Thread: Google Adsense: seriously do people make money from it? Seems pointless IMO

i have google adsense on my pages but i make nothing from it.

i have affiliate sales that i get money from. google adsense has netted me nothing. does it really serve a purpose to waste ad space on that?


what methods do you guys use for your adsense?

Adsense is a huge money maker for lots of people, you are just lacking enough traffic to see it. Start getting a few hundred uniques to your site a day, optimize your placement and you should earn a few bucks a day from that.

I have joined a adsense revenue sharing website in India, and i am earning a decent amount from it.

I make about 400 bucks per month on one of my sites. it's just a blog i post re-written articles to. I stopped posting to it a few months back and it still makes the same money.

Also I didn't make shit untill I started putting the ads in the right spots.

i get 30-40k uv per day to my blog and it earns $150-200 per day from adsense and around 50-75 per day from cpa email submits. its worth mentioning that the site is optimised for the adsense clicks, im thinking if i switch them with the cpa ads for a day or 2 it might yield better results. i believe it does pay to have adsense you just need the traffic

damn that is nice. did you put a lot of work into it?

Holy crap!! Very nice......will you mentor me?

Like many have quoted here traffic is the KPI if you have the traffic and the ads are in the optimum positions the Bank Doors will Open

its not bad but i think it could do better,its an autoblog too which is interesting, the stats themesleves actually arnt that impressive to look at the CTR is usually at or under 1% so im getting around 0.10 - 0.20 per click give or take a few cents here and there. And that is optimized as much as i can for adsense, obvioulsly i have lost out on a fairfew adsense clicks due to the cpa banners but its all about trial and error and im trying a few things out at the minute.
as for mentoring or help, feel free to shoot me some questions and ill do my best to answer, but to lay it down honestly, everything i know about IM i have learned here, i found the forum a couple of years ago whilst learning to ewhore and picked up from there.
Promotion wise its been a mixture of blog commenting, forum posting, tweeting, link wheels, bookmarking , bookmarking some more, squidoo leses angela and pauls backlink packs pretty much everything within my power.
i got lucky i would say, about 25% of my traffic comes from google news. the rest is all organic pretty much with a few refferals from twitter etc.
now and again the traffic comes in hard when an article is featured on redit or fark and it will peak around 70000 uv for the day. but again its luck of the draw.
all i will say without trying to sound too cheesy is i have worked fckin hard on this blog its cost a bit of money outsourcing various tasks, buying tools etc but its paid off in the end.
any way i have jabbered on enough now...go get of your ass and do some promotion or something

wow you ARE my hero. that is great. i been getting a few hundred visits a day right now. of course trying to up my SEO. my traffic has increased over the past month.

what are the best places for the ads then?