Ask HN: How much do you earn from Google Adsense?

16 points by Strategist 12 years ago | 18 comments

So, I'm setting up Google adsense and planning on implementing it on a few websites in order to improve on reoccuring monthly income.

How much do you guys typically earn from websites with Adsense? What's the most you've ever got?

gesman 12 years ago |

Trend:

People who claiming $10,000+/mo from Adsense for some reason never share traffic stats or even website URLs.

kirchhoff 12 years ago | |

There's a good reason for that. If someone's found a profitable niche, there's no incentive for them to reveal information which might attract competitors.

rk0567 12 years ago |

$150-400 a month from my blog [0]. The highest I earned was $2100 in a month, when the traffic was much higher (~2 years ago).

[0] http://blog.sudobits.com

autotravis 12 years ago |

$108 YTD, $29.72 best month this year

Not much weight without proof: http://imgur.com/YiyEke0

Most of mine has come from a single post about uses for a Raspberry Pi[1].

I've done a lot wrong when trying to build site traffic (multiple domain/url scheme changes, etc) so I think I would be doing much better if I had focused more in the past.

1. http://magnatecha.com/things-i-do-with-my-raspberry-pi/

mast 12 years ago |

These numbers are from my blog, http://foodconstrued.com

I have one sidebar ad, and usually one ad at the bottom of each entry.

Last month (September) I had 4873 page views and 25 clicks. This resulted in $8.75.

My best month was back in July. That month 4016 page views and 25 clicks resulted in $9.49

justhw 12 years ago | |

That's a low CTR for that amount of PV. Try putting a large ad right under the headline and lose all the share buttons there since you've got them in 3 other places, it should incrase your CTR quite a bit. http://i.imgur.com/71d9E4U.png

mast 12 years ago | | |

Thanks! I'll give it a try.

cheae 12 years ago |

The highest I earned was $20000/month. Now making $10000 - $15000 each month. It varies significantly month to month.

hugovie 12 years ago | |

Awesome! Could you please tell us your site and your monthly traffic? Just for referring! Thanks a lot!

PencilAndPaper 12 years ago | |

How much traffic did your site(s) get?

NovemberWest 12 years ago |

Historically, I got a payout once a year of something over $100. This year, I am still way short of hitting a payout.

But I would really like more info on traffic, content, etc from the guys reporting serious dough from this.

bobfirestone 12 years ago |

The only site I have Adsense running on does $50-60 a month. That covers the hosting bill. There were a couple of months that the site was doing between $100-120 but that was only for like 3 or 4 months after the launch.

Parse 12 years ago |

I set it up on a website a long time ago, but my traffic was pathetic.

Made maybe about $0.10 a month?

The website is now long gone by the way, so not making anything currently.

hashtree 12 years ago |

Six figures a year, going for seven (long way away) and compete head on with the industry leaders (they do eight figures). Long time bootstrapped/passive.

Strategist 12 years ago | |

What's your site?

infinia 12 years ago |

I have a site that I started about 6 months ago that gets about 30-50 uniques a day, and Im generating about $15 per month.

brildum 12 years ago |

This month: $57.33 from 8294 page views (228 ad clicks)

Last month: $33.14 from 4338 page views (90 clicks)

VirtualApe 12 years ago |

15,000$-20,0000$