500 Visitors Per Month - AdSense Paid only $1.70

[sydneyus]

I just have a site and added google adsense. It seems to be advertising priceline..etc in flash. I am only getting paid about $1.70 in a month. Yes I have ~500 visitors/month. But google must be drawing some money from these major companies pass down some peanuts to us.

I'd rather have a clean webpage w/o ads than tricky google adsense. Please share your experiences with google adsense?

[dataguy]

500 Visitors Per Month - AdSense Paid only $1.70

Yep, sounds about right.

[altar]

My model is based on classified ads, but I'm trying to get information about adsense because my site would be suitable for expensive adwords ("Pink Widgets" etc for which bids go above 10$ judging by the adword keyword bid tool). So I want to know if it's conceivable to get something like 5$ a click for such keywords.

[edited by: martinibuster at 5:59 am (utc) on Nov. 9, 2009]
[edit reason] Removed Specifics. [/edit]