In the beginning, I have a blog. But I didn’t have Adsense ad on it. And then I discovered Adsense last August 2005. I learned that I could earn some money on it. So, I put all their ad code on my blog and waited for the money to come. But I was disappointed. Here’s my post, dated March 03, 2006, telling how I was disappointed with Adsense. I even preferred Adbrite ads. 🙂
ano ang mas maganda, adsense or adbrite? matagal na akong nakasign-up sa adsense, kaya may mga ads dyan sa sidebar at footer ng blog ko, na ang sabi, powered by google. may bayad sila dyan kada page impression. lately, nadiscover ko ang adbrite. at kung mapapansin nyo, unti-unti kong pinapalitan yung mga ads ko sa sidebar ng adbrite naman. bakit? kasi naman, sa tinagal-tagal ko nang nakasign-up sa adsense, i’m just averaging 2 cents per day. at sa adbrite, kakasign-up ko lang, at isang text ad pa lang yung nilagay ko dyan sa sidebar, 7 cents per day ang kita ko. so, i’ve decided na yun na ilalagay ko dyan. referral na lang at google search ang iiwan ko sa google. tsaka sa adbrite, pwede ka nang padalhan ng cheke if you earn $20, sa adsense kasi, $100 pa. medyo matagal tagal yan kung ang average mo lang ay 2 cents per day. hehehe.
so adbrite or adsense? obviously, alam nyo na kung ano ang choice ko.
yun lang!
Loose translation:
Which is better, Adsense or Adbrite? It’s been a long time I’m signed-up with Adsense, that’s why you’ll see ads on the sidebar and footer of this blog labeled “Powered by Google”. They pay every page impression. Lately, I discovered Adbrite. And you’ll notice that I’m slowly replacing the Adsense ads with Adbrite ads. Why? Because, despite being signed-up for a very long time on Adsense, I’m just averaging 2 cents per day. And on Adbrite, I just recently signed-up, and I just put a single text ad on my sidebar, and I’m already earning 7 cents per day. So, I’ve decided to use it instead of Adsense. I’ll just use the referral ad and the Google search box here. And on Adbrite, they will send you checks if you earn $20. But on Adsense, you need $100. It will take me a longer time to reach that especially if I’m only averaging 2 cents per day. Hehehe.
So, Adbrite or Adsense? Obviously, you already know my choice.
See. I just jumped on the Adsense bandwagon when I first discovered it. Put the ads everywhere and waited for the money to come. And I only earned a whooping 2 cents per day. Hehe. That was more than 2 years ago.
During that time, I don’t know search engine optimization or SEO. I don’t know ad optimization. And there’s scarcity of bloggers talking about SEO. It was a puzzle to me on how those blogs on top of pinoytopblogs got thousands of visitors everyday.
Good thing, Marc Hil Macalua, the father of SEO Philippines, started an SEO contest. I did not join his first contest because I can’t afford to buy a domain name yet (or I didn’t know how 🙂 ). What I did was I googled for an SEO e-book and found one that really helped me a lot. And to see if what it says is true, I started my text messages blog. I applied all the knowledge I learned on that SEO e-book, and the rest, they say, is history.
My Adsense earnings slowly went up, from a measly 2 cents per day, to 10 cents a day, to 50 cents a day, and to a dollar a day. By September 6, 2006, my Google Adsense earnings was already $94, nearing the $100 target. And Google already sent me my PIN. Here’s my blog post that day:
kahapon, nagtext sa akin ang father ko. sabi nya, “may dumating kang sulat dito, galing US, from Google!” well, tama nga sila, it takes 3 to 4 weeks bago mo mareceive yung sulat nila, sa akin, 3 weeks. ano bang sulat yun? no, hindi pa yun cheke dahil hindi pa naman ako nakakaabot ng $100. $94 pa lang ngayon eh. e ano nga yung sulat na yun? yun lang naman po yung PIN code ko. sabi kasi ng Google, magpapadala daw sila ng PIN sa postal address mo after your balance reached $50. it happened 3 weeks ago, at kahapon ko nga natanggap yung PIN nila. to know more about Google Adsense PIN, read this. Anong itsura nung sulat nila? hayaan nyo at scan ko next week. hehehe. pero ganito daw ang itsura. click here.
