My Real Adsense Earnings
My real adsense earnings for March 2010 were $271.01, representing my best month yet with Google Adsense. Most of those earnings, $202 to be precise, were from a single site — the pets-themed website I started about 15 months ago. It has less than 20 pages and most of those don’t yet rank very high in the search engines, but the few that do are bringing in a very respectable passive income month after month.
I’ve seen a steady increase in Adsense revenue this year. As a point of reference, December 2009 showed $123.34 from Adsense, with a nice jump in January 2010 to $169.88 and then February was $195.46. March’s earnings were a nice surprise at more than $75 above February, which had been a record month.
My goal is to increase my Adsense income to $1,000 a month by December of this year. To that end, I’ve been adding content to a few niche sites and securing backlinks to the new pages. One thing that’s been a challenge is figuring out the best way to grow my niche sites — do I focus on them one at a time, or get each of my 15+ domain names online and then add content and promote them assembly-line style? Going back and forth between these two strategies has kind of made my approach a little more haphazard than I’d like.
For now, I’ve decided my top priority is to get each one online with a decent template and five pages of content before adding more pages to existing niche websites or promoting what I already have online. I think it’s important for the sites’ future income that their age is established now — I’ve owned some domains for over a year and that’s a waste if they aren’t being put to use.
Once all of my sites have been established, I’ll add Google Adsense code and some affiliate products and start backlinking. Accomplishing this for each of my domains, and then adding more content to my well-earnings pets site, will help me reach my Google Adsense earnings goal by the end of the year.
How are your Adsense earnings? Do you have a goal for increasing them; if so, what’s your strategy?
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Nice post good to see your earnings growing steadily over time. Perfect indication that your strategies are working thus far.
Also your post highlights the fact that focusing on AdSense niches works.
Carry on the good work
I’d focus on the content first too. Google will start finding your pages even with zero backlinking. Than go on a backlinking rampage (and interlinking).
I have been working with adsense for the last five years. My monthly earning from adsense is about 200 from one single single. My traffic for this site is about 20,000 unique a month.
I have added one site since last year and two more blogs since one month back. The result for these three site are not good, hardly see any click a day.
Can you please advise what is your method or how you going to increase your adsense earning to $1000 a month?
I’m taking the approach of building sites or blogs with a strong template, getting a good content base and then moving on to my next niche. I like simplicity with strength!
I add Google, Amazon and other affiliate advertising as I build them.
I have so many ideas and too little time to devote to each one as I must maintain the 9-5/M-F thing for the unforeseeable future. That is frustrating to me!
I feel strongly in the niche theory as opposed to one blog that covers it all in categories. If the templates are in place with a good domain name it really does not take any more time to write good content and then just choose which niche it belongs in.
I’ve just started my blogging for retirement plan but I’m right there with you with my goal of $1,000.00 per month by year end.
Going out now to round up some traffic!
My adsense earnings continue to be a bit dismal. I only have a few niche blogs which to earn from, but I am beginning to think it could be the lack of a domain name. Currently, my niche blogs are hosted on blogger, and I think this might be why they recieve less traffic.
Not bad. Keep it up!
I personally like to focus on one website at a time. It’s a lot easier to manage in my opinion. For example, I had recently switched my three blogs to new hosting services and added new templates. After the switch, I spent several weeks just working on one blog. As a result, Cash Campfire (my finance blog) is now running smoothly while I work on Betta Tank Paradise (my fish keeping blog). Once I’m done with Betta Tank Paradise, I’ll work on Salad Sticks (my health and lifestyle blog).
Best of luck!
Christina
Right now I’m looking to break the $200 barrier for the first time, and I’ve seen massive gains in the last few months, as I was a few cents short of $100 back in December. Most of that was from three blogger blogs and then a lot of HubPages and InfoBarrel. I’m starting to really put up the niche sites, and even with just basic back linking I’m seeing some nice results, and kicking myself for not having started earlier. I agree with JadeDragon to get the pages up with just enough to get discovered so the domains age. This way even if you don’t really get to them over a year, you’re still helping yourself out. @Rachel – I can attest from experience that blogger blogs are the hardest pages to get ranked highly in Google that I have worked with, FWIW.
Thanks for sharing. I believe in earnings from adsense too, and I do believe that passive income can happen. I have one main blog that earns from adsense, and it is pretty nice earnings without that much traffic.
Being in a good niche, having good traffic, and backlinks to your site are important. Adsense works, and some of the most profitable bloggers earn their money from adsense.
What I am doing is a hub site for all my affiliate redirect links @ info-intel.com and I am making use free blogs and have plans on four other full fledged websites using info-intel as a link hub.
My next website I am not going to monetize until it is receiving signifigant search engine traffic without active marketing. Then I will monetize it.
Info-Intel is now a general info site but that will change soon. And man o man, nice progress with google adsense. Makes my 4 dollars look like nothing !
So I will be coming back to get those skills !
Thanks for the information !
These are some interesting increases in earnings from Adsense and if you continue to increase by this level every month I am sure you will hit your target of $1000 by the end of the year!
I love Adsense, but it is hard to start a new site and get passive or residual income quickly. I’ve had a site up for about a month now, and I’ve only started seeing traffic. Not enough for any considerable about from adsense, but enough to get excited. I’ve noticed that the more compelling content you put on your site, the more likely people are to link back to you and stay on your site. This makes Google happy and they in turn increase your ranking in the SERPs which brings more traffic, etc. We’ll see how this new site does over the next few months, but I’m hoping to pull $100-$300/mo in adsense revenue within the next 6-12 months.
I didn’t read all of the other comments, so please excuse me if I repeat anything. I would definitely go ahead and get your other domains online and indexed even if you don’t add content or Adsense to them yet. I’ve found that aging a domain gives a large boost in ranking. I’d let that process begin as soon as possible. You can return to the sites later, and still work on them one at a time.
Best of luck!