$100 PM on Google Adsense.

[DarrenC]

Sorry if this in the wrong part of the forum (I'm stilling finding my way around)

What tips would you give someone who wanted to make minimum £100 a month on Google Adsense.

Darren

[G10]

To make that kind of money, you are definately going to require a lot of traffic dude and if you are pulling in the kind of traffic that is making you £100 per month, I would be looking at selling something on there before I considered adsense.

The click-through ratio is going to have to be pretty high.

I am not even sure if John is pulling that in here and this place is pretty popular.

[DarrenC]

True.

The site that pulls in all of the traffic has no Adsense on it - simply because I don't want visitors going away to competitors sites, and I have so many competitiors, it would be difficult to block each one.

The site which I have adsense on doesn't pull in a great deal of traffic, but I've managed to get half of my target this month.

Guess I just need to improve the traffic to reach $100 a month.

Darren

[Hock Ng]

The absolute fastest way starting from zero traffic is to buy PPC ads and leverage the price differential between what you pay for the ads and what you get from the clicks, i.e. traffic arbitrage. You can easily reach your goal if you know how to write good ads that gets the clicks and if you're in the right market - good ad inventory and advertisers who are willing to pay a decent amount per click. Oh yeah... keyword research also helps.

[John Scott]

The best way to make more money with Adsense is not to increase traffic, but to target higher paying keywords and better integrate the ads so as to attract clicks.

[pairbrother]

how about making 5 different sites?

the goal now becomes making 20$ per site per month
thts like $0.70 per site per day
thts like 15 clicks (asuming min. $0.05 cpc) and
450 impressions (assuming min. 3% CTR) per site per day

sounds quite doable, aint it?

[shahab6]

You need lots of traffic to make over $100 in adsense. Right now my websites get about 150 to 200 visits per-day and I make about $30 per-month on adsense. So you need around 500 to 1000 visits per-day to make over $100 on adsense. As someone already said, if your going to get that much traffic you should focus on selling something.

[James Trotta]

Like John said, it's not all about traffic. My travel site and my ESL site get the same amount of traffic but the travel site makes ten times more money via Adsesne...

Originally Posted by shahab6

You need lots of traffic to make over $100 in adsense. Right now my websites get about 150 to 200 visits per-day and I make about $30 per-month on adsense. So you need around 500 to 1000 visits per-day to make over $100 on adsense. As someone already said, if your going to get that much traffic you should focus on selling something.

[BingoBalls]

Originally Posted by shahab6

You need lots of traffic to make over $100 in adsense. Right now my websites get about 150 to 200 visits per-day and I make about $30 per-month on adsense.

I disagree and I don’t mean to rude but either you’re not testing your ads or your ads being served are low paying ads.

One of my sites has the same amount of traffic and I am bordering around $100 a month. I have spent a lot of time testing channels, filtering URLs, using the heat map and even changing colors of ads to find out what pays well.

As John said its not all about traffic but it does help and I certainly wouldn’t advise going out to pay for a PPC campaign to bring in traffic to make more on Adsense - this is a gamble and can cost you in the long run but I also believe PPC should only be used for a site that sells items which gives out 100% profit.

Another reason why I disagree with PPC is why spend more money to "try" and make money? The only spending I have done was to buy my host and url which I have already made back and I don’t sell items.

I would say that tweaking your Adsense is the most important part of making more money with Adsense but remember this wont happen over night, it has taken me 4 months to reach this stage with lots of testing.

If you can attach your own Blog onto your site and keep adding quality content, clicks on Blog can be very high if you get it right.

Be patient and keep working your site, keep adding quality content, keep doing SEO on your site and keep testing your Adsense Blocks - within time you will make over $100

I wish you the best of luck on possibly a bright future

[shahab6]

Its not low paying ads, its just not a lot of people click on it, plus I have read that only one percent of people click on banners, so overall thats how much average people make on adsense, if they get 100 people only about 1 or 2 people will click on it.

