Are Those High Paying Adsense Keywords For Real?
Once in a while I would go to Google and do a search on “high paying adsense keywords”.
I generally don’t believe in sites that claim certain keywords pay up to $30 or $50 per click, but just for the fun of it, I would occasionally go to Google and look for these types of keywords.
Just for fun you see 
For example, since this is now July 2008, I would type in “high paying adsense keywords july 2008″ in Google and click “search”.
The latest result that I can find is a post written on this blog on March 9, 2008 (I’m just too lazy to be going through page 7 and above of Google’s search results).
According to this blog, the top 5 high paying Adsense keywords are:
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austin dwi $66.89
austin dwi attorney $58.30
san diego dui attorney $54.56
houston criminal attorney $47.44
san diego dui $42.83
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What do you think?
Do you believe that you can get paid up to $66/click for the keywords “Austin dwi” or $42 for the keywords “Austin dwi attorney”?
Like I have stated above, I generally don’t believe in these hyped-up numbers. But that’s just my opinion though:P
Why not use the Google Keywords Tool to see how accurate these numbers are?
Below I’ve made a table that summarizes the numbers:
| Keywords | Blog | Google Keyword Tool | Difference |
| austin dwi | $66.89 | $9.84 | $57.05 |
| austin dwi attorney | $58.30 | $10.27 | $48.03 |
| san diego dui attorney | $54.56 | $12.26 | $42.30 |
| houston criminal attorney | $47.44 | $9.18 | $38.26 |
| san diego dui | $42.83 | $12.61 | $30.22 |
Well, as can be seen from the above screenshots, there is clearly a huge difference between the numbers given by the Google Keyword Tool and those that are written on the blog I found.
And let’s not forget that the numbers given by the Google Keyword Tool are actually numbers that you would have to pay if you want to bid on those keywords on Google Adwords.
What this means is that the numbers for Adsense payouts will be smaller than those given by the Google Keyword Tool.
And to add to that, don’t forget that you also have to split your Adsense earnings with Google. This makes your earnings even smaller!
So my take on these “high paying Adsense keywords” is that don’t take their numbers too seriously. I really don’t believe anyone can get paid $66 for a single click!
However, in my opinion, the blog is partially correct in saying that the keywords listed are “high paying keywords”.
Well I’d certainly put $9/click in the high paying category. 
What about you?
The highest pay per click that Adsense has awarded me was $3 though, although it’s not about austin dwi or san diego dui or anything similar to that. 
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July 14th, 2008 at 7:28 pm
I agree that you can’t expect Adsense to pay you $40 or $60 per click. If they did pay you that amount, then advertisers must have a lot of money to spend!
Even if they do, I suspect that only big corporations can do this.
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July 15th, 2008 at 7:46 pm
Gerald,
That’s exactly what I think. $40 per click is just way too much.
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October 21st, 2008 at 8:58 am
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October 23rd, 2008 at 12:07 am
Chijioke - Welcome!
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August 25th, 2009 at 3:38 pm
i am just starting out with Google Adsense. i am hoping that i would earn a good deal of money on this program.
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October 13th, 2009 at 10:32 pm
Adsense is my main source of income when making money online. nothing beats adsense when it comes to making money online.
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November 10th, 2009 at 6:24 pm
The highest I have been paid for an Adsense click was $4.34 or something like that. I think if your content is right then you could get that($15.00+) for a click, especially if the advertiser is not smart
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November 19th, 2009 at 10:32 pm
Adsense is the best paying make money online program on the internet. I just wish that i could increase my website traffic to high levels so that i could earn more money on Adsense.
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November 29th, 2009 at 6:45 pm
i love Google Adsense, it allows me to make money on my personal blog and some of my health related sites.
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December 25th, 2009 at 10:12 am
I recently added an Adsense square ads on my travel blog. my adsense earning is still low since i dont have large volume of internet traffic yet.
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July 10th, 2010 at 2:04 pm
you can easily earn lots of dollars from adsense if you have a high traffic site.`,*
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August 30th, 2010 at 10:47 am
Different keywords that are used have different cost. It depends on how mush traffic was created and how often the user opens it.
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August 31st, 2010 at 7:31 pm
Superb piece of writing bro. This particular is just a nicely structured article.
Google Keyword Tool is quite accurate tool although I like to do my research with other tools as well just to be able to compare, based on my adsense experience, I would say that they are paying 12%-30% of the advertiser cost BUT if you are capable to reach the first page listings for high cost keywords (seo, content, backlinks etc.), you’ll be rewarded with better ads and higher payout.
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