General Business: I'm a $61.09naire (updated)

I stopped my compulsive checking of my adsense account for about a week and checked it this morning. Up to $9.41 in less than a month. It's paying for itself to be hosted with about a buck in profit. So at $0.43 a day I'll be a millionaire in no time (appx 6371 years...which doesnt take into acount the growth rate of ductfuct.)

UPDATE - I am back to compulsively checking my ad revenues. I've added adengage ads too. I'll be updating the threads title as the total goes up.

Posted By: EricThat's awesome man! Just put up 500 more sites just like it and you got yourself a decent wage! But no really, that is very cool, it'll only get better!Complacency kills, and we're too young to die...Risk taker by nature

Haha, never thought of it in terms of quantity. That'd be just over $78k a year!

But in reality I am pretty happy with the results thus far. Now if I could only get the damn MSN adCenter $200 free thing to work I am sure I could drive enough traffic to send me over $15.

Yeah it's nice when you get the good clicks. Theres some clicks that dont even pay...sweet, thanks for those ads google!

Hmm...Katrina, that gives me an idea.

Posted By: Travisthen have to wait over a month to get the cheque. Stop being stubborn Google and pay with PayPal!!!!!

You can have the money directly deposited into your bank account (at least if you are US resident, I dont know about Canada) and it only take like 2 weeks max. Maybe look into that?

This got me thinking...is there a website that is just ads? I'm thinking I could score some money writing up a short tutorial and a goal (like say $10k or so) geared at how to make money from ads. Then the rest of my site would basically be an example for people to follow. Not that I would be encouraging people to click my ads but lets say they did, and there would be basically tons of them, I could make a decent push from it.

Then again, I am not sure if you can run google, yahoo, adbrite, etc all on the same page. Who knows...I'll look into it.

I think I could get around that by having a sidebar link saying, "Click here to see my page run in adsense" "here for adbrite" "here for ..."

Hmm...maybe I will. Only thing to lose is my cost of domain. I'm paying for premium hosting and barely using it. Might be my late night christmas eve and christmas project.

Thats what I was thinking. Not a site solely filled with ads. There'd be no reason for someone to visit the site. But I think I will use the $10k concept and blog my progress.

I wont encourage clicking...I know that's against policy. But I can beat around the bush enough I think to where people will understand that I wont reach the goal otherwise. I'll have to be careful with the wording of my content.

AdQwerty
That's the domain it will be.

ps - Travis I clicked a few of your ads on your site...by total accident.

Woo, up to being a $14.02naire now. Got some better ads in there that are paying over $2 a click (off of my left channel, I think the sex offender clicks are paying big for some reason). Also, an FYI, someone told me the tech ads are usually pretty good payouts. Antivirus and such.

Posted By: letutorcheck out www.rohailrizvi.com . His most recent post shows how he increased his monthly ad revenue from $5 to $47. He's using TLA now and really likes it. www.textlinkads.com

You should look into different revenue streams instead of just adsense.

Good luck.

You can also click on Text Link Ads' banner that rotates on YGG. We'd sure appreciate it :)

Posted By: letutorcheck out www.rohailrizvi.com . His most recent post shows how he increased his monthly ad revenue from $5 to $47. He's using TLA now and really likes it. www.textlinkads.com

You should look into different revenue streams instead of just adsense.

Good luck.

Thanks for the link. Once I get up to $100 in adsense I'm going to really dig into other revenue streams.

Yeah i decided not to wait. I signed up for TLA and will be implementing it tomorrow. Ya think google's going to have an issue with that?

I dont think google ads would be your problem as I was accepted a little while back with google ads on my site. I just havent had a chance to ad any of the TLA things to my site. Did you apply for TLA with DuctFuct? It may be because of it being new and not enough traffic yet.

I have no idea...sorry.

hmm must be traffic related. I'm at 500 visits in the 20 days I've been tracking them. That's 200 unique. Looks like it's time to build traffic.

I am going to give adengage.com a try. They have no issue with running side by side with google (although I think google does). Adengage pays 75% and only takes 25%...adsense feels about the opposite of that.

I emailed them and this was the return:

Hi Adam,

Thank you for your email. It looks like your site does not have enough link
popularity. Link popularity is the measure of quantity and / or quality of
web pages linking back to your webpage. Please obtain some quality links
into your site and then re-submit your site again in three months.

Thanks,

I signed up on technorati the other day. I had 2 mentions on 2 blogs when I signed up. How do you suggest building that rank on there?

ps - that huge yellow Hertz.com ad totally made me click it. I think the pic skyscrappers look better on the left than the text.

Something I found helpful in getting return links was simply mentioning someone else site in my blog and when they noticed the link or traffic from it they often times reciprocated without me asking. Also, they would then mention my blog as a point of interest in their blog.

check out my post

http://letutor.com/blog/more-links-to-useful-language-sites/

I simply posted a bunch of relevant sites that others reading my blog mind find useful and return got a couple of links from them.

Good news:

Dear Adam,

Your site, DuctFuct, has been approved. We would like to welcome you to the AdEngage network.

Your site will be listed in the directory, this normally takes less than 48 hours.

Your site will also receive Run Of Network (RON) ads. This is carefully monitored to minimize fraud.

If you have any questions please send us an email.

