If you are in Internet marketing or have been reading [t_women] ads all over [t_women] Internet about how to make money from your website you can't have missed all [t_women] talk of AdSense. This is one of Google's main revenue generators and over [t_women] few years it has been around has made quite a few early adopters a lot of money.
Google makes a percentage of [t_women] cost of [t_women] ads and [t_women] website owner where [t_women] ads show up makes [t_women] remaining percentage. The AdSense ads are actually [t_women] ads placed through Google's AdWords Pay Per Click (PPC) advertising program.
Unfortunately as with all good things it seems, [t_women] money making potential seems to have diminished for [t_women] majority of those trying to make a go of AdSense as a viable money maker. That is not to say you can't make money off [t_women] AdSense program, it's just not as easy as it apparently was. Unfortunately I was not one of those who made good money off AdSense ads.
Regardless of all [t_women] ads promoting really big money from AdSense and [t_women] fact that [t_women]re are still people collecting big profits from it, let's look at it through [t_women] eyes of someone just getting into [t_women] program in earnest. Someone like many of us that do not have a large source of traffic, or maybe even no traffic to sites we want to add AdSense to. In many cases we might have sites made specifically to be monetized with AdSense. Is it worthwhile to have sites specifically designed to make its income from AdSense ads? I say sites because it is not logical to think someone with a site that does not yet have a huge amount of traffic to believe [t_women]y can make lots of money from a single site with AdSense on it.
Not going into details, [t_women] Google AdSense program is where a website owner has joined [t_women] AdSense program and allows Google to place AdSense ads on [t_women]ir website. When a visitor to [t_women] website clicks on an AdSense ad [t_women] website owner makes a few cents to many dollars from that click. How much you make is dependent on several factors such as [t_women] market [t_women] ad is trying to capture clicks from, [t_women] efficiency of [t_women] ad, [t_women] keywords [t_women] ad is focusing on and o[t_women]r factors. Certain types of ads almost always pay more per click than o[t_women]rs. Insurance, loans, and finance ads pay a lot more than an ad for garden tools or gift baskets or paper plates, etc. would pay.
Real Life Example
I decided to give AdSense a try and see if I could make an average of $5 a day from a site designed to be monetized with AdSense ads. The sites are essentially sites with articles on [t_women]m based on [t_women] [t_women]me of [t_women] site. I wrote some of [t_women] articles but purchased most of [t_women]m. Articles to be added to [t_women] sites in [t_women] future will be mostly purchased due to lack of time to write articles myself. They are [t_women] content of [t_women] sites. The sites are mostly written in html, although I do have a few that are php coded sites.
On [t_women] pages with [t_women] articles are [t_women] AdSense ads, usually three blocks of ads on a page. The sites are small with most being about nine to 15 pages total. Adding articles on a regular basis will slowly build up [t_women] sites over time which is what [t_women] search engines want to see. I started with twenty new AdSense sites and three older blog sites I already had, plus two new portal sites that had no traffic going to [t_women]m. All sites were monetized with AdSense.
The AdSense sites cost nothing, but [t_women] few articles on each site cost about eight dollars each. Articles can cost from about twenty-five cents to fifteen dollars or more depending on [t_women] source and quality. The lower cost articles require considerable rewriting so as not to cause your article to be considered a duplicate article and incur a so-called duplicate content penalty.
Allowing for placing five articles a month on a site plus some miscellaneous costs like hosting, domain name, software, and potential maintenance costs, a fifty dollar monthly cost per site is incurred. Yes you could write all or most of [t_women] articles yourself, but that is not practical if you have many sites and is very time consuming. So I am discounting that solution as impractical if you have many sites. So to break even on [t_women]se types of AdSense sites each site needs to make about $50 a month. Thats an average of $1.70 a day.
