I use other services and make well over $100 per month. I worked with Google in the past but one month I was owed just over $10,000 and they didn't pay. Despite numerous attempts to figure out why and get paid I was never able too. Now I stick with other companies that aren't so particular and won't screw me on payment.
Adsense screwed me over, too. Some stupid had been clicking on my adsense ads like crazy everyday and adsense suspended my account. They snatched all my Adsense funds for that month. I switched to Adbrite then.
If you make a lot money from Adsense (e.g. $100 per month), do you have Adsense on a lot of different sites or do you just have Adsense on a few sites with lots of visitors?
I used AdSense, and it just didn't seem to pay out very well, Switched to a smaller company and have been doing great.
Also AdSense didn't allow paid traffic to your targeted ads, and watching friends make well over 100 dollars a day doing that made me want to switch to a company that did.
Earning $100 a month after 3,4 months from adsense is normal so usually everyone will be earning this if they have a good site and good traffic on their websites
It seems its against AdSense TOS using any kind of paid traffic. Traffic exchanges or those pay to surf sites.
You won't find a same kind of alternative which pay just like AdSense. If you have loads of traffic you can try affiliate networks and Also they don't mind where your traffic comes from.
I earn about $500-$5000 a month from adsense.
It's highly profitable if done right.
To make more from adsense you really only have two options:
1. Get higher organic rankings to your site through backlinks and such = more traffic
2. Set up smaller niche sites and use ppc ads to drive traffic to them. Most likely the amount you will be spending will be less then the amount you will be getting from adsense clicks.