suit yourself. I have plenty of legit white hat sites that bring in the money. It's a tough market though so I use any promotion techniques that work.
My first check from them was over 100 dollars, a few months ago. Now I do about that every day based on about 300 uniques a day and around 10 sites.
wow.. and i thought i was ok! i made my first $100 in about 1 month.. now i'm working to get it in 1 week.. and hopefully like you guys! many times over .. in 1 day!
just set incremental goals for yourself. I started with 30.00 a day, then worked toward 100.00, now i've almost reached 1,000.00. Not sure how much higher it can go, but you always have to try.
31 days to get to just over $100, on my second month now and looks like thats going to be my monthly rate, for now anyway.
I've almost made enough to pay for next month's hosting bills. A few more dollars and I'll be there lol.
From first day in Adsense it took 1 month and from when I started my tested site, which brings me mostly, it was only in 11 days.
Well, I've had blog I only posted family photos for about a year, and I have made $50. Also, about $10 just from the temp page of the site I'm building. I'm optimistic that I'll hit the $100 mark within the month of the release of my site.