Yesterday I had a bit of a shock and I thought it would be nice to share it with you guys.
I logged into my Google Adsense Account at around 11 in the morning and to my suprise it was sitting at around $40.
My first reaction was that I was getting spam clicks, but on further investigation I could see that visitors were pouring in from all over the United States. This all happened on a Frugal Living site of mine.
All 10,000 odd visitors came from Yahoo for one keyword. The only explanation I can give is that Yahoo featured a link to the search page somewhere on their website.
So after spending a lot of the day refreshing the Adsense page my final Adsense earnings were a whopping $256.90. Around $245 of that from one site, one article and one keyword.
Here is my Adsense screen shot:
So what does all this mean?
This amazing spike only lasted a day but gave me a nice taste of what I am aiming for and shows that it isn’t an unachievable dream.
The article was an old one written almost a year ago and although it has been doing consistantly well in the search engines, nothing prepared me for this onslaught.
My site even went down half way through the day and I had to get support to get it back online. Turns out I had some permissions settings messed up!
My lesson…. Keep writing quality articles for my niche sites. Each time you plan, research and write an article you are adding to your online real estate. You never know who or what trend may pick up your content and send you on such a ride.
….. Now I need to power onwards and make this consistent.
Wow that’s great Forest! Those surprises are the best. And it’s true, they really are encouraging even when they are momentary. I remember the shock of my first Adsense spike. Now and then I get them again but never $250!
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Thanks Anna,
It’s still a shock that it happened but it just goes to show how hard work can eventually pay off.
That’s great Forest!
Congratulations!
Thanks Michelle (PS, will be answering your email’s very shortly).
Hi Forest,
Congratulations. Don’t we all hope everyday was like this huh. But I’m sure it gives you added motivation to try to achieve this yet again or at least close to it.
Peter Lee
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Thanks Peter, yes every day like that would be pure awesomeness…
Wow what an amazing day! I like that you remind us that every post is adding to our online real estate. It helps to be reminded of that sometimes!
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Thanks
… The more we put out there the more chances we have of things like this happening.
That’s great, Forest! Keep up the great work!
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Thanks Mark
Bonza! Thats a nice days work aint it!
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Thanks.
Forest, this is not the first time I heard that an old site reemerged and started making money again w/ adsense. I guess it depends on the search trends as they change. Hopefully history will repeat itself.
Regards..
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Hey Ric,
Thanks for coming by.
It’s happened to a few sites of mine before but never to this degree… Sadly it was just a one day thing but still it was awesome.
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Thanks very much, looking forward to hearing from you.
But I’m sure it gives you added motivation to try to achieve this yet again or at least close to it.
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Hopefully so…
Adsense is just awesome and its really a good adsense day.
Cheers
Wow forest thats a great days work. I hope one day my ad sense account will look like that.
Keep up the good work….
Thanks Andy, I hope I can repeat it soon.
This is an encouragement to me since I haven’t done much with adsense lately. I have been more focused on affiliate marketing, but adsense shouldn’t be overlooked.
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Hi, Adsense can be an awesome supplement but if affiliate marketing is working well for you that can be well worth concentrating on too.
That’s awesome news Ben! I once made $0.25 in a day on adsense. You are clearly the master.
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Cheers Bob
Congratulations. My best day with adsense was only about $12 dollars.
Thanks….. Hey you need to fix your comment name link as it’s broken right now…
Awesome! Not many people realize how many different ways their are to make money on the internet. I hope you can keep this up!
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I’ve been doing $15-$30 a day since which isn’t bad…
Pretty impressive… almost 260 bucks in one day. Nice job. Making money thru Google Adense is not as easy as it looks like.
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Nope it isn’t… This was a lucky day but still just shows that hard work can pay off. Hopefully one day I will earn this every day.
Hi Forest,
Did you manage to get any more of such good results or came close? I’m focusing a little more on adsense myself so any tips would surely help me. BTW hope your England trip was good.
Peter Lee
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Hey I am still in England sadly so finding it hard to finish the case study up…. so far results are not amazing but I never finished submitting stuff…. so need to get back on that. It will be back up and running soon.
Hey Forest,
Just realize something. The date is showing as ‘Fri 19′ for everyone here. Is that the day time stood still or what?
Peter
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That is weird!!! Must just be a bug in this post!
This post have inspired me very very much. I have a lots of ideas in my mind but I have yet to execute it. Geez -_-
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Thanks…. Let me know if you need any advice and good luck.
Wow, that’s some nice earnings you made there. I’m always scared about Google adsense chasing away potential new subscribers although it seems that’s not always the case.
I’ve just created a new blog but I think I’ll pass on the ads for now.
Anyway, keep up the good work.
How if like this day by day?
Hey Davin,
There are ways to show ads only to those who come from search engines or only show ads on older posts…. A plugin called “Why Do Work Adsense Plugin” can help you with that.
Thanks and thanks for the visit.
I always wanted to earn such a big sum of money
And you definitely can if you work at it… Thanks for visiting.
My biggest adsense earning for a day didn’t exceed $30. Congrats on such a good score. I look forward to $1000 a day post
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Cheers
$30 is still a really nice number to hit. Just have to get there consistently. Well done though
I don’t think the $1000 day post will be for a long while yet
That’s incredible! What’s the url of the site? Man… talk about encouraging. That type of day could keep you going for a while.
Hey thanks
, I actually keep the site pretty under wraps. Mainly because I have some nice articles that rank well with Google and I don’t want competition to start chipping away at me….
Alright alright fine lol. That’s probably the smart thing to do. That’s still a very impressive feat though. Could you tell me how much it makes on average a day? Or is that too much information?
Ha ha, sorry
. It makes between $5-10 a day on average but that’s partly due to me hardly working in the last month. I am back to work soon so hoping to triple that soon.
Wow and that’s only from one site! Way to go man. Best of luck with making it bigger. Is that your only adsense site?
No I have quite a few that range in how successful they are…. I make around $700 a month from adsense. Hoping to get that up to $1000 soon.
Thanks for the compliments
Lol can you start writing posts about that? I mean I’m sure there would be a lot of interest, especially considering how successful you’ve been. I’d love to read a post of any pointers that you have.
I will definitely start posting a little more about it all soon.
I don’t consider myself a guru or anything so am sometimes a little weary about telling people what they should be doing.
Congrats on such a great Adsense day! It’s like you said – the quality of your articles really counts, not so much the quantity. You’d be amazed at how many bad and “spun” articles there are out there…
Thanks very much. Yes the internet is full of awful rubbish… And the most amazing articles too…
Can you explain how you do that.I mean whick placement did you use on adsense in page
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For the most part it was a Large Rectangle below the blog post title but above the content, left aligned.
Yep, thanks.