My AdSense Earnings Report for 10 Years: $50000+

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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!

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Here is my AdSense income 2009-2018:

  • 2009 – $1,860.05
  • 2010 –  $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.

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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.

YouTube AdSense earning
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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: 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.

AdSense Lifetime Earning
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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:

  1. Monetag
  2. CPM ads
  3. Affiliate marketing
  4. Launch your own course
  5. Offer consultancy
  6. 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!

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A Blogger, Author and a speaker! Harsh Agrawal is recognized as a leader in digital marketing and FinTech space. Fountainhead of ShoutMeLoud, and a Speaker at ASW, Hero Mindmine, Inorbit, IBM, India blockchain summit. Also, an award-winning blogger.

134 thoughts on “My AdSense Earnings Report for 10 Years: $50000+”

  1. Atul Narang

    Thanks for the information, Harsh, you are doing a great job. Best of luck. As you said, adsense makes about 20 % of your total income. I know that affiliate marketing is a major contributor in the incomes of bloggers. What I want to know is, if you are a blogger, you are an affiliate marketer on clickbank and stuff. If you create your own eproduct then, should you discontinue promoting other’s products because that consumes a lot of time too.

    What should be your strategy to promote your own eproduct?

  2. Adesanmi Adedotun

    The earning is not bad,most eespecially your first payment threshold after 4 month plus. I started using AdSense from 28th Feb. 2014 and I have not gotten to the threshold level now. Hope the check will come right at my door step one of this day

  3. Saidur Rahman

    Dear Harsh,
    your adsense earning report of four years is very much motivated. i really have got benefited from your articles and other peoples discussion. as a new blogger i am very much impressed of your different articles and information. i will come back again and again for gaining knowledge and knowing making money strategy.

  4. Rahul A

    Hi Harsh,
    Money is one of the sources of motivation. Your this post undoubtedly proves it!
    Thanks for sharing! Your website is indeed awesome!

    By the way, I have a small blog running which has got Adsense approved on it.
    I am now looking forward to start a tech website but right now don’t have any idea where to start. Will you please give some suggestions(or if you have already built a newsletter series) regarding the same?

  5. Raj Kumar

    Hi Harsh,
    Nice info sharing thanks for sharing and can we use Bluehost affilate program with google adsense on same blog?

  6. Shony

    From the beginning Google Adsense has been my primary revenue source and i am pretty comfortable with it.Now i am looking forward to try CPA offers which are found to be way better if done properly.I also hope that you must have made a lot with niche sites too, haven’t you?

  7. Boby

    Hi, i’m from indonesia. in 3 days i have US$0,29, it’s bad right? can anyone give me some advice?
    sorry for my bad english

  8. Davinder bisht

    whenever i comes to your site Don’t know how your site engage me lot of time in your site Really I am impressed alot and i am also one of your subscriber i always got new new Techniques keep it up

  9. Chintan Jain

    One of the best Post i have seen to motivate people who think Blogging as their Full time Career.

    People like you have always been an inspiration for most people to learn and grow themselves in online world.

    Great Job 🙂 Keep Going 🙂

  10. Hardik

    Hello, the above figures are motivating for new blogger…thanks for sharing!

  11. Akshay Jain

    Well, Adding up your all income (5 Years of Affiliate Income) + (4 Years of Adsense). You make avg. 1625 / Month. Which is a pretty much good sign that blogging is a good way to earn money till now 🙂

    1. Akshay Jain

      Correction: It’s $1625 / Month (USD). 🙂

  12. Rajan

    Hey I made website gadgetzhub.com. I am thinking to make some bucks from it but to get approve from adsenseyour site needs to be 6 months old so can you tell me any other alternative for adsense. I have tried chitika on my blog few months back but it haven’t made me even a single buck. How about yahoo and bing ads. Are they any good ??

    1. Pratik patel

      There is no rule of 6months old
      I got Adsense Approval in 1month old domain
      that to not very well designed site and content was only news.
      just make sure u have minimum 12-15 Quality Articles of minimum 400-600 words and all Pages like About, contact us, privacy.

      Btw I’m jsut learning Blogging and totally noob

      Good luck.

  13. Jeeshan

    Wow,
    It’s cool. I am sure you would have done a lot of task behind this. I am working for the same. But my situation is out of discussion. I’m still in zero level. Even I have been approved with google adsense.

    Have you any suggestion for me so that I, too, can increase my revenue.

    Regards.

  14. Mosam Gor

    Hello Harsh,

    Thanks for Sharing your adsense income . and this is very inspire to all of your readers. Congratulations 🙂

    -Mosam

  15. Jack

    Hi Harsh ,

    The image shows that your “Page RPM” is about USD 1,69 . Am I correct?

    So I guess that you have a very low “Page CTR” .

    What is your “Page CTR”? 1.55% or less?

    I think you need to change your site layout, so you could get a better “Page CTR”. With more adsense ads, at the right place you could get a “Page CTR” as high as 7% or even more.

    Alexa says your site is “Global Rank 2,957 ” and Rank in India as “343”.

    You should get at least USD 2.000,00 each month from Adsense. You have a great site.

    Think about getting a better “Page CTR”.

  16. Nitin Singh Thakur

    Good to hear about your earning , it feels Great when i got my first Adsence Check 🙂

  17. Nikki

    Dude you’re like a god of blogging!
    Excited to try google Adsense now, thanks for sharing your experience and tips

  18. ashutosh

    hi harsh i am ashutosh and i have stared my blog a few days ago,but i am unable to attract traffic beacuse many of the indian internet uses are attracted to facebook and very few read the blog, is there any way where i could increase my blog traffic ?

    1. Pratik patel

      Haha, Same here bro i though i will get great traffic from FB at first and will earn through Adsense

      But its not easy I got Adsense Approval but my earning is zero.

      I already Wasted 4-5 domains in this but now i’m going to do it again but this time i will learn first about Keyboard research, Niche site, SEO.

  19. Huzaima Khan

    With how much daily traffic do you earn this amount? I mean impressions and clicks and from which country?

  20. Rajat

    Nice post..
    But an query..
    In https://www.shoutmeloud.com/shoutmeloud-monthly-income-report-may-2012.html post, you mentioned that your May 2012 earning is $6178.13
    -Then how can be your whole 2012 year’s earning is Only $6884.83 ??
    -You have already mentioned that your First Earning was in Feb 2009, was $434, then how your Apr 2009 earning ($179.77, mentioned above) can be your First Earning.. ??

    Quite Confusing…

    1. Harsh Agrawal

      @Rajat
      You getting confused between AdSense and total earning. AdSense is part of my total income sources… This particular post is only about AdSense earning..and the other post which you referring to ($6178), that includes everything ..(Affiliate, direct ads, AdSense, services and others)…
      You can see here, what other sources I’m using to earn from blogs: https://www.shoutmeloud.com/how-i-make-money-with-shoutmeloud.html

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