I'm not good at AdSense!

[blueheaven123]

I think you need like over 1 million hits for google ads to be worthwhile.

I have this site that gets about 150k hits a month, but it seems like it is a waste of time, until I can get more visitors.
Im histing my friend and he has had similar income.

Ive taken all my ads off and just have left one or two pages that pay well for each click.
25 cents a click.

Im thiking about targetting this topic as it seems to pay well.

[Macro]

Welcome to WW

I think you need like over 1 million hits for google ads to be worthwhile

You don't. There are a lots of websites with less than 2,000 visitos that make the cheque minimum of $100 per month. Some sites with a million visitors earn large five figure sums every month. There are a variety of factors that affect earnings. Browse through these forums a bit - there's gold to be found in many posts.

[robsynnott]

I don't make the cheque every month, but I make easily enough to support my small site. You should ensure that your ad placement is correct, and experiment with different ad sizes and colours.

[FromRocky]

AdSense doesn't work for every website and not every body loves AdSense.

[dk7012]

I have adsense on 6 sites. One is large (500,000 visits) and it pays alright, but I even have a small site (800 visit) and makes me over a 100 dollars every month very easily.

[asinah]

I guess by 150k hits you mean 150,000 unique visitors per month. With 5000 visitors per day you should be able to make x,#*$! USD a month but again it comes to the point of what content you have on your website.

[diamondgrl]

Totally depends on what your site is. Some topics do better than others.

[enigmaak]

I totally agree. I started out mid August, and have about 300 daily visits only now, and will still easily make the cheque this month.

[JuniorOptimizer]

Depending on the payout for the keyword, some people make a $100 mininum in 2-10 clicks.

[fidibidabah]

Don't you mean 3-10 clicks? :D I don't believe anyone can hit the minimum in 2...

[sirkei]

I duno why but i am making just little with adsense. I accumulated two to three months only i can get the minimum payout check. Maybe my website is not concentrated on high payout keywords. I think my placement is good buy its just that the earning is little. SIGH :<

[djohnson]

My earnings are very low at this point as well, but that is because I do not have many visitors. I am finally alloting time each day to work on my sites and am seeing some good results though! Oh and it helps reading through some past articles here. :)

[JuniorOptimizer]

If your earnings are very low you need to improve the pages you have and also build more quality pages.

[ken_b]

djohnson;

Welcome to WW and the Adsense Forum!

Oh and it helps reading through some past articles here.

Very true, very true.

But perhaps the most important thing to remember when reading here is that every site is different. That means what works for one site, or even many sites, may not work on your specific site.

The best course of action is to try different options, and keep on trying untill you find what works best for your site.

[blueheaven123]

I wish 150k visits
only at 7k visits a month at the moment.
And I have $1.40 for about 3 weeks of google ads

I think the problem might be the placement, as you scroll down for the content, theres space on the left hand column of which I have placed the ads.

So I'm thinking that because of the ads position, alot of people avoid clicking on them.

But if i place the ads in the middle of a new stories, Im thinking clicks will increase

I might also try putting ads everywhere on the left- right and in the middle of the stories, but that would probably increase my impressions and therefore lower my earnings.

I'd love to know those keywords that are paying more than 20 cents a click.

All I know is that Cars- like Toyota are paying $20 cents.
How about Coca Cola, IBM?

Share your information people

[fidibidabah]

My EPC (per click, not 100)

Side note: There should be a system we use to differentiate EPC (earnings per C (100)) and EPC (earnings per click), In fact, I'm going to initiate one right now. EPc is earnings per click and EPC is earnings per 100 :D

My EPc is $0.35-$1.00, but my ads are from fairly competetive markets. E-Books on Adwords, affiliate programs, making money, SEO companies, new software, traffic generation, etc.. so it's all about supply and demand really.

[photonstudios]

Side note: There should be a system we use to differentiate EPC (earnings per C (100)) and EPC (earnings per click), In fact, I'm going to initiate one right now. EPc is earnings per click and EPC is earnings per 100 :D

No, EPC refers to earnings per 100 Clicks, while CPC means Cost Per Click, so when you want to say what your cost per click is, "my CPC is...."

I'm also experiencing very low Adsense earnings, I can't even get in the FedEx club.

[Hugene]

sirkei, photonstudios and blueheaven123

it is normal that a starting a 1st site does not make money from adsense. There is gold in this messageboard, but too often begigner webmasters are left with the impression that it is easy money. Most of the people that do make money with adsense target as many as possible hight paying keywords. And by target I mean, ALL the content is built in a way such that the sought after keyword tes. You can not write a story about your favorite topic and hope the adsense with it makes u money. You need to do tons of SEO (search engine optimization) as the adsense bot is (in my opinion) very similar to the google search spider.

I believe that to make a adsense winner site, you must start the whole site with adsense in mind, Make it adsense "friendly" (but watch out not to over-do it, its against the TOS)

I recomend you:

1) read up on SEO in this messageboard
2) play around with ad placement (the scroll down thing just doesnt work ;)
3) either start a new site, OR when adding new content to your site, make sure it targets some good keywords

[Hugene]

sirkei, photonstudios and blueheaven123

it is normal that a starting a 1st site does not make money from adsense. There is gold in this messageboard, but too often begigner webmasters are left with the impression that it is easy money. Most of the people that do make money with adsense target as many as possible hight paying keywords. And by target I mean, ALL the content is built in a way such that the sought after keyword döminates. You can not write a story about your favorite topic and hope the adsense with it makes u money. You need to do tons of SEO (search engine optimization) as the adsense bot is (in my opinion) very similar to the google search spider.

I believe that to make a adsense winner site, you must start the whole site with adsense in mind, Make it adsense "friendly" (but watch out not to over-do it, its against the TOS)

I recomend you:

1) read up on SEO in this messageboard
2) play around with ad placement (the scroll down thing just doesnt work ;)
3) either start a new site, OR when adding new content to your site, make sure it targets some good keywords

[rfung]

My website currently gets about 500 hits a day, and is netting me a couple $10 bills a day - some of the traffic I bring in through PPC, which costs me $5-$10, so all in all I'm getting 100%-200% profit on what I'm spending. I make even more because I even get some sales now and then.

My site's targetted for shopping (some product reviews) so folks know my site's not the final destination. They either read the reviews, and decide not to buy it, or they do read it and want to buy it at which point they buy from my merchant or click somewhere looking for it.

[dbar]

My combined sites that run adsense only get around 60K unique vistors a month and they do well. I thought for sure adsense would break the xx,#*$! this month, but due to what ever changes (not on sites) may have occurred, not going to happen. I was looking forward to fedex showing up, oh well, still more work to do.

The sites are niche, some very niche, just not much traffic.