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Over the past few months, I've seen a lot of *****ing about Google's low payouts and the depreciating earnings.
I've never developed sites. I've relied on parking for my 1 year of domaining. Since I've been making money off parking for not a very long time, I cannot comment if parking payments have gone down over the years..
However, of late I've been experimenting with Wordpress sites. I've learned a little development skills and can now at least install a custom template
Anyways...
I created a blog on one of my domains that has 95% Indian traffic. It was an expired name that gets about 20-30 uniques daily, 55% of which are type-ins, the rest from referring sites. The primary keyword of the domain is broadband/high speed internet.
On parking, I used to average about 3-8 cents per click. The CTR was hovering around 12-25% after optimization.
After setting up a wordpress blog with custom content and Google adsense, I suddenly had PPC between 25-35 cents per click. The CTR is low, but traffic has been increasing and I'm getting some traffic through search engines too, as well as repeat visitors.
The difference between 3-8 cents and 25-35 cents/click is immense. Google might be paying out less for most, but for me, it has been way way better than parking.
And this is just one example...
I've never developed sites. I've relied on parking for my 1 year of domaining. Since I've been making money off parking for not a very long time, I cannot comment if parking payments have gone down over the years..
However, of late I've been experimenting with Wordpress sites. I've learned a little development skills and can now at least install a custom template
Anyways...
I created a blog on one of my domains that has 95% Indian traffic. It was an expired name that gets about 20-30 uniques daily, 55% of which are type-ins, the rest from referring sites. The primary keyword of the domain is broadband/high speed internet.
On parking, I used to average about 3-8 cents per click. The CTR was hovering around 12-25% after optimization.
After setting up a wordpress blog with custom content and Google adsense, I suddenly had PPC between 25-35 cents per click. The CTR is low, but traffic has been increasing and I'm getting some traffic through search engines too, as well as repeat visitors.
The difference between 3-8 cents and 25-35 cents/click is immense. Google might be paying out less for most, but for me, it has been way way better than parking.
And this is just one example...
