How much are you making with AdSense? [Archive]

Flashni

08-24-2005, 06:10 PM

Lots of mentions about an August tail-off.

I started making sites in January. I have 13 and all are content sites - no portal/TE type.

My income is not huge as I've not done enough to promote but I find it easy to get indexed at the mighty G without blogging and pinging them to death.

Each of the past three months has seen roughly a 20% increase in income but only 5 of the sites are getting over 50 daily uniques.

A few weeks ago, Yahoo discovered they had left the 'index all site pages' button in the off position and then they threw the switch. That should have given most sites an August boost, not a reduction.

My aim is to have 50 quality sites by the end of 2006 and if I only get $10 per site per day, that adds up to $500 per day or $180K per year which sounds like a lot to me.

Patience and obeying the rules is a tactic that should pay dividends.

Good luck to all you new internet millionaires

dnwenterprises

08-26-2005, 12:25 AM

I have had a great August -- my best month yet. I started with Adsense in 2003 when it was first introduced. Back then I just slapped up the code and never made anything from it. Then one day, at the first of the year (when they do their year end payouts), I got a check for 99 cents! Not quite enough to get rich on, but it made me get more serious about trying to make money with Adsense. I have picked up some tips here and there and have gotten my income up to a couple hundreds per month. I just got Joel's ebook yesterday. I plan to read it over the weekend and get to work. My goal is $500/month by the end of this year. Hopefully, I'll exceed it.

Dana Williams
http://www.danasgiftbasketexpress.com (http://www.danasgiftbasketexpress.com)

jayu

08-26-2005, 07:59 AM

I am able to earn $150 Per Month nicely with my free blogs. Now Domain, Hosting and more Bandwith charges to pay :D

trfeng

08-26-2005, 11:55 AM

making about $3-6 per day with about 20 site so far...100% traffic comes from yahoo.

Bobette Kyle

08-26-2005, 12:42 PM

I also used to get such results, and now with implementing various things I learned from the Ebooks (part I and II) I have a much higher income through adsense.I have had a great August -- my best month yet. I started with Adsense in 2003 when it was first introduced. Back then I just slapped up the code and never made anything from it.
Same here re both quotes. Just like anything else...if you take the time to debug and figure out how to improve, then you will do better. It's worth the extra time and effort...ppc seems to be on a real upswing just now and we are lucky enough to be in the right place.

davo

08-27-2005, 07:16 AM

I'm new to TE but I did try some sites generated with another proram. I have found that the click rate is very low on my auto-generated sites. I was curious to see how TE will do for me.

I have found the sites got listed with Yahoo, AltaVista and Fast. MSN is harder to get into for a generated site (but the quickest to list you for REAL content.)

And Google is the pickiest and the hardest. Especially since they have this 'Sandbox' policy which ignores new sites for several months until they have proved themselves.

So if Google loves you, you're lucky... And I would love to know how you got a TE type site listed at all! Please do tell.

supremebeing

08-27-2005, 10:46 AM

I'm still at the lowest earning now. But the CTR is increasing day by day. I'll just have to keep on the hard word and will eventually each the highest earning.

Bob

08-28-2005, 01:00 AM

Hello everyone this is my first post here! I can't believe I actually got the user name "Bob", How cool was that!

My best month with adsense was 1500.00 this year but my main site is seasonal. My usual average is 400.00 to 500.00

Traffic is a mix of se's used to be G was the main one, now G is only about 25% or less.

I think I have been penalized for a few violations with G. Lots of cross linking of all my sites, things like invisible 5 pixel gif links to all my other sites and friends sites plus a bunch of duplicate content that I left in because of some changes of file names - I did not at the time think I would get dinged for that. Plus everything is all on the same IP.

Thought I was just being smart leaving the old files in while mapping to the new files. I figured the SE's linking to the old files would eventually just find all the new files and drop the old links. Live and learn. Working to fix all that and see what G does.

Big thanks goes to Joel and his ebook for setting me straight about a bunch of stuff.

Good heavens G is hammering to crap out of my main site the last 2 weeks and especially the last few days. I run a dedicated server (I'm a small webhost) and even my bandwidth provider partner called and asked what the heck was going on with my bandwidth usage on that server. We really watch the servers for bandwidth spikes as it is a dead giveaway your server was hacked.

Maybe G is sniffing out the updates and seeing the spammy stuff going away and will soon get me back into the Search results like the good old days when G sent me most of my traffic.

Yippee!! Happy day$ coming soon! :D

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rolista.com

08-28-2005, 05:17 AM

I am also new to this adsense thing but hope so i will achieve the goal what i have setup.

Now my earning is not more than $30 - $40 it's our first month and in january 2006 hope i will reach $1000 - $1500 because i am launching my new projects under Rolista.com

dragonsage

08-28-2005, 06:40 PM

YEA! I finally had my first day that topped $10! :D

Now to keep the number up...

spiff1971

08-29-2005, 12:24 PM

I run an investing site, and am averaging about $550 per month. I'm getting approximately 7000 hits monthly.

I have noticed though that my click through rate has been increasing during the last few days. Where I was doing about 5.1% interms of CTR, its now over 10% (and I did nothing to the site).

That said, seems to have been happenning since Google Adwords made their changes. I think better ads are showing (dropping the ads that no one would click on anyway).

just my 2cents

spiff

peyton1215

08-29-2005, 12:29 PM

I am not making much. Not even a $1.00 per day. I am working on it though :(

spiff1971

08-29-2005, 12:42 PM

It really comes back to content. You need good solid content.

Most people pick up a list of top paying keywords, and try and create content around the top paying words. Unless you have a lot of traffic, that wont work. Further, unless you are an insurance adjuster, you're not going to write passionate and motivational content about insurance.

What I have been doing for my sites is to get a list of words that compliment my site (specifically the sites that I am passionate about). So for my investing site for example, I found that the word "investing" didnt pay as much as "trading". Made the change, and suddenly, I am noticing an increase in the average payout per click.

I was looking for new ideas for content for that site. Turns out, Forex trading, technical analysis and investment planning all pay out more than trading. So, I created some content, and directed my existing traffic there. Of course, I have also been getting hits from that content, after I SEO'd it to death ;-)

the key is in the content. If your readers are not finding what they came to your site to find in the first place, they will leave. Make the content important to them, they will want more info: and your Adsense ads will give them that. Cha-ching!

spiff

Top Paying Keywords (http://www.adsenseheaven.com)
small business web design (http://www.northernsource.com)

andyeats

08-29-2005, 04:33 PM

I have been making around $5 - $15 per day with about 6-10 sites.

my best day was $28

this month I'm down about $100

Thanks
Andy Eaton

John Calder

08-29-2005, 06:39 PM

Hi Folks,

It's all in your content.

If you have a tightly themed site with relevant content, plenty of optimised pages + traffic + adsense ads in the correct places you cannot fail to earn from Google.

One of my sites, which is just a mish mash of content which is updated now and again, earns over $2000 per month, just from adsense. However, it does have over 500000 pages, which in turn gets a lot of search engine visitors. It does not have generated content though.

I have quite a lot of sites which are tightly themed (I can't stand the niche word :p ).

An example would be http://www.halloweenrus.com I've owned the domain for about a year, just before Halloween last year - it has earned around $1300 for the year to July - it is around $10 to $20 per day at the moment, just adsense.

I will say that adsense is not the moneymaker on that site, you'll see what is if you take a look. :p

Anyway, that is just an example of a holiday theme site, the traffic is from searches only.

Don't just think adsense when setting up a new site, look at what is available in relation to articles and affiliate programs (the affiliate program would be best with a database of products you can enter on your own sites = more keywords for searches), put adsense code on those pages too.

It's a numbers game at the end of the day, in my experience.

10 sites with 10 pages each
10 sites with 1000 pages each
10 sites with 10000 pages each

and so on.

The more pages you have, the more residual traffic you have from search engines, but do not think if you shove up 10000 pages today you will be earning x amount by the end of the week, it does not work like that.

Pick a theme, topic, niche, whatever, and work it.

Blogging, blog and ping, DG, RP etc... are fads. Normal site building is what works - mind you, that does mean you have to work now and again. :eek:

I do know people making $100k - $300k per month just from adsense, but a large chunk of that goes to hiring people to keep the sites updated, advertising and so on - way too much work.

At then end of the day you have to look at what you will be comfortable with.
Personally, I do not like dealing with customers, I like earning from whatever method is available without interaction.

An earning site = half decent design - adsense ads - affiliate database (page for each product) - new content updated periodically.

Think outside the box and you'll do well.

And I'm still not saying how much I earn from adsense per month ;)

kjcdude

08-30-2005, 03:30 AM

Last Month $4.16 :/

PLEASE HELP ME!!!
http://www.adsensechat.com/showthread.php?t=533

Also where is this ebook everyone keeps on talking about?

Mr. Tech

08-30-2005, 04:44 AM

Gee, would I love to be making 10 grand a month...

I'm in the $100-500 group :(

Not bad for not doing much though ;)

PatLovell

08-30-2005, 11:25 AM

I have been making money with adsense sites for around a year, not enough to retire to Hawaii and surf for a living, yet. I was getting most of my traffic from Yahoo and MSN and I did see a drop in traffic this month, BUT I saw an increase in my Google traffic so my earnings have stayed about the same.

