My Adsense Earnings Are RIDICULOUS!

[cozandeffect]

OK, so I've read quite a bit about Adsense, and decided it was a new business model that suited me.

Here's the stats for the first week:

110 page website, all with original content/articles.

24 articles published at Ezine, all with backlinks to my homepage, and a specific page.

Total earnings: $3.33 for the entire week.

OK, maybe I'm just impatient, but less than four bucks?! My goal is five dollars a day by January 15th, and now I'm not so sure.

Anybody have an inspirational stories with Adsense right now? I sure could use it...

[Evita]

How much traffic are you getting?


Evita

[blueberry62]

Questions... how much traffic do you get daily and where are your ads?? You must have removed them??

[David]

I just got $2 for a single click?

For most of the past month I was only getting a penny a click,

Move higher up the food chain perhaps?

When I blogged about certain stuff, the advertisers choosing my blog were only paying out peanuts.

I blogged about more expensive crap, and the price paid per click went up dramatically.


also, try this:

in Channels, write what your intended target market is, what the demographics of your blog/ website... give the advertiser enough data to WANT to put his/her ads on your site

[Clyde Dennis]

Originally Posted by David

I just got $2 for a single click?

I've noticed a little bit of a kick in the pants with my pay per click payouts over the last couple of days as well. Don't know exactly what I've stepped into but I'm liking the smell of it.

[cozandeffect]

The website isn’t the one in my sig, it’s a different site.

As for traffic, it’s less than a thousand… I don’t want to give the exact number because that would be against Google TOS (I think)

Also, the ads are placed below the title.

Nice tip about the topics, really appreciate it.

Is this initial performance OK? What are Adsense warriors pulling in on new sites of this size?

[Linkbuilding]

How much traffic are you getting ? If it's low try to get more backlinks for blog commenting etc. Work on your ad placement too.

[Evita]

Less than a thousand... per moth? per day?

You can state your traffic, but your CTR and earnings per click may be not OK.

Is the site in question the one in your signature?

The more info you give the better of a response you will get.


Evita

[cozandeffect]

Originally Posted by Linkbuilding

How much traffic are you getting ? If it's low try to get more backlinks for blog commenting etc. Work on your ad placement too.

As I mentioned before, I don't want to quote the exact traffic number. The setup is a simple two column site with the adsense below the title.

Anyone who purchased Xfactor's Adsense video would recognize it immediately.

I know that I need to be patient, it's just that the numbers are really, really low.

[cozandeffect]

Originally Posted by Evita

Less than a thousand... per moth? per day?

You can state your traffic, but your CTR and earnings per click may be not OK.

Is the site in question the one in your signature?

The more info you give the better of a response you will get.


Evita

Gotcha. Let's say around five hundred visits this week (seven days).

The site is not the one in my sig. It's in the travel industry, which should pay well (particularly on airline info).

Thanks,

Coz

[David]

Originally Posted by cozandeffect

The website isn’t the one in my sig, it’s a different site.

As for traffic, it’s less than a thousand… I don’t want to give the exact number because that would be against Google TOS (I think)

Also, the ads are placed below the title.

Nice tip about the topics, really appreciate it.

Is this initial performance OK? What are Adsense warriors pulling in on new sites of this size?

I recently switched to graphic only ads and that's when the ppc went WAY up

I don't get but a tiny fraction of your traffic, an infinitesimal fraction at that...
and I'm earning $4 a day to date.

Last month it was $4 a week, so I'm gaining...

BTW, my blogs are NOT specifically for adsense, my addiction blogs are about topics close to my heart, and the advertisers aren't paying much for ads placed on those blogs.

well, I 'think' the payout is also based on conversions... my blogs may or may not actually make conversions for the companies currently putting ads on my site.

example: addiction blog often attracts rehab sites.
a rehab place may charge tens of thousands for it's fee.

my readers (my blog's demographics) aren't necessarily going to shell out that kind of cash...

