I'm really curious because mine is extremely slow. Right now I'm making about $0.20 to $0.60 per day. That $100 seems so far away. Is this normal or slow? Do you guys use one account on many sites? What's the best way to speed it up?

It's against the adsense TOS to discuss how much you make. If google finds your telling others, they may can your account.

I didn't make a penny with mine. They disallowed all the clicks the day before the end of the month. Would have done about $200 that first month.

Mike

Originally posted by amish_geek
It's against the adsense TOS to discuss how much you make. If google finds your telling others, they may can your account.

:eek: That seems a very strange rule to impose - it's like they are trying to keep it quiet so they can adjust somebody's revenue depending upon how much they like them... :confused:

I make less than $.40 or $.60 per day. So are doing better than me.

Jesus, they've got some really strict terms... wish I could edit my post now =/.

Ask the admins to delete the thread.

Originally posted by amish_geek
It's against the adsense TOS to discuss how much you make. Not exactly. Here's what they say on confidentially in their Terms and Conditions (https://www.google.com/adsense/localized-terms) document:
You agree not to disclose Google Confidential Information without Google's prior written consent. "Google Confidential Information" includes without limitation: (a) all Google software, technology, programming, specifications, materials, guidelines and documentation relating to the Program; (b) click-through rates or other statistics relating to Site performance in the Program provided to You by Google; and (c) any other information designated in writing by Google as "Confidential" or an equivalent designation.

I suppose if you want to be extremely cautious you could take that as saying you can't talk about, as is being asked here, how much you make per day in general terms -- if you take "click-through rates and other statistics... provided to You by Google" to include that sort of vague information. I'd say that interpretation would be leaning a bit towards paranoia.

Well, I made $130 under 2 months :) f*ck google :)

making about 0 to $12 a day

Can you believe $7 from just 3 clicks!

I heard of one site that makes around $100 a day from adsense... I wouldn't work again if I did that :)

Originally posted by Postmaster
I heard of one site that makes around $100 a day from adsense... I wouldn't work again if I did that :)

Thats only 36,500$ a year.
I'd say thats a very small amount, unless you are based in a different and weaker economy then the US's. Like India for example, or in your case Greece?

I wouldnt quit my job unless my site would be making x4 that. :)


Eugene

Originally posted by Kalina
Can you believe $7 from just 3 clicks!

Why not :)

What would you say if I tell that it's possible to get $20-30 per click. :D

Everything depends on the field you're working in.

I had a look at all the posts here and I can state a few things:

1. The scheme is fantastic and provides me a full time income, yes really! I live in a country where it's not so cheap living.

2. One of the keys is offering content to the google bot which is in a high bid zone. You know, weight loss, or pharmacy etc. Something which advertisers are really competative about, thus giving you the adsense operator a bigger slice.

3. Traffic is completely essential, you should be looking at 5000 page impressions a day or so.

4. Search engine traffic is best where clients are always new, then the google ads seem new. Repeat clients generally don't click on content they have seen before.

5. Make ads appear like your own site content, not obvious ad boxes everywhere.

A final word is that in using the system you'd have to balance the effect of a potential client clicking an ad (so you make money, but he goes away) against keeping him on the site and selling your own goods.

Hope that helps.

P.S. if anyone wants me to lok at their site, to improve the potential, no worries. Pm me or something.

Thats only 36,500$ a year.
I'd say thats a very small amount, unless you are based in a different and weaker economy then the US's. Like India for example, or in your case Greece?

I wouldnt quit my job unless my site would be making x4 that.


Eugene

I'm based in the United Kingdom :).. Nah I was just saying it enough to live off at the very least, if you wanted too. :) Greece's economy can't be compared to India btw.. Don't forget they are using the euro like France, Germany and Italy and things have picked up greatly.. Funny how things go.. we went from being the biggest empire in the world to jack s*ht lol.. Peace took over, we invented democracy and were sexually liberated, gave the Mongolians/ottomans, Persians the edge when we become civilized.. everyone else was a barbarian.. opps kind of gone off topic.. Love history.. Love the human race :)

adsense is not great, because it depends on alot of stuff, but the longer I'm on there the more I make. It takes a while before I can get a check, but it's getting better. The more I work on my site, the more money i get from advertizzing.

Hmm, I see Adsense is quite effective in providig some revenue.
Does anyone know the minimum traffic requirements of a website to be eligible?

As far as minimum traffic, I don't believe there are any, but you can read more about the program's policies before you dive in...

google.com/adsense/policies

Yea, I work on both ends (publisher/advertiser) and see how you can make a lot of money off the right keywords.

I believe as long as you have a fully functional website that is not online gambling, porn and some other stuff then you can get accpeted, they don't ask you your traffic information, they never did with me..

Yea, it doesn't hurt to even try the program out, it might take awhile to make any sort of income but if you do the right things to get enough traffic through your site, you should see your revenue going up.

but wouldn't per impression advertising work out better for webmasters?

but wouldn't per impression advertising work out better for webmasters?

Why you say that?

Not in my experience, I operate both on the same site, the adsense leaves the impression based stuff standing.

If you are selling impressions you gotta provide clickthrough ratios, these are not good typically I have found, unless they are very page relevant, context based.

Originally posted by Funky
Why you say that?

Not in my experience, I operate both on the same site, the adsense leaves the impression based stuff standing.

If you are selling impressions you gotta provide clickthrough ratios, these are not good typically I have found, unless they are very page relevant, context based.

ohhh so you need to meet some targeted clickthrough ratios for per imperesion? cos i thought all the webmaster needs to do is display the ads regardless of the clickthroughs!

I meant if you are selling ads to a client they will want to know the click through average of the site, along with a whole load of other demographically related info.

