I’ve Finally Made $100 from Google AdSense

Wow, I finally made $100 from website ads…and it only took 2 years!

What am I talking about? I’m talking about Google Adsense, the most widely used website advertising service. It allows people like me to put up sidebar ads and ads in articles. When you visit, that’s an ad view, and I get a little money for that.

How much money? Depends. If you’re like me, not a lot…maybe $0.15 a day…maybe $2.97 a day. That last number is what I made yesterday, and you can see that from my Google AdSense dashboard view:

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My Google AdSense Earnings - Finally over $100

Wow, getting $2.97 was a 518.8% jump from the day before! Pretty impressive until you figure I made $0.15 for the day before. Still, as you can see, that ads up. Here’s a detailed look at the last month:

The past month's performance for Google Adsense, showing daily revenue

Most days I make little, but the thing is, I’m making a lot more than I was. And you have to figure I’m the kind of person that picks up a penny on the ground. Hey, it’s money.

And it’s because of money that a month ago I decided to get serious about the ads on my website. Before they were left to languish for days or weeks…and even for months when I first got started. That didn’t help me at all, at least when it comes to getting up to $100. And getting up to $100 is important, because Google won’t pay you until you do that. 

For a long time I only had my one website, www.esladventure.com. I had some ads there, but not a whole lot. My income from those ads was pretty nonexistent, and I took up the idea that ads were bad and I just wouldn’t burden my users with them.

Mainly this was me being lazy, my pride talking, and my ignorance. It was easier to do nothing than to learn about website advertising, and that ensured others were making money while I was making nothing. My long-term Google AdSense stats attest to that:

More than 2 years worth of Google AdSense analytic stats, most of them quite poor

 Not too impressive, huh? The highest day I ever had actually came when I still cared less, so that’s a bit ironic. Still, look at those long stretches where there was absolutely no income…that was months at a time! I mean, I wasn’t even earning a penny a day then.  

Now I’m getting around $1 a day, and that’s just passive income for the most part. My goal for this year is to get that up to $2 a day, or even higher if I’m lucky. Since I have about 900 articles on this site and 250 on my ESL website, that shouldn’t be a problem. 

Eventually my power bill will be paid by this, much like my power bill was paid with my Amazon money. Now my Amazon money is almost paying my rent. So that’s moving up in the world, and I have to say I like it. Something you might like is this detailed graph showing monthly AdSense earnings after I got serious:

Remember I said that I got serious in December? You can see that I boosted revenue up quite a bit with my efforts, from around $10 a month to $16 a month. The reason I got motivated in the first place was because of those two good months – October and November. I started to think, ‘boy, it’d be nice getting an extra $100 each month.’ So I went to work.

What are my secrets for boosting my Google AdSense earnings by 100% in one month? This is what helped me:

• AdSense Revenue Optimization: There are videos and photo examples of the ad sizes you should be using to improve your Adsense scorecard. I only use recommended ads now, and the reason is because advertisers write code for those ad sizes. They show up on more devices and they’re more relevant to users. That means more money for you.
  

• Improved AdSense Site Health: Google AdSense offers tips and videos on how to improve site health. I found that minimizing the size of my images on popular posts was a big help. Also, moving ads further up the page helps. AdSense goes by views, and it’s much more likely someone will view the top of your article than the bottom. 
  

• AdSense Style Techniques: One area I used to improve my AdSense performance was with style. I put my ads in the text much of the time, just like big sites like The New York Times and The Washington Post do. People have no problem with ad presentation there, so by copying that style, they’ll have no problem here either. 

• Replacing Headers with Ads: I very rarely use headlines and headers in my posts anymore. First, this gives me less hassle. Next, I feel I don’t need to because I often discuss one topic at length. While this might hurt me in some SEO categories, it does ensure that ads serve as breaks for readers, a kind of transition point. Many of my visitors have realized this, I think. And hey, it helped increase my revenue. And hey, take a hike SEO…I’m not listening to you all the time!
  

For the past month I did an experiment with controlled variables. I did that to try and boost my Google AdSense revenue, and it worked. This is what businesses do, and I can do it too. It’s a skill I’ve developed, one not taught in any university in Montana that I know of, and I can use it to make money for people.

I hope this post gave you some tips and ideas, but what’s more, I hope it lit a fire under your ass. Get out there and get your first $100 from Google AdSense just like I did!

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