5 Comments on “Is it possible to make enough money off of adsense and advertising on a website to live off of?”

1. nb
   April 4th, 2007 at 2:11 pm

   I know it is possible. Go to, his ads and his blog make so much money!

2. royer
   April 7th, 2007 at 3:02 am

   it is possible. If your site has enough traffic daily then your good to go. Id say 800 visits per day is a good amount.
   Whateverlife.com is averaging 70,000 per month!! 60% revenue coming from google adsense and the rest from sponsors.
   The more pages you have on your website the better depending on what your doing.
   Should you go this route you will start off slow so make sure you have a good income until your website booms.
   Also remember to advertise your site. To be top 10 in the search engine for google or yahoo you must pay them monthly.

3. Orange K
   April 10th, 2007 at 9:05 am

   possible? yes. likely? no.

4. DAvid
   April 13th, 2007 at 11:43 am

   O yeah! I am currently making actualy about $600 monthly and there are people that make 1,000+ and then you have the super adsense guys making 10k+ to 100k+

   here is a screen shot of my May payout…

   I make my money with printnpost.com

5. imisidro
   April 16th, 2007 at 7:19 pm

   Some people earn more than $600 A DAY from Adsense. If you have the right type of website — right traffic, right content, right audience — you can make huge money with Adsense. I earn from Adsense and advertising, and I can tell you it is VERY DOABLE.

   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

   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

   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.

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