Written on December 15th, 2006 at 04:12 am by Darren Rowse
AdSense Earnings for November 2006
Last week I surveyed readers on their AdSense earnings for the month of November. I was hoping to run the poll for a full week but due to some problems with the plugin I was using only got around two days of data (732 respondents).
The results were quite similar to last years version of this same poll. Here’s a visual breakdown of numbers of respondents in each of the categories:
As with previous years, the largest group of bloggers using with AdSense earn under $10 a month (28% of of all who use AdSense).
Interestingly - the second largest category wasn’t the $10 - $29 category - but the $100-$499 one (21%).
The top category of over $10,000 in a month was reached by 23 bloggers (4%). 16% are earning over the magical $1000 per month mark.
Here’s a pie chart with all the percentages (note, I’ve taken out the ‘don’t use AdSense’ category).
41 Responses to “AdSense Earnings for November 2006”
Curt
December 15th, 2006 4:34 am
It’s interesting results for sure. I fit in the “under $10″ category but I know why I’m there (personal blog low traffic). What I’m interested in (and I’m not sure if this could be a separate poll or maybe just people mention in the comments here) is what is the number of blogs adsense is on compared to earnings.
Like I said, for me it’s currently 1 blog and under $10, I will assume that as the number of blogs increases so do the earnings (although there may be some exceptions to this for “major” blogs). It’d also be interesting to know visitor numbers, feeds vs search vs direct etc.
Okay I’m asking for too much.
Michael From The Future
December 15th, 2006 4:53 am
! WOW !
Hi Darren & All,
I am amazed by those who earn so much. I have been at this for just over
3 weeks now and am continuing to read & learn from all of you guys.
I hope to be included in your poll next year :)
THANKS to everyone here who has offered helpful information !
Take Care,
Michael F.T.F.
Eduardo Maio
December 15th, 2006 5:15 am
November was my best month too, too bad that the dolar is on a low value against euro. I hope it changes until the end of the month otherwise i’ve earned more dolars but in the end I will receive the same amount of euros.
Anyway it’s always inspiring to see some bloggers earning more then $1000 per month and some earn over 10k!
Dennis @ A Pile of Coins (German)
December 15th, 2006 5:20 am
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Mama Duck
December 15th, 2006 5:23 am
Wow, that’s very inspiring, thanks for taking the time to do this!
Mona
December 15th, 2006 5:31 am
I hope to be able to be apart of your survey next year. Thanks for the great information.
Allen.H
December 15th, 2006 6:19 am
Last year i was in the 30-99 group, well this November i moved up by one step, it’d be 3 if you surveyed December =)
Allen.H
Talia Mana, 2006 Weblog Finalist
December 15th, 2006 6:44 am
WOW! I didn’t realise it was possible to earn so much.
Can you correlate the earnings to the type of blog?
I’d be interested to know the topics that the 23 individuals who earned > $10,000 specialise in.
Thanks for opening my eyes.
50 Blogs
December 15th, 2006 6:57 am
I think it would be fairly difficult to achieve the $10,000 in a month. I fit into the $100-$499 category but my latest efforts should see me into the next category soon.
Interesting pie chart.
Jason Hooker
December 15th, 2006 7:45 am
I was in the ‘under $10′ category for November and there’s every chance it will be the same for December, but I’ve already seen a big pickup. I expect that it’s because my current blogs have only been going for about three months.
There’s still time!
jes
December 15th, 2006 7:58 am
I think this is interesting, considering every day I’m getting emails that I have new ads to approve, and yet when I approve them, they magically don’t show up on my site. I’m beginning to think I’m a bit … advertising retarded.
Steven Aitchison
December 15th, 2006 8:22 am
I was the $10-$29 category.
I think it would be really interesting to find out:
A) How long the blogs have been going
B) What the highest earning blogs are blogging about
C) How much traffic it takes to get over $1000 per month, as there must be a correlation between traffic and earnings
Talia Mana, 2006 Weblog Finalist
December 15th, 2006 8:26 am
Stephen, I agree. It would be great to have that information.
Allen.H
December 15th, 2006 8:49 am
@ 50 Blogs: if you were referring to my comment, then you should notice i actually said i made between i fit in the 1500-2499 group.
Allen.H
Michael
December 15th, 2006 9:52 am
>>> C) How much traffic it takes to get over $1000 per month
This was something I wondered when I started out about a year ago. I just passed the $1000/month mark, and for me it took about 600K pageviews.
Gayla McCord
December 15th, 2006 1:54 pm
It’s taken me 4 years and 13 blogs to get to the $1,000+ mark. During the month of November, I was able to break several personal goals. The top daily earned, ever! The top daily average ever and the top monthly total ever.
Anyone who thinks that blogging is easy, think again.
The famous words around my house are: “are you going to be on that thing all night?”
It takes a lot of work and a lot of dedication to get there. And once there, you HAVE to remember, what it took to get you there, is what it’s going to take to keep you there.
StrangeProgress
December 15th, 2006 3:02 pm
That is some interesting viewing - I love how charts can really bring trends to life. Great visual aid.
The results were pretty much as I expected they would be - all except the two highest brackets. Almost 3 times the number of respondants earning $10,000+ than the number earning $5000-$9999….
(BTW Darren - a slight typo in that chart, you listed it as $5000-$999, not that it matters)
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Tamar Weinberg
December 16th, 2006 1:29 am
I agree with the charts being a totally eye-catching visual aid. What program did you use for that?
