To put things in proper perspective - or NOT. The average Major League Baseball player now makes about 3 mil a year and only has to hit the ball 1 in 4 tries to stay in the league. The Average NBA player makes over 5 mil a year and only has to put the ball in the basket 4 out of 10 times. So what's the point? The point is it DOESN'T MATTER WHAT OTHER PEOPLE MAKE. But I will say that there are some good points made in the original post ... in particular the use of a single block of ads.
Im going to be honest and say that I have only made about $8.00 Im only 14 and Im still learning about making websites if anyone could help me out, please pm me, I have 3 domains I can use.
Low $xxx,xxx on about 40-50 sites that we manage or have managed... since about 2003. Adsense is a great "hands-off" approach, but the revenue from carefully managing specific affiliate programs (at CJ, Performics, Linksynergy, etc) can be far more lucrative.. just requires a bit more effort. Rob
Adsense has so far paid me USD$16,362.60 from March 2006 .. Things are getting much better this year with more new strategies and change in proven effective ad placements being done on all the pages.
nice work surf dude! congrats! i enjoy threads like this, it's nice to see people making money from their hard work... and hopefully it can inspire those that are new to the adsense game. cheers!