Oh ..Around 70k followers, 7k avg likes and around 50 comments per post
My Journey to $50 with a Quiz Site
Jammy0308
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I don't know what niche you are but I'd probably expect a bit more than 900 users for a 70k page with 7k avg likes.
Jammy0308
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Update
I ran 2 shoutouts within the past few days and they both did pretty poor. The first shoutout was on a page with 270k followers and 21k average likes for $20. The second shoutout was on a page with 159k followers and 26k average likes.
Results below for both of the shoutouts combined:
Earnings: $56.12
I'm lucky I made a bit of profit or even broke even tbh. They both bought in a lot less users than I had hoped for and much less US percentage of traffic than their insights show. Overall happy that I was at least able to make a tiny bit of profit.
I have another shoutout up currently. The page has 365k followers with 50k average likes. I've done a shoutout on this page before and it bought in 12k users. This time I paid $85 which is slightly above what I would of wished to pay. The site has 200 users concurrently with 3k users so far. I don't expect it to get close to the 12k the page bought in before but hopefully I can still break even or make a bit of profit.
James,
I ran 2 shoutouts within the past few days and they both did pretty poor. The first shoutout was on a page with 270k followers and 21k average likes for $20. The second shoutout was on a page with 159k followers and 26k average likes.
Results below for both of the shoutouts combined:
Earnings: $56.12
I'm lucky I made a bit of profit or even broke even tbh. They both bought in a lot less users than I had hoped for and much less US percentage of traffic than their insights show. Overall happy that I was at least able to make a tiny bit of profit.
I have another shoutout up currently. The page has 365k followers with 50k average likes. I've done a shoutout on this page before and it bought in 12k users. This time I paid $85 which is slightly above what I would of wished to pay. The site has 200 users concurrently with 3k users so far. I don't expect it to get close to the 12k the page bought in before but hopefully I can still break even or make a bit of profit.
James,
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Are you still using adsense?
17 page views per session is a lot, does revenue per page view change if you reduce or increase the pages in the quiz?
Jammy0308
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No idea. I recently removed the correct/incorrect pages from the quiz and revenue increased but I haven't tested enough to say.
andyrilflamewest
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Are you testing when to go live with your shoutouts? The one that brought me the most users was around 8pm (est)
kr200
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What is your over all earnings/cost for the month of august right now ?
Jammy0308
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Nope, I just ask the page to post whenever their followers are the most active according to their insights.
$315 spend, $600 revenue.
Nicolanovic
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Hi Jammy, I have read all your thread in a few days to see if I could learn some things because I'm in a quiz journey like you. And I learned a lot ! Thanks for all the informations !
I use wp quiz pro and unlike you, I make my quiz in one unique page. I use adsence and I earn around 6$ per 1000 pages. I have been accepted in Google Ad Manager, but I don't understand anything and I have no clue on how to setup it. I have found a few tutorials but they don't help me.
How did you learn to setup it ?
I use wp quiz pro and unlike you, I make my quiz in one unique page. I use adsence and I earn around 6$ per 1000 pages. I have been accepted in Google Ad Manager, but I don't understand anything and I have no clue on how to setup it. I have found a few tutorials but they don't help me.
How did you learn to setup it ?
Jammy0308
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Glad you found the journey informative.
Great earnings!
I haven't learned. I didn't set it up myself.
Jammy0308
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Update
Shoutout 1
I had a shoutout on this page back in February. This time I promoted a different quiz, however, the quiz was still closely related to the page's niche.
The page has 360k followers and 50k average likes. It cost me $85 (above what I would of ideally wanted to pay).
Earnings: $63.71
$21 loss. This sucks, mainly because my gut was saying not to go for the shoutout due to its cost. Even when estimating revenue, I was estimating a loss. I still decided to go for it against my better judgement. We learn, we move on. Stick with your gut.
Shoutout 2
This is the 3rd shoutout in the niche that's done very well for me recently. Each of the previous shoutouts bought in $100+ profit.
The page has 390k followers and 10k average likes. Cost me $25.
Earnings: $139.71
$115 profit! I've been very lucky finding this niche as its well known enough to have decently large pages but still cheap shoutouts. Its also great because the revenue increases due to its higher US audience.
Considering trying a personality quiz on these pages in the future.