Loose translation:
Yesterday, my father sent me a text message. He said, “There’s a letter for you here, from the US, from Google!” Well, they are right, it takes 3 to 4 weeks before you receive their letter. For me, it took 3 weeks. What’s that letter all about? That’s my PIN code. According to Google, they will send you a PIN to your postal address once your balance reached $50. It happened 3 weeks ago, and yesterday, I received my PIN. To know more about Google Adsense PIN, read this. What does their letter look like? Don’t worry and I’ll scan it next week. But according to them, it looks like this. Click here.
By November 2006, I received my first Google Adsense check which I posted here.
My First Google Adsense Check
And every month thereafter, I always reach the $100 quota. Increasing a little every month. It’s more than 2 years already. Before, I was earning just 2 cents per day. Today, $20 in a day is a bad day for me. Thanks to SEO.
How about you? What’s your Google Adsense story? Create a blog post and I will make a Google Adsense story list here. 😉 Let’s share some inspiration to the newbies. (We could hijack the keyword Google Adsense if we unite! 🙂 )
Their Google Adsense Stories
- My Google Adsense story and how I landed on TopBlogs by PromdiLiving
- Biggest Google Adsense Story by Zaldy Dalisay
- My First Adsense Payment: Received! by TechieGirl
- My Google Adsense Story by Donser
- My First Google Cheque by Jehzlau
- An Adsense Story To Share by Dexter
- How The Law of Attraction Helped Me Make Money In Google Adsense by Fitz
- My Google Adsense Story by Glenn
- How to Make Money Online: My Google Adsense Story by EasyLifeGuide
- Your Google Adsense Story here 😉
Ayos! Magandang project ito. 😀
sir, pwede ba sasali rito kahit 3months pa lang ako? susulat din ako ng blogpost about nito. hehe. bibili ako ng laptop nextweek kapag dumating na yung 2nd google earnings ko ($690)…
at ang goog news ko ngayon, nasa top 50 pinoy blogs na ako. hehe,. thank God. !
ok ‘to! Sasali ako! hehe!
mmmm.. Cracking Google Adsense keyword? Interesting brad nice idea for you here and sasali ako pero mas ok siguro kung Make Money Online with Adsense?
wla lang who search Google adsense?
sana ako din nasa top 50 pinoy blogs ehheehhe..
Sayang, wala pakong kita sa adsense $5.00 p lng. (9 months)
Gratz! Also how do you get your Google adsense to appear more than 3 times per page? Diba legally up to 3 google adsense ads lang ang pwede per page? thanks!
Since nagstart out ako sa google adsense nadepress din ako kasi I could not reach a dollar a day..kahit ngayon nasa 1-2 dollars a day minimum pa rin ako sa adsense pero its not bad afterall I will be recieving my first adsense earning next month..I learned a bit from these SEO gurus on how to optimize your blog posts..sana tumaas naman kita ko sa adsense kahit 5 dollars a day lang ok na sa aking yon..hehehehe
@Fitz… ayos! sali ka! 😀
@don_ser… sure! as long as you have a Google Adsense story to tell, pwede. 😉
@apol… sige, wait ko entry mo. 😉
@ronald mojica… marami nagsesearch nyan. check mo Google Trends. Though medyo maraming competition, pero kung magkakaisa tayo, walang imposible. 😉
@Jan Alvin… sa umpisa talaga, medyo mahirap. learn SEO to get more visitors. and don’t quit. 😉
@dominic… 3 Google adsense ad units, 3 link units ang legal. and that’s what I have. hindi naman ako lumalampas dyan. yung ibang ads dyan, from Chitika, Project Wonderful and AsiaCentury.
