Site Income Report for November 2008

Revenue was down in November.  First, here’s the Paid Internships (my autoblogging site) update:

Paid Internships: November 2008

• $55.68 revenue

AdSense for October: Down to $582.70 from $700.21

After hitting an all-time high in October, the economy finally caught up with AdSense, at least on my sites.   My revenue dropped quite a bit.  Granted, the traffic on Internweb dipped too; not as many students searching for internships in the late fall.  It will pick up in late winter.

ValueClick for October: Down to $9.83 from $15.02

Again, down a lot from October. ValueClick’s most successful ads for me are interstitials, full-page ads that appear after a link is clicked.  Interstitial have a “click to continue” link to get to the content the user originally clicked on.   In November 1,596 of them were displayed, and were clicked on 117 times for a nice CTR of 7.33%.  By comparison, the standard 468×60 banner was displayed 13,552 times and only got 16 clicks — .22% CTR — which is horrible.  I guess that means interstitial, while annoying, do work…

AdBrite for October: Up to $.27 from $.19

Note, that is CENTS not dollars.  I am barely displaying any AdBrite ads at all (690 ad views).  In December I changed that, adding a similar AdBrite ad just below my AdSense 160×600 skyscraper on Internweb.com.  We will see how it goes.

Burst for October: Down to $.15 from $4.21

Worthless revenue on few clicks on few ad impressions.  I will need to revamp site designs to be able to fit in more Burst ads, but they don’t really deserve it.

Amazon for October: Up to $5.74 from $5.22

You’d think selling DVDs and books related to a movie on a site that is movie-related would work.  Well, it doesn’t.

The grand total for November 2008 is $ 598.69, which is the first drop in monthly revenue I have had in 2008.