Since this site sells AdSense Ready WordPress Themes with Search Engine Optimized code that are meant to increase AdSense revenue for those trying to make money online, this page will be used to list my AdSense revenue and that of any customers who would like to share their experience with using my AdSense themes to make money online.
I’ve been using my AdSense Ready Themes for years and at 45 Year Old Millionaire Make Money Online site where since June 2008 (back dated to Jan 2008) I’ve been publishing my Affiliate Revenue Reports which includes AdSense revenue.
Make Money Online Affiliate Income
You can see my affiliate earnings have been as follows (tracked quarterly):
1st Quarter 2008 : $3,259.08
2nd Quarter 2008 : $4,395.65
3rd Quarter 2008 : $11,662.10
4th Quarter 2008 : $14,673.35
1st Quarter 2009 : $10,954.06
2nd Quarter 2009 : $8,877.47
3rd Quarter 2009 : $11,575.06
4th Quarter 2009 : $14,337.16
1st Quarter 2010 : $15,128.73
2nd Quarter 2010 : $19,641.62
3rd Quarter 2010 : $13,847.58
4th Quarter 2010 : $15,014.22
1st Quarter 2011 : $14,574.60
2nd Quarter 2011 : $16,020.03
Make Money Online AdSense Income
Of this AdSense revenue is as follows
2008 AdSense Income
Jan 31st 2008 Revenue : $1,080.94
Feb 29th 2008 Revenue : $904.87
March 31st 2008 Revenue : $1,244.01
April 30th 2008 Revenue : $1,328.54
May 31st 2008 Revenue : $1,125.14
June 30th 2008 Revenue : $1,205.94
July 31st 2008 Revenue : $1,638.25
Aug 31st 2008 Revenue : $1,924.12
Sept 30th 2008 Revenue : $1,321.53
Oct 30th 2008 Revenue : $1,186.94
Nov 30th 2008 Revenue : $1,277.21
Dec 31st 2008 Revenue : $1,316.19
AdSense Income 2008 : $15,554
2009 AdSense Income
Jan 31st 2009 Revenue : $1,336.60
Feb 28th 2009 Revenue : $1,229.57
March 31st 2009 Revenue : $1,256.75
April 30th 2009 Revenue : $1,093.39
May 31st 2009 Revenue : $1,076.01
June 30th 2009 Revenue : $1,024.66
AdSense changed payments to GBP £, using xe.com for conversion (not 100% accurate).
July 31st 2009 Revenue : £731.21 : $1,188.22
August 31st 2009 Revenue : £718.59 : $1,144.25
September 30th 2009 Revenue : £673.07 : $1,041.66
October 31st 2009 Revenue : £742.48 : $1,203.56
November 30th 2009 Revenue : £958.93 : $1,552.46
December 31st 2009 Revenue : £693.14 : $1,084.86
AdSense Income 2009 : $14,232
2010 AdSense Income
Jan 31st 2010 Revenue : £698.94 : $1,121.45
Feb 28th 2010 Revenue : £716.89 : $1,150.25
March 31st 2010 Revenue : £1,181.99 : $1,896.45
April 30th 2010 Revenue : £3,387.56 : $5,435.19
May 31st 2010 Revenue : £2,190.95 : $3,515.28
June 30th 2010 Revenue : £618.58 : $992.446
July 31st 2010 Revenue : £750.44 : $1,204.00
August 31st 2010 Revenue : £840.35 : $1,348.25
September 30th 2010 Revenue : £1,044.55 : $1,675.80
October 31st 2010 Revenue : £1,295.46 : $2,078.34
November 30th 2010 Revenue : £1,627.66 : $2,686.44
December 31st 2010 Revenue : £1,638.26 : $2,703.95
AdSense Income 2010 : $25,808
2011 AdSense Income
Jan 31st 2011 Revenue : £1,312.25 : $2,166.00
Feb 28th 2011 Revenue : £1,325.11 : $2,187.23
March 31st 2011 Revenue : £1,176.33 : $1,941.65
April 30th 2011 Revenue : £1,163.50 : $1,920.38
May 31st 2011 Revenue : £1,692.52 : $2,697.94
June 30th 2011 Revenue : £1,138.04 : $1,813.90
July 31st 2011 Revenue : £882.70 : $1,385.06
August 31st 2011 Revenue : £906.26 : $1,422.15
September 30th 2011 Revenue : £910.08 : $1,407.55
October 31st 2011 Revenue : £873.19 : $1,343.61
November 30th 2011 Revenue : £977.39 : $1,503.94
December 31st 2011 Revenue : £1,030.11 : $1,585.10
AdSense Income 2011 : $21,374.51
How I Make This AdSense Income
About 95% of this revenue is from sites running my WordPress with AdSense and SEO themes that are available for sale on this site.
