The Adsense Experiment
October 2nd 2008 23:50
Does this make any sense/cents?
Sure, you think to yourself - traffic up, page Impressions up, clicks up yet you're still earning less (if anything) even though your advertisers are the same.
So what's the story?
Make $$$$ with Google Adsense!
Earn up to $100 a week - yeah right!
Are they real?
Maybe some of you are earning more than a pittance.
I should add that like me - you probably don't blog for the money - and it's more about 'community' and there is little doubt that the adsense program is one of the most successful marketing programs ever created - but . . . and there's lots of but's
Of course webmasters are making money with Google Adsense - and that's fine - they're in the business of making making - just as most of us are - difference is most of aren't making enough to holiday in the Maldives and scamming the masses.
With that off my chest - I'm consoled by the thought that my Orble buddies are being ripped off just as much as anyone - and that in itself gives me pride in knowing that the people who continue to share their thoughts with me each day, each week, each month - are the 'real deal'.
And for that I thank you all.
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Comment by Carol Itoh
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Comment by Mr Nice Guy
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I guess if we had the nouse - we'd kick off our own version - but it's a little like taking on the Roman Empire really . . . then again I suppose even the Roman's imploded as a result of too much greed.
Cheers and thanks for dropping by
Comment by Lara M
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I wonder how many (if any) bloggers make *good* $?
Seems like it takes several hundreds of real clicks to bring in the $...
p/s...I wasn't paid to comment on this...
Comment by Mr Nice Guy
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So long as you continue to play nicely - I'm happy to have you guys always come visit and I'm sure vice versa.
Gold dreams don't cost any more than silver ones - so dream big I say.
LYW
Comment by James Rickard
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Check this out...
I've found out that unless you get "clicks" with traffic, that added traffic will do nothing but pull your rank down. It was kind of pointless for me to add categories, a blogroll, and increase traffic when the biggies, readers and link readers, stayed the same.
Comment by Mr Nice Guy
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sigh!
Comment by James Rickard
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Check this out...
There's a blast from the past. What was the name of the woman he pined about--Rosie Coletta, Coletti???? Something like that!!!! (I think)
Comment by Mr Nice Guy
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Heeeyyyyyy
Comment by Cibbuano
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I met up with one of Australia's prominent bloggers, he makes a decent income by blogging - but he works damn hard, and treats it like a science. He'll make small modifications, check his click rate, and make further modifications.
Comment by Mr Nice Guy
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I suppose the hidden truth behind making an income from Adsense is to be an Adsense exec.
Cheers
Comment by OnlineWriter
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If not, I don't really care. I don't post enough on topics that people really like and would be directed to this blog for anyway.
I AM starting up a website that has reviews on affiliate products and hopefully if I ever put some effort into it, I could make both Adsense and commission money from it....
Who knows.
Comment by katyzzz
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Comment by Glen Atwell
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I blog on Sport Talk, Gamer Herald and Computer Game and earn around $7 - $12 a week.
That can end up being $500 a year.
I'm a journalist full-time, and spend no more than an hour each day on all my blogs.
I reckon $500 a year is not a bad income from something I enjoy doing.
It pays the car registration!
Comment by Michaelie
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Comment by Tracy
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I know that I could be more shrewd and work out what makes my stats better and things like that, but my mind doesn't work that way.
But it's a fantastic Orble world, full of amazing people, fanatastic writers, fascinating topics and it's good fun. I rarely say no to fun.
Tracy
Comment by Mr Nice Guy
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It's a hard slog I grant you. And while I certainly think there is merit to what Cibby says - I would suggest alot of Orblers initially were enticed by the thought of earning 'up to $100 a week' - well most of us are certainly earning the 'up to' component.
Good luck with it.
Cheers and thanks for stopping by
Comment by Mr Nice Guy
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There's merryment in the masses.
It is nice to know that putting all the blusterous hype aside there is an outstanding mix of well informed/entertaining and genuine souls out there - who frankly just enjoy a sense of community.
