My story starts a year ago when i first found out about google Adsense. i was sitting there credit card in hand buying my vary first domain name http://www.mymoneymakingforum.com I joined Adsense and a year later here i am only $300 richer for a long years work I guess what i am trying to say is adsense is hard work make sure you are up to it and be ready to loss some money the first couple of months
I agree that its hard earned honest money. It feels bad when people say: oh she is just a blogger, she sits on her sofa watches TV all day. They do not know how painful it is. But the thing is its your money.
In my opinion online business is more hard than others. Especially if you are going to earn from ads.
I believe that adsense is not a viable biz model on individual or a company basis unless you become facebook. There are better biz models that can give better returns.
Your one year efforts are appreciated. But I will say that you have jumped in a wrong manner. First website as forum. No sir. A forum needs substantial experience and subject matter expertise to get you in top. Moreover you just have 50 members out of which hardly you will find return visitor. So no traffic and it is obviously no traffic!!! Try some other niche and put your hard work on that.
Thats not a bad return on your investment. I do agree there are better business models to make more money but Adsense is very easy to use.
I think adsense is made for long term investment, you will defiantly get some good amount as time passed.
I disagree It's extremely easy to earn money online.. Adsense is not the only choice.. Try new things.. Such as PTC, CPA, GPT etc.. There are many other things )
grizz, i must agree with you that adsense is very challenging, and if you are not dedicated, than don't waste your time. However, if you know how,where,and create the content and get some traffic than you can easily make some good money. At $300 a year, you are not doing something right. You really don't have to waste alot of money to make money if you only knew how do to it....I doubt if anyone would share how they made money on a forum, only to see someone try and stell their idea's.