ProBlogger.net readers could have earned close to $1,000,000 in November! Read on to find out how.
The latest ProBlogger.net poll of the week is over and the results are in. 1205 readers responded to the question of ‘How much did you earn from AdSense in November?’
225 readers (19%) answered that they didn’t use AdSense meaning the vast majority of those reading this blog do. While I didn’t specify that only bloggers should answer the question we can assume that the majority of those who answered are bloggers due to the nature of this site (well over 90% of those leaving comments on this blog are bloggers).
The spread of results were as follows.
Around half of those readers who do use AdSense earn under $30 per week (46%) with most of those earning less than $10 per day. This is up from last time I did this type of poll. Last time 40% earned under $30 per month. As I said last time I commented on this poll, this is a very important statistic to keep in mind as often the stories of bloggers earning big dollars can get all the attention.
Yes there is big money being made by bloggers – but it’s by a small percentage of people.
5% of ProBlogger readers using AdSense (a total of 45 readers) earned over $10,000 last month from Adsense. If November can be viewed as a ‘normal’ month this means around 5% of you are on track for a $120,000 year in 2006. Again this is up on last time I did the poll when only 1% of respondents were earning over the $10,000 per month mark.
17% are earning over $1000 per month and 25% over $500 per month.
For a bit of Fun I decided to estimate how much ProBlogger readers collectively earned from AdSense in November.
My estimation is that it is a minimum of $968,575. I guess that almost makes us a million dollar blog.
I came up with this figure by multiplying the middle dollar value of each dollar range by the number of respondents. ie 125 people said they earned between $10 – $29 so I multiplied 125 x $15 for that section. For the top section of over $10,000 I played it safe and just multiplied the $10,000 x 45 although I know for a fact that some of those who responded in that section earned considerably more than $10,000 which means I’m pretty sure we earned $1,000,000 between us all from AdSense.
This would mean that on average respondents earn $988.34 per month from Adsense.
Of course – these statistics are by no means intended to be scientific but rather are about getting a picture of what’s going on for bloggers at the moment and to have a bit of fun along the way.
Thanks to all who participated.
The next poll will be similar but will focus upon Chitika eMiniMalls earnings. That poll will be up shortly.
About Darren Rowse
My name is Darren Rowse and I’m a full time Blogger making a living from blogs like 
I think everyone owes at least 5% of earnings to problogger!
if you insist Mike :-)
paypal is fine! hehe
And you Darren? Do you owe 5% of your Adsense income to Problogger Readers? I mean how important in Problogger.net for you financially?
Well this week it’s earned me nothing with Adsense because it’s now in the YPN beta.
But before that it was less than 1% of my overall earnings.
Lol I guess I fit the bill of an average user as my earnings are bang on your averages! I’ve only been running ads for about a month now – I wish I’d been running them for longer! I’m hoping that my traffic continues to grow at 15-20% pm as in a few months this cash could really get interesting!
Thanks for all the tips Darren – both online and offline via email
As someone who spent years learning the craft of surveying and statistical analysis, I think I should speak up — people have a nasty way of overstating their income, especially in an anonymous environment.
Given the audience on this site, I suspect most people were absolutely honest, but I’d expect a number of those “10,000+” rankings to be false, which has the potential to severely skew the results (even though I’m sure there are a few 10K+ earners who pulled in substantially more than that in the frenzied lead-up to xmas).
could be right James. Although the %’s fit pretty well with my anecdotal evidence of chatting with my readers.
However it’s just some fun.
Just a nitpick, but the midway point between $10 and $29 is $19.50, not $15 :-).
Good nitpick actually. I think I actually did the calculations on the $19.50 figure – or did I . Oh well – we get the idea I guess.
I am sure you can repeat this poll. Ask people put exact figure. Maybe it will help to clarify with those earning more than $10,000.
Anyway, it is interesting to compare results of two polls.
Wish I could’ve gotten in before the poll ended, then my sites would have tipped the scale to $1,000,001.99. Enjoy your blog very much Darren. Thanks for all the tips.
Just under $1 monthly. You know my site has been bulit 3 years ago. Sigh.
this looks like an exponential distribution
Why did you change the poll from last year? This one is monthly last years is weekly. Makes it difficult to compare. Not important I know! haha.
Is your digital camera blog the biggest earner?
This is always very interesting and I hope everyone’s earnings are up at least a little from last year if they’ve been blogging that long ;).
What a neat poll, I fall under the one that made $10 last month. I’m actually excited about this as it was the most I’ve ever made in a month, hopefully from here on out it continues to grow. Thanks for the poll.
I was pulling in a decent $5-10 a day when Google decided to pull the plug on me! Don’t know why though.
Have moved to Bidvertiser.com now, it obviously is not making as much as Adsense did for me…..wonder why, eh? Are people automatically attracted to clicking Adsense ads on other websites because subconciously they feel the thrill of knowing that this click is making/costing someone some bucks?!
I think we need to do more than blog ourselves. It’s time to let other peoples fingers do the typing. Set up a real cms like joomla and create a community that lets the public produce your content.
That is an incredible amount of money from just blogging. Maybe if everyone keeps up their hard work they can make a ten million dollar blog!
i am relatively new blogger and am running a similar survey at http://www.mynetearnings.blogspot.com just to see how much are bloggers earning now from adsense 2 years after. wouldn’t that be interesting?
That was a very good idea to see how much people earn on Adsense. I am surprised as to just how much people earned quite a bit of money. This was very interesting. I hope the next time this poll is up the number are higher :)
Very interesting. I am new to the world of blogging, so stats like these are motivating to keep improving.
Adsense income is dwindling. Adbrite seems to offer more opportunities of income