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Can you make money with Adsense?

Posted by syafthegeek • 4/26/07 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Tags: adsense, making money. adsense alternative

This is what I'm asking myself. Can you really make money with Adsense? I've heard that you can't make a lot of money from it not just like it was started back then. But there's tons of alternatives out there. What do you guys think?

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4/26/07

thegoodknife

I think provided that you have a decent blog with enough content to pull up relevant ads, you can easily make a few bucks a week.

If you want make a living off adsense that may be a lot harder.

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4/26/07

jphillips

well, my guess is this very site is making some nice money with adsense!
it depends how you use adsense (not talking about "made for adsense" sites) but if you have a hosting company or a dedicated server, or run a medium/high traffic forum or blog, you can definitely make good money with adsense

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4/26/07

NINE

The price per click you make is going to depend a lot upon the the category of your ads. On my cellphone blog I can tell you I have made like 70-80 cents a click before. I know tony had a blog a few months ago that was making him like 5 or 10 dollars a day in adsense. Thats my goal with my blog (if I ever get around to posting). That would be a nice little paycheck each month but to get clicks like that you really need to be on the ball, getting users to come back frequently and making sure your ads are in places people will click them.

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4/26/07

jphillips

one little trick, after a couple months, check your stats and find what posts are getting a decent amount of traffic, edit the posts, remove the picture (if there was one) and replace it with a 250X250 adsense block, it works ok

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4/26/07

TonyB

It also depends on what your site or blog is about.

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4/26/07

jphillips

yep, exactly, but there are a lot of other ways to monetize a blog appart from adsense, people are kinda used to seeing adsense ads everywhere

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4/26/07

NINE

In the end like any blog, its going to come down to your content. Fresh original content and having reasons for people to come back EVERY SINGLE DAY.

I think you need to ask yourself, why would someone be reading your blog? What makes you come back to certain blogs everyday? If you are catering your craft to the needs of your users they will come back frequently. I find that by just asking questions in my posts I tend to get more responses than a long drawn out article. Once you get someone engaging in a conversation you answer their questions and then they feel as though they are contributing to the website...

Once they feel like they are a part of the process then I believe they are more likely to return.

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4/26/07

jphillips

Totally agree with you Nine! people wanna feel like they are part of a community (they are), well we're all writing posts/replies on here, so you guyz must be doing something good hehe

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4/26/07

stubsy

I think its better to have more than ad program if you want the maximum amount of $ for your clicks.

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4/26/07

jphillips

i agree with you Stubsy, there's a ton and a half ways to monetize a blog, adsense is fine, but there's also adbrite, bidvertiser, and services like blogtoproffits, payperpost, reviewme, sponsoredreviews that are fine, people are used to "skipping" the adsense ads anyway

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4/27/07

ChurchOfIntegrity

To answer the original question then I believe there are quite a few examples out there of blogs that have made loads of cash from Adsense so yes I believe it's possible to make money with it. With that said then I think it's hard for medium sized sites to earn any substantial money from Adsense, at least my revenue so far is very meager, heh.

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4/27/07

virtuexru

I've made some decent money off of Adsense before, just got to be smart about ads and where you place them.

Make them look like regular links in your website :).

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4/27/07

dwacon

I make a few hundred per annum... not enough to live off of though.

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4/27/07

robwatts

I once had a site that pulled $10k a month from adsense, and there are lots of stories out there about others doing equally well and better, so yes you can certainly make money using adsense.

Not easy by any means - takes hard work day and night week in week out.

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4/27/07

syafthegeek

That's what i'm struggling. I'm trying my best to earn from Adsense. Is Adsense alternatives are better than Adsense?

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1. 4/27/07
  
  robwatts
  
  I'd focus on building a great resource and worry about ad revenue after. If you have low levels of traffic then whatever your model, you'll simply fail from the off. Build something useful that people will want to use and make it the best in its class.
  
  Good luck with it!
4/27/07

lyndonmaxewell

I agree with rob. However you want to think about it, ones' own content come first. You want people to come again and again and again. With traffic, there's no fear of rejection by the ads company.

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4/27/07

jphillips

I agree with Rob, content is still "king", i think one should not moetize a blog right from the start, maybe wait a couple months, till it gets some decent traffic, and gradually test some alternatives to see what works best, since adsense is definitely not the only option bloggers have to monetize their blog(s).

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4/27/07

syafthegeek

Ok, I do concentrate on Content as this will attract readers to read my blog. I've tried other alternatives like Bidvertiser but there's too many gambling ads in it. I have to remove all of them.

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4/27/07

kiltak

Of course you can, but as I've said countless times, you have to be ready to work hard for a while before seeing even a single penny get into you pocket..

I could probably live out of it if I didn't have any family or house to pay for

I've written a piece on the subject, I don'T think its appropriate to link it here since it contains affiliate links.. if you are interested, head over to my blog, click on the article section (in the header), and you'll see it there.

