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11 years ago

People do get their accounts banned due to non-compliance to Google TOS. I still believe that you can earn great from Adsense but you need not to rely on Adsense only as your only way to earn income. Just look beyond that.

Google is after niche sites and Authority sites are everywhere on the web. Choose a profitable niche in which you have deep interest, write quality articles, do backlinking from trusted resources and grow your site to an authority. That's the way to go.

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11 years ago

Originally Posted by fanta81

People do get their accounts banned due to non-compliance to Google TOS. I still believe that you can earn great from Adsense but you need not to rely on Adsense only as your only way to earn income. Just look beyond that.

Google is after niche sites and Authority sites are everywhere on the web. Choose a profitable niche in which you have deep interest, write quality articles, do backlinking from trusted resources and grow your site to an authority. That's the way to go.

EXACTLY!!!

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Boricua

11 years ago

Hey Chike,

In my opinion, Adsense is the easiest way to earn income online WITHOUT having to sell or ask anything. A click and someone earns income. Thank god congress did pass on the tax laws that were going (possibly could have) send us to another recession.

Adsense is recession proof, no need to sell anything. Of course, easiest way to earn income means it takes more time to develop and earn, something which many of us don't like when affiliate income and making your own products is more profitable if you understand the niche you're in.

8 years around the forums and working full time in the past years thnaks to a few baskets here and there, it helps. Have Adsense as a nice 203k/mutual fund long term pension plan

Best wishes!

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chikeade

11 years ago

Hey Boricua you replied to my last post. I "believed" so but now people try to bash adsense due to their lack of success or destruction by Panda and Penguin. I hate selling and not too interested in offline.

"Have Adsense as a nice 203k/mutual fund long term pension plan

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I like your style. A level I'd like to get too

. If you don't mind me asking is it easier to achieve quicker and long term success with Authority, Micro Niche or Local? I know you mentioned 2 out of the 3 in my previous post.

Lastly, how do you go about backlink building? Do you build the slow methodical way or use software? One way I was taught by a "guru" was to build 1 - 5 links per day WTH... Lol I have 5 micro niche sites that still haven't ranked based on that theory.

So what do you think?

I believe my problem is backlink building as I write ALL my content and take my time to conduct research. It's 100% unique and passes copyscape. I run into problem with backlinking properly, so any advice?

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Originally Posted by Boricua

Hey Chike,

In my opinion, Adsense is the easiest way to earn income online WITHOUT having to sell or ask anything. A click and someone earns income. Thank god congress did pass on the tax laws that were going (possibly could have) send us to another recession.

Adsense is recession proof, no need to sell anything. Of course, easiest way to earn income means it takes more time to develop and earn, something which many of us don't like when affiliate income and making your own products is more profitable if you understand the niche you're in.

8 years around the forums and working full time in the past years thnaks to a few baskets here and there, it helps. Have Adsense as a nice 203k/mutual fund long term pension plan

Best wishes!

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brettb

11 years ago

My AdSense income has picked up in the last month, maybe due to Google making the ads more obvious. $10+ clicks have gone for me, I guess advertisers weren't getting the ROI they expected.

Needless to say Google's Q4 earnings could seriously disappoint investors

Especially if more people follow my lead and replace AdSense with higher earning ads.

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chikeade

11 years ago

Hey Brett replace them with higher earning ads like what?

Originally Posted by brettb

My AdSense income has picked up in the last month, maybe due to Google making the ads more obvious. $10+ clicks have gone for me, I guess advertisers weren't getting the ROI they expected.

Needless to say Google's Q4 earnings could seriously disappoint investors

Especially if more people follow my lead and replace AdSense with higher earning ads.

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Tmill

11 years ago

Adsense will always be working. It is a huge source of income for google, so obviously they are going to keep it going. I think micro niche sites are dead. Google no longer ranks small new sites as easily as they used to.

If you are getting traffic to your site and you have adsense on it, then you are going to make money.

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UMS

11 years ago

Originally Posted by chikeade

In 2012 I purchase several courses geared towards making income with this method only to hear in the 4th quarter of 2012 that it is fading out.

Fading out due to Google not paying out on time, banning accounts, etc.

Or to read it another way, Google is cracking down on spammy MFA sites.

Adsense works well so long as you follow their rules.

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Sillysoft

11 years ago

Adsense is totally dead. I advise everyone to stop using it and just delete your sites entirely. Especially the high ranking sites for high ranking keywords. Thanks!

