Anthony's numbers (w/ $2 CPM) are almost identical to the numbers that
I came up with some time ago, although he used an entirely different
approach.
But I'm not so confident that you can get income like that from the
moment you switch it on...
On 10/25/07, Anthony <wikimail(a)inbox.org> wrote:
On 10/25/07, Thomas Dalton
<thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Oh hell, I'll do it. Let's say $2
CPM (that's low according to
>
http://www.sitepoint.com/article/introducing-google-adsense), on 7
> billion page views per month
>
(
http://www.webpronews.com/blogtalk/2007/06/12/wikipedia-wikimedia-traffic).
That's $14 million a month, which would mean roughly $7 million from
two weeks of ads.
That website is 4 years old. Are returns from ads still that good? I
thought they had dropped significantly over the last few years.
I don't see why I'm in any better position than you to answer that
question. In fact, apparently you're more familiar with it than I am.
I also gave myself a factor of three in possible mistakes, and
actually I halved the low end of what that site said was the average
CPM ($4-5). So I really have a fudge factor of 6x+.
I'm not going to spend tons of time coming up with really accurate
estimates, because I think it's so blindingly obvious that you could
make as much as you do in fundraising for the year in less than a
month using targeted text ads.
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