It’s a bit embarassing, but I seem to be profiting from today’s terrorist attacks. People are googling for bbc radio streams and coming across my page. Normally I get up to 400 hits a day on that page. Today I’ve already had 4,000. And people are clicking on the Google Adsense links. Normally I make less than a dollar a day from those ads. Today, I’ve already made $6.
I promise I’ll donate it to charity.
So would it be fair to say that for most web site owners, most of the time, the Google ads don’t bring in any money worth mentioning?I wonder what implication this would have for Google’s business model in the long run?
I’m not sure. I know people who’ve put Google ads on their site and are making enough money to cover their hosting and bandwidth costs (maybe $50 or $60 a month).It’s just that this is a tiny site that’s only ever visited by friends and family :)Feel free to click on as many ads as you want.