Not quite ready to quit my day job….
I have to be careful talking about this, since I might violate the Terms of Service for a certain very large provider of text-based advertisements currently featured on this site, but you might be interested in knowing just how much residual income I’m pulling in from having these links on my site.
Around $2.00 per week.
Which is fine with me, really, since at this rate it will offset my hosting costs for the year which is my main goal. However, you budding bloggers take note! Now I only get around 100 site visits a day, including RSS feed readers, since my focus is fairly small, so you’re not going to be clocking big clicks, so to speak. Only about 2% of my visits (and even less of my page views) results in a click on one of these ads.
So there you have it - some actual facts about the closely-guarded world of text-based blog ad links. If you’re starting a blog, be ready to eat ramen noodles for while until the clicks start coming in…