Comments on: Adsense Earnings Poll Update

By: MM

MM — Fri, 25 Mar 2005 17:27:29 +0000

My Adsense income had a breakthru when Adsense allows multiple ad units on one page last year. I also reached another (higher) stage after february Google dance. Overall, I feel adsense income is very much related to # of visitors coming from search engines. Can I say search engine visitors are more valuable than loyal readers? It seems they tend to click more ads.

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 25 Mar 2005 03:52:02 +0000

I voted in the < $30 category, but I just realised that I earnt $40 for March so far. oops. My history has been:
Nov – Dec: 100% increase
Dec – Jan: 30% increase
Jan – Feb: 10% increase
Feb – Mar: 90% increase

I started in around October 2004.

By: Eoghann Irving

Eoghann Irving — Wed, 23 Mar 2005 22:57:55 +0000

It looks as though my AdSense revenue for this month will be up around 50% on the last month. The increase appears to be a combination of increased traffic to my blogs and also increased clicks thanks to better positioning of ads.

I’ve just started playing with the Adlinks option, so we’ll see what effect that may have.

By: dirvish

dirvish — Wed, 23 Mar 2005 22:44:19 +0000

I’ve had my adsense account for about a year, but I’ve just started really working with it since February. I’ve moved from that first category (under $30) into the second category since then. I’de love to hear what it takes to move into one of those more profitable groups from poll respondents! I would love to be in that $1500 – $2499 group by the end of the year…

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 23 Mar 2005 18:33:59 +0000

My blog is just a week old, so no adsense revenue yet (no traffic), but I hope to join the ranks here soon.

By: an anonymous coward :)

an anonymous coward :) — Wed, 23 Mar 2005 17:26:00 +0000

Thanks for allowing anonymous comments in this post. I have a small network of sites but I really don’t want to publicize them or me on this subject.

I fall into the $100-499 range (actually averaging 282/month over the last 6 months).

This represents 1/4 of what I was seeing a year ago on half the traffic.

Interestingly enough, the impressions as reported by Google now vary wildly compared to my own homegrown stat tracking application (which I designed to mimmick the way Adsense ads are displayed to try and see why there was a difference between my numbers and Google’s).

The discrepency is similar to the early months of Adsense when tracking was horribly off. Over the last year or so had been pretty accurate up until November when the variance started back up. I also monitor a couple static content pages with channels so I can compare the Adwords CPC and the Adsense revenue per click. This isn’t an exact science, but while Adwords CPC has gone up about 40% on keywords that hit within those static pages, the adsense revenue per click has dropped by 60%.

I have a full-time job, so Adsense revenue is bonus money for me, allowing me to cover my servers, pay others to write some special interest content or just fun money, but it is disappointing to see the drop; especially with the rise in CPC bids.

Once a viable competitor hits the market, I’ve sure things will improve.

By: Rick Blythe

Rick Blythe — Wed, 23 Mar 2005 16:32:37 +0000

My earnings have quadrupled starting in March. The main reason is my site no longer sits in the sandbox – whoohoo!

By: Ugo Cei

Ugo Cei — Wed, 23 Mar 2005 15:31:37 +0000

I’ve seen my earnings more than double in March (extrapolating the current average to the end of the month) with respect to February, thanks in part to the advice I got from your site. CTR in particular has almost doubled.

This will bring me from the “under $30″ group to the “$30 – $99″ group. Not much, but I’ve started my blog in January, so this is hopefully only the beginning.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 23 Mar 2005 14:40:30 +0000

Following a couple of posting here I repositioned and added more adverts to spittoon. Not too sure when these changes were implemented but it matters little as the number of clicks hasnt changed much over the month.

What would be interesting from the poll is if these results are from just one website or several. I only use the adverts on one at the moment.