Small Companies & Google Adsense is the future
I was poking around alexa today http://www.alexa.com/site/ds/top_sites?cc=CA&ts_mode=country&lang=none and saw that Plentyoffish is now a top 30 site In Canada ahead of all other dating sites. http://ranking.websearch.com/SiteInfo.aspx?url=plentyoffish.com (Ask.com's toolbar network) puts me in the top 43 most viewed sites on the web. In the bigger picture Plentyoffish.com is neck in neck with yahoo personals and still a ways behind match.com. It amazes me to think that my 1 person company is able to compete at a level where all the competitors have 600+ servers, and 300+ full time staff. I feel like I am ahead of my time, and when I look around at the companies out there today I have a hard time seeing them existing in a few years. I believe that in a few years 2 or 3 person companies will replace companies that have 40 or 50 employees.
I sometimes wonder if i'm crazy for not going paid, and passing up 100's of millions a year in revenue. But i created this site to change the world, and make money at the same time. I may not make $20 million a month like the other sites my size but google pays me good money :) My effective CPM (under $1.00) may be very very low, but when you have a site this huge it really ads up. (My girlfriend is holding up the cheque, its for 2 months as googles EFT bounced.)
June 8, 2006 at 8:47 pm
Oh my god!
That is awesome, congrats!
June 8, 2006 at 10:07 pm
Nice work, Markus!!
Hey, if you ever need a partner…
June 8, 2006 at 10:20 pm
Con’grats on the chq.. !! :)_
June 9, 2006 at 1:01 am
The check picture is a real treat, it will inspire 10,000 others to get checks which are less than $50. 10 of them will get to where you are, and the other 9,990 will wonder how you did it. Only the 10 can live your life, but giving the other 9,990 the dream enables them to keep chasing it — a kind of happiness and freedom I don’t think folks had 20 years ago.
cheers!
June 9, 2006 at 2:14 am
You have no idea how much I identify with that. As another one-man company, I sure hope you are right about the future. The cheque is simply super powerful in reaffirming my effort.
June 9, 2006 at 2:22 am
[...] At the time it got a lot of attention because some people didn’t believe the Adsense revenue he claimed (see ShoeMoney’s thoughts here. Since then he’s put a little effort into clarifying it, and yesterday he posted a photograph of a Google cheque for two months of pay to his new blog. [...]
June 9, 2006 at 4:21 am
Plenty of cash!
I can’t get enough of hearing and talking about PlentyOfFish.com
Plentyfish.com is a personals site run by one guy, Marcus Frind, and it clears US$10,000 in AdSense revenue per day! That’s right, not a typo $10k/day (aka ~!US$3.6M per yea…
June 9, 2006 at 4:31 am
Of course this is gross, not net. Obviously with the kind of traffic it takes to generate that revenue there must be some pretty significant hosting fees subtracting from this, right?
June 9, 2006 at 4:42 am
Its a dating site not a porn/video site.
$5,400 for hosting/month
Instant Messenger is around $8,000/month
June 9, 2006 at 5:19 am
[...] Update: Markus has recommended http://plentyoffish.wordpress.com/. In the picture, his girlfriend is holding up the cheque, its for 2 months as googles EFT bounced. [...]
June 9, 2006 at 7:06 am
[...] Check out Macrus of Plenty of Fish’s Adsense Cheque: [...]
June 9, 2006 at 7:20 am
[...] Small Companies & Google Adsense is the future (tags: business startup google adsense) [...]
June 9, 2006 at 9:40 am
That’s a nice cheque
Good work Markus!
- Mike
June 9, 2006 at 11:25 am
[...] I don’t normally envy others’ success, but this is one damn fine AdSense check. [...]
June 9, 2006 at 1:12 pm
[...] All from a 1 person dating site [...]
June 9, 2006 at 1:49 pm
Kudos Markus!!!
Thanx for sharing your thoughts, Look forward to reading your future posts, Keep Blogging……..Thanx, Imran
June 9, 2006 at 3:56 pm
Cheque looks photoshopped to me.
Look at how the 733. is slightly higher than the 901,
I’d love to believe it, but….
hey… maybe I’m wrong. How about the deposit slip?
June 9, 2006 at 3:58 pm
This is probably the most inspiring story I’ve read in ages. Thanks Markus, for keeping the dream alive
June 9, 2006 at 5:23 pm
[...] Plenty of Fish: Take a look at the picture of Plenty of Fish’s owners’ two month check from Google. I had to go back and re-read it a couple of times to make sure I understood everything correctly. PS: To make the picture bigger, just right click and save or open in a new window. Wow. Related Posts from the Past: [...]
June 9, 2006 at 7:14 pm
[...] Feel inspired. Click here. Posted at 9:13 pm in: AdSense [...]
June 9, 2006 at 9:14 pm
[...] Most people, including me, are amazed at the sum on the check. I’m also amazed that Google’s EFT bounced. You know you’ve hit the big time when Google can’t afford to pay you. [...]
June 9, 2006 at 10:07 pm
@BFP:
You think that the picture is photoshopped by looking at the numbers but have a second look at the cheque, the amount is also printed in full letters.
It doesn’t look photoshoped for me.
June 9, 2006 at 10:38 pm
How much do you wish it was that tiny bit more so you a million dollar cheque? Awesome good work, congratulations.
June 9, 2006 at 11:11 pm
Congrats dude. Hope it’s true. I am only a newbie in the Online Marketing/make money world and still learning.
I’ve created a blog and putting down all the things I’ve learn so far and hopefully able to provide you the results of my marketing tests.