This was a joke btw....

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yukon

Banned 11 years ago

Originally Posted by chikeade

In 2012 I purchase several courses geared towards making income with this method

Adsense is about targeted traffic (just like everything else), learn how to generate traffic & stop buying Adsense courses.

Anybody can copy/paste Adsense on a page, change layout, colors, etc... you don't need to pay money for those things, Google will show you all that on their own site.

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yukon

Banned 11 years ago

Originally Posted by chikeade

Fading out due to Google not paying out on time, banning accounts, etc.

Lol, Google has never been late or missed a payment in the 6 years I've been running Adsense sites. Might want to stop listening to whoever is feeding you that nonsense.

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dakar

11 years ago

I have to agree with Yukon. I've never been issued a late payment with Adsense in almost 6 years now as well.

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Kabouki

11 years ago

Adsense is def alive...as long as you are building authority sites

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PerformanceMan

11 years ago

Adsense is still alive but it's not the best way to make money. In fact, it ranks pretty low. You're better off doing Affiliate Marketing. That way you can craft your pages for much more specific offers and make a lot more money.

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Dani16

11 years ago

Adsense is still alive, only thing is have to maintain by posting 1 article in btw 2-3 months

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Demetrius

11 years ago

Adsense was alive, is alive and will remain alive but the adsense account holders will be dead very quickly.

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dalegolden 11 years ago

Originally Posted by Demetrius

Adsense was alive, is alive and will remain alive but the adsense account holders will be dead very quickly.

lolzz. They will be because the amount of ban are increasing and revenue generation are decreasing.
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kakucis

11 years ago

Adsense is still a really nice way to ear money from websites. Personally I use it a lot but I am am slowly moving to my own web apps and services for diversifications.

Adsense is good for blogs and content farms. Whenever i start a new website I monetize it with Adsense then try to diversify with BuySellAds, or direct banner sales. Just set price higher for banner than you can make from one Adsense unit and accept only offer that are over this mark.

In short: Adsense rocks! Just make sure that you don't put all your eggs in one basket.

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minimalseo

11 years ago

Adsense is very relevant today and could form a good source of income - as long as you can show long-term commitment to keep your site refreshed with original content and actively be involved in running your site, and keeping it well entrenched in the developments within your niche.

While it can provide you with passive income - it won't work for you if you intend to run your sites passively - it requires a little more effort to keep your site paying than others. I won't frown on playing by their rules - any paying ad network would.

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Mike Anthony

11 years ago

Originally Posted by chikeade

Is building an Adsense site in 2013 to achieve passive income a waste of time?

Yes it is CLOSE THREAD. Even the die hards here will admit (under threat of telling lies) that if you build an "adsense site to achieve passive income" otherwise known as a MFA you are wasting your time. If you have a successful site and add Adsense to it then maybe but MFAs are particularly the kind of sites Google hates. Google wants sites that have repeat traffic to expand their reach not ones no one will ever return to. If you are looking for passive that means you have little intention of working past a certain point on your site (or its not passive) and therefore you can expect future algo changes to be aimed squarely at your sites rear end. don't make the adsense gurus fool you

Originally Posted by Boricua

Hey Chike,

In my opinion, Adsense is the easiest way to earn income online WITHOUT having to sell or ask anything.

Since most people make very little money with it it can hardly be called the easiest way to make money.

I mean the easiest way to make money is to sit on my couch and have people toss me money through the window but that doesn't work either. Shoot most of the time if I look around for change at my house I make more money that many adsense people do in a few months.

Originally Posted by brettb

My AdSense income has picked up in the last month, maybe due to Google making the ads more obvious.

It was also Christmas. Heres hoping you had a merry one.

Originally Posted by Tmill

Adsense will always be working.

thats funny because ask most people and they will tell you it NEVER worked for them and here you are claiming it has eternal powers.

Originally Posted by yukon

Adsense is about targeted traffic (just like everything else), learn how to generate traffic & stop buying Adsense courses.

Come on Yuke - You can't drive traffic to nonsense and not need some kind of Tom foolery course

If you have to pay for the traffic then you would be writing a check to give Google instead of them sending you one. Now if you do as you say learn how to drive traffic then it s going to involve spending time and resources and there are far better ways of monetizing hard earned traffic. You will object of course but even PaulGl has spilled the beans that he makes more money with other monetization than adsense and he thinks adsense does not suck like I do

Originally Posted by PerformanceMan

Adsense is still alive but it's not the best way to make money. In fact, it ranks pretty low.

