People ask all the time, how much can you make with Google Adsense.
The answer is A LOT! It is not unheard of for sites to make hundreds a day from Adsense.
Most people start serving Google Adsense ads, because of one of the
following three reasons:
"I want to earn a few dollars with Google Adsense, without
any real effort".
Almost every webmaster, website owner, will be able to make a small
income from Google Adsense without doing more effort than
joining Google
Adsense and pasting the Adsense code.
Daily earnings example, for a website with small traffic.
| Impressions |
Clicks |
Earning per click |
| 400 |
6 |
$0.06 |
| Daily |
Monthly |
Yearly |
| $0.36 |
$10.80 |
$129.60 |
Daily earnings example, for a website with medium traffic.
| Impressions |
Clicks |
Earning per click |
| 4000 |
60 |
$0.06 |
| Daily |
Monthly |
Yearly |
| $3.60 |
$108 |
$1296 |
Daily earnings example, for a website with high traffic.
| Impressions |
Clicks |
Earning per click |
| 40000 |
600 |
$0.06 |
| Daily |
Monthly |
Yearly |
| $36 |
$1080 |
$12960 |
The examples above is only meant for illustration, and the commonly
reported CTR (click through rate) of 1,5% is used.
So now, as our examples illustrate it is quite possible to make from a
few dollars a year to several thousands, simply by joining Google Adsense
and pasting the
Adsense code on your webpage's.
Even in the lowest income example, the income generated for you through
Google's Adsense program should be enough to pay your hosting and domain
fees.
But what if..
"I want to earn a decent side income with Google Adsense,
and do some effort for it".
Now, if you are willing to do an effort on
optimizing your Google Adsense
ads, and your webpage's - it IS possible to earn a lot more than in
the example above.
For this example, we will still use the 3 website examples, with the same
traffic - but with the pages optimized for high paying keywords!
Google Adsense Ad clicks can potentially pay you anything between $0.00
and up to several dollars each.
Searching on Google for the term "High Paying Keywords", will show you
a lot of website's offering content on this.
The examples below shows a website that has targetted it's pages against
higher paying keywords - you can read about how in
optimizing Adsense.
Daily earnings example, for a website with small traffic.
| Impressions |
Clicks |
Earning per click |
| 400 |
6 |
$0.30 |
| Daily |
Monthly |
Yearly |
| $1.80 |
$54.00 |
$648.00 |
Daily earnings example, for a website with medium traffic.
| Impressions |
Clicks |
Earning per click |
| 4000 |
60 |
$0.30 |
| Daily |
Monthly |
Yearly |
| $18 |
$540 |
$6480 |
Daily earnings example, for a website with high traffic.
| Impressions |
Clicks |
Earning per click |
| 40000 |
600 |
$0.30 |
| Daily |
Monthly |
Yearly |
| $180 |
$5400 |
$64800 |
The examples above is only meant for illustration, and the commonly
reported CTR (click through rate) of 1,5% is used.
Wow, simply by targeting higher paying keywords on your pages, your
Google Adsense earnings can potentially be 5 times higher with the same
traffic!
But wait...
There is one more thing that we can do to make your Google Adsense
earnings grow even more.
By selecting the right
Google Adsense
Ad types,
Adsense colours, and
placement - you can encourage a higher CTR, without breaking Google's
Adsense Terms.
Daily earnings example, for a website with small traffic.
| Impressions |
Clicks |
Earning per click |
| 400 |
12 |
$0.30 |
| Daily |
Monthly |
Yearly |
| $3.60 |
$108 |
$1296 |
Daily earnings example, for a website with medium traffic.
| Impressions |
Clicks |
Earning per click |
| 4000 |
120 |
$0.30 |
| Daily |
Monthly |
Yearly |
| $36 |
$1080 |
$12960 |
Daily earnings example, for a website with high traffic.
| Impressions |
Clicks |
Earning per click |
| 40000 |
1200 |
$0.30 |
| Daily |
Monthly |
Yearly |
| $360 |
$10800 |
$129600 |
The examples above is only meant for illustration, and a CTR (click
through rate) of 3,0% is used.
