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65% of Google AdSense Publishers Earn $100 or More Per Month

adsense-earnings-pie-chart.pngA DigitalPoint Forums thread has one of the largest Google AdSense groups I know of. They are currently running a live poll, where they are asking publishers how much they earn per month, on average. The poll currently has 130 responses and is somewhat representative of the smaller publisher sub group, so I thought I share the results with you. Let me make this clear, this is not a random sample, it is of a specific subgroup of AdSense users, so it is not scientific nor fully representative of the AdSense publisher.

As you can see from the chart, 67% claim they earn a $100 or more per month from Google AdSense. 35% say they earn $500 or more per month. A whopping 23% say they earn over $1,000 per month or more and only about 4% say they earn over $10,000 per month or more with AdSense.

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posted rustybrick in Google AdSense at May 8, 2007 7:16 AM Comments (29)

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That poll is, I think, far away from the reality. In fact, how many AdSense publishers know DigitalPoint? Not many, and the majority of them are "specialists" of AdSense. The average blogger who places adsense on his blog earn almost nothing, and I don't think he cares about this poll.

I think there is ~70% of the publishers who earn less than $100 per month.

 

Yes, it is one subset of AdSense users. But a pretty large subset.

 

I don't know about those figures Barry. I sense it is a far cry from reality. I suggest/guess 70% make less than $10.00 per month.

 

All these figures do not have any informational value. If you earn $50 with AdSense, you think $500 is very nice. If you earn $500, you think about those ones, who make thousands.

 

I am also sure there are hundreds of AdSense publishers that sign up and don't make anything because they don't spend the time.

I honestly don't think making $100 a month on AdSense is out of the question.

I would hope that 65% of professional AdSense publishers make over $100 per month, I would hope.

 

I seriously doubt those figures. Who was sampled for this survey? I'm sure some people are making good money from AdSense but it certainly isn't the majority.

 

Agreed, Barry - I'd frame it as "65% of active AdSense publishers."

 

Agreed, Barry - I'd frame it as "65% of active AdSense publishers."

 

I made a whopping 7 cents last month.

 

There have been many polls on DP like this one, and most had the conclusion that more then half made less then a hundred dollars a month. It may be the setup. This poll is aimed at high earners - those making less then 10$ are likely to feel intimidated by this poll.

 

I would read this poll as: 65% of active adsense users make > $100/mo. Inactive/new users likely make

 

That poll represents the data about professional adsense users who always try to maximize their earnings from adsense from sites or blogs. Hardwork always pays off.

 

i am very upset becouse google adsense is not giveing good respones..

 

A couple of missing questions, here. - How long did it take to build this income??? -- How many blogs are they running??? -- My experience shows it takes time to build up an "inventory" of blog pages that are indexed regularly by search engines AND it takes more than one blog to make any real money. After two years, I am running $200 per month, with more than one blog.

 

I agree with Steve. It took me one month, part time, to build my blog. And it took another 4 months to drive website traffic, not so much traffic. Then another month to earn an average of $2.4/month.

If some people claim to earn more the $1,000.00/month, then they must have:

1. A lot of websites with less or no content other than Google Adsense. They pay 0.05 for Google Adwords per click, and earn from 0.10 to $10.00 per click on any of the Adsense Ads.

2. Click Fraud - the scheme 'Get Paid While You Surf' - they advise members to visit their website everyday and click on a unique ad, capture and send in a copy.

 

Very interesting poll Hope to earn a lot with my site.

 

I don't think the figures are published and this seems to be the only poll, but it's heartening to see so many people earning more than $100. I guess it's a pretty big club.

$100 is not difficult. Anybody can do $100. Seriously you don't even need a website to do that. But the interesting stuff is getting beyond that. To go from $100 to $500 is much more difficult than to go from $0 to $100.

 

its good buiness but i want traffic my web side

 

I think google is making owl to us because you know that he ask 10$/ad click but if you click same ad from your website you will get 0.04$ ???

40% of google adsense holder are disabled because they want to make more money by clicking themselves, 40% others earn less than $100 and i don't know of others??

Madan
http://javanepal.110mb.com

 

Milo:

One site here. No adwords and no #2. $6K each month. 6 years of love writing about a niche subject many have little knowledge of. Hint: It's not about IPods, and ringtones. It's a very laborsome job.

 

You need to have more than one web site to make money online. IF you want to make $1000 a month you will need about 250,000 visitors a month with 2 percent of users clicking an add and getting 20 cents an add. This might not be obtainable with one web site it will most likely take a few web sites if not many to generate that kind of return.

 

It's not hard to make $100, but getting from $100 to $1000 is the toughest part. The guy who took 6 months to make $2.40 is doing something wrong!

 

What is written here is mostly true, although I do not agree that 65% earn over $100 a month - perhaps 25% certainly do. I actually earn around $80 per month and it seems stuck at that figure... Bloggers have a harder time than the usual entertainment style website to earn $$$ although it is not impossible.
Yes there are some dudes that earn $10,000 - that is real... no fraud, no cheating, but then as in any walk of life, we cannot all be the best or greatest.

 

i want to know how i am earning google adsence.pls help meeeee.

 

I only earn less in Google and I don't know how to earn more. I just need help from experts.

 

Yes its not difficult to earn US$100 in one month If you want to make US$100 to US$1000 in one month then you must have at least 5 websites or 10 blogs and traffic is the basic element of adsense earning. Now a days people make US$500 easily with this method and common keywords developing niche sites

 

yes..we've to spend at least 10 hours per day for our blog to keep updates the content

 

Use Google Adsense after deep knowledge otherwise you can't be success or earn. Don't go for Adsense if you have no deep web design and programming knowledge.

 

Nowadays I am also earning more than $100. Now i find we have to understand adsense first and start to work. Best of Luck.

 

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