DISQUS

Brown Baron · 2 years ago

It's linkbait alright. It's funny that he included you in the 'Make Money Online' niche. The blogging world is full of strange people heh.

videolar · 2 years ago

Who does not hate being called a liar?

Bush Mackel · 2 years ago

I think you did a great job of defending yourself and I'm sure you felt compelled to defend yourself because you take pride in your work. Hope that post didn't ruin your day too much!

Joseph Plazo · 2 years ago

Way I see it, tell a mongoose of outer space, the moon and stars- and he'll call you a liar too. Simply because it's out the sphere of his experience.

Vijeesh · 2 years ago

Everton,

Why fall for the linkbait.
You are giving free Google juice to that site by linking to it..Consider adding a rel=nofollow in your link..

Everton · 2 years ago

@Vijeesh

I know. Normally I ignore, but this one got to me. Will do the nofollow now!

Opal Tribble/Vegan Momma · 2 years ago

It sounds like an obvious linkbait. I have had a few people think I was lying about my
earnings and I'm not even in the same league as you when it comes to MMO. You don't need a lot of adsense ads to do well. I've noticed with my websites the less I have, and depending on where I place them, I receive a much higher amount per click. A few of the websites receive well over $1 per click. I make the most of my money via affiliate sales. The most I've made
thus far was a few grand in a month. It was a very good feeling. I'll do better.;-)

Micah · 2 years ago

With 500k page views it's very possible to make that much. This guy obviously does not have a website that gets a lot of traffic or has not found out how to optimize it well.

Ron · 2 years ago

Traffics Stat disclosure is more convincing as an evidence, since this is only about game of numbers... The more you get visitors the more you earn...

So I guess with 500k pageviews n $4k Adsense earnings your eCPM is $8, which is quite high :-)

Ryan Perry · 2 years ago

All your revenues are just from this site? Or do you have some other domains?

Everton · 2 years ago

95% is from this domain, the remainder is from another site

Dave Starr · 2 years ago

The audacity of calling someone a fraud with no proof doesn't surprise me ... the web is like a lot of immature "road rage" drivers, their doors securely looked and seat belts fastened, flipping peopkle off at random to "show their manliness". Lift their rock and they scurry away like a cockroach.

However it is amazing that people who take it upon themselves to write critiques of other's methods don't even know the first thing about the emthod they are offering comments on.

As Opal and Micah and others point out, your numbers are very possible ... actually looking at the traffic on the sites where I run AdSense and your traffic, I _know_ it's possible. A 1% click through rate is way below rates I ahve seen in nearly three years of AdSense publishing. It's funny, I had a discussion last year with a fellow who is the advertising manager for a large blogging network and he was advising his bloggers to stop using AdSense, citing a less than 1% CTR. As I told him ... if you aren't getting significantly better rates than that you should look at your content and other factors, because Google certainly will perform better than that ... if I had properties that added up to 500k PVM my income would be right in the ballpark you state, Everton.

One last note ... it's not the number of ad units that count ... in most cases more ad units equal _less_ income, not more. The more AdSense units you put on a site, the more opportunity for very low-pay ads, instead of "thottling" the flow so that only the higher paying ones appear and get clicked.

Smackall · 2 years ago

I never thought you would be a liar. Coz it was always equal to how much you posted that month. And Everytime I guess your earnings it was someway near by. No doubts on your earnings.

Tomaz · 2 years ago

I absolutely believe that you earn that much with Adsense. And your top left placement of the first block surely gives you over 5% CTR.

With internet and gadget related topics you must also get a good value per click.

I have a site with Alexa over 300.000 which earns $100 per day from Adsense so I wouldn't really rely on Alexa. It's just a very very rough guideline.

Jack · 2 years ago

stephen who?

Mad Dozza · 2 years ago

I believe you, you can make a killing from adsense if you know what your doing. Decent content, good ad placement and a good subject, the money soon comes rolling in.

Marcus the Critic · 2 years ago

True, especially if your decent content focuses around high paying advertisers. Content related to legal matters and education can bring you almost $100 a day in adsense revs!

intelligenius · 1 year ago

that's a lot of money and good luck. hope you keep doing better.