Just to prove a point, I don't make a habit of lying, if I did I would say a lot more. £726 = $1186 US Dollars.
Our site is about 2 years old with really high quality bollywood content and in good adsense standing with 1000+ original shot and uploaded videos on Youtube and new videos uploaded on a daily basis. We earned about $1300 in JAN and then it started dropping. Now for last couple of months the site's making $30-40/month. The Amazon S3 plus hosting cost itself for the site is $150/month, so we are not sure what to do... If there's anyone that can help, please PM us. We don't mind profit sharing if you can help in bring revenue.
I have my blogger blog with me. I'm posting articles now within 2 years i think. But it has low traffic. It is an news blog. For 2 years i have earn 32 US$ only. I think my blog need more back links. Now it's have 32 backlinks. Please help me to increase my earnings for my blog.
And which niche is your 9,000 $-earning site in? The niche is very important. What is the site about?
From my experiences, to make money with Adsense you really need to know what you are doing. Im not just talking about running a niche site, but also choosing the right niche, ranking it, putting the ads in the right spots, etc.
Finding out a niche then copying the thing is not going to earn to tons of money. There is like 10 sites that have seen that I was earning well then decided to copy it on a different website template with rewritten content. Those sites are not worth anything after years still.
Fresh, original and quality content. Three variables. Whether it is your content or user-contributed content is not an issue. But if your content is create daily and is something worth reading and unique, that is where you start.