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\nI’ve had a number of emails from readers in the last few days who are disillusioned with their earnings with Adsense. I can perhaps take some of the blame for their mood having posted my reality check<\/a> post last week and by publishing the poll that we have running that highlights that the majority of bloggers using Adsense are only making a dollar (or three) per day.\n<\/p>\n

\nSo I thought I’d offer some words of encouragement to combat the gloom that is going around at present.<\/em>\n<\/p>\n

\nI can relate to the depression about lack of results from Adsense – my early days on the system were similarly gloomy to say the least. Growth in daily earnings from month to month was pretty insignificant. I remember looking at my Adsense statistics numerous times over the first 6 months and wondering if it was worth all the hard work for the few dollars that came in each day.\n<\/p>\n

\nYou’ll notice the graph above<\/strong> (click to enlarge) which graphs my earnings from Adsense (without actual figures included) since October 2003. Notice the first few months earnings – hardly a discernible rise and something that got me down a little and led me to consider stopping my use of Adsense.\n<\/p>\n

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\nBut one day I noticed something that grabbed my attention – and inspired me to keep using Adsense.\n<\/p>\n

\nEach month my income was going up.<\/strong> Between my first and second month it went up just over 100%. The second month it did it again. In fact my monthly rises over the first 9 months of using the Program went something like this:\n<\/p>\n

\nMy First Nine Months Growth in Adsense Earnings:<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\u2022 1st to 2nd month – 126%
\n\u2022 2nd to 3rd month- 93%
\n\u2022 3rd to 4th month – 39%
\n\u2022 4th to 5th month- 3.5%
\n\u2022 5th to 6th month – 65%
\n\u2022 6th to 7th month – 50%
\n\u2022 7th to 8th month – 51%
\n\u2022 8th to 9th month – 45%
\n\u2022 9th to 10th mont – 96%<\/p>\n

\nNow the total monetary increases didn’t seem much (I mean a 100% increase when you’re only earning $1 per day doesn’t seem that exciting) – but the amazing thing about percentages is that there comes a time when things begin to exponentially rise.\n<\/p>\n

\nHypothetically Speaking<\/span><\/p>\n

Here’s a little exercise for you to illustrate the power of exponential growth. Grab a calculator, or fire up the arithmetic section of your brain. What would happen if your blog that is earning $1 per day were to increase its daily earnings by 100% each month for a year? How much would you be earning this time next year?\n<\/p>\n

\u2022 After 1 month it would be earning $2 per day… not even a good coffee!
\n\u2022 After 2 months it would be earning $4 per day….
\n\u2022 After 3 months it would be earning $8 per day…. yawn…
\n\u2022 After 4 months it would be earning $16 per day…
\n\u2022 After 5 months it would be earning $32 per day….<\/p>\n

\n>> Fast Forward >><\/em>\n<\/p>\n

\u2022 After 12 months it would be earning $4096 per day… coffees for everyone!<\/strong><\/p>\n

\nOk that is a pretty unrealistic example – I don’t know many bloggers who are sustaining 100% growth every month – but the principle is the same no matter what the sustained increased percentage of growth. It takes a bit longer for the power of the % to kick in but it eventually does.\n<\/p>\n

\u2022 If you can sustain 50% growth per month and start at $1 per day you end up earning $129 per day (and $16,834 per day after 24 months!)
\n\u2022 If you can sustain 40% growth per month and start at $1 per day you end up earning $57 per day (and $3214 per day after 24 months!)
\n\u2022 If you can sustain 30% growth per month and start at $1 per day you end up earning $23 per day (and $542 per day after 24 months!)<\/p>\n

\nYou get the picture. Of course its not quite that simple – sustaining large percentage increase month after month is difficult – but from my personal experience its definitely possible to keep your earnings pointing in an upward direction….most months.\n<\/p>\n

\nMy Graph<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\nOk I can hear the questions already. ‘Nice theory Darren – but look at your graph – the growth didn’t last!’ – ‘What happened last December and January?’\n<\/p>\n

\nLet me walk you through what happened and where the ‘exponential growth’ theory gets messy.\n<\/p>\n

\nDecember and January Crash<\/strong> – This hurt. Up until 16 December it was looking like I was going to have a massive month – breaking the record I’d set for myself in November. I put a lot of the increase down to pre Christmas research people were doing on the topics that I write about. But then on 17 December things went horribly wrong.\n<\/p>\n

\nLong term readers of this blog might remember the six weeks during December and January where I was on the receiving end of two thirds less traffic than normal as a result of Google doing a pretty major update to their algorithm. This is where my exponential growth of the previous year all came undone and I found myself wondering if I might be about to find out what exponential loss is like.\n<\/p>\n

\nFebruary Recovery<\/strong> – Early in February Google did another update and my traffic returned<\/a>. It wasn’t quite at the heights of the end of November and start of December’s Christmas rush, but it did improve and has again this month significantly again.\n<\/p>\n

\nSo – the exponential growth theory does have its bumps – quite often as a result external forces but in my experience exponential growth in earnings is quite possible – at least for a period of times.\n<\/p>\n

\nBut Wait there’s More<\/span><\/p>\n

Tomorrow I’ll write more on this and give some ways that bloggers can help sustain exponential growth in their blogs. You see it doesn’t just happen – it takes work, time and a little strategy, but I’ll leave that to tomorrow. update<\/b>: read it here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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