You know, who the average surfer is, age, occupation, country etc etc.

how about ad companies like fastclick and others that offer pay per impression ads. do they check the click through ratios etc?

i made 300 dollars a month with a traffic of 1500 a day

I use to make $5, now I make $2 a day.

that is crappy.. I just got onto BlueLithium (bluelithium dot com) and they make me more money than fastclick.

you can see my ads on desiest dot com ( i have all three google adsense, bluelithum and fastclick )

ask now, bluelithium makes me more than other two combined.

adsense might be getting a kick out soon..

BlueLithium is pretty new I think, but hey.. whatever makes you more money. I suggest running BlueLithium along with other networks on your website.


Paul

What exactly is adsense?

google adsense..

advertising network by google..

most advertisers are happy with it.. most publishers are not so happy..

Paul

Guys! Do not blame Google. If your sites are well visited you will earn more from Adwords. Other important thing is where the ads are placed on your web site. Try to make them included in the site topics or a part of your sections.

And one more thing. DO NOT try to cheap. If Google see you have invalid clicks they will close your account.

So My only advice is "work hard to bring real visitors to your site".

Regards
Dimitar

I am now on my one month with Adsense, and the amount i earned is 3.85$...that's only for 1 site.

If you have good content, adsense will work just fine. If you just slap the code on any page, you will probably see their generic ads. The ads are targetted to your content, if that is lacking, you won't earn very much at all.

Originally posted by Jeffreyw
I am now on my one month with Adsense, and the amount i earned is 3.85$...that's only for 1 site.

for how much hits?

in the last month ive made around $40

Thats only 36,500$ a year.

I make 1/4 that amount, and my parents to this day make about a 3rd of that a year.

Indiana backcountry right here.

Originally posted by tarasbuljba
for how much hits?

http://counters.cc/stats.php?i=169

93 - average page impressions.

This month $200 . Hope to make more in the future
Nat

even though its little it adds up quickly

Add content regularly it will happen...

I run a site with an alexa rank under 5000 right now. Around 140,000 uniques a day.

With adsense I have made over $230/day. My average was around $160-$170.

Adsense is by far the best ad serving program for CPC. Be careful and follow their TOS. I've had my account canceled and lsot over $5000. Since then I have worked an agreement with them and straightened out my site. Those clicks for that month will never be paid for....they consider them "bad clicks"

thats impressive :)

Wow! :) Great work dkextbmx !

Sorry, I thought this thread was deleted because I never knew where it was moved and someone told me that it was against their TOS to do this. Now that I've found this again, wow. Some of these are incredible.

I've had them for at least 4 months now and I've only made $11. I'm averaging 30,000 impressions a month now, about 1000 a day. What I don't understand is how you actually GET your visitors to click the ads. I mean seriously, how often do you pay attention to advertisements?

Plus, their earnings don't make sense. One day I got 2 clicks, and only 200 impressions, yet I made nearly a dollar. Today, I've got 3 clicks, 700 impressions so far, and made $0.35. How exactly does this program work?

Also, the people who make the quota each month ($100), do you have these ads on more than one site? I'm really curious. I'd like to see my google adsense get somewhere.

Well it is against TOS I thought to discuss how much you make exactly?

In any case, advertisers have to pay certain amounts for their words to appear NFX. You must pay certain amounts because certain keywords draw much heavier traffic than others. For instance, the word FREE is highly expensive on the google network whereas say the word BUTTER. You have to pay a certain amount in order for your 'FREE' ads to appear over the BUTTER ones just because so many other people out there have the word FREE as well. That explains why some days you get 10 cents off of two clicks and the next day those two clicks could be 2 dollars.

Hope that helped.

So you're saying the word "free" pays less or more?

Today was interesting... 4 clicks, $4. That's the highest I've gotten in one day. Such a strange system.

Just a few clicks so far. I started last week. I do web design in Hawai'i and get a lot of travel ads. Good cpc though.

the smaller things come together and bring in the big bux :)

Since adding alot more content to my homepage where most clicks are probably happening for my adsense, my earnigns have gone down dramtically, I guess this is because the cheaper words which trigger the ads off are being used instead of the more expensive key words :(... The plus side is getting more search engine traffic from more key words :) Can't have it both ways I suppose.

Think my theory is correct?

Why do you need to put your Social Security number in?

Originally posted by Zion
Why do you need to put your Social Security number in?

If you mean to sign up for Adsense, it's because you need to report the income made from it to the IRS.

$120 a month on csm2.net

I took down the AdSense from my personal website. Only my friends visit my personal website anyways. It wasn't worth it for plus I didn't like it.

The secret is lots of traffic, in high paying keywords areas.

OT: Ah, so you're the #$%# who took Funky!!!!

There is a lot of good info in this thread.

Do image ads pay alot more than plain-text ads?

I wouldnt mind the images if they had smaller formats.

i tried it but they didn't work for me neither

I must repeat the two golen rules.

1. high paying keyword area
2. reasonable traffic a day (5000 uniques etc)

There is a huge difference between keywords and how much they are worth.

Check this:
http://random9.com/Googlest-site/index.htm

I have the feeling it is illegal to do so though. Advertisers pay for pages with real content, they don't want their content to appear at sites with random words. Anyone good w/ AUPs and such could confirm that?

Originally posted by Frash
I have the feeling it is illegal to do so though. Advertisers pay for pages with real content, they don't want their content to appear at sites with random words. Anyone good w/ AUPs and such could confirm that?

You feel it is illegal for what?

Google ads do not show on non related keyword pages, that's the whole point.

An advert about xmas trees, will only show on a page about xmas tress (generally).