It's always a pleasure
Comment by Mr Nice Guy
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There is no doubt that it does pay the rego - multiple your earnings by the hundreds of thousands who cut their cake with Google and you can understand why they are in a position to offer their latest folly of $10,000,000 or it's 10 to the 100th project - where you submit an idea to help the world (that's certianly admirable) - but in true Google form - what do you actually get for it - nought - just good karma brother.
Google get the plaudits - the publicity and decide on the projects which get the funding (see here there's bound to be a buck in it for them) and you get a pat on the back and a bit of feel good.
Works for me - how about you?
Cheers
Comment by Mr Nice Guy
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It's people like you that keep people like me coming back.
As I always say - it's nice to know nice people.
Comment by Mr Nice Guy
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I'm with you there on so many levels.
Cheers
Comment by Tracy
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Comment by Lady Henrietta Muddling
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3 Years on Orble @ $80/mth for BigPond connection. That would make it about minus $2,880.
Oops, I forgot I'm on ADSL. And didn't count the monthly phone bill.
Let's round it off to minus $5000.
I'm doing alright, I reckon.
Google is a great search engine.
Comment by Morgan Bell
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the only benefit with blogging is getting feedback on your writing from other writers and keeping up to date on the news from reading the blogs of others
as much as i like Orble i think its pretty dishonest advertising it on Seek.com as a paying job with a weekly income . . . im sure if they were upfront and said it pays 20 cents a week they wouldnt have so many disgruntled people abandoning their blogs
now that ive had my little gripe im gunna go write some more posts! haha
blogging is like having an abusive husband that is impossible to leave
Comment by Mr Nice Guy
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You're 100% right. They get you no matter what! And of course you know how closely connected the big carriers and Google are.
Surely, it's not as if they pay Google to ensure their product lines are advanced now . . . huh . . . surely . . .
Cheers
Comment by Mr Nice Guy
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I'm still waiting on that Orbler whose making $100 a week to drop us all a line.
As for advertising on seek.com - I agree wholeheartedly.
As I said before - don't be fooled - the only one's making real money are Google and the webmasters - after all they have how many thousand members working for them making $ for them each day.
. . . and while I can't really concur with the abusive husband scenario - I kinda know where you're coming from.
Stay well
Comment by Mr Nice Guy
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I'm still waiting on that Orbler whose making $100 a week to drop us all a line.
As for advertising on seek.com - I agree wholeheartedly.
As I said before - don't be fooled - the only one's making real money are Google and the webmasters - after all they have how many thousand members working for them making $ for them each day.
. . . and while I can't really concur with the abusive husband scenario - I kinda know where you're coming from.
Stay well
Comment by Mr Nice Guy
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I guess you have to have the traffic to enable you to make money . . . sure . . . perhaps you should sign up to the Orble mentor programme - or am I perpetrating something now that I'm advocating against?
Good luck
Comment by Tracy
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Hi Morgan: as much as i like Orble i think its pretty dishonest advertising it on Seek.com as a paying job with a weekly income . . . .
I was extremely disappointed to learn that I wasn't going to make the $40 a week as they advertised.
I soon learnt that I love the community and chose to stay. It is well-run, lots of fun with many interesting topics as well as the personal writing challenges, but I would've liked to have known the full truth in the beginning.
The fact that we're all still here after so long says something
Tracy
Comment by James Rickard
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Check this out...
Comment by jon
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Blog Adviser
To get search engine traffic you need to write about topics which people are going to search for. There is lots of good advice on Blog Adviser on how to go about this.
As a benchmark the average for Orble blog earns just over $5.00 per 1000 page views which is much more than the industry average which would be around $1.50. This is because Orble is set up to be search engine friendly and gets more SE traffic.
Quite a few Orble bloggers make more than $100 per week, it's not actually that hard if you are completely mercenary about it. As Cibby says, it's hard work. You can't just write about whatever you feel like and expect to do well revenue wise.
Having said all that it's great that people enjoy blogging on Orble depsite the bad pay
Comment by Jarrah
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You think that someone is going to pay you good money for your opinionated rants???
