I've had my website up since Feb 22 and so far, I've only made like $98 dollars off of it with only about 550 members. Within the first month of it being up, I only had like 150 members. When can I start seeing the 3-5 digits!! Has anyone else started off with small amounts of money? If so, for how long?
It should get better, yes. One thing that set alarm bells ringing with me is you mention members. It is inadvisable to place your AdSense ads on 'member-only' pages - this is because the same few members might end up clicking the ads, placing your account at risk.
Dude you've only had your site up for 2 months. That's a good number for such a short amount of time. Yeah it'll get better but you should be happy with what you've made so far. It took me 4 months to get to 100 dollars.
When I started off.. it took almost 3 months to start earning.. $98 is a good start... but what you need to do is market your forum more (do something different to higher the earnings)
It's a social networking website for a very small niche that hardly anyone thinks/cares about. I guess the only reason why I thought about it is because this niche relates to me and I needed a place to belong. On the main page, I have up to 2-3 google text ads, and that's where all the clicks come from. Non-members can see it as well. Then I have a list of recent forum topics, a quick login, and the info of the latest new member. I remember reading someone's post on another forum about how he made over $2,000 his very first day and I thought if I followed his directions, I could do the same. But I'm not getting anywhere fast. I'm so discouraged. I'm still looking for a job and no one's calling me back, I'm going insane. I need something to help me along until I find a real job and this just isn;t working as I planned.
Maybe you should try different ad placement.. switching it up since people are probably repeat visitors so they're use to the ads and don't have a glance at it.
People post a lot of BS on forums - like making $2,000 with adsense on the first day their website was created.
What is your website content/topic? All depends on the popularity of the field. Would help if you could give your website so we can analyze what you feel is not working.
You remember that guy that made a post on webmasterworld with the topic "How to become a Millionaire off Adsense?" That's the guy I was talking about. I want so much for his post to be real.
All you have to do is put up a site and the money will come pouring in - it takes 187 days Come on. Who expects instant earnings. Money has to be earned. Businesses have to be built.
Yeah, this is a very odd query. You need to be patient and continue working hard. It is a shame you need a job too but maybe you could work part time and continue to work really hard on your sites. I currently work roughly 37 hours in a week and am developing my site after those hours - and I still am able to do things like play soccer and see friends etc. This suits me because I have financial security and the website income (which is currently non-existent) is a bonus. The fact that your site has already made $100 is a great credit to your efforts - just be patient and maybe look at some advert optimisation techniques - ie. making sure the ads are correctly placed, your keywords are good etc etc.