Are you making money online blogging with Adsense by Google?

How much have you earned from blogging in this blogging platform or forum? That simple question, as you will soon find out, brought out a flood of pent up feelings and interesting insights into what people have experienced online but kept quiet about.

By the way, before I go on to publish the answers and contributions that I received from my readers on this topic, I just want to say that nobody blogging online – a.k.a. no blogger – should keep mum about their online experiences because writing them down and publishing them for the attention of all posterity, I think, is the main aim of the blogging genre.

Frankly, I am just really very curious about this. Most people say they don't blog for money but I think one should be honest enough to look in the mirror sometimes.

How do you fund your Internet connection? How much have you made from Adsense and for over how many months?

I recall someone saying she made $3 or so in about six months from all sources or so in one particular blogging site!

At about the same time, from that same blogging platform, I had made just $1.57 or less than 10% of my total Google Adsense earnings in nearly a year of full blown typing almost daily.

Yet, I keep blogging! Amazing, isn't it? Am I crazy or something? ;-) Now, what about you? I want some Adsense numbers.....

The following are the contributions and responses – in alternating normal or bold letters for differentiation but unedited, except with reference to practically all the real names of the participants or discussants, because the words are not mine – that I got and my own response to each is in brown color, for technical reasons and for matters of clarity in presentation.

The debate was so intense, up close, and personal that even the owners of the blogging platform joined in – those responses are in red color for emphasis.

Also, please note that any color different from the preceding assigned hues, especially in a specific thread of conversion, means that there was some input from more than two other contributors who were present at the same time.

Please beware that a few sparks did fly on the blog site as the debate and exchanges intensified. Enjoy…

[ all i'll say is this: i haven't gotten a check, either. :>

Ha-ha...welcome to the club of the checkless bloggers

I never bothered to sign up for adsense, so I have made exactly nothing.

Wow, that takes a lot of pluck to do - never registered? Why - I assumed everyone did?

…. i haven't earned enough to get a check. and really, the money isn't why i keep blogging.

Hi....yes, I know - your income comes from your job....but why else do you do it then? :>

I never signed up for the big bucks.

Yeah, the zillions can wait while we blog away our lives.

But, just once in a while or even in a blue moon, don't you just wish that you were in the shoes of FaceBook's Zuckerberg?

A billion$ in three years isn't too bad, is it? But then again, we'd have to pay Harvard tuition; so, maybe that thought's just a bit too rich for our blood. Ha-ha.

when i got close to the $100.....months ago.......i was dropped from adsense.

i think the whole 'get paid to blog' idea is untrue. i doubt anyone out there is really getting paid just by blogging at this blog site.

I am really sorry to hear about that - I had no idea that such a thing happens.

Were you given any reason at all for being dropped? Who actually dropped you from Adsense - Google or this blog site? Just curious......

….this blog site cannot drop someone from adsense. adsense is a google program, not a blog site program.

i was dropped by google adsense. at least that's who sent me the email.

i never clicked my own ads. never knew anyone to ask to click my ads.

i believe the reason i was dropped was for sexual content

they did send me an email telling me my adsense account had been closed.

i think i was pretty close to having a check.

I was trying to recall just when i got that email- it had to be before christmas last year.

more power to anyone from soulcast that can make money-

it's just i've never heard of a single soul who has gotten a check.

that was the original question, right? who has gotten a check?

I think I understand now - yes, Google has been known to delete many blogs at Blogger for 'that thing, that thing, that thing'.......

Which is worse - allowing unmitigated sexual content or misinforming users about Adsense Terms of Service or ToS?

So sorry it had to happen to you - strange though that only the blogger suffers these indignities. But I respect Google for their courtesy in, at least, intimating you.

However, I am surprised that they never gave you anything - I think the Adsense ToS says something about paying your balance to you after 3 months or so, less any indebtedness via Adwords or something like that.

Yes, more or less, the main question centers around who has spent any money from Adsense.