My goal is to have my adsense checks delivered by UPS or FEDEX each month :D , i guess i better keep on learning.

Pat

auctionnet

08-30-2005, 11:45 AM

I make somewhere between $200 and $400 per month. Thats with zero effort... I just wish they would pay more often.. waiting a month to get paid is no fun.

AdsenseReview.com

08-30-2005, 10:52 PM

I make not much but just start 2 months ago, and average $300.00 / month now.

It sure covers hosting fees and I can buy some extra gift or go to restaurant but not much, but I hope to get over $500.00/month soon with my marketing strategy (blue print).

Tar Heel

08-31-2005, 10:49 PM

Hi All,

From my early observations, AdSense income is dependent on several factors, including the number of websites, the number of pages in a web site, the number of blogs, traffic, number and positioning of ad blocks, etc. I attribute my own boost in income from implementing Joel's suggestions AND from starting up new blogs and sites (in other words, setting up multiple income streams). Relying on just one or two sites would be disastrous if that particular niche drops in popularity. That's what happened to me earlier this year - I spent too much time tweaking a site built around keywords where the number of searches (i.e. popularity) had dropped dramatically from the prior year. Now that I'm in a building mode, I don't obsess over any one site or blog anymore.

Patricia

wck

09-01-2005, 12:03 AM

Started Adsense 6 months ago - 1st month made $420 on a regional city tourism site. Have implemented Joel Comm's suggestion recently and raised my ranking on two key search terms for my site. Revenue the last two month has been in excess of $1100. I have also launched a second tourism site on the Caribbean and am working on a third blog oriented site related to the topic of jazz music with about a dozen major American jazz artists (so far) who have agreed to blog their weekly thoughts. Looking forward to a strong year and focused on building a series of deep content sites across various disciplines for the longer term to generate consistent pageviews and revenue.

cheekyspider

09-06-2005, 06:03 AM

wildfiction

09-08-2005, 03:19 PM

Can you run another poll asking the average monthly click through rate - CTR?

RemodelingGuy

09-09-2005, 12:12 AM

Being new to Adsense I have made 25 sites over past 12 weeks, my target is 100+.

Started making $2.00 per day with 1 site, gradually increasing to $70.00 (best day) on average $30 per day increasing slowly as sites and pages are indexed. My target of $100 per day which is not unrealistic.

I believe in the power of multiplication.... the more sites the more money and its working.

With Information and Tips I have got from this Forum I have purchased XSite pro for example, which has made life a lot easier.

Why in the world would you want that many sites?

I had 6 before the "bubble burst " and combined them into two! I still don't fart around much w/ my PR4 site, as I spend so much time with SR! I make a solid living building ONE site in a niche that will NEVER Go away and stick with it!

No way to spread the love around to 100 sites!

You might think about having ONE main site to build a future on and having the rest as cash cows!

~ Just thinking out LOUD!

spiff1971

09-09-2005, 12:26 AM

I agree!

My main site still accounts for the bulk of my adsense revenue. The topic of the site is about investing, which is something that will not go out of style, and there is always content that I can add. With over 550 pages now, the site brings some great visitors, and best of all, they come back, which allows for another opportunity for them to click on some ads.

The problem with 100 sites is that the content is normally not original, thus, you run into problems of duplicate content, and then competing against the other 1000 people doing the same thing. Unless your SEO skills are top notch, good luck.

I'm sticking to no more than 5 sites, all of which I am passionate about. I will add some content from ezines, but for the most part, it will be to share info that I know or have learned. Of course, the content will help advertisers sell their products, which is ultimately what we are trying to do.

If you create 100 sites, you'll find it becomes far too time consuming to handle link exchanges, adding original content, advertising etc.

There's enough garbage out there without adding to it with mindless garbage in the vain hopes of making a few extra dollars.

Find one thing you are good at, and milk it!

I do agree with the idea of multiplication, however, the thing you are multiplying should be amazing to begin with.

I'm averaging about $25/day with 1 site. Sure, I could replicate it, and have 10 or 20 or 100+, but, why risk making google upset with duplicate content? I'll keep working on the sites I am passionate about. Besides, there is a golf range that is calling my name. I'd rather be golfing than spending time doing maintainance on 100+ sites!

Just my 2 cents

wildfiction

09-09-2005, 03:23 AM

There is one reason to have tons of sites and that is if they are competiting against each other for the prime spot on Google searches. It basically means that you can muscle out any competition and your sites will be in the top 10 results.

I don't do this but just heard about it.

bloodwrath

09-09-2005, 12:23 PM

Can you run another poll asking the average monthly click through rate - CTR?

Cant anyone who post a new thread do that??

wildfiction

09-10-2005, 02:19 AM

Cant anyone who post a new thread do that??

I confess: I was being lazy.

Here it is:
http://www.adsensechat.com/showthread.php?t=685

Vincent Abrugar

09-12-2005, 11:26 PM

I hope I could make at least $500/month with adsense. I am earning less than $100 monthly so far. I would like to learn more so that I could earn more. :)

Swebbie

09-13-2005, 02:46 AM

As someone making $2500-$5000 per month from AdSense, I can tell you that the key to my own success was research. Specifically, find out which keywords are actually getting searched for at the big engines and build sites around them. I use wordtracker (dot com). It's an invaluable tool, seriously. I see it as the difference between working hard and working smart. I'm too lazy to work hard. :rolleyes:

Swebbie

fxdir

09-13-2005, 05:23 PM

for the next month check... i make over $300...

elitemktr

09-13-2005, 05:51 PM

Thank you for the tip Swebbie! I use wordtracker and it finally clicked when you mentioned it. Thank you.

Tyler - Rash Guards (http://www.myrashguards.com)

lee

09-15-2005, 04:01 PM

I am now in the $xx,xxx a month club! I will make right at $14,000 this month from adsense alone...

sprouty

09-15-2005, 05:38 PM

It`s strange but August was my best month so far. September down around 33%. Still not too bad but i cannot give up my day job yet

VincentRich

09-16-2005, 03:23 AM

I'm getting about $500 per month right now. I am excited to learn how to make more money!

atl manager

09-17-2005, 02:31 PM

I just got started w/AdSense about last month so I haven't really put the petal to the metal yet but I do have a few ideas that require about 3 months of setting up a foundation for some monster traffic that will ride strong for a year or 2 with out much more work afterwards for as traffic is concern .

I'm still learning ;) about the wild wild strategic world of AdSense . It look like it's going to be a lot of fun too . I guess like anything else it's all about your understanding ,strategy and action .

I read about a lot people who seem to worry 90% about an AdSense site/s vs. a personal targeted traffic resource/s that they can really call their own just like anything else one own . I say manage that then get the money once they keep coming back loyally for the bait which is simply what their looking for in the first place .

That's my take on this anyway . I don't want a hundred hit and run sites, I prefer to get all I can out of no more than 5 real gems max . I look at like this , will I be able to get a 1000 + good links with minimum reciprocal links . Is there away to persuade/bribe pr7-9 sites to give me a small but prominent piece of there website . What are they missing/searching for themselves ?

Can I outsource it and then leverage it for what I want in a way their highly receptive ? Are there a lot of specific respected authorities offline state to state if necessary I can draw expert quality content from with their permission and probably a nice fee for their time to bring back to my sites to keep my visitors happy and out of search mode ?

I know everybody have their own way of doing things and im just speaking for myself and my views . AdSense don't make you money, people do and thats why I want care about it putting it on my permanent projects at first .

Anyway , it's all work and I look forward to it all . Anytime you can , do steer me in the right direction if im going wrong .

.

Thanks for allowing me to be amongst you wonderful ladies & gents . JT

talfighel

10-08-2005, 01:22 PM

I bought Joel's ebook around 2 weeks ago and put the metal to the test. My income has NOT changed at all and in fact, I don't know if it will. I am still making on an average a $1 a day from all 120 sub sites that I have built. So $1 a day, that's about $30 a month.

That's sad.

richplay

10-08-2005, 02:35 PM

I just recently started to run adsense, and I am still learning. I'm running it on 2 websites. On one of them, number of visits is improving (also the revenue). So when it started, last month it was couple of cents a day. This month, it is slightly better with average of a bit more than buck a day. So, this is just the begining.

talfighel

10-08-2005, 03:28 PM

For me, if it does not work in 30 days, I am requesting my money back from Joel.

elitemktr

10-08-2005, 04:41 PM

I just purchase Joel's 'Making the most of Adsense' program and I'm crossing my fingers that it will reveal some useful tips and tricks.

I've not yet launched an adsense site, but I do have another surf related site mainly about Rash Guards (http://www.myrashguards.com) for sports.

Tyler - SEO

ryanunion

10-12-2005, 12:21 PM

I see people talking about increasing their adsense revenues by building many sites, in my experience it much easier to have a couple sites with many pages of good content then to have many sites. I too bought Joel’s e-book and after implementing some of the techniques my CTR is around 15% and my Google checks have increased to 2500-5000 per month, but you have to remember I had the traffic before I implemented Joel’s techniques.

dechenlau

10-16-2005, 02:05 AM

My adsense is daily increase click,will like to see pass the mark of $1000 per month.

