Living off Adsense?

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Does anyone make a living of adsense? Ive started to create a few adsense sites, and was wondering how many sites you need to create a sustainable income from adsense.
#search engine optimization #adsense #living
  • Well i was started some sites and doing SEO by my own and working for adsense, But you know after some time i have got bored by that work and just left it. Yeah i have got some clicks sometimes and getting money.

    But i am sure, if you do it with some idea (You can read some books about adsense earnings) and do it, which will really help you to live with that. But still there is a chance to get banned, So you need to take care of that anyway. .
  • Many people make a living off Adsense....its definitely possible.

    As far as how many sites you need, there is no concrete answer, it will vary. You could do it with 3 sites or it may take you 100 sites.

    The number of sites dont matter really, its the amount of targetted traffic you get.

    1 site with 1000 pages, may be better than 100 sites with 10 pages each.

    Keep working on you sites and remember its a slow but steady course.

    I've found that my older sites are making me more and more money each month and I haven't touched them in a while.
  • you would definately need a good amount of sites and if you eventually make enough traffic to live off adsense then it would probably make more sense to replace adsense with affiliate banners etc - you would make far more probably.
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    • Yes. It's definitely a solid source of income if you plan well.

      There are thousand and one ebooks on getting adsense to work for you. Go check it out

      Ed
  • Yes it's possible if you're smart or have a mega popular blog/site.

    I am going down the smart route - if I cloned my best performing adsense pages (the ones that make an average of 10 cents a day) I wouldn't need that many to make a half decent living, remembering of course that if you write about evergreen topics then pages generate cash for decades (hopefully!).

    Some of the folk on webmasterworld have been living off Adsense since '03.
  • I make a living off a number of ventures online - mostly affiliate/marketing offers. However, if I was to focus solely on my adsense earnings; most of which come from auto-blogging and some which comes from my manual blog - I would still be making around $33,000 a year from just those ads (which while a fraction of my online income is still technically livable and nearly all automated income).

    It is just a matter of finding what methods work for you to create strong content driven websites - set them up, get them indexed and backlinked on long-tail keywords (otherwise competition can usually eat you alive) and then start it over again. The important thing is to diversify your practice over a great number of niche markets and a great number of class c IP addresses and then your golden.
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  • The number of sites doesn't make you money, it is the number of people who click your advert. 100 sites with no traffic won't make you as much as 1 site with lots of it.
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    • Very true - at any given time Adsense can ban accounts for what seem to be the most ridiculous reasons and trying to get them back is hopeless. However, you can turn around and create another account if you are smart about it and since you still have the websites and content then its no problem just to re-add the ads.

      A very valid point but also 100 sites with a fair amount of work (or a good WP-Robot) will out preform that 1 site in most cases.
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  • I have give it up. For me, AdSense is really useless because I can't earn any cash from the platform of Google.
    If you don't have enough traffic, it is really difficult to gain big fortunes through this way.
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    • You don't need too much traffic, just good content and well placed ads!
    • Not true. I make between $50 -80 a day with around 800 total impressions across all my sites. I have one site that often makes me over $30 a day alone.

      A bit of luck and a lot of judgement should see me arrive at $150-200 a day before the end of the year. Not a massive living, but a living nevertheless.
  • Adsense is though for me. I'm thinking to out of it right in near time. Don't want to spend something that is not my way though.
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    • The thread by Xfactor, and his book, are both excellent sources of information about adsense. I do use it as part of my overall business plan, however, I've also added three other income streams as well, since it seems smarter to me to diversify my earnings. And, that approach seems to be working, since when one area is slow, another seems to be more popular, and picks up the slack.
  • just great my adsense acc not yet get approve from the google, it have been a week. Just what take it so long to approve it? i want to complain to google by email to it but not even reply. Just waste my time
  • I havent started making money from adsense I guess it is high time now to make some site for adsense purpose only...Any tips for newbies like me ?
  • I'm currently testing out auto blogging with adsense.

    I've only been doing it for 3 weeks so it's way too early to comment yet but if/when I see results I'll report back

    James
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    • Adsense is OK, but I don't know about living off it unless you have a lot of sites...... or extremely high CPC
  • I'm living off English adsense revenue, over the last 5 years UK rates exploded.

    I try to limit my business to England as the average american payout rates are meager (no offense intended).

