Forum Moderators: martinibuster
January - 8.12 USD
February - 10.13 USD (+ 24%)
March - 12.50 USD (+ 23%)
April - 14.62 USD (+ 17%)
May - 18.19 USD (+ 24%)
In January I *never* thought, that I would make around 560 USD in a month! But still I have the feeling that the whole thing is a process that is too slow. But is it really slow? Or is this the normald trend?
It would be interesting to know how much the growth rate of Adsense webmasters is from month to month.
It seems that 24% growth per month is the limit for me.
I got a huge jump in traffic to a few very popular pages between April and May (as you can see)..
I think the reason why many forums do not work very well is that a lot of them have just too much things on it which are useless and distract users from clicking the ads. There are for example too many images like "avatars", repeating signatures, a lot of other repeating text, too many buttons, to much loading time etc. So I designed my forum like webmasterworld: very simple! Valuable text only and one single image which is the logo of the forum :) And if there is valuable text Google can produce better quality ads which lead to a good CTR.
Before the last 2 months I am embarrased to share, but I started with new sites/domains and have been working on building traffic. Though by the look of this month over last, I may have a 40% increase
Mine went something like this (not exact figures):
Jan 06 - started site - $1.23
Feb: $75
March $130
April $179
May (So far) $1,200 :-0
HuhuFruFru was listing his daily average.
Tearabite, this is your daily average?
If the answer is yes, Good lord.....
HuhuFruFru you are doing very good.
24% growth a month is just fine, the hard work is in keeping it up as you get into the bigger numbers.
That's about the same growth I have experienced for 13 months and set as my objective each month. Perhaps others have had greater success...
i had a big jump in traffic from April to May. I guess i'm crawling out of the sandbox..
In all, over the last 3 days it was over 200 phrases that at least one referral came from - but since google started sending some traffic I have noticed it is a lot better in pageviews - just not CTR yet for me.
I am in the very early days - 2nd week of adsense now :P
I am also hoping to add in a new feature to my website that would correspond to me advertising my site as well which would hopefully combine daily search people returning to the site + a large increase in people using the site from the advertising.
My aim is for this time next month for me to be looking forward to my first adsense payment :P
[edited by: Ganceann at 10:51 pm (utc) on May 26, 2006]
Jan - 6.852,00
Feb - 7.349,46+18,8%
Mar - 8.802,66+8,2%
Apr - 9.348,99+9,7%
May - 11.300,00+17,0% (estimation)
Now I have been trying this and that. I think all my twiddling has only made things worse.
After a couple of years using adsense, I think that's the point I've got to. The last 6 months earnings have stabilised within a certain range, and it seems that nothing I do is going to change this. So I've decided to leave adsense on that site alone, keep adding content to the site, but concentrate on building a new site that I feel has potential.
...it seems that nothing I do is going to change this. So I've decided to leave adsense on that site alone, keep adding content to the site...
Don't forget obtaining one-way inbound links deep into your content. ;)
Don't forget obtaining one-way inbound links deep into your content.
Thanks :) I've been doing this a while now. I'm sure it's helped gain a lot of traffic by upping my position in the serps, and according to my logs, a lot of traffic arrives this way. I just have the deep down gut feeling that as I'm in the top 4 on a Google search of my keywords there aren't too many things I can do to increase earnings at this point. Therefore trying to concentrate more on my new site.
I saw similar growth for the first two months after I started AdSense last year, and I attribute this to two facts:
1) targetting algo needed time to understand what works and what not
2) I was improving my Adsense skills in terms of ad layout and color customization
Just do not expect to see this kind of growth rate each and every month! Eventually you will reach a high and growth will stop. Unless your traffic sees also exponential growth. But even then... Just do not expect it!
One of the great things about a forum is the exponential growth of content:
More users write more topics thereby creating more content. More content leads to more traffic, more traffic to more new users which write more content. The only things I have to do are: edit the titles of the topics (make them more interesting and that they have more keywords in them) and build more links.
Another great thing about forums is that you can open more subforums with completely different topics than the main theme. This also opens new possibilities.
Patience is the key..
Almost got tempted the wrong way after hearing people making thousand of dollars .. Pulled back just in time.
Keep your cool.. Add solid content and think from the surfers point of view to increase CTR.. Just my thoughts.
