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by t3ra 3101 days ago
There are a few things you forgot

$2 CPM!! That's not even close to what shitty ad networks pay. Majority of traffic comes from countries with < 5 cent CPM

HOSTING COST It's not just about running a wordpress website here. Most decent site run auto uploaders which need decent size seedboxes. Easily hovering around a thousand dollars

Sources/runners: If its a scene pre-d site you need access to some runners. Scene access isn't cheap

Changing Domains & black hat seo: These sites are constantly loosing domains and almost all google ranking ones are using black hat seo to get their ranking. Usually means paying someone to do the dirty work.

-- Some revenue streams you missed

- Pay Per Link (aka locked/paid link shortner) things like AdFly

- Background Crypto miners (becoming rather popular on streaming sites)

-'FTP ACCESS' / paid subscriptions

Still millions? Not by a long shot.. Few thousands.. Probably yes

1 comments

It's really just about running a wordpress site. My blog is a wordpress so I'm pretty familiar with it. Just need a good theme.

It couldn't be further from being a scene site. The content is limited and most of it is published late compared to some other sources available.

AdFly is a mix of pay per view and pay per click. Didn't think it was worth a specific category but why not.

Crypto is a new thing, that certainly wasn't available a year ago. That's a very interesting point though, shady sites will probably be the first ones to have a good use for it.