It's o.k. to make $5.35/hr with Google Adsense!

Don't want to be offensive, however this blog has a lot of indicators of a mild case of a spam-blog.

 

LOLMOM,

THe criticism you've encountered may not be "nice" but it is true. Your blog has ads all over it that are nothing short of annoying. You use a blogger blog and can't be bothered to host your blog yourself. As a browser, these factors and others would make me click away from your site as soon as I saw it - it just doesn't inspire reader confidence.

Ads should serve as a supplement to your content, not the other way around.

My advice:
Host a WordPress blog yourself. It costs next to nothing. Upload it and transfer the content you have on that blogger blog to the WP blog (Wordpress makes it easy). Take the ads down a notch - no, five notches - and look at how some of the "big blogs" place their ads. See the difference between theirs and yours?

If you think I'm mean for telling you this, then so be it. But I can almost guarantee you aren't going to have a successful blog with that format.

 

This article very much reminds an article I came across published on WebmasterWorld. That guy suggested $10 per page.

 

That article is

- horrible
- pointless
- patronizing
- such a complete waste of time

What does the article tell anyone? It only gives you some calculation of some weird guy on the internet, nothing else. This is why I'm starting to hate the internet, because 99% of it is shit.

 

Wow. At first glance, lots of stuff that article doesn't take into account-

-Outsourcing/content writers/other link building services
-Adding content in other ways than just sitting there hammering out content pages 4 hours a day
-Sites other than article sites (forums, turnkeys, proxies, other sorts of services, communities, social networking, etc etc..)
-Natural increase in skill, seeing what works/doesn't, improving off of learned experience over time
-Improvements in content building and addition that new tools make possible over time
-normal commonplace SEO tactics that can gain or lose you a few hundred SERPS
-Decreased 'cost per page' time requirements due to better familiarity with the content and visitor interest over time, as well as a ton of other factors.
-Increasing traffic due to any source or even one time large sources (Slashdot, stumbleapon, Digg)

To me, that article is interesting, but seems to kind of assume the average adsense 'newbie' is just a poor guy plugging along with one tactic forever, hoping his 'adsense gold' just stacks up over time by prospect of his tireless article writing.

I do agree there's a lot of newbies that think they can just 'strike it rich' with little or no effort into adsense, or even that by eventually using the same tactics they can amass millions, when that's not a reality, but I think these sorts of stories are a bit undermining the potential of smart, hardworking people with good ideas and a will to learn and improve

 

and pay $89?

 

an inspriing article, wants me to make my goal 5.35/hr

 

Interesting, but as someone alluded to, it assumes that you start out with a set CTR and ad placement success rate, and everything then hinges on how many content pages you write.

In reality, people see their AdSense earnings go way up and down based on things like ad placement, traffic, SEO and everything else. Not just number of pages. Successful AdSense earners will experiment and learn the details of the game over time, and CTR should go up.

By this article's math, to make my eventual goal of $3000 a month, I'd need 7200 content pages! If I had that many pages, I'd expect a lot more than $3000 a month.

Plus, there's affiliate links, etc.

Dont' get discouraged. But the lesson of the article is still: don't think you deserve ANYthing from AdSense. But put in the right work for long enough and it will work out, just stick with it!

 

I'm only doing adsense for fun. But now I see that it can buy me a new surfboard every year! It's more than I expected so I'm happy where I am.

 

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Alot of people seem to make that mistake with web master world, you can register for free and gain access, paying is just to support the board, and is optional. Click the usual register link, and you're in

 

Ok, this article does make point out distribution economics which all those who want to get rich miss out on...
But the math is wrong!
It should be 50*5*4=1000 hours.
So average rate is $7500/$1000=$7.50 per hour, NOT $5.35 per hour

 

Yes, that's one cool thing about making money from the internet. You only go to work 5 days a week, but customers come to your website 7 days a week.

I also think this article is a bit stupid. If someone is dumb enough to sit there writing pages for a year, and doesn't check every few days to see what articles are doing well, that person is missing out. If you check your stats, you can see that on any 20 page website, 1 page will be doing really well, 5 wil be ok and all the rest will be very poor. If you then think to yourself "Hmmm, maybe I should write more articles around that topic that is doing really well" you have instantly left the realm of $10/page/year and will make more than that.

In short, the article lacks this one insight: "Find out what is working well, and do more of it."

 

Also, nobody is taking into account that those pages will keep paying the next year, and so on. So even if you did use this very simplistic approach (not taking into account so many other impotant factors) then it would build up year on year. So working out what you earned in the year doesn't really work, its more like building an asset.

 

i make that a day would love to make it an hour

 

I know it can be done, but I'm still so new at all of this that I don't even make half of that / day.

 

99% of Adsense publishers, I assume, do it for fun and a bit of extra income.
Those making millions don't inspire me, they wow me.

 

Dont forget to give credit to LOLMOM for initiating the posting of this story.