WordAds revenue – How much money can you make ? Is it worth it ?
1) The damage done – How the WordAds will modify your page layout [2016]
The WordPress ad program WordAds has been activated on DVDBASH.COM a few months ago, and the website layout (Twenty Eleven theme) is kinda ruined by the ads positions. There are 3 ads placements: the leaderboard at the top of the page (ugly but rewarding), the middle rectangle at the bottom (inoffensive), and – by far the worst – the wide skyscraper that goes into your sidebar. See for yourself, this page is displayed with the showcase template:
2) The WordAds earnings – Don’t expect much and you won’t be disappointed [2020]
As someone said in the comments, this post is muito antigo. It was written in March 2016, more than four years ago. But a lot of WordPress writers still come here for information on the WordAds program, so it’s time for a post-coronavirus update !
Here are the WordAds statistics from November 2015 to April 2020.
Let’s start with a nice Excel table :
| 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | |
| Months running | 2 | 11 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 4 |
| Ads served/Year | 76,546 | 357,444 | 668,152 | 2,058,244 | 1,900,457 | 814,801 |
| Ads served/Month (av.) | 38,273 | 32,495 | 55,679 | 171,520 | 158,371 | 203,700 |
| Earnings/Year | $84.28 | $271.29 | $350.03 | $394.68 | $281.42 | $61.01 |
| Earnings/Month (av.) | $42.14 | $24.66 | $29.17 | $32.89 | $23.45 | $15.25 |
| Earned $1 for ? ads (av.) | 908 | 1,318 | 1,909 | 5,215 | 6,753 | 13,355 |
Now, some explanations :
• WordAds has been running for 53 months on DVDBASH.COM
• The number of monthly served ads keeps growing (242.000 ads in April 2020)
• The yearly earnings keep decreasing. [Well, without any new content… what did you expect? 😬]
• In 2015, you needed 908 ads impressions to make $1
• In 2020, you need 13.355 ads impressions to make $1
YES, $15/month for 200.000+ ads impressions is not much, but it helps paying the hosting and domain registration.
3) Should you run WordAds on your WordPress-hosted website ?
If you have been accepted into the WordAds program, and if you don’t care about a messed-up design layout, you can try to monetize your blog. Optimize your web pages, run some ads for, let’s say, one year, and see how much little you’ve earned.
Good luck !
DVDbash 
hi,,i just want ask..how much ad impressions are required to get $1?
and moreover do blogger.com ad rates are more in comparision to wordads rates?,b’coz in blooger we get google adsense….everybody says..its a google’s creation si it will give more in adsense…so is it right?
shall I open an blogger.com or blogspot.com account as well..with an intention to earn money through advertisement?
please do help & guide me
AATIF
Hello,
The ratio for 2016 on DVDBASH is $1 for 1306 ad impressions.
I don’t know if Google AdSense is better, but YES, if your goal is to make $$$, you should have multiple blogs on different platforms, the more, the better. Duplicate and interlink – cleverly – your content.
Blogging is a time-consuming activity, optimizing your websites for monetization can be a long and tedious process. Good luck!
If i have 3k views ans have 2 ads placements will it counts as 6k ad impressions ?
Seems logical to me.
Can we use multiple domain once we have aprroved first domain?
Mmm….each of your domain must be approved separately I think.
I have lots if visitor in google blog but in it earning is through ad click. What about wordads here also there should be ad click
WordAds = Ads impressions only, not ads clicks.
is wordpress.org is better than wordpress.com
If you don’t want to waste any time with hosting and maintenance, and if you want a very QUICK SEO PROGRESS within the first months, WP.COM is for you. But everything has a price… in our case, $28/year for the domain registration and $96/year for the 50Gb storage. WordAds help pay for that cost, but you will need a lot of ad impressions.
If you have a lot of time on your hands, or if you can’t afford the fees, go for WP.ORG. But WP.COM perfectly suits our needs, even if it’s a little too pricey. The Google crawling and indexing is excellent – If you know how to optimize your content for SEO – , and it’s easy to have a perfect page rank on specific keywords, i.e. your niche.
Thanks a lot
Nice and easy explanation! Thank you.
It looks like the wordads are less satisfactory in payment
Personally, I am more of a fan of AdSense, so if I happen to make a wordpress blog, I’ll pick wordpress.org, which allows AdSense. Yes, I have a domain approved on AdSense and I made 0.04 with 20 views, so its okay I suppose and they also do PPC, which can REALLY increase your earnings.
You’ve all reason.
I’ve a Spanish blog with 50-70k visits/month and with your ads configuration. However, I just earn 33-37$/month. It’s very low.
And worst, it’s you cannot use other ads, just WordAds.. but we’ll, they pay domain and you can earn 200-400$ by year.
I’m actually really liking WordAds. I did a review of earnings for 2018 if anyone’s interested: https://latrobevalleynews.com/2018/01/01/wordads-earnings-2018/
I don’t know how you made even that much money. I had 288600 visitors and 937000 ads served in the month of April 2020, on my site insightful.co.in. They just paid me $32. I am really disappointed. I mean there is no point continuing if I make this kind of money.
Your Alexa rank is around 920,000 (July 20) – NO WAY you are getting 288600 visitors (or even page views) per month based on that rank.
It is not per month, it was only in March 2020.
Thank you for the honest review! I’m in the midst of exploring ad options and this was very helpful. Thanks!
I am fairly new to blogging and have written 3 blogs so far. More to come soon.
I have enabled WordAds.
How many views should be there to have the first $1 from ads? Just curious.
Wordads still pays very little for Brazilian blogs. I wrote several articles on wordads in my blog. http://www.crescendoaospoucos.com
I had 288600 visitors and 937000 ads served in the month of April 2020, on my site insightful.co.in. They just paid me $32. I am really disappointed. I mean there is no point continuing if I make this kind of money.
How much was your cpm worth? So I realized that your site is showing only 3 ads per page.
Yes, 3 ads per page.
Try to increase to 5 ads per page.
The cpm influences earnings a lot and at this time of year advertisers pay little.
Ok. Thank you so much, dear. But in that write-up, the example showed 3 ads, much lesser views still higher income. I just don’t get it.
Esse post é muito antigo, muitas coisas mudaram. Before, they paid a lot more for ads.
Thank you. I’m from Nigeria and basically into agro food supply and romance talks. https://josloaded.com.ng/
I am a Nigerian I join the WordPress just two months ago http://edd45ngworld.com But i really don’t understand the wordads calculation. I was just curios about the ads served what I see in other people complaining.
I had 288600 visitors and 937000 ads served in the month of April 2020, on my site insightful.co.in. They just paid me $32. I am really disappointed. I mean there is no point continuing if I make this kind of money.
Hi
your post gives better understanding of wordads..
I have just started my blog.
How many months we should wait to apply for Google Adsense
very bad
i am just quitting the idea of blogging with such mow payments
I would be interested to see what happens over the years when you calculate earnings per thousand visits (ePMV).
Thank you for the information, I was totally considering paying for a premium account so I could make a little extra cash a month, but I had no idea that it would be played out in literal terms..$32 for 288,600 visitors and 937,000 ads? no way. but I guess you can look at it another way, and think of it as easy/free money.. You don’t have to do too much right? I would like to see a blog that does in fact have ads on them to see what it looks like, maybe it does make a mess of your sight. but anyways thank you for the feedback!
It is quite interesting! Thank you for sharing !!