Web Hosting Talk : Other Forums : Web Hosting Lounge : Does anyone make a lot more than $100 from Google Adsense?

[lexington]

I have never asked this question before since I figured some people may not want to say how much they make with Google Adsense, however I wanted to give it a try since this is too strange to be legit. I have been with Google Adsense for over 5+ years already. It seems that no matter what I am limited to just over $100 per month, every month for over five years.

Of course when I first joined they display all of the high paying ads on your site so you may have earned $350+ in the first couple of months and decided to use adsense forever like me. Then after that it is only $100. The ironic thing is that I had used Adsense on one busy site that earned $100 per month. Then I added adsense to another busy site and the first site earned around $60 and the second site earned the other $40 which still totalled out to $100. I added a third, fourth, and up to seven different sites and all of them receive legit clicks daily but ironically at the end of the month the total is still around $100 dollars.

I contacted their support about this and they say that certain ads are selected for certain sites and such which basically means they only show all of the cheap 0.05 ads on your site and probably do not credit most of your clicks so that you earn the same amount every month. At the beginning of this month I was earning $8 - $12 per day so I thought I would finally get over $100 at the end of the month but for the past week I am only getting $0.50 - $2 dollars per day so I am sure at the end of this month it would get the same amount.

Here is a screenshot of my earnings for last month (January):

http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/207/adsensezy3.jpg

Then the month before that in December:

Totals 153,408 - 609 - $103.55
Averages 4,948 19 0.40% $0.67 $3.34

November:

Totals 143,383 - 730 - $109.94
Averages 4,779 24 0.51% $0.77 $3.66

Does the amount of traffic and clicks for the amount of earnings look normal to you? What are the odds to get nearly the exact amount of earnings per month every month?

So my question to you is if you earn a lot more than $100 per month with Adsense and/or do you get the same amount of earnings every month regardless of how many clicks you receive? Thanks.

[subzer0]

Quite honestly, I don't know a heck of a lot about Google Adsense nor have I ever used it. After I read your post I went to Google's site but their opening definition of Adsense states: "Google AdSense matches ads to your site's content, and you earn money whenever your visitors click on them."

Is this a good idea to have such ads on the web page of a hosting company? (ie. I assume you will get links pointing to competitor sites).

How do you find Adsense in terms of promoting and bringing in new hosting business for you?

[lexington]

To answer your question I wouldn't recommend it for a hosting site because yes you will show your competition but customers looking for web hosting do not really trust web hosts that use adsense. I hope we will not go off topic here and others who already use adsense can answer my original questions.

[lexington]

Come on no replies from Adsense users? I am sure 98% of the members here has used their service.

[Justin]

lexington I have my doubts about 98% let alone half of WHT having used adsense considering not every WHT member even has a website.

That being said even when I had it implimented over quite a few sites it never generated much of anything revenue wise.

[catfished]

I only average about $80 per month with my adsense but I don't have any really hot sites.

[Atarim]

It's hard to imagine why Google would want to limit your revenue. They make money when you make money, i.e. when people click ads.

[lexington]

Perhaps they are making more but only giving me $100? Or maybe they only pay the big bucks to million dollar corporations? They don't want to make us normal people to get rich so they rather keep their rich clients richer. Google proved this when they stripped PR from thousands of webmasters who allegedly paid for high PR links.

[stoly]

Here's what looks like your problem. your CTR Rate is REALLY low if I'm seeing the numbers right (Click Through Rate).

Your goal should be 2% or higher.

Right now on one site i have I make a little over 600 per month. The CTR there is about 2.5% which I'm happy with.

A low CTR usually means weak placement, or weak traffic (percentages drop easily with low numbers of traffic).

The other possibility is your site has been determined as low payout and your ads have all been adjusted to value pricing, meaning you'll get a much lower PPC

[Jamie Harrop]

Originally Posted by stoly

The other possibility is your site has been determined as low payout and your ads have all been adjusted to value pricing, meaning you'll get a much lower PPC

It appears as though you've been smart priced. I advise reading Courtney Tuttle's article explaining what smart pricing is: http://courtneytuttle.com/2008/01/02...dsense-clicks/

[lexington]

Originally Posted by stoly

Here's what looks like your problem. your CTR Rate is REALLY low if I'm seeing the numbers right (Click Through Rate).

Your goal should be 2% or higher.

Right now on one site i have I make a little over 600 per month. The CTR there is about 2.5% which I'm happy with.

A low CTR usually means weak placement, or weak traffic (percentages drop easily with low numbers of traffic).

The other possibility is your site has been determined as low payout and your ads have all been adjusted to value pricing, meaning you'll get a much lower PPC

Oh really I wasn't aware of that. So the better the placement vs exposures the higher I will get paid? It is too bad Google cannot provide which pages the user clicked on the ads.

[dotHostel]

@lexington

I'm also seeing controlled revenues and like you I think it is too strange to be legit. If one day the site makes more money than the monthly average the next day it makes less -- the monthly amount is constant. Differently your case I have 2.0+% CTR most days and low CTR few days a month. Like your case I launched another site and the revenue didn't increase. I sold this another site and the revenue didn't decrease either. Moreover the site I put Adsense ads has now 20,000 unique visitors a day but the ads are displayed only to ~20% of the visitors. If my accumulated earnings is behind the monthly average then more pages are displayed and vice-versa.

Times ago I read an interesting reasoning trying to show Google makes money with ads even if nobody clicks an ad explaining the advantages of Gmail and other free services to Google. In summary, they use your ad space for free to test ads efficacy and to higher the cost to the advertiser to place an ad in the top positions.

[lexington]

I wonder once Google owns the world would they become more curropt since no one could stop them? They would have the government on payroll.

[dotHostel]

Originally Posted by stoly

The other possibility is your site has been determined as low payout and your ads have all been adjusted to value pricing, meaning you'll get a much lower PPC

If you have a site with content frequently updated (like a news site) how a site may be determined a low payout if each new page posted may bring different classes of advertisers/products?

[Tina J]

Isn't it against AdSense rules to discuss payouts?

--Tina