Who is making a living?

Last year I was averaging 400 per day, now not so much

[jimilives]

I read all the posts and assume we all think that we are after the same goal but i just saw a guy tickled pink about $2 per day after only 4 months! I think i hit that on my third day. So here is my question:

Roughly what is your goal on adsense in dollar wise, and are you near that now?

I will start, my goal is to get back to $400 a day again where i was before shake out earlier this year, and am currently only around 15% of that

[topper99]

Dibbern2 you wrote:

I use the lots of mini-sites approach. I can build a site worth $2-3/day in about 12 hours. Reaching a goal looks like just a simple math problem of so many hours=so many sites=so much in revenue. But its not been that easy to find the hours. And its boring, machine-like work.

I'm kind of curious how you did that. Where do your hits come from on a new mini site?

[gamb]

I don't make a living off of it, but I could if I downgraded my lifestyle. The day job + side projects works nicely.

My problem is I have too many ideas....I already have 8 sites (though 2 of them make 90% of my money) and I'm building another site that requires a $5,000 investment.

I'd probably be making more if I focused on 4 sites and on adsense only, but I've got too many ideas running through my head....

[TheDonster]

I'm earning roughly $700 to $900 per month with AS on my one site. It has been a very pleasant surprise to earn so much on something I've been working on as a hobby. At first, I spent all my time trying to maximize the ads. Then I realized I was neglecting adding new content. I'm back on track adding new pages weekly and as a result, traffic is way up and so are earnings. I'm guessing I'll hit my 1K mark if all goes well this month. I would never quit my job to do this full time since I don't think I'm experienced enough to diversify when internet advertising drops but I am putting all the money I'm earning away for now in the hopes that I can retire 10 years earlier than planned. Think of it as the Google 401K.

[humblebeginnings]

Howdy Folks,

I am with AS for 6 months now and I still make only 5 bucks a day.

Guess I need to do some more reading on this forum as to see what kind of a thousand things I might be doing wrong;-(

[djulien]

humblebeginnings, out of curiosity, how many unique visitors are hitting your site?

[cabowabo]

I just don't understand reading posts such as "I've been at this for six months and I'm only getting $5.00 per day."

Is no one reading Brett's 26-steps? The info here is the blue-print to earning a solid income online just with AdSense and affiliate programs.

Cheers,

CaboWabo

[humblebeginnings]

Djulien, I have about 250 uniques a day.
Never really did the math. But with 5 bucks a day that's an eCPM of about $ 20,-!
That ain't bad at all! You made my day bud!

[humblebeginnings]

"I just don't understand reading posts such as "I've been at this for six months and I'm only getting $5.00 per day.""

I do, I just posted it.

"Is no one reading Brett's 26-steps?"

What is Brett's 39-steps?
Never heard of it.

[humblebeginnings]

Cabowabo,

Googled it, found it.
It's an A to Z of the famous WW admin Brett Tabke.
I'll do some reading, and then I will ask stupid questions! I mean... never mind.

[humblebeginnings]

Cabowabo,

I have been reading the 26 steps from A to Z.
But I have no clue to what it has to do with me being with Adsense for 6 months and making $ 5,- a day.
Could you please explain, I really don't get it...

[roycerus]

I started working about two years back after graduation and started with Adsense about 1-1/2 years back. Uptil now I have been using the adsense money on my website development and building assets [bought a car, fixed up my rented apartment etc] Now I am looking to put in some money into savings - my current goal is to have two years of living money in the bank. :-)

[dibbern2]

topper 99: you asked

Where do your hits come from on a new mini site?

I'm sorry, sometimes I write faster than I think. My "sites" aren't seperate domains. If they were, I don't know how I'd beat the sandbox effect. I should not have implied unique domains.

I post a new "site" to a new directory on one of several existing, old (8 years) domains. Usually takes about 3-6 days for G to find me and rank.

The hits/daily traffic are nothing to brag about. This is a mini business approach multiplied over and over to eventually reach a significant grand total.

Hope that explains.

[djulien]

humblebeginnings: "...I have about 250 uniques a day.
Never really did the math. But with 5 bucks a day that's an eCPM of about $ 20,-!"

I'm earning slightly more than half of that by taking the SEO write-all-unique-content-myself approach, and in 3 months I have have more than half as much unique traffic.

The last MSN and G search engine updates resulted in a SERP drop for a few of my highest ranking pages, or else my traffic would certainly be at 200+ unique levels.

Humblebeginnings, it certainly sounds like you're doing pretty well so far for 250 unique visitors/day.

Thanks to this forum my own CTR has improved enormously since I started seriously working on my site for the past few months. Thanks, folks.

[humblebeginnings]

Thanks djulien, but I didn't mention one thing;
Although I am with Adsense for 6 months,
my main website has been around for 8 years...
That's why the 250 uniques a day is not so impressive.
The thing is, I'm in a very specific niche with only very few people interested in it.
The fun part is I am no. 1 in Google for some of my keywords. The clicks pay a little better than in some other areas.

[wings]

Sven1977
> Yeah, right, but you already had a website online
> for about how many years? That guy with the $2 had
> started his website (website(!) not AdSense, in
> May).
> I always wonder why some people can't see the
> difference between putting AdSense for the first
> time on a brand new site and putting AdSense for
> the first time on an already established site.

The message you replied to was JimiLives saying that he read someone naking $2 after 4 months. I think your reply is total nonsense. If you know that you're doing then you don't need 4 months to make $2 a day.
Heck, I know somebody who submitted a single Photoshop tutorial to Good-Tutorials and had 10,000 visitors that month and 2$ a day.
Someone who only made $2 total after 4 months... I'm sorry, he should start a different hobby.

