ファブリス Wrote:I understand, so it is probably related to the topic you discuss. As you said it depends much on the audience too. I imagine those blogs about diets, cellulite and how to build muscles get more clicks xDcophnia61 Wrote:(...) or meybe she IS him xDI'm confused now. Didn't people post videos here already of the AJATT author talking about his study methods? Or was that another person?
Quote:I used to have a non-language related blog on the past and I remember I gained a good amount thanks to adsense so I wonder why koohii and other well-known websites didn't have them. Do things have changed in the last years?Uhm... well maybe you had a blog that hit a really popular keyword or just lucked out on the SEO? I don't know what you mean by good amount but when I tried adsense on this forum, the ads were completely irrelevant for the most part and I earned like 15 USD a month...
Advertising revenue, from what I hear actually gets worse and worse. The clickthrough rate is extremely low, and particularly on websites such as this as you can imagine with a fairly computer literate audience that knows how to block ads
Direct advertising is probably the best adveritsing I can get since it's actually relevant and useful products, and the audience is the right one.
Affiliates.. well I have had some suggestions now and then but most I have seen have pitiful commissions, the kind of commissions that work on a highly succesful blog that pulls hundred thousands views. Not so great for a web app and a relatively small forum. Besides commissions tend to work with lots of SEO and lots of link placement etc.
God bless JapanesePod101, seriously.. their commissions are amazing compared to other affiliates. I think it's 25% ? I don't know what I would do without them.
Also the JPod101 I think it is not even "advertising" but more as a service, because it is a valid product and it is related to what we study. It's nothing you can click by mistake or because you're deceived. I hope they will do less dialog-oriented material in the future, and more of the podcast thing with "real" content about japanese food and the like xD