Almost quit Adsense, glad I didn't

If you want to beat the learning curve on optimization of your Google Adsense site purchase the videos in my signature. All the best.

 

Congrats! I noticed you have 4 ads on your homepage, I believe that violated the TOS. I'd recommend removing one of them.

 

congrat dude...althought my earning currently is still low i hope i have to maintain to improve my traffic.

 

Congrats - I'm glad the extra bit of work optimizing the ads has paid off for you

 

Good job! Remember slow and steady wins the race!

 

You might want to do it especially since Google visits this site AND at least some of the links on here mostly likely.

 

i am also in the same process, a bit further, growing slowly.. congrats... with your achievement but,

if i hear all people here.. the $5 dollar mark a day is big? a little bit depressive.., i don't know if I am happy or not. Is this a normal mark?

It's a nice start but when you have $5 a day.. you want more. I thought $5 a/d is more for starters.

 

Yep you're right you can be making a lot more if you learn to optimize!

 

no, there are 3 ad units and 1 link unit, which is allowed under TOS

 

JackBurton threw in a piece of advice on the previous page:

It sounds too easy to be true? Jack, tell us, how do we do this, and is it really that easy? Sorry I'm so dumb, but I don't even know the name of a single CPM network, let alone which is the best one to use.

 

I'm making around that a day, but my site has only been up nearlly two months starting with nothing.

 

Congrats I,m Right at that point just waiting for it to take off

 

I have to admit I know nothing about them. Do they tell you up front the $ you get? And I would not want any pop-ups or anything obnoxious like that.

 

Congrats! I almost quit as well but I persevered and suffered through the smart pricing. Now I'm almost about to cross the $xxxx threshold for one month. 6 more days left in the month.

 

Pop-ups and interstatials are where the money is (you can set them to pop up or run an interstatial for one visitor a day, so it's really no hassle if you have content for them). But if you just want to run banners, you can. You can make anywhere from .30-cent CPM to 1.00 for traditional banners depending on who you are with. They tell you the rates each ad will be paying, and you can choose to serve or not (or at least, most networks give you this option).

Apply to Valueclick Media (formerly Fastclick), Tribal Fusion, and Casale Media. Those are the top 3 CPM networks out there, and they give you a lot of choices about what you want to serve, and control over your ads. Those are the only three I can recommend in good faith, because everyone else is, well, everyone else.

 

Wow, more success stories. I've been with Google for about 3 years now and they always gave me pleasing results.

 

@strangelife

that's good indeed.. I think you re thinking now of making more sites?

my experience is also that if I make a new site.. most of the time it takes 4 weeks and then my earnings start. sometimes the same day.. but that's just caused by my submitting activities.. but i always try to get dmoz ranking etc etc.. unique content

i think it this way.. nobody can work 24 h a/d.. this adSense and Advertisement is 24 h a/d. If you want to have 1500 euro a month you need 50 euro a day. That's 2 euro a hour (with ten sites, 20 ct a site a hour). It 's really a lot of work to get there, but I thought more people had achieved this.

I would anyone suggest to make simply more sites. Or split up you sites in more topics.. simply make more.. and optimize..

@jackburton2006
I am always a little bit scared for Pop Up advertising etc.. I think it's annoying for visitors.. But definately interesting ($)

 

I am a bit concerned about the pop up advertising too.

 

Congratulations, Good job.
did you have 700 uniques /day when you started Adsense ?, it's a good beginning.

 

It was more like 550 a day when I started adsense. But the biggest change has been the click-through-rate.