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Google’s Fast Flip - a cruel joke on the news industry — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:32:16 +0000

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By: InvestorBlogger

InvestorBlogger — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:21:59 +0000

Congratulations, Chris. $4! It's pretty much what I've been making… But the click issue is a serious one: And of course Adsense rules in their favor, not ours. Do try different methods, oh and give your forum a nicer look. SMF has some great themes.

Thanks for viisting. Do let us know how the adventure goes.
Kenneth

By: InvestorBlogger

InvestorBlogger — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:21:37 +0000

Kenneth

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 03:35:15 +0000

Ok, It's been a month now, and one day I actually made $4!!! (Wow). The rest of the days I made a little over $.20 and most days nothing. Granted, my sight is new, but I still get between 1000-1500 impressions a day. A lot of days, I'll have 20 or 30 clicks and still make nothing! I have a roulette forum and guess what? I advertised an online casino and made $30 with just one signup. Also, I use Linkshare as an affiliate ad supplier and they are great. You have access to hundreds of advertisers. The moral, Adsense isn't all it's cracked up to be. I'll never use it again.

By: InvestorBlogger

InvestorBlogger — Sun, 24 May 2009 16:56:15 +0000

I would say that the biggest issue for me was the unpaid clicks. I know that I was often getting 10 or 20 clicks in a day, but nothing in the Adsense at all or perhaps just one click. 9 clicks were going unpaid. While I have no way to identify which clicks were fraudulent, at one point the stats were just totally out of whack. It hasn’t happened so much recently as I stopped running Adsense on this blog, totally. There are other ways to create advertising revenue, and better ones, too. Sell your own advertising, and start small.

Thanks for dropping by.

By: Pop

Pop — Sun, 24 May 2009 11:55:44 +0000

Well some of the points are good some not. I give an overall 7.5 mark to this post (out of 10).
And the reason is because Adsense is STILL paying at lest. Some other programs may not (there were so many cases).

O the other hand, I do agree with the fact that there should be no monopole in this industry. I hate it when I am forced (on my own blog) to advertise adsense ONLY and have my visitors ripped off my site for some pennies. The other way around could be affiliate marketing, which is mainly the best revenue for most successful bloggers.

I could say Affiliate Marketing represent more then 60% of total revenues for bloggers. And is not even hard to tell why. You better sell a product and have a $40 a sale rather than 7c-50c a click.

There are pros and cons with all programs but Adsense started good and dropping these days just like your revenues you spoke about.

Adsense sucks, adwords even worse, and the only thing that remains fair is google SE which has its own issues too but fewer than others.

At least this is my opinion

By: InvestorBlogger

InvestorBlogger — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 17:00:15 +0000

Thanks for your comments. I have had a little more success with Adsense since my post last year. But I have realised: with Adsense, less is more. Also, there is a huge amount of click fraud on sites (or at least what Adsense claims is clickfraud). I know this from monitoring my own stats via MyBlogLog with tracks clicks on your blog each day. For many days, Adsense was the #1 click, but I hardly got paid for anything. So I removed many of my ad blocks, added some more unusual units, alternated with non-google ads, and saw a slightly better ctr. But for smaller blogs, Adsense is not worth it unless you are prepared to pit it against something else for comparison. Only then can you figure out if it is worth it.

By: Joe Gewgle

Joe Gewgle — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 21:51:47 +0000

I had over 15,000 page views yesterday for google adsense and got exactly 1 cent… 1 penny per 15,000 page views (2 to 3 ads locations per page with google sometimes putting multiple ads in 1 location) 1 cent…

Some days with less traffic I've brought in $10.00+ my average is around $5 a day… for 1 cent or even $1 a day it's not even worth it.

By: Nav

Nav — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 14:00:46 +0000

Hmmmmmmm the biggest problem with any form of advertisement is people get so used to seeing them that they stop clicking.

The best place to earn money is righ in your content. Try sites like http://www.contentxn.com and write about your fav stuff and get paid!

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Who is stealing your blog’s content? | InvestorBlogger — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 04:19:21 +0000

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By: adsense gempak

adsense gempak — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:06:36 +0000

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By: InvestorBlogger

InvestorBlogger — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:39:51 +0000

I did have an account, but the reliability wasn’t good when I first tried, and the ads weren’t very relevant. I abandoned after making but a few cents…

I’ll give it another try, soon.

Kenneth

By: jen

jen — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 00:49:30 +0000

You guys should really try adbrite to make money. They’re even better than adsense and they do send you your money. you can make about 200$ a day if you really work on it and have a good strategy.

http://webcashier.blogspot.com

By: InvestorBlogger

InvestorBlogger — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:38:34 +0000

Thanks, Tom. Which makes me wonder why sites like Technorati are using even more Google Ads. It seems that Google Ads are only successful in some circumstances, … Looks like Google Ads aren’t really that successful in the broadest sense, and with changes in the tos they are desperately trying to shore up the holes in the tub before it sinks.

Could it be that while Google looks invincible, it’s actually creating huge new opportunities for those who dare to come up with better systems.

I tried Adsense again briefly, but ended up having really crap results after being blackballed again, and getting worthless ads.

Kenneth

By: Tom OKeefe

Tom OKeefe — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 06:31:26 +0000

Great post!! Startups & websites listed on Bizak.com who have Google Adsense as their revenue model earn only $0.06 per visitor (EPV). Definitely not a profitable business model. Even with those low numbers 21.5% of all startups listed (on Bizak) rely on Adsense as their primary revenue source. Even Mahalo with 4 million monthly visitors is having trouble monetizing with Google Adsense.

