Hey, I know this sounds a small ammount for many of you who have been earning thousands from Adsense, but in January 09 I have achieved my personal best month and earned $89. This has come out of 443 clicks and very crappy CTR of 0,71%. My goals for the next two month is to find a better ad positions so I can squeeze a few more bucks! If I could only get 3 or 4% CTR, then my amount would come close to $500. Considering popularity of the site which keeps growing fast, I will soon be at $1000. Bad thing about my niche is that there are not many advertisers -low competition- and low earnings.($0,10-0,20/click) And even better news (for me), I run another website, that has twice as much traffic as this one and I have not yet monetised it.
Well, what type of ad formats are you running on your small website? If the competition is low, then try to promote it a lot more to attract the more high paying ads.
Well, I'm having one 335x280 ad banner in the top right corner and one wide sky scraper on the right, bellow top commentators and blog categories. The small website is actually not that small. Last week, it has steadily got 1000 visitors, while the other one had close to 2k visitors. Do you mean to attract private advertisers?
Last seven days brought me $3+ each day, so I guess I'l be receiving another cheque sooner than I was expecting. Of course I won't mind that And hanks for your nice words!