AdSense income has had a few ups and downs, but relatively stable, mainly because I improved some sites and then lost AdSense revenue from one important site (free recipe site was penalised in Google) and the lost site canceled out the gains!
I originally created most of the sites that I run the themes on to support my SEO business (I make a lot more money than this selling SEO services) and so AdSense and affiliate revenue isn’t something I have to live from (if I lost all my sites tomorrow I’d be fine money wise). So my affiliate/AdSense type sites are more a hobby than part of a big business plan. That being said I am a very experienced SEO consultant and so earning about $50,000 a year from Affiliate/AdSense type income isn’t easy (takes serious effort to make a lot of money online).
Good news is the hardest part I had at first was SEOing my sites, it took about two years to learn enough about SEO to be able to come close to creating a reasonably well optimised website and if you use one of my AdSense/SEO themes not only do you get AdSense automatically added to very good places of the WordPress theme you also get years of SEO experience in the coding without having to pay a small fortune for an SEO consultant like me.
Would really like to see how my SEO AdSense themes have helped customers improve their search engine listings and AdSense revenue. I only charge $25 a theme ($70 for the best theme, Stallion WordPress SEO Theme) and because I consider this site a hobby and not some part of a global empire I’m trying to build (too lazy for that sort of thing) I’m not looking to make a lot of money selling the themes: if you paid me to SEO a WordPress theme like I’ve SEO’d themes I’d charge about $3,000 a time. I make about 3 sales a day from this site, so make about $20,000 a year after PayPal/Clickbank fees. Hmm, that’s not bad actually considering how little time this site takes 
David Law
WordPress SEO and Making Money Online
Website - WordPress SEO
42 responses to Make Money Online : AdSense Income
Wow,
I am amazed that the knowledge you have of SEO has made you less money with adsense than my single Site Build it site has made.
interesting and thank you very much for the openness of your info.
Rick
Hi i have been using your theme with great success!
Unfortunately it may have been a little successful as google have close my ad sense account as i had a hell of a lot of traffic hit it.Which now i have to take action to get the account back up and running hopefully without to much problem.
I have also had a hosting issue with 3 different hosts which they say caused a server loading which in turns seems to have my site disconnected.
I hope someone out there can shed some light on these problems for me.
Keep up the great work!
Andrew
Make Money Online : AdSense Income
AdSense Account Banned for Auto blogging
I suppose in some respects it’s a good problem to have, better than having no traffic and making no money.
I’ve not fallen so foul of the AdSense TOS to have my account banned, but I’ve had several domains removed from the AdSense program (usually content issues), but have dozens of domains with unique content that are highly unlikely to cause an issue with AdSense.
So for my AdSense use it’s a case of 90%+ high quality sites, and below 10% not so good sites (mostly test sites: testing auto-blogging, testing thin affiliate sites etc…).
If all I did was thin affiliate sites, autoblogs and other content that Google Search don’t like, I’d be worried about my AdSense account since AdSense is owned by Google.
This domains been removed from the AdSense program because the domain name uses AdSense within it, it’s their trademark and they don’t like it
I understand it’s really difficult to get an AdSense account reinstated.
Regarding hosting, might be time to look at a dedicated server. I see you are using autoblogging, it’s a resource hog and if you have a lot of them (a lot of traffic suggests you do) they are going to kill a cheap hosts resources (you get what you pay for).
I’m thinking about adding a custom ad system to Talian, along the lines of the AdSense setup, but the user pastes in the ad code from various ad programs. So you could have an Amazon ad on the sidebar, Chitika ad floating to the left/right of the main content and so on. Would make loosing an AdSense account easier to deal with (use other ad programs with Talian), though in my experience no other advertising platform matches AdSense.
David
Make Money Online : AdSense Income
Hi David,
When will you be looking to have the Amazon ads and the Chitika ads up and running in the talian theme?
As i think also myself it will be a task to get the adsense reinstated but i am going to give it my best shot! funny enough as it may seem the adsense was a good earner as i have no products of my own.
If you have any other good afilliate or advertising site that i may be able to use please advise me.