[wings]

Edit previous post: "you don't need 4 months to make $2 a day."

Should be: "you don't need 4 months to make a $2 total"

[shafaki]

My goal is to drive 50,000 page views per day to my newly created, daily updated niche specific blog-like website to earn around $50 a day. I would love to reach this goal in 12 months starting from now.

[Heartlander]

Things were looking up when I decreased the number of ads in favor of another program for a week, but now they are back to "normal".

At least I was able to get a nice jar of chocolate to make those ants a little more palatable.

Back to the forest......

[NoLimits]

My goal has changed significantly in recent months. I was happy with < $100 per month for over a year... then I woke up (2 months ago)

Allow me to elaborate:

Search Engine Referrals by month starting at July of last year.

Jul-04: 52
Aug-04: 149
Sep-04: 474
Oct-04: 638
Nov-04: 740
Dec-04: 1280
Jan-05: 2420
Feb-05: 3481
Mar-05: 3582
Apr-05: 2394
May-05: 1858
Jun-05: 2143
Jul-05: 3900
Aug-05: 10358
Sep-05: 24583

I've always had a steady stream of repeat visitors to provide a little extra cash - but I finally got the memo one day while looking through the key phrases list... a jewel that opened my eyes to the much much bigger picture.

As you see above, I've been working hard to grow my search engine presense. Income has increased substantially, but not even close to marginally. Hard work does pay off.

[Garfieldt]

I'm currently trying to get to 20$ a day. Still have some work before I get there, though.

[Swebbie]

Was making about $92/day, then took a big hit in early Oct., then rebounded. The roller coaster is getting scarier!

I also wanted to mention that switching out a few pages for YPN instead of AS made a significant difference. Those pages are earning overall about 40% more than when they had AS ads on them. But you gotta be careful and pick pages that are on topics with lots of ads at YPN or they won't be clicked much. EPC at YPN is much higher than at AS, I've happily noticed. More than makes up for the drop in CTR.

[europeforvisitors]

EPC at YPN is much higher than at AS, I've happily noticed. More than makes up for the drop in CTR.

For how long, I wonder? I find it hard to imagine that advertisers will want to pay more for YPN ads for AdSense ads, that Yahoo will be able to maintain a higher payout than Google's average of 70% for very long, or (for that matter) that YPN can begin to match AdSense's ad inventory for niche keywords.

[Swebbie]

In the meantime, switching to YPN on a few select pages helped me weather the storm of early Oct., when AS ads were horribly targeted. I have no loyalty to any ad provider. I'll always go with whichever company adds the most to my bottom line. I don't think any other way of doing business is smart, at least when it comes to this type of ad. In fact, I think regular switches may be smart eventually, if YPN and AS are similar in terms of ad inventory, targeting abilities, and all the other stats. Might prevent some amount of ad blindness and higher CTR than it would be if you stayed with one or the other.

[europeforvisitors]

Might prevent some amount of ad blindness and higher CTR than it would be if you stayed with one or the other.

Speaking of ad blindness, it's interesting that the various contextual ad networks haven't worked harder at making their ads look different (although Google's recent use of 1 or 2 ads in a larger ad unit, site-targeted CPM ads with large type, AdLinks, etc. are a step away from the generic look).

[Paki_no1]

I saw some people talk about adsense's uncertainity.I would like to mention in this regard that any one if work with devotion can make a living from adsense.Google just gives us few coins from the grand bucks that they make from advertisers.Its been two years and the business is growing vertically upward .If there were any chances of dwindling it would have happened quite earlier.I am a google advertisers as well and it yields.Google has brought the whole e -commerce under one roof.
If a company poofs ,ten new formulated and they all need successful advertising that google provides.

And if lets suppose google adsense parishes you would have dozens of reliable alternates for you to make money from your site!

So make a site('s) and love it like your child , feed it and you will see when your child grows it will be a goldmine for you.

[dualfragment]

It saddens me to hear all of you making $10+ a day, when my site can't make crap. I started AdSense 7 months ago.

I've done everything I can...got listed in DMOZ, some other sites, etc, but the best day I ever had was $1.27. That was on a really good day when I only got 2 clicks and god only knows how I got that much money with 2 clicks.

I just broke the $9 mark TOTAL after 7 months.

I normally average around 3 cents a day from 500 page impressions. Sometimes I don't even make a penny. Once I got a click but it said I had earned $0.00...that was like Google was telling me to give up or something :(

[rj87uk]

My goal....

Stay in the south of Spain. Drink in one hand a girl in the other living in a beach front property two minute walk from the best nightlife around party untill 2am... Live so much that if I died young i would say;

Its cool, Ive lived.

[Ankhenaton]

Next target is $300,- a day. In the moment we have $150,- to $200 on an age old site, 9 years. Niche market, one non-english language. I am actually amazed it makes money and that there might be hope that after my recent university contract will end in December there is a possibility that I avoid another dole period .. My income is spread between 2 people, so I am not getting rich but still better than Jobseekers Allowance .. Essentially everything over $400,- a month is over JSA, so better than walking with Neds [aka Glaswegian Term for Chavs].

[Eltiti]

Drink in one hand a girl in the other

Wouldn't that get too heavy? --Well, you can always put the girl down, I gues... ;-)

[BeeDeeDubbleU]

My goal....
Stay in the south of Spain. Drink in one hand a girl in the other living in a beach front property two minute walk from the best nightlife around party untill 2am...

Well yes RJ, but talking about goals Martin O'Neill is no longer the manager of Celtic :)