Ok, by now it should be obvious to most of us, that it is possible to
make serious cash with Google Adsense in the long term run.
"I want to make a good extra income, or live fulltime with
Google Adsense, and I am willing to do the work".
When you have learned the techniques of
optimizing your website for
Google Adsense, and have followed some or all of the Adsense tips - it is
time to reflect a bit on the entire Google Adsense business and the full
blown opportunities.
In the examples discussed earlier, we focused on the possible income from
one website. The true Google Adsense specialists use this information, and
then change their mind to thinking "bigger scaled".
As soon as your first website is accepted into the Google Adsense program
after following the steps in
Join Adsense, you are automatically given an
additional benefit that many Adsense publishers are unaware of - serve
Adsense ads on multiple sites from ONE account !
Yes, you read it right! Once you are accepted into the Google Adsense
program, you can add your Adsense code to all the websites you own, as long
as they abide to the Google Adsense Terms.
Please note: Google's Adsense terms strictly forbids publishers to design websites purely with the intention of earning Adsense income. If you are going to create more websites, always do this because
you have a real interest in providing content for your readers. You should always consider Adsense on your website as a advertising income, never the reason for creating a website! For more information, please read the disclaimer
Most people have more than one interest, hobby, passion, or knowledge
field - so have you!
If you use this information combined with the knowledge you have gained
from
Optimizing Adsense and
Adsense Tips, and create additional websites about your interests, hobby, passion or knowledge,
your Adsense earnings can really take off into the clouds! Remember that the
only REAL cost for you to create another website, is the yearly domain fee,
hosting charges (get a reseller account), and the time you invest creating
pages on subjects that interest you and your readers.
Let us take it slow, and try making an example with 10 websites, where
you spend 1 month on creating each site.
Daily earnings example, for 10 Adsense optimized website's with small
traffic, and a CTR of 3%.
| Impressions |
Clicks |
Earning per click |
| 4000 |
120 |
$0.30 |
| Daily |
Monthly |
Yearly |
| $36 |
$1.080 |
$12.960 |
As time goes by, and your sites grow more traffic - your sites will get
medium traffic.
Daily earnings example, for 10 Adsense optimized website's with medium
traffic, and a CTR of 3%.
| Impressions |
Clicks |
Earning per click |
| 40000 |
1200 |
$0.30 |
| Daily |
Monthly |
Yearly |
| $360 |
$10.080 |
$129.600 |
Now you are getting REAL VALUE for your invested time. Before we get to
the final math, let's try to do 2 more examples (10 x high traffic, 20 x
medium traffic).
Daily earnings example, for 10 Adsense optimized website's with high
traffic, and a CTR of 3%.
| Impressions |
Clicks |
Earning per click |
| 400000 |
12000 |
$0.30 |
| Daily |
Monthly |
Yearly |
| $3600 |
$108.000 |
$1.296.000 |
Daily earnings example, for 20 Adsense optimized website's with medium
traffic, and a CTR of 3%.
| Impressions |
Clicks |
Earning per click |
| 80000 |
2400 |
$0.30 |
| Daily |
Monthly |
Yearly |
| $720 |
$21.600 |
$259.200 |
To sum up all this information, lets have a look at the investment you
must make in hard cash to get the opportunity to earn a Adsense Income.
We are going to assume that you decide to start out with a reseller
hosting solution, however you can of course go by individual hosting plans
for each domain, and thereby save roughly $60 for the first domain.
The fee's displayed below are average yearly domain and hosting fees.
| # of websites |
Domain fee |
Reseller fee |
Total yearly cost* |
| 1 |
$8 |
$120 |
$128 |
| 10 |
$80 |
$120 |
$200 |
| 20 |
$160 |
$120 |
$280 |
* You might encounter additional hosting fees for example traffic.
Disclaimer: No Guarantee or promises is given on what your Adsense
performance or income will be. All performance and earnings examples are only for illustrational purposes,
and should be threated as such. It is strictly against Google's Adsense terms that publishers design websites, purely with the objective of earning adsense income.
Breach of these terms can result in termination of your account, and forefitting of any Adsense income earned.