look at my website http://www.sms4funny.com i want to tell you that don't use this niche .. VERY LoW Payment not getting morthan $.01 i am so angry now. i waste money for domain and hosting. don't start website like this. that's waste of your timeeeee but i love adsense , my another blog is working good for adense
why not build traffic and PR, then sell text links and banners to help make up for your adsence low payments
A lot of success stories with Adsense are people who have built websites for the love of it, established a good web presence and then added Adsense. Most (but not all) people who build sites with the idea of making money with Adsense fail.
I know lots of people that run sites related to these kind of low paying niches (e.g. free games, mobile stuff, sms, etc), and they earn good money by getting huge trafiic. this type of sites are hard to earn from bu very easy to build traffic, I am sure if you can make upto 200 uniques a day you will be getting some where around 4-7$ a day from this niceh which is not bad, just learn how to build traffic. And trust there are trillions of teens searching google right now for sms messages. I am sure if you can make it to top for any propular keword you would be earning good money. I am saying this because I my self run a website related to entertainment! best of luck
Man .. if your site doesn't show good results with adsense and you have a good taffic and alexa rank then Sell ad. space ... Go to trade forums here in dp and post your offers with traffic proofs and realistic prices .
Hmm you should have done the keyword search before setting up the website. This is google keyword search tool : https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal You will need to enable Average CPC from 'Choose Columns to display' When I searched 'Funny SMS', the highest CPC was about $1 dollar. That's what AdWords advertiser will pay for that keyword to be shown. I am not sure what percentage AdSense Publisher is getting, but if it's %10 , you are getting average of 10 Cents or less per click.
I agree is now how much you get paid per click is how many clicks you can get a day and the only way lots of clicks is with traffic and for that you need to work in your ranking.
You can still make good use of this site. For eg. you could use it to provide backlinks to other sites you have or build. I did this for one of my sites. It turned out it pays very little, and it really is active only for a few months in the year. However, I built that site to PR3 and it has served me well in building some backlinks to another site.
It's just that the site sucks. You can't really claim the niche is no good when the site looks like no effort whatsoever was put into it. I'm sure the idea itself isn't that bad, won't make you a millionaire, but it might pay off eventually. The site really needs more work though.
Any niche can be made profitable. Try increasing your traffic and CTR (with better blending and placement).
Hmm yeah... adsense has now become very specific..!! Its really hard to earn from niches like sms etc