How Do You Earn Money With Adsense?

I saw this question posted and thought that the answer would be obvious but maybe to some it's not. So here is my explanation:

You earn money with adsense when you put the adsense ads on your website or blog. When people visit your website or blog and click on the ads then you get paid!

How much you get paid varies too many ways to even try to attempt to explain it. What you should do is once you have your adsense account you should keep checking it to see how you adsense ads are doing. Once you have done that for a while you will start to see how the earnings "part" works and then you can concentrate on making more money with your adsense ads.

You have to earn at least a minimum of $100 during the month and when you do you get paid the next month - usually around the 25th! If you don't make the $100 during the month then your total earnings will roll over into the next month and so on until you do reach $100.

You can get your adsense payment by regular check, bank transfer and for some areas you can get your payment via Western Union. So far you can not get your adsense payment via your Paypal account - although a lot of people would like to get it that way its not an option yet.

Here is a link to a blog post that I made about how much money some people have been making with adsense.

"I am not making any money from adsense"

Unfortunately if you are not making ANY money from adsense then YOU may be the only one to blame!

First of all I think it would be good to establish whether or not you are not making ANY adsense money or whether or not you aren't making enough to satisfy you!

Here is a link to a blog post that I made about how much money other people have been making with adsense.

If you are not making money with your adsense you have to find out and analyze why - that is if you DO want to be able to make money with your adsense.

There are countless help boards all over the Internet where you can post and ask questions about why your site isn't making any adsense money.

"You Are Scheduled To Be Sent A Payment......"

For those that don't know it (or me for that matter) there is always this anticipated "wait" for the monthly adsense payment(s). I have already compared different months to compare with as far as the adsense "payment in progress" line showing up in one's adsense account. However there really seems to be no rhyme or reason as to how the "PIP" dates are actually determined!

I'm posting this blog entry because I was just checking my adsense stats just to see if the "payment in progress" line had appeard - it had not! But there was a box saying "You are scheduled to be sent a payment........"

Now I'm trying to remember whether or not I remember seeing this particular box all the time or does it just show up when I'm scheduled to get a payment. And since the line has shown up does that mean that the payment process has begun for April 2008?

I do remember last month upon seeing this box on my Adsense payment history that my "PIP" showed up a few days later.

So if that is the case for this month too then hopefully this means that at least the adsense payment process has begun!

Anyone Care To Make A Speculation About The Next Payment In Progress?

Obsessive compulsive that I am (plus the fact that I just love to get paid!) I decided to take a look at last year's calendar to find a month that had the same day format as this month (April 2008). Of course the reason I am doing this is because I want to compare "payment in progress" dates just to speculate on when the adsense payment will come this month!

May 2007 has the same day-format as April 2008.

In May 2007, my adsense payment was recorded on May 23rd! This also means that the "PIP" line showed up the day before - which - of course - was a Tuesday.

Dare I say that we may get the much anticipated "payment in progress" line next week?

The Adsense Site Will Be "Down" For Maintenance Today

According to the latest message posted:

"Please be aware that our engineers will be performing routine site maintenance from 10 am - 2 pm PDT this Saturday, April 12th. That's 6pm - 10pm GMT or 11.30pm - 3.30am IST on Saturday, or 4am - 8am EST on Sunday.

During this time, you will not be able to access your account, but your ad serving and reporting will not be affected."

I'm $3 Away From The $100 Minimum Needed To Get An Adsense Payment Next Month.....

For the past few months I have been posting about how long it takes me to earn at least the $100 minimum amount needed to get an adsense payment for the next month. So far I'm about $3 away from that.

I'm going for an average of a 10% click-through rate and for the most part I am able to manage that. Sometimes its higher and sometimes its lower and sometimes it is right on the mark!

So far my average is a little low so far this month but you have to take into account that sometimes it is higher and sometimes it is lower so it averages out to be a little lower than 10% so far this month.

However since I'm only about $3 away from the $100 minimum I'm still doing pretty good because I still have the rest of the month - which is about 2 and a half weeks - to go!

I'll probably work more on adding more higher-paying keyword content to my sites to make the click-through rate cpm higher.

When I reach the $100 minimum, I'll post about it here.

"How Much Money Will I Be Able To Make With Adsense?"

I have seen THIS question pop up a lot on some of the online message boards that have to do with Adsense.

To answer this question in as few words as possible the answer is:

How much money you make from adsense will depend entirely on you!

People seem to think that just because they put adsense ads on their sites that the money will just start to "roll" in and that is not going to be the case for a mojority of us! Sure, some people have gotten lucky with their adsense earnings the first month but that is not going to happen to all of us. In fact I, myself made $22 my first month of using adsense and fortunately for me I have more than tripled that!

