"The best way to find out how much you'll earn is to sign up and start showing ads on your web pages."

I dont like that idea.

You're not losing anything when you sign up and place the ads on your site. Well, you lose a bit of page space when they're filled up with ads, but that's the whole idea.

In reference to how much you will make, it really depends on your topic; the quality of your content; your traffic levels; and how relevant the ads are.

If you were hired as a car salesman on 10% comission only in LA, CA and you were selling BMWs for a dealership that had been around for 10 years... They might be able to give you a balpark figure on how much you could earn if you didn't totally suck at the job.

Well with G AS, they don't know where you'll be selling, they don't know what product you will be selling, they don't know how well your pages will promote the products, they don't even know how well the ads that will show on your pages were written to promote selling, they dont know from one day to the next how much the seller will pay for a click... and so on....

My point is that there are way too many variable to even begin to guess at how much you could earn. Only with enough time and history can you start to predict how a page will earn provided the variables don't completely change.

If you have decent taffic, slap the ads on and see. My guess is you will earn something eventually. In this business, how much you earn not only depends on you but a whole lot of other people and circumstances.

There are people here who earn less than a dollar a day and there are people here who earn hundreds everyday.

Good Luck!

There are those who make $1 a month with Adsense, and there others who make $100.000 a month with Adsense.

What you will earn depends on
- how much traffic your sites get
- what kind of traffic your sites get
- the topic of your sites
- how hard you work
- how smart you are
- how much luck you have
- oh, and another 1000 things.

There is simply no way to tell in advance.
If you want a better estimate I guess you should tell us a bit more (in general) about your niche and your traffic.

Thanks for the replies guys. The reason I hesitate to put ads on the site is that in the 6 years I have had the site I have never put ads on and I like it. So for a few bucks income I wouldnt do it.

I sell fine art cjrfinearts is my website ( i didnt know if links were allowed here so I didnt make a full link there.

Here is my traffic for the last year if this helps

Month Hits Files Cached Pageviews Sessions KB sent
July 2006 796139 600389 81303 98763 29293 6205818
June 2006 1039502 770790 112660 133155 38227 8101383
May 2006 1070214 806875 107469 127111 40388 8061398
April 2006 1256792 938607 137396 151046 42357 9763735
March 2006 1290682 940006 153530 156290 48749 9163007
February 2006 1129828 832017 123180 133473 37901 8215286
January 2006 1166319 843272 143810 137604 34975 8362731
December 2005 1029811 752040 125122 118045 37243 9110688
November 2005 1086340 795525 115080 123582 34496 8204114
October 2005 1065229 794086 112818 120194 37387 7611439
September 2005 1068576 778084 126105 125729 34198 7506991
August 2005 1145987 834192 135542 129429 35307 8159312

You have reasonable traffic and should generate something provided the adverts target quickly and blend in with the overall site look and feel.

Maybe 1 block of ads would not look out of place - but putting too many adverts would certainly turn people away.

Wow, seriously nice stuff...can I call it stuff? :-)

I agree with Ganceann, be very careful how you place your ads. My inclination would initially be to try an AdLinks unit in the LHS navigation column and/or for a skyscraper in traditional AdSense blue colours and would not detract at all from your page

Some may say possibly a 468 x 60 at either the top or bottom of each page, plus maybe on the long pages one at each end.

My feelings are that your LHS column could be a little goldmine and is the place to be since the visitors eye will see them as they scan down each page.

Hmm. Presumably the purpose of your site is to sell the art. I'm not sure advertising is a good idea. It could confuse people about the purpose of the site.

As an experiment, you could try placing ads in a section of the site that contains information only, if there is such a section.

Thanks optirex.

There are information sections but the traffic on those pages if very light.

Wow cjrent,that's some serious good stuff you sell!
And your trafic is very much OK too. If you can make a living from selling fine arts, perhaps you shouldn't bother to put too much Adsense ads on your site...

Thanks humblebeginnings. I make a great living selling art. I have a ton of more "stuff" that isn't even on the site.

I think you are probably right about not putting ads on there. If I made $500 a month for example with the ads and it stopped just one or two people from buying it would not be a wise choice.

Cjrent,

Definately not worth it if you lost a customer who might spend $100+ just for the sake of a click that could bring in $0.01 if smartpriced down.

Although you said you had other sites, the same principle would apply - having adsense blend into the overall site design rather than be plastered all over the site.

One adsense linkunit and one banner/block should generally be enough for any website to have on any pages - as too much advertising will take away from the content.

Google themselves say adsense is not suited to all types of website - and in the case of product based websites, webmasters would have to draw their own conclusions based on their product range and the potential of sending high value customer away from their site for the sake of a few advertising cents.

Checking the SERPs for competitors and your rankings you definitely have competition therefore you can pretty well assume that any potential purchaser will know of these other sites too.

You'll never know if AdSense works until you try it out, and there's nothing worse than not knowing, therefore I'm going to go with my first recommendation and you trial an AdLink unit in the LHS column.

I would've thought that you'll soon know whether it's affected your own sales and if it were to...remove immediately!

One of my sites is in this area and it's not that lucrative. Plan on about 10c a click, and at a 2% clickthrough rate you're looking at a couple of hundred dollars a month.

IMO probably not worth it if you're already generating decent sales through the website.