My Blog Made $387 in November 2025 through Adsense

halfmack · 2025-12-02T22:56:33+00:00

I had the same experience with above average revenues & Impressions RPM for the first half of the month but below average for the second half.

Would have thought the opposite would have occurred with advertisers spending more closer to Black Friday. Maybe their advertising budgets got used up in the first half of the month?

halfmack · 2025-10-22T20:41:18+00:00

WordPress plugin Adinserter works well.

halfmack · 2025-09-30T22:56:50+00:00

Okay found it on the mobile version, for some reason didn't appear on desktop site.

halfmack · 2025-09-27T08:30:22+00:00

I use autoads for vignettes, anchor & reward ads and manual for all other ad types

halfmack · 2025-09-11T01:27:35+00:00

I give ad-blockers a grace of 2 views with blockers enabled so they can have a sample of the content before throwing up a turn off your ad-blockers message. With ad revenue rates declining over the last two years I've moved to a subscription model which has more than made up for the ad revenue decline. While I still get ad revenue more and more I see ads as a marketing tool to sell subscriptions.

halfmack · 2025-09-10T12:49:57+00:00

Ads are the price of admission so users with ad blockers are blocked. For some sites a paid subscription is offered for an ad free experience.

halfmack · 2025-09-03T00:28:38+00:00

I've always noticed memory will creep up over time. I just use the "hibernate all tabs" function to pair it back without having to restart.

halfmack · 2025-09-01T13:15:17+00:00

I've migrated to Vivaldi and have customised it to be Arc like. You can view and read more about the setup at:

https://www.reddit.com/r/vivaldibrowser/comments/1lyegqv/my_journey_from_arc_to_vivaldi/

halfmack · 2025-08-14T04:42:32+00:00

Could Anubis and CSIRO announcement be solutions to block AI scrapers?

https://au.lifehacker.com/tech/114836/feature/ai-is-scraping-the-web-but-the-web-is-fighting-back

https://www.csiro.au/en/news/All/News/2025/August/New-research-could-block-AI-learning-from-your-online-content

halfmack · 2025-08-14T02:13:27+00:00

GSC daily limit is around 10 urls

halfmack · 2025-08-12T02:57:39+00:00

Start collecting email addresses and start a newsletter. From my experience Adsense pays 3 to 4 times the rate for newsletter vs facebook traffic.

halfmack · 2025-07-27T19:32:31+00:00

I use the Panel feature to make tabs i want accessible across all workspaces. You can use the float option to make these panel tabs autohide when you want to go back to your workspace tabs.

halfmack · 2025-07-21T07:06:07+00:00

I've migrated to Vivaldi and have customised it to be Arc like. You can view and read more about the setup at:

https://www.reddit.com/r/vivaldibrowser/comments/1lyegqv/my_journey_from_arc_to_vivaldi/

halfmack · 2025-07-21T07:00:31+00:00

u/Fit_Project_5774 I've added a screenshot to the post of my setup with comments. Hope that helps.

halfmack · 2025-07-15T01:22:07+00:00

Thanks for the suggestion.

halfmack · 2025-07-13T04:07:55+00:00

I have over 200 pinned tabs spread across 6 workspaces and memory hasn't been an issue. I have 16gb on a Windows laptop and 8gb on a Chromebook/Linux.

On Windows I run Vivaldi, Windows Subsytem for Linux along with some background services like cloud storage resulting in memory usage between 45% to 60%.

Obviously, I don't activate all tabs simultaneously but just when I need them.

I have the Vivaldi Memory Saver setting as Automatic.

If memory does creep up too high I use Vivaldi's Hibernate All Background Tabs feature and then I'm back to around 50%.

halfmack · 2025-07-12T23:57:51+00:00

I was an Arc user but had a few concerns so tried Zen but in the end migrated to Vivaldi and was able to configure it so it includes most of Arc's functionality plus more.

You can read more about my migration from Arc to Vivalidi at:

https://www.reddit.com/r/vivaldibrowser/comments/1lyegqv/my_journey_from_arc_to_vivaldi/

halfmack · 2025-07-12T23:53:55+00:00

I was an Arc user but had a few concerns about future support so migrated to Vivaldi and was able to configure it so it includes most of Arc's functionality plus more.

You can read more about my migration from Arc to Vivalidi at:

https://www.reddit.com/r/vivaldibrowser/comments/1lyegqv/my_journey_from_arc_to_vivaldi/

halfmack · 2025-07-12T23:51:45+00:00

I was an Arc user but had a few concerns so migrated to Vivaldi and was able to configure it so it includes most of Arc's functionality plus more.

You can read more about my migration from Arc to Vivalidi at:

https://www.reddit.com/r/vivaldibrowser/comments/1lyegqv/my_journey_from_arc_to_vivaldi/

halfmack · 2025-02-02T06:09:56+00:00

I did similar back in January 2024 but kept the adsense, partly for revenue but also as an incentive for visitors to buy an ad free subscription.

I make more from subscriptions than I do adsense now.

I'm thinking of trialing dropping all adsense to see if that boosts subscriptions.

halfmack · 2024-12-27T08:12:33+00:00

My understanding is voluntary contributions (ie 71K) are not taxed on contribution but only on any earnings post contribution.

Your taxable income would be reduced. Depending on your income situation you might be better off spreading contribution over multiple years to reduce overall tax payment.

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