Russell is gaining more than $100 a day from ads only. Nice for you, Russ!
I don’t have more than a fraction of his traffic levels, but with the recent surge I experimented (I’ve been doing more than 2000 unique visitors per day in the last three days), I figured I could try to monetize some of this traffic.
So I adopted the same strategy as Russell: put a large, obnoxious ad unit right before the post on each single-post page, but only when people come here from another site (possibly 99% of hits to single posts are from search engines anyway).
This way, I hope not to annoy too much regular readers who come in through the home page. I would also like to suggest my (very few) regular readers to use my RSS feed instead. It’s full-text and without ads.
It also has to do with what you write about.
for instance all I see when I look at this page is about SEO’s and other advertising networks.
you need to talk about casino’s, or finance related topics so that the ads people see are high value ones.
But wow 2000 unqiue visitors.. I’m happy when I get that in a month!
If I were writing this blog for the money, I might do that, but then you wouldn’t be reading it ;).
As for the 2000 visitors, it won’t last. 90% of them are here because they looked for “ronaldinho video” on Google, aren’t interested about other subjects I write about and won’t ever come back. So I figured I might monetize some of this extra traffic, while it lasts.
Ads? What ads? (Hint: Adblock is nice)