Ry walks into the coffee shop. Larry Page walks in after him and sits down at the same coffee table.

Larry Page: “Here you go, Ry. That Google Search patent everyone was working on is finally done.”

Ry starts reading the patent and gets to this part:

“Most likely, these are the pages to which someone performing a search would like to direct his or her attention. Looked at another way, the importance of a page is directly related to the steady-state probability that a random web surfer ends up at the page after following a large number of links. Because there is a larger probability that a surfer will end up at an important page than at an unimportant page, this method of ranking pages assigns higher ranks to the more important pages.”

U.S. Patent 6,285,999 B1 (Method for Node Ranking in a Linked Database)

Ry, looking perplexed: “So, from my limited understanding, this is saying that if a person were to surf the web and click millions of links in the process, they would eventually gravitate to the more popular sites (high authority) because more links lead to those sites over time.”

Larry Page: “Yeah, something like that. It’s a bit more complicated, but think of it like taking 20 boats and setting them loose in 20 random streams around the world. Eventually, most of them would end up in an ocean because most streams, not all, naturally flow into larger rivers and out to the sea.”

Ry: “Cool. This is good coffee, oh hey Larry, what do you think of my new website url, it’s called ry803083.com , what do you think!!!

Larry Page: It’s good... long pause, Larry Page looks back down at the coffee, this isssss great coffee....

Okay, let’s look at five videos here:

Video 1 - Revenue per 1k views (RPM): $8.58

Okay, so now let’s find out how much Video 1 earns per view. We take $8.58 / 1,000 views = $0.00858 per view.

Now, let’s see: if we need $1,000,000 and divide it by the revenue per view ($0.00858), we get about 116,550,116 views.

$1,000,000 / $0.00858 = 116,550,116 views (approx.)

Video 2 - Revenue per 1k views (RPM): $4.42

Okay, now let’s repeat what we did for Video 1 with Video 2.

We take the RPM of Video 2 ($4.42) and divide it by 1,000 views:

$4.42 / 1,000 views = $0.00442 per view... okay.

$1,000,000 / $0.00442 = 226,244,342 views (approx.)

Video 3 - Revenue per 1k views (RPM): $0.24

$0.24 / 1,000 = $0.00024 per view

$1,000,000 / $0.00024 per view = 4,166,666,666.67 views (approx.)

Video 4 - Revenue per 1k views (RPM): $5.77

$5.77 / 1,000 views = $0.00577 per view

$1,000,000 / $0.00577 per view = 173,310,225 views (approx.)

Video 5 - Revenue per 1k views (RPM): $23.52

$23.52 / 1,000 views = $0.02352 per view

$1,000,000 / $0.02352 per view = 42,517,006 views (approx.)

So, let me break everything down now:

Video 1 - $1,000,000 = 116,550,116 views (approx.)

Video 2 - $1,000,000 = 226,244,342 views (approx.)

Video 3 - $1,000,000 = 4,166,666,666.67 views (approx.)

Video 4 - $1,000,000 = 173,310,225 views (approx.)

Video 5 - $1,000,000 = 42,517,006 views (approx.)

So...

$5,000,000 = 4,725,288,355.67 views (approx.)

So, if all the numbers remain constant without fluctuating, and if the math is right, making $5,000,000 using AdSense would require about 4,725,288,355.67 views for these 5 videos.

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Looking at my YouTube analytics and Google Search Console data.

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Now heading over to Google Search Console. Click, click, YouTube property, click, performance, click, 3 months, click: total clicks 24.1K, 1.18M total impressions.

Search Console data looks to be trending down; click, tab, YouTube Analytics looks to be flat.

Scroll up: real-time views, 5,708 in the last 48 hours.

Back to Search Console. Click, website, click, last 16 months...

Crap, need to clean the floor.

Hover, Monday, Tuesday, September 23rd, 2025: 0 clicks, 0 impressions...

WTF.

Hover, hover, Tuesday the 23rd, 2026: 9 clicks, 2,084 impressions.

Hover, click. Earbud battery at 90%, okay, good.

Where’s the broom...

Back to YouTube. Click, click, scroll, latest content... views: 19, thumbnail click-through rate: 2.8%, average view duration: 1:52.

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