    My mate (who operates american adsense) only gets $450 a month adsense and the British government send him money to bring his income up. Its a thing we have here called tax credits, which subsidises low earning businesses and individuals. Combined with the benefits he's getting around $1400 a month. It's not a livable income but it's just enough to pay rent and buy basic food and maybe go out for a few pints at the weekend.
  • Adsense is residual income. People try to apply the same rules of cash upfront affiliate sales to adsense and then get frustrated that they don't get fast results.

    If you are going to go into adsense don't expect to make lots of money in a short period of time. Consistently build a network and grow you income each month.

    Unique content that is good and offers value will provide a longer term and more stable income. I know some guys making money from autoblogging but they are doing a large volume and always treading water.

    Scraped content + adsense is not an easy game to make good money in without your own programming skills.
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    • Complaining will do nothing for you. If you demand an answer, the answer will likely be "disapproved".

      Google requires that your site be online for some time and have sufficient content (six months minimum in some cases). The blogger blog in your signature may not be enough for approval. It's poorly formatted with little content and many errors in English in the text.

      There was a time when just starting blogger would almost guarantee adsense approval but that's no longer true. If you want to use adsense you need to have a site google will approve.

      kay
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    • you mentioned programming skill, what type of programming is invloved Guerrilla?
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  • i do at first it is hard,but then it will be easier when you get many visitors
  • During World Cup 2006 (Football) I made over $800 from 2 football/soccer related site. I am looking forward to WC 2010 in South Africa and hopefully I can make a more than the last time.
  • Yea it really depends which niche market you capture you have to either grap something that is going to have a small boom or something that is going to take a steady climb.
  • living just off adsense is risky, especially if all your sites are 1-2 page micro sites. Google will start going after these micro niche sites (especially the ones using the same, ugly theme) i guarantee it. Just watch, tons of warriors who adopt a micro niche 1-2 page strategy will get their adsense accounts banned.
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    • Yeah I also think it's riski to make a living of adsense if you don't have a plan B for the case google bans your account.
      But as many people say, it's possible. A very good blog about that is Mike Iser .com - Mikeman's Journey To A Full-Time Income Online! . Mike Iser has updated the blog every day for about a year now and still does so. He described what he has done every day to reach the income he has at the moment, which consists mostly of adsense earnings.
      For me adsense is more or less an additional income source.

      Daniel
    • What are you basing this on? Facts, or just your gut feeling? :rolleyes:

      If a 1 page site does what it says on the tin, the adsense account will not get banned. Why should an ehow or manhalo crappy 200 word article be ok and a 1 page website get banned if they both provide the same value to the searcher?

      As for your comments on ugly themes - are there going to be minimum artistic standards for websites? How is this going to be policed? I guess we had all better brush up on our colour schemes Afterall, googles website is so attractively designed isnt it...
  • i made $20 daily from 1 blog
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  • I'd rather have one awesome site than 100 OK to crappy sites anyway. I think it'd be worth the effort to channel everything into making one site great. After all, think of all the really successful internet entrepreneurs out there...Makers of Facebook, Twitter, etc...I see ONE site in each case.
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    • I do agree that one site is all you need. I remember the teenage millionaire who created the site, whateverlife.com she only had one site, she focused on her site, content and the Actual functions (believe it or not, people don't go to your site to click your ads and make you rich) of the site instead of just creating a site and focusing on how to make more money. It's a shame people can't bother to work on a site before they think about how to monetize.
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  • So if you say you can live off with Adsense then how much are we talking about here? $250/month? 500/month? $1000/month? I've found out that it is quite normal to have a a half percent ration versus impression.

    So if you get a 1000 page impression/views a day then your click will be around 5 and click amount ranges from 1 cent to $3 but usually its just 10c per click. So that would be like 50c/day or $15/month.

    Based on that calculation to get $1k in adsense you need around 60k page views/impression per day. If you are CNN then I think thats not that hard.
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    • 10 cents per click might be your own experience, but it's not accurate for everyone. Nor is a max of $3 per click.

      If I had a site that did 10 cents per click, I wouldn't give it any of my time.
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    • The only experience I've ever witnessed first hand - was when a news source (such as CNN) would link to another web page with adsense.

      Beyond being at the right place at the right time, I've never considered it good for anything beyond supplemental income.
    • Not sure where those figures come from.

