How Much Money Can You Make With Adsense?

The Million Dollar Question:

How much money can you make with Adsense?
Well... That's a good question. It's an honest question. It's the question we all have - and is the whole reason we make these Adsense blogs that are usually very lame and boring. I'm still not sure if it's more boring to read or create properly set-up Adsense niche blogs.

I realize that I’ve not been updating this how to make money with Adsense blog. I’ve been quite busy actually making money with Adsense that I haven’t gotten around to keeping this thing updated. But I figured today is a good day for some Adsense news.

Just a few short months ago, I was only making $100 or so from Adsense. Most of my online income was coming from Amazon and eBay referrals, and beauty niche-related ebooks that I was selling (well, ok, I'm still selling them and they're still doing well!) Chitika was pulling in a few dollars each month, too. I was making a good $4000 from all of these things combined. I was living part time in Brazil and part time in Colorado, so it was enough. If I had stayed in Brazil the entire year it would have been a nice living there! For me, it was a "full time" income, but it was about to get a lot better for me.

For 2 years, I thought I was going nowhere fast as I explained on my make money at home blog. I had been building literally hundreds and hundreds of niche blogs from anything like fitness-related topics to sports car modification and everything in between. At first, I was choosing niches out of my league, but eventually I caught on. I probably wasted a year with niches that were too difficult for me and ended up with a bunch of good farms and 2nd tiers rather than well ranking Adsense blogs. At least I got something out of it.

The next niches I chose seemed to be easy enough - they weren't too competitive and I thought I was optimizing them as per Grizzly's advice. I got them lots of backlinks with proper anchor text... I wrote some long-winded posts on the topics such as "how to make money with adsense" that were a bit more competitive. I was going through all the motions consistently nearly everyday. If I got tired of trying to make money with Adsense, I'd take a break for a day or 2, but after that I'd be back at it again plugging away with original content, new backlinks, and keyword research. Honestly, I was starting to get disappointed with all the time I was investing in trying to make money online with Adsense and wasn't getting much at all in return.

Apparently, patience really is a virtue because I was about to get a surprise - a pleasant surprise from Adsense.

Back to the topic of how much money can you make with Adsense...

Before I released my "Nomad's Guide to Make Money Online" e-book, within a period of 3 months, my Adsense income (not including the other monetization sources) increased to about $8000. A bunch of my blogs (especially the related ones and the ones that were about 4-5 months old since being indexed) started ranking on page 1 of Google and as a result, people started clicking on the Adsense ads. Maybe these niche blogs reached some threshold with Google or maybe a bunch of other peoples' sites got sandboxed... I have no idea what it was. All I know is that I was indeed doing it right and my patience and ability to engage in the daily blog building grind for 2 years has paid off.

I have a couple theories as to how my Adsense revenue increased so quickly.

1.) I had consistently been combing through my Adsense blogs and fluffing them up with a bit more content - especially if their keyword phrases were related to competitive keywords. Google seems to be favoring more (not necessarily better, mind you!) content. The content needs to be decent and convincing, but you don't need to be a good writer to make niche blogs. Like backlinks, Google seems to favor a higher quantity of content. For the long term, this is what you need to be doing.
I have one of those very portable 8.9" laptops and I basically carry it everywhere with me. When I had a moment of free time and happened to be thinking about a particular niche, I would open up the word processor and write a quick post for whatever the topic and keywords were. Then later, I'd post it on the blog. If I didn't have my computer with me, I'd sometimes write down notes on a piece of paper.

2.) I learned the art of getting very scattered backlinks from all sorts of different sources. I was writing articles like crazy and submitting them to article submission sites, I was writing posts and submitting them to Linkvana, I was making massive amounts of farms on different platforms and placing one backlink per post, I was finding some good ".edu" backlinks (I might make a post about this strategy in the near future if I feel the urge), and I was using the PR leverage that some of my older 3rd tier blogs (Adsense and non-Adsense) had by placing backlinks on those... I was posting YouTube videos with the link on the side... For those of you who are familiar with the "Bike Shed" as mentioned by Grizzly, I was utilizing a resource in there...

Edit to add: I recently made a make money at home with backlinks post on my Make Money at Home blog and it includes ".edu" backlinks and a couple other unconventional ideas.

The snowball got big enough eventually and you know the rest! Like I have been saying, this is hard work and it takes time, but it only works if you stick with it! This is how to make money with Adsense! It may be simple and replicable, but it's not easy. The answer to the question: how much money can you make with adsense depends on how much work and persistence you put into it.

By the way, that's my son Alex in the picture. I was getting tired of putting "Adsense" pictures up, haha! We visited Dinosaur Ridge in Morrison, Colorado last weekend and he was doing a bit of rock climbing! :)