[google-appengine] Re: ratio of page views to adsense clicks to cover cost

2009-04-17 Thread wit
Ahmmm, just a thought: if you use _FREE_ quotas, how the hell are you going to break even? If you don't pay nothing, you break even at 0 visitors to your site. If your App should ever reach the levels of needing more quota (space, processing time) where you would need to buy additional resources,

[google-appengine] Re: ratio of page views to adsense clicks to cover cost

2009-04-17 Thread Richard Sage
Thanks for the replies, after writing the post i sort of thought that probably wouldn't be a definitive answer, but your posts have been useful nonetheless. I don't intend to rely on ads as my main source of revenue, i'm just going hoping, in case my intended main revenue stream doesn't work, that

[google-appengine] Re: ratio of page views to adsense clicks to cover cost

2009-04-17 Thread Paul Kinlan
Hi, It is pretty hard to work out if not impossible, because the cost per click is not constant, and your performance on the app engine might vary wildly from day to day so it may end up costing your more for the same work. The way that I compare advert performance is against a Cold Call rate, wh

[google-appengine] Re: ratio of page views to adsense clicks to cover cost

2009-04-17 Thread Sylvain
It is very hard to answer this question because all clicks have not the same value : from 0.05€ up to 1€ (maybe more) and the way the users click depend on many things (the site, the look, the position,) So I don't know if there is a "magic" formula. Regards On 17 avr, 13:17, sagey wrote: