broke the $ 5000 barrier in september.

in just 6 months....

[OddDog]

i am fairly happy about it so i thought i should post a thank you to all other posters as i have learned a lot from reading posters comments here.

and to think i heard of adsense from this forum, but came hear to learn about adwords to run some campaigns for some clients!

[Sobriquet]

u mean $5000 in one month?

thats a feat

[blue_eagle]

Cong, OddDog i know of course you wont share your secrets but if you can give some heads up i am sure that everyone would appreciate this :)

Hope all of use go better and better.

[Zygoot]

$5000 a month after only 6 months is very good. Congratulations!

[ken_b]

Congratulations on your success OddDog, may it continue for a long time.

[Buzliteyear]

That is friggin awesome! I am so happy for you.

Everyone here should begin posting milestones and when certain goals are achieved.

Anyway, $5,000 is very exciting. Congratulations. Hope to see you posting $10,000 within the next year.

[humblebeginnings]

Great stuff OddDog, congratulations!
Sure hope you mean $ 5000,- a month, but even if it is $ 5000 in 6 months you are way ahead of me!

[incrediBILL]

Congrats OddDog!

$5k was the easy part, trying to hit $10K is like climbing a greased pole so far.

Statistically I should've already been there but someone put the voodoo whammy on my eCPM when I started to get too close.

I'll race ya! ;)

[roycerus]

Excellent climb! $5000 in six months is really good. I guess you had an established site with regular hits coming in from SERPS. Guess "You discovered your site's full revenue potential." ;-)

[i_am_dhaval]

Congrats
Can u give me tips about your success?

[Zygoot]

Guess "You discovered your site's full revenue potential." ;-)

And even then you've probably not reached the full potential.

It's sometimes amazing how much more you can squeeze out of a website, sometimes you can still double your income when you thought you've reached the max.

But in this case I'm not solely talking about AdSense. Things like affiliate programs, private advertising deals, ... can boost your income pretty good.

[LeoXIV]

Congratulations :)

[tama]

c'mon, spread the wealth. As you have learned from WW - give us one pearl! What was the most significant factor in your success?

[bbunlock]

congrats on that and if it is the 5k month well im hoping to get there sooner or later ($1800 a month average at the moment after 2 months)

well done and hope ti continues

[Eltiti]

Congratulations, OddDog!

[diddlydazz]

congrats OddDog!

[grindstone]

$5000 a month is very good for only 6 months. Congratulations! I only hope I can do half as well. This is very encouraging.

[birdstuff]

It took me almost a year to reach the $5000/month mark. Great job!

[sirkei]

Took me one year and a half but still not reaching that target.

Congratulations anyway although i am jealous.

[ann]

Great! Keep it up, you're doing wonderful.

Ann

[rondell]

Hi odddog,
What is your site general theme?
$5000 very impressive

[OddDog]

hi all

yes i meant 5k a month,

honest projection for october is around the 7k figure.

biggest pearl of wisdom i can give is the following. ...

test, test and test some more.

the google adsense hot spots are spot on .. just keep testing.

I made some errores in testing in august resulting in a poor month in comparision to july, but those leasons have been applied in sept.

[webpro00801]

I would add, that on the few micro sites I am running (just start up things - special interests of mine) where I have placed the ads in the left hand column, the CTR and CPM have been huge - sometimes 10 times or more my usual placements of leaderboard or right hand column - this seems to me to be the hottest spot, other than stuff right in the middle of the page or "content".

[rjfreitas]

How much traffic per month in unique visitors and/or page views are you people that are making $5K per month getting?

Thanks!

[markus007]

I have a friend who makes $50,000/day via a overture search feed. The sky is really the limit if you know what you are doing.

[digic]

very nice odddog, sure your hardworks paid off. how i wish i can do that. im still in $13 for 1 month. way to go, hope to get some tips from you.

[nubbin]

Odd Dog,

Thanks for the inspiration! Great to know what's possible.

What kind of progression did you make with your earnings over the 6 months. E.g. Was it like $5 on day 1, $10 per day by month 2 etc etc? Did you get a linear improvement or did you get an exponential one? Were you setting yourself goals?

Markus007, was that a typo? $50k per day works out as $18million per year.

Cheers

[costin]

Well CONGRATS! i've just hit $171/mo in 3 months but my 3 sites are still in the sand box and 0 PR... we'll talk in 6 mo after i'll get out of the sand box :P

Anyways GONGRATULATIONS, i share your excitement!

...going on 10k?:)

[OddDog]

hi costin,

whilst in the dreaded box i would suggest working on yahoo and msn placement.

[wings]

Why is everybody asking for tricks? There are no tricks that make you earn that much money, it's all about traffic and making good use of it.

When I started with add-sense just a week ago I had close to $600 on a single day. Very simple, I had 35,000 visitors that day. I haven't even done any fine-tuning. Those who focus on adsense tricks and less on content of their site will never make $5000 a month, it's as simple as that.

Sure, fine-tuning is needed, but don't stare yourself blind on it.