What percent of Adsense sites earn that first $50?

I've been running a couple sites over the last few months. Contrary to a lot of the Adsense hype out there, it does not seem easy to actually earn that first $50. If you pick a specialized area, then you don't get much traffic and even when you do get visitors the the ads don't pay much. If you pick a site based on high paying keywords, the competition kills you.

Has anyone heard what percent of sites out there actually make enough for that first Adsense payment. My guess is that Google is getting lots of money from its advertisers that Google never has to pay out to publishers, as the publishers do not get enough in their account.

Everett

 

I agrees with you

 

very true it's very difficult to earn the first adsense check. here is alot of competition and many other things which tends to slow the adsense income or some what stop income. but still their is much place to get on top and earn money.

 

A few years back you could simply take the number of participants in Adsense, and divide by the reported earnings from Google and arrive at an average of about $50 per site. You could probably still do that if you could figure out the number of participants.

Average means nothing.

And it's not easy to make money, it's work.

But the people that have figured out how to WORK Adsense can make some good money. And many of the early adopters making big money got banned by gaming the system. Google took some pretty big checks from people with their

Ban them and never talk to them policy

So you are on to something here. Most of what you read about Adsense by people claiming how to make big money is BS. Most but not all.

There are no real "tricks" that can be applied across the board.

And it's not about "High Paying Keywords" stuffed into your site.

It's about targeting niches in industries that have a volume of advertisers willing to spend. Then creating a balance of content that both attracts visitors but leaves them wanting more (i.e. willing to click your ads).

 

"Google took some pretty big checks from people with their Ban them and never talk to them policy"

Really? So if you get banned they don't pay what they owe you? I never heard that before.

I have no idea and don't care what percent of sites never make enough to get to the 1st payout. Adsense works for me and I get paid plenty every month. I figure there's a lot more chance I won't get paid by some fly-by-night AM network than by Google and as long as you follow ToS chances are you won't get banned since whatever you're making on Adsense G is making a whole lot more.

 

I think you just have to work at it. If it was that easy, everyone would just put together couple hundred sites that would bring $50 and retire.

Pulling in income from these sites take determination, analysis and time.

stick with it, read the forums. The answers are all here.

 

Its true its hard work for that first check,but nothing worth anything comes easy! So your wondering how many people make it to their first $50 ,hopefully everyone should,I dont see why they wouldnt ,its been over 3 months and im soooo close like 3 dollars away ,thats all from the same site too almost no clicks on my directories,or my diet site ,but I have been blastin ads on The List Auction .Now I'm excited to run banner impressions from King Of Traffic ,not to toot my own horn but they are on sale right now!

So besides SEO what are you guys doing to get people to your site?

 

Owning and operating a website is a long term commitment. Not many people have the patience to actually see these things through to the end. Patience is all you need, keep building backlinks to your sites to get traffic.

 

I would have earned that first $50, If I wasnt banned.

 

Really? So you were banned before making $50 and Google did not pay you what was owed? Did you email or ask about the balance outstanding?

 

I earn with adsense, but I agree that adsense is overrated. People put to much stock in Google products, I actually earn more outside of adsense then I do with adsense. I continue to use adsense only because it's a safe bet that it'll be there tomorrow, but it pays like 1/2 of what you can make with other sites - and I'm not just talking about ad systems or affiliate marketting. Sometimes the weirdest option pays off the best.

Anyways if you're having trouble with adsense look elsewhere.

 

It says in Google Adsense TOS that they don't have to pay you outstanding balance if you get banned, it's theirs to keep..

Sad, but true.

I'm interested to know your other ways of making revenue?

 

The reassuring fact is that after the first $100 is paid it gets easier, because your site/sites are established and drawing lots of viewers. And also you become more savvy and interesting with your posts and pages.

 

Wow, I guess I never noticed that line in ToS since its not relevant to me. That shouldn't even be legal and yeah, I'd guess they have accumulated millions with that clause :-(

 

I havnt asked for it, By banned I should has said Per-site, Basically they disabled the ads in the site in my sig, So I am still able to use adsense elsewhere, Just not on that URL

 

so they ban per site not per account?

 

Well, after Googling this topic (oh, the irony) I guess I can see why they might keep those monies if click fraud is the reason a site or account has been banned. However this seems like yet another example of Google getting away with being virtually a monopoly who's business practices the US government has no interest or means of monitoring more closely.

Now I'm really curious exactly how much money Google has made by keeping monies from accounts and sites they decided to ban. If they decided to ban my account and keep one month of my earnings I'd be really pissed and it wouldn't be a trivial amount of money. Makes you wonder how they get away with so much monopoly-like stuff.

 

Google doesnt keep the money if they ban you. They say they give it back to the publishers. I would think they would be in a lot of legal trouble if they actually kept the money.
As for the percent that doesnt make it, im sure its high, people just think ohhh easy money and its not. You have to have the skills to make it work. Not every joe schmoe that signs up for an account will be rich...

 

Section 11 of ToS:

"Google reserves the right to withhold payment or charge back Your account due to any of the foregoing or any breach of this Agreement by You, pending Google's reasonable investigation of any of the foregoing or any breach of this Agreement by You, or in the event that an advertiser whose Ads are displayed in connection with Your Property(ies) defaults on payment for such Ads to Google."

 

yup its not as easy as people they say..you need to spend lots of money to get the first payout.. for bringing good regular traffic and all.