I just read an older article in Fortune magazine.
We all know about the growth of its stock with a lofty 65 (no! 95) PE ratio that make conservative investors blanch.
But what is stunning is that webmasters with a good idea, fresh content, serious traffic and a Google AdSense account have work-from-home businesses. Not stuffing envelopes or medical transcription or even clearing out their attics on eBay.
No, if you can get droves of people to visit your site, you don’t have to market the latest widgets. You sell Google ad clicks. AdSense places ads on your site for your visitors to see and click. And every month Google sends you a check for the use of your advertising medium.
OK, maybe a few hundred dollars , if you’re good?
No, try $5,000 a month for the clicks from visitors to mobiletracker.net, a popular site about cell phones. It gets about 200,000 visitors a month, as the owner updates a few items every day. From his parents’ livingroom by laptop.
The owner of the site is Jon Gales and he lives with his folks, because he’s only 19.
Or another site started by an engineer tired of cruddy airline seats. He designed the brilliant seatguru.com. Then he set up Google AdSense for of course, travel ads. (That’s a very cutthroat category, so there are lots of deep-pocket advertisers waiting for a busy site to showcase their ads.) He started the site as a hobby and now generates mucho traffic. Zap! Google AdSense made the site a $120,000 a year business.
Got a new idea for a website that will bring in the crowds? Watch your big traffic stats click you to a Google fortune.