Performance its OK you can just use my phrase for adsense

IT SUCKS!

Originally Posted by kakucis

In short: Adsense rocks! Just make sure that you don't put all your eggs in one basket.

In short adsense SUCKs because the first thing even you do is try to find alternatives. No one is fooled by the diversity thing. You put what makes you the most money on your site. You have the alternatives lined up just in case yes but they never go on your site until you have to and the reason you immediately look for other things to put on your site is for monetization not diversification. People are in business for as most green back as they can make not to win prizes for diversification.

Originally Posted by minimalseo

While it can provide you with passive income - it won't work for you if you intend to run your sites passively.

So in other words the claim of passive income in 2013 will be a out and out LIE by those that push it. We agree!!

To summarize all points made

Adsense Sucks and will suck even more in 2013 much like a man in a desert with one drop of water in a glass that can only drink it through a straw. Don't pull a muscle in your jaw trying to get the drop of moisture out of it . You will still die of dehydration AND you will have a painful jaw while you die. That you can make good money easily and "passively" with adsense is a crock.

The Quan has spoken words of truth distilling it like pure rain (or a stiff shot of Vodka). Nothing else need be said. Truth Bites - Adsense sucks

Here endeth today's lesson

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yukon

Banned 11 years ago

Originally Posted by Mike Anthony

Come on Yuke - You can't drive traffic to nonsense and not need some kind of Tom foolery course

If you have to pay for the traffic then you would be writing a check to give Google instead of them sending you one. Now if you do as you say learn how to drive traffic then it s going to involve spending time and resources and there are far better ways of monetizing hard earned traffic. You will object of course but even PaulGl has spilled the beans that he makes more money with other monetization than adsense and he thinks adsense does not suck like I do

True, you know I'll disagree. The reason I disagree is because I know I can profit from Adsense. It's silly to not convert free traffic into paid clicks, especially when I did most of the work 4-6 years ago.

I don't pay for traffic, I have webmasters & forum traffic in the same niche building links & also paying for leads. I still make a good amount of money from Adsense clicks, no way I would give that up, even If I went on to do something else.

There's no debate here considering I don't care what anyone else is doing, all that matters to me is I'm getting payed.

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Mike Anthony

11 years ago

Originally Posted by yukon

True, you know I'll object. The reason I object is because I know I can profit from Adsense. It's silly to not convert free traffic into paid clicks, especially when I did most of the work 4-6 years ago.

Misleading to say the least. I have been around here long enough to know it was not 4-6 years ago you put any real effort into it and many posts indicate that you still are. You used to talk about it quite often in fact and you very well put a lot of effort into it. Forget about our other disagreements. read the OP. He is talking about MFAs and passive income. You CANNOT build a good business on MFAs and to start a new site out now. there will be nothing passive about it for years and at that point ANY business can be passive. Panda , Pengiuin and then the slap on exact match domains means now ANYONE starting a site just for adsense is barking up the wrong tree if he thinks its going to be passive and make good money.

I still make a good amount of money from Adsense clicks, no way I would give that up, even If I went on to do something else.

Sorry Yuke thats Crapola. You act like its adsense or nothing. There is just so much space you can fill a web page with and if everything else paid you more (and alot of things do and in fact probably will at some point) you would give it up for something that made more money unless you are just a Google fanboy. Who knows what you make past what you say you make? The pay rate is out there and its pennies for most people

Besides This isn't now and never has been about what you make. Its about what people starting out in todays environment with Google should do and the viability of starting out sites FOR adsense income. Thats what the Op asked.

In another thread at some time I will lay out a number of other reasons why adsense sucks for newbies but chief among them is that it actually requires alot of them to skip lower traffic terms that they could rank for because the payout is just too small from adsense.

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yukon

Banned 11 years ago

Don't be an clown that thinks they know other peoples personal business. I don't post 1/2 the things I do. Go dig up old post I could care less, means nothing to me. It's actually borderline stalking.

You got that fanboy comment from me when I posted about that silly Moz sales pitch site. You know times are rough when when a guy looks up to a site that's the equivalent of a late night TV infomercial. If the backlink/Moz scheme doesn't pan out, Google "Matthew Lesko", he'll hook you up with the real deal.

