No sir - my oldest site was about 10 months old when I started adsense. My highest day so far was 380 and im in my 2nd month. Thanks for the compliments keikor regarding my avatar, made it in MSpaint hehe. I posted this on another thread but I will share it here too for all who have missed it. I have found (like others have aswell) a very nice way to increase CTR. I dont blend, I do the opposite, I make them stand out. Then when it comes to page content, you stir them up, get them interested in the topic. Give them info, but vague info, but the KEY is to get them INTERESTED! You have to become a salesman. Whatever your website is on, is the coolest thing you could ever do/see/read about/want to do (you catch my drift). Give them just enough info to wet their appetite, and then have your google ads in PLAIN site. I have numerous pages that have never had a day below 100% CTR.
We sir, have much in common. Throw enough shit at the wall and some is bound to stick is my forte lol.
No kidding. I'm in one of those fields he named (entertainment) and I make butkus even in my site's heyday, when I was getting 10k/uniques a day. The most I ever made during that stretch (before Google tanked me) was an average of $20-25/day.
Hi JP, I'm happilly surprised to say that I'm indeed making more than $250/day on adsense. I'm doing this from primarily one web site which gets about 7-10 million pageviews per month - all of it from word-of-mouth and organic SEO. When I started the site about 3 years ago, I did so with the hope of making $300 per month which I could put toward a travel fund. I just turned 29 and quit my "day job" about 3 months ago. I guess you can say I'm retired now. I'm still pretty giddy about it because I didn't start making a good amount until only about 3 months ago. That's when I started learning about tweeking adsense and testing everything. I had tried adsense when it first came out but it failed miserably on my site cause I made no effort to blend it into the content. BTW, I live in the Bay Area (California) and I was wondering if there are any internet entrepreneurs around here who would like to meet up once or twice a month to share ideas and tips. Send me an IM if interested. Gregg
I'm small potatoes compared to the others here, but if anyone wants to do the math with me, here goes.... I have 2 sites that run Google ads. They each got about 4500 "visits" (140,000 hits) in June. I made $250. Approximately $200 came from one site, and $50 from the other. Based just upon that, I can tell you that the more you target programmers and Web-related stuff, the less clicky people get. The more consumer-driven your site, the more clicky the visitors. If we extrapolate out, I'd need about 135,000 visits/month (4,200,000 hits) on each server to reach $250/day. That would be right on the edge of my hosting provider telling me I'd have to go to a dedicated machine. So $250/day sounds like a commitment, rather than just a lucky break that fell into a few people's laps. I guess what I'm suggesting is that, at that volume, it's not Internet dot-com euphoria that is generating trick money. That's just good, old-fashioned advertising to a big audience. Keeping the audience probably takes a lot of effort. (Just watch. Now that I've said that, these guys will tell me that they work 30 minutes a day and nothing ever goes wrong.) -Tony
Nice to see there is some people getting over $250 a day. Least I know it's possible which is a good start
4k a day? woah, I know one person who hit 3k in one day.. but just for one day, then went back down to his average 2k a day
what kind of hosting costs is this guy looking at owning 400 sites? Even with reseller accounts, if he has 20 or so sites per reseller account, its still a huge amount of hosting required (obviously he's making a heap of money, but Im thinking of the logistics of it all)
hosting is cheap. depending on the sites, 400 could be managed on 2-3 servers. at $200 /month per server, thats only around $600/month. Note: this is based on my hosting. I can easily get 100+ sites on a server.
hmmm I wonder why everyone wants to retire so badly. I would like to spend less time online, but don't think I will ever be tired of webmastering altogether.