      My own eexperience, based on my current stats is that to make $4000 pm I would need 2000 impressions a day over my 20 or so half decent sites. CPC earnings to me have sat around 50 cents per click for months. CTR across all sites hovers around 20% per day. Some get 40% + , some only 5%.

      If you make good keyword selections, get the pages to rank, you can make good money. This month I am on target for over $1800, after making over $1400 last month.

      It can be done if you do it right.
  • Getting banned isnt the end of the world although I'm sure it would suck big time.

    You will still have targeted traffic coming to your site.

    You can replace the ads with other contexual ads, CPA ads or affiliate ads.
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    • One interesting site that caught my attention is drudge dot com (not drudgereport) Notice how they've monetized their site. They do have adsense, but as some have said, they've avoided putting all their eggs in the adsense basket
  • I've managed to grow my adsense income, but creating pages that make good income is a bit of an inexact science.

    I believe that my affiliate earnings dwarf my adsense income for many of my pages though, so if you have a decent site then maybe its better to ditch adsense?
  • Xfactor is the inspirational man.. No doubt many other live a earning on adsense only.. many have it as a primary source of income.. You can choose between affliates and adsense.. Whichever gets you more

  • Like what or how xfactor started, now I'm having 1 BIG one, just one single #1 Google (sometimes first page only), and 2nd page on Bing, sometimes #1 on Yahoo search even.... earns me about a few cents to a dollar plus a day... from about 100+ to 300+ visitors daily...

    I'm pretty happy with the result, but not happy about how I got there, cos I have no idea how?!!! So how do I repeat? I'll need to read xfactor's thread again....
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      I think you got #1 because you have lots of quality content on your blog.
  • It depends of what you call "living". I started one website and i waited 14 months to start making some money. For me 100 $ per month is a very small ammount but i consider my website(s) kind of an investement for the future. Maybe i can make 500$ per month after 2-3 years.
  • It only takes one site that is popular and targeted. But what you can do and what other people can do are not related.

    The answer is YES you can... but what happens when and if they pull the plug?
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    • Like I said, there is no such thing as an "Adsense site". If you get banned, easy replace the ads with CPA or affiliate ads, your income may drop, or may even rise, but all will not be lost.


    • I think it's an if rather than a when. You could also get run over tomorrow. No such thing as security in this life, and wouldn't it be dull if there was
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  • As long as you follow the TOS and keep your sites focussed on a good user experience you have nothign to worry about! Just ensure you follow all SEO best practices and you should be fine. People who get upto no good tend to get banned! Just be dilligent and if you think something may not be right, DONT do it...simple!

    People like John XFactor and others make thousands of £$£$£$£ per month from just AdSense so yes it can be a viable source of income.

    Zaheer
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    • You can create hundreds of sites but the truth is that some will be more profitable than others. Develop a strategy to follow to grow your adsense income like focus on the top 10 percent sites that make you money.
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  • There are people who do make a living off of adsense. But I don't think the number of sites is the only factor. There are others to consider like niches and content. Traffic is the factor that it is very dependent on.

    Your factors would be niche, (some niches will have a generally higher click value than others) keywords, and the quality of your content and backlinks.

    Pretty much, your income depends on the quality of what you provide. It is good to get visits, but there are only so many people in the world after all so you would want to get repeat visits and that's where quality comes in.
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    • It would be great to live of adsene.. But it looks like I'm a long way from that as a newbie:rolleyes:.
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  • Last year I made over 25K from adsense... that a normal salary .

    I don't "live" from adsense... instead I use it as extra payment for my house.
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    • that is freaking awesome!
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  • A lot of people do in fact make a living off of AdSense advertisements.

    Get a good domain name containing relevant keywords, setup a Wordpress blog, design a custom, SEO optimized theme, and make at least one blog post daily of unique, organic, well-written, high-quality, on-topic content. Apply for a DMOZ and Yahoo! directory listing after you qualify. Stay W3C compliant, abide by the webmaster guidelines of the big four engines, and in no time at all you'll be getting good traffic and your revenue will only increase over time if you continue to show that you care about your website.

