Saturday, March 05, 2005

Making a living off AdSense

The author of this blog has revealed that he is making $500 a year off AdSense. According to stats on his website, he gets around 200,000 page views a year so that makes it .25 cents per eyeball. By that estimate, if you were trying to run a self-sufficient website that cost you $20/month in hosting fees, you would need nearly 100,000 page views in a year or 270 page views a day. Some other datapoints: Russell Beatie's weblog and his earnings of $98 per month off AdSense. Also, aparently communications between Google and Adsense users are supposed to be confidential; I guess even Google can't control everything.

Started Blogging Again

I moved my blog over from Bloglines, it didn't allow comments and other features. It seems there is no easy way to move my blog other than to manually copy the entries. I've added 10 posts from my old blog, they were originally posted back in February.