There are some good ideas in this thread that could be very helpful to some that are just starting out..
I see a lot of sites owned by BIG adsense publishers with pictures over or beside the ads. I don't know if this is defined in the TOS. If it isn't, then alls fair. You can't go by a thread in a forum.
Very true, but many of them who are using a border now (the ones who earlier weren't) claim so. So, IMO it would be best to confirm through a quick mail to AS team regarding this, before using it, just to secure ur own ass.
The guy with the car site (Ron) obviously utilized some very good SEO techniques to get to the top of the SERPS. No denying that. Did he stop there? Of course not- he went on to produce a bunch of MFA pages to go with his little empire!
Yeah, I see that too. My point is that some of these people I am referring to have account managers who oversee things. I think they would have filled them in if there was a problem.
Um, don't you need more than 5 million page views or something to have an account manager?? Or, are you talking about Adwords account managers? Re the original question, I have heard of people who make more than $5k a day from Adsense. One site that was mentioned to me a few days ago was plentyoffish.com. It's a free dating site and apparently makes $10k a day from Adsense. I would be happy if I ever got to $5 - $10k a month. I would quit my job immediately and travel and work from Starbucks around the world ..... :sigh: .... Well, back to work I guess.
Hi all, I've been trying to read as many of the posts in this forum as I can, and honestly I'm very confused. I really believe it should be possible to earn $5k per month, however I don't know how, and at present I would be happy with just 10% of that number. So, may I ask a question, and if I'm hijacking the thread please be patient with me? Can anyone in this thread who also believes $5k per month is possible point me to just one or two threads in the DP forum where I can learn more and be confident that the information is true and accurate? Thanks for your help, and if I can help anyone in return I will. Carl
I suggest you start at $1 per day then worry about 5k per month. It takes hard work, and that's it. You can read all the threads here and everywhere else, but it's the effort you put in that will determine your results.
Hey, thanks for the kind words about me. While I have posted that my sites makes $xx to $x,xxx per day, I should point out that only 17% of that is from AdSense. As you get bigger, other advertising avenues are open to you.
A small publisher can't go by what a "BIG" (premium) publisher is doing. They have a different set of rules. The graphic above/beside the ads has been played out in the thread for that. The general consesus is if you are in doubt ask Google. They will tell you if you are OK or not.
I also agree it is possible. The most impressive thing is that he got #1 rankings for both terms with what seems like very little web development and SEO knowledge. A bit of luck perhaps? He does have some good backlinks. Here is a little math (beware I'm no math expert) - The daily searches for both cool cars and fast cars combined are showing around 14,000 per day according to Wordtracker. Being number one for both terms it's possible that 80% of people searching those terms click through to his homepage, that's 11,200. If he gets 5% CTR (easily possible with the placement) on his homepage and gets an average of .20 per click, that is $112 per day just from his homepage from Google click throughs. If he is getting an 80% visitor rate from Google searches, a 10% CTR and averages .30 per click his homepage makes $336 per day just from Google searches. Now that his friend outed him on a webmaster forum he will see competition from the vultures very soon and may lose his top spot. I wouldn't be too happy about that if I were him. I'm sure he will find this thread soon.
5 k is a lot per month when you are just starting. At the moment it looks a million miles away to me but i will just keep plugging away, knowing that figure is achievable.
Why wouldn't the guy be happy? The more people make it to his site, the more chance he has of getting those MFA pages working for him. Has anyone else noticed how obviously Made For Adsense they are? Obviously created for SERPS.
So you think all of the webmasters from here are going to rush over to his site to click his Adsense ads? Doubt it!
Firslty I DON'T make 5k a month BUT surely you could apply some simple logic here. If you have a 25 page site with good content, reasonable SERP/Traffic and niche ads paying say £0.25 then making $12 a day is not unfeasible. 16 sites = $192 a day = $5760 a month Like many people I have read all the so called "gurus" Adsense books about ad placement/colour blending etc but that will only IMPROVE exsting earnings not CREATE them. As I see it the only way to make $5k+ is a simple algorithm of lots of traffic x lots of pages x reasonable paying ads. If you actually put that into practice then I would think $5k is eminently achievable.
You have brought this topic to the first page after 2 years. I think it is already proven that many guys here make good money on adsense.