Best regards,

The AdEngage Team

Nice work..I just got my first TLA sold...a whopping $4.87 to me. Oh well, better than nothing :-) Do you earn that every month that the link continues on your site?

I read blog carnivals about page but am still foggy about what it is exactly. This is my guess tell me if I'm correct.

Someone posts a subject. Bloggers submit articles which include a bio and link to the bloggers site. Then the carnival host posts those articles on their blog.

Host gets content
Bloggers get links and exposure

Let me know if I got it or if I'm completely off in left field.

Text Link Ads sell on a monthly basis.

I'm pushing a 1.97! LOL

Okay, I helped a brother out...you should be up a few more cents.

I like the looks of that Adengage network. Legitimizing contextual image/text combo ads will be the way of 2007. Google just officially banned it with Adsense so the other networks will jump all over that opportunity, much like Adengage has.

Doesn't look like the ads are too relevant, but if that improves as their inventory grows it could be a nice alternative to Google and Adbrite.

Posted By: letutorI read blog carnivals about page but am still foggy about what it is exactly. This is my guess tell me if I'm correct.

Someone posts a subject. Bloggers submit articles which include a bio and link to the bloggers site. Then the carnival host posts those articles on their blog.

Host gets content
Bloggers get links and exposure

Let me know if I got it or if I'm completely off in left field.

Letutor thats exactly what happens. And sometimes if you're lucky some big players host the carnivals so the quality of the link is so much better!

For those who were wondering this is a quote from an email convo that I had with Patrick Gavin (founder of TLA). My question was:

In the inventory my ad sells for $20 - that means I should be getting $10. Why have I only made $7 (all figures are examples):

1. There are times when agencies resell TLA inventory at a discount and that could bring down the retail price of the links and thus the rev share.

2. the earnings listed are always pro rated for the month so if we sold a link on the 14th of the month only two weeks of earnings will show up.

Hope this helps.

I've officially doubled my earnings since December 22nd (when I started the thread at I'm a $9.41naire). The better earnings from certain ads and the acquisition of uploadFX.com have helped me get here pretty quickly. uploadFX has netted me a $1.08 in four days. Can't complain there.

Adengage - not sure what's going on there. I've totaled 6 clicks and earnings are at $.0.00. I might be shooting them an email about that.

I hope nobody minds that I keep updating this post. It's my prerequisite to starting adcabulary.com

I sent Adengage an email about not making money on the first 7 or 8 clicks...no response yet. But I did get 1 click yesterday for a sold amount less than a nickel but more than 3 pennies. Not overly impressed with them right now.

Posted By: Travis

I surpassed the $100 marker with my Adsense a few days ago. Now it'll only be about 2 months before I get my first check. lol

Congrats. Goal is to get $100 on adsense in the first three months of theadblog.com (if my damn domain would ever recognize it's registration)

It's really tough to convert those one line link units. You only get payed if they click on an ad after clicking on one of the text links in that type of unit. An extra step that can hurt you in the end.

You're allowed to have up to 3 standard ad units per page. I'd say replace it with a 728x90 leaderboard. At least then, if you get some accidental clicks they'll pay out immediately, instead of them having to click again like with the link units.

Travis - I gotta thank you for the suggestion to do the leaderboard, although I couldnt fit the 728x90 so I went with the half banner. That has more than double my money per day at uploadFX and it flows much better with the site.

As I was checking out some of your sponsors, I wondered, how do you get the adsense code into the bottom of your posts like that?

Yep I was talkin to you. I'll have to remember that plug in for my next site.

Cracked the $30 mark! uploadFX is my money maker.

Probably going to drop the AdEngage ads on DuctFuct because they don't pay worth a damn.

Still at 3.99-naire...! Good news is we are starting to see some more traffic. Even had one user leave some comments... :P

SSM - amen. I sent her an e-mail asking her what she thought of the site, etc and she gave some good feedback. Plan to do that with every comment until there are so many we can't keep up!

I see the thread title got updated again. Way to go!

This is cool to see how it's growing! Nice work!

No...

I didn't even know that was an option.

I had my second biggest adsense earnings day yesterday at $3.18, biggest is $3.75. Yesterday was also my highest Ad Impressions at 219.

the.ad.blog got some clicks yesterday which was real nice. uploadFX is always good for about a $1/day.

So is AdSense Deluxe the way to go?

Cracked the $50 mark!...barely. Somebody from YE has been clicking on my thereservoirblogs.com ads a few times a week. Not sure why, but it pays like dirt considering I haven't done anything with that site in a looooong time. I should take it out of my sig so ppl click on the good ones.

Sounds like you need to target more profitable keywords. You need several full articles that are focused on the keyword subject.

Posted By: SSM

well that's tough on the site that gets the most clicks (uploadFX) because it is just a simple page with basically nothing on it.

Hopefully I'll be getting some better stuff onthe.ad.blogsoon.

Put something on it :)

hmm, not a bad idea. I could probably fit something under the interface no problem.

Its probably the CPM. Some ads have pretty high costs per thousand impressions. Maybe with your 9 views you were able to get $0.01 out of it. The same thing happened to me yesterday.

Yep same here yesterday. There must have been some high paying CPMs because I made $.04 on zero clicks. I think it's the "Tax Cut" ad for me.