    Hint: Don't just pay attention to PageRank: Care about TrustRank, too.
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    • Thanks for these useful steps for creating a well organized Google Adsense System. Really useful
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  • Depend upon niche If you found any good niche and if you can run 10 site with 10 different more search keywords it can be give you good income
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    • Thats true - 10 sites each earning $20 a day is very doable, and although $200 a day isn't going to make you rich, it ain't a bad start. Or 20 sites making $10 a day, possibly easier.
  • Web is still only main hobby, and unfortunately I must visit daily my full time job. I am also how many happy men is here living only from their websites.
  • some people use manual and some use auto to create money form blog..it's up to you if you lazy enough go to autopilot.. but you must learn some basic html.
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    • current earnings of 2000 dollars per month requires around 800 impressions a day total, hardly big traffic. CTR hovers around 20% average.
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  • I have 750,000 annual page views and I'm not making a living from AdSense.

    There are plenty of earnings liars here I suspect.

    Having said that, you need to be SMART to make money from AdSense. I know where I was going wrong. Most of my pages don't earn their keep. That is now changing, and I have Google Analytics to thank - before I signed up I had no idea why I was making money. Playing around with Ad layouts was also a win.

    My AdSense income is up 750% on February!
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    • Low CTR and going for keywords with low CPC can make adsense earnings really poor. There is always a right way and a wrong way.

      Congratulations on increasing your adsense earnings, sounds like you are on track to making it profitable. If all that traffic is from natural search engines then you should have lots of ways of monetizing it.
    • Regarding earnings liars, I am at a loss to understand why people do that. My income has been rising steadily over the 7 months since I started this site building. April was over $1300, May was slow at the start so I only tipper $1450 ish in May. June started great, a few 'big' days but that has flattened out a little.

      With good early reseach, am making living out of adsense is definitely possible. For those that have built sites and then decided to put adsense on them a long way down the track, I guess you just have to accept that perhaps the only way to make 'good' income from adsense is to build some new sites, or at least change the type keywords you target in new pages.
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  • 1st, yes many people do earn a killing off adsense.

    2nd, it's not just how many sites but how many quality relevant sites.
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    • I certainly agree about the number of sites and relevant content and ads. Out of my almost $2000 adsense income this month, over $400 is from one site, another is around 300, 1 at 200 and others between $50 and $150. Around 6 of my 30 sites made over half the income. The $400 site gets most of its traffic to the main page albeit via a large list of longtail keywords. I'm bulking that site up to 50 pages. A few of these type of sites and goodbye day job.
  • I am living a decent life with adsense.
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    • It's going to take months of hard work but one day hopefully
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  • I am now more convinced it's possible to live off AdSense income alone.

    I started making good money on AdSense this year, but sadly I've realised that many of my finance related Hubpages seem to be seasonal.

    Thankfully I've found a new niche that is a goldmine, and I've basically turned one test article into 40 related articles. Each is earning around $2-3 a month so with massive action and staying clear of any smart pricing disasters I'm now more certain that you I could live off AdSense.

    For me Google Analytics is the key - with 6 months worth of data I'm starting to see some very good statistics indeed, and I can now pretty much work out exactly why a page is making money.

    Product sale revenue still dwarfs AdSense revenue though .
  • Alright, anyone like to share the like on the methods they use to build backlinks/increase impressions?

    Cheers!

    ISEO
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  • With numerous online ventures like affiliate marketing I have been making a good living. I would earn a lot of money by just focusing on Adsense.
  • I COULD be soley living off adsense, i've been averaging right around $10,000/month (give or take $500) in adsense revenue - however, $10k a month isn't enough.. ;-) I want 100k a month - then i will consider to start "living" lol
  • Yes you can. It all depends on the kind of sites you build. Go for sites built around keywords that cost high per click on adwords. Use their external keyword tool for the purpose. And use the larger rectangles at the top of the page. Cheers!
  • I just started my business and I think adsense is a good startup. You learn to rank your site, after a while you can figure out why this site is making money and then you can decide how to go further. As most of the posts above say you have to be smart and figure out what is YOUR key to make money. There is no ONE WAY in IM to get money, there is only YOUR WAY!!! You have to understand this and then take action, because taking action is one of the most important things.

    Reptor
  • It would be great to live of adsene.. But it looks like I'm a long way from that with my earnings of 12-14 dollars per month..
  • Adsense can bring you a lot of money if your site is having good content and good traffic; it's one of the biggest sources of online revenue.
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    • I really love adsense - still averaging less than $30 a day, but what it has done has provide me a reliable income from which I can build an affiliate business. It has enabled me to buy some of the automated tools that have helped with link building etc.
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