Why am I writing this post?

I was about to ask the same question. ;)

When was the last time added content also reflected in higher Adsense income? That's some time ago. These days, I often feel that "writing quality content for my website" does not translate to higher income. So I let it rest and surf WW and the WWW for distraction, gossip, news, ideas, and entertainment.

Maybe I come across that cool idea that makes me millions instead of pennies. :-)

I'm getting very good at procrastinating. Yeah, I should be writing more.... tomorrow.

Yes, you work for "G" now. Work you slaves, you minions.

When was the last time added content also reflected in higher Adsense income?

I started 2003 with a certain theme, but more actual themes stoped me from expanding this site in the last years.

So I can compare the development of sites where I always write new content with sites where I do not write new content.

So I can compare the development of sites where I always write new content with sites where I do not write new content.

Hum... and your conclusion?

Theme developt 2003.. 2004, nearly no new content

monthly average $415
best month $905 in January 2006
March 2009: $186

Current main theme

monthly average $896
best month $1931 in May 2008
March 2009: $1147

So quess where my income would be, if I would have not added
new content.

I agree.

I agree but I must add something: this is a long, long run.

What I'm doing this april will define the trend in the two or three next aprils. So, if I work heavily in my sites, those years will be better and if I waste my time bad time will come.
I don't know what search engine trends or user preferences will be three years beyond but them both will find my sites full of content.

Time to back to the keyboard.

Surfing the web for new ideas and inspiration is as disgusting as picking what's between other people's ears, won't get you much past the ear wax, what's between your ears is much more accessible, productive and clean :-)

I don't know, whenever earnings get frustrating I reach out to the primeval pre-AdSense high feeling of accomplishment and pride in serving something good and useful for my visitors, it escapes me often but it is is always there tucked in deep waiting to be dusted and rediscovered.

Well, we had a record month in March, revenue wise, with slight increases in traffic (about10%) from last year. I've been working much harder since Nov, when everything crashed, so overall from a low of $x,000 and month we've close to doubled, back to our peak.

Diversification continues. We're setting up a cool reprint system so people can pay us more easily for our article reprints. Cleaning up and upgrading all our sites, and a lot more. yes, adsense income hasn't increased (it's actually stable since the low point in Nov).

...the only thing i wish is that i had more time. Looks like I'm going to hire a web designer.

3 articles a day is sometimes the hardest thing to do....

Hey, I actually did something today :-) I posted three short article pages and added a search engine (Google CSE) to one of my smaller (but growing) sites. I probably spent more time hanging out on this forum than writing though... :-(

Just a thought. I wonder what we would happen to the web if adsense was stopped. How many millions of web pages and website would disappear?

The weak wouldn't make it however people with a good eye for affiliate sales would make it.

what we would happen to the web if adsense was stopped

A good question that deserves a thread of its own.

The world without AdSense/AdWords:
(in the year 2000 labamba music and flash light)

- The poor monkey would get punched to death.
- Visitors are forced to memorize site names as Google stops crawling & developing search while MSN and Yahoo only serve made for punch a dead monkey sites.
- The web evolves towards new non white backgrounds and non blue links.
- The world wide web begins imploding as site owners start charging for membership fees, Governments start taxing per page impression, ISPs go out of business libraries become popular again and malls are filled by dazzled geeks trying to figure out how offline shopping works.
- Pollution, unemployment & traffic jams hits a new record as millions start daily commuting again.
- A new calender system denoting post AdSense PAS will be used by an overnight rich offline media.
- Some small third world countries start collapsing under the new economic pressure.
- Microsoft acquires Google in a hostile take over and amazingly still fail to serve decent search results and targeted ads, and for the first time ever just visiting a search engine can cause your computer to crash.

Thanks for that Hobbs, a great friday afternoon read :)

I agree but I must add something: this is a long, long run.

Not only that, but it's ongoing. The great thing about AdSense is that the money keeps coming in when you're not working. One of our sites rarely gets any updated content from us, yet the existing content still brings in several thousand dollars every year. (That particular site is fairly niche, so spending a lot of time/effort writing new content probably wouldn't increase the AdSense revenue very much, so the effort is spent on other sites with before ROIs.)

Not only that, but it's ongoing. The great thing about AdSense is that the money keeps coming in when you're not working. One of our sites rarely gets any updated content from us, yet the existing content still brings in several thousand dollars every year. (That particular site is fairly niche, so spending a lot of time/effort writing new content probably wouldn't increase the AdSense revenue very much, so the effort is spent on other sites with before ROIs.)

Evergreen content is the gift that keeps on giving. Some of my most productive hours are spent writing content that is gonna last for years to come.

SO STOP KILLING YOUR VALUABLE TIME AND START WRITING, YOU LAZY BUM!

PKB

PKB

Caught again :(