If you're right, then only the owners of this blog site has received a check so far. I'm so envious just now....

google usually sends out warnings before canceling accounts to do sexual content. We got one which is why we added the feature that removes ads from pages tagged 'adult'.

Oh....I didn't know that. But, just a suggestion: why allow sexual content on the site when Adsense ToS forbids it?

Does the sexual content attract a special breed of people? Is that the intention?

There are so many porn and flagged sites on the web, I'm sure you'll agree; so, why allow it on a non-X-rated website with Adsense monetization?

I mean, does 'adult' now mean 'x-rated' or 'mature'? Believe me, there are enough real professionals out there making a living from x-rated literature - nobody on SC probably comes close, IMHO.

I have tested that sexual-content genre thing and found it debases rather than uplifts - except outside the spiritual or philosophical realm. I am just lucky to have enough excitement in my love life, I guess....;-)

BTW, blog site owners, why is it that the new newsletters can be e-mailed to blog site users but the users' blog posts cannot be e-mailed to them?

Is it a technical limitation or just this blog site’s preference? Just curious.....

….. since each user of this blog site who wants to participate in adsense is supposed to read the TOS, i fail to see why this is this blog site owner's problem. and you do me and other blog site users a grave disservice when you say that sexual content degrades.

I think I said 'debases', which, IMHO, implies not aspiring to more than momentary sensual pleasures.

Everyone gets horny at least once in a lifetime but, if we stay or remain that way, we would only get nothing else done. No offense meant.

Sorry about the misunderstanding - I never said 'degrade' because that would imply degenerate behavior.

My point about the Adsense ToS was simply that this blog site should not have tied it somehow to registering for a blog here - at least, that's what I observed last year.

you are generalizing about all sexual content. and frankly, i find that ignorant.

…. how in the hell is someone supposed to make use of google adsense on this blog site without registering here? you aren't making any sense. …this blog site is a business partner of google. that is the extent of the relationship AFAICT. so if there's a way to utilize adsense on this blog site without having a blog entry here, i'd be awfully curious to learn how precisely one would go about that.

I'm not and I certainly am not doing that; but, are you saying that anyone who generalizes about all sexual content is ignorant? AFAICT [stands for "as far as I can tell"]

Somehow, I expected you to be more charitable than that. Anyway, I'm closing that chapter, on my part - it's a bit pointless to take a few words personally after a certain stage in life.

My simple point about registering for Adsense actually relates to one particular female user's and this blog site's experiences with Google - anyone registering for Adsense should have realized that posting sexual content regularly would eventually lead to flouting the Adsense ToS.

The main point is that those registering should have been warned first, even if they would read the ToS later on, since this blog site provided the original link.

It's really no big deal….. - just a line such as this: we allow sexual content in posts but those wishing to register for Adsense should please note that Adsense ToS forbids it.

first, we aren't a business partner with google. We are adsense users just like you guys, and we don't get any special access or recourse with google.

@….

I think you are asking the wrong question. The better questions is, why restrict sexual content? This blog site is a site for people to talk about the issues that interest them, and if that's sex, that's perfectly ok with us.

Currently posts with the 'adult' tag do not show ads from google so there is no longer a problem with sexual content and ad sense. We fixed this as soon as it became a problem.

Thanks, …. - point well made and taken. :o>

….. queried:

are you saying that anyone who generalizes about all sexual content is ignorant?

you're right, you did say debase...which isn't meaningfully different. and yes, i'm saying that anybody who generalizes about sexual content and dismisses it that way is indeed ignorant. if i said the same to ….. of all people, don't think for a second i wouldn't say it to anybody else.

Well....ignorance is bliss - and I guess I'm just that bit blithely blissful with sexual content. :O()

What is Ad sense?

And no I don't get paid for my labor of love. I agree with …. they are a bunch of cheats.

Who are a bunch of cheats?

