I'm actually quite surprised just how many people here are earning over $1000 a month with adsense, over a quarter! It's really quite impressive. What I will be really interested to see is if these figures continue over the coming months or if we will see an improvement with our ever growing knowledge and understand of how to make money with Adsense...
For me the pattern has been consistently one of "two steps forward; one step back." I build something and traffic/revenue goes up, then something goes wrong and I slip backwards -- but not quite to where I was. I then build more and surpass my previous high, then something goes wrong and I slip backwards -- but not quite to where I was. It can be a stomach churning roller-coaster if you are not able to take a very long-term view on the process.
I should be improving the best of my existing sites and selling off my excess sites. Instead, I am improving all of my existing sites, failing to sell of my excess sites, and even planning on the addition of new sites. One path is smart business, the other path is what I want to do.
Well if it makes you feel any better I too definitely suffer from this, and yet for some reason I still spend as much time if not more on trying to get the "duds" (in my case) to work and I'm struggling to see why they aren't... if I was smart I'd cut the dead weight and refocus on what is working and expanding on them and creating new ventures. I think in my case its just the fact that I look to those "duds" and attach too much pride in my work on them to just say "well they sucked - lets move on"... I would imagine that I'm not the only one out there with this problem either...
I am encouraged Making consistently between $1000 - $1500, on one site. So when I get to 20 websites, then I will hit the $20,0000, don't you think?! Content, content, Content Been at it about a year -
That's a very good result for a one year old site imo (especially if you are making all of this just from Adsense). You must be getting quite a bit of traffic to generate this sort of Adsense income too (50k to 200k uniques a month would be my guess, will depend on your industry though). Good luck with your sites.
That is very good - how are you looking for April and onwards? That's great news and very impressive earnings for someone who has only been at it for a year.
Will - Congrats! There are lots of different roads to get to some nice daily revenue numbers ... good to see someone doing it taking the white hat approach I'll admit we've failed thus far on the white hat side of things ... for 2005 we spent over $150k in white hat projects that failed. Thank god for the darker side of things I haven't blogged in a couple of months but I need to make a full post about my past 17 days ... went underground without inet to focus on a project (white hat even). Was amazing how much more you can get done without constantly checking forums, checking adsense, checking email, checking news, responding to IM's, etc., etc. Anyway ... saw your great post and wanted to say congrats. You've been working at it a long time and deserve to be getting the payoff. Nice job!