I'm running a website with a browser game which is monetized with AdSense. The site relies on user generated content for freshness and a significant effort went into white-hat SEO. It's a reasonable entertainment for visitors rather than something built around AdSense in the first place. Monthly revenue in high $100s range, but I'm currently experimenting with another provider to optimize revenue. Considering the numbers below the revenue seems quite small (in part due to popularity in countries with generally lower online ads cost), so I'm constantly looking for ways to improve it.
Monthly visitors >50k, pageviews ~800k, average session time ~30min, bounce rate <20%.
No problems with payments from Google at all.
Re:Ask HN: Google Adsense Alternative?
by edraferi on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @02:39PM
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I’m also very curious about this. I have several ideas for niche websites that I would love to build, but I want them to be sustainable without awful adware
Re:Ask HN: Google Adsense Alternative?
by fourstar on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @07:43PM
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The future is BAT/Brave with incentivized browsing.
I'm a happy user of Android Brave browser, and even I know that there will never be enough users for BAT to take off. BTW, the desktop Brave browser on Mac OS is horribly slow and has compatibility issues with Chrome extensions that it says it supports.
Fortunately the Android browser's adblocking is very good, and the ability to turn scripts off with a single toggle means I won't be switching anytime soon.
To be honest, every non-media site I've seen Adsense ads on have been fairly low-quality aggregator blogs that cover a wide variety of unrelated topics, have no clear identity/differentiator and appear to exist solely to generate AdSense revenue. These are the types of site you come across once, and never go back to again.
I'm in the nonprofit space and have been thinking about building a site focused on fundraising strategy. Adsense is likely not the right match for this, but I'm curious to know how people have monetized it with single-subject websites.