AdSense Earnings hit New Milestone

26 May, 2010 - 07:00 AM - 17 Comments

I hit a new milestone with my AdSense earnings this month and have finally breached the $50 earnings in a single month with AdSense from my three blogs combined (most of it comes from DragonBlogger.com). I had refocused my efforts several months ago and completely revamped my AdSense blocks, created new custom channels, switched locations of ad units…etc and the results have paid off significantly. I had written a previous post about recommendations for improving AdSense earnings and using these tips I was able to triple my AdSense earnings consistantly for the past two months.

Now, my traffic overall only increased by about 10% so it isn’t enough to account for going from an average of $15 – $20 per month earnings to exceeding $45 last month and $50 this month in AdSense income. Though I am still about 1/2 way from my target goal of reaching $100 per month in AdSense income, I am at least at the half way mark. What I had realized is that I was receiving a fair amount of clicks (in excess of 50 per month) but my earnings per click were very low indeed. To adjust this I leveraged using the Google AdWorks Keytool more to spread keywords that were popular into my blog posts to help improve the CPC ratio of the ads once they were clicked.

This tactic combined with using a 350×250 block on the bottom of my posts on this blog (and top on my other two blogs) has dramatically improved my earnings, I noticed an improvement within the first week that the number of clicks went up. When I saw that I made in one week what I had made the previous month I knew I had stumbled on to something.

Certainly, this will increase as my site traffic increases and my AdSense earnings are only a portion of the blogging income I earn from various companies that pay you to blog. In the meantime I will continue to tweak and tune and share what works for me with my readers in the hopes that you can improve your AdSense earnings (if you are not faring as well) or at least provide some ideas and insight if you are already doing very well with AdSense.

-Dragon Blogger

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Written by Justin Germino (1518 Articles Published)

Working in the IT Industry for over 10 years and specializing in web based technologies. Dragon Blogger has unique insights and opinions to how the internet and web technology works. An Avid movie fan, video game fan and fan of trying anything and everything new.

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Suresh Khanal@Bivori

Best wishes Justin and may you go on improving Adsense earning. I also found my earning improved the last month and this month. I'm crossed that $100/month few months back and now it is stable on 150. The last month it hit $200 and this month for these 11 days, it has reached $100.

What I've experienced is, its bit harder at first to get more when starting. But after you cross the $100 the more high paying ads start appear on your site.

I don't know how it works for blog about blogging but for my PS Exam it is working good and I'm happy with Adsense.

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Rian

Hello Dragonblogger, congratulations even if this post was published in May. Well it's never too late to commend you :) I am just wondering do you have any updates now about your monthly earnings as of July and August? You breached the $50/month mark last May whereas I breached $50/month this June. So you are at least one month ahead of me hehe. I am just curious how will our website fare in the coming months up to December. I am gathering monthly earnings of websites because I am working on a certain projection formula on how much we will be earning after a particular period of time. I am happy with the results of reducing number of adsense blocks on my site, since July I'm getting $1.40/day then this August $1.57/day. :) hope to hear from you soon and let us exchange projections and techniques on how we can improve our adsense earnings. Cheers!

dragonblogger

See my latest post from yesterday for updates on my July AdSense earnings.

David

Sir, you give us all hope. What percentage of your overall clicks does Google deem as invalid?

Good question and I have no idea, I don't think AdSense gives you a report on invalid clicks.

jessica@internet parental filter

This is very encouraging for new people trying to make some income from home. Wishing you more success.

Udegbunam Chukwudi@Make Money Online Nigeria

The top of my blog post seems to working excellently well as I'm now raking in about 50cents to $1 a day. The headbanner is still new and isn't converting yet. If in the next few days, it's still dormant, I'll move it below my blog posts and see if things get any better ;-)

Aury (Thunderdrake)

50 a month in cash flow is a very nice yardstick to say the least. I like where this blog is heading. Let's hope it goes up much higher, eh? :D

indihow@The Indian How to Guide

Happy to know you got such a tremendous leap in Adsense earnings. Now that we have an option, I think tinkering with the Ad-blocking feature in Adsense might lead to some interesting results. If you block low CPC ad categories, the fill rate might be lower, but at least the clicks would only be on high CPC ads, and would be better, given the visitors looking for such ads too are abundant.

That is a really good idea, I am going to have to read more about the Ad Blocking feature, I haven't been using it.

Jannich Brendle

Great work!
I'm almost at $20 this month, but I'm hoping that I reach $100 a month by the end of August. :-)

Congrats, it took me over a year to reach $20 per month consistently with AdSense

Josiah@Tumblr Layouts

Awesome to hear! I'm nearing $350 so far this month and it will be my biggest payout in adsense. It's taken me probably over a year to really understand what works best on each of my sites as far as position, colors, banner or text, ect. I've found that in some cases, less is more.

Overloading a page with ads can drop CPC, don't ask me how though.
.-= Josiah@Tumblr Layouts´s last blog ..Theme for Themers(4 Colors) =-.

Lakhyajyoti

I am still not using adsense in my blog.But planning to apply it soon.BWN $50 in one month from 3 blogs is really good income.
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Shemah

Hey Justin! That's great news.. and thanks for sharing the tips and all your earnings with your readers. At least we know what to do better and it also motivates us to be better bloggers.

Congrats and keep up the great work you do here!
.-= Shemah´s last blog ..Gifts For Dad =-.

Klaus @ TechPatio

Good job reaching $50 a month, that's a decent passive income on the side :)

Looking forward to more AdSense tips that might work for me too.
.-= Klaus @ TechPatio´s last blog ..Mozy – Online Backup. Great, Except For Restoring iPhoto & Aperture 3 =-.

Dana @ Blogging Tips Blog

Congrats Man! I hope I can reach that level too since my level is $50 for 6 month.
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