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develop one site of quality
It doesn't necessarily have to be quality either. The right level of traffic in the right niche can easily bring in $100/month+.
In my experience it's actually a lot easier to concentrate on one site rather than spread yourself too thin.
Added a second site which never gets $100/month, but then I didn't expect it too.
Concentrate on useful content which will encourage users to visit, rather than create multiple sites which would dilute your time to making any one of them compelling for visitors.
I would read around the site and you can learn what you need
you could start here
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more than site 100+ to make money more than 100$ with adsense ads
You can have one website that makes easily $1000+, or you can have 1000s of sites making - nothing, or next to nothing. There is no boilerplate recipe for having success with Adsense.
It all boils down to getting traffic -and the right traffic mix-. This typically only comes with the right content and some (aggressive) marketing, e.g. viral marketing or advertising.
My preferred option - it worked for me - is to concentrate all your efforts: creative work, writing, branding, promotion etc. on one site. If are starting from scratch and you're a fast learner then, in approximately 2-3 months you can expect to be earning $100 per month from that one site.
[edited by: Swanny007 at 4:04 pm (utc) on Aug. 20, 2008]
It doesn't necessarily have to be quality either. The right level of traffic in the right niche can easily bring in $100/month+.In my experience it's actually a lot easier to concentrate on one site rather than spread yourself too thin.
I have one site with low but very targetted traffic and it brings in a steady $### each month.
Made the mistake of trying to build more sites. I now have 3 other sites and they're giving me a mega sized headache plus they don't bring in even a fraction of my main site. I don't let them go because Adsense is a long-term revenue stream. I just continue to build one page at a time and believe that in 15 years time when I'm retired, I will have lots more time to concentrate on them.
I suppose what I'm saying is Adsense is long-term.
I must be in the wrong niches.
Maybe you just don't spend enough time working on SEO, social-marketing, brand-building, offline marketing...? How many business cards do you give out every week? How many people do you tell about your site? What help or advice do you give to people on your site which they can't get anywhere else? What makes people bookmark your site and tell their friends about it?
If you're making 100 MFA sites, then sure. I'd concentrate on one, good site and you can easily clear 100/month in about 3 months with zero paid advertising.
On top of that, focusing on a few quality sites means you have much better control over the sites and far fewer chances of doing something stupid that will get you banned. Throwing up a 100 MFA sites, your chances of getting banned from AdSense shoot through the roof. If you have quality sites and you make a mistake and get banned, you have a chance of being reinstated. If you have 100 MFA sites and do something stupid, you won't be reinstated.
On top of that, if you have quality sites, you should be able to reach a point where AS is one of your minor revenue streams - you should have plenty of other advertising options that will generate more income.
In fact, over time, you'd probably want to move away from AS being your main source of income, and move towards where companies are paying you directly to advertise on your site, or where you are making commissions from other advertising services.
If you focus on what you know and enjoy, and you focus on quality, you'll get links from other quality websites which will do more for your traffic and PR than anything else, and will insure your long term success.
Do people make money with MFA? Sure, some do.
Fore me, I enjoy my minor success (it equals my day job pay wise) a lot more though, because I get to write about topics I'm interested in. I'm not sitting there looking at AS stats every day and fretting over a drop in clicks or revenue.
I have a few friends who rely on AS more than they should, and it's easy for them to go in panic mode. I don't need or want that kind of stress.