Anonymous
December 16th, 2006 1:58 am
Just thought I’d share my experience, in case it helps anyone:
- I’ve been blogging since August 2005.
- I have tried many different blogs, but I only have one blog that is making me a significant amount of money - $400 per month right now.
- That blog gets about 900-1000 unique visits per day.
- I love the subject of that blog. I have started other blogs that bring in a lot more per click, but I can’t stand to write about those subjects - I have no interest in them. So I have concentrated on the fun blog and let the others lapse.
- Blogging is hard work, and not a way to get rich quick!
- You do have to promote your blog.
- Write in a unique voice. Create a blog that *you* would want to read.
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The Foo
December 16th, 2006 11:00 am
I am slowly and steadily coming to understand how adsense works but have been doing some experimenting too with what is my optimal position. I only started putting adsense recently am in the below $10 section, I am puzzled at the irregularity of my traffic & clicks vs. amount earned. I noticed that 2 days ago I had about 5 hits with hundreds of traffic earning less than a dollar. Yet yesterday I had 23 clicks with a little less traffic and I didn’t earn anything. What is wrong here?
I didn’t give the exact traffic and earning amounts because I am not sure whether I can truly disclose that. Darren: maybe you can reply to me personally here about explaining what is going on - hope it is not asking too much. OR maybe someone else can explain to me because as the math doesn’t add up. There must some other algorithm to calculate earnings that I don’t know about.
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Nneka
December 17th, 2006 5:10 pm
It would be interesting to see if there is any shift in people reading from last year to this year. In other words, is it under $10/day because of a lot of new readers. Also, are people shifting up and out.
Left Brain
December 18th, 2006 12:15 am
Great post! It keeps me inspired. But it also makes me wonder…what would a similar graph of Traffic vs Adsense revenue look like? (a straight line up I imagine). However, I want to know what kind of traffic do you have to have to get to $10,000 a month? How about $1000 or even $500?
Harlem
December 18th, 2006 2:51 am
I think It is interesting as well. Adsense is complicated!! What is interesting to me is the amount of people who do not use Adsense. The poll is about Adsense revenue but +100 people took the time to respond to the poll. Do they know something that we do not know? What are they using instead of adsense, or do they not care about generating revenue…. Just a thought.
Jim Kukral
December 18th, 2006 3:26 am
@Left Brain,
Exactly, I’m going to figure out how to do this!
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Dustin
December 18th, 2006 8:43 am
Any chance you could write about who those 16% of >1000/mon so that the rest of us can learn by example and see what they are all about? It would be appreciated.
Malaysian chinese
December 18th, 2006 5:07 pm
It is a nice topic and surprisingly many people fall either earn about under$10 per month, or $100-499 per month.
Thanks for the information. :)
Malaysian chinese
December 18th, 2006 7:53 pm
Hi Darren, with the statistic you show , can you explain further on the average CTR for the monthly earn below $10, and monthly earn $100-$499 ? so that we can learn is there any differences for this 2 groups.
thanks in advance
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Dan
January 11th, 2007 6:20 pm
As a new blogger, I too was curious about the apparent jump in earners at the $500-$999 range but then I realized why it was.
That category is the first one that has a “big boy” spread - 400 dollars. At that point Darren effectively (and probably unintentionally) re-calibrated the graph.
0-$9 = a range of 9 dollars
$10-$29 = a range of 20 dollars
$30-$99 = a range of 60 dollars
And then comes that 400 dollar range. That more than a 600% increase over the previous category.
If the graph was divided into 0-$100, $100-$200, $200-$300, etc., then the curve would be just what we’d all expect: A huge number of bloggers in the lowest earning bracket, dwindling to tiny number of money-makers at the other end.
As a side note, In November I was just starting my blog, EmptyEasel.com, so I didn’t participate in the survey. I’ll be in the $10-$29 category for January 2007, however.
Dan
January 19th, 2007 10:31 am
**Sorry** That first line should read “. . . jump in earners at the $100-$499 range. . . “
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Jesper
February 27th, 2007 7:42 pm
These are very interesting numbers indeed. I’m also in the “below $10″ category, but I’m only just starting out. I believe from what I’ve seen and read so far that maybe we will see the “blog market” mature after the initial explosion. What is your opinion? What is sustainable for the blogging industry? Are there enough readers to support 60 million blogs?
I guess one must focus on quality quality and then quantity (speaking of content). The shining star of blogging entrepreneurs must be Steve Pavlina. He now makes $40k per month from his blog, of which $9k Ad Sense.
Brad
March 8th, 2007 7:45 am
Interesting Poll results…
In my opinion, blogs have become a thing of the past. *ducks* Not that one can’t make money writing a blog; I just don’t think there are enough readers around for all the bloggers anymore.
Adsense Goal
May 19th, 2007 7:00 pm
Once you hit a certain goal, the earnings really start to pile on top of each other. I think your blog is the perfect case study of this phenomenon.
I would love to hit my goal of $100/day by August. It’s my biggest wish, and posts like these keep hope alive!
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July 29th, 2007 3:38 pm
Hi Darren, can you update this post ? what are the new statistic for year 2007 ?
The Business of Software
October 14th, 2007 7:13 pm
Great info. Maybe it should done once every while.
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