#1 - I don't actually spend huge amounts of time on it (just a few hours here and there in my spare time). It has made me (cant be bothered to check exact figures) - but must be near to $20,000 dollars so far. I *enjoy* taking photos and fiddling with my photo web site. Traffic WILL come back up again in the not too distant future once all my images get picked up again by Google image search (at which point I should be able to get back to making over $1000 per month without having to invest much time in the site). But at this point I WILL admit that if I am ever going to make $3000 per month from Adsense then it is starting to look like I will have to invest more time in the project than I actually have at the moment but we'll see...

#2 - I think 'No money' is a bit harsh!

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This message is hidden because williamc is on your ignore list.

So you don't use that function?

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I don't have anyone on my ignore list! ?

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I have one American and one Dane. Main reasons.

1. Use too much time on "ear gassing". I think you understand that term freely translated from Norwegian "øre gass = ear gas".
2. Shooting before they ask like I personally regard the above remark from williamc.
3. Starting flames that ends in off topic emotional posts. Here (wait until the link redirects to post #154) is one of the worst IMO

The only way for me to see their posts is to upgrade their staus to moderators, since moderators and admins can not be ignored.

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I give him the benefit of the doubt on the above remark especially as he had a 'smiley' at the end of it!

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I noticed the smiley.

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Jordan: the no money bit was said tongue in cheek, and kgun happens to be one of the nitwits I refered to who like to merely spout conjecture over fact

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The big advantage is that you can focus on members posting consistent theories or facts that fit a theory. In science (unfortunately this is not a scientific forum) it is not a question about truth, but to learn more.

• Theories also evolves and old theories become special cases of more general theories.
• If your AdSense model encompasses another model your model may fit a more general theory.

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Anyway - this thread is long enough already!

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can always grow longer

How are your earning now a days?

Or perhaps a better question is: How many visitors do you get daily?

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$263 for May. Down *again* slightly from April. According to analytics just over 24,000 visits.

Drop due mainly to Google image search dropping a bit (haven't had time to check exactly why).

This is the main problem - my lack of time... I must allocate some time to getting this project back on track!

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Hello, Jordan,

That's my problem, too, so I've been squeezing time in here and there.

I redesigned the foil art site and added Adsense for Search (thank you, Tubby, for the advice) to the headers and a links unit in the bottom nav bar.

I posted a configuration question just now and hope you may know the answer since you have so much experience with AdSense. (no, people, I am NOT trying to butter him up. I'm stating the facts ... as I know them.

Steph

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The config question was solved and added to the WPW post here

Steph

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Looks good. I think I'll give it a go on my site as well (although my search doesn't make a lot of money maybe this is part of the problem)..

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I really needed a search engine on the 3DF site. I can work on AdSense ads after I'm done updating all the pages (again).

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June 2009 Earnings:-

Adsense = $267 (up slightly on May even though it should be down slightly due to the start of the good weather / holidays) - so there is hope yet. (only have to increase traffic by just over 100 times now to reach my target of $3000 a month!)

I am also making a bit extra a day now out of chitika premium which doesn;t seem to be affecting my Adsense earnings.

Here are the details:-

Make Money From Photos, Adsense, Affiliate Marketing: Adsense / Photo / Chitika Earnings June 2009 - Approx $310

PS - has anyone heard the rumour that the dollar could be devalued soon?

If so - that is bad news for me as my GBP earnings will decrease!

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Yes, it should be dropping to almost nothing soon as the US government is printing more money than has ever been printed in the history of the US.

No one knows how bad of an affect this will have on the economy.

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Watch this space then all wannabe economists!

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I don't understand

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The US Dollar floats freely. Between the budget deficit and the trade deficit, there is massive pressure on the dollar to decrease in value. Look at Russia & China: If China loses faith the dollar will collapse: Rediff Money

"The faith of the Chinese in America's power and responsibility, and the petrodollar holdings of the gulf countries that depend on US military protection, are the twin props for the dollar's global status."

They are concerned about the value of the dollar because naturally they're holding dollars/dollar denominated assets. If they 'lose faith' that is where you will see a 'devaluation' - China currently moved away from a firm renminibi/dollar 'peg' and now permits the renminibi to fluctuate within a narrow band. By doing so, it UP-valued the renminbi vis-a-vis the dollar. Currently, 1USD = 6.833CNY

The IMF estimates, that on a purchasing parity basis, 1USD should equal approx. 3.8CNY.

"Ethnic Chinese, including those in the mainland, Hong Kong, Taiwan and overseas, may account for half of the foreign holdings of dollar assets."

If the Chinese permit the renminbi to appreciate (essentially to let it float freely), the inevitable consequence will be a de facto devaluation of the dollar.

"China is aware that it must become independent from the dollar at some point. Its recent decision to turn Shanghai into a financial centre by 2020 reflects China's anxiety over relying on the dollar system.

The year 2020 seems remote, and the US will not pay attention to something so distant. However, if global stagflation takes hold, as I expect it to, it will force China to accelerate its reforms to float its currency and create a single, independent and market-based financial system.

When that happens, the dollar will collapse."

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The problem is that the US is printing more money. (-:

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I just meant that this thread could turn into a full blown economics discussion (see above - thanks CW!)

