76,068 Ads Served, $0.20 Revenue Earned, Is This Normal?

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    avecfacts · Member ·

    As my title of my posts says, one of my posts went viral on reddit, reaching the front page, etc and attracting around about 18,000 visitors mostly from USA, Canada, UK, Australia and the EU so all western first world countries, according to WordPress during the time the article has been published, 76,068 Ads have been served on my website (potentially this maybe includes a few hundred ads before this article was published) and I have only earned $0.20 for the tens of thousands of ads shown on my site. Someone has earned money from my site and currently, unfortunately it hasn’t been me.

    Is this inline with WordPress expectations, I have had a previous website with WordPress since August 2021 which was able to get quite a lot of traction from reddit and other websites and the CPM from that wasn’t fantastic but it was better than this.

    What should I do? I’ve read quite a few WordPress forum posts where people have the same issue as me and get responses ranging from their content isn’t worthy of making money to that’s just how it is and quit complaining.

    The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

  • staff-totoro · Staff ·

    Hi there,

    I’ve asked our ads team to take a closer look, but I wanted to point out that I noticed that most of the traffic to your site has gone to a blog post that is no longer on the site. You appear to have moved it to the bin.

    Most folks will not take down a post that is performing so well so I was hoping you could clarify. You had an issue of some kind with your post?

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