I'm writing to those who are still using drugs:
recoveryworks on Technorati

[PalatnkFactor]

Try to use Adsense blocks with the least amount of ads as you know the least amount of ads your site shows, the higher you'll get paid since now you are only showing the highest bidding ads on your website, that should increase click payout.

[PalatnkFactor]

I wrote this blog post that just came to mind which may help you, "Best Performing Adsense Ads Explained"

[cozandeffect]

Originally Posted by PalatnkFactor

I wrote this blog post that just came to mind which may help you, "Best Performing Adsense Ads Explained"

I read the post, thanks for the tip! I think there are two other points in which I have failed:

1. Choosing keywords that are too competitive. I search for keywords that have less than five thousand competitors (in quotes), write a page about it on my site, then rewrite it for Ezines. I know that Xfactor (the most knowledgeable Adsense guy I know of) writesfor phrases with less than 300 competitors, but I honestly can't find them. Guess I should consider paying for wordtracker...

2. On page optimization. Though each article is keyword optimized, I failed to include meta keywords and descriptions.

Perhaps these two are contributing to poor performance.

[PalatnkFactor]

Do you mean poor performance with SEO or poor performance with getting clicks?

[cozandeffect]

Originally Posted by PalatnkFactor

Do you mean poor performance with SEO or poor performance with getting clicks?

I suppose SEO. There's so much competition that I can't find a phrase that has less than a thousand competitors in quotes. If anyone uses the paid version of Wordtracker, I'd love to hear their results.

Still, this site is only two weeks old (the articles went live last week)...

[PalatnkFactor]

Let me tell you, 1k return results on Google is more than qualifying to start optimizing for a keyword, you wont see much less than that. I can post a blog post right now with that keyword and prob rank in the first page given the authority my blog holds.

I think you need to focus a bit more on the overall SEO of the site so when you find these long-tail keywords, your blog will have enough authority to rank quck and well on these words.

[nistan]

It's probably a dumb question, but are you targeting high paying keywords? Dollars, not cents?

[mygear]

its all about the keywords you use
focus on the higher paying ones

[scene4u]

If we do not know the traffic then it is difficult to judge the problem. It is important to bring steady targeted traffic to your site. You should aim for a niche that pays around $0.50 a click and aim for a CTR of at least 10%. In this way, to have your $5 day you will need 100 unique visitors.

[cozandeffect]

Keywords are definitely at a huge part of this business model; over the past few days I've focused on keywords that pay better, and have now seen my earnings rise. Here is my game plan for the next week or two:

submit 25 more articles to EA
submit 25 new pages of original content to my website
write one 1500+ word article on an authority site with a backlink

I am now making just over a dollar a day, with a goal of five dollars a day in two months.

I'll keep everyone posted as to my progress.

[PalatnkFactor]

Hey Guys, reading this thread, I think a lot of you may find a mini series I started to blog about which entails monetizing a blog from Adsense and Kontera without a single SEO tactic in place, no link submission, etc.

You can read more about it here: Project Monetizing Site with Google Adsense & Kontera: Update Part I | PalatnikFactor.com

Maybe it helps with ideas, etc. I will answer questions you guys have.

[Barry Davis]

Originally Posted by cozandeffect

Anybody have an inspirational stories with Adsense right now? I sure could use it...

I started a site with Adsense last night. So far today I've earned $36.00. I did send the link for the site out to my list, so I don't expect this kind of traffic everyday.

Barry

[PalatnkFactor]

Originally Posted by Barry Davis

I started a site with Adsense last night. So far today I've earned $36.00. I did send the link for the site out to my list, so I don't expect this kind of traffic everyday.

Did you start from scratch or placed adsense on an existing website? Thats impossible to launch a website from day one and earn that much.

[Barry Davis]

Originally Posted by PalatnkFactor

Did you start from scratch or placed adsense on an existing website? Thats impossible to launch a website from day one and earn that much.

