Making Even More Money With Adsense

I added a button to the blog. If I refer you to the Google Adsense program, AND you collect $100 in revenue - then I get a $100 bonus from Google! Hopefully at least one or two people will be inspired to put Adsense on their website and will be kind enough to click on the referral link.

I'm pretty sure I'm allowed to suggest clicking on the referral link, because it doesn't cost Google anything unless you join the program and succeed. Whereas, I'm not allowed to say you should click on the actual text ads because that would waste advertizer revenue if you didn't care about the product they are selling. Note: if you do decide to go crazy and click on the text ads a lot, Google might actually end up penalizing me more than I benefitted from it - so don't do it.

As for making money on Adsense, since I last commented on this subject, revenue is up a lot. I'm making around $500/month! Most of the money isn't from the blog, which is earning very very little.

Unfortunately, despite earning less than the poverty level, I have to pay a federal self-employment tax of 15.3% (12.4% for social security and 2.9% for medicare) and a Philadelphia city income tax of 4.5% -- for a total tax rate of 19.8%.

Fortunately I think I don't pay PA income tax as I think there is a $6500 deductible, and federal tax doesn't kick in until around $10000.

Also I have several things I can deduct from my income as work-related expenses. Notably travel, computer hardware, and computer programming books.