How Long Does It Take To Make $5 From AdSense?
Have you ever wonder how many webmasters make money online with Google AdSense? Sometimes, it looks almost too easy - place some Google ads on a blog and watch the money roll in. In reality, it doesn’t quite work this way. As a matter of fact, if the stats I got are any indication, very few people make any money online.
For the past month and a half, I have to making use of Google AdSense’s referral program to generate additional affiliate income. Google’s affiliate program gives you $5 once the site you referred makes $5 in AdSense earnings. They have 180 days to make this $5. If they don’t do it within 180 days of signing up, you lose out on your $5 finder’s fee.
The Sobering Stats
So far, I have signed up 135 websites to Google AdSense, which works out to about three new sign ups per day. Out of the 135 sites, only three has made the $5 conversion threshold. That’s really sad when you think about it. Out of 135 sites, 132 haven’t even made $5 yet.
Luckily, Google does give 180 days for these sites to make their $5 so I can be paid. As the months goes by, all the sites should cross the $5 barrier. At least that’s what I’m hoping for. Unless the site shuts down, I cannot see how it is possible to not make $5 from AdSense in six months. My feeling is these sites will convert. It just may take a bit of time.
How Long Did It Take You To Make $5?
Google AdSense referrals can add some nice online pocket change. Each sign up is worth $5 to me. At three signs up per day, that’s a potential $450 extra per month. At first, I thought this wouldn’t be a money maker because I figured everyone and their dog had signed up to Google. But the fact that I’m getting three new sign ups per day would seem to indicate that Google hasn’t taken over the world yet. I’ll keep you posted on future progress.
In the mean time, I want to know; how long did it took you to make your first $5 with Google AdSense? Hopefully, it was less than 180 days.
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Well, my first day in adsense i get like 0.1 dollars, for me take like 1 week for got 5 dollars
It is interesting reading all these comment of bloggers who aren’t doing very well with Google Adsense. Secondly, it is even more interesting to discover the type of blogs being authored and the kind of traffic being pulled in. I am extremely successful using Google Adsense. The main trick (if you even want to call it that) is to target people who don’t know what the program is and incorporate the ads into your site as if it were part of your own content, reference and navigation. Making money online using Google Adsense is not that difficult at all. You have to know which ads generate the most money per click and know how to attract the right people who will click them. It’s not rocket science. Good luck to everyone… I really want to see more people find success with this program.
Before subscribing to Google AdSense, I have understudied my husband and have gotten the secret of C.O.T.I (Content + Optimization + Traffic = Income).
So, when I made $4.22 on my first day, I was not surprised at all. It didn’t take me time to cross the $145 first Check. from there I grew to over $300 monthly.
When did they change it? It used to be you had to make $100 to get the commission.
It never did change. You still have to make $100 before they cut you a check.
I’m with Steve on this one, as I understood the program, you would only get credit for a signup once the person reached $100. If I had known it was only $5, I would have been sending people their way sooner…
Sorry Steve I thought you were talking about the commission checks… I had money on my mind, but the other way to make it using Adsense.
I am not sure about the other.
Marc,
you need to set up a special school of AdSense to make any meaningful income from those referrals you send Google’s way.
Otherwise, your recruitment would be unfruitful, maybe much worse than John’s.
It took me about a month to make my first $5. Everyone can get to where they make a decent income if they just keep working at it. What’s difficult is continuing to work when the money isn’t coming in. Keep working and it starts coming.
I run CrazyEgg on my blog and it shows that I have much more clicks then what Adsense register as valid… and, of cause, i dont click my ads…
That is obvious friend. Its not only your self-clicks that are invalid (in fact yours are illegal). many mischievous clicks from others may also be declared invalid by Google.
MyBlogLog widgets also reveal this facts.
The best Adsense day so far for me I made $15. I signed up about two months ago.
A decent Google AdSense income is a function of quality content and traffic. This is where many bloggers miss it.
Those crowd you desire are not coming for the ads. It’s the aroma of your content that brought them to the blogging canteen. If they now decide to sit down to ‘order’ for an AdSense meal, that is great for you.
Rushing to paste Google Ads on your 5-day old blog with 10 pages of content in a month, is asking too much from Google AdSense income at the end of your first month.
I would put myself within the 30 day category. I earn on average about a $1 a day at best.
Being that my blog is less than 30 days old the other programs I have to wait for.
I have yet to enroll users into the program to date. Great work on doing such John
It took me a few hours to make my first $5. I launched my site last week, and within a few hours of launch, my account had reached just under $6 (That was using one block of Adsense text ads in the right column of every page).
Maybe many people who have signed up haven’t put Adsense on their site(s) yet. It took me two years to get Adsense added to one of my Web sites.
I think you get that because you have plenty of sites….You leverage your big number of sites…so that you get bigger dollar
Hi Zaki.
I do have a lot of sites, but Adsense is only on one of those sites.
Zaki,
don’t miss the point of Jamie Harrop. His site was richly nurtured with content for TWO GOOD YEARS before applying and pasting Google AdSense.
It is natural for him to get even more than 100 dollars on his first day. One man called Joel Comm woke up from slumber on one day, and began to make over 900 dollars daily after years of wallowing in AdSense ignorance.
Follow the principle and you would smile home. Google AdSense is not a ‘get-rich-quick’ system.
Not boasting, but it took me not more than a day to make my first 5 dollars. All I had to do was good research for my blog contents & few SEO tweakings.
