Mega Adsense Earning site.
Paidcontent is great at keeping track of business info… Today they had a little blurb on WSJ’s earnings. Revenue at About.com soared 29.3% to $18.3 million from $14.2 million amid higher advertising and e-commerce revenue. Profit jumped 68 percent to $6.4 million from $3.8 million.
It looks like most of that money is coming from adsense, not a bad little business. Makes you wonder just how much money a site like wikipedia could make with ads all over it.
October 20, 2006 at 7:25 am
Do you really think that About.com could be called as “little business”
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October 20, 2006 at 9:16 am
No Dzmitry. That’s called ironic understatement.
October 20, 2006 at 9:17 am
LOL, about.com is datacenter farm :))))))))))))))
Really Markus…. ???
October 20, 2006 at 2:23 pm
About.com is actually a part of NYT not WSJ
October 20, 2006 at 3:26 pm
Doesnt Primedia own About.com?
October 20, 2006 at 4:44 pm
Yes about.com is a good adsense based business but it would not be as profitable like you considering they have to generate their own content and pay their guides. Its much like a traditional content business with less distributional overheads.
Seems many small one man business like you are making it big with adsense. Check out this big adsense check ($281k) i found from digg
http://flickr.com/photos/51676315@N00/261988683/
October 20, 2006 at 7:36 pm
Steve, based on the numbers in that PaidContent article, didn’t they make around $2 million profit per month this quarter? That’s *profit*, after paying guides, etc.
I think the updated attempt to make another About.com is marketing guru Seth Godin’s http://www.squidoo.com - no revenue numbers available, and Michael Arrington and some of the other Web 2.0 guys labelled it a “Loser” at a recent conference. Yet its Alexa graph is showing some growth over the past few months and Godin just hired some new tech people to handle it. So…?
December 24, 2007 at 5:35 pm
Who really makes money on adsense? (I DO