I keep reading this blogs that supposedly are making over $10k.. do you guys think this is real? give me your opinion
its all about quality content, and regular updates... plus a decent real time sitemap for google webmaster tools
I believe it's not so much about quality but quantity. The blogs that make that amount of money from adsense usually have a huge amount of traffic, I mean really huge. Talking about viral traffic, viral content: funny memes, funny videos, entertaining stuff, stupid things. Most of the traffic comes from social networks. Most of the content gets recycled along the way. IMO that's the best way to get real earnings from AdSense.
Its possible I read on a site how to generate this kind amount of money. Read here http://www.minterest.org/how-much-traffic-do-you-need-to-make-money/ If you are getting tons of traffic I suggest you sell your ad space rather than doing adsense you can sell your adspace here https://www.buysellads.com
It all depends on the amount of traffic and care, some blogs can success in few months, some have been around for years to achieve this. I personally used to make 40 euros a day from adsense, apparently forgot to renew the domain and someone bought it and asking for too much to get it back, the amount he asked is unrealistic, so I made a new domain hoping that my articles will bring the same amount of traffic since all he did was park the domain, guess what, I never got back my traffic and I am trapped in the past till now, recently I started to develop and write again, but to be honest the competition isn't low like before, you write something and find 10k copy cats taking your niche and kick you from the first page, the worst thing is some of them have your own content without even a link back, black hats that google never care to remove. with the experience I have I can start autopilot ripping off people content but I would never do what I hate to be done to me, so I am working clean, it's slow but it's rewarding.
Let me know if this helps you... How To Create A Blog That Makes $10,000.00 Per Month...In 30 Days If you'd like to make a blog that generates $10k a month, here is one way to do it. Step 1: Write, design, develop, create, build 3.34 web pages each day in a blog for 30 days. Step 2: Optimize each page to achieve a top page ranking for a profitable keyword phrase and or promote each page so it receives enough targeted traffic to generate sales. Step 3: Hit a minimum profit goal of $3.34 per page Result: 100 web pages x $3.34 profit each = $334 per day x 30 days = $10,200.00