If you have considered Google Adsense as a means of monetizing your blog, check out Adsensemeter. It claims to provide a rough estimate of potential ad revenue based on your blog or website’s Alexa ranking.
Real estate agents may be concerned that ads on their blog or website, even from good guy Google, lead away readers or are a breach of blog etiquette. We say do what you like and don’t check the blogger manual (it probably says don’t do it).
h/t: Newspapergirl.
Technorati Tags: Google, Adsense, Adsensemeter
There’s a manual?
Hmmm, I can’t retire on $400/month but it’s hard to argue with what could amount to a free car payment…
Draws attention to the little adjustable “CPM” thingy on the widget.
i.e. your mileage may vary.
I use adsense and the adsense meter is a little off. It says I should be making lower than I actually am, but that may be because my alexa rank is not in line with my traffic.
Jay…If google wants to pay for your car, I say do it.
FYI: Blogs typically have higher Alexa rank because people who blog usually have an alexa toolbar installed…boosting the alexa rank of the blog. There are some blogs that I know don’t get as much traffic as one of our sites, yet their alexa rank is higher than ours. In other words, Alexa should be taken with a grain of salt.
This is a great tool. I wouldn’t say it’s 100% accurate but at least it gives a good ballpark.
These days, everything but the most obnoxious adsense is almost completely transparent to readers. Keeping it out seems almost silly. Unless, of course, it’s a corporate splash page or something.
Quite agree Steve. It might even extend to other ads on a site. Advertising has become a fact of online life and readers understand this. They focus on the content that interests them. And occasionally an ad does prompt interest. I know I have clicked ads, including from Google, if only to investigate the marketing approach.
The problem with Alexa is that it is very poor at ranking websites that get less than thousands of page views a day. Alexa uses the traffic recorded from Alexa toolbar users, than extrapolates this sample to predict what everyone else is surfing. That works good when you are comparing Zillow to Trulia, but it doesn’t mean a thing to 99% of all bloggers.