Anyone using google adsense?

Question

Anyone out there using google adsense?
I was thinking of giving it a go but is the money you can make worth the effort?
what kind of earning are we looking at getting from this?

Answer 1

Try going to http://www.mike10613.talktalk.net/index.htm

email him as he uses it. His email is on the site. Click on his Adsence and see :-)

Good luck £££££££££££ or $$$$$$$$$$$$

Answer 2

Well I use it on my site, which gets about 20 visitors a day. So far (after about 3 months), I've made about £3.50 off it. You don't get a cheque until you have made at least £35, though.

It's a good idea and the pay-per-click is pretty high, but the problem is that it's become so common for people to have adsense on their sites that people barely notice them anymore, and so the clickthrough rate is tiny.

Also far be it for me to accuse people of lying, but I doubt any individual makes "five figures" off adsense; this is mathematically improbable at best. If the click through rate is a massive 20% (you are lucky with 12%) and the pay per click is a similarly massive 50p (usually it's about 5-35p), then a site would need at least 100,000 visitors to generate 5 figures. Unlikely at best for all but large business sites.

Answer 3

Gogle adsense is free, I have a friens who makes just a small ammount he isn't too bothered though as once set up it does bring something in.

You will get more revenue if there is a lot of people wisiting the site and the content of your site generates good adverts

Answer 4

Sky's the limit actually with regards to Adsense earnings --- if you have the right type of website and lots of traffic

Markus Frind of PlentyofFish.com http://plentyoffish.wordpress.com/2006/06/07/small-companies-google-adsense-is-the-future/ earned a million in the first three months of 2006. My site, while nowhere near Markus' earnings, earn 5-digits per month.

In terms of earning money on Adsense, your mileage varies. One website with the 10,000 uniques a day can earn $50 a month while another may earn $5,000. It is not easy to predict how much you will earn from Adsense. The only way you can learn about how your site will perform with Adsense is through trying it.

The amount you can earn will depend on the

1. Responsiveness of audience to the ads = A travel website that provides information on travel to Spain will attract visitors looking for ways to arrange their travel and spend money on their vacation to Spain. Your site provides the info, but the ads will provide hotels, travel agencies, tourist destinations, car rentals -- ads that are likely to get the attention of the users of your site. This is a site that will most likely do well with Adsense. However, if you are a gaming website where the main purpose of the user is to play games on your site, then Adsense will not perform as well.

2. Ad format = some types of ads do better than others depending on your content and layout. In our case, large rectangles in the middle of the content is the best, while leaderboards do not generate as much as income. Skys are the worst for us. Experiment and measure the results via channels and see which formats work best for you.

3. Ad placement - check Google's heat map as they have tested where the best placements are https://www.google.com/support/adsense/bin/answer.py?answer=17954&ctx=en:search&query=adsense+heat+map&topic=0&type=f

4. Ad colors - sometimes ads blended into the content works wonders, but sometimes ads that contrast your site colors work best

5. Number of ad units on a page = we are allowed maximum of 3 ads + 1 ad links + 1 search box on a page. Maximize the allowed number based on the resulting look of your page (you don't want an overkill of ads). Users going to your page and reading your content may ignore the banner or rectangle at the top of the page, but may click on the ad at the bottom of the article

6. Smartpricing - the big unknown in Adsense. No one knows how this actually works. But it can affect the pricing of the ads on your site. If the advertiser paid for $0.50/click - but your site is smartpriced - then the cost may be discounted lower (e.g. $0.25). So you may try to develop a site based on high paying keywords but if smartpricing gets to you, then you may not get as much per click as what you are expecting from your keywords.

Here is Google's explanation of smart pricing https://adwords.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=9562&query=smart+pricing&topic=0&type=f

Google's smart pricing feature automatically adjusts the cost of a keyword-targeted content click based on its effectiveness compared to a search click. So if our data shows that a click from a content page is less likely to turn into actionable business results -- such as online sales, registrations, phone calls, or newsletter signups -- we reduce the price you pay for that click.

Experiment with the factors above (except smartpricing, which you can't control), and see which combination works best. Remember though that not all sites do well with Adsense - even if you get gazillions of traffic but your visitors are not interested in looking for ways to spend their money, they won't be interested in your ads and won't click.