Why Is Google Paying Me So Much?

10 Dec 12 Comments

I rarely check my Google Adsense earnings because I don’t use the program much, but I got a bit of a surprise to see some mysterious extra income and thousands of extra page views in the last few days:

It’s odd because none of my stat programs show any significant increase in traffic on the sites I have Adsense on. Adsense generally earns me less than a dollar per day, but all of sudden it’s sometimes been paying me over $12/day!

There’s on average an extra 13,000 page views per day ever since Dec. 3rd, and I have no clue where they’re coming from.

This is kind of the equivalent of free money falling from the sky! I’m a little baffled, but not complaining ;-)

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12 Responses to “Why Is Google Paying Me So Much?”

  1. Dave P. 10. Dec, 2007 at 2:32 am #

    Do you only have AdSense running on this blog? Or do you have it elsewhere?

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  2. Neville 10. Dec, 2007 at 3:15 am #

    I have Adsense on NevBlog, FancyBlog.com, Neville1.com and on MototekBlog.com which was a blog for a client a long while back who never transferred the domain.

    Other than that, I don’t recall having Adsense anywhere else.

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  3. MissionEnvironment.com 10. Dec, 2007 at 4:10 am #

    you might want to check google adsense TOS because im not sure if you can post these stats up here like that. just lookin out for ya…

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  4. www.DjBlic.com 10. Dec, 2007 at 10:56 am #

    I think I know whats going on, one of your blogs just increatest in SERPs ( search enging rank). WIth the icrease in SERPs comes with an increase in hits/page virews, therefore more money

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  5. Raleigh 10. Dec, 2007 at 11:41 am #

    At the current rates it looks like you’ll clear $200 extra per month. not the worst problem one could have eh? :-)

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  6. bitterkarma 10. Dec, 2007 at 9:54 pm #

    I’ve been reading your blog for a while and I am planning my own blog following the same route. Blogging experiments on making money and as a walkthrough of my own problems of starting a small business. I’m adding your blog to my list. http://www.winterbees.com/blog

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  7. bitterkarma 11. Dec, 2007 at 1:51 am #

    Hey Neville, could I put a review of your blog in my own? I just started and your blog is a great inspiration.

    http://www.winterbees.com/blog/

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  8. emp 11. Dec, 2007 at 9:42 am #

    I hope you have proper tracking (URL channels, for example) in place.

    Then you’ll know where it comes from.

    ::emp::

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  9. Holone 11. Dec, 2007 at 7:23 pm #

    Don’t feed the Machine.

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  10. allen 11. Dec, 2007 at 10:09 pm #

    More money for you…

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  11. Anonymous 16. Dec, 2007 at 1:49 am #

    on dec 4th you were linked from kirk report

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  12. Brian Soule 20. Dec, 2007 at 1:34 am #

    I was actually searching in google for “zencart” under images. The third image I clicked on linked to your treo 700 article.

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