There are a few changes coming to the ad setup which should be good!
- CMS/Consent through Google's Funding Choices (Will ask users for consent for personalised ads, I currently have no GDPR consent which apparently is decreasing earnings)
I hope to add cookie consent into the same popup for things like GA and FB pixel.
- The header bidding setup will change to a prebid.js setup. Excited for this because I might be able to get some real time data from the js script (Will only do this if it doesn't effect earnings or mess with anything of course)
- A script from Admiral (A visitor relations company) which will apparently increase revenue a bunch. Looking at their site its mostly an anti AdBlock setup but most of my users won't have AdBlock coming from mobile. There might be something I'm missing though.
Stats:
Emails List: 1531 emails
Spent (August): $432.36
Revenue (August): $805.87
Shoutout 1
I had a shoutout on this page back in February. This time I promoted a different quiz, however, the quiz was still closely related to the page's niche.
The page has 360k followers and 50k average likes. It cost me $85 (above what I would of ideally wanted to pay).
Earnings: $63.71
$21 loss. This sucks, mainly because my gut was saying not to go for the shoutout due to its cost. Even when estimating revenue, I was estimating a loss. I still decided to go for it against my better judgement. We learn, we move on. Stick with your gut.
Shoutout 2
This is the 3rd shoutout in the niche that's done very well for me recently. Each of the previous shoutouts bought in $100+ profit.
The page has 390k followers and 10k average likes. Cost me $25.
Earnings: $139.71
$115 profit! I've been very lucky finding this niche as its well known enough to have decently large pages but still cheap shoutouts. Its also great because the revenue increases due to its higher US audience.
Considering trying a personality quiz on these pages in the future.
There are a few changes coming to the ad setup which should be good!
- CMS/Consent through Google's Funding Choices (Will ask users for consent for personalised ads, I currently have no GDPR consent which apparently is decreasing earnings)
I hope to add cookie consent into the same popup for things like GA and FB pixel.
- The header bidding setup will change to a prebid.js setup. Excited for this because I might be able to get some real time data from the js script (Will only do this if it doesn't effect earnings or mess with anything of course)
- A script from Admiral (A visitor relations company) which will apparently increase revenue a bunch. Looking at their site its mostly an anti AdBlock setup but most of my users won't have AdBlock coming from mobile. There might be something I'm missing though.
Stats:
Emails List: 1531 emails
Spent (August): $432.36
Revenue (August): $805.87
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Are you doing something with your email list or what are your plans with it?
And have you thought about using something to allow sending notifications to users or do you do that already?
And have you thought about using something to allow sending notifications to users or do you do that already?
Jammy0308
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I'm not doing much with my email list. I don't really know what to do with it. I don't have consistent enough new content to be regularly sending there.
I have considered notifications but 99% of my traffic comes through app webviews such as facebook & instagram, notification consent popups don't work through webviews. Atleast onesignal's don't.
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Man your journey never ceases to amaze! I'll have a shoutout going up on Saturday and hoping for some good results like my first one!
Jammy0308
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Good luck! Let me know how it goes.
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hi @Jammy0308 , first of all, extra grateful for the generous documentation of your journey, i think it will be very useful to me. i was reading your journey from the start and taking notes, and noticed this post. casually, i was talking with a salesperson of liquid web today, and since i am also planing to use shoutouts, this topic inevitably came up. she said that you get 20php workers per page, for a total of 100; but she also was very clear that you can allocate them however you want. she literally said "So you will get 20 PHP workers per site, there will be 5 sites available on that plan. so you will have 100 PHP workers to work with. You can allocate those in any way you please. You could use all 100 on one site if that's how you want to set it up." when i brought this up. i have the full conversation copypasted, so if you are interested, i can PM it to you. TLDR is, you can use the 100php however you want, and if you want to change the allocation, you just write to their support and they do it for you instantly, no hassle involved.
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Wish you a best of luck for your journey
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James nice results with last shoutouts. What is your current CTR and eCPM?
Jammy0308
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That's quite annoying they never mentioned that to me, especially after everything I said.
My only thoughts are if 100 PHP workers would actually work. The amount you can run is bottlenecked by your server specs. Liquidweb sites don't have a certain amount of RAM etc, they are allocated it. I'm unsure how high these specs go.
I'd appreciate it if you could send me the conversation please!