June 9, 2006 at 11:56 pm
[...] It’s not often I have a post and all that it is, is a link. But this is for a reason. I’m not in this persons catagory. Where I’m making pennies with my ads in the hopes of somewhat subsidizing my hosting costs, this person has turned his one man show into a business that has Google Adsense paying him something close to a cool million for 2 months advertising. And considering he even admits that he has low paying Ads.. that’s astounding. All this income is coming from one of the most popular singles sites, but all being dealt with by one man. So if you feel like having your jaw drop, click the link and read more. Small Companies & Google Adsense is the future [...]
June 10, 2006 at 12:09 am
Brilliant!
Ah, the pulling power (!) of love/lust…
June 10, 2006 at 1:05 am
Two months? Well, THAT explains everything. You poor guy.
June 10, 2006 at 3:36 am
[...] His site? An online dating site called Plenty of Fish. Read about his experience in his blog: It amazes me to think that my 1 person company is able to compete at a level where all the competitors have 600+ servers, and 300+ full time staff. I feel like I am ahead of my time, and when I look around at the companies out there today I have a hard time seeing them existing in a few years. I believe that in a few years 2 or 3 person companies will replace companies that have 40 or 50 employees. Share and Enjoy:These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. [...]
June 10, 2006 at 5:31 am
It’s important to remember that this is only possible under net neutrality.
June 10, 2006 at 9:18 am
Oh my God. I’m suddenly inspired to work on new features for Pinoy Cosplay.
June 10, 2006 at 2:15 pm
Now, THIS is an Adsense Cheque!…
More >……
June 10, 2006 at 3:01 pm
[...] If you’re wondering if a one person company can be successful, look no further than PlentyOfFish.com. This dating site is run by a single person, and is making almost half a million dollars a month from Google AdSense alone. Wow. [...]
June 10, 2006 at 3:22 pm
what abt the Net Neutrality law? Its going to put the net out of reach of small businesses..
June 10, 2006 at 3:59 pm
[...] Wow! Und das alles innerhalb von 2 Monaten mit einer Menge Fisch, Plenty of fish, um genau zu sein. Wie Markus, Betreiber von Plentyoffish, schreibt, belaufen sich seine Kosten fr die Site auf monatlich rund 13′400 kanadische Dollars. Aber auch so bleibt noch ein stolzes Smmchen brig. [...]
June 10, 2006 at 9:19 pm
[...] PlentyOfFish, 900.000 Canadische Dollar für zwei Monate = ca. 450.000 Euro btw, roflmao, der Inhaber von PlentyOfFish ist ein Bursche ganz nach meinem Geschmack. In einem Podcast-Interview fragte ihn einer ganz aufgeregt, wie er denn seine CTR optimiere. Sinngemäße Antwort: Sch..egal, ob die nun über oder untr X Prozent liegt. Und wie er seine CPM überwache. Sinngemäße Antwort: Sch…egal, wenn man mal 3.000 und mal 15.000 an einem Tag macht. Und wie er mit dem Stress wegen seinen Mitarbeitern und vielen Usern umgeht. Sinngemäße Antwort: Sch…egal, er machts alleine und er weiss nicht, was das soll, wäre doch alles pillepalle das bisserl Traffic. [...]
June 10, 2006 at 10:02 pm
[...] Nach SEO Clash nun der nächste Kampf, der Adsense Battle … wer hat den größten? Die Hosen runtergelassen haben bis jetzt PlentyofFish, Webmaster der wohl einfachsten Dating Site [...]
June 10, 2006 at 10:19 pm
[...] Oh mein Gott. Der Traum eines jeden der Google AdSense auf seinen Seiten einsetzt. [...]
June 11, 2006 at 7:04 am
Thats the great thing about Online biz. You can start it off with low budget and high returns if you are willing to put in the initial hard yard to set it all up.
June 11, 2006 at 10:20 am
[...] Von $132,994.97 im Monat lässt es sich doch leben. Soviel verdient der Herr von Shoemoney.com. Doch es geht noch mehr. Etwas weniger als das dreifache, ca. 318.000 Dollar pro Monat verdient der Betreiber der eigentlich recht hässlichen Seite plentyoffish.com. [...]
June 11, 2006 at 12:23 pm
wow, man, congratulations!!!
I hope you can double it every following month
June 11, 2006 at 5:02 pm
[...] Durch einen Eintrag im Basicthinking Blog bin ich auf das Google Adsense Check Posting von Markus Frind dem Betreiber der Datingseite PlantyOfFish gestoßen der in seinem Blog einen Check über 638.000 EUR, ausgestellt von Google, präsentiert. Die Reaktionen auf diesen Eintrag kann man nicht nur den vielen Kommentaren entnehmen sondern auch den vielen Blogs die über diesen Eintrag berichteten. So findet man ebenfalls bei BloggingTom und vowe Reaktionen auf diese enormen Adsense Einnahmen. [...]
June 11, 2006 at 6:35 pm
[...] Woohoo another biggggg check from Adsense. Markus who create this site showed the adsense check holding by his girlfriend. It’s $CAD 901,773.84 (About $888600 dollar). [...]
June 11, 2006 at 7:27 pm
Hello Markus
Congrats on your success. However you are leaving a lot of money out of the picture because you have not got adsense in enough places on your site. You should optimize the adsense placement and you will double your revenue. I believe your site visitors would not hold it against you if more adsense ads where placed on your site as it is still free. You should give it a shot, you will see I am right. Then you can post a photo of a check 2 times that big.
I would be happy to look over your site very closely and make some suggestions if you like. You have my email address.
