How do people make so much money with Google Adsense?
December 10, 2007
Stumble it!Are you a frustrated Google Adsense publisher? You may ask how people make so much money with Google Adsense and even if you ask elsewhere you will get the following answers:
- Unique Content is the King
- Quality traffic, mainly from search engines results (High Ranking Sites
- Your ads placements
and there are many other answers similar to it. But I will give you some points to think about it before you open a site to make money with Google adsense of course applying all the points mentioned above:
CTR/Clicks
Ranking well is good, but not so good if the traffic isn’t all that high. So out of 500 visitors a day you might get twenty clicks (assuming a 4% CTR). A 1,000 visitors = 40 clicks.
Who is bidding?
So who are the bidders? Are they manufacturers or affiliates? Quite possibly it’s affiliates. What do you estimate is the profit margin of affiliates? This is going to play a supporting role in determining how much clicks pay.
General profit margin
Some products have thin profit margins, so you’re going to find less satisfying payouts. Check it out on CJ. The worst scenario is low traffic coupled with low profit margins.
Competition
High competition is good. Really high competition is better. 
As an affiliate, I like new niches or underserved niches.
Keyword Trends
You can go to Google Trends and see how some markets didn’t really exist a few years ago, but as certain keyword phrases gained awareness in the minds of consumers you can see the upward trend. Some phrases have downward trends as consumers move on to new products or fads. Anticipating keywords is a good niche to play, and that includes slang and names of products or services.
and a user in the forum, makes a good suggestion:
Yes., me and my wife make a 6-figure income from AdSense but we have been doing it for over 6 years now and it has taken a lot of effort with close to 2 million visitors each month and with a dozen websites. It has not been easy and it is still a lot of work. The message here is that it is hard work but you can do it. Focus on good content that makes life easy for visitors; they will come back and refer their friends. Useful content generates natural linking too and that improves search engine ranking. Simple, honest way to make money but it takes patience and hard work. I do not know of a get-rich-quick way.
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December 10th, 2007 at 1:52 pm
six figures on adsense?
Yeah, a lot of traffic is key.
December 10th, 2007 at 5:15 pm
I make about $0.60 / $1 a day. on adsense.
I think there is more money in affiliate marketing.
But, when your building a website affiliate marketing might not always work.
December 10th, 2007 at 6:49 pm
I suppose I make about $150 a day on average with Adsense. Even though the amount per site changes natural search traffic still seems to be the key (doesn’t have to be Google though, there is another search engine that provides almost triple the CTR of a Google referral).
December 11th, 2007 at 12:04 am
“Hard Work” is the key for all factors be it traffic, search engine placement. Nothing can replace it (except for money, if you want someone else to do hard work on your behalf).
December 13th, 2007 at 9:55 am
I have an average of $2 a day with Adsense and that’s because I read Joel Comm’s Adsense code. I know I can earn a lot more but I am too busy with my blog.
Btw, I don’t think having unique content is a major key for making money with Adsense, you just need to be an information resource, some SEO and your making ’some’ money.
December 16th, 2007 at 4:43 pm
Wow I have something like 2-3 million a month on one of my sites but I’m not selling anything and making like $1,000 monthly.
February 27th, 2008 at 11:28 pm
content and traffic are the key.Adsense stilll my first option
March 22nd, 2008 at 12:01 pm
When it comes to huge adsense earnings , there is huge traffic a swell , I earn very little from adsense and the main reason is “little traffic”. Yup of course , affiliate marketing is a pretty more rapid way to earn some bucks .. amazon .. pepperjamnetwork , dealdotcom etc etc.. good luck all of you
April 4th, 2008 at 12:46 am
Feb 200 visitors a day 3 dollars for the whole month.
March 300 visitors a day 30 dollars for the whole month.
Moved the ads around, changed the color of the ads, chose specific keywords.
This April I’m probably going to have about 4-500 a day
And I’ve also got TLA, Kontera and TZZ going. Probably going to add some affiliate stuff. I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. But, yes traffic is important. But TOPICS covered on website are crucial to the value of the ads placed on your site.
If you blog about low keyword things you get low paying ads. If you blog about high keyword topics you get high paying clicks. I’m not suggesting your change what you write about just check the keyword value of your topic and use those words vs. lower value words. Microsoft just came out with a FREE excel “add-in” that tells you what keywords are selling for.
These are my opinions on this issue for now.
April 12th, 2008 at 1:15 am
Should we better focus on 1 topic in 1 website, or multiple topics in 1 website?
June 5th, 2008 at 1:12 am
Just wondering where your Google Adsense ads are?
Do you make more with all the other advertising? or are those referral ads or something?
Julie
June 5th, 2008 at 1:33 am
I can’t use adsense on this site because it has “google” in the domain
depends on the niche I make more money with adsense than affiliate marketing