Those figures fit with what I remember about ad revenue. If I remember right, it's normal for around 2% of hits to convert into an ad click. If we pair that with a $0.50 mean earning-per-click (memory and a cursory search of the Internet say this is reasonable), we get:
$0.50 * (1.5 million * 2%) = $15,000/mo.
That leaves some leeway for Crranky to have worse performance and still hit his quoted $10,000/mo.
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Really, so much revenue from 100K uniques and 1.5M page views a month? I wonder if that's typical or just some kind of Crranky's blog speciality?
Those figures fit with what I remember about ad revenue. If I remember right, it's normal for around 2% of hits to convert into an ad click. If we pair that with a $0.50 mean earning-per-click (memory and a cursory search of the Internet say this is reasonable), we get:
That leaves some leeway for Crranky to have worse performance and still hit his quoted $10,000/mo.$0.50 per click and 50 impressions per click implies $10 CPM... Isn't that a bit high?
It's achievable today, and was even more easily achievable 5 years ago.
It's possible - see my post towards the bottom of the page.