We show users ads 50% of the time and ours the other 50%. We didn't know how it would work out when we started the site, but we've lived up to our word about sharing the adsense revenue 50/50 with users.

Wow...never expected this kind of reaction from this post.

Yes, that's a good question - I was wondering the same thing.

It's really great when everyone places their cards on the table - face up preferably. ;o>

…. if you don't know what adsense is, then how in the world can you possibly claim that they're cheats?

Sometimes, someone must explain what he/she means in his or her own words in order for the context to be fully understood.

So, …. may have overheard that train of thought somewhere or other - it's not really as if Adsense ownership is a big mystery too thick to crack.

Hi.....this is Adsense - look in this post for the most succinct description I've come across so far.

You really are a true blue Blogger, you know. ;>.

So. … have you guys ever gotten a check from Adsense? I think what we're all trying to figure out here is if Adsense is legitimate or if they just drop everyone that gets close to making a check. Maybe they just drop the small generators. Seems kind of petty, though.

Hello there....yes, that would be kind of tacky, dropping people who don't meet up with marketing expectations.

However, somehow, I do not believe that Google would toe that line - they are desperate for more pages to display their ads - at least, as of last year, unless someone seriously or 'majorly' flouted the rules of the Adsense program.

Google is a legitimate company and I do not believe they would try to rip off people. The problem is that people try to click their own ads or get others too do the same. People that have been on soulcast for a while will remember that in the early days there were posts on the homepage every week asking for people to click each others ads. This will get your account revoked and unfortunately sometimes innocent people will get their account revoked by mistake. We tried to warn people against clicking each others ads :/

And, yes, we've gotten checks from google. Over the years we've gotten many checks from them for other sites that we run. Thousands of people across the world get paid large sums of money from google adsense.

Well...that's very nice. Yes, Google can tell easily who is doing what and when.

The problem, IMHO, is how Google views this revenue sharing thing - if I recall correctly, it is not listed in the Adsense ToS that revenue sharing is allowed.

Can we know these other sites run by the owners of this blog site, or is it Jelsoft? I'm sure that we'd all love to participate there, too - and one day have a group barbecue with pictures and video to prove it. I certainly would. ;0)

Nowhere near getting a check from google yet.....

Hello....ha-ha....welcome to the club, comrade. :>

I didn't sign up for Adsense so I've received zilch.

Believe me, you can sleep peacefully that way with no worries at all. ha-ha.

not a penny

Nothing at all? I really feel for you...but it's the same as not receiving a check, too - so, welcome to the club. ha-ha.

I never even bothered to sign up for Adsense. I wasn't looking to make money by blogging. I do it for fun. And I guess it's good that I wasn't doing it for money, because it doesn't seem that there is much money to be made here for the average blogger.

e_t: touche! Truer words were never said better. :>

I have never signed up for adsense, purely because I am not here to attempt to make money :-) xx

You are definitely more than just a diva. ha-ha.

I signed up but couldn't follow the directions to activate. Duh!!

Ha-ha.....yes, it can be hard to figure out when you have to extract only a string of numbers from a mess of HTML code gibberish.

Believe me, you're not alone there.

BTW, WELCOME TO MY BLOG!

I didn't sign up here to make money. In fact, I don't even remember reading anything about adsense when I signed up. Maybe I did and it just didn't interest me. But from what I've just read. Glad I didn't.

You're very lucky, I tell you. ;)

WELCOME TO MY BLOG!

Thank you ….. I do believe this is the first blog of yours I've commented on. :-) Nice to meet you.

You're very welcome.....likewise, happy to meet you, too.

i never signed up for any adsense, don't know what it is other than what i've read in this blog, and from the sounds of it, i don't think i'm missing anything.

Hi....I agree with you, it's nothing to write home about so far.

I think I have made about $3.17 or something, …. where does the resty of you adsens emoney come from, all $10 of it? (-;

Double that - made elsewhere in cyberspace. ha-ha.

on the 50/50 thing, you didn't know how it was going to work out, now you do, how about 80/20? I think thats fair, now that you now.