By: Mitoman

Mitoman — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 20:39:57 +0000

We’ll see what microsoft has to offer very soon, I doubt it will be any better than google

Mitoman

By: InvestorBlogger

InvestorBlogger — Thu, 22 May 2008 17:19:56 +0000

Adsense is still the #1 in the market, but it just isn’t right for this blog at the moment! i keep getting smart priced by their system … And the number of uncounted clicks is just quite high!

kenneth

By: Tabrej

Tabrej — Thu, 22 May 2008 14:10:33 +0000

You are right.

But I hope adsense will look into it for us as more and more players are enterin g in the market. Yahoo, adcenter and bidvertiser.

By: InvestorBlogger

InvestorBlogger — Tue, 06 May 2008 16:35:28 +0000

bdurfee,

Thanks for your comment… I didn’t see the comment until just now!

Yeap. I replaced them temporarily, but then I thought I ‘d try the Adsense image ads… but now I’m getting smartpriced on those, too. Who wants 5c a click? And I’m dropping lots of clicks, too. Over 50% by some estimates…

Kenneth

By: InvestorBlogger

InvestorBlogger — Sat, 03 May 2008 14:36:13 +0000

Thanks, Chitika. I think I tried to sign up with them a while ago, but they didn’t accept my site … I can’t remember why. I’ll try again. Thanks for the recommendation.

Kenneth

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 02 May 2008 22:33:53 +0000

Have you tried Chitika? Over the last year I compiled some statistics of my earnings and I actually earned twice as much with Chitika compared to AdSense. For those of you considering Chitika - try it! You can check out this Chitika review for more info and some cool screenshots.

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By: Kenneth

Kenneth — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 03:38:43 +0000

Thanks for the comment. Yeah. I had an advertiser request a lot of slots, so that gave me the push to find the right application to manage the blocks he needed. I just gave ad-sense the push.

Kenneth

By: bdurfee

bdurfee — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 21:25:37 +0000

Nice post – I’m not seeing Adsense so I hope you found a good replacement. Not that I would insult you if there were Adsense ads; you have every right to criticize and question the practices of any service you use. How could you speak with any kind of authority otherwise?

Thanks for the thought-provoking article.

bdurfee’s last blog post..Are You Thinking Rich or Drinking Kool Aid?

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Goodbye Adsense, it's been sweet'n'sour... | InvestorBlogger — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:19:37 +0000

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By: Adsense: Would the real clicks please stand up? | InvestorBlogger

Adsense: Would the real clicks please stand up? | InvestorBlogger — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 01:55:32 +0000

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By: InvestorBlogger

InvestorBlogger — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 10:37:44 +0000

Yeah, you got me! I was on the point of removing them when I found a plugin that helps me to manage them. I added the image one because my blog needed an image to add visual color at one point. With increasingly bad ctr, payments … I am likely to remove them.

Kenneth

By: Mara Alexander

Mara Alexander — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 02:52:18 +0000

I agree AdSense sucks. What cracks me up the most is seeing “anti” this or that blog posts, and yet the AdSense ads are *advertising that very product*.

My main reason for avoiding AdSense is that they look TACKY as all hell.

I do find it amusing that this very post…has AdSense, front and center.

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By: Kenneth

Kenneth — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 08:12:48 +0000

Now Google's making it harder to earn money. Read more at Problogger.

By: Kenneth

Kenneth — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 16:04:16 +0000

Yeah, I’ve been going through a bad time with Adsense. On top of that I nearly forgot to bank Google’s last check! I hope it’s good for six months, because I just mailed it today!

Google Adsense success depends on a lot of factors, including location, type of ads, and audience as well. The best Adsense users put a lot of work into it! I’d rather put a lot of work into my blog! Makes better reading, right?

BTW, thanks.

Kenneth

By: Melissa

Melissa — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 20:00:02 +0000

Interesting article especially from someone who has adsense all over their blog. Adsense may not be the best moneymaker for bloggers but from experience it is the best way to advertise for advertisers.

By: Frank C

Frank C — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 21:37:58 +0000

I consider Adsense the standard when it comes to site monetization as in if an advertising program can’t make more than Adsense in the same slot on a site, it’s useless.

I’ve also found Adsense to be more profitable on static HTML niche mini-sites than blogs. For example, OpTempo made about $8 on Adsense in October but my static guitar site made $45 with about 1/3 of the traffic.

By: Court

Court — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 21:12:36 +0000

Yeah, what’s up with the revenue dropping? No matter what Google is saying, it’s happening. This is brilliant stuff.

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By: Tina Kubala

Tina Kubala — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 02:53:44 +0000

After two months and 55 cents, I removed AdSense from my sidebar. I wanted to use the space to give blogrush a chance. I was super frustrated with the ads picking up my last name and displaying weird German ads. I also don’t like the spammy look of the ads on a personal blog like mine.

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By: Kenneth

Kenneth — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 16:55:43 +0000

TextLinkAds, Payperpost, ReviewMe, Affiliate Sales, Selling Content… dozens of ad networks that don’t use CPC, etc… I’m just naming a few ideas…
Have you tried any of them?

By: Grey

Grey — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 16:51:22 +0000

Agreed, but what are the alternatives?