Can you really make money with adsense?

Ofcourse you make money out of adsense!! But i have not made it.. i am also like your state.. but i have read blogs about ppl with high alexa rank and making huge money everyday.. i dontt think impressions only counts.. 14,000 impression may worth ~$1 or 2.. or less.. its the click that matters .. because most advertiser pay per click rather then per view..

try reading google adsense tips to know how can we optimize google ads.. .good luck

that PPC you got sounds poor performance.. have you tried pay per sale affiliate network? it maybe work better for your particular industry.. some content simply does not convert well..

direct selling those ad spaces is also an option...

A lot of people who make money with Adsense, have a LOT of sites. Most of those sites don't make much. Some hit home runs and make good money. If you only have one site, you are unlikely to have hit the right niche straight away - try building another 10 sites and see what works, then work on that niche.

It's not just traffic and price per click, though those are important and you can check those ahead of time. The other variable is: do visitors in the niche, click ads? Some do, some don't. If they don't, you're out of luck for adsense, but if you have good traffic you may be able to monetise it better some other way.

I have also heard that adsense is dying - as more people are getting information and recommendations from their social networks. But, I guess it depends on your market and your keywords.

Go ask Chris Knight ... I have a feeling he does ok.

Don't let anyone tell you not to try Adsense. I'm here to tell you that you can be incredibly successful with that program, but mistakes are very easy to make. It's harder to get Adsense "right" as a publisher than many make it out to be. As someone who has been in the game since literally the day Adsense came out, trust me - there are a few right ways and ton of wrong ways. Most of it comes down to how targeted both your ads and your traffic are, along with the content on your pages and where you place your ads. It's also about what kind of ad blocks/units you use. Again, it's not as simple as many would have you believe.

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John

I am averaging $33 a day so far this month. Last month I took $700 from adsense and relatively little work.

I have one large content site, a news style site in the saving money niche and then a handful of smaller niche blogs.

I am hoping for a $900 month and $2000 a month by the mid of 2010.

I make more from the big site but it took longer to get going. It draws from a mixture of keyword targeted posts and posts aimed at spreading socially.

If your ctr is 3% and you get 3c per click: a) You need to test ad placements and style, don't settle for less than a 10% ctr and b) you are either in the wrong niche, targeting the wrong keywords and/or have untargeted traffic. Aim for 10%ctr+ and 30c+ per click.

Tony

That's not my experience - I have a site that would make $140 from that many page impressions, but it is all about the niche, the keywords and the ad positioning. Keep experimenting!

I stopped using Adsense when i was banned few years back..

Glad that i got banned... There is a lot of other online business models that pays more lucratively for money and resources spent...

Yes, you can! You just have to know what are the high paying keywords. There are special lists being sold each month that you can check for best paying keywords. Or you can check how big the bids are for advertisers on specific keywords. That way you will have an idea how "valuable" the keyword is.

Hi Ryan, yes you can certainly make money with Adsense. We do so via parked domains, niche sites, an article site and our main Kikabink website. But if you really need convincing, check out eHow and some of the major content sites on the Internet.

So you can certainly make money with Adsense... but here's a better question: can YOU make a satisfactory money with Adsense based on the kind of business and business model you want to deploy?

There is no one-size-fits all Adsense strategy, but we've found (and observed) that making decent money from Adsense is very much a traffic game. It relies on having a lot of content - whether on one site or having multiple niche sites with their own content - and generating tons of traffic to that one huge site, or those large number of niche sites. For a given amount of traffic you'll get a certain number of clicks... so the more traffic you get, the more clicks you'll get.

Of course you can test layouts to optimize your Adsense click-throughs, but you also need to weigh up the ROI of tweaking layouts to squeeze a few more clicks out of visitors versus producing more content that attracts traffic. If you are great at SEO, you might find that you get a better ROI from focusing more on getting more traffic than increasing click-throughs. That may sound blasphemous to conversion experts, but you've really got to do what works best for YOU.

Anyway, hope that helps: yes, Adsense works. But it's generally a content-and-traffic play so if that doesn't appeal to you, you might want to do something else online. Oh, and if you are keen to do Adsense, don't stop there. Consider other ad networks and affiliate networks (including CPA networks) if you intend to go down this path.

Do a few searches on this forum for Xfactor. He does $500 a day with and even has a course on it.

I have made thousands with adsense, but after awhile, I realize I dont like the model. You work so hard to get traffic to your site and then once you have it... you want to send it way to make a few pennies on the dollar. Not worth it.

You are better off trying to sell a product or guide the visitor down a funnel...

Performance numbers are really all over the map.

My highest result in the last 30 days is a website that has adsense revenue of $28.72 per thousand impressions. At the same time, some websites have zero revenue.

The website which has generated the highest income in the past 30 days, achieves $10.80 per thousand impressions. The second-highest adsense income website for us only gets $2.36 per thousand impressions, but a lot of traffic.

One of our ad spaces kicks in a decent amount each month with only $0.67 per thousand impressions. That is a badly placed ad, just filling space near the bottom of a page.. We'll take what we can get for that space.