Cheers
Andrew
Make Money Online : AdSense Income
Haven’t started adding Chitika and Amazon yet, I’ve decided to add a custom ad option first where the user can add any add they want in the same sort of locations you see the AdSense ads.
You could use this option to add Chitika and Amazon ads (almost any ad system) by copying and pasting full ads.
I was hoping to get the next release of Talian out for Christmas, but been really busy, so probably in the New Year: no promises on the exact date as want to start selling Talian via Clickbank (so affiliates can promote Talian) when I do the next update as well.
After that release will probably add other ad systems in their own right, so there’s an easy setup option for those just wanting one ad system quickly without having to copy and paste ads: so like AdSense and Clickbank where you add your ID/username once and you are done.
David
Make Money Online : AdSense Income
Great, Please let me know when you have the new year version ready. Kinda lost my mojo after the adsense collapse.
Cheers
Andrew
PS: the notify me of followup comments via e-mail is not working.
Hi,
I used Taliam theme for my blog. I entered my Google Adsense ID to replace the existing one that comes with the theme. However, the adsense ads did not show, it showed the public org’s ad for that spot. Please help!
See these two comments on Google AdSense public service ads : Your sites suffering from a combination of Public Service ads and not showing ads on all AdSense ad blocks and Is the issue the Google AdSense public service ads?
David
I purchased the Talian theme and the site (above) went live around 3 months ago. Although the number of daily visits are increasing, I have yet to make any money from the site.
There are approximately 25 sites linking to the new site including links from my other theme related site the North Cornwall Directory.
What can you suggest I do to improve the situation?
Mark Bowles
AdSense wise you’ve removed the ads that make most money by far. Those are the content ad units from the main content (the AdSense ad that floats to the right of the content) and the sidebar content ad unit that by default is 160px by 600px and by default is found on the right menu at the top.
On similar themed sites to yours I’m seeing an AdSense CTR of around 5% with my usual AdSense setup. I’d be surprised if your site even breaks 1% CTR. The search/link AdSense ad units perform poorly because they take two clicks to make you money.
SEO wise your articles aren’t all SEO’d particularly well. Take your Padstow article:
What SERPs are you after? Appears to be just Padstow, shouldn’t it be Padstow Holidays or Padstow hotels or something like that!
Does that page cover those SERPs well? That one SERP is OK (not great), but isn’t optimised for anything else.
Does the site support this page with similar content and links? No, all you have is three tag pages using Padstow in the anchor text, but those tags include identical content so won’t help (might as well not exist, could even cause SEO harm as they are duplicates).
The Talian 5 theme will present your content to Google etc… in the best possible SEO way, but it does need to be optimised for search engines for the theme to be able to present it well. If you title a page “Holistic Treatments” and it’s really about “Cornwall Holistic Treatments” you can not expect to gain SERPs like Cornwall Holistic Treatments, Holistic Treatments Cornwall etc…
Many of your pages lack a decent SEO title and those that have a good title like “Holiday Cottages in Cornwall” lack supporting SEO like links from the page using relevant anchor text, the link back to your main site shouldn’t have the URL as anchor text (that’s basic SEO 101) it should be something like “Holiday Cottages in Cornwall” to support both pages.
If you are looking for maximum SEO there should be at least one image with the main serp as the filename (format main-keywords-serp.jpg like cornwall-hotels.gif) for the image and alt text that supports the SERPs.
Related pages on the site should be linking to each other (see the SEO plugins page for the related posts plugin: found a better one I’ll be linking to soon, you can see it in action at Stallion SEO Theme Comment Title Feature, it has thumbnails as well, it’s integrated with Stallion 6).
The sites only three months old, links take at least 9 months to pass full link benefit, so even if you’ve added enough links on day one to rank well in this niche you are going to be delayed 9 months plus before those links pass enough link benefit to rank well. Add a PR7 link today that a few months from now might give you a PR6 home page, that page will not act like a PR6 page until that PR7 link has been live for at least 9 months.
That’s what people have been calling the Google sandbox, it’s not a sandbox, it’s a link benefit delay.
As you can see there’s lots you can do to improve the site.
David
Make Money Online : AdSense Income
Hi David
Thanks for quick reply and information, I will take a look at the titles, text and links as you described and improve on them again.
There will be much more added to the site later this year.
Mark Bowles
Database of Affiliate Links?
Hi David.
