Made my first money online today.

by Oeshy
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Not here to brag but thought I would mention it as it was a pretty cool thing for me to see when I woke up today.

I have had my site up and running for 3-4 weeks now and today when I logged into my google adsense gone were the dreaded $0.00 signs! In their place was the glory of the $0.08AU! Hurrah!

Hopefully the first of many and a fruitful life for my website. I have had clickthroughs on my other ads but no commissions yet.
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  • Profile picture of the author designfuschion
    Congratulations!
    Cool feeling hey.

    I earnt my first adsense through dp. Currently my adsense is only 20 cents! lol..after 3yrs..

    Good luck and may you earn more!
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  • Profile picture of the author Danny Cutts
    Well done!! the first time yoiu make money just proves that you can make money online so all you gotta do is stay focused and rinse and repeat!

    Good luck for the future and dont spend it all at once

    Danny
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  • Profile picture of the author JustinP
    That's awesome!

    I love to see people jacked up about a win or a success. Its totally not about the money but rather the sense of accomplishment.

    I remember making my first $150 for running a workshop as an entrepreneur. I was more proud of that $150 than the $2500 bonus I got in the day job that I didn't enjoy

    Congrats
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  • Profile picture of the author Oeshy
    I should also mention that I have only had the google ads working for 2 days. I had the ads on my site for about a week but they were not working due to a complication with my robot.txt

    I am hoping now I will see a steady increase as the days go by.

    What is a good percentage of clicks per visitors to shoot for?
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  • Profile picture of the author dandimit
    That's one small step for the industry but one giant leap for a newbie IMer.

    Great job...now don't ever let anyone tell you it can't be done. Remember Roger Banister
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  • Profile picture of the author tamilseo
    congrats, it is first step. lets build more sites and make more money
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  • Profile picture of the author Cecille20
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    • Profile picture of the author Oeshy
      Originally Posted by Cecille20 View Post

      Yeah I agree with what you said. This is a compliment for him since he was a beginner. Well, in my experience I got $100 through when my blog reach 5 months old. Goodluck keep it up.
      This site is also not primarily a money building machine it is more of a passion project. I will get a ton more traffic in the coming months as I will be in Thailand writing my travel blog and putting up all my photo and video there along with advice,gym reviews and so forth.

      I am hoping the site will see a large amount of growth when I hit more content and then I can look at expanding and marketing it in a more aggressive manner then. I find it easier to work on something like this as it doesn't feel like work at all.
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  • Profile picture of the author Gama Seva
    Congrats! It's not all about money but accomplishments keep up the good works, remember though don't click your own ads

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  • Profile picture of the author MasonRamm
    Congratulations, it can only go up from here

    Whatever you continue to do, don't give up, persistence and
    doing something to promote your site each and every day
    will result in even more success. Well done.
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  • Profile picture of the author desmond11
    Congrats. Hopefully this will kickstart your online earnings.
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    • Profile picture of the author edmltw
      Congrats!

      Btw, never ever click on your own ad.s I learnt my lesson the hard way.

      I set up my blog on free online business, created an adsense account. Got approved, was tired of the slow increment of the money, went over to different places ( friend's place, airport, cybercafes, etc. ) And click on my own ad.s from different IP addresses. The amount slowly reached to US$20 plus within a few weeks from the start. Google sent me through mail that little google letter containing my PIN or something. Then Lightning struck. They sent me an email telling me that my account is banned because of some suspicious activities analyzed from my blog's ad.s Shucks.

      Moral of the story, be patient.

      Ho ho ho..

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  • Profile picture of the author Zack Lim
    Congratulations to you

    You might want to review your website and your traffic strategies. This ensures that you get more traffic to your website and your advertisement click through rate improves.

    Keep on going and don't ever give up. You can do it

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    • Profile picture of the author Oeshy
      Originally Posted by Zack Lim View Post

      Congratulations to you

      You might want to review your website and your traffic strategies. This ensures that you get more traffic to your website and your advertisement click through rate improves.

      Keep on going and don't ever give up. You can do it

      Zack
      Yeah that is something I am looking into now. I do forum posting with links, yahoo answers, article submitting,directory submitting.

      I still need some help and work on the keywords and search engine traffic though.

      Youtube will be a good traffic resource after my trip. I hope to take a ton of videos and upload them to youtube with my site link and watermark my website at the bottom of the video.

      Another advantage I have found doing a passion site over targetting a boring niche for money is that I have found others interesting in contributing for free. I posted a request for writers on another forum regarding my topic and I had over 50 people send me interest. This will make content creation alot easier and allow me to focus on other areas of development.

