What are you Obsessed with?

"I was completely obsessed with my website and would do it for free 24/7, with adsense I get to have my cake and eat it too ;) " petra

Content Rich + Time = Popular

"as your website gets older, it will become popular. Make sure you have content rich website. And make sure you are passionate about what you do. Find something that you are obsessed with and make a website about it. I can tell you by heart georaza, that's the surest way to success - be obsessed with what you do. And don't do it for money, because you will be frustrated. Do it for the love of it, and something will come up, and you will succeed. " Mohammad_R

Alternative Sources for Content

"all my articles are in english, there are close to 450 historical articles in my database. Approximately, 25% of all articles were written by me in bosnian language and translated by my students in English language. Other articles are from my students who wrote them and translated them in English" Mohammad_R

Alternative Traffic Sources

"I had close to 33,000 clicks in May and around 600,000 AdSense impressions. My average pay per click comes roughly less than 30 cents or so. Unique visitors 187,000 according to my awstats. Roughly 80% of my traffic referrals comes from 7 major universities (4 American, 2 Canadian, 1 Swedish) who included link to my site in various journal/article references and abstracts on their pages. I assume that most of my traffic is comprised of students." Mohammad_R

Optimize for Humans

"Write your pages for human visitors! Your whole site will benefit. " grandpa

Add Fresh Content

"Jan $6
Feb $30
Mar $40
Apr $55
May $185

The jump between April and May was due to a handful of seasonal pages I put up late in April. That money's about to go away, but it's given me an idea for a new set of seasonal pages with a longer peak. It's also convinced me that I CAN make AdSense work for me--if I get off my butt and put out new pages. Hard work, the key to success" Curiosity

Think Big and Expand

"Fair enough. Think small, stay small.

If you want to make big bucks... you'll need to find ways to expand and you'll need to do it outside your 'niche' if you've already saturated that. " oddsod

Work Hard

"Look at your own stats, learn and practice better optimisation techniques, build links, market and promote. Nobodys crops grew bigger and better whilst watching their neighbours. " peewhy