WordAds revenue – How much money can you make ? Is it worth it ?
1) The damage done – How the WordAds will modify your page layout
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
Despite its not-so-bad web traffic (1.22 million views in 2015), the generated income on DVDBASH.COM is low. Here are the statistics for November 2015, December 2015 and January 2016:
- 280.574 views in 3 months, that’s an average of 93.525 views/month
- 115.258 ad impressions in 3 months, that’s an average of 38.419 ad imp./month
- $127.83 earned in 3 months, that’s an average of $42.61/month
- According to these numbers, you need 900 ad impressions to make $1
UPDATE 2019 – From November 2015 to August 2019 :
- 2015 (2 months) : $1 = 1.822 ads served
- 2016 (11 months) : $1 = 1.318 ads served
- 2017 (12 months) : $1 = 1.909 ads served
- 2018 (12 months) : $1 = 5.223 ads served
- 2019 (8 months) : $1 = 6.981 ads served
Wait… are you telling me that I need almost 7000 ad views now to get just $1 ?! Yup, it sure looks like it :(
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 !
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/
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