You have to research and include keywords and interest pieces that are relevant to web surfers.
I've owned a couple of serious websites and its hard work, you have to put the time in, I can tell you right now that Orble is a much easier and faster way.
The Vote count means absolute zero, because there arnt even many people on Orble. Most of my visitors and anyone making money is coming from Google or other links.
Also, there are about a thousand other affiliate advertisers and they all pay less than Google, they haven't cornered the market, there's hundreds of them!
However, I do agree with the advertising in Seek to be a bit of a low shot.
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Comment by Mountain Fog
speaking for myself, I am overwhelmed by the unexpected rate of income I currently command... at $0-000005 cents per day, who could posibly find a complaint?
yes, I think the Seek.com adverts were fairly borderline!
cheers
fog
Comment by anonymous
THEN, I started reading the blogs here and realised what a great community with ample materials for reading! Woohoo!!
And started blogging again after initially abandoning it for three weeks. I think most bloggers blog because they enjoy it more than they do counting adsense revenue.
Nice way of putting it!
Comment by anonymous
Simple math would tell you it's idealistic to expect getting rich from google adsense. I did not add adsense when I started my blog here for the same reason. "Scam alert! Scam alert!" me thinks.
THEN, I started reading the blogs here and realised what a great community with ample materials for reading! Woohoo!!
And started blogging again after initially abandoning it for three weeks. I think most bloggers blog because they enjoy it more than they do counting adsense revenue.
Nice way of putting it!
By the way, shameless promotion: www.filmsi.com
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Comment by Mr Nice Guy
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You're spot on.
It's the reason too - that so many are 'weeded' out so quickly from the network.
It would be nice if those who have perpetrated (and continue to perpetrate the exaggeration) would come clean.
I suspect this isn't going to happen though.
Always a pleasure.
Comment by Mr Nice Guy
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Spend it wisely.
Cheers
Comment by Mr Nice Guy
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Thanks for the tips.
Comment by Mr Nice Guy
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Opinionated rants - I guess enough journo's, political and sharemarket commentators do well out of exactly the same - so I guess the secret lies in fooling the masses
I think we are all in agreement about seek.com though - I wonder who is responsible for these ads and whose vested interests are being taken care of?
Cheers buddy
Comment by Mr Nice Guy
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It certainly is a great social outlet - and it's the people and characters that keep you coming back.
Thanks for dropping by.
Comment by Mr Nice Guy
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Good to hear from you.
Seek is borderline - it continues to amaze me that seek haven't cottoned onto exactly what this is about.
Tell me, what are you going to squander your 'hard earned' on?
Stay well fella
Comment by Mr Nice Guy
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Bloggers blog - and yes - Orble and Orbleans aren't a bad lot when it's all said and done.
Comment by Mr Nice Guy
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Expect nothing and everything else is a bonus huh!
That's why it's disappointing to have adverts placed in markets such as seek.com leading people down the garden path.
Keep at it.
Cheers
Comment by Mountain Fog
Well MNG,
I just might have enough, at the end of two years, to buy a paper bag of humbugs... oh wait on, that's right, I have to wait tillI have earned $100-...ok so, I'll alter that last statemen to... in 10 to 12 years time, I'll buy a bag of humbugs, by then that is what they'll cost at Coles, "your mortuary fresh food people" store!
cheers
fog
Comment by Jarrah
Back to the Eighties
Studying your art for years and heavily researching your topics is what gets you paid for your opinion.
Not merely spurting your foremost thought onto the page.
Man, I see movie reviews on here that are about 3000 words! There are scripts that a smaller than that.
Comment by Mr Nice Guy
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Humbugs or slate pencils - perhaps black cats or dare I suggest iquorice blocks - oohh - now I've just gone silly haven't I?
Yep - keep savin'
Comment by Mr Nice Guy
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It's called passion I guess.
Mind you there's a lot of 'spurting' that earns alot of $ simply by knowing the angles - it's so often a case of what you know - on more than just one level when it comes to the www.
Cheers