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$2000 a month? Find a large quantity of text that isn't on the Web that people might search for, put it online, and put AdSense ads on it.
by aaronsw 16y ago
$2000 a month? Find a large quantity of text that isn't on the Web that people might search for, put it online, and put AdSense ads on it.
- greyman 16y agoYou mean like scanning some old obscure books with expired copyright?
- zackattack 16y agoHaha. Aaron, how do you figure out these kinds of things (popular searches)? I know there's the Google search keyword tool.
- greyman 16y agoYes, with the keyword tools. The real issue is how do you find large amount of text which isn't on the web...
- zackattack 16y agoGive me an example of some searches you would do?
- ddemchuk 16y agoI really hope you're kidding...I would venture a guess that there are no more than a handful of people in the world making more than $100/month in adsense, even with a lot of content sites
- _delirium 16y agoI don't know about $2k, but $100 isn't a high threshold at all. There are plenty of areas where $10+ CPM is the norm, and plenty of people in those areas run 10k-visitors-per-month sites.
- prawn 16y agoI'm smallfry and do $3-4k/month through AdSense for about 10 minutes/week effort tops from a handful of sites.
- ddemchuk 16y agoWell you sir would then be a member of that handful. The income on the Adsense network is just like the income distribution of America: 1% control 80%.
- prawn 16y agoI think you're underestimating the number of people who'd be doing OK out of it. You said, "I would venture a guess that there are no more than a handful of people in the world making more than $100/month." A handful would be fewer than a dozen, surely? There'd be thousands making more than $100/month. Actually, there'd be thousands making more than $10k/month IMO.
- ddemchuk 16y agomeh, I guess my idea of what I thought a handful of people meant was lower than everyone elses opinion. By handful, I mean a small percentage. Since there are so many publishers on Adsense, a small percentage of that is still a good amount of people.
- prawn 16y agoSaying "small percentage" would've removed that ambiguity. Now, regardless, the majority trying AdSense make bugger all because they're clowns, half-arsed, give up early, don't know what they're doing, etc. Anyone with either some luck or a half-decent plan, some ability and persistence can build up some passive income or at least give it a shot for free.
- axod 16y agoBear in mind that people earning a lot on adSense don't usually talk about it much. (I've been making a living off adSense for quite some years now).
- kljensen 16y agoVery very skeptical it's that easy. $2k/mo in AdSense is a TON of traffic. So, unless these are celebrity diaries, unlikely.