* - You can read about my quest towards making at least the $100 a month minimum needed to get an adsense payment the next month by clicking here

So far I have managed to get at least the minimum $100 earnings every month so far this year and every month of 2007 (which I can prove because I have had to pay income tax on my adsense earnings for 2007! -

There is really no telling on how much one can actually make using adsense. The potential is there to make a lot of money with adsense but you can't really expect to just be able to put adsense ads on your site and just sit back and wait for the money to roll in!

Basically speaking you earn adsense money when visitors to your site click on the ads that appear on your site. So first of all that means that you have to get people to actually come to your site. And then you have to make it so that they will click on the ads. Now there have been a lot of people asking about how they can get people to click on the ads and there have been lots of theories and replies about how that can be done. I have my own theories and things that I do to help increase the number of "clicks" that I get on my own sites and so far it seems to be working quite well! (And fortunately for me my clients feel the same way too!

There are just too many variables that will determine how much money you will actually earn with adsense. What is the percentage of people that actually click on your ads? How much are you earning per click? Are you using higher-paying keywords to earn higher earnings per click? Is / Are your site(s) optimized for the search engines? In other words is your site top-ranked in the search engines when people are searching for information that is related to the content of your site? The higher your search engine rankings the more potential traffic you will get to your site and the more the potential of people clicking on the ads that appear on your site. The more that people click on the ads the more adsense money you will earn!

* - Again here is a link to a blog post I made about how much some people have been making with their adsense ads!

Getting A Reply From Adsense

I'm going over some of my past email and have noticed a couple of replies from Adsense.

About a week ago I noticed that there were no adsense ads appearing on my sites. Of course this put me in a panic and I frantically sent an email to Adsense. Since it was the weekend I didn't expect to hear from them right away but I did get an automated reply within the next 24 hours. They then sent me a more specifc reply a few days later.

I'm posting about this because I have read posts from others who have said that they have contacted adsense but haven't received any response from them. So far everytime I have sent adsense email I have gotten a response from them.

I don't know why so many other people are having problems with getting a response from Adsense - so far it hasn't happened to me yet.

OK, I'm Just A Little Bit Pissed At Adsense!

So I'm looking at my Blog Consultant Blog today and it suddenly dawned on me that I didn't see any ads on the blog - WTF!

I go look inside my adsense account and notice that there are two of my sites that have that "robots.txt" message on them! Now this has happened to me before - some time ago and I don't remember what I did or in fact if I did anything at all but I do remember that things went back to normal and my adsense ads were in place again. I also checked my email but I didn't see any email from adsense. I also checked my "spam" folder to see just in case any email from adsense was there - it was not.

So I go to do some searching online to find out what could possibly be the matter! Well there was a lot of information to go through! Come to find out that it seems that adsense has a new policy about not having the adsense ads look like the contents of one's site(s) and/or blog(s). So now I'm in a panic because I have quite a few sites and I'm wondering whether or not I will have to go through them all and change the look of them so that the adsense ads don't look the same as the contents.

I sent an email to adsense about a half an hour ago asking why there were no ads on my sites. But since this is a Sunday I don't expect to hear from them for a few days. But I got an almost immediate response from them saying that they got my email but because of the holiday? it might take longer for them to get back to me. What holiday?

In the meantime I checked one of my client's sites and their blog didn't have ads on them either! Again I repeat - WTF? So I go into a panic and change the layout and look of their sites.

In the meantime I'm looking at their blog and guess what happens? The adsense ads show up! WTF! So now I'm in a new panic because I already changed the look of their site! Now I'm going to have to go back and see how their site looks.

In the meantime I'm wondering whether or not I still have to change the look of the sites. Now that the ads are showing up again - does that mean that everything is alright?

As a side note I should also mention that I noticed on my adsense account that I stopped earning revenue for about a day and a half! And that is one of the reasons why I am just a little bit pissed at adsense right now!

OK - Time To Get Drunk!

Well my "Payment in progress" line finally showed today! It happened sometime between 5 and 7pm EST!

It's a good thing too because I have been looking at some of the message boards today and people are starting to get quite upset with Adsense and their late payments!

A List of High-Paying Keywords

Someone actually wanted a list of the high-paying keywords from me but they weren't willing to pay the price that I am selling it for. So my answer to them was no!

There are just too many free ways to find a list of high-paying keywords online that you shouldn't have to ask for mine if you are not willing to pay for it.

I'm not going to price this list too low and I don't want to price this list too high. But if you're not willing to pay the price that is listed then you will have to find these kinds of lists on your own.

There Has Been A "Payment In Progress" Sighting!

Someone from Greece has posted that they have received the "PIP" line on their adsense account. Another person has also posted that they received their "payment in progress" line also. They are posting from the Middle East!

