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When I first started using Adsense, I just wanted to make a couple cents a day to cover my $10 a month web hosting. I really never thought about the possibilities at that point. I was ecstatic when I reached my first .50 cent day, then my first $1 day.
Suddenly I started making $10+ per day, then realized that Adsense would be great for gas and lunch money. Then all of a sudden my monthly earnings were the same as my monthly work pay. I thought it couldnt have been real so i waited for a couple checks to clear.
At this time I wanted to move to California, start my own life. I figure this would be a great time to do it since I had cashflow from my website, which would give me enough time and money to find a place and work. The job hunt wasnt very successful so I decided to concentrate more on my website, and in about a month my earning from g doubled what I used to make at my old job.
Here I am two years later, doing what I love to do all because I "wanted to cover webhosting". I just wanted to share this to all the Adsense beginners and show that If you pay attention to your site, and the TOS, anything is possible.
Feel free to share your own start-up stories
Nearly right! It's actually in Norfolk
I holidayed there once in the '50's with my aunt and uncle, great time with fantastic beaches if I remember correctly?
Make Note: Cannot afford to move to New California or south east England without Google giving me a pay rise:-)
California is the absolute LAST place I would move to! The state tax burden is horrendous - they even want to tax your retirement earnings. If you move out of state after you retire the state government will try to chase you down to get your last nickel.
Your living the American Dream baby, how much life insurance you got? Bet you have 2 mortgages, drive a Hummer and have a fist full of pretty maxed credit cards.
I have just one mortgage. We have 3 cars, two cars are paid off, payment on the last one is almost $700. I have no credit card balances or other loans, just the car and the mortgage.
American Dream? I don’t think so! Maybe American Reality!
Januuski
After about a month or two I realised that I was going to earn a lot more than just my hosting costs.
My 'Hobby' has grown out of hand, currently I have over 1000 pages and my girlfriend is jealous of the time I spend with my laptop... paid for by G, of course. (the laptop, not the girlfriend ;) )
Hosting company went bust about 6 months ago - so I put adsense on to pay for hosting. Hosting costs approx $80 per month, adsense revenue was approx $500 per month. Wahey!
As the site is a local community site I am very happy to continue it as a hobby. After paying hosting ALL revenue goes to local charity.
I'm from the UK btw, and after 5 cheques my site is still up and running with approx £1,000 going to a good cause.
"California Reality"
Not any more, with the 27 June screwup. Our revenue is only 35% of what is was before Many Junk Sites got higher than us in the Serps.
Our sites have twice the number of quality link-ins, and 50 times the quality and depth of content of any of those other "junk sites"...
So WHY are we being screwed by Google?
If you count Health Insurance in Amerika as a tax, then I actually pay LOWER TAXES in the UK than I did in Kalifornia. God bless the NHS (National Health Service).
We've already established that according to Google earth California is in Norfolk (on the way to Belgium if you draw a line through it from my house). Strangely enough none of the residents of California have a £ sign on their keyboards. Must have been a cheap job lot at the local PC World. Also, they seem to live in a parallel universe somewhat resembling an Australian soap opera. Small villages are like that - just take the village where Miss Marple lives, a murder every 2 minutes.
I looked up America on Google earth and it doesn't exist. It points to a blob in the pacific somewhere near a nameless large land mass south of Canada.
Seriously, I'm still only covering hosting costs... with a few bottles of wine as a bonus.
Sadly, it took me many years to figure out that I could make more than "hosting costs and then some". Don't know where my brain was at.
Whatever I touch with my AdSense money turns so expensive I can't afford to buy it anymore.
