First Clicks with Adsense

I have been making decent money online for the last few months. In fact I hired two virtual assistants this month to maintain my business.

My adsense earnings have been terrible though. In fact, between hosting and domain names my adsense sites are all losers. I have built at least six sites for adsense in the last year and a half. Total earnings in that time...a few cents. This changed yesterday.

I built a forum that went live yesterday morning. I had about 2 dozen members by last night. I had one click on my ads. This morning I woke up and more members and two clicks. In fact as I write this members have joined my site.

It took me a minute to figure out what I did different. All of my other sites I built with the intention of having people click on my ads. Visitors must have seen right through me because I have had no clicks.

This forum I built completely different. I built it as a benefit to a specific niche community. Instead of ads all over the place I put one banner ad at the top of the page. It really is inconspicuous, more of an afterthought than anything else.

I figured that by putting one ad out of the way I would probably cover domain and hosting costs. Instead I have realized that making a site that really has value will bring you much more money than a site designed to make money.