Does anybody make good money from Google Adsense?

I used to make decent amount (for my purposes) around $1000 a month. This was when the ads were based on the content. Then a few years ago they based ads on the user (as personalisation is all the rage) which for me was ridiculous as my site was about general social, political and environmental issues, so you'd end up seeing an add about shoes or something you were shopping for on another site which was completely unrelated to why people came to my site and completely out of context so the ad clicks and revenue dropped while site usage was growing. No way to reach a human to change it back. Some option on AdSense implies you can but has not worked.

Also at some point got banned for false clicks except the site they said that was violating their policy was not mine. Their automated responses of course did not help. Only a few months later a friend of a friend who luckily worked on the team was able to reinstate the account (but not the list revenue in the meanwhile if course). turns out they had a big they didn't admit false flagging my site. Wonder how many others they caught out...

Have ended up sticking with them as don't have time to look for alternatives (tried Chiquita but not very good). (The site is a side project only.) Would like to build my own niche for maybe non profits only, though I'm sure someone has done that already so I probably need to just invest some more time to look into it more...

I used to earn couple of thousands dollars a month via my Android games. I created them to learn unity and not to earn money but the games were picked up by some game magazines and took off.

Google then banned the whole account for some "likeness to merchandise" reason. They kept the whole money too

Have used AdSense on latextemplates.com for 7 years. I wouldn't call it "good money" but it's a welcome addition to my income. Haven't noticed any drop the last several months, but 4 years or so ago there was a huge drop when they updated their algorithm.

I dislike Google and would love to move to something else, but everything I've tried is so much worse so I've just been stuck with it. Any suggestions?

Me, 10$K/month. Because of AdSense revenue, I took many hours building a new website (online since last month) and hope that website it will eventually make some money. I really don't like having ads on website I visit but don't use AdBlocker (hide it behind other windows). I think WikWik.org is a great site (I'm the author) and for sure would not have exist without AdSense opportunity.

I built a blog in 2008 with few articles and luckily got my account approved in Adsense. after a month I was banned for lifetime with reason of invalid clicks and violating terms. I still don't know why that happened? last I try to re-apply in 2013/14, again I was reject for no reason.

I can really see a monopoly of google in this ad-space. because they can always throttle our traffic if we use other network.

My earnings also dropped, but I would say it's mostly because of their policy changes and not adapting to it.

I wanted to change provider, but most of them are more scammy than AdSense.

I created and ran a website called jscompress.com for a number of years. In its peak time, I made around $350-500 per month on it, with no maintenance.

2013-2015: $350-$500 per month

2016+: ~$125 per month

I attribute most of this to the rise of ad blockers, which impacted me especially bad because it is a website targeted at developers.

I did a writeup on it and why I sold it: https://vancelucas.com/blog/selling-my-passive-income-stream...

The funny party is many people here reported being banned because of „automated clicks“. When we used adsense for advertising purpose we paid for many clicks which lasted less than 50 milliseconds.

So google is letting advertiser pay for fake clicks, but website owners will not get this money, google keeps it by blocking their accounts.

Once upon a time I was making $1,000 a day with AdSense. Then Panda happened. Now I don't make anywhere near that much in a month.

It has been years since I had made money off Adsense, but do a Google search for "smart pricing."

Back in the day, I was making decent money off a new account and then that income dropped off a cliff after a couple months. The issue was that the traffic was low performing and I guess it took a couple months for Google to figure it out.

Take a look at your traffic and how well it might be converting for the people paying for those ads. If you're pretty sure it's crap, then do more searching for how you might make that traffic perform better.

For example, my issue was that I had a lot of traffic coming from developing countries and these people weren't going to buy anything. Another example might be that a site short of content isn't aligning well with the ads which Google is showing.

I used to make $20-30k monthly with flash video games. Saw a click at $150 one day! (Before 2008 crisis!)

My company (user generated content, user profile pages) reached $10k/mo in 2010 with AdSense. As soon as we crossed that threshold, we started getting automated threats asking to check "all other pages" (we had about 20m user profile pages back then). Despite our best effort (keywords filters in Hungarian and Thai, heuristics), the account was banned when it was earning $17k/mo. Fortunately, my bootstrapped start-up had a freemium model, so I could keep the payroll and seemingly survived this blow (although as I now understand, the long term impact was very negative). I tried to appeal, only to get automated responses. Tried to approach AdSense team via contacts- a few emails, and they stopped responding. Finally , I found some AdSense employee patrolling webmasterworld.com - miraculously, he reinstated the account! We immediately reduced exposure to 5k/mo and sold the remaining inventory first with Exponential and then transitioned to header bidding with 4 different DSPs.

TL;DR Avoid like a plague!!

I make about $50-$70/month from Adsense on my blog. I use a single Auto ad unit in the middle of each article. It would be nice if it were more. They payout every couple of months when the balance gets over $100. When they payout I get a 'report' that tells me they reduced my payout because of 'invalid traffic' (with no details about what/how/when). This deduction varies from about 5-20% of the payout.

Not any more. And in the end the nice people of G banned me having run the same website unchanged for 5 years.

Google does

About $400/mo over a few sites. Best earners are B2B, non-tech related (business-related tools rather than content-based). Takes just a few thousand visitors and a few dozen clicks to see that revenue.

Consumer-oriented sites will require many more views to get clicks, and those clicks are worth less. And the rise of ad-blockers and general awareness will have a greater impact there.

My sites are also most-viewed on and optimized for desktop use, as they are used in an office setting. Perhaps with a greater shift to mobile, either your ad types are less likely to be clicked or less-likely to be served up at all based on your site's layout and mobile-friendliness?

Incredible how many people have been stuffed by Google.

Amazing how this company can maintain its reputation behaving like this.

Building a business solely relying on someone else's walled garden (Google Adsense in this case) is a business risk.

You need to find other paths of revenue, ideally out of Google.

I see so many people screwed over by Google. Are there any Adsense alternatives that have human support, not too high traffic requirements and just don’t suck overall?

0 $/month since they banned my account automatically when it reached the minimum quantity to retrieve the money.

I think adsense earnings dropped since oct 2018 or something, and it often refuses to fill up impressions.

Also what kinds of ad units do you use? I m testing auto ads now and seeing a drop in earnings (which is typical for most of google's automated recommendations for me).

What alternatives to adsense monetization are viable nowadays?

For years I did, but the growth of mobile traffic has made it a lot more difficult.

Any good alternatives?

I'm sure Google does.

Dropping like crazy, hard to know when to pull the plug.

What did anyone do with thier domain names from failed adsense sites?

Typical storyline: Google "banned publisher, kept the money and refuse to communicate".

Of course these bans usually happens at the end of the revenue cycle where accumulated funds are at their max.

No, some third party maliciously clicked on some ads and a purchased asset had some prohibited/adult user submitted content that together wound up getting me a lifetime ban.

Good,Good,Good

I had 25$ per month and in September or August dropped to 7$ Not a big deal but still