June 11, 2006 at 8:04 pm
[...] Wenn ich da im deutschsprachigen Raum die ganzen SEO-Leute sehe, die überall und nirgends hin und her schwänzeln. Das Blog vom PlentyOfFish-Macher ist hier zu finden, dort schreibt er: [...]
June 11, 2006 at 11:13 pm
[...] If you are looking for inspiration with making money from Adsense, check out this post from the creater of the free dating site plentyoffish. RELATED POSTS [...]
June 11, 2006 at 11:52 pm
Congratulations, That has given me a lot of inspiration and just has motivated me to get on and put the effort into my online business.
Thanks for the inspiration
June 12, 2006 at 2:04 am
Wow, that is tottally awesome. I have never seen a check like that before. Do you think it helps that you are .ca and not .com? Does it make you a big fish in a small pond?
Brad
June 12, 2006 at 2:49 am
Markus,
Congratulations!!! great job and great story( I heard the padcast interview).
June 12, 2006 at 8:50 am
I can only join the chorus: This is an amazing story that is so encouraging for us struggling for a decent adsense check. I can see know; It can be done! Thanks for showing me.
June 12, 2006 at 9:11 am
neid
Small Companies & Google Adsense is the future[plentyoffish.wordpress.com]
ca. 900.000 Kanadische Dollar Google-Einnahmen für 2 Monate mit PlentyofFish , einer Dating-Site.
Sex sellt also immer noch
ads google
June 12, 2006 at 9:17 pm
Giant POF Adsense Check
Holy cow. Plentyoffish AdSense check for $901,000. Subtract $5,400 for hosting/month and Instant Messenger at $8,000/month and you have a nice little internet company going for one guy. I love his blog title, The Paradigm Shift subtitled Adapt or…
June 12, 2006 at 9:50 pm
That looks like that, why would a 100 Billion dollar market capitalization company have a typed (TYPED) in address? THAT is strange.
But it is cool that people are thinking out the business model. I bet the Google boys laugh at the brillance of their VIRAL model.
June 13, 2006 at 1:42 am
[...] Recently, Markus Frind showed the world his income from Google Adsense. After people picked up their jaws from the floor, the congratulations started flowing in. [...]
June 13, 2006 at 6:23 am
Congrats. That is 10000000% awsome!!
what a motivation!! makes me want to keep on pluggin!
June 13, 2006 at 8:35 am
Way toGO!Marcus,
And who ever said that Canadians never make much “AD”sense.This could be your stepping stone to ultimate success in the Internet Marketing community.Keep it goin’
Tim
June 13, 2006 at 9:26 am
Wow thats a nice cheque to get lol, now thats wot i call adsense earnings lol
soon my empire will grow but not sure if it will get that big lol
http://www.emsengine.com
June 13, 2006 at 3:56 pm
Damn man… extremely nice! Hope to read some more good and interesting posts such as this! 1M … WOW
June 13, 2006 at 4:14 pm
Making a million off Adsense
I’d heard of people earning reasonable amounts through adsense, but always thought that it wasn’t one of those big time earners. Ok, you could get some pocket money, or a reasonable monthly sum, but not much more.
That’s before I came…
June 13, 2006 at 5:21 pm
[...] I don’t like ads. That at least has been my point of view. I wasn’t going to add links to advertisers on this site (or any of my sites), but this guy has me thinking otherwise. $901,733.84 CA from two months of Google ads! Why wouldn’t you want the extra income, even if it is really small? [...]
June 13, 2006 at 10:08 pm
Und noch ein Gefallen…
Heute abend um 5pm CST 6pm EST (ich hasse diese CST/EST Geschichte ) kommt ein Show auf Webmasterradio.fm moderiert von Jeremy Shoemaker. Dabei geht es ums Geldverdienen mit Communitysites und Seiten aus dem Social Network. Als Specialgast wurde jeman…
June 14, 2006 at 4:41 am
congratulations! it gives me motivation to build more sites!
June 14, 2006 at 8:04 am
Thats good. I hope google will allow adult social networking sites like http://www.smutvibes.com to add the adult ads that it get to it.
June 14, 2006 at 11:41 am
[...] Plentyoffish.com hat 901.733 Kanadische Dollar für zwei Monate Arbeit eingestrichen, das sind umgerechnet 320.000 Euro für den Monat. Echt pervers. Und als wenn das nicht schon genug wäre, in alter ProBlogger-Manier legt Shoemoney noch seinen 132.994,97 USD Scheck oben drauf. [...]
June 14, 2006 at 1:21 pm
Thanks Markus,
it inspire me to go away from my office and try to do something new..
June 14, 2006 at 2:08 pm
[...] Take a look at the check by clicking here. Apparently the plentyoffish.com site serves 500 million page views per month, but only earns $1 effective earnings per 1,000 impressions through Adsense. With that very low eCPM, it’s a good job he’s getting huge volumes of traffic consistently… the site is just outside the top 500 most visited online according to Alexa. [...]
June 14, 2006 at 3:24 pm
hi there, congrats, love hearing success stories like this but i guess im a little slow over here bc i couldnt find any google ads on your site when i went there unless they are there after one registers.
June 14, 2006 at 4:17 pm
This is just awesome income… What is his secret? Does any one know… how this man has made so much money….?
I like to know… Just one you say…. that is crazy…. I would love to know how he has done it…
Bally
June 14, 2006 at 11:33 pm
Congrats on the site, awesome job, well earned I believed.
I wonder if some day I can get even close to that with http://www.cuteornot.us
June 15, 2006 at 8:30 am
Okay Markus,
You’ve got us all got all of our attention. Everyone wants to know how you did it and how they can duplicate what you’ve done. When (or will) you ever share your inner secrets?
