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The following is a list of the Internet’s eight biggest Google AdSense publishers. The information was compiled from interviews and articles found on the Internet. Whenever possible, I list the source of the information.
I apologize in advance if I missed anyone on the list. If you make more than the people listed, please send me proof of your Google AdSense earnings and I will add you on the next time the list is updated. This is a list of individual site owners - people just like you and me. Big corporate AdSense publishers like AOL are excluded.
1: Markus Frind: PlentyOfFish.com - $300,000 per month
Markus Frind is a local Vancouverite who is turning the online dating world upside down. His site, Plentyoffish.com is the biggest free dating site on the Internet. Plentyoffish.com receives up to 500 million page views per month and make over $10,000 per day for Markus, who runs the site from home.
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Google’s AdSense a bonanza for some Web sites
By Jefferson Graham, USA TODAY
LOS ANGELES — Canadian software developer and part-time humorist Eric Giguère made fun of the avalanche of Internet arthritis drug offers on his Web site last year. For his efforts, he received a $350 check from Internet search giant Google.
Google has a simple proposition for anyone who owns a Web site: Let it put up links to its ads, and Google’s AdSense program will give you a piece of the action when someone clicks on them.
It’s found money for many bloggers, small e-tailers and huge businesses — from small personal sites such as Giguère’s, to those of big-time corporations such as Amazon.com, the New York Times and About.com.
Giguère was so inspired, he wrote a book, Make Easy Money with Google, coming in May from Peachpit Press. Hundreds of online forums and Web sites are devoted to AdSense tips and tricks. The downside of the AdSense economy, critics charge, is that the avalanche of ads has created a new form of spam and is destroying the integrity of sites.
“This is a program that rewards people not for creating the best content, but for how to create sites to attract more advertising,” says Danny Sullivan, editor of Search Engine Watch online newsletter. “AdSense has nothing to do with search. It effectively turns the Internet into a billboard for Google’s ads.”
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