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i think i get what u mean. google adsense indeed is one of the very good ways for bloggers to earn more than they want to if they work well for this site.

Hehe, sorry about that, sometimes I can't help myself.

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July 2009 Adsense Earnings = $294 (again up a bit from previous months even though it is middle of the summer now - so looking in good shape for September!)

NB - I keep getting pestered now to change my default currency to GBP when I login to Adsense - so pretty soon I may have to start publishing earnings in GBP! (And change the title of this post to the make £1631.45 GBP from Adsense per month!)

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You´re not even at 10% of your goal and worse it's lower now than it has been before.

You do realize that it's always going to be like this, right?

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Thanks for the encouragement!

No - it's only going to get better - my traffic is still gradually building after my 301 redirect form the old sub domain to my new domain.

I realise it will take some time at this rate - but I will get there.

My faith in Ireland Photos / Desktop Backgrounds / Irish Wallpaper was also renewed more than a little last month when someone offered me a tidy little sum of money for a partnership type of thing with them... I can't give specific details, but it certainly made up for my lack of Adsense income in recent months, and goes to show that the harder you work, the luckier you get!

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Congretulations. Sounds like you´re going good.

Just wanted to throw harsh reality in your face because that's necessary every now and then and you´re the kind of person that takes that positively.

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Wow, this is enlightening. Thank you all for the content, as I have learned a ton about adsense!

All comments and criticism gratefully received!

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That happened to me. £100 to £150 a month (and growing) to virtually zero. All my hard work gone over night.

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Still, if you get a lot of non US traffic, that should even things out a bit.

e.g. if people are still prepared to pay 10 pence (GBP) a click for ads on your site, then you should still get 5p (or whatever it is that Google decides to give you) regardless of how strong the dollar is?..

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'Get Rich Very Slowly Guru' I had a look at your link site and noticed that you state income.

Just to say a warning that I believe it is against Google Policy to show AdSence incomes. I could be incorrect about this and OK you don't exactly show this but... take care...

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No worries on that one - it is only specific stuff like eCPMs etc that you are not allowed to discuss...

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Yes. My understanding is if you say: "I earned $10" Google is not bothered. If you go into details (as Jordan pointed out like eCPMs, then they might get a bit cross.

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August 2009 Earnings (including Chitika which may have brought the adsense earnings down a wee bit) = $300 give or take a few cents. (I have given Chitika the boot now)..

The good news is that traffic is still going up (although not as fast as I would like)...

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I've been using Google adsense for about a year now in my blog. I was just wondering why it seems like I haven't earned a single dime?

I used to earn a good income until last January. Then it nosedived. Not really picked up, since.

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From all the evidence I have seen so far, blogs earn far less than 'normal' web sites from Adsense.

If anyone else knows different - feel free to correct me....

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Blogs can and should earn more but a lot depends on how they are set up.

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I am sure this is not *always* the case.

But I am sure that you'll find with the majority of blogs, they tend to be visited by other bloggers more than by the general public, and other bloggers know the difference between an Adsense advert and an internal link...

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Most my traffic comes from Google, how about yours?

Do you think that when doing a search on the search engines the searcher can tell the difference between a blog and a regular website?

Or maybe they do a search, land on the site and then figure out rather the site is what they are looking for?

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If you can get mainly search engine traffic (from people not using 'blog' as part of their search) then you are elected....

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I am not running for anything but are you saying that a blog want rank unless you put the word blog into the search engines?

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No.

I am only saying that in general, blogs tend to be viewed by a higher percentage of bloggers than non-blogs, and in these cases - Adsense won't work as well as it otherwise would.

If your blog is viewed by the same proportion of bloggers as 'non-blogs' are, then your blog will do well with Adsense.

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Where are the stats coming from that most people that read blogs are other bloggers?

I own a good many blogs and can tell you that the information is not correct.

As a matter of fact last time I checked I ranked #4 for the keyword website design which is suppose to get around about 74,000 searches a month.

And I rank number 9 for web site design that is supposed to get another 40,500 per month.

Are you saying the only people looking for those keywords are bloggers?

And there is a list of another couple thousand just for that site alone.

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Here is one example from a UK blog (and I have heard similar stories from a LOT of other bloggers here):-

Here are the statistics (earnings now in UK pounds):

Month Visitors Earnings
Feb 2009 3900 £1.92
Mar 2009 3200 £0.52
Apr 2009 2600 £1.69
May 2009 3500 £2.34
Jun 2009 7400 £5.98
Jul 2009 14400 £4.74
Aug 2009 10300 £2.01

Now, I am not saying that I am right and you are wrong, but just that in my (admittedly limited) experience blogs don't seem to do as well out of adsense as 'normal' web sites...

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No - I am not saying that at all.

As I said before, if your blog gets a lot of search engine traffic from people *not* searching for a blog then you are onto a winner!

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Anyway - this is the '$3000 per month Adsense', so maybe another thread should be started...?

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That would depend on a lot of factors, were the traffic is coming from and how the blog is set up.

There was a dating site doing something like 1 million every two months with Google, does that mean that all dating sites make $500,000.00 per month with Google?

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