June 16, 2006 at 12:18 am
[...] Markus Frind runs a free online dating site called PlentyOfFish.com and he rocked the Internet world this week when he posted a photo of his latest Google AdSense check for nearly $1 million… [...]
June 16, 2006 at 12:46 am
Incredible and I’m sure you deserve every penny. Looking forward to the sequel.
June 16, 2006 at 1:06 am
Congratulation!
It inspire us other and help us think bigger than just a couple thousands a month.
Think Big
June 16, 2006 at 9:58 am
Markus, Why you only use adsense, you might be able to make more on dating affiliate programs, the cpc and ctr must be really crappy..
June 17, 2006 at 1:41 am
Great website! Bookmarked! I am impressed at your work!
June 19, 2006 at 2:32 am
[...] Marcus Frind’s $885,000 adsense chq [...]
June 19, 2006 at 11:33 pm
[...] While the .com era has been and gone, there’s still plenty of money to be made on the web. The obvious way is to create something free, which people love and flock to in their droves, and just sit and wait for Google, Yahoo, AOL or MSN to buy you. But apparently you can make shit loads of cash even before someone buys you. I had no idea how potentially lucrative signing up with Google Adsense was. See this. The guy runs PlentyOfFish.com, a free online dating site. It’s very no frills. It doesn’t offer what many of the pay dating sites like match.com does, and it has nowhere near the coolness factor of the best free ones such as consumating.com or okcupid.com. But right-click on the image of the cheque and you can see that in two months he has earned CA$ 901,733.84. He earns $10,000 a day by doing virtually nothing. Sure he has to make sure the servers are withstanding the load. Maybe he adds the occassional new feature. But that’s it. He created the site, signed up for Google Adsense and then sat on his arse and made money. Here’s an interview with him [...]
June 20, 2006 at 12:46 am
wow, nice one dude.
June 20, 2006 at 12:03 pm
WOW!! You should start offering some tailored advice to people!!! Starting with my site http://www.pimpmysms.com. makes my 2 dollars per day look
still thats after 2 weeks, so maybe can improve.
June 20, 2006 at 9:41 pm
The people giving Markus advice make me laugh. 400k a month off Adsense is not an easy task. So what makes you think he needs your suggestions on placement and programs more worthy than Adsense?
June 21, 2006 at 12:02 am
wow! that is awesome! Congratulations on such good work. I’m glad that someone small has made it big in this era of super powerful companies.
June 21, 2006 at 12:15 am
What nobody is mentioning is the fact that he buys a ton of adwords, what if he was spending $890k to make 900k
June 21, 2006 at 12:36 am
Adsense is such a crappy way to make money online. You could be making 5 - 10 times what you do per month if you did things a bit smarter, (and no I do not mean making your site membership based…
Some programs will pay HUGE bucks for sign ups, you’re using adsense instead of dealing directly with the companies on the receiving end. Try hitting them up for some direct deals. You may have had a ton of adsense success, but you’re leaving far too much on the table. Being a great programmer is one thing, but you need some help in the monetizing side of things…
June 21, 2006 at 1:29 am
It’s CAD 901,733.84. That’s like $20 bucks US.
June 21, 2006 at 4:31 am
“It’s CAD 901,733.84. That’s like $20 bucks US.”
Guess you haven’t seen the exchange rate lately? Pretty soon the CDN dollar will be worth more then the USD.
June 23, 2006 at 12:47 am
Markus Frind wrote:
“But i created this site to change the world, and make money at the same time.”
PlentyOfFish.com == Congrats, Great & Successful cheap channel for deliver ADS!!! == Internet Ads Industry.
Mr. Frind proved us he can make some money; but how is he going to
change the world?
PlentyOfFish.com pretends to be part of the Online Dating Industry. Technically speaking, PlentyofFish.com makes money off the ads upselling to other sites. It has all free users (the daters) and some paying clients (the advertisers)! It drains money from the Internet Ads Industry
and not from daters/subscribers!
PlentyOfFish.com’s business model is not a future_trend for Quality Online Dating Sites.
Kindest Regards,
Fernando Ardenghi.
Buenos Aires.
Argentina.
ardenghifer@gmail.com
June 23, 2006 at 4:22 am
[...] He did it: http://plentyoffish.wordpress.com/2006/06/07/small-companies-google-adsense-is-the-future/ [...]
June 24, 2006 at 11:17 pm
WoW! It is one big fat check !
June 25, 2006 at 5:00 am
I am nice single doctor guy, I would like to make nice website and make money from google. Suggest me please.
June 25, 2006 at 2:30 pm
I like sucess stories and I like your site as well. Way to go nice to know the small guy can still make a good buck.
June 25, 2006 at 5:18 pm
Way to go!! Since joining plenty of fish - I’ve met amazing people, who cares how much he is making, those up in arms, are likely single!! ha ha
June 25, 2006 at 5:47 pm
Plentyoffish.com seems to have disappeared all of a sudden. What happened?
June 26, 2006 at 5:03 am
That’s assume dude, I hope to be playing in tha big leagues soon, who knows - they already capture the social networking sites category, but their are always room for entrance - no wonder I started smutvibes.com … which is a two man’s team
June 28, 2006 at 9:39 am
Sorry for the maybe stupid question - what is EFT?
Greetings from Switzerland,
Sam
June 28, 2006 at 8:27 pm
Amazing… my question is: why did you choose “plenty of fish” for a dating site?
June 29, 2006 at 8:21 am
Google übernimmt die Welt
Wir sind ja schon längst mehr von Google abhängig als von irgend einer anderen Weltmacht. Heute ist es offiziell geworden: Google baut seinen Marktanteil als Finanzinstitut aus.
