How long till adsense starts paying me?

[Weirfire]

I've just started with adsense and get an average of about 30 unique visitors to my site a day which isn't a great deal.

How long will it take roughly before I generate any revenue from these adds?

Did I hear someone say you get about $0.2 a click? or is it less?

[digitalpoint]

You only get paid when someone clicks on an ad. Ad far as the amount, it's totally variable based on the content and ads served. You could get paid $0.03/click, or $30 for a click.

Google pays you at the end of each month (when you have accumulated at least $100), or at the end of the year if you never break $100.

[Weirfire]

Is it really possible to get $30 a click?

[digitalpoint]

In theory you could get $40ish... The maximum bid is $50 per click, and Google pays out 75-80% of the click amount, so...

But in reality I've never heard of anyone getting even half that, but even if they did, it's against Google's TOS to discuss it anyway. :)

The average payment is definitely on the lower-end of the spectrum.

[Weirfire]

True ;-)

I'm off to bed now. Check all replies in the morning.

[schlottke]

How long do you usually wait at the end of the month? i.e. When will you receive your May payment?

[alang]

Normally they will approved your payment after the 15th of each month, and after one week of the approval date, they will send the check to you.

[cobaltlady]

I'm pretty new at this too. I think in May they started posting payments around the 17th for those that earned $100. I'm hoping to get my first check this month (June).

[compar]

In theory you could get $40ish... The maximum bid is $50 per click, and Google pays out 75-80% of the click amount, so...
Shawn,

I've been an AdWords advertiser for some of the same content that I use for AdSense ads. So I know what Google is getting for these click throughs. Based on that, I think Google's payment to the AdSense publisher is much closer to 50%.

How did you come up with the 75-80% figure?

[digitalpoint]

http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1288776/000119312504073639/ds1.htm

To sum it up:
Year end 2002 it was 88% to AdSense publisher (12% to Google)

Year end 2003 it was 77% to AdSense publisher (23% to Google)

Quarter end, march/2004 it was 76% to AdSense publisher (24% to Google)

[hexed]

Hmm very interesting.

Could you imagine getting $40/click? Damn..

hexed

[alang]

Heh, 2 clicks a day is enough for me then, and I will get more than 2000 bucks per month. Wow..........

[ViciousSummer]

Hmm very interesting.

Could you imagine getting $40/click? Damn..

hexed


Could you image PAYING $40 a click? I wonder if anyone really does...

[Foxy]

At that price I would make some real money and begin to take adsense seriously!! :D

[Weirfire]

I wonder how much they will pay me.... :confused:

[disgust]

the only real way you can find out is by trying.

[cobaltlady]

You have to give it a try. You never know till you try. I'm still kicking myself for not starting sooner. It's more than paying for my adwords campaigns.

[Weirfire]

Yeah.

that's a few days its been running and is definitely going to be worth my while.

I have to be careful what I say about it though because I never really scrutinized the TOS but just got the main points.

[cobaltlady]

I started 4 days ago blocking the URL's I didn't like or did not pertain to my site and I'm seeing a big improvement in number of clicks.

[Weirfire]

hmmm I might do that as well. although it says if you block sites then the pay per click might go down

[cobaltlady]

I'm just looking at bottom line. $ per day. What has occurred is increase in clicks.

[Weirfire]

True.

I only get 30 visitors a day so it's not really going to make a huge amount for me at the moment but we'll see what happens.

[vinyl]

30 flying visitors or 30 pure adsence clicks?

[Weirfire]

30 flying visitors.

I dont think Im allowed to discuss adsense clicks

[vinyl]

sure you are allowed, but I will report you and you will get banned :) what is the most logical exponation for that restriction by YHO?

[Weirfire]

whos YHO?

I've just been reading some post on another forum and they were saying that they spend 4 hours a day trying to get PR4 or higher links to their sites and only get about 4 a month.

that sounds tougher than those guys who sell double glazing from call centres. :eek:

[Foxy]

whos YHO?

I've just been reading some post on another forum and they were saying that they spend 4 hours a day trying to get PR4 or higher links to their sites and only get about 4 a month.

that sounds tougher than those guys who sell double glazing from call centres. :eek:

I think I know the forum

They discuss it endlessly on that forum - what they don't understand is what you have just said - it is just not a cost effective way of getting links. If you have all the time in the world - fine - if you have to earn money it is a waste of time - especially when the PR value in the algo has declined!