We all know that Google AdSense is one of the best recurring monetization networks for any blog or website. Today, I’m sharing my AdSense earning reports for the past 10 years.
I started blogging in December 2008 and implemented AdSense on ShoutMeLoud in 2009. Soon, it becomes one of the best ways to make money blogging for me. Along with AdSense, another profitable channel for me is affiliate marketing and selling my own products that you can see on ShoutMeLoud store.
While you are here, you should know that I have always been transparent about my blogging business. My goal with ShoutMeLoud is to help others follow their passion for writing and make a business out of it. This is why every month I publish income and traffic report so that you could apply all new techniques in your blogging journey.
Here are two articles that you should start with:
It’s 2019 now, and I wanted to share my AdSense earnings report for the last seven years. I believe this will be helpful to many bloggers, and help them figure out if they can rely on AdSense for their online income or not.
Before I share my AdSense earnings report, do remember:
- This report includes all the blogs in my network.
Update: As promised, the Google AdSense eBook is out!
10-Year AdSense Earnings: Just for inspiration
If you are new to AdSense, you can refer to this AdSense guide and learn how to create an AdSense account.
I received my first payment in the first week of May 2009. It was $179.77, and honestly, I can’t begin to express the joy I had when I was holding my first AdSense check!
Here is my AdSense income 2009-2018:
- 2009 – $1,860.05
- 2010 – Â $7,235.44
- 2011 – $10,771.13
- 2012 – $6,884.83
- 2013 – $6.224.20
- 2014 – $4471.08
- 2015 – $5673.39
- 2016 – $3962.62
- 2017 – $2464.65
- 2018 – $905.44
Update: AdSense Income Report Until February 2019: (Approximately 3.4 Million INR)
From January 2009 – February 2019, I have earned $50,581 from AdSense on all of my blogs.
If you notice in the product column, “Hosted AdSense for Content” earned $571.27.
While it is not much, this comes from the AdSense-YouTube partnership.
I also earn from AdSense ads running on YouTube videos on my YouTube channel.
You should definitely focus on YouTube for monetization. It could be a great revenue source for your online earning. I suggest you to read below article to learn more about this:
How To Make Money on YouTube (With or Without Huge Subscriber Base)
To be honest, my one-year affiliate income report for any individual network is much better than my ten-year combined earnings from AdSense, but as I always say: recurring income from AdSense gives us peace of mind.
When you are earning online, recurring income is the first thing that you should target.
Once you are within your income comfort zone, you can try to implement new methods of making money from a blog.
When it comes to contextual advertising, there are many AdSense alternatives out there. But the quality of the ads and the timeliness of payments you get with Google AdSense aren’t available apart from a select few such as Setupad.
Also see:Â A Blogger’s 5-Year Affiliate Earnings for Inspiration: $80,410
Can you rely on AdSense income as a full-time/sole source of income?
The reason I’m sharing my 10 years of AdSense earnings with you is to give you an idea of how much a blogger can earn from AdSense.
As I told you before, my AdSense earnings are only a small portion of my total income, but I know many bloggers who are making more than $8000 USD every month with AdSense. Here is a screenshot from another bloggers AdSense account and perhaps this is the biggest AdSense earning I have ever seen.
Do notice the lifetime column to see the potential of AdSense.
If I consider the salary of an average software engineer in countries like U.S.A, India, Brazil, and a few others, I find AdSense earnings to be more tempting than the traditional salary.
The only downside of relying only on AdSense for income is that if your account gets banned at any point in time, you will be hunting for the best suitable alternative, which is a “traditional” job.
If you are someone who is planning to start a blog and earn from AdSense, my advice to you would be:
- Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.
If you are planning to make blogging a career, it is a good idea to have multiple sources of income.
You can have multiple blogs, or you can use different monetization methods like:
- Monetag
- CPM ads
- Affiliate marketing
- Launch your own course
- Offer consultancy
- Digital products
and many others.
So that sums up my ten-year AdSense journey. I will continue to share whatever I learn during my blogging journey with you on my blogs.
I would be interested to know how much on average you earn from AdSense in a year. Would you recommend to anyone considering blogging as a full-time career to rely on AdSense earnings? Share your thoughts in the comments below!
what are other ads network that provide image and animated ads like adsense.I am currently using infolinks.Can you suggest me some other good ad networks.
Hi Harsh,
This is really nice achievement as a blogger, as you know very well that, now your blog is one of the popular tech blog. As all kind of information related to technology are available on your blog. I have seen lots of blogs and bloggers, but you are unique and active blogger out of all other bloggers.
This is just because of your hard work and dedication to your blog. You love your blog and take care of your blog. This is the reason, it works best for you.
Motivational. But of no use until they really approve my adsense application. Resubmitted for 23rd time today!