Lange schon wurde darüber spekuliert, nun geht Googles Online-Bezahlsys…
July 2, 2006 at 1:31 pm
So ist es leider ohne Google geht gar nichts mehr! Die einen verdienen damit Millionen die anderen bekommen die Infos und Google wird immer REICHER!
July 3, 2006 at 11:05 pm
This question have not been answered, and I too am curious…. Asked by SAM:”Sorry for the maybe stupid question - what is EFT?”. Does anyone know?
July 4, 2006 at 7:06 am
I think EFT stands for Electronic Funds Transfer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Funds_Transfer
July 9, 2006 at 2:46 am
It’s an inspration for sure. High page count in google and user created content. Way to go. I was also interested to hear the comments on WMR about the future of subscription based dating sites - Or lack of future
Our sites are fee, we chose this path for lifestyle reasons - we don’t make the big bucks but we do get to go and surf when the waves are up.
July 10, 2006 at 8:18 am
The business not in that, how many man works on a site. Is dating site agency, in which 40-50 men work above advertising. Site has the large budget for advertising and attraction of the programmers. Nevertheless, this site is much lower than our sites in поисковике. It is connected that they do not have one competent expert
July 11, 2006 at 1:10 am
markus — how many servers do you have?
July 14, 2006 at 7:01 am
[...] Plentyoffish Well, let’s take a look at an AdWords example: PlentyofFish. It’s an online dating site, it is entirely free and AdWords supported, and its owner just cashed a million-dollar check. Well, almost a million. [...]
July 15, 2006 at 4:30 pm
What an inspiration! Your check and Shoemoney’s check from his Google “experiment” have given me the drive to jump headfirst into the online advertising market. Keep on blogging!
July 16, 2006 at 7:28 am
[...] Esta frase me hizo acordar a aquel que recibió 991.773,04 dólares con una página con una estética bastante dudosa pero que está entre las 48 (de acuerdo con lo que el autor afirma) más visitadas en toda internet. Es una página de relacionamientos, y lo que ello me hace pensar es que este mundo está muy solo… [...]
July 17, 2006 at 4:21 pm
This is amazing. It makes me want to stop trying to sell products and services, and just focus on getting traffic.
July 17, 2006 at 8:20 pm
so any updates on what you are making now?
July 18, 2006 at 5:48 am
Isn’t awful risky to have such a huge percentage of your revenue coming from one source? Granted I would take it, but what if the adsense account gets suspended?
July 21, 2006 at 4:26 am
Hi Markus,
Yes inspring indeed. A free dating website. As a single again guy a free dating site catering for guys too would be a great concept in Australia….as 99% of the girls get it for free….but us guys have to pay through the nose so we can contact them. Just as we pay through the nose for property settlement & maintenance in a divorce. LOL
I noticed your domain was registered 5 years ago. Have you been building this dating site since then? Please feel free to email me as I am very interested in teh scripts you use to make this work…..as I said Australia needs a site like this too!
Regards,
David Paxton
July 22, 2006 at 11:35 pm
Markus, if this is you, PLEASE ungoogle me! It’s the only thing wrong wth your site. PLEASE!!! countesshoney. I notice it says if I leave my email address, it will not be published. I’m trusting you! Thanks.
July 23, 2006 at 3:10 pm
[...] What is your highest adsense check in USD? As an example, Shoemoney of sheomoney.com Adsense check, USD$132,994.97 for one month. View the bigger size (make your wallpaper or poster) and read the story in DigitalPoint forum. Shoemoney said that it can be accomplished by hosting and maintaining a very good, one site only. Can you believe this? ONE SITE ONLY can generate hundred thousand USD with adsense ONLY!!! Keep in mind that Shoemoney has many sites and type of revenue generators. But what about Markus of plentyoffish.com? With ONLY one successful site, he received this adsense check, CAD $901,773.84 (Canada dollar) for two months. Read the story here. He said that currently there are a lot of competitions in this social networking/dating field. It is very interesting to see the stability and sustainability of the income. Well, you have seen the real check lol! Except they superimposed/photoshoped those pictures, you should start believing it. So what is the moral of the story? I try to find the similarities. Let say you already seo-ed your site(s) properly, white-hat-ly, following the Google webmaster guidelines religiously but still fail to generate even 10 bucks daily or you have many sites but the accumulated income still can’t pass the 10 buck daily. [...]
July 23, 2006 at 5:34 pm
[...] I am not going to explain how to make money using Google AdSense. Here I just put a real world example: a successful web enterprenur got a check from Google. Guess how big is the check: almost 1 million Canadian dollars. And here is the link. The nice thing about his web site is that he runs it by himself. So after he paid the web-hosting, and other service fees, he can put the money into his own pocket (after paying tax). Certainlly this is a very rare case. Also don’t think he built the web site and the business overnight, as a matter of fact, I believe he has done this for more than 3 years. [...]
July 24, 2006 at 9:08 pm
[...] Read this It amazes me to think that my 1 person company is able to compete at a level where all the competitors have 600+ servers, and 300+ full time staff. I feel like I am ahead of my time, and when I look around at the companies out there today I have a hard time seeing them existing in a few years. I believe that in a few years 2 or 3 person companies will replace companies that have 40 or 50 employees. [...]
July 24, 2006 at 11:09 pm
Congratulations! great site and gooood money!
July 25, 2006 at 7:12 pm
whats that cheque.. man… its a crazy amount….
Good work… may some of your traffic come to me.. LOL
keep it up
-Anish
July 27, 2006 at 1:44 am
Congratulations. You have made it single handedly.Even though you earn only $1 per thousand of impressions it is amazing. You haven’t become rcih overnight because this site was up atleast 5 years. Good Luck.
