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It’s A Common Question, So Here Is An Answer

One common question that people ask is how much can they make with adsense?  If you go to any blogger or affiliate forum you will see a question such as “I have a site which gets  200 unique visitors and 500 pages views a day.  How can I make with Adsense”

Although this number will very wildly by what industry your blog is in, a consensus answer seems to be that you can make $5 EPM.   The average blogger seems to make this amount, and my own experience seems to back that up.   In fact, over at online advertising they posted an article stating that Adsense Only Makes $1 EPM, and they got quite a few response, of varying emotions, stating that If you were only making $1 EPM with Adsense, you are doing something wrong.

So what does $5 EPM mean?  What it means is that for every thousand pageviews that your site gets, you will, on average, make $5 from Google Adsense.  Some of those earnings will in fact be from ads which pay based on the number of pageviews, but most will just be a function of

Your Page Views * Your Click Through Rate * Your Payment Per Click 

That is talked about in our article on The Adsense Equation.

So Do You Have Any Hard Numbers To Back That Up?- Although my blog is relatively new, not heavily monetized yet, and as such does not have enough page views to be statistically meaningful there is one blogger who is always happy to share his income.  John Chow stated that he made $1077 from Adsense in April.  He also states that he received 266,000 page views in that month.  Dividing that out gives him an $4.04 EPM.  Not too far off from our guesstimated $5 EPM.  It gets even closer when you consider he doesn’t have adsense on every page.   ( If you are wondering why I didn’t include his subscribers in those numbers, it is simply because the subscribers don’t see the ads and as such can’t be counted )

So How Can You Increase Your Earnings?  Well clearly if you have hit a roadblock as far as traffic goes, and you are already making more than $5 EPM from adsense you need to look at expanding your revenue in other ways.  ReviewMeis a monetization method for bloggers, as it allows bloggers to monetize their subscribers.  (Less Popular of course Is ReviewMen  … an opportunity for bloggers to make lots of money, but it does limit the topics your blog can cover )    Text Link Ads is another monetization method that is gaining in popularity