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   11/16/07

   clioandme

   I started Adsense on my non-teaching blogs in a limited way this month, and so far I'm up to a whopping 7 cents. I've also added some affiliate ads. Those have produced nothing.
   
   From my own limited experience, I would suggest that AdSense and these other things are only worth it if you are getting huge amount of traffic. You need those huge numbers in order to get enough clicks. It's kind of like fishing. As children my siblings and I never had any luck at the small local lake near our house, but there were barely any fish there to begin with.
   
   Since I didn't begin blogging to make money and I use the free Blogger, I can live with these results. I can even live with what so far looks like wasted effort, because I've learned a few things in the process. Whether I keep using those ads is another question.

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   11/16/07

   thelookout

   If you're in it for the money, Yaro Starak said something that hit home with me which was that for the first few months of growing your blog, ads are a waste of space - you should be using space on your blog to help build traffic and, like stoneman says, when you've got lots of traffic, then you can make money

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   11/16/07

   lalatenews

   Adsense is really amazing. I will tell you I think they are one of the best. They teach you to really focus on optimizing how the ads are placed. Put it one spot, try it, see how your response is. Then try it two other ways. After a few days of practice, you will learn what visitors respond to better on your site for placement and size. A very small ad can do just as well as a big ad.

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   11/16/07

   friedclyde

   $60 a month on adsense but iv been getting deppressed.....i got 8 clicks today and $0.08 420 impressions so far cant get it.....just pissinmg me off google!!!!!!! :@

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   11/16/07

   ccarey76

   Worth over $600 dollars a month to me. So yeah its worth it. This is perfect time to test test test because you can't be moving ads around all willy nilly in 2 years when your revenue is much higher. Ahh if I knew then what I know now. Now Noheat is a PR5 website and making serious cash and growing every month...The key is to diversify your ad space.

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   11/17/07

   libdrone

   My adsense revenues are barely over three dollars after a couple of months but I see my blog as a longer term project. When I first started a few of my friends read it, period. When I had only a handful of book reviews posted, I rarely got search engine traffic. Now that I have several dozen book reviews up, I get search engine traffic regularly. I expect that when I get to the point of having hundreds of books and authors in my tags search engine traffic will become more significant still. I am also nurturing a small but growing body of regular readers who arrive via search engines or blog catalog like what they see and return regularly.
   
   If you are not working specifically to build and keep a significant audience, adsense very well may not be worth the bother. But if you can build a site that draws traffic, you can make money from ads.

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   11/17/07

   Rozie818

   We started with adsense beta, at that time you were allowed to target blank, so you didn't lose your visitors on a adsense click. They stopped that (unless you still have a beta account) We used to do really well. but now with every website, blog, email whatever having them, it has become
   1) over kill
   2) returns have lowered per click.
   
   Sitting there with their ads and their laws are starting get to me and am deciding if it is still worth giving ad space that does not bring in any $.
   Like any company they forget who helped them get there. I always promoted them in the beginning and used their offers, but now I am pretty put down by their lack of concern. But,, when you pull in Billions why should care about us.

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