August 2, 2006 at 3:56 pm
I’m not sure if I believe this, the word “Google Inc” looks fake, although, this is another fantastic way to get more traffic to your site. I might post that I make 5 grand a day and wonder how much my traffic will increase ? I need more proof ..why doesn’t he show the deposit receipt?
August 3, 2006 at 7:39 pm
Woow! If this Adsense Check is real –> congratulations.
I didn´t believe that Webmasters can earn so much money with Adsense.
August 4, 2006 at 3:38 pm
He doesn’t really need to prove it to you. If you research how much traffic plentyoffish.com is pulling in, which you can find out in many places, you will see that even if he had pictures of monkies on his site right now, he’s still make a killing with adsense.
August 7, 2006 at 8:45 am
[...] Este modelo 100% gratuito basado solo en publicidad ya ha sido probado como valido con unos resultados que … ejem … dan envidia a más de uno y a más de dos. Y como el propio creador cuenta, él también se valió de ese vacuum del que habla Sergio y es producto de un estallido viral que le aconteció por el 2003. [...]
August 7, 2006 at 9:05 am
[...] Actualización (7-8-2006): Aitor acaba de postear en su blog un comentario sobre este artículo y ha incluido una referencia que me había dado y que no recordaba. Plentyoffish.com ya ha explotado esta misma idea con éxito en un mercado diferente (Canadá-Estados Unidos). [...]
August 7, 2006 at 11:24 am
It’s amazing living in this day and age how people make lots of money. This Markus Frind guy is brilliant. A complete DIY millionaire and I am sure lots of people want to follow his steps.
His website plentyoffish.com is doing tons of traffic and he’s earning $1,000,000 just by placing adsense advertisements on it.
Let’s take a look and see if anyone can comment on the elements that made his website so popular? Two key elements I would like to discuss:
1. The website’s name: plentyoffish.com
2. The website’s design
Firstly the name of his website plentyoffish.com…Well on the good side, it sounds pretty catchy and has a high chance of people word mouthing it off. But the words plentyoffish itself does not look so good when you type it in the browser url or displayed as an advertisement. Looks a bit funny. lol. Well thats my view.
Secondly, most people have said the design of his website is poor. So in my opinion I would agree. But in terms of user friendlyness, its pretty user friendly and simple to navigate. That’s why users are sticking around.
Let’s see if there would be any design changes on the site soon, keeping in mind the design feedbacks.
As for it becoming a billiondollarwebsites.com webby well I would say may be not…but a hundred million dollars worth may be
Well we’ll just monitor it on my website blog at: http://www.BillionDollarWebsites.com
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August 13, 2006 at 12:24 pm
[...] Today, 08:24 AM I assume Harlan is talking about Marcus Frind of the dating site, Plenty of Fish. But Harlan’s wrong about the numbers. The exact amount was $901,733.84 It was from Adsense, and it was over a two month period, not a day and a half. But hey…I’ll take that for two months of work any day of the week! Harlan, if you were referring to another dating guru, feel free to correct me. Dale King Article Ghost Writer…Explode Your Traffic And Skyrocket Your Income Using Articles You Don’t Even Have To Write Yourself! http://guruknowledge.org/pages/Article-Ghost-Writer... [...]
August 16, 2006 at 12:55 pm
Hi! Congratulations! Your example shows how successful one can be nowadays. Can you tell us some little secrets about your work? Greetings mw
August 18, 2006 at 5:23 pm
I can only wonder how much google is making from plentyoffish…
August 19, 2006 at 3:42 pm
I also made list of such programs
http://www.gr8click.com/moneymaker.htm
August 22, 2006 at 7:20 pm
Respect for this check. I find the information about this check in a German webmaster forum. This information go around the word. Good work and stay well.
August 23, 2006 at 12:12 pm
[...] According to the magazine article, thanks in part to FM and the attention that sites are getting from advertisers, Fark could be looking at $600,000 or so in ad revenue per month pretty soon. According to FM’s site, Fark gets about 5 million uniques a month, which makes it larger than most metropolitan newspapers. And Drew runs it with some help from a couple of tech guys. It reminds me a little of Markus Frind, the little-known web-vertising genius behind the online dating site Plentyoffish.com, which he runs more or less singlehandedly (with some help from his girlfriend) and makes more than $500,000 per month from. [...]
August 26, 2006 at 6:03 pm
Congratulations! So inspiring that cheque…. C’mon!!!
August 26, 2006 at 11:08 pm
I couldn’t agree more. And you prove your theory with your site. Congrats on your accomplishment.
August 27, 2006 at 6:34 am
It unbelievable !! One man can make this much from adsense.
August 27, 2006 at 6:36 am
This picture is interesting and encouraging..
August 27, 2006 at 6:37 am
^
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And Two man , Page and Brin guys make more……..
August 27, 2006 at 6:38 am
Wow , It’s too greatttttt. I wanna be like this !!
August 28, 2006 at 3:32 am
Congrats. It’s so hard to believe. You’re definitely the greatest inspiration to me. In fact, I’m also an asp.net programmer as you were three years ago. But I don’t know adsense then. But now I’ve found my example
August 28, 2006 at 12:08 pm
I love money , I’ll be like you in 3 yrs
August 28, 2006 at 2:35 pm
Amazing what a single person is able to do. Congratulations also from Germany for this great achievement.
Cheers,
HK Chris
August 29, 2006 at 5:41 pm
Wow! This is great. I wonder how did you start up 5 years ago? Could you set up this hot side after work hours by evening/night or was it a full time job ?
