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 $8000 USD every month with AdSense. Here is a screenshot from another bloggers AdSense account and perhaps this is the biggest AdSense earning I have ever seen.
Do notice the lifetime column to see the potential of AdSense.
If I consider the salary of an average software engineer in countries like U.S.A, India, Brazil, and a few others, I find AdSense earnings to be more tempting than the traditional salary.
The only downside of relying only on AdSense for income is that if your account gets banned at any point in time, you will be hunting for the best suitable alternative, which is a “traditional” job.
If you are someone who is planning to start a blog and earn from AdSense, my advice to you would be:
- Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.
If you are planning to make blogging a career, it is a good idea to have multiple sources of income.
You can have multiple blogs, or you can use different monetization methods like:
- Monetag
- CPM ads
- Affiliate marketing
- Launch your own course
- Offer consultancy
- Digital products
and many others.
So that sums up my ten-year AdSense journey. I will continue to share whatever I learn during my blogging journey with you on my blogs.
I would be interested to know how much on average you earn from AdSense in a year. Would you recommend to anyone considering blogging as a full-time career to rely on AdSense earnings? Share your thoughts in the comments below!
i still remember that day when i was fighting for adsense approval and reading shoutmeloud blogs and neil patel blogs for seo and blog tips i have read a lot about blogging and learned also from here so i am here again and again now i am making more than 1000$ from affilate and blogs per month and this happen on 4 years of time thansks harsh heartly
Congratulations Sir. Last month I have earned $500 from Google AdSense. Thank You Soo Much Sir
hello Harsh Sir my age is 13 years and i have craze of blogging and i start my blog in 2018 january and In one month of starting I get 100K+ Pageviews but no any income i not want money but i want became successful I want can you help me please I have some question to ask you PLease Help me Sir i am your student
Hello Ayush,
That’s a great achievement. Congratulations!. Becoming Successful takes time and patience. Just keep helping people with their queries, actively participate in forums, attend events related to blogging and most importantly, share quality content.
Hi Harsh,
Very inspired from you and also wish to start blogging as full time professional job for survival because want to be my own boss .
Kindly suggest as way forward
thanks Ashuthosh. Start with identifying your niche i.e what topic do you want to write on.for help read this:https://www.shoutmeloud.com/how-to-choose-blogging-niche.html
Congratulations harsh. Last month I have made a record! From April 2011 – October 2017, I have earned $50,000 from Google AdSense.
Here is my earning report: https://blog.masudurrashid.com /google-adsense-and-my-career/
Keep blogging. 🙂
hey, can any one tell me my last month income on Google AdSense is 204.5 $ and I received 198.5 $? every month I received full amount but this month on Aug. I received 6$ less why! can any one tell what the reasons behind of this?
Congrats Mr Harsh for your awesome Adsense Earnings. Thanks for sharing this experience.
Thanks Harsh for sharing your Adsense revenue. I aggree with your advice of not putting all eggs in one basket. Its very important to have multiple sources of income. When I start monetizing my blog, I’ll make sure to diversify.
Hi Harsh,
That’s really inspiring. Yes, AdSense gives you peace of mind. But it takes a while to get substantial results from AdSense.
However, I would also like to mention that nothing can beat AdSense in some particular niches.
While I was browsing I here about Shoutmeloud and checked the site. After reading most of the content, I too started writing a blog. Your content helped me in a lots of multiple factors. Thanks for your awesome content. Keep sharing us.
thank you so much harsh bhai for sharing this motivational information for any blogger , so that every blogger can learn that “if you work with your passion no one can stop you”
Congratulations sir.
Hello Harsh sir, It’s been 4 years in digital industry and you are the reason that keeps me following up my dreams. You are a great inspiration for all of us and hope you keep inspiring us.
Congrts Harsh! Hope for some more in upcoming years.
I Think This Adsense Report Inspire New Bloggers for Keep Blogging because Blogging Needs Time and Knowledge.
Thanks for all Tutorial Posts … on Your Website
Harsh you are inspiration for us..
Really good information it quite rare nobody shares their AdSense information in public. thanx for inspiring the bloggers once again… a big thumb up..
I don’t think adsense is helpful in India anymore, unless the traffic is huge. Hope you can share other ways, how to go about alternative ways now, in 2017, when adsense revenue here is going down, at least in my case.
Hello Harsh Sir, I am a big fan of the articles that you write here. I just have one very basic question that how much time does it takes for the search engines to recognise your website and can I start making money from the first day onwards. ?
@Shivam
If your post quality stuff daily, you can expect up to one month for your blog to start getting traction. If you have no experience before, it would take 1-2 month to start seeing money from blogging.
This month I’m gonna receive my first adsense earning! I’m excited!!
wow congratulation
Thanks Harsh for sharing earning report. I am also new blogger and my blogging language is hindi. My google adsense account fully approved within a month and that time i have only 14 post on my blog. I am using blogspot platform. Pls see my website. But problem is that I am not making with this google adsense account . pls guide… cpc is very low around 0.05$ .