It is.
popularity will depends on how you optimize your site. If your domain name and niche keywords will match, then you found gold. My advise to everybody is to go here
https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal.
Not all popular site have a high niche keyword, naay uban sikat pero gamay ang value sa PPC, ECPM etc. mas nindot kung ang imong site naa sa top 10 inig search sa google kay mas dako ang chance nga ang ibutang sa google nga add kadtong dagko pud og value. If bati imong content or site, even if you're talking about rolex nga relo, there's no chance ang google mo random og apil sa rolex nga advertisement kay lagi, imong site bati. Imagine if ako tag iya sa product nga mahalon, dili ko musugot ibutang akong product sa carbon. $5-8 a day gamay ra na.
example: people who are earning a good amount of money with the help of Google Adsense only. dili alexa og dili tungud sikat kaayo ila site.
1. Markus Frind: PlentyOfFish.com - $300,000 per month
2. Kevin Rose: Digg.com - $250,000 per month
3. Jeremy Shoemaker - $140,000 per month
4. Jason Calacanis: Weblogs, Inc. - $120,000 per month
5. David Miles Jr. & Kato Leonard - $100,000 per month
6. Tim Carter: AskTheBuilder.com - $30,000 per month
7. Joel Comm - $24,000 per month
8. Shawn Hogan – DigitalPoint.com $10,000 per month
I'll suggest you to go through the post by John (
The Internet’s Biggest Google Whores | John Chow dot Com ) and go through the whole article as it tells you some short stories about the above mentioned people too!
I hope that soon my site, blog will also get popular and that I'll be listed in that list in some time :P
Don't be discourage cebuanos, use google tools, analytics, keywords etc. mao nay key.