Joel Comm

10-16-2005, 02:15 AM

For me, if it does not work in 30 days, I am requesting my money back from Joel.

You didn't even wait 30 days, Tal. It took you about 3 days. Doesn't sound like a formula for success to me...

Joel

fisinc

10-16-2005, 10:29 AM

Since I have read Joel's ebook my AS income has gone from .50 cents a day to $10 a day with about 5 sites pulling in most of the income, all in about 3 weeks.

More quality sites with content = more income.

Thanks Joel!

witchblade32

10-17-2005, 10:20 AM

Since I have read Joel's ebook my AS income has gone from .50 cents a day to $10 a day with about 5 sites pulling in most of the income, all in about 3 weeks.

That's wonderful. That's my next goal, $10/day. I'm averaging $7/day now. I was making about $20-$30/month when I started out.

Chris

10-20-2005, 04:30 AM

I have been a long time Adsense user - but only recently have I begun to optimise my Adsense and so far things are going great I'm looking like I'll break the $100 mark in October and yesterday I nearly broke my little goal of have a day where I earned $10+ I fell a few cents short. I'm hoping to learn a few more tricks and tips on this forum to help me get that goal.

Hock Ng

10-21-2005, 09:47 PM

What I did a while back was to set a daily goal of how much I wanted to make with AdSense. With a number in mind it helps me focus and work on the things I have to do to achieve that number. Once I hit the target, then I'll increase the target the following month.

John Calder wrote a great post. AdSense is mostly a numbers game. The more pages and traffic you have, the more your income will be. How to build that traffic stream is the tricky part. The long term goal should be sites that generate passive income, i.e. hands-off income.

Although AdSense income is nice, remember that there are other methods of generating passive income too. One thing I've done is to capture email addresses and build a subscriber list for each niche so that I can stay in touch and upsell with other offers.

Ok... gotta get back to building more sites. :)

Chuck Brown

10-21-2005, 10:17 PM

For me, if it does not work in 30 days, I am requesting my money back from Joel.

Tal,

If it doesn't work, it might well be due to other factors...maybe even little thing...like the fact that you employ your site map for navigation. That's one of the strange web design novelties I've ever seen.

Trust me...the stuff in Joel's book works. The simple fact that 1700+ people have joined this forum is testament to Joel's legitmacy. And you'll find a ton of success stories from those of us who have employed the strategies laid out in his book.

But I'd recommend considering ALL the relevant factors before taking a swat at the veracity of Joel's claims. :rolleyes:

By the way, Hock...nicely done blog. And solid comments...although I would say Adsense is a bit more than a numbers game.

c-

Chuck Brown

10-21-2005, 10:22 PM

I don't want a hundred hit and run sites, I prefer to get all I can out of no more than 5 real gems max.

Well spoken. And I like that term..."Hit and Run"...to describe the "numbers philosophy" of Adsense site building.

I'm afraid many who follow that track will find a lot of dead bodies in their wake. :(

c-

elitemktr

10-21-2005, 11:51 PM

I just made my first $1 with Adsense today.
Very proud as I know thousands more are to follow. Thanks for all the help here Chuck. Much appreciated!

Tyler -
Rash Guards (http://www.myrashguards.com) | French Kissing Tips (http://www.magicalkissing.com)

elitemktr

10-22-2005, 07:08 PM

Breaking 1 buck per day, without optimizing, adding content, or anything. Basically just threw some code onto the link exchange page I created before the site's even developed.

Happy at a dollar, because I know with the right tactics I can take the $1 a day site with absolutely nothing on it, to $50-100 a day with the right traffic and content and optimized Adsense units.

Chris

10-31-2005, 08:44 AM

Its quite interesting to look at those figures of people's earnings - but I'd be quite interested to see if there are any changes in a month or so, because I for one have had a great October and don't plan to be in my current bracket in a months time when I will hopefully put myself in a good position to crack the $500 a month mark for the following month. I dunno what oyu think Joel but maybe we could run this poll once a month or something ot guage the changes over time.

Syntheticore

10-31-2005, 12:29 PM

I agree with Chris here. I've just changed from > $100 a month, to almost $400 for october! I'm expecting this to go down a bit because one of my sites was halloween themed. But I'm making more general web sites that will hopefully take it's place and generate more content. Ooh, also if anyone is interested in finding out what else I did... I joined the worldvillage blogger network! I make about $10 daily from blogging there. It's quite impressive if you ask me!

shafferb1

11-03-2005, 06:33 AM

I think perhaps that it is not so important how much someone is making, but how much they are making per site.
(note- tip for newbies:)

This is, because once you have launched one successful "Adsense" site, you should then duplicate it many times. It is unusual to be able to make serious amounts of revenue without doing this.

elitemktr

11-03-2005, 02:35 PM

I would agree that it's the 'revenue per site' that indicates an Adsense advertisers skill level and experience. Anyone who's given some adsense code can recklessly generate hundreds of low quality sites and earn $1 from them.

I'm going to go with Chuck's model of having several 'gems' rather than hundreds of poorly managed sites. I'm almost breaking $10 a day with my first site. My goals is $100/day. (2 months of SEO and Adsense optimizing should do it) Thanks for all your help here.

Swebbie

11-04-2005, 05:46 PM

One of the mistakes a lot of people make is building sites about subjects no one searches. If it's a labor of love kind of site, no problem. But if you expect to earn a living at this, you simply have to do the research to find topics (and the associated keywords) that will get the visitors. Of course, you have to do all the other things to build your traffic up, but it starts with good topic choices.

I too agree that a few high quality sites are better for the long run than 100 or 1000 "hit and run" sites. In fact, one site about a subject that is searched for a lot and has relatively little competition (they're out there, but man they're hard to find!) is the Holy Grail. You can spend all your time on it, make a good living, and have a lot of leisure time vs. someone constantly dealing with 10 or more sites.

trader

11-04-2005, 10:20 PM

...I too agree that a few high quality sites are better for the long run than 100 or 1000 "hit and run" sites....

But what about the great value of diverisfication? With a number of smaller diverse sites on various subjects your traffic and income should be more predictable and steady vs only owning a few larger higher traffic sites.

Also, remember if your site(s) goes way down in the SERP's (declines in SE rank), or even is deleted from the SE, it will have a much greater impact on you compared to the operator of lots of diverse websites, where it likely will make little overall impact.

Chris

11-05-2005, 12:14 AM

Not to be a stick in the mud here - but it seems we are drifting a bit off topic with all this "the best way to" and "how to" make money rather than what the thread was originally about - "How much" ar e you making.

easttech

11-09-2005, 02:40 PM

Adsense earnings have declined over the past few months and have been abysmal lately. We need more competition in this space or it’s just going to get worse.

Malachim

11-16-2005, 05:35 AM

Overall, my traffic is going up month on month, while my revenue from Adsense is going down proportionally as fast. Bah!

Traffic = /
Adsense = \

Result = /\ another mountain to conquer, hmmm.

fisinc

11-16-2005, 07:08 AM

I am seeing the opposite. My CTR is 15% on Ads and 22% on searches.

I started this venture in Sept 05 (making $0 - .50 a day) and got Joel's Adsense book, and I hit $24 yesterday. Every day it goes up a little, first it was $5, then a week later $10 every day and now the $24. Next stop is $30 and beyond.

The traffic and clicks are coming from about 9 sites. Some of these sites I have had for sometime that had a Google PR and high (bad) Alexa rank, and some are brand new.

Just keep producing sites with good content, blend the ads and do it over and over and over.

There is no secret to this, just acquire the knowledge and apply it. Most people do not do the latter and apply it.

Chris

11-17-2005, 12:19 AM

Serg

11-17-2005, 01:43 AM

I'm pretty happy... making $20-30 a day with one site. A forum site no less..

elitemktr

11-17-2005, 04:44 AM

Reaching about $10 per day now...

zak

11-23-2005, 05:10 PM

Hi all

My site gets a lot of hits - not going to say how many, but it's fairly high IMHO, and thanks to a forum member here, I increased from average of $10+ per day, to $30-40 per day. Working on reaching the $100 per day mark, hopefully soon...

Thanks to all who have helped me thus far!

Ciao

Zak

smagill

11-25-2005, 09:26 PM

7 weeks, 12 sites. 450 a month already

Mytigodess

12-02-2005, 11:20 AM

I just bought the ebook yesterday. My months were averaging $80 before applying the program in the ebook. Within hours of using a few tips of the book, my daily average which was around $2.60 went to $11.95 in one day. This morning, I'm already up to $6.05.

Then again, I have several web sites with specific niche audiences. I only did the techniques in two of my sites and have seen results.

But I do agree with Joel's premise that you need good content to be successful in Adsense. It took me years to build up content and develop traffic which is an ongoing project.

You can't just throw up a banner on a stale, recycled content page and expect thousands of people to visit it daily. You need fresh blood to keep people coming back. It is really worth the effort to write one or two articles a day or at least find content from another writer.

Offshore-Wealth.com

12-04-2005, 06:37 PM

Interesting,

I am new here as well as with Adsense. I resisted until recently not knowing what the nickel and dimes were worth in reality, so I am glad I found this poll as it helps to see what the potential is and market direction.