I had a website that has been dormant for almost two years with no content on it, but it still had a PR2. I added a bunch of relevant content and then added Adsense. This is the first time I've ever used Adsense before. I then sent out a link to my list announcing the new website and am getting a huge click through rate to the website. It is now up to $38.00. I also have a pretty good size list.

[PalatnkFactor]

Ahhh-- there you go, so its not like a website that was built and launched in a day, OK, that makes sense.

[Barry Davis]

Originally Posted by PalatnkFactor

Ahhh-- there you go, so its not like a website that was built and launched in a day, OK, that makes sense.

Actually, the website was built in one day. It was sending out the link to my list that got me all the traffic. Now the trick is to figure out how to keep them coming back

[cozandeffect]

Originally Posted by Barry Davis

Actually, the website was built in one day. It was sending out the link to my list that got me all the traffic. Now the trick is to figure out how to keep them coming back

Great job! It's always good to hear people's progress with this business model. I have my own piece of good news to add: Google indexed thirty pages of my site over the weekend, which I hope will bring more visitors.

Only time will tell.

[Johnny O]

I too bought xfactors video and was inspired enough to give adsense a try. I have a brand new site, about 33 days old. In the last week I have climbed steadily from $1 - $2 dollars a day to my all time high yesterday of $24. I'm pretty blown away.

The key for me was:

1. Finding an expensive niche
2. writing for VERY low hanging fruit.

And so far thats it. At first I was writing for competitive keywords and making very little progress. I finally wrote an ezine article that got ranked well and suddonly the money is coming in. I've been steadily over $5 a day for the last week, a few ten dollar days, and that one 24 dollar day.

This is all with less then 15 articles on my site and 15 on ezine, with no search traffic yet and a terrible click through rate of less than 10% on average.

I have high hopes for this so don't give up. But I would explore your niche and keywords better perhaps.

And yes, I bought wordtracker and love it.

Feel free to PM me with questions.

[Barry Davis]

I ended my first day at $72.08 and so far this morning have $3.00. I doubt I will do this great everyday as the first day was a result of a mailing to my list.

[AndyBlackSEO]

The first thing you want to get right is your ad placement.. as already mentioned. You can easily get up to around 10% click through rate. Place your ads in prominent places, where the readers eye will follow naturally, and where they will have already read some of your content. Also, ensure that your ads blend in with your sites colour theme. As someone else here has already pointed out, getting your keywords / phrases right for all your content pages is crucial. It does also depend on your niche as well.

Keep going.. don't give up.. and experiment and take notes of what is working, and what isn't.

Good luck!

Andy

[Steve Faber]

You need to increase your CTR. That will do two things for you; It will cause Google to serve you higher payout ads and it will obviously generate more revenue in a given amount of time.

I've found the following to be effective:
Put ads in high CTR locations. See Google for where this is, but on blogs I've done well with ads at the head and end of every post.

Try making your headlines red instead of the more traditional blue. I got an statistically significant increase in CTR from this.

Look at your content, and as others have said, target high paying keywords. The more selective you are, the more you'll get per click. Look at keywords that are actively sought by advertisers. A keyword/phrase can be relatively high priced, but if very few people are bidding for it, chances are it may never show on your site.

i.e. just because (for example) the term "Boston real estate foreclosures" shows an average eCPC of $17.00 (pulling these numbers totally out of my a** here) that doesn't mean you'll get these high paying clicks. For example, if that average is comprised of only 3 bidders, and one of them is paying 20.00, but the others are paying .90, you may never get the high paying ad served on your site. On the other hand if there are 50 advertisers bidding high for the keyword, chances are it will pay higher for you.

On one of my blogs, my best day is $62, and last month I averaged just under $31/ day. It ads up, and it has been steadily increasing for about a year.

[somn]

Friend ... Just have patience. You just put the seed and you should not expect fruit immediately. This really need time and you should concentrate on original contain and link building. Just try to concentrate on these two at least for three months and than you will be able to see the earning.

