About once every other day I get a question about the AdSense Check in my Gallery. I originally posted the check in this thread. Its most visited page on shoemoney.com (behind the main page course) with 1-2k unique visits per day.
So just going through the 120 emails or so in the last year on the subject I will answer questions-
- 1) How much of the check was profit?
At the time my expenses were 1 server @ 299$ per month for hosting. I would say atleast 130k was profit.
- 2) How much of the traffic was pay per click?
None of it was pay per click. Back then I did not know anything at all about pay per click.
- 3) Where did all your traffic come from?
About 70% of the traffic was direct 15% from search engines and 15% from referrals.
- 4) How much traffic did the site get to get that much money?
About 75k uniq per day.
- 5) Why did you get a paper check and not wire?
Back then Google did not do wire transfers for amounts of $10,000.00
- 6) Do you think its possible to still earn that kind of revenue? (most often asked question)
Yes.
- 7) How long did it take to make revenue?
I never tried to make any money the first 1.5 years it was running. I just concentrated on providing a good service. About 2 years after I started the site It started to do good revenue from AdSense
Can you show the full month report from AdSense for that month?
Sure.
and here is the full month report: (I have permission from Google to display this in my blog and in my presentations. Please check with Google before you disclose any of your reporting)
译文:
百万支票背后的故事
在Jeremy Schoemaker的博客里，有一张金额为132,994.97美元的google支票图片，该张支票签发于2005年9月27日。三年过去了，虽然Jeremy Schoemaker自己也说，他已不再是做google adsense的高手，现在google adsense的收入只占到他所有收入的10%。但是，由于这张支票的金额太大了，人们对这张巨额支票仍然十分好奇，每天都有上千人点击这张支票图片，还有计多人留言或者发邮件询问这张巨额支票的详情。
为了满足人们的好奇心，Jeremy Schoemaker最近又发表了一篇文章，揭示这张支票背后的故事。
（1）、这是一个什么样的网站？这个网站主要是用来做什么的？
这个网站最开始是为Nextel手机提供壁纸的，后来，又扩充到提供手机彩铃和其他的手机产品。所有的内容都是用户原创的。
（2）、这张支票的净利润是多少？
那时候，所有的费用也只包括299美元/月的主机租用费，所以，净利润在13万美元以上。
（3）、有多少流量是来自于PPC呢？
没有流量是来自PPC的，那时候，我还不知道PPC是啥东东呢！
（4)、你的流量来源是什么？
70%的流量来自用户直接输入，15%的流量来自搜索引擎，另外15%来自其他网站的推荐。
（5）、要挣到支票所示金额，需要多少流量？
每天75000IP.
（6）、你为什么选用纸质支票，而不用电汇。
那时候google还没有为一万美元以上金额提供电汇的业务。
（7）、你认为现在仍然可以利用google adsense赚到这个金额吗？
当然。
（8）、你用了多久才挣到支票所示金额？
在那个网站开始的一年半里，我从没有想过用它来挣钱，我只是一心想着为用户提供优质的服务。二年后，我开始拿它来赚钱。
（9）、能透露一下你那一个月的google adsense收入报告吗？
当然可以。
下面是一个月的详细报告（我已经得到google的许可，向大家展示我的收入报告，如果你要公开你的google账户的信息，请确认你已经得到google的授权）。
原载：赚钱博客