You have probably heard some people say that AdSense only pays a few cents per click. Of course the amounts vary. Some are low and some might be considered to be reasonably high. There are some of Google's advertising partners who don't make very much while others make a great deal of money. What is paid for those clicks can really add up if you have the right type of site that does well with AdSense, and if you have a good volume of traffic. During the first 3 months of this year, Google paid their advertising partners a whopping one billion four hundred ninety million dollars ($1,490,000,000.00) in commissions. Yes, those clicks can add up. Google's first quarter profits beat the expectations of analysts. Profits were up by 30 percent. Google's first quarter revenue was 5.19 billion dollars. This was the 12th quarter out of the 15 since Google went public that it has performed better than analysts had expected. Here are a couple of articles with more details: http://www.businessweek.com/technolo...eek+exclusives http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080417/earns_google.html?.v=10
Premium publishers never used have to put 'ads by google' with their ads either, is that still true? I think I heard they were going to change that, but I may have dreamed it.