That's a fair amount in my opinion, and is approximately the same as mine earnings. Nevertheless, I though you are earning more, for example 5 dollars per month, since you said you have got around 25 dollars at the moment. So, how long have you been participating in the AdSense program? I was approved on March 1st this year, and have earned 6.24 dollars since then. That's six months, so I've been earning a dollar per month Poor me

To be honest I do not actually remember when I started using Adsense. It was about the time when I started creating webpages, creating my webpresense - during which time, Adsense I think came into market, or atleast I think I came to know of.

Now that you asked, I went and checked the earning history and my oldest earning dates back to the month of September 2004. I earned about 0.17$. Soon, I did put it up at various places (as I said in some earlier post) like blogs and such, and until May 2006, I had earned around 19.5$. In one particular month I had got as much as 8$ and in another one, as low as 0.04$. But this was all when I did not actually concentrate on Adsense revenue.

I think of my Adsense earnings - my true start - somewhere around June 2006. This was the time when I focused on the Adsense I placed at my websites: www.WiseTome.com, www.blogcharm.com/splat, and k.mahesh.bhat.googlepages.com. The other two sites are nominal, and I do not get much traffic. But for WiseTome, I am getting traffic, and that alone has made around 2 dollars per month for me, for the past three months.

And do not worry about that 1$ per month. I would just worry about optimizing the ads - that is placing it at decent places and then forget about it altogether. Just go on putting content where your passion lies - that way, as you get more content and traffic, there will be a proportionate increase in revenue - or so I think.

Anyway, could you show me your site where you have put up the Adsense ads?

Hmmm, Iv'e been with them for well not sure how long, maybe 7/8 months and they have sent a check out sometime this month, just waiting for it.

The nice thing is, is that I'm aussie and it gets converted from US to AUD (which means more monies for me *evil smile*).

Ha ha. That way I should be more happy when I get the money. Because I live in India and it is supposed to get converted to Indian Rupees, and from the conversion rates that I know of, it is much greater that what it is for US Dollars to Ausie.

But it actually does not matter - one is after all getting the same value.

More or less yeah. It just makes you feel much better though doesn't it?

OK, now that you've checked when you had started, I can say that you are not earning very much - better to say, you are earning as much as me In about 20 month, you got 20 dollars. I guess that should be a normal amount for us not-a-very-big-and-visited-site owners...

Yes, it does make one feel better. I understand what you are saying. There is this drive in the place where I work to go abroad and work, and get loads of money back - so I know what you mean. Ha ha. I guess you are right when you look at it that way pyost.

Ahhh well every bit counts and as long as you don't get crazy the ads won't really hurt the site at all.

One good way of getting somewhere with it is to make one thing available on your website(s) that perhaps a large amount of users may really want.

For example a nice flash game, a usefull freeware program, a good structured discussion forum etc.

Google sitemaps is also a good idea to use, I found it quite helpful for my website and helps ensure things are going ok for the crawlers and such.

Ah! That is where I think I am stuck. I do not know. I do not think I can actually give something to users in that kind. I can give information on quite many things, and I think that is what I am doing with WiseTome.com. I have another project rolled up under my sleeve that I hope to create good content in terms of forums.

I do use Google Sitemaps. They show if my websites have problems that prevent spiders from crawling my site properly. Another nifty part of the Sitemaps is that it gives the set of keywords that the spider bots associates my site with - I think this is similar to the ones that are picked up by the Adsense bot, and I can actaully see if what I want comes into that set or not.