Ordinary People- Extraordinary Adsense Success

One couple blogged about their home reconstruction and made money to help pay the mortgage on their new house.

Andrew Leyden, former House Commerce Committee counsel and founder of a dot-com venture that failed, started PodcastDirectory.com, a search engine for podcasts.
As the site's popularity rose from a hundred hits a month in 2004 to nearly a million now, Leyden started making the equivalent of an entry-level government worker's salary -- $30,000 to $40,000 a year -- simply because people clicked on ads. That allowed him to work at home in Chesapeake Beach, Md., trying to make more money by attracting still more traffic to his site.

David Miles Jr. and Kato Leonard, two 20-year-olds in Louisville, Ky., say they collect $100,000 a month from their year-old site, Freeweblayouts.net, which gives away designs that people can use on MySpace social-networking pages.

Jock Friedly's business, Storming Media, allows users to download public documents; he used the money his Web site made on ads for new online ventures.
Friedly has since started PatentStorm, a site where businesses can search patent records without outside investment. "In essence, Google has turned into a venture capital or an angel investor in my business."
But if Google giveth, it also taketh away, Friedly said. As people put up more sites that compete with his for traffic, the number of hits on his main site has declined.

Matther Daimler, 28, developed an obsession with finding the most comfortable airplane seats on the long business flights he took.
n 2001, he took to cataloging on his SeatGuru site all the seats on his usual United Airlines flight, rating them for best legroom, the most recline, access to video and audio entertainment, and nearness to different types of laptop power sources. Soon, at the request of people who read his site, he started taking information on other flights. He now keeps track of seats on 34 airlines.
Daimler and his wife now work full time on SeatGuru, which gets 700,000 visitors a month. About half the site's revenue comes through AdSense -- $10,000 to $20,000 a month.

Care to add to these stories, and explain why you haven't been able to experience these successful stories with an idea of your own?

...or have you?

 

Can anyone add to this list?
It gives the rest of us reason to live....errr, I mean publish. = )

 

If you're going to copy and paste random paragraphs from various news websites in hopes of making a shitty post, at least cite the sources

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/27/AR2006072701622_pf.html

http://www.duluthsuperior.com/mld/duluthsuperior/15157578.htm

to name a few.

 

I can't give you my success story yet, but I am definitely on my way. Hope to quit my job by next year with online revenue.

 

how many different ways are you making money online valueman

 

Claymation, whats YOUR success story, you've only copied and pasted but havent shared one.

 

Forget these success storys. You guys will be reading about mine in 5-6 months. Then you can tell people how I was bred on digitalpoint.

really though, I have a lot of ideas that are going to make money. My friend and I have 2 more ideas to start this month, and I have a lot more ideas for ventures, I just don't have the money to start most of them

Were working on some software right now that should change things for us.


Okay, to summerize my ramblings: I'm not rich yet off adsense or any of my ideas because I don't have the money to get any more hosting/domains. One is a software idea and the other is a .com, just without the hosting I can't do anything for the next week or 2. My other sites need to mature a bit. I'm 19 years old though, so at one point or another you will read about a success story featuring me.

 

Look around for a host that allows multiple domains.

 

It's really cool that somone can earn that much for just sitting in a chair and looking at a computer screen!

 

You won't build a successful web site by copying news releases and using other people's content. Other people read the news too.

 

I'm looking for that too. A good hosting provider is hard to find, from my point of view.

 

*** allows multiple domains for less than 10 $

 

micfo is a good one too. I host all my sites there and am on lifetime hosting for a grand total of $300 never pay a sent mpre

 

For those that accuse me of copying and pasting anything- it so happens it was on a buddy of mines blog, and he did NOT want his link posted here, for whatever reason.
It's childish posts like yours that keep the serious webmasters over at WMW, avoiding DP like the plague.
This place has turned into some kind of bashfest playground, and that doesn't help anyone in the end.
(Brizzad and Kevinn- great contributions by you guys notwithstanding...HAHA)
Forgive me for not noticing that the two of you have such stellar credentials that allow you to pass judgement and hurl expletives that really cheapen DP.
Amateur stuff Brizzad- grow up already.

BTW- I wasn't asking for your success stories, nor had I any intention of posting mine- because I'm not there yet.
The question was whether you could add any names to the list of the relatively elite few that have gone over the top with this program.