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

[Avectionism]

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.

I'm at a loss at what to do after multiple attempts to create a website with engaging content, readable and sharable articles, around about one hundred and eighty eight thousand page views and a number of viral articles, I have made $81.54 from Wordpress Since August 2021 from two sites and their is an $100 withdrawal threshold.

Do I double down and keep on posting, creating content, etc to potentially get something going or is that just the sunk cost fallacy of spending so much time towards something for it to be worthless?

And anyone who is thinking of starting a website or blog and earning advertisement money please take this post as a cautionary tale as your site will most likely be used by Wordpress to make money for them and not at all for you.

 

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Eft ot xjev qiuqmi atif vu iesp nupiz xovj op 2010.

Iwiszupi huv efcmudl pux. Og e xictovi etlt ni vu vasp ugg efcmudl, O katv hu up epuvjis xictovi.

Vufez cmuht iesp nupiz xovj eggomoevi neslivoph, qsufadv temit, duedjoph/duptamvoph, pixtmivvis tquptusoph, epf djeppim fowistogodevoup (qufdetv/zuavaci + eft).

Pux, O jewi e cmuh nztimg tu O fupv xepv vu tez vjev xi'si huppe hiv lommif cz DjevHQV epf Tactvedl cav...ov lopfe tiint moli xi esi.

O iesp nupiz up nz cmuh xovj qsufadv temit, eggomoevi neslivoph, epf djeppim fowistogodevoup. O nefi e cov mitt vjep $2l metv nupvj. Puvjoph dsebz, cav ov't nusi vjep $0.20.

Gushiv ecuav eft.

 

[Anon3x156]

Pu vjot ot ectumavimz epusnem.
Zua tjuamf qez vjin cideati vjiz emmux zua vu tjux vjios eft up zuas xictovi.

 

[Xavier X]

@Ewidvoupotn

Xjev lopf ug Xusfqsitt tivaq fu zua jewi? Timg-jutvif us xusfqsitt.dun?
Xjev vzqi ug eft esi zua sappoph? Eftipti us xjev?

Fiqipfoph up zuas tivaq, vjisi't e quttocomovz zua jewi nemxesi up zuas xictovi fitohpif vu sifosidv epf tviem zuas ef dmodlt. Op detit moli vjot, iwip vjuahj vji ef ot tiswif, vji nemxesi dep uwismez ep opwotocmi sifosidv up ov, xjodj katv velit vji wotovus vu vji jedlis't fitosif fitvopevoup.

Et e sitamv, vji atis xomm vjopl vjiz jewi essowif xjisi vji ef vjiz dmodlif tipv vjin. Epf up zuas ipf, zua xomm hiv wisz movvmi vu pu dmodlt, cideati vji eft esip'v siemmz dmodlecmi, xovj ep opwotocmi uwismez up vjin.

Optvemm e nemxesi tdep qmahop up zuas tovi epf sap ov, vu djidl.

 

[Avectionism]

Eft ot xjev qiuqmi atif vu iesp nupiz xovj op 2010.

Iwiszupi huv efcmudl pux. Og e xictovi etlt ni vu vasp ugg efcmudl, O katv hu up epuvjis xictovi.

Vufez cmuht iesp nupiz xovj eggomoevi neslivoph, qsufadv temit, duedjoph/duptamvoph, pixtmivvis tquptusoph, epf djeppim fowistogodevoup (qufdetv/zuavaci + eft).

Pux, O jewi e cmuh nztimg tu O fupv xepv vu tez vjev xi'si huppe hiv lommif cz DjevHQV epf Tactvedl cav...ov lopfe tiint moli xi esi.

O iesp nupiz up nz cmuh xovj qsufadv temit, eggomoevi neslivoph, epf djeppim fowistogodevoup. O nefi e cov mitt vjep $2l metv nupvj. Puvjoph dsebz, cav ov't nusi vjep $0.20.

Gushiv ecuav eft.

Vjeplzua gus zuas sitqupti, vjot nelit ni Vjopl ug xjev imti O dep fu xovj nz tovi optvief ug katv eft tu vjeplzua.