@ferdielicious…. basta keep on blogging and optimizing lang, lalaki rin yang kita mo. 😉
Hey Macuha..may kaibahan ba kung ang blog mo ay like two years na with updated posts and stuff kaysa blog na marami posts like a hundred posts pero 1 year pa lang? Kasi yong friends ko lumalaki adsense earnings nila kahit hindi sila nag eSEO sa blog nila pero they’ve been blogging for like 2 years now..Does a blog’s age really matter? I hope you can give me some feedback about this..thanks!
cge magshare din ako ng story ko… halos pareho lang din tau, batchmate ata! hehe, lakas mo kumita, painom ka naman…
I already have my google story… pwede ba lumang post? 😀
@Ferdielicious… domain name age is one of the factors for ranking. maraming factors, it’s just one of them. maraming binabalanse si google. siguro, when every other factors are the same, the one with the older domain ranks higher. they might have an older domain, but if you get quality links, you might beat them in ranking. just continue creating quality content and link building, tataas din ranking mo. 😉
@major… oo nga, batch mate tayo. and i’m sure, mas malaki kita mo sa akin sa dami ng raket mo. haha.
@passive income… hehe. tuloy lang nang optimization. oks lang, nangongopya rin naman ako ng style ng iba dyan. secret na lang kung sino sila. 😀
@gusher… download mo yung SEO e-book sa feeds ko. pwede ka mag-umpisa dun. tapos, makakalimutan mo nang magpaturo sa akin kasi andun na lahat. 😀
@amy… sure, kahit lumang post. basta you have a story to tell about google adsense, iadd natin dito. 😉
sir, nakasulat na po ako ng google adsense story. Please pakiadd na rin po. click mo lang yung name ko. hehe. Thanks talaga!
Teka.. paki delete ng unang comment ko.. di ko nalink ng maayos.
Pasali 😀 na link na din kita sa post na yan dati 😀 inupdate ko lang link.. hehe
My First Google Cheque
Thanks 😀 heehee..
sir jehz, ang movies ko?
sir marhgil, thanks!
ahaha, ako stagnant si adsense. need ko aralin pala lalo seo para kumita naman blogs ko. 😀
Busy ako nung mga nakaraang araw.. he he he. gagawa na ako.. 🙂
@dexter – sino ako??? haha
Mukhang alam ko na he he he 🙂 ano yun pen name 🙂
@ don_ser pala yun
ayan meron na akong story to share An AdSense Story to Share ok na ba yan 🙂 daming link nyan sa ibang bloggers , way of saying thank to them
Hi Marhgil. Here’s my Google Adsense story. Thanks! 😀
Bossing pa add naman sa list, nag ping nko sa blogpost ko 🙂
bakit po ako pag naglagay ng code, yun lang talaga ung nag-aappear, wala tlgang ads?
will it take days or weeks para mgka-ads?
hi marhgil paano ba mag link ng credit or bank account sa paypal.. please help me naman thanks..
sige, gawa rin ako ng post ko about my story on google adsense. hehehe
this is exciting!
I’ll share mine soon!, $20/day is a bad day to you, pero fiesta na sakin to! Enjoying every bit of it! hehehe,
this would be my 4rth adsense payday! I might reach 400 this july! yahooo!
Lolz.. Same here ^.^ I had read many successful stories which had inspired me a lot. Had put google adsense ads on my blogs that barely makes me money. Suwerte na if maka 30 cents or more a day. Well, that’s on my blog.. Medyo nawalan ng pag-asa so I told to myself “bahala na yung mga ads to work out themselves, na addict naman ako sa paid blogging and I had made money from $5 to more than per blog entry.”
