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[FruitRocks]

I've been thinking of putting some ads on my site, and using Adsense. How much money can you realistically make? When they say "place adds in the RSS feeds," what do they mean by that? Thanks!

[vanitha]

Adsense revenue depends on traffic and keywords. Most websites make $50 per month from google adsense ie with normal traffic. Google adsense ads distract visitors, so if you are promoting affiliate products, then you need to consider this point.
If you have a RSS feed for your website, then the feed will carry your adsense ads.

[Nameless_]

vanitha, on Aug 25 2009, 07:04 PM, said:

Adsense revenue depends on traffic and keywords. Most websites make $50 per month from google adsense ie with normal traffic. Google adsense ads distract visitors, so if you are promoting affiliate products, then you need to consider this point.
If you have a RSS feed for your website, then the feed will carry your adsense ads.

Really? I thought that Google Adsense doesn't really help you pay for anything at all. I mean, if you read their Term of Service, you can see that they did not disclose the percentage that you earn per click, meaning that you actually earn a little, maybe just one percent of what the Google company earn per click, maybe even less. Those if lots and lots and lots of people do click it, then it might be a different matter. But it still depends on the traffic that your site gets and the number of people out of that that actually do click on a link.

[The Simpleton]

Google adsense is helpful only to those sites which have a really large amount of traffic and where the visitors aren't really bothered by the amount of ads placed there. But for the majority of the folk, adsense doesn't really give much, because each click gives very little and since most sites get less traffic, and very less people will click on the ads, only google is the profit-earner in this whole process, because they pocket a large share of each ad's revenue.

my adsense account was rejected after i made a mistake, but I'm glad that I don' t have the account anymore. Now-a-days people are becoming smarter- wherever they see a ad they realise that if they click it they will be generating revenue for the site owner. So if they like the site and feel that the owner deserves it, they will click the ads, but most people feel that the owner doesn't deserve anything so they just leave! So this process isn't very encouraging.

Most "success" stories of adsense will tell you that it takes patience to earn from the service, but that's exactly what today's generation doesn't have - patience! That's why the stories are less in number.

[Nameless_]

AH... OK... Yeah well, I guess that's the point though. Before I came to this site, however, I thought that people get paid just for putting their ads up from Google. So I didn't mind clicking on them anyway, but I never really did because the ads didn't even attract me to their site.

And I was like, before I started thinking of putting up ads on my site, go wow... if I could get people to put up ads on my site that I will be able to cover up my hosting per month and maybe even the domain for a year, but now I'm wrong.
Well, I realised I was quite a few weeks ago but I didn't really say it out loud here. SO there you go.

I don't really know. I'm still on my quest in finding passive money and things for hosting, and I've got a few questions needed to get answered, but I won't post them up here because it'll get off topic on this thread and I'll break the forum rules, and that's something that I would like to avoid as much as possible.

Sad thing is my site won't be generating lots of traffic becuase it's a specialist site and only people knowing what they are looking for will know my site and find it, if Google puts me in their database. So I won't be generating a lot of traffic. Possibly around 5 - 10 loyal members or so and other random guests that just go in and out and in and out and just go their to look at any new updates and things and won't sign up. And that mean that it isn't a stable visitor count...

I really need to find ways to make money passively to keep up my hosting as fast as possible.... ...

[iGuest]

My website gets 600 unique visitors a day and the money I earn from AdSense is less than $3 a month.

[user681]

(G)bla, on Nov 13 2009, 01:19 AM, said:

My website gets 600 unique visitors a day and the money I earn from AdSense is less than $3 a month.

wow is that for real??
that is VERY discouraging... I get less than 10 visitors perday...averagely speaking I get like 3 visitors
but thats probably because my site is more of a blog..

[legend112]

user681, on Nov 17 2009, 02:34 AM, said:

wow is that for real??
that is VERY discouraging... I get less than 10 visitors perday...averagely speaking I get like 3 visitors
but thats probably because my site is more of a blog..

geez i didn't know googleads sucks like that. i'd be happy with US$30 per month though, since most of my sites i've run from my now pocket and never earned a cent. most have closed down so any cent i'd thank God

I am working on one i hope will be better since its not a common subject i'll be focusing on, i hope to earn some money from ads, etc. so whick one is more effective, i've never tried adsense nor kontera.

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[contactskn]

I don't know as I tried once for it for my site and applied for it. But they rejected the application, as my site was registered for only three months then. But after then till now I didn't tried for it. And now I want to try for it but observing on the pages traffic to understand and find out the most popular pages so that I could apply the ads on those pages.

[mahesh2k]

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My website gets 600 unique visitors a day and the money I earn from AdSense is less than $3 a month.

Reason could be your traffic being social media traffic. Besides that i have seen many people who just look at site and go away. Very few people have patience to read and comment and will they click on your ads ? No. Besides that tech-savvy people who have their own adsense going on. never click on others ads. So do we all earn money this way. Heck no never. unless we click on other person's site how come that person will click on yours. It is black hole in PPC.

This is again fraud as well if you cheat PPC. So it is better to go with CPM if you have more than 400 visitors per day. That way you'll generate more revenue than CPC. CPC is for sites with novice content. Or site which has lots of newbies. Tech-savvy people hardly click on PPC ads. If you want to check this analogy, just ask yourself do you click on ads on another person's site ? If no, then stop complaining that yours should be clicked by anyone. You get what you paid for. It's like boomerang.