I am not going to convince you that Google Adsense is a great way to earn money online. Adsense - Great or bad, you decide. Just if you are already convinced, then you may want to take a look on this short-note. I am here, just to tell that if you search the Internet, you will see people are claiming to earn big money with Google Adsense. How true are they? To my sense, a few of them should be right, but many of them are not.   READ MORE

Can you earn big with Adsense? My sense is - yes, you will, only if you are also big and popular, if your web-sites attract a significant number of Internet Visitors, also your site is useful to them, additionally, if the adsense ads that are displayed on your sites pay something significant per click.

Lets do the math, so far I have seen from different peoples' analysis - Adsense pays on an average 20-30 cents/click, where it can go upto 12-15$/click [I think rare] per click. Also, according to analysis in the internet, the click rate is 0.2 to 3-4%. Reference: http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum89/6726.htm

Lower Limit: Now, say if you have a web-site that attracts 100 visitors a day (3000/month), then you get 0.2 click/day, 6 clicks/month, $1.8/month.

With 1000 Visitors per day: 2 clicks/day, 60 clicks/month = 18$/month

With 100,000 Visitors per day: 200 clicks/day, 6000 clicks/month = 1800$/month

Reality is, if you have 100,000 visitors/day - you will get many other advertisement income opportunities - big players may come to you with great/good offers.

Upper Limit: Now, say if you have a web-site that attracts 100 visitors a day (3000/month), then you get 1 (1%) click/day, 30 clicks/month, $9/month.

With 1000 Visitors per day: 10 clicks/day, 300 clicks/month = 90$/month

With 100,000 Visitors per day: 1000 clicks/day, 30000 clicks/month = 9000$/month

Reality is, if you have 100,000 visitors/day - you will get many other advertisement income opportunities - big players may come to you with great/good offers.

This is not the exact right amount that you will/can earn. There will be many other factors that will play roles. My concern is: if you decide/try to earn through Adsense, you have to do it seriously, and think practically - how big can you become, how many visitors are you capable to attract, how demanding are your contents. How much patience do you have? How much time and efforts can you put on it? Do you have the mindset to do it?

There is a possibility that your click rate can be at least 0.5% to 0.8%. There is no guarantee on it. One possible approach can be - start a web-site, promote it to your target users, wait for three or four months, keep advertising to strangers interested in your type of web-site (I would say mostly to strangers - online or offline). After, three four months, you will know how much is your click rate, and how much you can get per click. In the meantime, you may also try to alter the ads in your web-site (position of the ads, color of the ads, sizes of the ads, type of the ads (text/image), also the advertisers/ads). Then you will know that it does worth your effort or not. I am just trying to say - if it is something - you wanna do - proceed logically.

Before, believing the claims in the internet, check their traffic rankings, popularity, and reliability.

According to the, AdsenseOverDrive.com (I do not know much about AdsenseOverDrive.com), some statistics are given below:

• PlentyOfFish Founder Earns Over $1 MILLION Dollars In Less Than 3 Months!
• Jason Calacanis Earns Over $2,000.00 Per Day With Adsense!
• Jeremy Shoemaker, blogger, earns over $140,000 MONTHLY with Adsense.
• Shawn Hogan, Digital Point forum owner earns over $10,000 monthly with Adsense..
• Tim Carter, from AskThe Builder, earns over $30,000.00 monthly with Adsense.