I see some say there income is dropping, while others say it is increasing, but isn't this more related to your personal site and not Adsense? Obviously sites with the most hits win, but I wonder how much business each are losing to other advertisers vs. how much we earn in revenues from Adsense. This was why I resisted for so long, it didn't make sense to me.

Now that we see most are not earning much, I wonder what the ratio is with regards to legitimate business sites selling real goods and services vs. all the forums and garbage sites of useless listings, as in sub search type pages, or all the Adsense nonsense sites I see popping up just to generate false clicks. Seems to me Adsense is being misused or exploited more and more.

So who is using Adsense on real business commerce site vs. non commercial sites? Just trying to see if it all makes sense or not.

Good luck to all, Mike

Malachim

12-04-2005, 10:40 PM

There's no easy answer as, I believe, it's a moving goalpost. Traffic will alway, always be a factor, but Google has it's own set of rules over what constitutes relevant content and are constantly tweaking the rules.

I /was/ doing great up until January when it went pear shaped for me. My traffic was - and is - still increasing month on month, but the revenue and clickthru rate was falling even faster. Yep, Google had changed the rules.

Fast forward to last month and a new set of rules, and my clickthru rate doubled and my revenue quadrupled. Almost overnight!

True, I have been tinkering with my colours, which as a bit factor, but I still think a lot depends whether your site is in Googles feel-good zone.

Naturally if you use black hat tricks (as I saw one 'Adsense expert' offer*) then you are going to get your arse handed back on a plate with a short note from Google saying "...and don't come back, ever"

(* No, it certainly wasn't Joel)

The keys are traffic, content, blending. Whether you are commercial or not isn't really a factor.

smagill

12-05-2005, 01:39 PM

So far here are my numbers after doing adsense for only 60 days:

Avg daily impressions avg clicks $ per day
793 89 $20.42

From reading others peoples post it appears I am not doing so shabby.

My question to the big shots is how many impressions per day/month are getting you 15k a month :)

Malachim

12-05-2005, 02:16 PM

Dang, I'm impressed. Note to self: Must try harder! :eek:

Mytigodess

12-05-2005, 09:32 PM

I am excited looking at these days going up. On the first I made $9.45 using the techniques. Today's total so far is $51.97. This is after tweaking 2 of my web sites.

It isn't anywhere near some of those amazing site totals of over $500 a day. Gets me wondering how much traffic they get to reach those kinds of totals. My traffic is around 2500 unique visitors a day for all of my sites. Before I split my site into several niche sites around the same time Google changed their search engine criteria, I was getting twice that number.

I am also wondering how people here go about getting their traffic. I rely heavily on search engines, but I also do offline ads locally as well as word of mouth.

It is obvious a person who can only manage getting a few hundred people a month to visit their web site will never make $1000 a day using this plan. So about how much traffic, ballpark area, does it take to hit that goal?

Malachim

12-06-2005, 05:02 AM

I tried a few traffic engines and, surfing for credits and while it does generate 'traffic' it doesn't really get you visitors. Plus many are riddled with trojans, keyloggers and spyware. TS25.com is full of sites like this, one had at least 3 different trojans! Others, like TrafficSwarm aren't so bad. Ultimately though, I have far, far better things to do with my time.

Putting yourself about is another matter. Besides this place I wander round several other forums. This too can get you a nice amount of visitors, especially if you are offering good advice and solutions.

Articles though are the real sweet spot. Yep, I REALLY need to get my act together and submit far more articles, but yes, there's no faster way I know of to genuine a large amount of genuine visitors.

Targetted too, because they have obviously liked what you wrote and are looking for more. Strangely enough, 13% of the traffic on one of my sites comes after submitting articles to Joels 'WorldVillage.com' I say strange because the articles were computer related and that looked at my profile and went to another of my sites listed there! Still, I'm not complaining!

eyecaredr

12-06-2005, 06:07 AM

How do I go about submitting Articles to WorldVillage, every time I click on the link

Want to write for WorldVillage.com, be exposed to thousands of readers monthly and generate revenue? Click Here!

I am returned to the Home Page

Joel, please help me out here

Happy Holidays All

Malachim

12-06-2005, 08:02 AM

On the left hand column of the home page, Under ' Join WorldVillage Now for FREE! '

enter your email address and click ' Join now'

Or better yet, use this:

http://blog.worldvillage.com/ ...

Want to write for WorldVillage.com, be exposed to thousands of readers monthly and generate revenue? Click Here!

http://blog.worldvillage.com/sys/signup.cgi

And take it from there :)

~ Paul

jamdonaldson

12-07-2005, 12:41 PM

After fairly consistent CPM rates over the past 6 weeks of .30-.40, on MOnday 12/5, all of a sudden my numbers dropped to .11-.12. The impressions, page views, CTR all remained the same and even increased slightly. This has cut my revenue more than half. Has this happened to anyone and what can be done about it? :(

richardjes

12-09-2005, 05:06 PM

Hi, I think it would be a good idea to extend the poll and use the following splits for the poll.

$0 - $25
$25 - $50
$50 - $99

and then the others as you have them.

It would be interesting to see how much people are making in the lower 60% which is where everybody needs help.

My Adsense revenue is between $10 - $20 per month so very low. If you split it up a little more it would give people goals to aim at and they could see where they are in the pecking order.

Regards

Richard
http://www.biggolflesson.com

Swebbie

12-11-2005, 03:14 AM

It may be a bit early to say this definitively, but the recent change in Adwords policy that is intended to weed out poor quality advertiser landing pages seems to have helped boost my sites' Adsense EPC. It's up about 25% in the last few days. Anyone else seeing this?

inform101

12-12-2005, 11:24 AM

Swebbie

12-12-2005, 11:44 AM

We do the work, lay out the dosh to get the sites up and receiving traffic, and Google cream it, leaving us a few cents if we're lucky. We're all mugs or worse.

You've got the model turned on its head. You shouldn't build a site to put adsense on it, then complain about how much you get per click. You should build a site for another purpose and consider adsense icing on your cake. Before it came along, lots and lots of sites that were good sources of information were sitting out there making nothing for the owners. Now, virtually any site can make at least enough to cover the monthly hosting fee.

Yeah, I know, in the "real" world, people are building sites like crazy for the sole purpose of making Google $$$. My point is that you would not have had that opportunity pre-2003. So any amount you make per click is a net gain.

Mytigodess

12-12-2005, 11:51 AM

Rather than the question "How Much are You Making", what about: What are you getting per click? I think we are all being screwed. No-one mentions this, but I bet nobody is getting more than a dollar or even near it, despite Google receiving many times this from thousands or even millions of advertisers. We do the work, lay out the dosh to get the sites up and receiving traffic, and Google cream it, leaving us a few cents if we're lucky. We're all mugs or worse.

I see what you mean and understand your frustration, so please don't take me as being a smart aleck.

Before applying the techniques, my cost per thousands [ECPM] rate was less than $2 and now it is over $25, but that still amounts to about 2 cents per click while advertisers are paying far more per click than that amount. Many keyword categories won't even get you much action below ten cents.

Google is making a great profit for its stockholders and we are enabling such growth, but are only getting a fraction of our value to the Google enterprise. However, I would have thought most of us knew that going into it. The Adsense program is fairly new and has some growing pains to experience.

It does suck we get paid so little in comparison, but when you look at the big picture they put more upfront investment into making this work and stand to lose a lot more. Perhaps in the future they will up our rates if we complain about it to them.

*****ing about it in a forum is a bit ineffective, but writing a formal letter presenting your case to them would be more effective. Again, not trying to be a smart aleck, JMHO.

inform101

12-12-2005, 12:06 PM

I think both the replies to my email are good and relevant BUT I think that Google should be a lot more open about their price sharing model. It's a very unusual business situation where in a partnership, one partner hasn't a clue what percentage share he is getting from a deal, in fact it's unknown in any other area. This is an extreme case of "Take it or Leave it because there's plenty of other mugs who'll be grateful for the crumbs" And unfortunately that's the truth, there are untold numbers of us who are glad for one crumb from a plate groaning with Goodies. Just because we were making nothing before, we shouldn't be grateful for the pleasure of being tossed the odd bean or two.

prewo16

12-12-2005, 01:51 PM

somebody could say as winning but money with adsense google

Malachim

12-12-2005, 03:11 PM

Los siento pero no mi gusto el Spam! :eek:

Swebbie

12-12-2005, 03:15 PM

Hey, make enough crumbs and your family gets fed, right? This points to the real key to adsense: traffic. Work on ways to up your flow of traffic and you'll start to love those crumbs more and more.

Malachim

12-12-2005, 03:45 PM

Snide dig at the Spammer above done with... :rolleyes:

As for revenues, I think it is all relative.

Yes, I believe we are all getting a greatly reduced return on sharing our publishing space with Google, but I also don't think that's the true picture.

Not that I saw them ( :( ), but I think we can all kiss goodbye to the heady days of $520 for 'yahoo domains' and $230 for 'mesothelioma information'. Similarly though, I suspect far less advertisers are going bankrupt inflations Googles share price. We all heard tales of businesses going to the wall after silly bids running up bills of $50,000 in days, hmmm.

I've read many of the reports on the new revision - currently at stage 2 of 3 - and they all appear to be aimed at getting rid of black hat advertisers and at fully relational pricing for businesses.

