I’ve sold out!
Yup, I’ve gone and put ads over in my sidebar. Why, you ask? Why not? All that space was just doing nothing. It’s more of an experiment and an amusement than an actual money-making venture – I don’t get enough hits to this blog at the moment to believe that anyone is even paying attention to those Cost-Per-Click ads. If you see one that interests you, definitely click on it, though. I’m not allowed to promote click ads on my site, but I will get a couple of token cents if you do click.
Actually, how much I will get paid depends on what keywords in my posts have been bought by advertisers, whose contextual advertisements are presented over there for your clicking (or ignoring) pleasure. A quick jaunt through Google’s AdWords Keyword Tool reveals there are some real earners out there.
The main focus of this blog (photography) has a keyword average Cost-Per-Click (CPC) of a not-terrible $2.64. “Digital photography” pushes that up to $3.42 at the time of writing. If I were to do an article on stock photography, that’s currently paying an average of $5.29. Considering those prices are averages, and require my ads to actually be clicked on, I’m not about to quit my day job.
But what if there’s a keyword out there that only needs a few ad-clicks to start making big bucks? All I’d have to do is start writing things on my blog about those topics and BAM – average chance of getting a free cup of coffee outta Google. So, what are they? “Singles Matchmaking” is paying a little over $6. “Optical Astronomy” rakes in an average of $5.74 per click, but that’s just peanuts, really.
If I could just go get me some maths skills, Google informs an estimated average CPC on the keywords “trigonometry online course” of $9.41! If I knew what “raman spectrometers” were, I could write about them and potentially earn ad revenue of almost $30 per click!
As long as someone is willing to pay me for it.
In: Blogkeeping · Tagged with: adsense, cost per click, google, keywords