When people reveal how much they make with adsense, does it serve as a motivator for you or does it make you a skeptic? For me... seeing stats of others that were kicking ass served as a huge motivator to implement adsense on my own sites. I figured... if that dude can do it... surely I can too. I work every day until 6 a.m. on my sites ... sleep until noon, then get back right on my notebook and do my best to do my best. (does that make sense?) Seeing that one big money screen shot was a life changing event for me and my family.
You are right topdog, seeing stats of others gave me a kick to place adsense. Believe me, I had my all my sites without any google ads for 8 months (till Dec 2004). I came across digitalpoint and was a silent viewer of threads on google adsense. Later, I joined this forum and ended up with google ads on four of my sites.
I love reading about people making serious money with AS. My lingerie sites are really just about learning. And reading this forum has taken me from a good day being $1.50 to a good day being $25.00. Doing that has taught me tons about how to maximize the AS potential of any site I build. And reading other people's numbers inspires me to build lots!
Wow .. i must admit that you are a hardworking person. I do not have a schedule for all of my work, but i'll work as im free. You work until 6am and sleep until noon? that's only a 6 hours' sleep per day? get more rest pal ! you couldnt make any wealth if you do not have a good health Arent you working or studying? IMHO, you will still need a job to feed you life until you can really make a decent amount from internet.
heh, topdog making USD 1,000 per day from adsense. I'm sure no job will match his earning from adsense. If I'm making half of topdog earning, I will just sleep for 1 hour though
It does motivate me but I also know that Stats don't paint the whole picture. There are a lot of costs too for some of those sites including AdWords. I like seeing the big numbers but I also know what can be involved
I find it motivating. I´d never thought of AS as more than a bit of extra cash to complement advertising revenue. Now, I have a whole different perspective. Thanks Topdog, Shoemoney and the others who have been so generous with their information.
My friends when they say they have earned $$ a day, I really get frustrated and I try to motivate myself so that I beat their $$ figure, but it has'nt happend so far and it is still a distant dream!
What helped for me was setting my own goals. I wanted $20/day and once I reached that I set a new goal of $50... then $100... then $200... etc. Now I'm at $350/day and my goal is $500. Set a goal. Write it down on sticky notes and put them near your computer, on your fridge, on your bathroom mirror, etc. Also, create benchmarks. Say you want to make $20/day by next month. See if you can do it within the time limit your set for yourself. This really helps motivate me to get stuff done now instead of thinking I'll get to my goal "some day". Then you should make a plan. Say you'll create a new page every day or exchange links with 1 person every day, etc. Your plan is the most important thing because without you won't reach your goal.
well, my biggest ever day was $38 so my next target is to hit $50 in a day. Sometime before Christmas 2007 would be good Anyone else want to share their target? It´d be very motivating to be able to see people hit their targets over time.
@ Nate - how long it take before you can get USD 350 a day. It take me more than one year to get USD 50.00 now.
My biggest day was 40$ a day about 3 months back, I get around 10-12$ daily, my target is 100$/day as my friend he daily gets there some how:| ..
I am getting $100+ per day daily. My target is getting to $250+ I have to achieve that in 4 months. Lets see what happens!
Heh, I don't think he'll do that. Its his goldmine. For me, he's here sharing his tips on how he's optimize his sites for adsense ads is more than enough.