efeezy

I know a lot of the big dogs (and wannabe big dogs) around here probably laugh at those who try to earn with Adsense, but I'm just curious if anyone still uses it as a supplement to other earnings, or have you abandoned it entirely for bigger and earning earning projects?

I cut my teeth using Adsense, like almost everyone else in the AM game, but I still swear by it as being a kick ass passive income generator.

Until recently I focused solely on SEO (just started the PPC game not long ago), so I managed to get some niche game/arcade sites to number 1 for a lot of good keywords, and the earnings continue to be good. I'm still making $200 a day from 3-4 sites that I hardly even touch anymore.

I'm curious what others who are mainly in the PPC game think of Adsense and do you use it?

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mmalover

Damn $200/day is a lot from adsense in my opinion. What kind of ctr you get? what is your avg $ per click?

efeezy

I'm at around 5% CTR, $6 ecpm on 28k page impressions

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mmalover

hmm i just looked and I am 2.5ctr, $3 ctr :<

What kind of keywords are these for? What kind of sites do you have - blogs? or just reg sites?

thx


edit: I see you wrote: niche game/arcade and #1 lol nice... so these are for specific games I assume?

chatmasta

Yeah man arcade sites kill it on adsense. Picture blogs are also a quick money maker that you can flip after a month or two.

rileypool

I average about $1.50 per month. kthxbye

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Refrozen

I do $30-50 a day from adsense from back when I was running "legit" websites. All no effort.

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efeezy

These sites I have are legit websites were I've scraped up free games and compiled them on my own niche game sites. They do well, like I said, and I do so little to maintain. Maybe throw up a new game now and then or build a few directory links. I'm beating the competition on a TON of good keywords. General arcade sites don't do that well really, but I've found some niches that I could compete and have a decent per click return.

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chatmasta

Did you even do any hardcore SEO or just standard directory subs?

efeezy

I optimized the hell out of every page on those sites plus all the normal off page stuff. Social bookmarking, forum/blog posts, sigs, directories, article submissions etc.. Everywhere you could think. I've built up about 50K backlinks for each of the sites.

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niche

Looks like you've put a lot of effort into SEO. I do not have as much success as you but make a reasonable amount with adsense

Enough to make me wonder why the 'gurus' try to discourage people from adsense

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justo_tx

Probably depends on which gurus you talk to but if the guru is a "PPC + affiliate products" guru then they will tell you you can do $6K a day as opposed to $6K a month ($200/day x 30 days). I'm not knockin efeezy, $200 a day is fuckin awesome from adsense with the sites on autopilot, I'm envious. And if the "guru" is trying to sell you something AdSense isn't isnt a very sex sell.

HarveyJ

It's not impossible to make decent money from Adsense... it's just a long, tiring journey, and there are faster ways to turn a buck, and a lot more of them, if you know what you're doing.
Generally, when "gurus" are knocking Adsense, it's because they're the kind of people that have made them selves some custom solutions to their PPC and affiliate campaigns that automate a shitload of their work, so yeah, they are able to pull $6k a day, and they can do it with minimal work... but they're bullshitting you and themselves if they say that it was easy or quick to get where they are.

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extremist

hell yeah I'm practically living from adsense income atm. Ever since I started concentrating on content based sites in my own language (Dutch) and higher paying keywords, my earnings have multiplied by 15 in a few months time. Recently all earnings are now reported in Euro's I think I also benefit from this atm. probably useless information if you dont know other languages fluently but at least I answered your question.

efeezy

^^ Nice to hear that. What kind of income is it producing monthly?

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extremist

Last month was just over 2200 Euro's. Now that I know what works I hope to double this up in the winter season.

Lambo

Fuckin Awesome Feezy & Extremist!

you guys using Wordpress or custom building your sites? Or some other CMS?

johagulo

2200 euros....?? seriously?

extremist

I use: wordpress with some important plugins. xmlsitemap generator, related posts, popularity contest wp-post-ratings. I choose a design that is rather plain, SE Optimeze it, and integrate the ads around my content.

I use google webmastertools and have my analytics account linked to my adsense account. I use google trends and insights for search.

Before I launch a blog, I make sure that I have at least 20 unique qualty posts. I get a large list of update services to ping. Then I build my site map, ping google yahoo, bing and others, then I write another article. After that I go to 3 major dutch social news bookmarking sites and bookmark the best articles. I also look for other places to get good links.

I target for high paying keywords, mainly finance. This has worked well for me.

themadcracker

where can I read more about picture blogs and adsense, this is something I am definetly interested in. thanks in advance =]

bprimeelite

I put a small ad on each of my affiliate sites in financial niches and it pulls in an extra $100 or so a month and usually grabs the people who are going to leave the website anyways so it is worth it.

eBranchOffice

Too bad the heydays of AdSense are over.

As people say, there is still money to be made from AdSense, but it is not as easy as it once was.

Just like everything else, you need a lot of traffic and then test and tweak the hell out of the performance.

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efeezy

Thanks Lambo,

My sites are all Wordpress now. With the SEO plugins and what not, it's so much easier to keep decent SERP's

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We2master

Article marketing gives us good benefits to earn good amount of money through adsense!

turbolapp

Golly gee whiz, did someone at DP tell you that?

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Xdreamer

Actually believe it or not but you can make decent money with hubpages.com and adsense revenue share. Its all about a proper keywords research

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Yaxxx

Yup. Quick easy money a lot of people now overlook.

$10/day on adsense for a month is an easy $1.5k flip.

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efeezy

How about $50 a day? What could you sell that for?

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kingofsp

Maybe 5 grand

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justo_tx

Most people on flippa/sitepoint that think a seller is over priced will comment that a site usually sells for x months of revenue. Conservative $4500 (3 months rev) to $9000 (6 months rev), there maybe a mental barrier to getting over $10K for a site with just AdSense, and for those kind of numbers there is going to be an expectation of reasonable age to the domain, a domain established 2 months ago with that kind of rev is going to throw up a lot of red flags.

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DangerBrown

I still have a little arbitrage working. 2 horrible sites with 40% CTR making $200-$300/month. I haven't spent 20 minutes in the last 3 months on it. I was thinking maybe of spending a few days trying to grow it again but it feels like a step backward.