Regards,
Sandra
August 31, 2006 at 7:39 pm
You are an inspiration…on different levels. Keeping the dream of a free internet. Creating something from virtually nothing. Most of all, giving the dreamers out there hope.
I love your story Markus,
Chris Huggins
Entrepreneur/inventer
September 1, 2006 at 1:11 pm
The word Google Inc. looks fake, will need more proof to believe anything. Could this be classified as fraud? I’m sure anyone who’s ever recieved a adsense check would be able to confirm that this check is real. Could this be google, promoting their adsense? I hope this forum catches the attention of google’s or reps or directors, to either confirm or deny the check.
September 2, 2006 at 3:49 am
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September 9, 2006 at 1:43 am
You left the EXIF/IPTC data in the JPEG, so an thumbnail of the whole original picture, including your girlfriend face is included into it… It might not be safe for so much money…
September 13, 2006 at 1:30 pm
[...] Si l’on en croit ce chèque, c’est possible, apparemment. Maintenant, revenons sur terre et regardons ceci de plus près. Ce chèque est au nom de Markus Frind, le fondateur de Plenty Of Fish, un site de rencontres entièrement gratuit. Si l’on en croit Alexa, ce site est bien évidemment populaire. [...]
September 16, 2006 at 8:53 pm
Cool ……
September 18, 2006 at 3:09 pm
Congratulations! very good……
September 20, 2006 at 8:50 pm
This is great site and job! We have also Google at our site!
September 23, 2006 at 12:36 pm
really good…
September 25, 2006 at 1:59 pm
Hallo, If you are interesting in Salmon or buy caviar or buy sea fish come in our fisherei
Ciao se ssei interessato allacquisto di Salmone a prezzi imbattibili visita la nostra pescheriaonline. saluti
September 25, 2006 at 8:55 pm
[...] 1) Markus Frind of http://www.Plentyoffish.com [...]
September 25, 2006 at 9:15 pm
[...] Who are the “peers” Joel talks about who are making more money than he is, and why those “peers” don’t apply to the other 99% of us [...]
September 26, 2006 at 4:08 am
[...] Doubts about Makus’s Google earnings were silenced when he posted this from Google. According to Markus’s blog entry, the check represented two months of AdSense earning. [...]
September 27, 2006 at 2:48 am
[...] Doubts about Makus’s Google earnings were silenced when he posted this $900,000 check from Google. According to Markus’s blog entry, the check represented two months of AdSense earnings. [...]
September 27, 2006 at 6:18 am
[...] Doubts about Makus’s Google earnings were silenced when he posted this $900,000 check from Google. According to Markus’s blog entry, the check represented two months of AdSense earnings. [...]
September 28, 2006 at 2:29 pm
[...] 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. You think a site this big would be staffed by a hundred people but the only employee that Markus has is his girlfriend, who helps to answer the emails. Markus coded Plenty of Fish all by himself. The site is lean and mean and requires only four servers to handle all that traffic. Doubts about Makus’s Google earnings were silenced when he posted this $900,000 check from Google. According to Markus’s blog entry, the check represented two months of AdSense earnings. [...]
September 29, 2006 at 2:22 am
[...] Doubts about Makus’s Google earnings were silenced when he posted this $900,000 check from Google. According to Markus’s blog entry, the check represented two months of AdSense earnings. [...]
September 29, 2006 at 3:06 pm
OOOOOOOOOOOO Fantastic!!!
September 29, 2006 at 8:55 pm
I am happy for you!
I am happy to earn at least $200/month from my adsense, but I believe I can do more!!!
September 29, 2006 at 9:50 pm
[...] Doubts about Makus’s Google earnings were silenced when he posted this $900,000 check from Google. According to Markus’s blog entry, the check represented two months of AdSense earnings. [...]
September 30, 2006 at 4:26 pm
this is good
try my site too at http://www.sarsas.blogspot.com and see my millions
haha
October 1, 2006 at 6:44 pm
The photo of this cheque really works motivating
October 1, 2006 at 9:21 pm
The proven KISS* rule for site design works again.
Congratulations Markus.
*Keep It Simple Stupid
October 3, 2006 at 1:14 pm
[...] Can I propose that Jeremy Shoemaker or one of these other Web 2.0 start-ups just go ahead and make the infomercial about how to strike it rich with Google Adsense? It seems that every day someone is coming out with another picture of their ”don’t you wish you could make this much money“ Adsense check? Today the founder of Plentyoffish.com is circulating his latest marketing ploy / big adsense / me too check. [...]
October 3, 2006 at 1:31 pm
[...] Can I propose that Jeremy Shoemaker or one of these other Web 2.0 start-ups just go ahead and make the infomercial about how to strike it rich with Google Adsense? It seems that every day someone is coming out with another picture of their “don’t you wish you could make this much money“ Adsense check? Today the founder of Plentyoffish.com is circulating his latest marketing ploy / big adsense / me too check. [...]
October 4, 2006 at 7:29 pm
[...] Go find something else to do. Tell the “adsense gurus” to find another product to promote, or to produce some evidence that it’s working for normal everyday people. I don’t want evidence from someone with a website ranked in the top 50 online. I want evidence from someone who started 3 months ago. Post Navigation by Category [...]
October 5, 2006 at 4:30 am
you make me sick
October 8, 2006 at 2:56 pm
That’s really awesome. I just opened my site and although our traffic is nowhere near plenty of fish, we hope to one day get there. Congratulations Markus! In the meantime, check out http://www.africamediaweb.com !
October 9, 2006 at 4:30 am
[...] Doubts about Makus’s Google earnings were silenced when he posted this $900,000 check from Google. According to Markus’s blog entry, the check represented two months of AdSense earnings. [...]
