I started a cryptocurrency related website some time ago and it has become quite popular. Now I want to use the income the site generates to fund further development (new features and optimization). My content targets traders and about 50% of the traffic comes from mobile devices. Most of the traffic comes from Japan. I will not mention what the website is here :-)
Today I'm monetizing with a bitcoin advertising network, but I'm thinking I can do better with something like AdSense. I'm interested to hear if anyone here can give me a rough idea about how much I can earn per click with AdSense? Also I'm interested to hear if anyone can recommend other advertising networks... especially networks that work well for mobile sites and Japanese users?
AdSense is the best advertising network. They have no right competition.
They have a different rate depends on your visitors, or from where it coming. Countries, where people use a credit card and online payments, are better ranked and you will get better CPR ratio from this visitors. For example, one visitor from Australia will get you more than 3000 visits from Ukraine.
I am not sure how is Japan ranked there.
Big things here is what is default language of your website. English always has best results. If your website on the Japanese language, you are limited only to local targeted visitors.
That is good to know. My site is in English. Here is a top 10 of visitors by country:
1. Japan 79.51%
2. United States 3.44%
3. Russia 3.28%
4. Vietnam 1.18%
5. Ukraine 1.17%
6. United Kingdom 0.85%
7. China 0.71%
8. Germany 0.70%
9. Netherlands 0.70%
10. Poland 0.66%
I also have some affiliate links that I'm tracking with Google Analytics (just event tracking). In june I've had 1050 clicks on those (740 unique). Here is my affiliate clicks by country for june:
Do you have a calculation of AdSense earnings pr. 1000 views or average earning pr. click?