Cheers.

K. [GAS]

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4/28/07

kucau

syafthegeek. if notice, unless u got high traffic site, adsense wont generate high $. better opted for ppp and the like. but me, just to lazy to write for PPP

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4/28/07

zakman

Adsense works, but it all depends on where your traffic is coming FROM, and what they're looking FOR.

It helps to remember that your visitors are there mainly to read your content; no one visits a site just to click on ads, however attractive they may be.

Your best bet is traffic from search engines. Then again, searches for images will hardly get you any clicks. Also, the traffic from your blog community members don't count for clicks, cause they're there mainly to check your site out and help each other out, not to click on ads.

The real searches -- people looking for specific information -- will get you clicks. Ten again, your keywords count a lot.

For example, I have a post on Jenifer Hudson using Avon perfumes. And hopefully, Adsense will give you a couple of ads on fragrances. Visitors looking for info on Jennifer Hudson will not click on the ads. They read about Jennifer Hudson and leave.

On the other hand, people looking for fragrances, and the search shows Jennifer Hudson's post, they are more likely to read a bit as well as click on the fragrance ads.

This is only an example. The idea is to include keywords in your h1 tags, AND also make sure you have the LATEST content to show up on search. It is Google's business to show the latest and most relevant results to their search engine users. If you have terrific content, but is old news, you don't get picked up by Google spiders, which are always looking for fresh content. You don't want to read yesterday's newspaper, do you?

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4/28/07

Liff

I'm new in it so my revenue is too small. Guess i must be working harder and harder to achieve a better result.

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4/28/07

lyndonmaxewell

yea I agree with zakman. Readers in every niche are looking for fresh content. A normal person who reads an issue in one newspaper isn't going to buy another newspaper that says the same thing. (Not if both have their own unique opinions and thoughts put into it.

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5/04/07

guniwan

I know someone that has a high position in his office decided to quit from his job and start to blogging every day and he got all the money for his life just from Adsense. So i think it's can be happen.

Goonie

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5/04/07

syafthegeek

Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. Having earn an income from Adsense and the like. It is all with the rankings. Google PR and also Alexa ranks play the part. Plus. get-paid-to-blog is one way to earn too. Anyway, I really do work hard right now to gain some traffic and increase my rank both Google PR and Alexa ranks.

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5/07/07

zenvengo

I have yet to start making money with adsense. But i found some of the information shared here very valuable. Thanks syafthegeek for posting the question and all you guys for explaining to us the significance of adsense and making money out of it

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5/07/07

syafthegeek

Your welcome man, we're here to help and discuss

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6/06/07

dwacon

Well, I use Adsense and LinkSynergy. I was with Commission Junction years ago but abused the system and got banned. :-( Appreciate the tips from JPhillips.

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6/06/07

pointlessbanter

zakman hit the nail right on the head

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6/06/07

plusultra

I think it is possible to make millions a day on adsense, If you are google! Otherwise your content must be extraordinary and your daily traffic very high. I have made 94$ so far from Adsense, but You need to reach 100$ minimum before the first payout. I have had adsense on my site for over a year, But I will keep trying to improve my site and maybe one day.... I will get my first adsense check. I also joined payperpost and it seems to be an easier way to earn cash from blogging. AS far as retiring on blogging...I think I would be very hungry.

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6/06/07

Jaya

Well... I've had Adsense for about
1 month on my 2 month old (today)
blog. I've made $2.56 so far. It's
a tiny amount, but everything has to
start somewhere, so I'm OK with it.

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6/06/07

gabotron

I'm beggining to wonder if Adsense is feasible for a news content blog with occasional top 5's. Are there any alternatives that are based on impressions instead of clicks?

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11/29/07

mayajain

You Can surely Earn money from it as I am earning.

But you need to have a lot of patience. It may take 2-3 months to get 100$.

Go here : googleadsense2learn.blogspot.com

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11/30/07

sab4

Is there an alternative to Google's Adsense?

sab4.blogspot.com

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1. 11/30/07
  
  crkian
  
  hubpages.com/hub/101-Google-Adsense-Alternatives
11/30/07

GetSmart

Yes you can make money with Adsense. Buy an awesome script for social bookmarking site and have a vast audience. hint;)

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11/30/07

JournalWriter

I just got my first Adsense check and seem to be averaging about $20-25/mo from them. It pays for my hosting and maybe a one hour massage with tip once per year. At least I have revenue now which I'll report on my taxes and write some other related stuff off like my investing newspapers and magazines and my monthly Internet costs. If I can up my take I'll write off my computer and more. It's worth it to me just for the tax write offs I can use now.

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12/05/07

mayajain

I am getting 300# in a month. I guess it is not Bad

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12/05/07

jpearce

You need to use the right keywords in your post. Some clicks pay higher than others.

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5/01/08

anup1965

Common efforts of all the the members may bring a huge amount of money.But I feel most of the members here are passive.
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