Hi, I was just wondering about the present adsense situation and what will it be say after 2 years. It seems that almost all the words who can pay good have already taken and there are lot's of good sites on them. This leaves you with topics which gets less traffic and to concentrate on them. If this trend continues, than in next two years it will become almost impossible for newbies who have no site to earn anything from adsense by building a site. In short, is the market getting saturated and the opportunities getting lesser for newbies to earn something ?
Ya Jean Luc is right, I don't think the market is saturated yet, newer stuffs get on net everyday and try not to compete with big adsense publishers
The internet is SO new~ Have you even considered what life was like 10 years ago? I remember 1996 at MSFT when we (I was an employee) just received access to the internet AT WORK. I have forgotten the internet tool I used, but it was cool, actually really cool, it pulled news into my pc, and it was the first of its time. The internet in total is (to me) is just 10 years old. There is incredible, informative and free information available to all. My only point being is that I agree with Jean Luc, but I can clearly see how people limit their imagination based on what has been done before. The internet is not done, it is still expanding. We are all at a pre model-T. I am continuing to develop my site. It was not developed on keywords, or PPC. My site is my passion; the content is based on my opinions. In my opinion, this will keep my site in the running in the long run. A quality site should be easier to write for. I am in the process of learning all that I can, and my opinion is that it is changing too fast right now for us to truly evaluate on the fly. Corina
agree with all here so far. We should remember that the internet is growing and growing, that the numbers of people all over the world getting access is growing hugely, and that English is increasing as a world language... so there should be plenty of room for another angle on a popular topic, a slightly different take, etc. In terms of the advertising competition for high-paying keywords, yes, that's a problem. So it's a good idea to find a niche...
However I think that Adsense itself best works for Google only. It's good in the begining, during the time you have less traffic. Is anyone asking himself, why Google never publish percent of revenue they take from a click. Because it's probably around 60% maybe more. They know if this percent hit the public they could loose many publishers in favor of other ad networks. I beleive that Yahoo have much better rates at this time. Probably they will lower that rates once they attract enough publishers.
There is absolutely no limitations on what you can achieve. Surely, trying to get into overly saturated markets will be tough to make a good coin, but afterall, you don't need to shoot for the top of the mountain right away. Establish yourself in a niche market that pays well, invest effort and time into it... and if you do better than the next guy, there is no reason not to do better than anyone else when it comes to revenue. Just believe in yourself and devote time to a project, see how it does. Expand your horizon, learn from others and do it better. No need to reinvent the wheel, make it roll rounder.
Another thing. Don't make the same mistake I made in the beginning and get discouraged by the overwhelming vastness of the web. I know, it can be a scary place, and seeing other people's numbers shouldn't scare you off, it should motivate you to do it better.
Yes, you have to have a good content site to have good adsense on your site. But remember, it is the advertisers, not the publishers, that control the ads and the cpc. Look at the keywords and the bids for them for the past 6 months. What is a high paying keyword today, is a low paying one shortly. And vice-versa. Advertisers are getting smarter as they see what is happening with adsense and the many sites coming on board every day. Lot of advertisers are now niching their keywords (eg: instead of bidding high for ford autos, now it is ford fusion). This gets their ads on sites that have greater relevancy to their keywords than just plain auto sites. Publishers have to build content to match those high paying keywords and then get the traffic flowing in.
The market is definitely not saturated. These types of questions are from someone who isn't acting...just asking. You see here all the time successes. I read DAILY about $20/$50/$300 day posts. Continue to build sites and add fresh content your sites. There will always be new niches that aren't saturated. New markets that haven't even been developed or thought up yet. LIke someone else said, the internet is ONLY 10 years old. We still have a lot of growing up to do.
You need to think niche. Try to make money in areas where there isnt much competition and always offer good content.
Your comment/question reminds me of the famous person (whose name I don't recall) who stated, in the late 1800's, that everything that could ever be invented had already invented and there was no need to try to invent anything new. The point is that there is ALWAYS opportunity. You can either find/create new areas of opportunity, or dive into an existing area and do it better/differently than everyone else. I found the "better/different" approach to work best for me.
I think that the thread starter made a very valid point here. It's not only applicable to Google Adsense but to any means of generating revenue from making websites. There is a trend and a scary vision that small publishers won't be able to achieve success because the internet giants were and will be there first and if any new big thing sees the light they wil be the first ones to jump on it and take over. Consider myspace, del.icio.us, flickr who are now controlled by FOX and Yahoo!. The only way to survive is to get big and rich enough while we can. The future isn't too bright for novices in any field but there always will be exceptions to the rule. However, it will be harder to achieve success in the future.
I think even the most minimal site can cover it's hosting and domain registration costs with adsense. The rest is profit!
I think it was the US Patents Office.. hehehe.. Anyway, I think the key here is creating more quality pages for your site. Even if you are in a saturated market, if you offer more "products" then you will eventually get ahead of your competitors.
I think earnings are only limited to your ability to put up a quality site. I see too many publishers focusing on Adsense and not on their site users. This is a critical mistake because the site users are the ones who make Adsense pay!