So, in summary, there is no real "normal". Learn what is working for you and what is not. Test and improve... Ad more websites, get more traffic. Test and improve some more... It's a process. It's a job. Keep working until you make enough money.

Yes you can, but it does take a good bit of work just like any other option on the internet. Since most of the clicks generate cents, not dollars, you will need a fair number of sites with good SEO to generate a reasonable amount of money.

Read up on the policies that Google has imposed for running Adsense on your site and know that they don't mess around when someone violates their TOS, when this happens they are banned for life in participating in the program. Be sure to follow their rules and you will be okay.

Another source of good info is straight from Google at their Adsense blog here:

Inside AdSense

I was banned from adsense, no warning, no reason, just banned, prior to that I only managed to make about $10 in 3 years from it, adsense is crap, it requires alot of time and effort and in return you make hardly any money at all, and even if you do you may get banned and they keep al the money you've made, I think it's a big con, they don't care about how much you spent on hosting and time and efford to create traffic and they just ban you and keep the money, it's a legal robbery.

yes, just be sure to follow google's terms and conditions...or your account will be short lived.

Looking at all the replies here it seems like you get out of it what you put into it. If you're trying to make a quick buck, or don't want to do a ton of research, then you won't make a lot.

If you treat it well, do the best you can, and keep working at it with reasonable expectations then you'll do better. After that you just need to be consistent and unwavering. Don't try to move on from AdSense until you're making what you wanted to make from it. If you keep quitting one thing and moving to the next you'll fail at all of them. You will fail at AdSense in the beginning, and it might be a long time, but with anything you'll never get anywhere if you aren't willing to put in the time and effort. Learn from you failures and move on.

It is not about the number of page impressions. Some of those could have occurred because a visitor surfed through many pages with no intention of clicking on Google ads.

Instead it is about traffic, the number of visitors to your site. Take the $10 earnings figure and divide it by the number of visitors that it took to earn it. That will provide you with a figure that represents the "value of a visitor" to you. Once you have that, you can begin to accurately track the results of changes to your website.

The problem with making changes to your site is in being able to tell when something is working and when it is just a fluke. An increase in adsense revenue may be caused by a change to the site, an increase in traffic, a seasonal swing, or a monthly cycle. The value of a visitor figure can give you a quick overview of the health of your site. It is fairly easy to set up an excel spreadsheet to calculate this value for you and provide a column where you can easily see your daily visitor value.

Don't be surprised if different sites return different values.

AdSense works wonders for some people, others hate it.

My recommendation is to drive traffic to your site before you even put any AdSense codes onto it otherwise you'll see very little earnings that with turn you off from using them in the first place.

It absolutely can make money. But not everyone can make big money here.
It needs efforts, tests, time etc...

Yes, why not?
One of my client earns a minimum of $70k/month from 300+ sites.

You can make good money with adsense. Try using larger ad blocks and blending the color schemes to increase your earnings.

Seems to me that you invest a lot of time and effort into a business model that you have no control over and could change next week.
I am not saying people can not make money but are you willing to settle for pennies and give up dollars?
Why not sell your own product and add Adsense to your page?
Develope or promote 10 products instead of 10 adsense sites.

Check Joel Comm's Adsense 4.0 (which is free on his site), and make many tests on where you place your ads, where they would make the most money. Sometimes, the places, like inside a blog post will annoy you the most, but at least you'll have a higher CTR.

Not sure if the TS is still in the house, since I've not seen his reply anywhere... But, here's my opinion...

14,000 impressions a lot for you to be making $10 only. Even if 60% is recycled visitors, you are still left with 4,000 impressions. Some of my sites are only getting 10% of your impressions and they make MUCH more.

Here's 2 questions for anyone interested to think about:

1. What you want your visitors do?

and

2. Are you doing anything to prevent them from doing what you want them to do?

The answers to these questions will make you a lot more money.

The main important to make money with adsense is you should have a lot of traffic.

I am just making money with adsense with few blogs.some people make up hundreds blog.You can do that if you have more time to do for marketing part.

a lot of traffic will help you to get more clicks and more money.

I wonder if your site made any money with CPA, affiliate products or any other monetization methods.

Adsense is just a way to make money with your traffic. If your traffic is poor, untargeted, broke or not interested; you are not going to make money from Adsense.

I would have to make the ads invisible or something to get a 3% click through.

I think Google just announced record profits recently. Adwords/Adsense is their main money maker. Somebody somewhere must be making money then.

Yeah! It is really easy to make money with the adsense. I have not read through the posts so i do not know some one suggested this to you or not. There is a free thread here by a PRO on adsense earning known as Xfactor.

I have learnt a lot myself from him and his methods really work. you should have a look at posts by him to have an idea how you can get better at earning from adsense.

As a heads up - if I go to a site that has Adsense on it I leave. Immediately. I rarely break that rule - Ezine Articles and a few exceptions where the content is so vast or important to me I overlook the Nonsense, er, I mean Adsense.

When a content site has Adsense my BS alarm goes off: spun empty content void non-sense used to spoof Google and get me here. I know this is broad brushing and unfair. However I don't think I'm alone.