While I am happy for them I can't help but remember back in December of 2007 when people were posting that they received their "PIP" lines on their accounts but all of them were located outside the United States!

I also keep an eye out for that first posting of a "payment in progress" line (since I never seem to be the first person to post that I got it) because when someone from the United States posts that they have gotten their "PIP" line then that means that my "payment in progress" line isn't too far behind.

The fact that someone outside the US has posted that they received their "payment in progress" line first has me a little worried about seeing my own "PIP" line!

I will keep you posted!

I'm Still Waiting On That Adsense Payment!

Well it looks like Adsense is being true to their form when they state that they can't give an exact date of the adsense payment(s).

Like I mentioned in a previous post, the month of December 2007 has the same date format as this month - March 2008. As I noted before there was a "payment in progress" line on my adsense account on Dec. 24th - of which it is now the 24th of March 2008 and there is still no "PIP" line appearing on my adsense account yet.

The general consensus is that the "payment in progress" line usually appears on the last Tuesday of the month - which is tomorrow....................

Wanna Lay Bets On When The Payment In Progress Line Will Show This Month?

For those of you that are curious..........

December 2007 has the same date layout as March 2008. In December 2007 the "PIP" line showed up in my account on December 24th (Christmas Eve by the way which meant that there was an additional day of waiting until the next business day)

So it will be interesting to see if the "payment in progress" line shows p on March 24th 2008 which is next Monday.

Personally I hope its sooner. Today is Friday and if a "PIP" line shows today then that means that one (meaning me) would have to wail ALL the way to Monday!

MFA

What does "MFA" mean?

It means "made for adsense".

In other words there are sites out there that have adsense ads on them but hardly any content.

I have seen sites like this that have adsense ads on them but then they have just a line or two of content. Some MFA sites that I have seen have lines of links to other site but they still don't have much content.

Apparently Adsense is working hard to cancel the accounts (or sites) that have these kinds of layouts. Although a lot of people are still posting that they still see a lot of these sites around.

I'm Getting Very Dis-Illusioned With Auction Ads!

I decided to check my auction ads stats - since I haven't done so in a very long time.

The results are not too good to say the least!

I'm looking at my page impressions and for one particular blog I got something like over 4,000 page impressions and maybe a few clicks but comparing with all of the sites that I have auction ads on it just seems like I should be getting more revenue from them.

I'm wondering whether that "run-in" that I had with them some months back has anything to do with it because I am quite close to taking them off altogether!

*BTW - Auction Ads is now known as Shopping Ads

"I'm Getting A Lot Of Page Impressions But Nobody Is Clicking On My Ads! - Why?"

Unfortunately if you are not getting "clicks" on your adsense ads - that just means that you have to work harder on the content that is appearing on your site.

Getting visitors to click on your ads ain't easy!

Although I find it hard to believe that you are getting so many page impressions but no clicks. It could have a lot to do with the ads not matching the content on your site but that really isn't adsense's fault - as much as I hate to say it the fault lies on your end.

You can't just expect to have a website or blog with adsense ads on it and automatically expect that people will click on the ads!

There have been quite a few postings about specific ways that people can optimize their potential for making more adsense money but to make it brief:

Think of your site as an instruction manual - whatever it is that your site is talking about (Its subject matter or topic) if people are more interested in it the more the potential for them to click on the ads that are relevent to your site - thus the more potential for you to make more adsense monies.

You can read my blog posts about how I'm tracking how long it takes me to get to the $100 minimum (that's the minimum amount that you need to earn during the month to get an adsense payment the next month) each month

BTW - For this month of March 2008 I did recently get to that $100 minimum! And I still have the rest of the month to go yet!

I Made It Past The $100 Minimum Needed To Get An Adsense Payment Next Month!

Actually I reached the $100 mark a few days ago but like I posted before I have been busy filling out and completing my income taxes. I'm almost finished with them - I just have to get one more form and fill it out and I will be finished with my income taxes for the year

By the way - I am getting a refund!

I Have An Article Published On Selfgrowth.com

I submitted my first article to Selfgrowth.com and it was accepted!

The name of my article is:

My Very First Adsense Check!

It feels very exciting to have my first online article published!

Please feel free to check out my article and let me know what you think about it!

I Made It! My Blog Is Ranked #1!

Well I finally made it! My blog is ranked first for the search term

"adsense consultant"!

I would have never known this if it weren't for me checking my "stats" and seeing that someone was searching for the term "adsense consultant" and I decided to check it out myself!

This is quite an achievement for me - especially since I also work as a SEO Consultant as well!

It has taken me a few months to get to the top ranking! There were a couple of sites that were ranking above me and I was trying to figure out and work on a way to get my blog ranked higher than theirs and I finally managed to accomplish that!

It just goes to show you that I was right about the "content being king"!

