I'm in the same boat. I want 3k from adsense and 3-5k from affiliates per month (stay diversified ) .. I've been stuck at half my goal on both for several months... and now with that damned yahoo update I'm going to spend the next month just climbing back
Agreed... I'm not where near you (the biggest AdSense check I ever got was around $9,500 and it's usually around $7k), but I don't have a single "made for AdSense" site, so... It's just nice "free" money that I wouldn't have gotten otherwise (while still running the same sites).
This just in......... ShoeMoney will be releasing his new ebook "Envy Me - How I make all you look bad" A comprehensive guide to adsense. Jonh Wannabe reviewed the ebook.... "It's a great book if you can just read around all the adsense ads." In his new bok he will give away all his secrets....... well, most of them anyway..... Do you really think he would tell all? You must be dumb enough to buy the book. Once everyone buys his ebook he will then start writting a new ebook "How to make money selling ebook's."
btw, shoemoney, is that a coincidence or a joke (see the title of this thread http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=14115 and your earnings in June)? TommyD, is that what you were referring to?
Thank god im not making that much of money or i would be spending all day in the pub, casions and ho2436re houses. ;P
biggest fight for me is fighting the urge to increase my liablities ... ie - a new '05 corvette ... etc ... just like shawn said ... it's extra money. if it can't get bought with cash in the bank, i'm not buying it ... i've had sites go from $150 a day to $20 in 2 weeks.
that's the scary part, there is no stability in this business, unless you own a huge site that is almost like a brand name, but even then you can still get banned
yea AdSense income is so frickin volatile. I prefer annual subscriptions and rely on it for my stability.
Ok now where on topic a bit. Any idea how come i got paid 40 dollars a click last month and this month max a dollar? Is that what they call smart pricing? And if so will this change again after time?
thats what im talking about volitility. My theory is alot of newbs got in on adwords becuase of all the google hype and just went with whatever google sugested for there campaigns. If this is your niche then you just hit the jackpot if its a big company. One thing I notice in my niche is that quarter ending months I find about 30-40% more income then non quarter ending. I think its because corporations blow there quarter ending budgets... dunno volitility tho..... its what makes it fun.
Surely mobile phone and 'review' MFAs can't earn that much money.....can they? Still in 3 figures here
Indeed, I did $6800 adsense and July will be $1-$2k more but its not the type of money I can rely on so it has to be a bonus and put to other uses. I make most of my money from product sales and subscriptions, if your going into business there are two avenues that make great business sense. 1/Subscriptions 2/Consumables Consumable market is also quite volatile/competitive nowadays for obvious reasons so if you can offer a service thats subscription based, repeat billing then adsense will not dictate your life. You will know what you have made and will have a good indication of what you will make for some time to come.
yup ... One competitor less and more earnings. Guess your right on the volitility. I got a feeling that the major companies did spend it all for last month. Do you know from your experience that this will change over time again?