$1M a year in Google Adsense (or why 2,739 is my favorite number)

If back in September when we started playing with Google Adsense someone told me it would turn into a $1M a year business I would have laughed. A million bucks without a sales person? Give me a break!

However, yesterday we broke our $2,100 record with a $2,335 day. That�s an impressive number I know, because if we can take that number to $2,739.72 we�re at�wait for it�$1M a year.

For some perspective, take a look at some averages:

January we did $580 a day on average.
March was a $737 a day average.
May was a $1,585.57 average.

Now, before you get too excited let me tell you we�ve got 103 bloggers on the payroll and nine staffers here at Weblogs, Inc. We�re a big, little company� so to speak. Plus I gotta pay for Peter Rojas� gadget habit (let�s just say it ain�t pretty)!

However, if you follow those numbers we tripled the average in five months or so. Not sure we can triple every five months, but I think we can get this to a $3,000 to $5,000 per day average by the end of the year.

Another thing to keep in mind is that we can�t run Google Adsense in top positions on a lot of our blogs because they are sold out (Engadget, Autoblog, etc. are sold out up top). If we had those slots open we would be at much more per day right now.

The publishing world has totally changed, and as much as I like to think I�m up on things every day I figure out something new about this business. It�s crazy.

One more tip: the Google horizontal banners work well. You know, the ones where a user clicks and sees a group of ads and then you get paid if they make a *second* click (the first click to Google gets you nothing!). Even with this double-click issue it performs really well (I don�t think I can say how much better then a leaderboard without getting in trouble with the Google Adsense Terms of Service, but lets just say it�s significant). I think this is because the users who click on those ads are rabid�they want a ton of information and they probably visit more then one advertiser�s site.

Anyone else got Google Adsense tips? If so put them in the comments below for EVERYONE to share and benifit from.

Jul 19th 2005 5:54AM
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41. Thank you for all the wonderful information!!

Posted at 4:41PM on Oct 29th 2005 by Isaac

42. Keep the hammer down, $100 a day with adsense will retire most online marketers. What your doing is ballistic. Gotta be nice owners drawing checks your taking out of the corp!!

Posted at 4:41PM on Oct 29th 2005 by John

43. Congrats! Just wondering how you can keep quality content and ton of traffics to get such wonderful earning. I love to hear the update about your $1M journey.

Posted at 4:41PM on Oct 29th 2005 by munadi

44. Wow. I'm struggling to get to $2k/month. You're living my nirvana at http://ammoammunition.com and my other sited. Congratulations!

Posted at 4:41PM on Oct 29th 2005 by Eric

45. Great Work!! Thanks for the information.

Posted at 4:41PM on Oct 29th 2005 by Polyphonic Ringtones

46. I'm still on $5 per day. Do you pay your bllogers from adsense revenue ?

Posted at 4:41PM on Oct 29th 2005 by Milos N.

47. I had a problem with Google and I tried to resolve it, but the bureaucracy there prohibits dissension. Google impedes any contact with them. They don�t volunteer their email address or any phone numbers at all. If you click on �Contact Us�, you get the run around. My web pages have been removed from Google�s web searches, because I complained about their system. I have proof that they allowed my web pages to be advertised on porno sites and I�m not the only advertiser that was advertised there. I found many prominent companies there too. One example is Ameriquest Mortgage. I informed them and Google didn�t like it. I tried to warn others on the internet and Google, who sort of controls the press, zapped my web pages from their search results. We�ve seen this before. Dictators always try to get control of the press so they don�t have to read anything bad about themselves. I have some very large clients. The net worth of one investor is $40 million. He is doing business with me. I don�t want my name associated with porno sites. It�s not funny to search my name and find it associated with granny-sex-pictures.com. If this happened to you, I�m sure you�d protest too, if you could. How do you reach them? Google doesn�t allow advertisers to protest, so I contacted my credit card company and explained that Google dragged my reputation through the mud. Google even allowed their affiliates to rewrite my ads and offer loans that I don�t make. This is in violation of California Real Estate law and American Express reversed the charges for that month. Google responded by cutting off my ads. They gave me an ultimatum. Pay them for trashing my name and putting my license at risk or lose the account. I stood on principal and forfeited the account. Now, I�m taking my protest to the internet. The only thing is, they control the press there! Don�t let this happen to you. If they drag your name through the mud and put your license at risk, just pay them, because it doesn�t pay to stand up against the Goliath Google. Larry Wingo 310 530-1555

Posted at 4:41PM on Oct 29th 2005 by Larry Wingo

48. i hate Google. they are 10x worse than eBay. it will take them 10 years before they invest in customer service. creamy 25% net income but if they were not committing fraud, it would be rather 10% like any honest business. shame on these millionaires, the most arrogant of the entire NATION.

Posted at 4:41PM on Oct 29th 2005 by Aaron Gleicher

49. Interesting. I will have to try your tips.

Posted at 4:41PM on Oct 29th 2005 by Zakaja

50. I will learn from you once I stop spending so much time reading your blogs. http://ericdecker.blogspot.com

Posted at 4:41PM on Oct 29th 2005 by Eric Decker

51. Thanks so much for the update. I'm curious to see if you will be using Yahoo's version and if so, how they compare with Adsense. For testing would you convert one entire blog to Yahoo or test on a few posts?

Posted at 4:41PM on Oct 29th 2005 by RobOskins

52. Nice info! I'll use this for my own sites.

Posted at 4:41PM on Oct 29th 2005 by Peter

53. Hi Jason, Congratulations on your achievement. Maybe you should consider writing an ebook detailing your road to success. Ken

Posted at 4:41PM on Oct 29th 2005 by Ken

54. Hey, can you give us some other tips so that we can reach that $2,740 per day amount as well? Thanks!

Posted at 4:41PM on Oct 29th 2005 by Joe

55. With 103 bloggers on staff, is there any profit left after the paychecks are cut? An eBook about building the business would be great!

Posted at 4:41PM on Oct 29th 2005 by Rob

56. Not bad, but I think not everyone will work in this way

Posted at 4:41PM on Oct 29th 2005 by wow-gold

57. Congrats Jason, I'm wondering how much you earn this August. Hope they're still climbing. Oh yes, those horizontal second click are awesome :)

Posted at 4:41PM on Oct 29th 2005 by health life

58. Congratulations my web site http://www.adsense.com.tr.tc

Posted at 4:41PM on Oct 29th 2005 by dr.tokgoz

59. Wow, It's simply great. Do you have any tip for us? And best of luck for the September.

Posted at 4:41PM on Oct 29th 2005 by Shobhit Kumar Prabhakar

60. Congratulations Jason. I live in Japan.I�m a Japanese. When I read this article on the internet, I was very surprise.America is the vangurd. This method is grate. I would like to join a member of your big,little company. ?

Posted at 4:41PM on Oct 29th 2005 by Kazuhiro

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