      I know it is a slow game to play IM but I am approaching it like rolling a snowball. Got to build your base first then slowly push it uphill until it is big enough to roll freely and get bigger and bigger.
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  • Profile picture of the author Oeshy
    ok i just checked it again and now I am up to 0.41AU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    500% improvement! yesssssssssssssssssssss

    Almost enough for a chupachup. Banana chocolate flavor maybe?
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    • Profile picture of the author AidanKay
      Originally Posted by Oeshy View Post

      ok i just checked it again and now I am up to 0.41AU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

      500% improvement! yesssssssssssssssssssss

      Almost enough for a chupachup. Banana chocolate flavor maybe?
      Lol good onya mate.

      The achievement of making money from a day job is incomparable to making money with adsense. With your daily job you have guaranteed pay, the only requirements are turning up on time and doing your job. But with your own websites, there is so much that goes into it and so many requirements that any return you see gives you that warm fuzzy feeling inside .

      Cheers,

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    • Profile picture of the author chaos69
      Originally Posted by Oeshy View Post

      Almost enough for a chupachup. Banana chocolate flavor maybe?
      LOL - i almost spat coke everywhere then

      Why didnt i think of spending my earnings on chupachups? You might be onto a new online currency there - 'today i earnt XYZ chupachups'.
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    • Profile picture of the author Nigel Greaves
      Originally Posted by Oeshy View Post

      ok i just checked it again and now I am up to 0.41AU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
      You're just showing off now!

      Congratulations on your success Oeshy, let's hope for many, many more for you.

      Nigel
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      • Profile picture of the author Oeshy
        Originally Posted by chaos69 View Post

        LOL - i almost spat coke everywhere then

        Why didnt i think of spending my earnings on chupachups? You might be onto a new online currency there - 'today i earnt XYZ chupachups'.
        Not a bad idea. Sending my email to google now to have my payment transferred via airmail. One choc banana chupachup please.

        Originally Posted by Nikhil V Nair View Post

        congrats.Try different ways to make money.Affiliate marketing is great for newbies.
        I am partaking in affiliate marketing and have setup affiliates with 2 companies. One is a MMA gear website which I have used to setup my shop on my site. The other is a MMA betting website and pays a 25% lifetime commission on any bets lost.

        I have had about 30 people click through my betting ad and only 2 have signed up with accounts. Neither has deposited any money yet.

        I plan to do an article for every big MMA event outlining fight odds and my personal picks on who will win and where the money is to be made. I bet a fair bit and have a solid success rate so hopefully I can build a little following and get them into betting through my site.

        Originally Posted by Terro View Post

        Congrats!! But don´t quit your dayjob just yet.

        Hope you have many more cents to come.
        I won't be working until January next year so I have no work to quit right now haha. Traveling around South East Asia and spending some time training Muay Thai in Thailand.

        My end goal of internet marketing is to make a sustainable income that will allow me to live in Thailand. About $400AUD a week would do it. Short term I am looking at generating some money on the side while I finish up my study.

        Oh also up to 0.48 now!
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  • Profile picture of the author Alexgrett
    I'm really happy for you! Keep up the good work and good luck!
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  • Profile picture of the author stefanjames
    Lol 8 cents. But hey you made you first $ online and congratulations.
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  • Profile picture of the author phil.wheatley
    Hey, good on you. It doesn't matter how much money it is, you just cannot beat that first sale or adsense click. I remember my very fist commision for a sale which was just over $6, I was over the moon....spent it pretty quickly though ha ha ha But the point is, it validates that what you're doing works, you then just need to get better at it, and do more of it :-)

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  • Profile picture of the author Nikhil V Nair
    congrats.Try different ways to make money.Affiliate marketing is great for newbies.
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  • Congrats!! But don´t quit your dayjob just yet.

    Hope you have many more cents to come.
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  • Profile picture of the author Variable
    Hey, anything is better than the dreaded $0.00 on your Adsense report. :-)
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  • Profile picture of the author Raymond White
    Congratulations for earning the first money through online working, its a great feeling to get the first payment. I have been working online form quite sometime... It gives such a satisfaction. The first payment gives you the little confidence that money is there to be made online. Good luck
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  • Profile picture of the author Alex-A
    Congratulations! It's only 8 cents, but like ramone pic says "Wash Rinse Repeat"

    Many more cents to come.

    Alex
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  • Profile picture of the author Danohis
    good and congrats, but watch it.
    success is a journey not a destination.
    so i suggest optimise and test.

    have fun in your efforts.

    danohis.
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  • Profile picture of the author dsmpublishing
    Hi guys

    my husband has just got into adsense and was over the moon when one of his niche sites lost the dreaded zero and he is now waiting for his first cheque as yet i dont have it on any of my sites as i tend to have banners instead but i find it really educating.

    kind regards


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