Yes, they may be bidding $10 for 'better mousetrap' but in truth they are paying a fraction of that per click. And you have a fraction of the tidbit.

Naturally I can't give real examples, but if you example you own logs I'm sure you will see this.

$55 paying you a crappy 55 cents; Oh my Gods...

Yet it you are using your channels properly you'll might also see

$0.99 paying $0.66

So, actually, yes, it's really, really bloody depressing noticing very high eCPM's paying you in bent coppers, but at the other end you appear to be getting more that your fair share.

The answer is rather simple, deal with it and build for content, not keywords, hmmm... :D

scn33ble

12-12-2005, 03:53 PM

Making about $10 a day after the Joel's Adsense Secrets ebook.
Before it only was $3 to $5.. last month it was $200 and for now, it is almost $200 and still half a month to go :)
Now building anopthewr site with 5k+ pages and a lot of good content. Hope that one will also get traffic after some adwords..

But the 'secrets' do work!!

prewo16

12-12-2005, 08:04 PM

somebody could say as winning but money with adsense google

CoolGT

12-21-2005, 02:51 AM

I am making a buck a day, that is good enough for me

mgrcentral

12-21-2005, 10:02 AM

More than 30k

Offshore-Wealth.com

12-21-2005, 11:47 AM

More than 30k

Impressive, and after looking at your website, I have to wonder how?

Happy Holidays to All, Mike

hotspot

12-21-2005, 10:34 PM

More than 30k

Wow, what kind of application that created massive sites?

earns more than 10k monthly from adsense is quite rarely to hear now.

Serg

12-21-2005, 10:36 PM

Don't get too caught up in how much others make.. we all had to start at the exact same place. On the bottom..

prewo16

12-22-2005, 10:27 AM

somebody could say as winning but money with adsense google

that such this the book with adsense secrets

Bend0r

01-12-2006, 02:07 AM

Hi Poll creator !,

I voted in the poll when I was earning a certain amount - I have now moved up a category but I cannot re-vote ! How do I change my vote now? The results in the poll would not reflect the correct information if I were to leave it as is :(

Will.Spencer

01-12-2006, 02:30 AM

I'll do about $15K in AdSense revenue this month.

My new goal is to earn more than Joel. :D

Sbabb

01-13-2006, 06:31 PM

Impressive, and after looking at your website, I have to wonder how?

Happy Holidays to All, Mike

Scroll down. He has over 250 niche sites listed on that page and each site has a LOT of pages. A few dollars a day from each site adds up to a nice income.

I don't know what site generator he uses, but it appears to generate the pages on the fly and it writes decent XHTML.

Scott

Offshore-Wealth.com

01-13-2006, 06:59 PM

Scroll down. He has over 250 niche sites listed on that page and each site has a LOT of pages. A few dollars a day from each site adds up to a nice income.

I don't know what site generator he uses, but it appears to generate the pages on the fly and it writes decent XHTML.

Scott

Interesting site you have on fuel saving tips, so I though you might appreciate this one Enviro-Max-Plus.com

Good luck to all, Mike

mgrcentral

01-14-2006, 06:24 AM

holden

01-29-2006, 02:08 AM

It isnt a 'generator' per se - all of the sites are written in Visual Basic on ASP.Net 2 and Windows 2003 with an MS SQL Database backend of articles (written by our team of writers and off the 'net) and products from merchant datafeeds, plus news and blogs from Google's blog search xml feed :)

Runs on 3 dedicated Windows servers.
What kind of volume and CTR are you getting with this content? Great model you have going!

_________________ (http://party-sign-up-bonus.com)
Not all n00bs are created equal

ChrisL

02-16-2006, 12:39 AM

Hi Joel, and everyone :)

Well, I'm starting slow. Started with a blog, now a large website, will get to a niche a.s.a.p.

For me, it's like learning Chinese. It's exciting though!

Chris

mtrax

02-16-2006, 01:00 AM

I think Adsense is pretty much addictive. Who here also check their Adsense last thing at night and first thing in the morning?!! He-he-he...

Offshore-Wealth.com

02-16-2006, 02:59 AM

Interesting,

Addictive is right, I started with one website, and now have dozens, but it sure is a mystery as I saw earnings growing with each added site, and then, POP, my earnings dropped off 50% out of nowhere?

When digging in and trying to figure it out, I discovered an interesting problem, my last site I added was getting tons of hits according to the sites stats data, yet it does not seem to jive with adsense stats, so I ask, what does Google use to credit us?

It was getting exciting to see it grow and grow, but I was not serious until I hit the $15.00 plus a day point. But I question whether we are really getting the correct payments from Google, so what is considered a credit, is there something other than what my web site stats page is showing for clicks and page views that does not tell the truth, or is it adsense who is shorting us?

Goof luck to all, Mike

mtrax

02-16-2006, 03:34 AM

With Adsense smart pricing you'll never know who gets what.

elitemktr

02-17-2006, 09:37 PM

I have the same wonders about site stats and payments. I doubt Google will ever let publishers under the covers..

Nkeno

02-27-2006, 06:47 PM

I started with adsense in September and am only getting my first check this week !
I have three websites with high-paying keywords (in my opinion) earning me as much as $1.70 PER CLICK, and usually about $0.30 minimum ! Average is around $0.65.
How do I get all this traffic that some of you are talking about ? If I had 700 visitors a day to my sites I'd be making around $4500/mo !! My CTR is high (17%-40%) !
Is blogging and pinging the way ? I know I cannot get 5,000 links to my sites anytime soon !
Any help would be greatly appreciated !

Thanks.

potentialgeek

03-10-2006, 04:32 AM

Seasonal upswing. Google Adsense Rocks!

p/g

Nkeno

03-12-2006, 07:04 PM

Seems ppl are doing good ($866 IN ONE DAY ???). That would solve all my problems for sure.
I just started this whole blog and ping thing. Hope it works man ! Even $100/day would suffice for me.

Kelvin

Nkeno

03-12-2006, 07:40 PM

Are your sites created automatically or do you create them yourself ??

Nkeno

Bend0r

03-25-2006, 11:42 PM

Chris

03-26-2006, 02:37 AM

That is probably related to your niche or site industry because mien have gone up tons in the last few days - it is all supply and demand at the end of the day. So maybe some advertisers in your industry have your short of funds for marketing for the month or maybe some have removed themselves altogether, either way it sounds like either competition has gone down, whether it be because demand for the ads space (advertisers) has gone down or supply of ad space (websites) have gone up.

scn33ble

03-26-2006, 09:13 AM

I noticed a significant drop in revenues from ads in the latter part of March

Here the same, almost 50% less......

Offshore-Wealth.com

03-26-2006, 11:50 AM

I noticed a significant drop in revenues from ads in the latter part of March, my income dropped about a third while my CTR's and impressions have remained roughly the same, has anyone else noticed this trend ??

:confused:

Andy.

Interesting,

Mine too took a nose dive of 50%, so this seems more consistant than those who claim increased revenues after changes. I know I increased page views, so who knows what Google will do next to keep their revenues up. (g)

Good luck to all, Mike
Freedom-FOREX.com

sarpras

04-05-2006, 10:20 PM

My income is very bad $20 per month

ChrisL

04-05-2006, 10:30 PM

Hey, at this rate if I get a check sometime this year, it'll be a miracle! ;)

greatmich

04-14-2006, 09:25 AM

I just crossed over 20 a day. I started Nov 2005. I have had my site since 1996(man 10 years). My niche pays poorly, most I have seen is .80. So it is a little tough. There are niches within my niche that I am concentrating on that produce more. I steadily add more and more places for my ads. It has been real close to increasing every month by $100, as I add more content and improve add placement. I have yet to get into a blog. My next project is to adsense my photo album that my visitors contribute. I am working now on building that. I expect to go 30 if I get that in. For me it is pretty much, the more I do the more I get paid.

I get about 25,000 -30,000 unique visitors a month, with that increasing.

xcoder

04-22-2006, 09:40 PM

this is my first month with adsense and i earned 300$ eventhought i closed the website during 10 days.
i am earning between 10 and 15$/day sometimes it goes up to 20s...
do you think it's a good start?
i get more than 110clicks/day but very low ppc which is between 3 and 8 cents/click :S
i launched the website on christmas. www.vcoders.com

achong

05-13-2006, 05:04 PM

can someone making over 1000$ a month, please post their website here ???

wildfiction

05-13-2006, 05:11 PM

can someone making over 1000$ a month, please post their website here ???

I believe that Joel Comm makes over $1,000 a month and I'm under the impression that he makes that mostly from his Family First web site:
http://www.familyfirst.com/

I think that World Village is his as well:
http://www.worldvillage.com/

And I'm guessing that this is a list of all his sites:
http://www.worldvillage.com/domains.html

I hope that helps.

wildfiction

05-13-2006, 05:13 PM

My apologies - I misread your question. I thought that you were talking about $1,000/day and not $1,000/month.

peacemaker

05-26-2006, 06:26 AM

Then I put adsense ads 3 months back and now I make around $5000 every month (+- $200). I never cared to check web stats. I don't know from where my traffic is coming (may be google ?) or how many people are visiting my site or what people are searching for.

