So once again, I am a bit late in reporting the figures. Maybe it’s the ADD speaking, but I find it really easy to forget something I only do 4 times a year.
In my last WordAds Experience post, I reported on the Q3-4 period of 2024. That year, I had upgraded my account to one that supports WordAds and revenue sharing in March of 2024. By December, I had earned $51.77. That’s how much I got for 280,588 Ads Served at a $0.18 CPM.
Now, here we are in 2025, and I have seen a marked increase in site traffic. I did recently have a setback, possibly, but I am working to make up for the loss.
YouTube
Just last week, my YouTube account was shut down, quite unfortunately. I was disappointed, to say the least, but I was kind of expecting it after all the restrictions my content was generating. Some of these mobile games are more than a little risque. It’s just the nature of the beast.
I took it as a sign and decided to focus on this website alone. It wasn’t exactly a hard decision once I started thinking about my journey overall. After 3 years, the YouTube account wasn’t anywhere near the necessary watch hours for monetization. Even if I did get those hours, the content wasn’t really suitable for advertising revenue.
I have since closed my other social media accounts. It was nice having other sources of incoming traffic, but the effort to keep the other accounts updated meant that I was spending less time here on the site writing up content.
First Quarter
Got a little sidetracked there. For the first quarter (Jan-Mar), I earned $20.05 from WordAds.
| Date | Earnings | Ads Served |
|---|---|---|
| January | 5.58 | 98,167 |
| February | 5.67 | 81,765 |
| March | 8.08 | 137,929 |
Visitors and Views for the above period are as follows,
| Date | Visitors | Views |
|---|---|---|
| January | 10,870 | 22,998 |
| February | 9,009 | 23,768 |
| March | 13,104 | 56,844 |
You can see there was a considerable bump once we hit March. I believe that was from making several supporting pages and posts for one of the game wikis I host on the site. I’m thinking the internal links to the new dedicated pages kept visitors on the site longer.
Second Quarter
Since my social accounts only recently went away, I don’t think I’ll have any data points I can provide on traffic losses. Actually, my Reddit traffic increased by 120 visitors, and YouTube visitors dropped by 10 visitors under the previous period.
I don’t understand why there was a 50% drop in ads served for June. Site traffic was only off by 1.5k visitors. Maybe those 1.5k I missed were the prolific types who click on every picture and page?
| Date | Earning | Ads Served |
|---|---|---|
| April | $10.88 | 166,178 |
| May | $11.01 | 148,706 |
| June | $6.07 | 70,747 |
I only published 5 posts during June, and although I published 5 Pages, those don’t get the same visibility as a post.
Posts will at least show up in the WordPress Reader under Discover. Pages need to be found by search engines, by accident, or by placing a button on the navigation bar.
| Date | Visitors | Views |
|---|---|---|
| April | 14,970 | 90,314 |
| May | 14,783 | 83,595 |
| June | 13,297 | 73,843 |
My total earnings for Q2 are $27.96, adding last quarter to the total brings us to $48.01. Now, looking at the chart, I can see the math is off. It may be that the calculation for June that I am seeing is not the full value. It would be nice if that were the case.
I am almost to the $100 threshold required to request a cashout on my ad revenue. The cost of operating the site was calculated based on the sale pricing I received when I upgraded my plan.
That cost was $66 per year for 3 years. If I can manage $198 by the end of December 2026, then I can say it all worked out.
We’ll call it a close here, I think.
Sales on eBay continue apace, social media is all gone, and the game wikis continue to flourish.
Thanks for reading. See you next quarter (hopefully).
Fat Wallet Refugee 
Why don’t you switch to AdSense (at the very least), or better paying ad networks – like Journey by Mediavine? Your current RPM is around $0.50 with WordAds, but it would be at least $1.50 with AdSense (probably more) and up to $15 with Journey. So at the very least you wold 3x your income, but most likely, you’d make a lot more!
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I had considered AdSense, but after doing the math I decided against going that route.
Currently, my site is hosted on WordPress.com, which does not offer support for AdSense at my membership tier.
I would need to either move to WordPress.org hosting with a different provider or upgrade to the Business plan.
Either option would incur greater expenses.
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Hi, what is the payment frequency of wordads i am little confused when earnings are like if i reach more then 100$ in January then wheni will receive my payment February 15th or in March 15th
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Hello Stark,
Since starting monetization in March 2024, I only reached the $100 threshold once just recently. The funds were automatically deposited into my bank without any action on my part.
My understanding is that a minimum balance of $100 is required to receive a payout, and the total balance is cashed out when a payment is made.
So in your example, if you received more then $100 in January, let’s say $150, you would receive the entire amount in a payment. Your next payment would not occur until the balance had once again cleared the $100 threshold.
With my current experience with WordAds, It is unclear to me whether or not the payments are made on a set schedule.
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Can you please tell me in which month you reached total 100$ and in which month you receive the Automatic payment to you account
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It looks like in July, I received reached the threshold. I believe had decided to leave the funds in my balance, however, in September on the 9th, I received a payment to my PayPal account from Automattic for the total of $106.31.
After the July period was calculated and settled, 1 month passed before they initiated an automatic payment on my account.
It should be noted, I did see a button on my dashboard for requesting a withdrawal on my balance as soon as I reached the threshold in July.
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Thank you so much!
now i understand the actual payment frequency is net 45 you reached the minimum threshold after calculated July revenue and you received payment on September 09 so almost it took 39/40 days to received the payment..
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