Read the whole post and replies on webproworld.com . Some sites are successful with adsense as free, blogs,informational(e.g educational) sites. The problem is mainly with e-commerce sites , which are selling products,services,newletters,... Janeth herself stated in a reply that after reading ppl's replies and thinking a bit , she admit some sites would be successful with adsense( like the ones i mentioned above) And people, don't forget there are guys over there making thousands per month (plentyoffish,digg to namea few).Also check google's case studies, or ask some users here like Shoemoney. Again the main problem is if you'r running a business site selling something, and even this might still benefit from adsense -or might not-. The post is extremely useful and important, no wonder they -webproworld webmasters- put it in their newletter. It made me think a lot , and I just have several topics that rose in my mind and probably will be mentioning in new threads
Hi everyone, I never expected my little rant to get as big as it did. We started off playing around with being a publisher. It was not with Google but actually with another guy that had flown out here to talk to us about building some sites for his network; he was a publisher with Overture. (I’m in Colombia S.A) We kept hearing about how much money everyone else was making and we pushed hard to try and make the same type of money. The post at WPW was not about us being successful as we were far from it. I really wrote that as I had just stopped doing the ads and was a little upset at myself for letting it go on for so long and get so out of control. I had pretty much let my design business stop as I was trying to make all the money as a publisher. We were depending on one guy for our check every month and had started spending almost as much as we were making on advertising, building more sites and hosting. It seemed every time I turned around another bill was due. I was breaking even at the end of every month and every time I would get the business to make a little more money the bills would go up a little as well. I’m sure there is places were you start getting ahead but I just never seem to get there. When I say I broke even that was after paying my bills and I do have a nice house and live well. But to really make the money I think you need a lot more money then I had to put into it. You need to do a lot more advertising then I was able to afford to do and really need a lot of people to keep up with the hosting, sites, content, domain names and advertising. We were lucky as the guy we were using showed us the clicks as they happened, so if there was a problem we knew about it right then. We also saw how much we were getting per keyword and were able to set the site up for the keywords we choose. This allowed us to do a lot of testing. I had no problem with the guy we were a publisher for but more with the aggravation of needing more money to make more money. We had to find an expensive accountant because in a 3rd world country that’s known for drugs we had a tough time explaining to the government what it was we were doing. I also had to bring a dead business back to life when I finally decided to stop being a publisher and go back into business for myself. My design business was doing around $6,000.00 a month before I got out and started doing the other. I never meant to stop the design business it just that the other started taking up all my time. I can’t help but think of how much further along I might be if I had never gotten into being a publisher. Maybe I should have worded my post a little better as I never meant for anyone to thing I was bragging about $10,000.00 a month as it’s very small compared to a lot of people. We were doing direct deposits but if you need to see my house or my bank statements to prove I’m not lying I guess I can do that. But again I’m not claiming to have been successful as I said before.
Thanks for clarifying the situation, Janeth. When you mentioned $10 000 a month I think the normal reaction is to focus on the money, and not consider the time and money you had to spend in order to reach that level. When a lot of publishers are struggling to get to that first cheque, it does seem like an awful lot by comparison.
well,well look who's here, Hi ma'am , pleased to seeu here, didn't know ur a DP member. Anyway, I've got an idea that could improve adsense as regards the point you were mentioning about competition mainlky. Check this thread: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=118784 I mailed you an email with it, at ur geeksonsteroids account thanks for your sharing
I’m not much of a writer but was a little upset when I was trying to bring my business back to life and even got a little more upset when the business did more the first week then I was making with AdSense. Of course this is a good time for the design business as everyone is getting ready for Christmas. One other thing was that with the design business more of it was profit then with the ads. But the post was more of a rant and I really didn’t think I would get much of a response out of it. Guess I was wrong. There is good and bad with both. I think with enough money to put into the business you can get a good bit of profit out. If you have enough sites it’s not seasonal. It would be a steady income. But I think people that think they are going to build a site rank it in the search engines and make a killing are missing the boat. It takes as much work or actually more then a regular business site would. If I was going to continue (which I’m not) to do it I think I would also set up an account for each of my sites. That way if I lost an account I would not loose everything. I would also become a publisher for a lot of different places. But keep in mind that I could be wrong about everything people like shoemoney may have figured out a lot better ways of doing stuff then me.
Yup.. That's right. You kill your own business if you do this kind of marketing. Anyhow Adword is good for marketing your product/sales.
Yes I have also emailed you back and that is actually how I found the thread. The company I was using actually allows you to make your own keywords for the site. I have an email to them, if they say its ok I’ll post their name here. Just not sure how they feel about it and I don’t think they like me very much right now.