You obviously have a multitude of affiliate products you promote so two quick questions:
1. How do you keep a record of all the products and links, a simple excel spreadsheet?
2. Do you use any link cloaking software such as Google short URL or bit.ly or do you recommend an alternative?
I think I read on one of your threads somewhere that you are considering a link cloaker within Stallion. Is this on the cards and if so will it mean that you would only be able to use the cloaked links from within Stallion?
Thanks as always.
Nigel
Make Money Online : AdSense Income
Tracking Affiliates and Stallion Theme Link Cloaking
I don’t promote that many affiliate sources, so not that hard to keep track. I’ve found using a simple redirection script means I can keep all the affiliate links in one file, so if something changes I edit one file rather than having to search thousands of pages and edit the links at source.
I’ve already built link cloaking into Stallion 6, just not got around to explaining it yet
If you run the Massive Passive Profits Autoblog Plugin and use the Stallion plugin addon (all built into Stallion) to Massive Passive Profits your Amazon affiliate links etc… are cloaked automatically now (including old installs on the autoblog plugin).
The Massive Passive Profits Autoblog Plugin link above is a cloaked link using the Stallion link cloaking code (view source of this page you’ll see it’s not even a proper link) and a simple PHP redirection script: the PHP redirection script isn’t needed to use the Stallion link cloaking, just makes it easier to change links network wide, if the MPP plugin program goes offline for example can change the link to this sites home page or something. You can use the link cloaking on pretty much any link, in the next Stallion update working on code to automatically convert nofollow affiliate links to cloaked links to save a load of link benefit (nofollow deletes link benefit: SEO damaging) and to do what I’ve done with the Massive Passive Profits plugin to the WP Robot 3 Autoblog Plugin which also wastes a load of link benefit on nofollow affiliate links.
See Stallion Theme Cloak Affiliate Links Tutorial which explains how it all works.
The cloaking only works within Stallion. I’ve converted most of my affiliate sites to Stallion now so waste little link benefit on affiliate links. When I’ve converted all my sites will waste no link benefit.
David
Make Money Online : AdSense Income
Wordpress SEO & Adsense Plugins
of the WP themes you sell, can WordPress SEO & Adsense Plugins be used with all of them?
WordPress SEO Themes and AdSense Plugins
Yes, but they have AdSense built in so you don’t need to use a AdSense plugin as well. Easy to disable the built in AdSense if you wanted to use a AdSense plugin instead.
My Make Money Online Blog uses the Stallion WordPress SEO Theme and the AdSense ad layout is all built into Stallion (I use Stallion on most of my sites now), all you do is add your Google AdSense publisher number and it works as you see on the make money online blog.
David
Make Money Online : AdSense Income
Reliable Advertisement Network
Google Adsense is the most Reliable Advertisement Network from Google a Giant internet Search engine company. Blog publishers can earn lots of money From Google Adsense
Advertising with Google Adwords
I’m new to the IM business, please bear with me!
I use the Talian Theme in a number of blogs I publish. Recently, I wanted to place an Adwords ad on Google referencing one of my sites. The ad was rejected and the reason given was that I had too many ads on the sites which is against Google’s policy of creating a good viewing experience for their clients. I have two questions:
1. I’m making very little or no money from my sites. How can I improve that?
2. Is there a way to remove the ads from the body of the blog and show the ads only on the side bars?
Thanks,
Ken
Make Money Online : AdSense Income
Making Money Online with AdSense and WordPress Autoblog Plugins
To disable AdSense ad units in Talian edit the adsense.php file, there’s instructions within the file what to change.
I looked at your site and you do have a LOT of ads, looks around 15 ads on the home page.
Although I added Clickbank contextual ads to Talian I haven’t been impressed with Clickbank as a contextual ad network, to profit from Clickbank you have to review the products (presell). So I wouldn’t use the contextual Clickbank ads over AdSense if you are trying to decrease the number of ads.
Also found the AdSense search ads aren’t very good either, so concentrate on the content ad units only, you can have three of them.
Those two changes would remove about 9 ads without removing the main AdSense content ad.
Looks like you are running autoblogs, they are prone to not making much money per site, if you want to make money from autoblogs most autobloggers make a lot of autoblogs to make a reasonable amount of money overall. It’s why I don’t do autoblogging (other than testing), too much hassle keeping track of so many sites.
The best combination for making money with autoblogs is the Stallion WordPress SEO Theme and WPRobot Autoblog Plugin. You can read a review of the latter at WP Robot Review.
You might find Making Money Online with Thin Affiliate Sites useful as well.
David
Make Money Online : AdSense Income
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