Now I'm serious - I'll redesign my site and I'm sure I will make $8000+ placing ads at proper position and adding new content

wildfiction

05-26-2006, 09:54 AM

And your site is...?

mtrax

05-27-2006, 05:50 AM

Oh really?! ;-) Maybe it's your golden silence making you rich rather than a $5,000 site...

Rob the Builder

06-10-2006, 09:01 AM

can someone making over 1000$ a month, please post their website here ???

I don't think anyone in their right mind will post a url of a well performing website on any forum....it either gets copied......subjected to click fraud......or banned very quickly.

TheRealLifeGuy

06-10-2006, 09:21 AM

I don't think anyone in their right mind will post a url of a well performing website on any forum....it either gets copied......subjected to click fraud......or banned very quickly.

I'm not sure about getting banned - why should it get banned?

As for getting copied... well hey, there's always the traffic as well, right? You cant exactly "copy" that... (although yes, website copying is still something to be reckoned with...)

Rob the Builder

06-10-2006, 10:19 AM

I'm not sure about getting banned - why should it get banned?

Check a few threads on here....over and over people asking if a site violates Adsense TOS, then a few people suggesting "concerned webmasters" could ask Google if site ( not theres) is violating TOS.

Google wander over over..and complain about something.

=Asking for trouble.

It is a well know fact of life Adwords treat anyone who spends a few dollars a month like primaddonas...and Adsense treats anyone who earns them a few thousand dollars like lepers....(actually when you earn them a few hundred thousand dollars they still do)

TheRealLifeGuy

06-10-2006, 10:32 AM

Check a few threads on here....over and over people asking if a site violates Adsense TOS, then a few people suggesting "concerned webmasters" could ask Google if site ( not theres) is violating TOS.

Google wander over over..and complain about something.

=Asking for trouble.

It is a well know fact of life Adwords treat anyone who spends a few dollars a month like primaddonas...and Adsense treats anyone who earns them a few thousand dollars like lepers....(actually when you earn them a few hundred thousand dollars they still do)

now I'm confused. You seem to be saying that google will actually be only all too happy to ban an adsense user without any reason, and that they dont really care about the people who help them earn money at all?

Rob the Builder

06-10-2006, 12:34 PM

now I'm confused. You seem to be saying that google will actually be only all too happy to ban an adsense user without any reason, and that they dont really care about the people who help them earn money at all?

As an Adwords advertiser if i contact the Adsense Team they respond...normally coherently and quickly.

As an Adsense publisher if I contact Adsense with a query relating to TOS IF I get a response it is invariably vague and a standard pre prepared response.

There seems to be no rhyme or reason to the logic they apply. I and many others are waiting for the day there's a viable well targetted alternative to Adsense because adsense sometimes seems to have lost contact with reality....other PPC networks namely Kontera are more than happy for you to gently draw attention to their advertisments....

Google is a mystery.....

If there are no pages on which to display adsense they dont make money

If advertisers advertsiments are not displayed they dont make money

If sites are not indexed they don't get traffic = publishers don't make money and adverstisers stop advertising lol because they dont make money.

It's an old observation many have made but Google claim they want quality sites in their index. LOL take a look at the top 20 sites relating to any keyword you can think of...and tell me they are quality.

The Google search page is one huge scrapper site. But if you attempt to emulate it in anyway and google physically examines the site it will get de indexed or drop dramatically in rank.

= dont go asking for trouble by outing your sites publically.

I have to say if I was a major share holder in Google I would be demanding they at least INDEX any page that is prepared to display adsense on it....sites would be ranked of course but they would at the very least be indexed.

again an old argument but if you really want to find as much information as possible relating to a subject don't rely on G because there's more chance a site will be indexed in Yahoo or MSN.

Which completely destroys their argument that they are concerned with providing a "quality search experience"..that to me means all resources/pages available good or bad.

Anyway your call........raise your head above the trench and there's a good chance it will get shot off...

TheRealLifeGuy

06-10-2006, 04:20 PM

thanks, Rob, for the explanation! I was just trying to understand the rationale there. That, and I think your probably hurriedly typed out post confused me... (not your fault though! I appreciate the fact that you've already done more than your part to educate me on the background behind the story...)

wildfiction

06-10-2006, 05:19 PM

As an Adwords advertiser if i contact the Adsense Team they respond...normally coherently and quickly.

As an Adsense publisher if I contact Adsense with a query relating to TOS IF I get a response it is invariably vague and a standard pre prepared response.

With no disrespect to you Rob but I have found exactly the oposite to your experience. I think that each case is unique and that is why AdSense cannot be developed as a business using a boilerplate template.

It's an old observation many have made but Google claim they want quality sites in their index. LOL take a look at the top 20 sites relating to any keyword you can think of...and tell me they are quality.
I recently wrote about a solution to this in my blog:
http://wildfiction.blogspot.com/2006/06/social-web.html

I believe that Google will start implementing this in the near future.

again an old argument but if you really want to find as much information as possible relating to a subject don't rely on G because there's more chance a site will be indexed in Yahoo or MSN.

Interestingly I can agree with you on this. In one of my niche markets, 6 weeks ago, quality search results SUDDENLY shifted from Google to Yahoo. I was amazed to see this - it almost happened overnight.

cyberdog

06-18-2006, 05:23 AM

earnign around $2/day.

i don't even know how I will pay my host and domain this year. i hope i can get over with this adsense problems.

TheRealLifeGuy

06-18-2006, 09:12 AM

earnign around $2/day.

i don't even know how I will pay my host and domain this year. i hope i can get over with this adsense problems.

you mean you cant afford it? If so, I would really suggest you re-evaluate your business model... No offense.

cyberdog

06-18-2006, 10:08 AM

it's a forum commuity!
sorry, I did say $2/day.. it not even $2/day.
it's like 30 cents a day...
I placed the adsense ads off, they're not earning from my forum. maybe in other type of site.

i get better cpm with my articles website though. adsense in forums are just not right (as far i'm going with it).

psico

06-24-2006, 10:23 AM

I have a forum community (a big one) and I´m earning $150 per day, $4000 average per month.

www.psicofxp.com

tridean

07-04-2006, 05:25 AM

Hi All,

For Jan, Feb, March I made about $10/month. After watching M.Cheney's free vids it went up to about $35-40 in April or May (one of the two) but in June I cracked the $100 mark with a blend of what M.Cheney showed me and what I read in Joel's Book.

This is for my site www.atradersuniverse.com (http://www.atradersuniverse.com) , however it's a double edged sword as it costs me around the same amount in Google Adwords to get the traffic. The upside is that because I give away free videos (this is how I attract the customers through goolge) I get about 2-5 emails a day. Since starting the video for email thing, I've now got over 200 emails. The only thing is I don't quite know what to do with them. I don't like selling people stuff but I suppose it's what you have to do. The only reason I collect emails is because I keep reading time and time again, if you're not collecting emails, you don't have a business.

My intention is to build a library of education for traders (as a trader myself) because there are just too many sharks out there sucking people for thier money and basically selling them a load of s#@t. I want to start using a blog to more effect and I;m alos trying to use a program called tag and ping for extra traffic and seo rankings

My other business www.wildfigurines.com (http://www.wildfigurines.com) used to have google adsense but I removed them because I think it took away customers from me. Didn't make much from them anyway.

Dean

dianafontanez

07-17-2006, 07:35 PM

So far i have $36.09. Been at this for 20 days now. So averaging around $1.80 a day.

Diana

dianafontanez

07-17-2006, 07:47 PM

I get about 2-5 emails a day. Since starting the video for email thing, I've now got over 200 emails. The only thing is I don't quite know what to do with them. I don't like selling people stuff but I suppose it's what you have to do. The only reason I collect emails is because I keep reading time and time again, if you're not collecting emails, you don't have a business.

So your collecting emails but not sure what to do it with it? Just because others are saying that collecting emails is good, if your not doing anything with it, your wasting your time.

My intention is to build a library of education for traders (as a trader myself) because there are just too many sharks out there sucking people for thier money and basically selling them a load of s#@t.

Now you are talking. Use that intention, collect emails, give them some content and they will return to your site. I am no Adsense Queen but one thing i know for sure after 8 years in the marketing business. Give them what they want and they will come.

I have 300 subscribers to my weekly marketing tips newsletter (spanish). I write 4 to 6 exclusive articles and blast it off to my subscribers on Monday. 58% of the list click and read the articles on my site.

With your list. If you build trust with them, you could recommend products (affiliate programs), offer advertisement spots, etc. So many ways to make money online.

I do not depend on Adsense. Of course, working on it but i have other avenues of income.

Sorry that i got a little of course from the topic. Just my 2 cents to your post of collecting emails with no goal. :)

Diana

nawaki

07-29-2006, 12:27 AM

I've got only $21 from my blog this month..hopefully it will raise after launch Computer DRiver (http://www.freecomputersdriver.com) site. Its already create a few dollar after a week..I'll put more driver for download soon..

