Regardless of his other sources of income people break their neck trying to earn that kind of money on adsense so i find it unusual that he would turn his back on it.
Guy makes $100k a year in adsense; decides to quit adsense
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Steve Pavlina is a workhorse writer. He writes about anything self-help and new-age and related terms under the sun. And he is good at it. He is GREAT at it. He is fast writer. While you drink beer and spend 1hr+ on a phone with your current g/f and chatting with your current online g/f's - he writes. Did i mention he is a great writer? And he was doing it for ages. And he loves it. Google crawler experiences orgasm every time it crawls his properties as there is always something fresh happened on his site and it is not auto generated and it is not RSS fed.
So after 10 or so years the guy is making 100k+ just from the lame adsense. He certainly could grow up to higher hights via JV's and partnerships with serious businesses.
And he is in self-help - in the current economy everyone is looking for some kind of (self)?help.
Personally my best turn off - is adsense ads. When i look for help and visit brand new site and see Adsense over there - it almost automatically goes to my "never visit again" list. *spam*! Serious intelligent people very rare put adsense on their work unless it's an BFAS sites.
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When he got out prison, he also completed a double-major in 1 semester. Then he decided to only sleep for 30 minutes a day once every other week so he could write all his articles. He started making a couple grand a year. Then his wife called the spirits to endow him with $50k a month super guru powers. He gave up all food, while his wife eats 13 vergan fake chocolate cakes per day. He subsists off pure sunlight and sniffing her taint.
This guy is a workaholic.
As far as the actual topic goes, a lot of the responses jump to conclusions. For one thing it's PR/Linkbait. For another, there is no such thing as "giving up" something if it is replaced with something more valuable. Assuming you have finite advertising space, work hours,etc you simply don't just simultaneously use every possible revenue stream available. Adsense is far from the only way to make money and for many websites it is terrible.
IIRC John Chow did the same thing, and his (claimed) earnings were not hurt at all. $100K is nothing to some people doing revenue and it could be holding some sites back.
IIRC John Chow did the same thing, and his (claimed) earnings were not hurt at all. $100K is nothing to some people doing revenue and it could be holding some sites back.
He had a compulsive stealing problem. Went to jail for stealing a car. Had an epiphany and became an over achiever.
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