Originally Posted by BingoBalls

I disagree and I don’t mean to rude but either you’re not testing your ads or your ads being served are low paying ads.

One of my sites has the same amount of traffic and I am bordering around $100 a month. I have spent a lot of time testing channels, filtering URLs, using the heat map and even changing colors of ads to find out what pays well.

As John said its not all about traffic but it does help and I certainly wouldn’t advise going out to pay for a PPC campaign to bring in traffic to make more on Adsense - this is a gamble and can cost you in the long run but I also believe PPC should only be used for a site that sells items which gives out 100% profit.

Another reason why I disagree with PPC is why spend more money to "try" and make money? The only spending I have done was to buy my host and url which I have already made back and I don’t sell items.

I would say that tweaking your Adsense is the most important part of making more money with Adsense but remember this wont happen over night, it has taken me 4 months to reach this stage with lots of testing.

If you can attach your own Blog onto your site and keep adding quality content, clicks on Blog can be very high if you get it right.

Be patient and keep working your site, keep adding quality content, keep doing SEO on your site and keep testing your Adsense Blocks - within time you will make over $100

I wish you the best of luck on possibly a bright future

[BingoBalls]

Originally Posted by shahab6

Its not low paying ads, its just not a lot of people click on it, plus I have read that only one percent of people click on banners, so overall thats how much average people make on adsense, if they get 100 people only about 1 or 2 people will click on it.

Every site differs from the percentage of vistors that clicks because we each have different types of visitors, our ad placements are different among other factors.

For example one of my sites gets a steady rate of 110 visitors per day but clicks will vary, days can pass with zero clicks when other days they can jump to over twenty in a 24hr peroid - thankfully the days of zero clicks are over, I hope.

[DarrenC]

Good discussion

Both my sites are travel related - one site gets 60,000+ uniques a month, but has no adsense. The other site gets 3-4,000 uniques a month, most from the forum - the problem is very few people click on the links in the forum, and Adsense is used on a few other pages within the main area of the site.

I need to take what you have all said and look at improving this. I don't think $100 a month is impossible though - I've earnt $54 in February, just needs some more thought.

Thanks
Darren

[BingoBalls]

I would tend to think that getting clicks on Forums would be more difficult because your visitor base are there to communicate with other users rather than gather info and move on - in saying this I dont own a forum so I have very little experience on this side.

There are various help and tip guides around the net that help placing adsense into forums and google also have the Forum Heat Map

[DarrenC]

Thanks BingoBalls - very helpful!

[Hock Ng]

Originally Posted by BingoBalls

... I certainly wouldn’t advise going out to pay for a PPC campaign to bring in traffic to make more on Adsense - this is a gamble and can cost you in the long run but I also believe PPC should only be used for a site that sells items which gives out 100% profit.

Another reason why I disagree with PPC is why spend more money to "try" and make money? The only spending I have done was to buy my host and url which I have already made back and I don’t sell items.

PPC may not be for you if you're not comfortable with risk. But there's always risk involved in doing business. You can either treat this like a business or like a hobby. PPC is advertising in order to drive traffic and visitors to your site. It's like if you have just opened a store, you can wait and hope people will hear about it and come visit or you can pay some people to stand on street corners to pass out flyers.

It's also not true that PPC should "only be used for a site that sells items which gives out 100% profit."

[digidogstudios]

you need descent traffic and descent placing of yoru google ads.

[BingoBalls]

Originally Posted by Hock Ng

PPC may not be for you if you're not comfortable with risk.

Well thats me but only because I am at early stages of SEO and dont have a budget to take risks with, so for now its a hobby hopefully to turn into a full time business.

When I advised against PPC I should have said in line with my situation and was also guessing DarrenC's budget is probably limited.

You are right Hock and people do have success with PPC.

[James Trotta]

I don't look at it as PPC to get clicks, but I hasve used CPC to gain readers. Someone who reads my blog regulalry is going to click eventually...

[Dustin07]

might be easier to sell 20 x $5 text link ads. or a couple $20 or $30 banners or something if you get 200-300 uv a day.