I don’t think I know how to monetize a site. Most of my sites are low traffic - ranging from several hundred to 5,000 uniques (by AwStats) per month, so it’s not surprising each site doesn’t make much. But I’m starting to think that these small sites collectively ought to be making $200/month or more. They include ChillyCool and Project Mai Tai, some affiliate sites and some article reprint sites. Project Mai Tai, for example, makes under $10/month from about 2,500 visitors per month. Does that sound right to you?
Or look at it this way. Project B-2 Bomber is getting over 16k visitors this month. This site (BlueMushrooms) is getting half that (keep in mind that includes the directory as well as the blog). And one of my article reprint sites gets under 1k per month. Guess what? Each site earns me around $100 per month. I’ve got to be doing something wrong there. Given all the people who make $100/month with nothing more than AdSense on a site or two - an earner I’ve never made more than a few cents a month from - I definitely think part of the problem is me.
Or is AwStats really that misleading? I notice Quantcast thinks I’ve had about half the traffic this month that AwStats reports. But even if AwStats is that far off, I still have one site with X visitors, another with half of X, and another with a piddly little amount, all doing equally well.
What do you think I should be making from, say, this blog? What do you think you’d be making if you owned it?
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