The month of November brought a several major Adsense accomplishments for me first I’ll list those accomplishments and then I delve a bit into the history as to answer some questions that have come up on our forum.
First, I had my FIRST EVER $60 plus day
Next, I actually had Three of them!
My First ever daily average was OVER $40 for the entire month
My lowest day of the entire month was near $31
Most (I’ll say 95%) of my profits have come from my niche (which shall remain a semi-private niche) – but it’s been an amazing month and will end up being a $4,000 plus month again overall.
Now for the Adsense history lesson
After giving into the urgings of another webmaster in the same niche as myself, I finally gave in and signed up with Google Adsense in March of 2004. The first month that I saw any click activity was in May of that same year and to the big old tune of two-and-a-half dollars. I wouldn’t receive my first check until September 2004. To be honest, I hadn’t watched my stats at all during that timeframe. When I received that first check, I knew there must be something to that whole Google Adsense thing and began doing more research in how to make my ads and websites more profitable.
I have received payment each and every month since September 2004.
My first $500 plus check came in July 2005 and the first $1,000 plus check came in September, that same year.
What I have learned over the last 2 ½ years of participating in the Adsense program is that it isn’t as easy as slapping up ads and leaving them. You really have to work those ads. You have to create quality content that will manipulate the ads that are displayed.
I’ve grown to view my websites and blog as a department store and the ads are the displays. If I want higher paying ads, I simply focus my content in the direction of the higher ticketed departments.
I’d just like to give you something to think about — If you were a business providing free services or selling products for $2.00 each, think about how much you’d be able to take out of that $2.00 to pay for advertising. Now, think about having a $100 item and how much you could pay to advertise that product. In the words of Forest Gump that’s all I’m going to say about that.
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I can’t wait until I can have a constant, or relatively income like this. I hope by next summer to get a check a month through a variety of different sites. This just shows me that with hard work it is possible.
Thanks for the inspiring post Gayla. It sure is encouraging, and I hope to see my own adsense revenue making a significant increase as time goes by..
great advice Gayla,
thanks for your insight
THANKS, so nice to find a site with such candor.
I will keep coming back for more!
you can easily earn lots of dollars from adsense if you have a high traffic site.’.’
Adsense is a great dollar earner if you don’t have a stable job-’;
adsense is of course the best ppc program. they pay the highest ,.:
adsense is the best ppc paying program out there, there are many alternatives but most of them does not pay as much as adsense “”
Excellent blog here! Also your site loads up very fast! What web host are you using? Can I get your affiliate url to your host? I wish my website loaded up as fast as yours lol