October 10, 2006 at 1:15 am
Woooooowwwwww!!!!!!
October 10, 2006 at 11:33 pm
[...] Doubts about Makus’s Google earnings were silenced when he posted this $900,000 check from Google. According to Markus’s blog entry, the check represented two months of AdSense earnings. [...]
October 11, 2006 at 9:32 am
[...] Voor ons is dit ook een van de belangrijkste redenen waarom wij met dit project gestart zijn. Ik heb het idee daarom al eens ingezonden voor een wedstrijd van Bidchallenge maar helaas kwam ik niet door de eerste ronde omdat het project te weinig winstperspectief zou hebben. Dat dat helemaal niet waar hoeft te zijn bewijst deze gratis datingsite. De eigenaar, Markus Frind vond dat een datingsite best gratis kan zijn en hij runt deze samen met zijn vriendin. Plentyoffish claimt nu de grootste datingsite te zijn en verdient nu zo’n 10.000 dollar per dag alleen al aan Google Adsense. Best aardig toch voor een gratis product? [...]
October 11, 2006 at 5:02 pm
[...] 1. Провинциальный канадский программист Маркус Фринд (Markus Frind) со своего сайта знакомств PlentyOfFish.com имеет $300 тыс. в месяц (скан чека от Google). На одном из крупнейших в Сети бесплатных сайтов знакомств регистрируется до 500 млн показов страниц в месяц, что приносит Маркусу более $10 тыс. в день от контекстной рекламы AdSense. Поддержкой сайта и обслуживанием четырех его серверов занимается два человека: сам Маркус и его девушка. [...]
October 14, 2006 at 2:49 am
very great work. i hope i make the same money in the future.
October 14, 2006 at 4:41 am
[...] Doubts about Makus’s Google earnings were silenced when he posted this $900,000 check from Google. According to Markus’s blog entry, the check represented two months of AdSense earnings. [...]
October 15, 2006 at 2:42 pm
[...] Check out his blog - The Paradigm Shift [...]
October 19, 2006 at 4:21 pm
[...] 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. You think a site this big would be staffed by a hundred people but the only employee that Markus has is his girlfriend, who helps to answer the emails. Markus coded Plenty of Fish all by himself. The site is lean and mean and requires only four servers to handle all that traffic. Doubts about Makus’s Google earnings were silenced when he posted this $900,000 check from Google. According to Markus’s blog entry, the check represented two months of AdSense earnings. [...]
October 20, 2006 at 3:38 am
[...] I suspect a site like PlentyofFish would be even higher. It obviously makes a ton of money … [...]
October 21, 2006 at 11:49 pm
Never think you’re crazy for not going paid, when you can live a life better than 99% of the people in this world.
Have a good day.
October 22, 2006 at 6:44 am
Oh,
the first time i looked at the photo and did not see that this is so much… my first thinking was… what 900$ thats not so much…. but this what people normaly win in a lottery in germany… keep on smiling
October 22, 2006 at 3:08 pm
The Numeral not real for such site…. Real numeral well can 1000 well not as not 10000 . though tastesdiffer.com speaks that interrupt record of the home site
October 24, 2006 at 3:52 pm
[...] If you need any visual confirmation, or inspiration that AdSense can benefit your service company have a look at the cheque Markus Frind’s girlfriend is holding up in one of his blog postings. Business paradigms are shifting fast and this is only one example. What does big business do? Well it must adapt to survive, according to the Evolutionary Model. It could also attempt to maintain it’s hold on the market it has as long as it can, until so many smaller business eventually erode its business to the point where it is forced to change or vanish. [...]
October 27, 2006 at 9:33 am
This is great site and job! We have also Google at our site!
Good work
October 27, 2006 at 9:46 am
Oh my god!
That is awesome ……..
October 30, 2006 at 12:08 am
[...] 1: Markus Frind: PlentyOfFish.com - $300,000 per month Rujukan: plentyoffish.wordpress.com [...]
October 30, 2006 at 12:54 am
Congrats! Whether your leaving money on the table or not, it’s definetly a huge accomplishment and maybe more of us small business owners will be able to reach your success.
Execellent Job…
November 2, 2006 at 1:48 pm
Congratulations, great work.
November 2, 2006 at 3:30 pm
[...] Bleibt zum Schluss noch anzumerken, dass die dargestellte Menge von Adsens Blöcken auf drei beschränkt ist. Mehr werden sowieso nicht angezeigt und wird ebenfalls als Verstoß gegen die Richtlinien gesehen. 7. Wieviel kann ich mit meiner Seite verdienen. Wir werden wohl alle nicht so viel wie PlentyOfFish mit Adsense verdienen aber als kleine Anregung kann der abgebildete Scheck durchaus dienen
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November 3, 2006 at 6:57 am
Congratulations, good work.
November 9, 2006 at 12:13 am
I made $2.53 the other day from my site…as you can imagine I’m over the moon!
November 9, 2006 at 1:12 pm
I have 100$ …….
November 9, 2006 at 1:31 pm
wow 100$
November 10, 2006 at 2:44 am
[...] plentyoffish.com Markus Frind $300,000 per month [...]
November 11, 2006 at 4:12 pm
Its amazing how much money is out there. dotCommers of early days eat your heart out.
November 11, 2006 at 9:22 pm
[...] John Chow has an article listing the top 8 Google Adsense earners. Top of his list is Markus Frind of PlentyOfFish.com, a free online dating site which earns him $300,000 per month. 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. Look at his adsense cheque. And you thought dating and romance site were low paying niches due to low priced keywords. The ads there do not even resemble that of a premium adsense publisher. [...]