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Originally Posted by allen080105  My goal is a combination of both. I want to make the website profitable enough to be able to support myself financially so I can move out and I wanted to see if anyone had had success with building a website that generates a full income while at their parents' house...shoot or even friends/relatives houses. I've seen many try it, not see results and give up on it, but I haven't seen too many success stories. |
I think that there can't be too many success stories to see. Ballpark numbers, it takes a 10,000+ Alexa rank to make $100,000 a year from adsense. People will quibble with those numbers a bit, but they're in the right neighborhood. Between 1 in 100 and 1 in 1000 sites in the upper reaches of Alexa are blogs. Since the definition of blog varies, there's a lot of slop in that number, but everyone can agree that there's a TON more porn, search, corporate sites (including various online sales/auction), and non-blog or meta-blog social media represented.
Do a little math on those numbers, and you get that there's roughly between 10 and 100 blogs making $100,000+ a year from Adsense. Even if I'm off by another factor of 10, that's a sobering number. Given the absurd number of blogs out there, you can guess what the success rates must be.