Ch4cal

07-29-2006, 12:48 PM

about 100-130$ / month

SEO Portal

08-03-2006, 09:08 AM

aiming for 500$ very soon, but only $140,- last month.. :mad:

ArrangeYourVacation

08-04-2006, 09:28 AM

In januar I got only 30$. Since then I'm increasing my revenues with 30% each month. If this trend keeps going, I shoud be a millionaire in 2 years !!! :p

Here some of my web sites which are doing well for me:
Mexico Holiday Homes (http://mexico-holiday-homes.com)
Greece Holiday Homes (http://greece-holiday-homes.com)
Italy Vacation Homes (http://italy-vacation-homes.com)
Spain Vacation Rentals (http://spain-vacationrentals.com)
Bulgaria Vacation Rentals (http://bulgaria-vacation-rentals.com)

ASM

08-11-2006, 03:31 PM

First month I made $30, but then I dont think unless I own atleast 30 websites the way Joel has, I'll be making any real money out of this.

Just doing it for fun, otherwise my private investment ventures, forex and network marketing get me far better results lol with half the time and efforts :)

ASM

adsensemaster

08-14-2006, 01:58 AM

I had not done anything- But came to know that all ads in my website is opening on a new window when we click on ads- why is it so? Has google changed it

Both my sites google ad clicks open in new window:

http://marketsbull.com

and

http://googleadmagic.om

Reprobate

08-14-2006, 08:35 AM

drenlow

08-15-2006, 07:07 PM

Since starting with Adsense in the beginning of April '06 I have hit the $1,300 per month mark and it's still growing! :)

Metallica

08-22-2006, 02:25 AM

I AM A NEWBIE
i make $30 to $60 per month ...
My site is slow traffic ..
Link: http://vietjokes.org

aseltz

08-24-2006, 12:17 AM

I've made a whopping $5/month in the 7 months since I started experimenting with this whole Adsense business. (It is very a part-time effort.) When you factor in the cost of the small Adwords experiments I did, I'm basically at $0.

My first goal is to make enough to pay for my hosting each month. Beyond that, I'd love to start building up some extra income. My www.ColossalTV.com site has been my primary playground, but I've got Adsense on my blogs too.

It's hard to imagine that a few folks on this forum are making as much or more money per month as I take home from my day job - and I thought I was making decent money there!

Looks like I need to spend more time on reading posts.

sempai

08-26-2006, 03:22 AM

good for all of you...coz me..sometimes i got 0 clicks on ads... hope anyone could help me... on how to increase my income..:(

Reprobate

08-26-2006, 04:27 AM

good for all of you...coz me..sometimes i got 0 clicks on ads... hope anyone could help me... on how to increase my income..:(
Your problem may not be so much lack of clicks but lack of quality traffic.

Find ways that you can get traffic to your site. Adsense can only make you money if you have a good flow of visitors to your site.

sempai

08-26-2006, 04:36 AM

Your problem may not be so much lack of clicks but lack of quality traffic.

Find ways that you can get traffic to your site. Adsense can only make you money if you have a good flow of visitors to your site.
thank you for that idea...but can you help me to produce that so called "TRAFFIC" and give me more details on how to cope with it...thanks...

Reprobate

08-26-2006, 05:30 AM

thank you for that idea...but can you help me to produce that so called "TRAFFIC" and give me more details on how to cope with it...thanks...
You're the one with "Marketing Tips and Ideas" in your sig. You should know all that stuff if you've got a site about it. :rolleyes:

sempai

08-26-2006, 05:43 AM

yah your right... maybe i should try to study it...

drenlow

08-29-2006, 12:37 PM

Do a google search for free traffic ebooks and you should be able to come up with tons of free ebooks that actually (believe it or not) have good traffic producing ideas in them.

You may have to search for a little bit but you will find something that will help! :)

Dan

angellica2017

09-08-2006, 01:46 AM

Yawn... I just reached 4 digit $$ a month.... Any sugesstion for increasing my revenue?

Offshore-Wealth.com

09-08-2006, 09:21 AM

Yawn... I just reached 4 digit $$ a month.... Any sugesstion for increasing my revenue?

Yawn?

That sounds great to me, so if you reached this level, do you mean in U.S. dollars? (g) I have been at it for over a year and am stuck at a few hundred dollars, up and down, so I would like to see one of your sites or perhaps tell us what you are doing to reach this level.

Good luck to all, Mike
Privacy-Rights-Army.com

angellica2017

09-08-2006, 12:57 PM

I make an adsense courses for several students and it works well for'em. If you wanna know the secrets just follow my courses and you'll be paid well from Google. :)

Reprobate

09-09-2006, 03:25 AM

Yawn... I just reached 4 digit $$ a month.... Any sugesstion for increasing my revenue?
Yawn?

I make an adsense courses for several students and it works well for'em. If you wanna know the secrets just follow my courses and you'll be paid well from Google. :)

It's funny that you would ask for suggestions to increase your revenue in one post but then hawk your courses in another.

Jared

09-10-2006, 08:32 PM

What is the general revenue for 1 site per day?

I only have one "real" adsense website, and I make about $1.50 - $2.00 a day... So, I think I'm not doing so good......

Reprobate

09-10-2006, 09:02 PM

What is the general revenue for 1 site per day?

I only have one "real" adsense website, and I make about $1.50 - $2.00 a day... So, I think I'm not doing so good......
An average site can get about $4 a day. An exceptional site... I guess the skies the limit. It's a combination of Search Engine placement, advertising, promotion, word of mouth...

Jared

09-10-2006, 09:05 PM

Thanks!

I really need more traffic..... today, I only had 26 page impressions..... not good!

harrynguyen

09-10-2006, 10:40 PM

My earning:
last week : 16.43
yesterday: 2.55
today : 1.12

:mad:

angellica2017

09-12-2006, 08:20 AM

It's funny that you would ask for suggestions to increase your revenue in one post but then hawk your courses in another.

As you know, I ask sugestions to increase my revenue to 5 digit/month... cause my earning just 4 digit/month. Is it wrong? Btw, my students also have at least 3 digit/month. :p

You think Master/Teacher may not learn anything else again? :confused:
We know that every human will learn anything else till he die... TRUE?

ollan

09-15-2006, 01:14 AM

my site averages 75,000 visitors per month. average monthly adsense revenue: $5,000+

wildfiction

09-15-2006, 02:57 AM

What's your site olan?

PGE

09-18-2006, 03:16 AM

I came across this posting and read that almost everyone is earning some good amount of profit. I would appreciate if they can provide a link to thier blog, so that people like me can go to that blog and update ourself with latest info that the blog is providing.

steve_b

09-20-2006, 12:27 PM

I've been trying to find a suitable thread for letting you all know about the AdSense Study Group....

***OFF TOPIC POST DELETED***

Reprobate

09-20-2006, 11:39 PM

I've been trying to find a suitable thread for letting you all know about the AdSense Study Group....

***OFF TOPIC POST DELETED***
1) I deleted your post because it wasn't suitable to this thread.

2) I copy and pasted the original post and PMed it to you in the event that you didn't have a copy of it. You can try making it into a thread of its own.

3) If you do repost it as its own thread Joel or MarkP-R can decide whether or not it is appropriate for it to actually be on this forum.

Jamie2007

09-23-2006, 05:05 AM

I make a consistent amount of money on Adsense per month, although the summer months were lower. (I don't have a pool equipment or bikini site...)

I've had a site online for over a decade and get over 50,000 unique visitors a month. It's a very White Hat site with many top 10 SERPs on many keywords. My subject matter is in general pretty low paying, however, so, with all that, I'm just scraping by. But, I'm still grateful for that, even though I'd surely like to see in improve.

malenzaa

10-06-2006, 06:41 PM

I put adsense to my site on august.I want to know to get more traffic.

wildfiction

10-06-2006, 08:14 PM

Malenzaa - you need to do something original. At the moment you're just copying what everyone else is doing - no offense intended - but there are a million sites out there like yours. If you average the potential traffic among all those sites then you're not going to get much traffic.

scroller

10-08-2006, 09:24 AM

My first blog, got me 6$ in few days. I used joel's advices for design.;)

Thanks Joel.

richsera2006

10-30-2006, 01:18 AM

markdw

10-30-2006, 03:53 AM

Are you guys noticing less $$$ from clicks recently? I know about the smart pricing -- but this has been just in the last couple days -- I actually had an 11 cents click where I normally get 95 cent to $1.50 per click and then today a 6 cent click on another of my sites ----

What are you guys seeing?

Thanks.

Yep, I can confirm that, around the 26, 27 this month. Income not even half of what it "normally" is. These drops will normally get back to normal within a few weeks, keep us posted.

Per Andersen

10-30-2006, 09:05 AM

I am not making much. Not even a $1.00 per day. I am working on it though :(

The same here. I bought Joel's "Templates" 14 days ago, and they really are interesting. I don't actually use them, but they are excellent inspiration. However, his e-book "Adsense Secrets" is the best Internet money-making tool I've ever had in my hands. I'm still working on my two homesites, www.iqjob.dk & www.newworld,dk, with all those thoughts in my mind. Let's say I used to make a dollar a week. Now it's a dollar a day.

Best Regards, Per Andersen

wildfiction

10-31-2006, 09:23 AM

What happened to all the replies that were here yesterday?

richsera2006

10-31-2006, 11:29 PM

Good question

trealm

10-31-2006, 11:35 PM

Good question

It started to get off-topic so it was split off and put here:

http://www.adsensechat.com/showthread.php?t=4288

Boricua

11-01-2006, 10:03 AM

I cannot get MSN to spider my pages for anything. I am generating $300 per month but mostly with Google traffic. Go figure.