Best of luck.

[cozandeffect]

Originally Posted by Johnny O

I too bought xfactors video and was inspired enough to give adsense a try. I have a brand new site, about 33 days old. In the last week I have climbed steadily from $1 - $2 dollars a day to my all time high yesterday of $24. I'm pretty blown away.

The key for me was:

1. Finding an expensive niche
2. writing for VERY low hanging fruit.

And so far thats it. At first I was writing for competitive keywords and making very little progress. I finally wrote an ezine article that got ranked well and suddonly the money is coming in. I've been steadily over $5 a day for the last week, a few ten dollar days, and that one 24 dollar day.

This is all with less then 15 articles on my site and 15 on ezine, with no search traffic yet and a terrible click through rate of less than 10% on average.

I have high hopes for this so don't give up. But I would explore your niche and keywords better perhaps.

And yes, I bought wordtracker and love it.

Feel free to PM me with questions.

Now THAT'S inspirational! It seems that nearly everyone I've talked to who is heavy into adsense swears by wordtracker. SEO Tool is great, but I can't seem to find the really low hanging fruit.

I agree my efforts on keyword research may have been, well, overly optimistic (i.e. choosing more competitive terms), though it should benefit me in the long run if I focus on low competition phrases now using wordtracker.

It's almost like I built the roof, but haven't completed the foundation yet to hold it up!

[cozandeffect]

Originally Posted by opportunitiesaplenty

You need to increase your CTR. That will do two things for you; It will cause Google to serve you higher payout ads and it will obviously generate more revenue in a given amount of time.

I've found the following to be effective:
Put ads in high CTR locations. See Google for where this is, but on blogs I've done well with ads at the head and end of every post.

Try making your headlines red instead of the more traditional blue. I got an statistically significant increase in CTR from this.

Look at your content, and as others have said, target high paying keywords. The more selective you are, the more you'll get per click. Look at keywords that are actively sought by advertisers. A keyword/phrase can be relatively high priced, but if very few people are bidding for it, chances are it may never show on your site.

i.e. just because (for example) the term "Boston real estate foreclosures" shows an average eCPC of $17.00 (pulling these numbers totally out of my a** here) that doesn't mean you'll get these high paying clicks. For example, if that average is comprised of only 3 bidders, and one of them is paying 20.00, but the others are paying .90, you may never get the high paying ad served on your site. On the other hand if there are 50 advertisers bidding high for the keyword, chances are it will pay higher for you.

On one of my blogs, my best day is $62, and last month I averaged just under $31/ day. It ads up, and it has been steadily increasing for about a year.

Thanks for the explanation. I'm sure a lot of people (myself included) didn't realize the number/quality of bidders could affect earnings so much.

[masteronlineprofits]

Thanks for the postings above, great read on Adsense. I am writing about it now over ony my site, in my sig (no 15 posts yet) Master Online Profts . com specifically how to turn a blog into making money.

For me it starts with ensuring you have an interest in the topic area, as this will keep you writing and posting in the long term, this creates more unique content which Google loves, then you need to ensure you are doing the SEO stuff, site maps, keywords, back links, articles etc.

Then of course high paying adsense adds helps. But Google will only give you the lowest CPC ads at the start, you need to build up your conent, links and basically your ranking / CTR on you site, then Google will start to serve up high paying adds. Of coures if you do your homework you will have a niche with very high paying adds.

My first attempt was for a horse racing event, I only did it out of my interest in the race, The Melbourne Cup Guide - Picking the winner for greatest horse race in the world then I put in Adsense. Now, not a great exmaple as Goolgle a) does not allow gambling ads, so that limits the adds, very specific niche, and b) only happens once a year. At it's height got up to $9 per day with ery low CPC ads, but I generated heaps of traffic, 4000+ unique per day. So bigger plans for that site next year, plus I am also selling an ebook which sold well.

