I was Shocked to see this ADSENSE EARNINGS of GURUS

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Friends I saw this article and was shocked to see people earning with GOOGLE ADSENSE. The Adsense earning potential of your site is a lot higher than you think. This post is titled Adsense Earnings and is a summary of excellent posts by John Chow over a John Chow Dot Com and the Money Geek @ moneygeek.blogspot.com Where possible I’ve taken their information and added to it after reading feedback and undertaking a few searches of my own. The Internet represents a HUGE opportunity. We often lose sight of this as we go about our daily business. One of the keys to success is to see the big picture. Preparing this post helped me think through a few goals of my own. I hope you get as much out of it as I have. Here is the list of top AdSense earners. There will be many, many more and most of them will never be identified. The purpose of the list is not to be authoritative just to provide some motivational examples for your reading pleasure. * Markus Frind: PlentyOfFish.com - $300,000 per month Markus Frind’s site, Plentyoffish.com is the biggest free dating site on the Internet. It receives up to 500 million page views per month and is run from home. * Kevin Rose: Digg.com - $250,000 per month Kevin Rose started Digg in December of 2004 with just $1000. Today Digg is one of the biggest news sites on the Net, with over 400,000 members and over 200 million page views per month. According to this article from Business week, Digg will make $3 million this year from a combination of Google AdSense and Federated Media ads. John Chow’s best guess is that it’s almost 100% Google ads. Whatever Google’s share of Digg’s $250,000 per month in ad revenues may be, one thing is for sure, it is not small. * Jeremy Shoemaker: Shoemoney - $140,000 per month Jeremy Shoemaker is a master search engine marketer who knows Google AdSense and AdWords. He occassionally posts in the Digitalpoint forums on the subject. ShoeMoney, as he likes to be called, does not own just one site. He makes his Google checks using hundreds of sites and thousands of domains. * Jason Calacanis: Weblogs, Inc. - $120,000 per month Before Jason Calacanis sold Weblogs, Inc to AOL for $25 million, he got the network of blogs making over $4,000 a day from Google AdSense. * David Miles Jr. & Kato Leonard - $100,000 per month According to this Washington Post article, David Miles Jr. and Kato Leonard, claims they make $100,000 a month from their site, Freeweblayouts.net, which gives away designs that people can use on MySpace. The revenue figure is it is not 100% AdSense. Free Web Layouts use other advertising networks in addition to Google. * John Reese: Of The Reece Report Fame - $43,000 per month. John is a well know and highly respected online marketeer. In the promotional video for his “Reece Report” he provides proof of generating about $500,000 in a year and by starting from scratch. You can watch the video by clicking on this link. The income is produced by many small sites each targeting a different niche. * Tim Carter: AskTheBuilder.com - $30,000 per month Tim Carter is a licensed master plumber and carpenter with his own radio show. He also makes frequent television appearances. He founded AsktheBuilder.com in 1995 * Joel Comm:JoelComm.com - $24,000 per month Joel Comm is get rich quick guru. He wrote the best selling e-book, What Google Never Told You About Making Money with AdSense. The e-book, along with the website that promotes it has a screen shot of Mr. Comm AdSense earning from November 19, 2005 to December 15, 2005. * Sharon Maguire: Dog Breed Info - $25,000 per month Sharon runs a dog breed info site which is the subject of one of the Google Case Studies. Its been suggested she makes $25,000 per month from this one site. Well if she didn’t before free promotion from the good folks a Google I’m sure she does now. * Matther Daimler: Seat Guru $10,000 - $20,000 per month Here is a guy with an absolutely passionate interest in airline seats who basically wrote about his passion. That passion turned into a sizable revenue stream and I’m sure a lot of personal satisfaction. * Shawn Hogan: DigitalPoint.com - $10,000 per month Back in January of 2005 the New York Times had an article about AdSense, featuring Shawn Hogan, founder of DigitalPoint. The article states that Mr. Hogan makes $10,000 per month from Google AdSense using a very unique revenue sharing model. DigitalPoint have grown a lot since that article and while Mr. Hogun would not say anything, the DigitalPoint forum members speculate that he is making at least twice that amount now. * Steve Pavlina: Steve Pavlina.com- $10,000/month Steve runs a personal development blog. A recent post claims he has exceeded the magic $10,000/ month mark. This could be a mixture of Adsense and other sales. To give an idea of how these reported earnings stack up against average Adsense Earnings, Darren Rouse over at Problogger.net ran a poll back in 2005, here is a summary of the results: * 33% earned under $30 per month * 16% earned between $30 and $99 per month * 11% earned between $100 and $499 * 9% earned between $500 and $999 * 4% earned between $1000 and $1499 * 2% earned between $1500 and $2499 * 4% earned between $2500 and $4999 * 3% earned between $5000 and $9999 * 1% earned over $10,000 * 13% do not use Adsense * 4% did not wish to disclose their earnings So what is the difference between us mere mortals and those that have cracked the Adsense code? I can only guess; but here are a few suggestions: