That's great, but don't relax, keep on building another website with another niche and see how it goes.
Good advice, I can see how this can be frustrating after a couple of months. I am sure some people even quit at that point. I don't expect to be rich from this, but a decent supplemental income would be nice.
1eight i'm a member over at ssec and I LOOOOVE the software, but don't exaggerate man, $100 in the first 12 days is NOT achievable. Again, I respect you and your software VERY MUCH but your claim is not average and definitely not easy AT ALL!
lol why not? You can make 100 in first day too...just get linked from a high traffic site. bah noooblets.
my advice is to keep adding pages. I did this, and one day I added a single page that revolutionized my income. Still that one page earns more than all the other pages combined, after several months. Once you hit a goldmine like that, you can expand from there...
If you are having only adsense as your source of income and a dedicated server to host the site then be careful. Adsense might ban you any time. Dont rely on one source of income. Put some other sites with YPN or other ads. You might also put sites that sell products. This way you will be able to manage your dedicated server costs even if you get banned from adsense.
Was there anything about that single page that was significantly different to the rest of the site? (eg. was it something people linked to more?).. Even better, did you know when you added that page that it was going to be popular? With one of my sites a post got linked to from a Japanese site and wow - those visitors "converted" amazingly well Funny part is it was a rather average post..