I just wanted to blog my disappointment and aggravation with Google AdSense.
My relationship with Google AdSense stems all the way back to Summer 2006 when I launched my first Affiliate Marketing website Igotchu.com. I figured that having AdSense would truly be profitable. No such thing! By the time I shut down Igotchu.com in early 2007, I hadn't made ANY money from AdSense.
When I launched the 'Mind of Marcus' blog, I linked back up with Google AdSense hoping that maybe this time around I would have success with it since my blog had a decent level of traffic coming to it. Again, no such thing! Since October 2007 with Google AdSense floating around on my blog, I have gotten 13,568 page impressions, only eight (8) clicks, and have earned only $0.84. Eighty-four d_mn cents for carryin' their ads on my blog! WTH!? I have realized that my Commission Junction banner and text ads get me what I need. I wanted to give Google AdSense the chance since the company is always talking about how well the ads convert and how much money can be made from carrying the ads on a website or blog. I think it is ridiculous and it makes no sense and I believe that Google's best work is in their search engine. Even after following all of their tips, still, nothing from AdSense! I am gonna give it a little more time and then I think I am going to strip my blog of Google AdSense because I am finding their ads to be a waste of space.
Sunday, February 3, 2008
Google AdSense Makes Cents!
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Marcus I don't think you are the 1st to complain about Goggle Adsense if I am not mistaken I have seen some other blogs owners, with similar problems.
...adsense did nada for me as well! I had to do the heizman on it-
Yeah, the adsense ads are pay per click, but if no one clicks, the blogger doesn't get paid. If only readers would just click once as appreciation to the blog... I hear that payperpost is a good site to use to make money, but they rejected me. LMAO, hmm, I wonder why. I use linkshare and commission junction also, but those banners are never clicked and I'm too lazy to post direct links. The only affiliate program that's been successful for me is Amazon. I even get commission on my own purchases.
@ JJBrock & Quick: I think AdSense hypes itself more than needed. They make website owners think that their websites would be nothing without their ads running. Whatever! They aren't doing much for me.
@ Marleaux: My Commission Junction banner and text ads always do well on my blog. It took about a week to get my SmartZones together, but it was worth it. I also pay myself through Commission Junction especially with my Travelocity account. But I used to be Amazon and got rid of them and Pay Per Post rejected me as well. Whatever!
MARCUS
Hey Bro,
Adsense will frustrate personal blogs owners, just like it did to me. :P It works well on a "niche" site. I'm going to post about it soon, and if it is okay with you, i'll link you up.
I am doing PayPerPost (discreetly though, you didn't even notice right? :P ), but it is risky if you are too concerned of Google PageRank. Besides, most of the review opportunities prefer non-blogger/blogspot blogs. I know it stinks, but that's their rules.
It's good for you that you can run ads. I disabled all my ads including adsense. I *might* run other monetization gimmicks, but the most important is to increase traffic.
Later, Bro!
-Saedel
.84 cents? well I logged into my account and saw .02 cents!
yes!!
when I saw that I took down the large banners and added the smaller ones beucase yes you guessed it... taking up to much space
adsence is nonsence, i dont use it with the hope of gaining anything
Whoa baby - 84 cents??? You rock! I made a whole 21 cents before I said forget it!
I'm going to have to check into Commission Junction.
But let's get to the important stuff (like money isn't important - HA!) - I just wanted to drop by to inform you that you have a very, very special award waiting for you over at www.mistysmusings.com - I think you'll really like it!
I started off with the same problem with Google, but as my numbers got higher I started to see the benefit. I average anywhere from $5-$10 a week on Google, but that's not that high considering my page-views are over 110K, the same with Adbrite.
The most money I made was $75 and that was to an individual who bought text links from me, and that was for the whole year. I've since had 2 other inquiries, so we will see how that goes.
Amazon has not worked out for me, yet, in fact after a month I pulled it down.
Yahoo accepted me, so we'll see how that goes, and I'm awaiting the launch of the Essence Publisher Network, that way the ads will be more targeted toward black women.
Now that I have the page-views, I will apply to more exclusive ad programs.
As far as Adsense, it's okay, but it's not worth the hype.
I actually came across this calculator that helps you value your website with real information:
http://www.websitevaluecalculator.com/
WOW! This is very informative! Great checks and balances by the way :-)
Mrs. Grapevine....DAMN girl....I only wish.....i don't even know how to check my adsense maybe because i havn't looked. LOL....I'm going to see how well i do and if i ain't making bank i'm off this.....
nice post marcus...lots of good feed back
I say off with their head. No sense in having them take up space if you can find their reward on the ground without even looking hard enough.
Wow. You've made more money than me. When I moved over to my new blog, I didn't bother adding them to my blog.
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