How Long Did it Take you to Reach $100 on Google Adsense | Bloggers Lair | Yakezie Forums

Took 2 months (after the site was live for a month).

I find image banners work well compared to text banners. Google suggests mixing it up(currently have it mixed) for better performance but I don't see an increase at all. I recently started using a skyscrapper ad (had a leaderboard and a big box ad) and I find it gets more clicks.

LaTisha @YoungFinances said:

What traffic are you seeing to hit 100 per month?

Im currently at almost $100 per month… but unfortunately I have adsense on 5 different sites, though I will say that 99% of the revenue comes through 3 of my sites.  Not as ideal as hitting $100 per month on each site, but I will take the steady payout.

The monthly traffic from the 3 sites combining to $100 a month are about 9,000 visits.  One of my sites does really well on clicks, and it seems to be that one article I have gets 3,500 of the 4,000 views every month, and most of the clicks come from that.

I've never received a payout and it's been over a year. I hope to be speeding up the process though.

MoneyIsTheRoot said:

The monthly traffic from the 3 sites combining to $100 a month are about 9,000 visits.  One of my sites does really well on clicks, and it seems to be that one article I have gets 3,500 of the 4,000 views every month, and most of the clicks come from that.

Would you be willing to share that article so we could see what apparently is a great example of  what to do in terms of content & layout?

If it's a niche site that you don't want to reveal, that's okay, too.

took me about 1 month for google to reject me… waaaaa!  

It took us 7 months, but are already at about $60, less than a month in…it's picking up rapidly now. Nearly every month has been better than the one before (except in November, when somebody clicked on my links over and over and over…$25 day…I was afraid I was going to get booted). It appears to have been someone looking for a new bank, because they clicked nearly every banking ad on the site.

When I first started blogging it took me about a year to reach $100.  I've made the $100 payout every month since May 2008 but it looks like that streak might end this month.

Edward Antrobus said:

MoneyIsTheRoot said:

The monthly traffic from the 3 sites combining to $100 a month are about 9,000 visits.  One of my sites does really well on clicks, and it seems to be that one article I have gets 3,500 of the 4,000 views every month, and most of the clicks come from that.

Would you be willing to share that article so we could see what apparently is a great example of  what to do in terms of content & layout?

If it's a niche site that you don't want to reveal, that's okay, too.

Id rather not say the specific article or site, since there are some haters out there that have tampered with several of the members sites.  But I will say that if you look on Money is the Root, the adsense is setup exactly the same on all of my sites as it is on that one, including the individual articles.  I use awesome ads plugin to plop ads on every post.  I could probably optimize better but I just dont have the time.

MoneyIsTheRoot said:

Id rather not say the specific article or site, since there are some haters out there that have tampered with several of the members sites.  But I will say that if you look on Money is the Root, the adsense is setup exactly the same on all of my sites as it is on that one, including the individual articles.  I use awesome ads plugin to plop ads on every post.  I could probably optimize better but I just dont have the time.

It's a shame that people get in the way of sharing value with others, but I understand. I'll admit that I'm surprised that you do so well with just that tiny ad. I didn't even see it the first time.

Edward Antrobus said:

MoneyIsTheRoot said:

Id rather not say the specific article or site, since there are some haters out there that have tampered with several of the members sites.  But I will say that if you look on Money is the Root, the adsense is setup exactly the same on all of my sites as it is on that one, including the individual articles.  I use awesome ads plugin to plop ads on every post.  I could probably optimize better but I just dont have the time.

It's a shame that people get in the way of sharing value with others, but I understand. I'll admit that I'm surprised that you do so well with just that tiny ad. I didn't even see it the first time.

 

You bring up a good point though… I do need to try some different banner sizes, and really compare text vs image banners, or if the mixed banner works better.  Not sure if placing ads at the bottom (in addition to the top) would be add more revenue as well.