I've shared my plans for 2008 last month with many of you and wanted to post some more information. My goal is to start to monetize some of the websites I run and open up a few more websites to increase my internet properties and overall footprint on the web. I'm no dot com mogul here, not making enough to even cover all my costs in some cases. But, I am happy to report I got my first Google adsense check for over $100!! To me that is great, since I used to get maybe $60/month. I feel like I'm moving in the right direction and my sites aren't cluttered with advertisements.

Today I stumbled upon a great post which calls out some individuals that are "google" whores making TONS of revenue from Google Ad-Sense. Some of these numbers are almost hard to believe.

Markus Frind: PlentyOfFish.com - $300,000 per month
Look at this google adsense check for over $900,000

Kevin Rose: Digg.com - $250,000 per month

Jeremy Schoemaker - $140,000 per month

Jason Calacanis: Weblogs, Inc. - $120,000 per month

David Miles Jr. & Kato Leonard - $100,000 per month
Myspace layouts!! FreeWebLayouts.net

Tim Carter: AskTheBuilder.com - $30,000 per month

Joel Comm - $24,000 per month
A book on how to make money off Google!

Shawn Hogan – DigitalPoint.com $10,000 per month