When I first started blogging in August 2008, I thought I would be able to make a lot of money with Google AdSense. For that, I did many silly things including searching for ‘high paying’ keywords and try to put them in some useless blog posts.
Everyday, I used to check Google AdSense account for the money accumulated! Sadly, I never crossed $4 a day! I even tried asking my friends to click on AdSense advertisements on my blog. I also used to click on theirs in return.
I used to spend lot of time Googling “how to make money online”, “How to increase Google AdSense” revenue. I also searched for bloggers making lot of money and used to read those lists of bloggers who make thousands of dollar per month! How I wanted to make such money by blogging!
Finally, I gave up trying to earn from AdSense. Luckily, I started enquiries from my blog for some serious work. So, I continued blogging.
Meanwhile, unique visitors to my main blog on IVR (Interactive Voice Response) System started increasing. I had also started getting more and more business enquiries.
Eventually after two years, I found out, in order earn enough from Google AdSense, one needs lot of visitors, that too from western countries like United States of America, Canada etc. If one gets click from there, then only one earns enough. Clicks from India and other “third world countries” earn hardy few cents per click!
Three years is a long time to make a blog popular. Most probably, If I spent my time in popularising, I would have generated more visitors and there by making good amount of money from Google AdSense. Instead of doing that, I spent time in finding out short cut to increase clicks on Google AdSense. So eventually, I could not make money from Google AdSense.
Also, most probably, choice of topic for the blog is important to make it popular with more people. Some topics which have large audience, should get more visitors than a blog with very niche topic. According to me, without getting many visitors or being a popular blog, I should not have tried any trick to make money from Google AdSense.
But one thing I am happy that, if I have to start over again, most probably, in two years time, I would be able to make money from Google AdSense by building popular blog! Also, I will not expect serious revenue if I am not a full time serious blogger.