You will get approved one day surely Aditya 🙂
And yes this earning of Harsh really motivating. I need to refine my plans to achieve such amount in adsense
Hi Harsh, I was wondering how much of your earnings is a profit? I somehow believe that those who earn a lot on Adsense also spend quite a lot on advertising (with a few exceptions). Many pro-bloggers have us believe that 100% of these earnings are actually a profit so that’s quite misleading. But it would be interesting to know if you’d be willing to share, at least to give other bloggers here an idea – the percentage profit of your Adsense earnings. Thanks, you are an inspiration.
Hey Sabz
This is almost 100% earning as we blogger usually don’t spend on PPC campaign …. Though running cost be counted in term of Webhosting ..which is not much …
Congratulations harsh. I was wondering how much a software engineer would be making after 4 years?
If I understand correctly, there is more money in content adsense than youtube for the same effort?
@Aditya
True..Adsense on content blog works better…but it require more work in term of promotion and other factor.. Where as Youtube is a ready made platform, and promotion is easy because of millions of active users….
great article harsh…no i would definitely not recommend relying on adsense earnings only…like they say ‘always have a backup plan!’ lol…since you are doing blogging as a full time career, your earnings are more than awesome…best of luck bro 🙂
Hello Harsh. Thanks and Congratulations.
But my adsense account was blocked so i moved on to yahoo ads network. Still i want to move back to adsense. Any tip to do that?
Nice Adsense earning report. I wonder if you would have putted your all adsense ad unit on your blog.
Hello Mr Agarwal,
Jsut like you since 2008,I am also a wannabe on the internet .I have a website but again it has gone into darkness. Since then my interest was demoilsed.But somehow after going through shout me loud ,I am inspired again to follow my dreams and make a new beginning. I am very much interested into the paid consultancy part.Pls get in touch with me on my mail.I will be highly obliged to you for the same. Thanks & Regards,
Blogging is a sure shot career option that is readily available for people who have interest and knowledge of writing and sharing things with audience..
Adsense is the earning method for newcomers, as one of the widely available earning network
Once they are into the race they try diff methods
Great going dude, it shows your blog capability of generating recurring income.
Great Bro…!! It’s awesone
And you know if you were in Pakistan, this earning would be multiplied by 2 😉 Coz rate in PK of $ is 100 rs :/.
SML Earning Report is always motivates me . Thanks For sharing your adsense earning but please also post your all time money from all the sources 🙂
Hello Harsh.
Always nice to read such data with income reports.And very well said running multiple blogs, not depending upon adsense as the main source of income is very necessary.
I learned this when my blog got hit by first panda updates. Since then it became difficult for me to move on as i was new to blogging back then. But its wise to always have a plan B and i have learned and implemented this.
Thanks for the article.
It is Mind Blowing stats as you are saying this is Just 20% of your Whole Income.
Simply MOTIVATING !! 🙂
I have a confession. But hopefully you won’t stop accepting guest posts from me. 🙂 People need to first buy a english book and practice learning “How to write quality content”. For Example in our country I encounter many freelancers dying to write for 500-600 words and they make decent income. A few days back I wrote an article called 5 Web Design companies to hire in 2013 out here.
You guys know how much I got for posting this in Shout Me Loud. Any Guesses? 150 USD for a single post. And the company who paid me has alexa ranking below 200.
No more clue. Only thing I can say to all of you is concentrate on quality.
BTW Harsh thanks for that inspiring post.
Wow 30% Decreased in 2012? Why So?
BTW Yeah really we should not depends on one source on income, Affiliate is best of passive income.
@Amit
After Panda hit ShoutMeLoud..I stopped focusing on few blogs.. CallingAllGeeks, which was making great from Adsense, it went down due to lack of attention. That’s one reason for low Adsense earning in 2012.
Can you please explain what do you mean by Panda hit ShoutMeLoud… ??
Thanks…
Hi Divyesh,
The Panda hit Harsh is referring to was a major algorithm update Google did to minimize “low quality sites” in Google organic searches and to return “high quality sites” to the top of the search.
You can read up here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Panda
That’s a good earning amount as an professional blogger, I wounder how much more you would have earned if you had just filled you blog with adsense ads.
@Mahendra
Honestly, I don’t think I would have earned the same amount which I’m earning with Affiliate marketing. I’m planning to post affiliate income report of one program which I’m using, and you could compare the difference from it. 🙂
Hi Harsh
Thanks for sharing this info.
Like you, even I started my blogging journey in 2008 when my joining in Accenture was delayed 😉 However I never took it that seriously because of lack of knowledge @ that time I guess. At present, I have three blogs and I do receive check several times in an year. I believe that income via Adsense is good alternative source of income however trusting it blindly as main source of income involves risks. I take it as my alternative, less reliable source of income 🙂