Anyone using Adsense as their main income stream these days?

Listen to him. I primarily do web design and have a few SEO clients, but sometimes things slow down and traffic doesn't convert to sales. The last two weeks I have had the highest traffic with lowest conversion. Not fun at all, even though I know I'm going to be hit HARD with tons of sales shortly, but it still is frustrating.

Someone brought up the point about just having one source of income. Why haven't I done a little bit of affiliate marketing? Many people are getting $200 a check with clickbank for just a few articles promoting a product. Why shouldn't I do that? Might as well spend a couple hours and do that.

Also, I don't use adsense on any sites, but I'm probably going to do that as well to have some extra change to put back into it.

many of my forum members use adsense as one of their streams and a lot are doing very well with it . It is good to mix in cpa , and amazon offers.

If you've got 30 minutes , you'll get a lot of tips and advice from this interview i did last week

$0 to $10,000 in 12 months – An Interview With Lisa Parmley

(there is a download link i posted in the comments section if you want to put it on your Ipod.

I don't use it as my main income stream, but the income I get from adsense is something I think most IMers would be happy with.

There's nothing wrong with Adsense, but if you're getting decent money for the clicks you provide, just realize that you're really low on the value chain and you'll make more if you can claw your way up.

For instance, I had one site where I was getting like .50/click and was making $35/day. I was pretty happy to be honest. Out of the blue, a niche CPA company contacted me and asked if I wanted to put a lead generation form on my site and get paid $45/lead. I said ok, not really knowing what to expect. And before long, I was making $2K month on CPA leads AND still making the same on adsense.

Yup, Google can be real idiots when it comes to banning your account for no reason. If you do Adsense make sure you have a backup income

Thanks for your valuable input. Right now my goal is $50 per day eventually in a few months hopefully. This will be to help pay for university next year which is about $17000 per year. So I figured it out to be $50/day and I would be pretty well set to pay for the university. I think too at that amount you won't really be setting any flags of with Google. By reading around here it seems that once you hit the $100/day mark that that's when they start doing some manual reviews and potentially banning accounts. If I make $50/day I will be more than happy. But like I said, for now I will just try for $1/day and then keep scaling

Are you suggesting that Adsense is not a stable income?

They've never missed a check in 8 years.

Ask some of the publishers that make over $1000 dollars a day, and have been for over half a decade. (I don't make that much by the way)

All the best for making $50 a day.well i have just started and hoping the good result in 6 month.

I see. Yeah, that configures for sure. If we can create our own product(s) we can sell those and make an handsome profit like you say, and the only thing that can stop us is if Paypal refuses to process purchases.

I only have one ebook/software product which is supplemental, and I've very careful what Ads are placed on certain domains. Our one product is not even on Clickbank, because I don't want marketers blowing smoke up at their visitors claiming my auto-blog system is going to make them all multi-millioniares by the end of the week. I want total control of the pitch.

For instance, my Zulit.com domain runs Adsense from a completely seperate a lower yielding Adsense account, so that if there was any "funny business" going on there, the account is dispensible.

The lion's share of income comes from domains and Adsense accounts that NO-ONE is going to see. They run on privately registered domains.

So, sure there is always a risk with ANY business model, and even more risk "working for the man".