Ask HN: How does your site income break down?

Re:Ask HN: How does your site income break down? by justinchen on Monday September 07, 2009 @11:24AM (#809272)

A few different sites w/ diff models:

  Consumer facing listings site
  90% advertising (prem ad partners + adsense)
  10% affiliate

  Consumer facing subscription
  98% subscriptions
  1% advertising
  1% affiliate

  Consumer facing pay per use
  100% customer payments

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Re:Ask HN: How does your site income break down? by a-priori on Monday September 07, 2009 @11:58AM (#809328)

Just curious: on the second one, serving ads doesn't bring in much income, and it might even drive people away. Have you considered removing them? If so, what was the result?

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Re:Ask HN: How does your site income break down? by justinchen on Tuesday September 08, 2009 @10:20AM (#811028)

The percentage is so low because it's not shown on much of the site. Paying subscribers don't ever see ads. It only shows for the free account and for some long tail SEO pages we have. We probably should remove them and just put up-sell copy there though...

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