Web Site Traffic Equals Money in Your Pocket

In a previous article, I wrote about building a web site toIndexed Pages
get traffic, not to generate revenue. In this post, I'llGoogle: 1,370
explain how to make money once you get enoughYahoo: 12,864
traffic. So your site offer something for free (a serviceMSN: 53,500
or product) and you've got plenty of traffic. NowBacklinks
what? Advertising.Google: 3,080
Internet advertising is on the rebound and has been forYahoo: 20,708
some time. It's not close to the heights of the late 90s,MSN: 1,490
when sites were getting $20 or more for a thousandThe pages on the site are broken up into different
banner impressions, but it's come up a long ways fromsections, A - F, with each section capable of displaying
the depths of the early 2000s. My personal goal isa particular sized banner ad (125x125, 468x60, 728x90,
1,000,000 page views a month, though I'm sure you250x250, etc.). The price is for a month's exclusive run
could be successful with less, depending on your site'sof your ad in tat spot. Here's how the income would
focus. Any site getting 1,000,000 views a month isbreak out if this site sold three ads in the most
going to have some search engine mojo. Let's say it'sexpensive spots.
a Google PageRank 6. That's probably good enoughOne ad in Zone A, one in Zone B, and one in Zone D
for anywhere from $500 to $1,000 a month for a textand this site is earning $7,750 a month. No bad! If all of
link. So you put 4 links at the bottom.the ad spots were filled, it would be over $10,000 a
Want an example? Here are the prices for advertisingmonth! So your mission, should you choose to accept
on a site with the following stats:it, is to build a site that gets as much traffic as possible.
PageRank: 6In my next post, I'll offer suggestions on how to do that.
Alexa Rank: 1,939Stay tuned!