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		alain94040 on March 11, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How I make 15K a month at AdSense How much Google takes is not confidential, you can compute it from their SEC filings. Would you believe that they take 70% of the advertiser's money, and give back 30% to the site owner?

sidsavara on March 11, 2009 [–]

On average you are correct

For an individual click it varies.

http://www.mydigitallife.info/2006/10/21/google-adsense-givi...

falsestprophet on March 11, 2009 | [–]

Well those figures are the opposite of gp's. Google passes on between 75 and 79% to publishers.

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