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I'm curious to know how many of you out there no longer hold down a regular job (working for someone else, nine to five etc) , because your earnings from:
1. Adsense
or
2. Adsense + other types of advertisng on your site(s).
are sufficient for you to live on.
Thanks
Dagford
I share 50% of the total cost of living / month.
Adsense is fair. it is my 90% of the total income. 10% just hardware repairs.
I have an advantage i think. here 1$ = 104 Rupees
so 10$ will be a handsome.
And there are plenty of you doing the Adsense thing 'solo' to inspire lots of confidence!
I employ several people to work on the site(s) with me. Income is from AdSense plus other affiliate income.
guess i need to keep adding streams eh?
And I have a daytime job as well which earns pretty well, so I have two wages in the end which are equal in 'sizes' :).
But I want to triple my adsense earnings... so it would be as big as the record label income, time will tell
It used to make ok money and I thought
I'd pass it on to my son.
Then one day I was surfin dude
and it was everwhere
Signed up posted the ads and Bam
now I make money with out a care
Everybody Sing!
I don't have a real job, just Adsense,
It seems to pay my bills
I don't have a real job, just Adsense,
And even gives me a a few more fills.
Each morning I get up drag outta bed
and boot my com put er
Sip my coffee and then sit back
and track a number or two
As the classical music plays on
they give the traffic report
I am so glad I can sit here and work
I'm just not that 9-5 sort
Everybody Sing!
I don't have a real job, just Adsense,
It seems to pay my bills
I don't have a real job, just Adsense,
And even gives me a a few more fills.
Of course that is a country western songs like "Friends in Low Places" by Garth Brooks.
[edited by: Khensu at 8:34 pm (utc) on Aug. 17, 2006]
>I'm just not that 9-5 sort
Yeah, you must be like me - the 9am to 11pm sort
Now two years ago I was making big bucks from it.
I keep slappin myself for not putting it years ago ....all that lost income
never had a regular job after college. close to 100% adsense income. i am made for this job. last year i made big bucks, because i was a first mover in my area. while others still fiddled around with lousy affiliate programs, i was already putting aside monopolist money ;) since this year stiff competition, so it's only beak even. but looking forward to new projects - if i only had enough spare time..
But even if I manage to do that by tomorrow morning all the horror stories about G booting people from the program for ever are enough to keep me in my day job.
Also, someone mentioned something like "everything we can think of has already been done better." I'd have to say there may be a lot truth to that but don't let that stop you. It doesn't seem to really matter. In my case I just focus on the content I am interested in and present it in the way I prefer and people visit my sites. Why would they? It's a mystery to me. I can easily find sites that are "cooler", "bigger", "more comprehensive", etc yet people keep coming back. And the other puzzling aspect of it is that less than half of my traffic comes from organic search results - how in the heck are they even finding me? And there are so few links to my sites I've never had a PR higher than 4, yet I'm still getting tens of thousands of visitors per day. Maybe other webmasters don't like my sites but the Sam & Suzie Surfers do? I can't explain it.
Except I take a break for my workout, lunch at the pub and my 2pm massage or 2hrs at the casino playing blackjack.
Hope ya'all like that! There are 3 or 4 other verses I can think of, like Adwords, filtering and MFAs but I'll spare you.
I don't have a son either, it just rolled out that way.
[edited by: Khensu at 10:37 pm (utc) on Aug. 17, 2006]
I am so glad I can sit here and work
I'm just not that 9-5 sort.
I liked that part Khensu.
I think the reason we feel like this is maybe because we discovered the revenue potential of the Internet early and made so much experience in this field that we can't even think of the other so called "real" way anymore. We don't want to. For me, a 9-5 job would be a nightmare at this time because I really didn't have to work for anyone else but for myself, and most importantly, whenever I wanted to...
The amounts vary from month-to-month and season-to-season, but I will estimate my earnings during a full year are:
50% Adsense
50% Affiliate sales (Mostly hotel reservations)
Not "rich" but I am past the cardboard box stage. I can just about live on what I make.
1) My house is paid off, which will probably be later this year.
2) My website's income is more during the fourth quarter of this year than it was during the same period last year. This will almost certainly occur.
3) I have a liability/errors and omissions type insurance policy in effect for my site. I'll probably have this in place later this month.
My biggest concerns are really my Google rankings rather than Adsense issues. It's traffic that matters. Adsense is a great and easy income source but if I loose it I can always generate income from page views using other programs. Even if the income is less, at least there would be income.
My site carries enough clout that any new topic I post will at the very least show up on page two of the Google results for its keywords, which means more money from Adsense and more links from other sites. Bringing a long standing career to an end is a big decision but every day that goes by I feel this tug that says you're blowing the most salient event of your life by not generating more and more content so to further solidify your site's prominence in its field and in the SERP's. I hope by the time I quit my "real" job my opportunity hasn't passed.
[edited by: Broadway at 4:30 am (utc) on Aug. 18, 2006]
Those were the days....
Ann
