I started using Adsense 15 years ago.
Google Adsense is 15 years old. Today Google sent an email to me with a bit of personal data:
I remember the great excitement I had when Adsense first came out. Finally, owners of niche content sites had a way to earn good money from relevant ads.
The best month–January, 20106–was bittersweet. At one point I was earning over $1,000 a day. Then I got a message from Google that some of my sites weren’t up to their quality guidelines, and the revenue dropped significantly overnight.
I still use Adsense on smaller sites for which it doesn’t make sense to do direct ad sales. But the glory days of January 2016 are long gone.
AbdulBasit.com says
2006… Not 2016.
Thanks for sharing though.
Andrew Allemann says
thanks
R P says
My sites were killing it with Adsense in 2004. Also gave my affiliates serious ad competition.
Didn’t last long tho. About a year later my Adsense revs were down at least 75%.
Sid says
I hear you. Good friend of mine had a personal finance site that earned him $15K-$25K per day average from ’04-’06. 3rd party ad revenue is presently about 15% of that amount (and the site much larger). He sells directly on the site with a few things now and overall is earning approx. half of what he was 12 years ago.