How long did it take for your first $1 day?

and how much traffic did it take?

[Tearabite]

i'm sure this has been asked before, in one form or another - but i'm going to ask it again.. for a 'fresh' perspective.

The question:
How long did it take you to reach steady (or semi-steady) $1 days? and.. how much of that was due to Google-generated search traffic?

My site has barely been up for 1 month, only just got all (most) pages indexed by Google a few days ago.. but so far my total Google-search traffic has been 2 visitors. I'm not complaining - i know it will take months (while i keep adding content). i'm just curious how long it too for some of the other members..
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[toldan]

I don't get much traffic from Google.

I pay for my traffic (Adwords) plus most of my visitors are repeat visitors who come back to check news, check their e-mail accounts etc.

Ask yourself: If you can't reach $1/day, then what can you do to increase value of your website? For example, you need targeted/repeat traffic, you need rich content, you need good website design, optional services that will please your visitors, etc.

Don't give up.

[Tearabite]

Give up?!
I'm just starting! and doing all the things i need to do (that i've learned here, mostly) - and i know it will take more time..

I just want to see what others experiences have been..

[Rodney]

A couple of hours.

[Nick Jachelson]

Well my plan was to hit the ground running so I didn't put up AdSense until I had a descent amount of traffic. Afterwards it went right to $2-3 per day.

[digic]

got it for almost 1 1/2 months, the time that I wrote an article which most people are looking up to.

[hunderdown]

I joined AdSense on an existing site in Oct. 2003, and was almost immediately averaging about $10/day. I was stunned. So I went right past $1 a day.

This was on a site that previously earned $3 or $4 a day from affiliate programs.

Traffic then was probably around 1,000 unique visitors/day.

[Huntster]

My main site was already established with niche traffic. We made $10 or $15 the first day I think.

[dibbern2]

first day, with only 16 impressions

[david_uk]

I've never had a $1 day:) I earned $6.32 on my first day back in January 2004, and has been steadily moving in the right direction since.

[Knappster]

I made $1 my first day on a brand new site. I then had to wait a month for my next $1 day.

[marcel]

I started with a brand new site in January last year with no experience at all. (Apart from what I had learnt here). With no advertising or promotion other than adding to Directories.

My earnings looked like this:

February - $ 3.50
March - $ 8.42
April - $ 25.88
May - $ 72.59
June - $143.86
It sort of stagnated here, I moved house and couldn't get an internet connection for about 6 months. Traffic took a hit.

So, about 3 months to get to the $1 a day mark,

[cheekui]

That's incredible.. but what happened during the last 6 months? How can u suddenly got such a big amount coming in?

[humblebeginnings]

Good question. As of day one. Even for a small time Adsenser like myself that wat easy. So go for it!

[marcel]

but what happened during the last 6 months? How can u suddenly got such a big amount coming in?

It dropped to about $120 in July and stagnated at about the $110 - $120 mark for the next few months.

I've finally got a new internet connection (dial up) so I am able to update more regularly now. Traffic is increasing so I expect it to start growing again.... I hope

[cheekui]

That's inspires me a lot. Thanks.

[jfodale]

Yesterday, exactly one month since the start of my site, I hit the $1 mark. Google SERPs have been a huge part of my traffic.

Jan 14th - 45 impressions/day - Release day
Jan 25th - 130 impressions/day - After some self-promotion
Feb 5th - 1,000 impressions/day - Main page gets in Google SERPS
Feb 14th - 10,000 impressions/day - About 50 of my pages join the Google SERPs

Google SERPs are perhaps making up too much of the traffic. Now I just need to figure out how to raise my CTR, heh.

[blade72]

I got 6$ on my first day and never got less from that moment on.

[Tearabite]

Geeze.. I must have the wrong topic on my site! But i have to stick with it, because it's all i know.. unfortunately, it does have a lot of competition..

i guess i need to fine-tune my keywords.. i'm getting virtually NO search traffic..

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