I run about 7 other sites, and for me the key is finding something of interest, that you are going to write about ongoing, nothing worse then simply leaving a site out there doing little. Then research it to find out if it is a high paying niche, use Google's TrafficEstimatorSandbox as a guide, this really assists in showing this high niche areas.

Also, don't worry about the competiation, if there is a tone of competition that just means people are making money and you can to! High Adsense CPC usually means competition AND profitable niches. You just need to do the hard work to get your site included!

Take it easy and best of luck

[Barry Davis]

Day Two -- $26.58

[xxb123]

it will grow for sure, and links from articals wont be enough alone. get backlinks and A LOT of them.

[faroogh]

hi i am jessica i want you to learn me about channels on adsense setup what should i do?
do you have any information about seo and article marketing i need help

[cozandeffect]

Originally Posted by Barry Davis

Day Two -- $26.58

Solid job Barry, congratulations.

Total for me yesterday: $0.

Well, everyday can't be a winner, particularly with the low amount of traffic I'm getting. I did submit five more articles to EA, though, which should help a bit.

[cozandeffect]

Originally Posted by xxb123

it will grow for sure, and links from articals wont be enough alone. get backlinks and A LOT of them.

I agree. I just bought a book called "Get To The Top On Google" by David Viney, which is packed with solid SEO advice.

He suggested submitting the site to the top free directories:

dmoz.org
lii.org
jayde.com
webworldindex.com

as well as several paid ones, though with such little revenue I don't feel comfortable going in the red to pay for a listing.

All in time, I suppose.

[cozandeffect]

Originally Posted by faroogh

hi i am jessica i want you to learn me about channels on adsense setup what should i do?
do you have any information about seo and article marketing i need help

I recommend checking out this site for SEO. Keyword services for professional search engine optimization

[Li Weng]

hmmmmm. from your title I thought your earnings were ridiculously HIGH!

[yfish]

How to know the high paying keywords?

I have also been having low conversion rate in my blogs!

[jatt]

Me too having a low ads placement.is this had to do with SEO?I'm dan too stupid on SEO rule.....

[Barry Davis]

Yesterday $7.09

I would like to "settle in" at about $5.00 per day for this one site, but even if I only make $1.00 per day that is $365.00 per year and my domain/hosting is only costing me $10.00! I'm starting to see the value of having 100s of these sites as long as I can get traffic to them. This is my first experiment.

I am going to try with another site using Caffeinated Content.

[cozandeffect]

Originally Posted by Li Weng

hmmmmm. from your title I thought your earnings were ridiculously HIGH!

guess my copywriting skills currently exceed my adsense skills.

[cozandeffect]

Originally Posted by yfish

How to know the high paying keywords?

I have also been having low conversion rate in my blogs!

check out spyfu.com. It's a great free tool that shows how advertisers are paying for a keyword.

[cozandeffect]

Originally Posted by Barry Davis

Yesterday $7.09

I would like to "settle in" at about $5.00 per day for this one site, but even if I only make $1.00 per day that is $365.00 per year and my domain/hosting is only costing me $10.00! I'm starting to see the value of having 100s of these sites as long as I can get traffic to them. This is my first experiment.

I am going to try with another site using Caffeinated Content.

Great job Barry, my goal is five dollars a day by mid January. Keep me posted with your results.

[Easy_Money]

Originally Posted by opportunitiesaplenty

Try making your headlines red instead of the more traditional blue. I got an statistically significant increase in CTR from this.

Wow! I read this last night and just changed some of the adsense units on a blog that I purchased a few days ago. The site gets decent traffic yet earned me only $.47 on one day of the first three days I had it.

I changed only half of the ads to show with a red title and the other half I left alone. I have a block with blue titles next toa block with red titles. My earnings on this blog jumped to $1.72 so far today!

I will let it run over the weekend to see if this seems to stay consistent at all or if this just happens to be a coincidence. I'll report back in a few days.

Thanks for posting. I read this before, but your post happened to be here at the right time.