I'm Currently Working On My Income Taxes..........

This will be the first year that I am declaring my adsense income on my income tax return!

Just in case your interested, you are required to report your adsense income when it is over a certain amount - I think its $400.

I have a local tax on earned income in my local community and it looks as though I won't have to pay any tax on this adsense income.

As far as my state taxes go, since my adsense income is thought of as self-employed income that is what I will be filing it as. And since it's considered self-employment income I will have to fill out my state's Schedule C form - which I don't have and have to get! Schedule C is the form to report income (and losses) from operating a business.

My federal tax return looks to be completed. About the only deduction that I will be taking this time is the expenses for my PO Box. I filled out the federal Schedule C form to claim my business income and deductions. I also had to fill out a Self-employed taxes form since its not automatically taken out of my adsense income. So it looks like I'll be getting some money back because I qualify for the earned income credit. Without this credit (or if I didn't qualify for it) I would be owing the government a payment instead of getting a refund from them!

I'm making copies of everything just to keep for my records.

So right now I'm waiting to get the proper state schedule C form - and then I should be able to have completed everything else as far as my tax returns are concerned for the year 2007!

It was getting kind of nerve-wracking and frustrating at first because of all the different forms. But I'd rather be self-employed than working for someone else.

Plus it serves as a good reminder of keeping records and receipts for the things that I will be able to claim as a business expense.

To be quite honest with you I didn't think that I would be making enough in adsense income to have to report it but I realized that I was going to have to report it when I started making more than the $100 minimum a month. But any additional income is a benefit - especially when you will be getting BACK money from the government!

My PIP Has Arrived!

Yipeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

You know I think I'm going to get some booze with this adsense check!

I feel like getting drunk!

There are also some things that I think that I should take notice of:

• First every month I go through this adsense "waiting game" and I'm thinking that I should note the time that the "PIP" actually shows up on my adsense account.
  
  For February 2008 it showed up at around 5:15pm EST
  
  
• Secondly I think that it would be a good idea to note WHEN it shows up as compared to when other people post when theirs shows up. Like for instance this month someone posted that they got their "payment in progress" and they are located on the East Coast but the next post was from someone in the Southwest US and then came a posting from Florida that someone received their "PIP" - all the while I'm located on the East Coast and am wondering why mine doesn't show up before those who aren't on the East Coast.

But all-in-all I'm happy that it just showed up!

What Is Adsense?

I have this poll on my original Adsense Consultant Blog asking people if they have adsense on their sites? While there have been some people that have said "Yes" there have been a few people that voted that they didn't even know what adsense is - so let me clarify:

Adsense (which is now a part of Google) is a program that lets you put ads on your website or blog. When visitors to your site click on the ads you get paid.

First of all in order to join the adsense program you have to apply. There is no cost involved in signing up for adsense. But you will need a website or blog to join!

Once your site has been approved by adsense then you can go through the steps of picking the way that you want your ads to look. You can not pick which specific ads will appear on your stie. The ads that appear on your site will be determined by the content (the words that are) that is on your site. (There are some exceptions though)

When visitors to your site click on the ads you earn money. How much money you earn per click depends on what the advertisers are paying for the ads that are appearing on your site - so it is IMPOSSIBLE to say how much you will specifically earn!

You have to earn at least $100 during the month before you will be issued an adsense payment and you have the option to receive your payment either by regular check or by bank transfer.

One important thing that you should note is that you should NEVER click on your own ads! Adsense has a sophisticated way of checking for things like this and if you click on your ads on a continuing basis you will get your adsense account cancelled! And once your adsense account is cancelled because of invalid clicks it is VERY hard (if not impossible) to get your adsense account back!

There Has Been Another PIP Sighting!

Courtesy of The Webmaster Forum

It's Official! February 2008 Will Be My Highest Adsense Earnings Month! (And The Month Isn't Even Over Yet!)

Yes it's offical that February 2008 will be my highest adsense earnings month and I still have a few more days to go!

What is interesting to note is that the less I obsess over my adsense earnings the more adsense earning I earn!

Why The Big Fuss About Getting The Adsense Payment?

As hard as it might be hard to believe a lot of people depend on their adsense payment. Forget the logic about not "putting one's eggs" in only one basket!

I saw one post from a guy in a foreign country (India - I think) who posted that he was waiting on his adsense payment to buy food!

Another contributing factor is that Adsense is not specific about when they will actually place that "payment in progress" line on a person's adsense account and people get frustrated trying to contact adsense about this matter.

Adsense does protect itself by saying that if a payment isn't received by a certain date then a reissue of the payment can be applied for - however that date is many, many days ahead of when payments are normally issued.

Like it or not some people are not going to be logical as far as getting their adsense payment is concerned!