Jon Gales is a 19 year old and runs a blog using Movable Type. It’s called Mobiletracker.net. According to the webstats available from his site he gets about 8000+ unique visitors per day which is well over 200,000 per month. He delivers about double those stats in pageviews. His site has a PageRank of 6 and according to his archives the site has been operating since at least February 2003.
He runs one Google Adsense ad at the bottom of his site. Currently Google sends him cheques for about $5000 USD per month for the clicks that AdSense banner brings in. Not bad for a 19 year old still living at home.
This is a great example of a good quality site with a solid niche built up over time that targets an obviously lucrative market for AdSense/AdWords. Building a site that brings in 8000 unique visitors per day is not easy, but certainly attainable. Anyone that builds up good content, has a differentiation strategy and a focus on a niche market AND sticks to it over time can have success of this magnitude.
Fortune: Jon Gales loves Google, but not for the reason you might think. It’s a terrific search engine, sure, but what Gales really likes is that Google is making him money. Gales’s website, Mobiletracker.net, is a compendium of news and reviews about cellphones that after a year and a half attracts about 200,000 users a month. Google supplies the ads for the site, visitors click on the ads, and because of the site’s popularity, Google sends Gales monthly checks of $5,000 or more. That’s a decent chunk of change for any sole proprietor. But for Gales, the numbers are eye-popping. He’s only 19 and lives expense-free at home with his parents in Tampa, posting four or five items in the course of the day while parked on the living room couch with his laptop. Says Gales: “If things keep going the way they are going, I’ll be making more money than my dad next year.”
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I thought about your post while driving this afternoon Yaro - and it struck me why Jon’s income could be so good…then I realised how smart he really is.
He has a subject that has high value adwords - so he is earning healthy mony from each click. Pick an obscure topic that people are only paying a few cents for adwords, and the income level would be totally different.
Of course that also places the challenge of his site/blog being found in the crowded marketplace - a feat he has obviously achieved - and he is reaping the rewards!!
Exactly Matt. I believe terms like webhosting are some of the highest paying keywords but of course with that much competition getting a site focused on webhosting high in the search rankings is darn near impossible.
It would probably be a similar case for mobile phones.
I’m not sure though if Jon deliberately chose that topic for the profiteering. I would be more inclined to believe that he had an interest in mobile technology and went and built a blog around it. He kept at it and maybe through in some luck, some PR coverage and bam, instant popularity. Way easier said than done of course.
I chose mobile phones because I had an interest in them, not because the keywords were so hot. I actually started the site before AdSense existed, so that should tell you something right there.
Also, that article is about six months old so I’ve had a birthday and some direct ad sales that have been on CPM/monthly basis. The income is now more a mix (the AdSense income hasn’t changed, but there are now other types of ads on the site).
Thanks for dropping by Jon and explaining the motivations behind your site. I thought it would be more about what you enjoy writing about than actually picking a topic based on potential adword profits.
Do you have any particular insights on how to get a site as popular as yours is now?
Yaro
“Do you have any particular insights on how to get a site as popular as yours is now?”
Stick with it! There will be low points and high points. You have to keep going through the hard times when there isn’t much traffic (take your knocks).
hi guys i like all your comments but i wanted to know where to go to start up ur own blog and how much can any one help
Hi, i’m from Polnad… I earn money via google ad sense to…, not $5000, but about $3000 /month. In Polnad it’s a nice sum.
But…
Google blocks some clicks, becouse theirs reason is spam on my website. My website (not WiCiU.Com)…
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Thanks jon this is really inspirational for me you hit on key things I’ve been saying to my wife for years. As w/ any career or hobby you gotta stick w/ it for it to pay off, and get involved in things that interest you and that you have a passion for. She thinks there’s no money to be made on the internet at all, and uses the computer for games only. I dissagree and your proof i don’t believe in getting rich quick but I do believe in hard work. Thanks again
Charley T