[hxn]

It's similar with websites. As a developer, I find it easy to build things people want. My websites get millions of pageviews every month. Yet, I make less then $200 per month from Adsense. No idea how high this could get with better monetization or what the path to betterm monetization would be.

[kybernetyk]

If those websites have a focus try affiliate marketing to their niche. Adsense is like throwing spaghetti at the wall - some few will stick but most will fall off.

[duckingtest]

Could you link to one (or more) of these websites?

[bridanp]

Millions of page views? Unless you're running a photo sharing site, it seems like this should be more than $200/month. Assuming you know adsense best practices about ad placement, ad sizing, text versus image, have you talked to a consultant about options? I'm not one, just thinking if I had millions of views, that would be the next step.

[hxn]

Yes, Millions of pageviews. According to Google Analytics. Adsense only shows about 500k pageviews a month though. Guess the rest uses adblockers. In terms of optimizations, I tried a few placements and settings. Nothing moved the needle much.

[sireat]

That seems incredibly low or Adsense has gotten pretty bad in 10 years.

Around 2005 I had a very generic ecommerce site on which I threw some Adsense as an experiment.

I was getting $200 in Adsense a month from 3,000-3,500 daily views x 30 so ~ 100,000 views a month.