That’s pretty amazing — I say, good for you!
I make about 50 cents a day so I made my first $5 in 10 days.
I make more money from Firefox installs than regular text ads.
It can be a little frustrating, but long-term cumulative revenue can be rewarding, too.
I’ve been blogging for about 150 days and I’m coming up to $150 from Adsence. A dollar a day is hardly anything but given the normal ‘learning curve’ I’d say I’ve done pretty well.
congratulations..Well done…You’re among the rare breed…
zaki,
what Matt Jones need is a rare optimization and content, then he would break the logjam of $1 per day earnings.
Yeah, looks like your doing relatively well with AdSense, good for you!
lol to be honest I made my first $5 in like 6 hours after I implemented the code.
John I have a question. Isn’t changing the referral code against Google Adsense TOS?
You have redefined your adsense referrals to johnchow.com/go/adsense.php by using a php redirect.
Is not that against adsense TOS?
Maybe for the rest of us but John has his connections…
Well, in the beginning it went very slow. It still does. I think I reached 5$ after 2 months. Now I have just crossed 20$
Still going slow, but it sure has incresed!
Jakob,
It would increase the more with increased content and good optimization.
I think it took me a week or two to pass the $5 mark but since then coming across five bucks has become much much easier. I suppose for some it could be mere hours for their first $5 if their site is already established but for those just starting it off it can be discouraging not seeing any income.
Sure Jeff,
input determines output.
About 10 months, but 3 months online :).
I guess many of those 135 webmasters don’t have a website yet or are too lazy to place the ads on their website
Yeah/….you’re right…
It’s kinda improsible 135 blogs/sites could not achieve that within 180 days….
Zaki,
don’t be dreamer.
Of the 300,000 individual publishers with Google AdSense, less than 3,000 (that is, 1%) are earning 100 per month.
That is the bitter truth of 99% ’sleeping bloggers’ on the net.
It looks like I’m the odd man out. My old blog (just bought my domain and server Friday, new blog isn’t where I want it to be yet) was almost a month old and I only made $.62 in that time. Traffic was really low. Would love to see how everyone else on here got their traffic up high enough to get those clicks.
“… traffic was really low, …”
Desty, you have touched the heart of the matter. unique content and goos SEO would drive traffic for you in 3 weeks.
Hard work and persistence would increase your earnings to the point that you yourself would be surprised.
Wow. Thats a harsh reality. I wonder was the traffic you actually need to generate to break the $5 threshold.
Since I launched my blog last week, it has been averaging 15-30 visitors a day, and I broke the $5 amount within a few hours.
The income per click is the real useful figure here. I’ve been averaging 80 cents per click. I would be interested to hear whether this is a typical amount or not (I’m not sure, because I’ve only been using Adsense for a week).
$.80 per click seems really high. I guess having “entrepreneur” ads pay a lot more than ads centered around pets.
It would seem that way, at least during the short time I have been using Adsense.
Having said that, I’d be willing to wager that the percentage of dog breeders who click your ads is much higher than the percentage of entrepreneurs who click my or other entrepreneur blog ads. That’s because most Internet entrepreneurs will be somewhat Adsense blind (Adsense ads are so common, people who use the Internet on a regular occasion tend not to see them so they don’t click them).
I would imagine dog breeders would be much less Internet savvy, and therefore won’t be as blind to the Adsense ads.
I have momments where my AdSense showed more clicks than cents. Not sure how that works out…
Jamie,
to tell you the truth, that is a rare figure, and it is because you belong to a high CPC niche.
The norm is between 10 to 35 cents. 80 cents is on the high side and it is for those special niche groups.
That’s really interesting, Philomena.
For what it’s worth, my CPC value has now dropped to 66 cents on average, but it varies greatly.
For example, yesterday I had just one click which was worth 15 cents. But on Thursday I had one click which was worth $1.15
To be honest, I was expecting my blog to receive quite a low CPC, because I thought discussions regarding Internet marketing and being an entrepreneur was quite a common market, which I thought in turn would result in a low CPC. It seems I was wrong, but I’m not complaining.
I was making $2-3 per day. Unfortunately Google stated that my blog was generating invalid links and so they disabled my account forever. I’ve never got a detailed explanation about this, so basically I had to trust them.
http://www.lucafiligheddu.com/2007/06/google-adsense-shame.html
Anyway, at the beginning, it took about 30 days to make the first $5.
I would say it took me about 1 month to make my first $5 since my traffic was pretty low. Now that I have built up some traffic and toyed around with adsense placements, I’ve had some $6 days
Luca: Google also disabled my account for the same reason, but I wrote to them and explained my story–and they reinstated my account. So there is hope.
I have always said that Google is a benevolent Giant.
Luca: The reason for disabling your account is not because of how much you make per day, it is because of prevalent invalid clicks.
If it persist into forming a trend, Google is fast to axe that trend by disabling your account.
I have had $32 days from legitimate clicks before.
Congrats Gdog, u are one of the lucky ones who went through the valley of the shadow of AdSense death and came out to tell the story of Google’s mercy.
Try and explain what ever is the truth…
I’ve been also accused for some invalid activities….
But luckily i managed to get it back…
I just checked and it took me exactly 7 days to reach the five dollar mark. Google was very bad to me in the beginning and it actually took me nine months to reach the hundred dollar mark.
Yep, it took me 13 months to reach the $100 mark.
It should be a bit faster… but I don’t know.