Hi, I didn't know where to put this topic so hopefully it is okay here.

I have a forum and I would really like to know more about how much I can generate monthly from Google Adsense. I don't understand most of the jargon.

It has 3800 members, here are some average statistics:

Page views (are these impressions?): 500,000
Hits: 4,000,000
Unique: 20,000

Now I've played about with the calculators you can find online, so I entered:
Impressions: 500,000
Click through rate: 0.5%
Cost per a click: $0.05

...and it came out with $1,250 a day, hmm, I must be clearly doing something wrong. :D That's a lot of money.

I'm not looking for an accurate answer, just a range, even if it's a fairly big range I want to understand it better and know what I can make off my forum (I'm not wanting to test it as I like to plan it a lot more than that, I'm curious really).

It's IPB forum software, I would place Google Adsense at the header and footer so visibly in reach.

Thanks alot,
Nick.

When I put in those numbers I get $125. But I just did it quickly.

Whats the forum topic so we can make a better estimation?

I get $125 as well (500000 * 0.005 = 2500 * $0.05 =$125)

Thanks guys. It's a model hobby forum.

Is 0.5% click through rate a good estimate? Same with the cost per click?

I see what I was doing wrong now. :) Although $125 for a month isn't much (the data in my OP is for a MONTH not day).

I'm trying to figure out which is accurate. In cPanel I have Awstats and Webalizer for analysing page views and hits.

For August:

Awstats: 424173 pages
Webalizer: 932802 pages

That's nearly double difference! Which Should I trust? And pages are impressions yes?

Thanks. :)

Pages are page views so yeah they'll equal impressions.

webalizer is a cheap and basic stats program. it doesn't know how to differentiate between spam hits and real ones. AWstats does. that's why the difference.

I'm trying to figure out which is accurate. In cPanel I have Awstats and Webalizer for analysing page views and hits.

For August:

Awstats: 424173 pages
Webalizer: 932802 pages

That's nearly double difference! Which Should I trust? And pages are impressions yes?

Thanks. :)

I think you should consider Awstats and google analytic stats, as in my experience both stats are most of the time are almost similar.

You have to minus the pageview generate by spider.