Google adsense is very useful software developed by google .
I wanted to share a little bit of luck that I’ve had with a website and making money from adsense. I’m not going to share the site for obvious reasons but I’ll share the stats with you. Hopefully it will give people some insight into what kind of money you can expect to earn if you plan to go the adsense monetization route.
The site is just a single page where users can play a game. The game isn’t unique, it’s actually a game that people have been playing for a long time and the rights don’t belong to anyone. There is a section on how to play, and a section on strategy just to give the site a little bit of content, but I haven’t changed it in months.
SEO Right now it’s on the first page of the yahoo and bing when just the name of the game is queried. On google, it’s on the first page but only for terms like "play [game]" but not just the game name itself. I have done no link-building or SEO to date(edit: except naming the site play[game]online.com), so it’s pretty much dumb luck that it’s gotten to where it has. Funny story, I actually just threw the site up a couple of years ago using open source code, and let it sit without promoting at all. After the year was up, I let it expire and hadn’t been paying attention to it at all. About a month after it expired, I looked at my adsense account and noticed that about 5 months prior it started generating a minute bit of money. One month was like$2 bucks, then$5 the next, then$15. Adsense doesn’t pay me out until I reach$100, so I had no idea. I went back and bought the domain again as soon as I realized, and it continued to climb until it got where it is today.
$ It now makes between$350 and$520 a month. December was great I’m guessing because everyone was shopping for Christmas and clicking on ads, and that’s when I topped out at 520. It slumped back down to$430 in January.
Traffic Here is a snapshot of the google analytics over the past month: https://imgur.com/AAcNBBC
Hopefully this will provide some context on the kind of traffic you need to make money using adsense for those interested in going that route. Feel free to ask any questions and I would be glad to hear of strategies for making even more money. I feel like with 250k pageviews I ought to be making more than 400-500 per month, but I’m really not sure.