Are you Addicted to Adsense?

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Found this article don't know whether it's true, but it's funny

54% of all Google Adsense publishers admit addiction to click income. A recent online study conducted by a small group of Google Publishers found that 54% of all Adsense publishers where addicted to the income potential of Googles Pay Per Click system.

Some publishers need therapy for their Google Adsense addiction. It was also found that some publishers were so addicted they where checking their Adsense statistics up to 50 times per day.

Google Adsense is a system where individuals who own content rich website's can earn money by placing small targeted ads within the content of their website. The ads can be customised to fit within the scheme of the website and some successful publishers can earn in excess of $200,000 per month.

One publisher stated that her addiction started the day she placed the Adsense code into her html code. "I was introduced to Adsense by my boyfriend, who makes around a $1000 a month". She went on to say that she doesn't blame Google for her addiction, but the fever in which forums and blogs promote the fact that anyone can become rich with this scheme inspired her to keep adding pages and checking her stats.

Kate, did state that she was earning a reasonable amount of money from Google adsense, but told us she also spent a considerable amount of money on scripts, ebooks and promises of gaining all you would ever want to know about adsense, from forum gurus claiming they had made their fortunes and where willing to share their secrets if you deposited $97 into their PayPal account.

Rags to Riches in 51 days using Google Adsense

Another publisher I spoke to told me his addiction had made him a rich man in 51 days. "I was browsing the net on October the 15th last year and came across a website that had a photo of a guy holding a Google cheque for nearly $200,000 dollars. Under the picture it stated that this was just a 1 month paycheck from Google. Lights and bells went of in my head as I thought, Man, this is what I have been looking for". David, had been dabbling in online money making schemes for about 6 years and to date had not been successful. But he did have 3 website's which had 1000's of visitors to them and after reading all he could on the subject, David placed 2 small ads on each page of his 1000 page website.

"I didn't sleep that night. I was so excited, i checked my stats every 10 minutes all night" he said. Just when he was about to give up for the night, David did his final stats check. "It was 5.50am exactly and I nearly fell off my chair. 1000 impressions, 98 clicks and a total of $18 income. I couldn't sleep that day as I checked my stats every 15 minutes and watched the income rose to over $58 for the day. I was addicted to this thing, this scheme was going to make me rich and I wasn't going to miss a minute of it" David said.

David had gone from $32 in his Bank account to over $6,700 in just 51 days. He had checked his stats on average 60 times per day and had spent more than 612 hours during that 51 days optimising his sites and adding content. David also admitted just like Kate that he had spent quite a bit of his profits on "how to" books, but stated that it was money very well spent.

"I am addicted to Google Adsense" Kate told me, " but what better addiction could you have than earning money, while doing something you love" she went on.
So are you addicted to Adsense?
#addicted #adsense
  • Profile picture of the author dbwebdesignz
    That's just like asking 'Do you like money'

    I think we would all say yes
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    • Profile picture of the author tylerherman
      When you are starting out it is exciting to see how much you are making but it quickly loses it's excitement. Plus you tend to see trends and generally know what you are going to make per day.

      That and you end up going to affiliate marketing and making way more money. The adsense trickle doesn't seem as necessary to check constantly anymore.
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  • Profile picture of the author Andrew Davis
    I don't think it has that much to do with Adsense.
    It's just that Adsense is probably the most widely used method online to earn money.

    It's really about a person getting excited that their income is growing.
    While there is growth, they are eager to check their earnings very often.

    When growth is falling, they tend to stop checking earnings very often, in most cases.

    I'm not addicted to Adsense, but I do check my various earning sources regularly, to pay attention to any strange behavior, drop or rises in earnings.
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  • Profile picture of the author Affiliate Ninja
    That poor guy, every 15 min. Talk about being exited, I guess we are all like that at the start. I know I was when I first started promoting Clickbank products.

    I am now on a "time to check" schedule where once a week I will check all income avenues that I am involved with. This way I don't spend more time looking then working.
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  • Profile picture of the author smith33122
    It's me I have been checking my adsense account far to often - I am sure the guy's at Google must think I am some sort of looney.

    The reason I do it is that I am totally new to this game and I am making money (not a lot but some) which is a change - my wife thinks I spend all my time on the internet just to avoid talking.

    What does facinate me is the earning patten, most days I get nothing, some days 40p and others £10, there seems to be no patten for me to latch onto as to if I am doing a good job?
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  • Profile picture of the author thebitbotdotcom
    I can totally relate to that...LOL!
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