Ask HN: How much do you earn from Google Adsense?

[Strategist]

So, I'm setting up Google adsense and planning on implementing it on a few websites in order to improve on reoccuring monthly income.

How much do you guys typically earn from websites with Adsense? What's the most you've ever got?

[gesman]

Trend:

People who claiming $10,000+/mo from Adsense for some reason never share traffic stats or even website URLs.

[kirchhoff]

There's a good reason for that. If someone's found a profitable niche, there's no incentive for them to reveal information which might attract competitors.

[rk0567]

$150-400 a month from my blog [0]. The highest I earned was $2100 in a month, when the traffic was much higher (~2 years ago).

[0] http://blog.sudobits.com

[autotravis]

$108 YTD, $29.72 best month this year

Not much weight without proof: http://imgur.com/YiyEke0

Most of mine has come from a single post about uses for a Raspberry Pi[1].

I've done a lot wrong when trying to build site traffic (multiple domain/url scheme changes, etc) so I think I would be doing much better if I had focused more in the past.

1. http://magnatecha.com/things-i-do-with-my-raspberry-pi/

[mast]

These numbers are from my blog, http://foodconstrued.com

I have one sidebar ad, and usually one ad at the bottom of each entry.

Last month (September) I had 4873 page views and 25 clicks. This resulted in $8.75.

My best month was back in July. That month 4016 page views and 25 clicks resulted in $9.49

[justhw]

That's a low CTR for that amount of PV. Try putting a large ad right under the headline and lose all the share buttons there since you've got them in 3 other places, it should incrase your CTR quite a bit. http://i.imgur.com/71d9E4U.png

[mast]

Thanks! I'll give it a try.

[cheae]

The highest I earned was $20000/month. Now making $10000 - $15000 each month. It varies significantly month to month.

[hugovie]

Awesome! Could you please tell us your site and your monthly traffic? Just for referring! Thanks a lot!

[PencilAndPaper]

How much traffic did your site(s) get?

[NovemberWest]

Historically, I got a payout once a year of something over $100. This year, I am still way short of hitting a payout.

But I would really like more info on traffic, content, etc from the guys reporting serious dough from this.

[bobfirestone]

The only site I have Adsense running on does $50-60 a month. That covers the hosting bill. There were a couple of months that the site was doing between $100-120 but that was only for like 3 or 4 months after the launch.

[Parse]

I set it up on a website a long time ago, but my traffic was pathetic.

Made maybe about $0.10 a month?

The website is now long gone by the way, so not making anything currently.

[hashtree]

Six figures a year, going for seven (long way away) and compete head on with the industry leaders (they do eight figures). Long time bootstrapped/passive.

[Strategist]

What's your site?

[infinia]

I have a site that I started about 6 months ago that gets about 30-50 uniques a day, and Im generating about $15 per month.

[brildum]

This month: $57.33 from 8294 page views (228 ad clicks)

Last month: $33.14 from 4338 page views (90 clicks)

[VirtualApe]

15,000$-20,0000$