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The numbers I provided were affected by some things other than the advertising economy. When my Adsense first went over $1000 that was the result of finally figuring out the best way to place Adsense on my sites.  The big jump last year was because I bought a new website that accounted for pretty much all the increase in Adsense income.

Hunter Montgomery said:

Thanks Mark, Yeah, it's early days for me. No offense taken; I appreciate direct feedback

WRT private links on the homepage: Do you mean the huge blogroll?

 

Thanks TFM, Interesting, I was reading about buying blogs the other day. On balance, has it been a good investment for you?

 

Hunter

Buying blogs is an amazing business ;-) I have grown my online business with several blog acquisition. The truth is that it's way more easier to work with an existing blog with solid archive than starting a new one ;-)

Hunter -  Buying a website definitely worked out for me.  I made my money back in about a year and a half.  There are not many investments with that kind of return.

Post edited 8:22 am – May 21, 2011 by moneysmarts

I'll slightly disagree with some on the whole adding adsense right away bit. If you're writing about the right kind of topics, you can actually do pretty decent with adsense.  The key is – you have to be writing about topics that bring in good high dollar clicks – and not ones that have 2 cent clicks all day..  My advice is to add adsense right away, as long as you're writing about topics that are similar to some of the bigger blogs in your niche – sites that are probably doing keyword research and figuring out what kind of topics to write about that earn..  

When i first started my sites i added adsense right away, and had my first payout within 3-4 months, and payout every month since.

Here are a couple of posts I wrote about income sources i have for my blogs -hope it's helpful:

http://www.moneywithablog.com/…..e-sources/

http://www.moneywithablog.com/…..-bloggers/