Otherwise get some insentive scheme to up the adsense ratio or something, refer 10 people to join soucast and get 90% adsense. Be creative...

fair to who ;)

I can say the same to you....it wasn't me who brought fairness into this.

But I will rephrase, we would all love soulcast even more if you would change the percentages. Don't you think the affiliate idea is woth it though?

50% to the signup, 30% to you and 20% to me, I feel the word fairness coming on.....

Since we are bandying numbers now and discussing fairness, how about 80 - 90% revenue to the blogger - forget the affiliate thing, IMHO. ha-ha - seriously.

Hi, never signed up. I noticed that the ads on my blog are usually not at all relevant to what I write about. Or they may be relevant only to a computer's logic. For example, ads about hotels in Tiberias are not really going to get any clicks by most people reading my blogs. Ads for such hotels might get clicks on a yuppie Jewish website with a vacation page. Ads in Hebrew for sexy pictures are also, hopefully, not going to get any traffic from my blog page, but they were among the first ads that were there consistently. Ads in German also are not likely to get any clicks so I really wonder about the programs which run the ads. There was a line in an Agatha Christis story: "that the Dutchess looked as if she had stood in the middle of the room and let her maid throw brooches at her'. Most websites get ads using the same randomness as the Dutchess's maid. No way to make money.

Hi...WELCOME TO MY BLOG!

You're quite right about the odd ads that often come up via Adsense. It can be baffling sometimes.

Since you never signed up, any revenue from clicks on those ads goes straight to Soulcast's Adsense account - so, there is no real push for Google to match your content with the ads presented.

You love Agatha Christie, too? We have something in common already - read so many of them as a teenager that only the movie versions can revive the plot details in me these days.

Thank you for your welcome. ...Yes, I think that I read all of Agatha Christi, including anything that I could get my hands on that she wrote under other names. She wrote one wonderfully wierd book about the intervention of a Court Angel or punishment Angel called The Harlequin. A Mr Saithewaite (spelling not accurate) was the witness to the Angel's righting of old wrongs. And one of the stories was about a reincarnation of someone who had been in Atlantis, another about the freeing of a little boy's ghost. Most people would not relate this type of short story with Agatha Christi.... She also wrote lots of stories about post WWI life in England which were very interesting from an historical point of view......As to her plots, they were always fair to the reader since all the hints were there, she never cheated. I'd always re-read the story at least once to find all the hints, but even so, after a few years I'd forget and could re-read with the same enthusiasm. And she never made her characters so real that you regretted them being murdered for your entertainment. It was all a fun puzzle...I tried about three times to write murder mysteries and did not get very far, even writing them by going about the plot backwards does not guarantee that every point is covered. I'm happier reading than writing them--but I haven't found anything worth bothering with for twenty years with one of two exceptions.

Thanks - I never realized she wrote under pseudonyms elsewhere. Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple were my favorites, in that order.

Her plots were really very interesting. A formula that may work for most mystery writers is to get a good story first and then add the hidden truths and hints.

It certainly works for Hollywood movies, even though sometimes these stories are actually multi-stories woven together and embellished a bit.

I never signed up for any of that "paid to blog" stuf. I blog enough without being paid i dont need the thought of a cash flow from it keeping me on here any longer than i already am. Now that i dont its just pennies and no one is really making anything im glad i didnt bother. : )

Hi....yes, it is really a case of getting peanuts and working for chicken change.

Sometimes, the online banter is really the reward.

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WELCOME TO MY BLOG!

Pay-per-play?

(Note well or nota bene or N.B.: The preceding comment to mine immediately above was apparently edited away by the blog site owners without my permission or knowledge – it just up and vanished from sight! I think that I recall it having been a very uncomplimentary and too revealing statement about the blog site owners. Guess one of the very great reasons why I hurriedly left that wonderful sleight-of-hand establishment masquerading as a blogging site…)]