Ask HN: Does anybody make good money from Google Adsense?

Re:Ask HN: Does anybody make good money from Google Adsense? by Guest0918231 on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @01:36AM (#21394940)

I made about $200 per day and had 500 clicks per day from AdSense, steady for years. Suddenly it dropped to $30 per day and 1-5 clicks overnight. Traffic was consistent, about a million daily page views, and 40k active registered users a day. 1-5 clicks was clearly wrong. I contacted AdSense support and asked if I should try making changes to the ads, or wait for them to debug the issue. They said to wait.

Well, I waited a month as they escalated it to different departments, and someone went on vacation. Finally I get an email with their official answer. It says they can't tell me the issue, because it's classified information. However, I could try labeling the ads, "Sponsored Advertisements".

That's the great support I get after making them about 100k in commission. Thanks Google.

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Re:Ask HN: Does anybody make good money from Google Adsense? by ForceOfPhil on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @05:51AM (#21395973)

I used to work for a company that ran entirely on adsense, (Directories and such) then Google changed the way websites ranked to be more social media friendly and every website tanked. Shares and likes became more important that keywords and semantics and the owner did not know how to adapt to the new SEO model.

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Re:Ask HN: Does anybody make good money from Google Adsense? by natmaka on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @06:26AM (#21396135)

> Shares and likes became more important that keywords

Many seem to think so. If true, it means that Google now "Pageranks" not thanks to websites contents maintainers establishing links to other sites, but to visitors posting links on social networks. They switched from the 'authors side' to the 'audience side'.

(Yes, there are many contents maintainers who also are active on social media, however they don't post the overwhelming majority of non-spam links published on social media).

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Re:Ask HN: Does anybody make good money from Google Adsense? by loktarogar on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @08:25AM (#21396895)

I had a site that had 60k unique visitors a day. Adsense decided it didn't want to show ads on 90% on requests. I was making $150/month with server costs of over $500.

A company approached me to join their private ad network and the next month I earned $5700.

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Re:Ask HN: Does anybody make good money from Google Adsense? by mtsx on Thursday October 31, 2019 @01:29AM (#21406002)

i made 1500$ from my Nokia phones related blogspot.com site before 2013,then Nokia lost market-share i lost my visitors & revenue.

before panda and hummingbird(mostly panda), SEO is very easy for self hosted WordPress blog, create some post and make more tags ,you easily ranked on google search.

*sorry for my english

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Re:Ask HN: Does anybody make good money from Google Adsense? by thescribbblr on Thursday October 31, 2019 @12:49PM (#21410812)

I guess now-a-days blogspot/wordpress blogs don't rank in Google search results.

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Re:Ask HN: Does anybody make good money from Google Adsense? by mtsx on Friday November 01, 2019 @01:23PM (#21421374)

still possible, if u create Informative blog posts...

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Re:Ask HN: Does anybody make good money from Google Adsense? by thescribbblr on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @09:04AM (#21397222)

Website?

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Re:Ask HN: Does anybody make good money from Google Adsense? by thescribbblr on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @01:50AM (#21394989)

Which website?

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