Does anyone make good money from Adsense?

[dashu1]

Hello,
I keep seeing people on forums etc claiming to be earning $300 per day from adsense (& these aren't people selling "how to make $300 a day from adsense" products either), but is it possible to make really good money from it?

Does anyone here do really well from adsense?

If so what's the secret?

Thx

 

[Systreg]

If so what's the secret?

Traffic!

That's all it can be, the more people visiting your site/forum, the more clicks you are going to get as a result. I expect those earning most have large forums with tens of thousands of members returning every day. There is a dating site called plentyoffish, I heard it said that they used to or still do make about $10,000 a week, or was it a month, from Adsense throughout their site.

 

[Skinner]

I referred sports nutrition company to AdBrite (didn't have a single other competitor for their new line), and I was making $50-75 a day from referrals alone for a month that they ran the adverts. It was insane how much money they spent on PPC.

AdBrite - The Internet's Ad Marketplace

I've had a few affiliate sign ups from domains and websites I've sold so I actually make more on their affiliates than I do from adverts

If I had 3-4 of them I'd turn a few grand a week easy, maybe these people have affiliates on there too ?

 

[dashu1]

Do adbrite do adult ads by any chance

 

[Skinner]

Indeed they do

Black Label Ads: The Internet's Adult Ad Marketplace is there Adult Section

Clicksor do adult too

 

[getmein]

Definitely traffic and also niche. I think that plentyoffish alledged they were making $10k a day on adsense 3 years ago. Whether it was true then, or is still true now I've got no idea. Dating is certainly a good niche and given the site gets millions of uniques a month they've got both sides of the equation.

 

[Edwin]

I am always surprised at this kind of question. Of course there are SOME people who do extremely well with Adsense or other ways of monetizing a site - all you need is some decent amount of traffic.

Getting over the "is it possible" hurdle is the first step towards succeeding yourself. It's definitely categorically 100% possible, so what you really should be trying to answer is "how can I succeed??"

 

[dashu1]

That's why I asked "whats the secret?"

I had already assumed volume of traffic & to an extent the niche must be involved, but there must be some other techniques, like types of ads, where they are placed, how much content you provide on a page, etc.

Some niches must be better suited to it than others too?

 

[pugyrob]

i hate adsense personally but it doent fit into my niche. It is giving the value of clicks to someone who can better monetise them and i prefer to try to be the oine who can better monetise them and cut out the middleman.

That said, obv high traffic niches will be best for adsense. Tattoos, movie reviews, restaurants, dating, travel etc etc i would ASSUME to be the best sites to go for. Use wordtracker and research to find under marketed niches with high traffic would be my advice.

Worrying about where to place the ads etc is putting the cart before the horse. Once you have the traffic the very best way to monetise it fully is by trying lots of different tactics with the adsense, using it in context, colour themed etc.

If you have the time, google optimizer is a good tool for this but takes a while to learn and to test pages. You can create a number of different versions of a page and test for effectiveness and conversion.

I havnt succeeded with adsense but i hardly use it either.

 

[Edwin]

Worrying about where to place the ads etc is putting the cart before the horse. Once you have the traffic the very best way to monetise it fully is by trying lots of different tactics with the adsense, using it in context, colour themed etc.

Spot on. Different sites with different audiences may optimise in very different ways. Once you have the traffic, you then also have the luxury of being able to test new ad configurations, styles and layouts very quickly, and get feedback within hours or days.

 

[Dunk111]

Hi does anyone know of any adsense / PPC's to join and add to websites other than google.

Thanks

Dunk

 

[Skinner]

AdBrite, Clicksor, Blacklabelads and if you are worthy Yahoo.

Even if you meet yahoo's requirements doesn't mean they will accept you either, and they take their sweet time to reply.

 

[retired_member12]

So is it worth all that effort with Yahoo?

 

[Skinner]

DT, Bluntly put No.

IF you have AdSense, I wouldnt bother trying for yahoo. If you can't have AdSense then Yahoo is the only true contexually accurate alternative.

ALL the others I have used are not in context with the page , for example this page has domain/webhost related ads, but if it uses any of the other ones I have tried, it may have loads, clothing, get rich quick, or anything else on it.

For exmaple one of my sites for an adult film star has this link Konami PLAY on it, which I have been playing for about 2 hours now

 

[RSK3000]

I don't understand the $300 a day claim either.

I think $300 Adsense revenue daily from search engine and type in traffic alone, is rare. There must be some sort of traffic generation system to earn this sort of return.

But the sums don't really add up in my opinion. If you are after $300 per day and on average your ads pay $3.00 per click you need 100 clicks per day. If, realistically, only 0.5% of your visitors click you need 20,000 visitors per day. Yes, that 833 visitors every hour of every day, 365 days a year!

 

[crabfoot]

Yeh, right, but it's down to a combination of targetting and SEO - and how many sites are up and running. Please bear in mind that I am learning about the website business, 3 months of poking about, but I am still a heap big novice that knows a bit about business in general.

I know a weeny bit about marketing, from my previous life. I can say that if you get a click, that is a 1 in 40 chance if everything is properly focused (ie. your site appeals to the target market), and it is a further 1 in 5 chance that the punter will buy something. That's how you get down to that 0.5% figure.

Now, in general, the heap of rubbish I have put out as websites are doing twice as good in those terms - slightly better than 1% click through to a "buy" decision. But I've recently put up a piece of trash - Bowling A Hook Ball Round The Wicket - that is attracting attention organically, no SE submissions, and significant clicks - BUT NO SALES, despite the users spending over 5 min average on site.

I know I need to block out the irrelevant Adsense ads referring to golf, bowls and cricket. And I know the site needs more content. That's not the point.

The point is that, from where I stand, the tripe I usually turn out as "content" will normally hit that 1% "buy" mark - and my latest project is a failure from that aspect. But to get 0.5% buyers assumes you have TOTAL focus and interest, even if you are "preaching to the converted". Less than that just says you are not hitting the target ...

 

[Edwin]

If $300 a day looks like a mountain, figure out how to climb a small hill first. Work on developing a site that makes $10/day, then do it again! In parallel, grow your $10/day site to $20/day and then $30/day etc.

For every site that was an "instant success" with money flowing in overnight, there are probably a thousand sites that make decent money now through HARD WORK (and a million sites making little/no money because of a lack of focus, bad topic choice, etc.)

 

[MattUK]

Scotts partner Al does very very well out of AdSense and a combination of other ads. He writes very openly about it here - History of a $100K Site Self Made Minds

$30k p/a AdSense earnings which was just 50% of the overall site revenue.

 

[Skinner]

I was thinking about this today...

Isn't $300 a day fairly easy to sum to make if you have 50, 75 or 100 sites ?

These people who say "How I made £300 off google", they don't say "I spent 5 hours finding each of 100 domain names, and 3 months making 100 websites all earning £33 avg per day, so read how I made £300 a day!", probably because all that work doesnt seem like its worth it heh.

 

[Tricky1]

Scotts partner Al does very very well out of AdSense and a combination of other ads. He writes very openly about it here - History of a $100K Site Self Made Minds

$30k p/a AdSense earnings which was just 50% of the overall site revenue.

I'm just reading the book Cloud Living promoted on the same site. Very well written by a young lad making $10k a month from about four sites. Well worth a read, most of you will know most of it anyway, but there's always something new to learn.

I know this may be a rare occasion where he has obviously found a couple of unexploited niches, but I'm sure if we keep looking there is always the possibility to make some decent cash.

By the way, I do not know the author, just like reading the Self Made Minds articles....

Richard