Reasons NOT to disclose your Adsense revenue

There are a few good reasons for not telling your buddies over the Internet how much exactly do you earn. I might sound cynical, but those who you consider online friends, are not necessarily your biggest well-wishers. If they run sites as well and your earnings turned to be bigger, you could easily arise their antipathy, even if together with respect.

I will give you an example. A friend of mine, told in one of the biggest forums on the internet, how much he earns per month. The next 20 replies said “I hate you! ”. Laughingly, of course, but the points is clear – they earn dramatically less, are unlikely to ever get to his level and yeah, of course they are happy for their mate.

No matter what type of revenue you disclose, it will always turn against you.

If you earn 2 cents a day and speak about it, it would be obvious to all that your site is crap; or maybe it’s not – but no one visits it anyway. In other words, it’s not worth to advertise with you, right? It’s not worth swapping links with you, right? You (and your site) is not the most successful deal they can think of.

On the other hand, if you earn 50$ a day – earn it, but don’t speak about it, because then, together with your cheque, you will earn loads of enemies. Trust me, no one likes rich people, especially those who outdid them in the same activity field. After all, no one will be as sincerely happy for you as much as you will be for yourself. Believe me.