Thank you, I appreciate your reply. I didn’t expect it to be this much either. Even at the lower end of that range, that’s like USD 500 which goes a long way and will definitely help.

Yeah, there's a reason why AdSense dominates. If you are focused on optimizing your revenue, pretty sure Google dominates.

One other hack - AdSense may limit the number of ads per page, but you can also add in niche networks to increase your ads / page. This was 10 years ago, but I found the best option to be 2x AdSense per page, + 1 niche network. The niche network gave about 25% as much revenue as the 2 AdSense units combined - lower return but was still free money.

Thank you for your suggestions. I will definitely give this a try. Any recommendations for niche network. I keep getting mails from linkbux folks but I have no idea if they are legit or not.

(Unhelpful advice alert) depends on your niche. I ran a site related to manufacturing, and used an ad vendor in that space.