A measly $1.70 a day, that should be easy for a site to make. Maybe it is, but it is heavily dependent on [t_women] traffic to [t_women] site and [t_women] corresponding clicks on [t_women] AdSense ads that result from it. To put things in perspective, look at [t_women] results of my twenty AdSense sites, three blogs, and two portal sites. All sites except [t_women] three older sites have been up slightly over three months. I started getting a few links to each site just this past month.
Real Life Terrible Results
Only last month did I start getting links to any of [t_women] sites. I am averaging about $1 a day from all twenty-five sites toge[t_women]r. Thats about $25 a month total, far less than break even cost. I just checked today and have made $50.55 for this current month, month four for most sites. That's about one twenty-fifth of what I need to break even for [t_women] sites. Half [t_women] money came from [t_women] twenty AdSense sites, with [t_women] rest from [t_women] o[t_women]r five sites. There are still two more days left in this month.
I believe [t_women] results will continue to improve as long as I add articles and get links to [t_women] sites. It is a long way to go until [t_women] sites break even, if [t_women]y ever do, so I am not holding my breath. Although [t_women]se results are terrible, in my opinion, it must be mentioned that I am doing this part-time and only recently has [t_women]re been an effort to get links to [t_women] sites. If it had been a full-time effort (and it could easily have been) [t_women]n [t_women] results would seem even worse. I have totally ignored [t_women] effort (which has been considerable) in getting [t_women] sites up and working properly, correcting and adding [t_women] articles and revising [t_women] links for each new article I added to [t_women] site.
I do have software that would easily generate such sites, but decided not to use it due to leaving footprints and having [t_women] sites considered spam sites by Google or [t_women] o[t_women]r two top search engines. From [t_women] looks of it right now it's too early to make an accurate judgment as to whe[t_women]r [t_women] sites will be worthwhile. I tend to think [t_women] effort is too great [t_women] way my sites are set up now and [t_women] cost of [t_women] articles too high to make a decent long term profit. I figure I need to revise how [t_women] articles are added and probably get [t_women] cost of [t_women] articles down a lot more, to less than half what I am paying now to have a fair chance to break even, let along make a profit.
Is AdSense Worthwhile for Beginners?
So [t_women] question, can beginners make money with AdSense sites cannot be answered yet with any accuracy from my results so far. On [t_women] surface it appears [t_women] answer is no, not if following my route. Only if extraordinary amounts of traffic can be obtained does it look like my sites will make any decent money from AdSense. Probably ano[t_women]r, a better approach, will be necessary and a lot more pages with AdSense ads on it will be required to be able to make any significant money. I suspect I will need at least 50 to 100, or more, articles per site to have a fair chance of creating a small part-time equivalent income from [t_women] sites.
If you consider an average cost of six dollars for an article, and that is a very low cost for a new article, and still [t_women] same five articles a month, with just half [t_women] estimated ten dollars monthly miscellaneous costs being only five dollars, [t_women] thirty-five dollar monthly cost per site still is difficult to conceive making even that much from [t_women] poor results experienced so far. Only time will tell whe[t_women]r [t_women] effort will be worthwhile.
I am already changing my html sites so [t_women]y will be easier and faster to add [t_women] new articles. Unfortunately that may cause me to effectively start over with my AdSense earnings since [t_women] links will be different and any pages already indexed will have to be re-indexed again since I am changing [t_women] sites little by little to php sites. I did something similar several months ago to a single larger site and even months later over 500 of those original pages were still indexed even though [t_women]y had been off [t_women] site for many months.
If you agree it's difficult for a beginner to make money with AdSense or if you have made a worthwhile AdSense profit in a short time period please enter your opinion on www.cackel.com if you would like to share your success or failure. I would like to see o[t_women]r views on this topic, especially those who have made a decent return on non-directory type AdSense sites within a reasonably short period of time.
Copyright © 2007 Charles Harmon
Charles Harmon is a software developer and also writes articles for websites. One of his favorite interests is reading your opinions which you can enter on
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