Here is how much I made with AdSense last month

How about you?

[Sraz]

My earning last month $163

[Hugene]

Actually, I am getting mostly ads that do not fit well with the content of my site. Don't know why. Probably because there isn't much advertisment in the main keywords of my site, and because the media bot is unable to pick up other keywords. I even get ads about employment when my site is about entertainment! Not sure what to do here.

[oaktown]

Anybody got ideas on how to encourage Adsense to put more relevent ads up?

[notredamekid]

Make pages targetted to a single phrase.

Oh, and I'll get about $350. Not enough to impress anyone but I've only been in the game for six months :)

[yosemite]

I won't say how much I've earned so far (I'm in my first month), but I have been telling my friends that so far, it's like being paid for a somewhat crummy-paying part-time job, without actually having to work at the crummy job. Make of that what you will. ;)

Personally, I'm really pleased. It's beyond all my expectations, considering that I don't have mega-huge sites or anything. I just hope it'll hold out for a while. *crosses fingers*

[Macro]

Oldskool: You are assuming a couple of things.
- That there are no compensating assets in the balance sheets of the hypothetical failed bank that could not be liquidated to absorb part of the loss.

In most countries unpaid tax, employers contributions to national pension schemes, (national insurance in the UK) etc are taken out of the assets before any creditors get a look in.

So, ironically, it may be the government taking it's pound of flesh that takes a big chunk out of liquidated assets. In fact it's not unheard of that the government dues eat up all of the liquidated assets ;)

I say down with governments ;)

(PS: I know it's OT but if this discussion is proceeding elsewhere ... please let me know where)

[nuevojefe]

My goal is to make what I made the previous month by the time the previous month's payment gets approved. Has worked well so far so I guess for us it's a realistic expectation.

[aleksl]

Macro:

Oldskool: You are assuming a couple of things.
- That there are no compensating assets in the balance sheets of the hypothetical failed bank that could not be liquidated to absorb part of the loss.

In most countries unpaid tax, employers contributions to national pension schemes, (national insurance in the UK) etc are taken out of the assets before any creditors get a look in.

So, ironically, it may be the government taking it's pound of flesh that takes a big chunk out of liquidated assets. In fact it's not unheard of that the government dues eat up all of the liquidated assets

Sorry for offtopic...Just a few facts. At this point 32% of total US nonfinancial debt consists of mortgage debt. And over 60% of all bank-owned assests are mortgage-related. If interest rates would rise considerably and fast (and Allan Greenspan says it is inevitable), that would hurt a lot of folks with variable rate mortgages and trigger defaults and foreclosures. Which will put all the burden on US banking system, and that will trigger some banks, if not all the system - to collapse. This gloom-and-doom scenario can happen as early as next year. No FDIC will help you there. Unfortunately, I've been a witness of this happenning in other countries, and it is not pretty.

On topic - just started AdSense, prior to this Google wouldn't allow Adsense on my sites since more than 50% of our content is in languages other than English. This month I may earn my first $10 :)