On my Google Adsense? Eto, waiting for my first check to arrive!! ^.^ Yay!! Now I’m on my road to success, hopefully.. My Tagalog movie website had helped me alot! I had passed the $100 Google adsense minimum payment now! ^.^
This blog looks like a google whore big time! Just the top fold consists of 4 google ads already…too sell out man..too sell out
hi marghill,
am a newbie in adsense, am inspired by your post. i have not hit yet the 100$, please tell me about SEO.
thanks
you display too much adsense here in this page,google allowed 3 adsense per pages,read the tos of adsense
@stupid… do you know how to count? 3 ad units and 3 link units are allowed. and that is what i have, unless you don’t know how to count and haven’t read the TOS yet.
Elo macuha… nag-aplay ako sa adsense kainis ni reject ako. bakit kaya… bago lang blog ko ok lang ba yon na tagalog blog ko?
@bench… they don’t approve Tagalog blogs, it’s not yet on the supported language list. better create an English blog instead and reapply after a week,
nice post! keep up
Hello macuha. I’m a newbie here.
Great adsense story. Thanks for this post.
Hi there Macuha! I like your Google Adsense story. How I wish you could share some info with me. Thanks in advance. God bless you!
my adsense has been disabled, need help guys… any chance ba na mareclaim ko pa yung earnings ko don? or any suggestion na adsense alternatives? thanks guys!
tanong ko lang ho kung! paano ko po ba malalaman kung may kinita na ako
sa adsense? bago pa lang po kasi ako. salamat po!
Hi Macuha! 1mo. palang yung blog ko, at yung Adsense ko naman ay 3weeks palang,
ngayon po ay kumikita palang ako ng $4.15. Ano pa kaya ang dapat kung gawin para
kumita ng mas makaki yung blog ko? eto ho yung blog site ko, http://noykix.blogspot.com
pakitingnan nalang tapos sabihin nyo kung ano yung dapat kong gawin para kumita
pa ng malaki yung blog ko. Maraming salamat…
mabasa nga yan seo book na yan.tnx!
Pwede bang maglagay ng Google AdSense kahit free lang yung blog mo, like yung Google Blogger o WordPress.com? Kala ko sila lang naglalagay nun automatic. Tulad ng sa Friendster. Sorry, newbie question.
kuya marghil, nag subscribe ako, baka pwede mo naman akong bigyan nung seo book. puhlease.
Buti ka pa may check na from Google…. i received a letter also from Google for a pin…. pero la pa ung check… i wish i’ll receive my first Google check….
Huwaa! Kuya you inspired me talaga…lalong-lalo na sa lahat ng mga bloggers who’ve got their payments already in adsense. I’ve been a blogger since 2002, well, its 2004 when I started using WordPress (blog platform) and got my new domain. Darn, dapat noon ko pa pala nilagay ung ads sa blog ko, but kasi personal blog kasi un, its tagalog so diba bawal un. But now, I managed few blogs, should I say… English blogs na but un nga hirap ako makaearn sa adsense. Like $0.00 – $0.05 lang ung nakukuha ko everyday. WTF! >.< So un, if you have any suggestions po beside your Guerilla blogger e-book… Just let me know hihi. :))
Thanks po!
wow! kakainspire naman sir Marghil! ako ok na sa akin $1 a day – minimum goal ko tlga yun haha 😀
hi kuya, eto po ang adsense story ko, i received my first payment from Adsense rin:
http://pinaymakingmoney.ws/my-first-ever-google-adsense-payment/
I just finished posting my Google adsense story:
http://www.pinoymoneymaker.com/making-money-online/my-google-adsense-story-pinoy-money-maker-1/
I’m just starting. I hope I could follow in you footsteps. Hihi. Thanks for this post! I think it inspired me.
Cheers!
Please check my site. It\’s not yet earning since I can\’t get accepted to adsense. If you could, Please suggest some changes I have to make… Thanks!
hey…
i m new in blogging..
i have scored $72 till now ..
waiting it to be hundred ..
after getting my first payment i will share my story….