most recent 30 from http://meta.stackexchange.com 2010-03-20T10:44:30Z http://meta.stackexchange.com/feeds/question/1008 http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/rdf http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1008/early-se-sites-hows-it-going-with-adsense Matt Cruikshank 2009-10-08T04:45:02Z 2009-10-13T19:23:16Z

<p>If you don't mind sharing, I'd love to know how it's going with <em>your</em> SE site.</p> <p>Does it look like AdSense is going to pay for your SE bill?</p> <p>You car?</p> <p>Your house?</p> <p>Your retirement?</p> <p>Or maybe for that Mountain Dew you've been thinking really hard about getting?</p> <p>Or maybe it's so grim that you're planning on pulling the plug, the second you're forced to pay for it, because it's hard to convince the Missus that you should <em>write a check</em> to pay for FansOfPetsDotCom.stackexchange.com?</p>

http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1008/early-se-sites-hows-it-going-with-adsense/1009#1009 Jonathan Lyon 2009-10-08T05:35:00Z 2009-10-08T05:35:00Z

<p>If anyone makes more than $7.36 in a month, sorry make that 3 month from Google Adsense on a SE site, I'll eat my hat. </p> <p>Better to build a community now while SE is in beta, and I mean build a real, interested and engaged audience who are connected by whatever shared interest your site is about and then...</p> <p>Seek to leverage this audience with very specific advertisers who are currently spending money trying to reach the audience you represent. Better still, find a site sponsor and provide a multitude of ways in which they can talk to your users.</p> <p>Just my 2cents worth.</p> <p>Jonathan</p>

http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1008/early-se-sites-hows-it-going-with-adsense/1012#1012 Roark 2009-10-08T06:33:30Z 2009-10-08T06:33:30Z

<p>I have tried AdSense but, as @Jonathan mentions, it will mean nothing until you have a engaged community. And when you have that you are much better off using very targetted advertising. This is what has worked for stackoverflow.com and I am sure that it will be true for most SE sites.</p>

http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1008/early-se-sites-hows-it-going-with-adsense/1019#1019 Scott W. 2009-10-08T10:34:29Z 2009-10-08T10:34:29Z

<p>We haven't added any advertising yet. As Jonathan said, it's more important to get a community going first.</p> <p>However, the quick dismissal of AdSense is missing a very important point... it automatically customizes itself to every page in your site. So if you put AdSense in your banner-low AdSpot, then the ad will be more relevant to the question asked. We think this is more useful to users, especially ones coming straight in off Google with a question. They see the question, the top answer, and then a (hopefully) relevant ad for something they may want. Bounce rates for Google visitors are still in the high 90% range on our site, so it makes sense to offer them a relevant thing to click on, and it helps support the site, so everyone wins.</p> <p>Additionally, banner-low spots are invisible to any user with 200 rep, so your members who are there all the time contributing anyway don't get bothered by it.</p> <p>As for the sidebar ad spots, if you're planning to use those, I agree it makes more sense to run your own ads.</p>

http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1008/early-se-sites-hows-it-going-with-adsense/1025#1025 StopTheSearch.com 2009-10-08T12:58:02Z 2009-10-08T12:58:02Z

<p>I've got it in on <a href="http://www.StopTheSearch.com" rel="nofollow">StopTheSearch.com</a> but it isn't really doing anything. Luckily I pretty much expected nothing from it based on the users/pageviews I've got at the moment. Until you get up in the 100k+ visitors per month I wouldn't expect much from it.</p> <p>Mainly I'm using it at the moment as an easy way to promote Waste Reduction Week in Canada... Google AdManager lets me target a self-run campaign to Canada-only and fills in with Google AdSense ads for all other visitors.</p>

http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1008/early-se-sites-hows-it-going-with-adsense/1028#1028 lensfail.com 2009-10-08T14:33:48Z 2009-10-08T14:33:48Z

<p>Also using AdSense on <a href="http://lensfail.stackexchange.com" rel="nofollow">http://lensfail.stackexchange.com</a> | it's nice to see how many impressions you had... that mostly all about it.</p>

http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1008/early-se-sites-hows-it-going-with-adsense/1065#1065 Joe Schmoe 2009-10-08T18:23:40Z 2009-10-08T18:23:40Z

<p>I run a site that is zooming along with SE just at the moment. There is zero advertising on it and I'm going to be keeping it that way as long as I can.</p> <p>Building a sense of community is <strong>everything</strong> - everything else follows from that in time. </p> <p>Forget about monetizing your site for now and concentrate totally on making it a place that people love to visit.</p>

http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1008/early-se-sites-hows-it-going-with-adsense/1109#1109 Corey Frang 2009-10-09T09:08:40Z 2009-10-09T09:08:40Z

<p>@Jonathan Lyon: Might I suggest a <a href="http://www.recipezaar.com/bb/viewtopic.zsp?t=151087&amp;sid=e6302e73e1b808ba8d08b8a2a03a008c" rel="nofollow">cake hat</a>?</p> <p>At <a href="http://epicadvice.com" rel="nofollow">EpicAdvice.com</a> We hit $7.56 from adsense in a single day with 37,769 page impressions - 27 clicks, 0.07CTR, $0.20eCPM.</p>

http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1008/early-se-sites-hows-it-going-with-adsense/1166#1166 mbhunter 2009-10-10T03:08:15Z 2009-10-10T03:08:15Z

<p>Just a word of warning: Don't violate AdSense T&amp;C by providing detailed clickthrough stats.</p> <p>Check them if you're not sure what I'm talking about.</p>

http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1008/early-se-sites-hows-it-going-with-adsense/1447#1447 Eric Koslow 2009-10-13T19:23:16Z 2009-10-13T19:23:16Z

<p>I don't know how I'm doing it, but I've made $10 off of my adsense in 3 days or so. So with a little bit more people, I might be able to cover that $130 a month. Maybe I'm just lucky?</p>