 (permalink)
Mr K Level: (12) Chevrolet Joined: Jan 2008 Posts: 46 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: $$ from a site LOTS ... I actually saw something about this a while back, and yeah you need HEAPS. I had a site that was during over 500 000 impressions a month - was making $150 a month. In the past week, I've had just on 1500 people visit my blog: http://www.studiowhiz.com & I've made $0 .. then again I did manage to get kicked off TextLinkAds

Jan 20th, 2008, 06:58 AM	#3 (permalink)
royemunson Level: (9) Cadillac Joined: Jul 2007 Locale: SW Ohio but on the beach in my mind Age: 29 Posts: 157 Thanks: 0 Thanked 7 Times in 6 Posts	Re: $$ from a site it depends on your niche and your business model. lets just say you are just throwing up google or yahoo ads. i have a travel site and i need around 500 visitors a day to hit the 500 per month figure. it stays fairly consistent from that standpoint. in terms of selling other items and whether or not you are selling a service, selling an info product from a direct sales page, etc. this will vary. JOe

Jan 20th, 2008, 08:26 AM	#4 (permalink)
6.0_bull Level: (11) Honda Joined: Nov 2007 Posts: 91 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: $$ from a site There are so many variables to this , that to give you an exact answer to this question would not do it justice , I have some information on this somewhere will see i i can find it and post it up here for you .

Jan 20th, 2008, 11:52 AM	#5 (permalink)
PurEnergy Level: (9) Cadillac Joined: Jan 2008 Age: 44 Posts: 150 Thanks: 15 Thanked 6 Times in 4 Posts	Re: $$ from a site I had no idea the amount of traffic required to make any money on a site is as high as what I'm hearing. I guess the consumer will eventually let you know by the amount of traffic your site recieves whether or not you actually have something of value.

Jan 20th, 2008, 01:34 PM	#7 (permalink)
Analyzer Level: (9) Cadillac Joined: Aug 2007 Locale: Portugal, Europe Age: 26 Posts: 195 Thanks: 16 Thanked 16 Times in 9 Posts	Re: $$ from a site Depends a lot I've seen a site with 100k unique vistors/month making about $100/month, I've seen 50k/unique visitors making $5000/month and I'm certain there are people with nuch less visitors making way more. I think that if your not selling anything and lloking to make money from adsense or something similar the trick is to look for words/seaches that get high bids and then build good content around them. With some SEO should make you decent money with a reasonable ammount of traffic. __________________ Join the Fastlane Team @ Kiva.org: http://www.thefastlanetomillions.com...-kiva-org.html

Jan 21st, 2008, 06:12 PM	#10 (permalink)
Jorge Level: (5) Porsche Joined: Oct 2007 Locale: Mendoza, Argentina Age: 26 Posts: 605 Thanks: 1 Thanked 4 Times in 4 Posts	Re: $$ from a site I had a site on parking -on namedrive- (wich I sold last week) that had around 250-300 visits a day, from wich 50% clicked the ads. The site was making around 80usd per month. Consider that visitors were from latin america so clicks are worth a lot less (about 0.05 per click)

Jan 21st, 2008, 06:39 PM	#11 (permalink)
Andrew Level: (9) Cadillac Joined: Aug 2007 Posts: 170 Thanks: 0 Thanked 7 Times in 6 Posts	Re: $$ from a site Throw all the speculative numbers out the window. You can't come even close to guessing accurately until you have real, first-hand, numbers to work with. The internet is all about filtering and sorting traffic. I can send you 500,000 visitors who are worth less than $5, I can send you 5 visitors that are worth $500. Things are basically broken down in to 2 categories -- user demographic/geographic location, and market. Figure these things out first by running tests, and then extrapolate on the data that you collect.

Jan 22nd, 2008, 04:11 AM	#12 (permalink)
Mr K Level: (12) Chevrolet Joined: Jan 2008 Posts: 46 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: $$ from a site Andrew - great answer ++ for you __________________ A crazy kiwi. My blog: http://www.studiowhiz.com/ \| Join me on LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/in/keran

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