Josen

I hope the below reply from an MSN staff member helps a lot of people here. As one of my SE expert buddies, MSN had incredible changes recently. I guess he was right as 7 of my adsense sites, dropped after being #1 in profitable keywords and not only my adsense sites, my per lead commision sites and few of my eBook niches dropped also. Little less traffic, but Google and Yahoo all love quality and plenty of articles.

Anyways, check what a "Live Search Agent" had to say about MSN and me being de-indexed in MSN for generally, all my keywords without my site being considered SPAM...

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MSN LIVE SEARCH AGENT

Hello Joaquin,

Thank you for writing to Live Search Technical Support.

This is Joan and I understand that your sites (edited#########), arenot showing on the Live Search results page when performing a keyword search. I apologize for the inconvenience this may have caused you.

The Live Search index is built based on billions of documents from millions of websites. Live Search uses its MSNBot Web crawler to automatically update the index when changes, additions, or removals are made from websites. Live Search is constantly making improvements on our search results, working to bring you the best relevant results on the Web. As we work to improve our service, some sites may not pull up on a normal search query and additional keywords will be needed to find the site. We apologize for the inconvenience during these changes.

If a page changes, the change will properly be reflected in our database when the page is next crawled and indexed, this includes any changes to the title or descriptions on a webpage. The crawler revisits known webpages periodically to check that the page is still there and to update the database information about the page content. Websites that regularly update content are crawled more frequently than others. If your content is updated on a frequent basis it should be crawled every 30-45 days. If your site is relatively static, the re-crawl could take up to 120 days or more.

When you add new pages to an existing site, be sure to build href links from your existing webpages and navigation tools to the new pages. When the crawler refreshes content from the known pages, it will find the links to the new pages and add them to the Web database. The crawler cannot always follow dynamic links. To assure content discovery, be sure to include a static link to new content. If your site navigation is normally done only with dynamic links, you can create a site map page with a static link map of your site to be sure robots can discover all of your content. Please visit the link below for tips and guidelines that may help MSNBot and other Web crawlers to effectively index and rank your site:

http://search.msn.com/docs/siteowner.aspx?t=SEARCH_WEBMASTER_REF_Guidelinesfo rOptimizingSite.htm&FORM=WGDD

As for keywords search, please note that keywords need to be distinct instead of one broad set of keywords on every page. For more information on updating your site description, you may visit:

http://search.msn.com/docs/siteowner.aspx?t=SEARCH_WEBMASTER_CONC_AboutYourSi teDescription.htm

Live Search has comprehensive online help available to you. For more information about features, functions, and issues, click the "Help" link at the bottom of any Live Search page.

You are a valuable customer to MSN and we are glad to give you consistent and effective service.

Thank you for using Live Search.

Sincerely,

Joan
Live Search Technical Support

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rockfist

11-01-2006, 10:09 AM

sandyp1

11-01-2006, 10:39 AM

Hi! I'm a new member to the site. Our website is earning us in the $500-$1500 range each month. We did not experience any 'hit' in the summer as I have heard other people mention.

webshark

11-01-2006, 10:55 AM

300% increase in AdSense earnings over the past 3 months in the $1000 - $5000 range.

kenfuzed

11-01-2006, 11:18 AM

I've consistently pulled in $600 /mo off my single niche site for the past 6 months, with CTR averaging 8%. Definitely nothing worth quitting my day job over. I just now bought Joel's book, templates, etc, and hope to break the current plateau. I think that I already have the needed traffic with 100k + visits per month, so I believe optimizing for higher CTR should lead to new highs for my site.

aaanativearts

11-01-2006, 02:19 PM

I'm absolutely amazed at the number of people, according to this poll, who are NOT making significant amounts of money with AdSense.

waltgem

11-01-2006, 04:17 PM

:) Just began with AdSense 6 weeks ago. Have made no income at this point.:confused:

bwiemers

11-01-2006, 05:32 PM

I've got about 3 sites up, and in total they are averaging about $150 per month.

At the moment only 1 site is really making any money and the rest are either not getting enough traffic or simply not converting.

I've read the ebooks and listened to courses but I still think I am missing something.

The main areas I need help with are with how to pick profitable Niches and then how to get traffic to the sites. Without these two areas I feel it will be difficult for me to make money.

Bernie

darklab

11-01-2006, 05:32 PM

I have some 5 sites all with Googhle adsense on them and I'm earning
a lot less than $100 a months. In fact over the last 5 months I haven't
earned $50 all told.
I'd love to know why and what I can do to start earning a decent
amount.

Tony

It's good to hear that, you're one lucky guy.
I'm getting less than 5 bucks! After the first template
now I bought 2nd edition VRE which just arrived
through FedEx few days ago. I hope this time it works.
Wonder if I'm building castle in the air.

I know there's so much more to work on - a newbie like
me sure to suffer in the beginning :(

wildfiction

11-01-2006, 05:37 PM

The solution is a simple one. You are always going to get a percentage of your traffic clicking the ads. Be it 2% or 10%. In fact, the CTR generally drops as your traffic picks up. I know that someone will reply and say this didn't happen to them but I said generally.

So instead of focusing on AdSense you should be focusing on generating more traffic. If you have 1,000 unique visitors per month and are earning $100/month then you "should" be able to take that up to around $700 to $800 /month by increasing your traffic tenfold.

Focus on the traffic.

waltgem

11-01-2006, 09:09 PM

:) I have 2 sites with AdSense and get very little traffic. Sure would like to learn the secret of driving a lot more .

Walt:)

wildfiction

11-01-2006, 10:48 PM

To start with do you have the submit bar on all pages on your site like Joel has here on this forum?

Submit Thread: Sniff It Digg Reddit Furl Del.icio.us Spurl

TJMac

11-02-2006, 12:48 AM

When I look at the results I am encouraged to see that almost 5% of the people are making over $10 grand a month!

It is possible and I will get there sooner or later.

Who cares what most people are doing? Maybe they haven't even tried.

Some people are doing it (and it's not one in a million) so all you have to do is find out what they are doing and do the same thing and you will make $10 Grand a month too. 5% means it is very do-able. One in 20 can do it. You just have to decide to be the one.

rohankanade

11-02-2006, 04:02 AM

I am earnin decent
but this months been a nightmare

dunno know why

tsutton

11-02-2006, 05:28 AM

I am averaging $100 to $150 a month, which I think is a bit low for my 7 websites.

Need more traffic...

wildfiction

11-10-2006, 02:05 PM

I am averaging $100 to $150 a month, which I think is a bit low for my 7 websites.

Need more traffic...

I just had a look at the 3 sites in your signature. None of them have a submit bar like Joel has on this forum.

If I visit your site and think that it's a great site and want to recommend it to digg then I have to take 1 extra step to do that.

You would do yourself a bit favour by adding the submit bar to your web sites. Allows people to create links to your pages from news pages if they think that they are worthy.

Then add quality content so that people want to do that.

iamzak

11-15-2006, 11:52 AM

I need to know how much time does it take to earn atleast 10$ a day .

This is a completely anonymous poll. Everyone gets to answer one time. How much are YOU making with AdSense?

iamzak

11-15-2006, 11:54 AM

That is really good you know people are still trying to find thier feet in this adsense world. Can you help me how do market your site . for free please.

I cannot get MSN to spider my pages for anything. I am generating $300 per month but mostly with Google traffic. Go figure.

Josen

Reprobate

11-15-2006, 04:35 PM

I need to know how much time does it take to earn atleast 10$ a day .

It's not about how hard you work but how smart you work.

The more money you make the easier it gets.

kenfuzed

11-16-2006, 11:55 AM

Getting hung up on how much each person is making isn't likely to solve why you or anyone else are NOT making money. Without a perfect blend of quantity and quality, decent checks from Adsense will never be acheived.

Content is king! I strongly believe that no matter how well you optimize, no matter how many template sites you churn out, and no matter how many e-books you get suckered into buying, it's not going to produce profits without good content. Not just any content mass produced by some site generator, fresh original content written by a human being.

Remember the line from that baseball movie that said "if you build it, they will come"? Well when it comes to web traffic you need to do more than just build a site. You need quality content. If you build that, they will indeed come... but not overnight. I hear so much from people who are just starting out, complaining that they aren't getting enough clicks to make the big money. Joel and hundreds of others have provided more than enough info to optimize pages for Adsense. However even if 100% of your visitors click, that won't amount to squat unless you have higher volume traffic to add up to real money.

I spent over a year building my single site, writing original content on a subject which I had actual knowledge of. By placing content as the most import aspect of my site and working a niche, I've been able to achieve plenty of top 10 rankings with all the search engines. I get approx 20,000 visits each month direct from Google alone and another 10k from all the other engines and directories, yet there was no trick to it. I built it, I submitted it, and eventually they came. Google is not stupid. If you throw up a quick site with pre-generated content they may rank you high at first. But I doubt you'll stay there long. My original content has remained rock solid, and I attribute this to my philosophy on content being king.

Making money at this takes hard work that doesn't come overnight. If you believe otherwise I have a bridge, a few e-books, and some Amway products to sell you :rolleyes:
Give me long term results over instant gratification any day. I consistently make 600 /month on my single site with Adsense, and the more I write and add to the site the more that it grows. No secret weapon or magic potion got me to this point, just working at it.