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Originally Posted by Mike Anthony

Misleading to say the least. I have been around here long enough to know it was not 4-6 years ago you put any real effort into it and many posts indicate that you still are. You used to talk about it quite often in fact and you very well put a lot of effort into it. Forget about our other disagreements. read the OP. He is talking about MFAs and passive income. You CANNOT build a good business on MFAs and to start a new site out now. there will be nothing passive about it for years and at that point ANY business can be passive. Panda , Pengiuin and then the slap on exact match domains means now ANYONE starting a site just for adsense is barking up the wrong tree if he thinks its going to be passive and make good money.

Sorry Yuke thats Crapola. You act like its adsense or nothing. There is just so much space you can fill a web page with and if everything else paid you more (and alot of things do and in fact probably will at some point) you would give it up for something that made more money unless you are just a Google fanboy. Who knows what you make past what you say you make? The pay rate is out there and its pennies for most people

Besides This isn't now and never has been about what you make. Its about what people starting out in todays environment with Google should do and the viability of starting out sites FOR adsense income. Thats what the Op asked.

In another thread at some time I will lay out a number of other reasons why adsense sucks for newbies but chief among them is that it actually requires alot of them to skip lower traffic terms that they could rank for because the payout is just too small from adsense.

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Mike Anthony 11 years ago

Originally Posted by yukon

Don't be an clown that thinks they know other peoples personal business.

I don't .I commented on your public posts from memory and you know I am accurate or you wouldn't be so upset . Speaking of being a clown....

go dig up old post I could care less, means nothing to me. It's actually borderline stalking.

Yuke get a grip. No one looked up your old posts. I commented from memory. If you ever used the search function here you would know that it doesn't even go back a year (at least my posts don't). You are being even more ridiculous than usual and you are not addressing a single issue brought up in regard to adsense. You always take any critique or difference in opinion about adsense personally and start hurling accusations and slanderous comments. Started from the thread I started on it a few months back with you nowhere in the OP or mentioned but coming in making all kinds of accusations because I guess you consider adsense your baby on these forums.

Sorry though. Its just been no good to too many people. Its nothing personal although you always take it that way.

You got that fanboy comment from me when I posted about that silly Moz sales pitch site.

Umm Yes Yuke... You invented the term Fanboy :rolleyes:

Please keep to substantive issues in the thread. You have things to say to me personally we can talk by Pm to clear the air. You'll know then that i don't like adsense for the issues not because you want to take it as a personal emotional issue.
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paulgl

11 years ago

Originally Posted by chikeade

Ok. But I hate to be naïve and ignorant. In 2012 I purchase several courses geared towards making income with this method only to hear in the 4th quarter of 2012 that it is fading out.

Fading out due to Google not paying out on time, banning accounts, etc.

Chike

So why are you being naive and ignorant right off the bat?

Everything takes hard work.

Google has been banning accounts since the beginning. Why
wouldn't they?

Google could care less if they ban you.

If you are foolish, you deserve to be banned too.

Mike, you never heard me talk about how easy it easy.
I hate when people talk about some high CPC niche, EMD,
WP, toss adsense up as if it's a right to make money from
google, and all you have to do is wish. Unfortunately,
there's a lot of that crap touted on the WF.

What is easy, is earning even a little money to add to the
bottom line. That's all I have ever touted adsense as being.
Adding to your bottom line in one of the freest ways possible.

Why would anyone who can do adsense, look a gift horse in
the mouth?

With very little effort, one cannot help but make at least $5/day.
That's over $1800 a year! Me? I choose to put A WHOLE LOT
of work into it.

It's not a get rich quick scheme the way people make it out to be.

If the OP actually read the rest of the forum...I did. At one time.
That's why I spend the majority of my time working, leaving less
time here, but still pick up tips.

Paul

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Mike Anthony

11 years ago

Originally Posted by paulgl

Mike, you never heard me talk about how easy it easy.
I hate when people talk about some high CPC niche, EMD,
WP, toss adsense up as if it's a right to make money from
google, and all you have to do is wish. Unfortunately,
there's a lot of that crap touted on the WF.

Nope Paul. You are right on the money I have never seen you talking about MFAs

What is easy, is earning even a little money to add to the
bottom line. That's all I have ever touted adsense as being.
Adding to your bottom line in one of the freest ways possible.

Why would anyone who can do adsense, look a gift horse in
the mouth?

precisely because many people are NOT looking at it as a way to add a little money to the bottom line and they ARE looking at it as passive (Shucks I have already said you can buy video games with the income). That PRECISELY determines the kinds of sites they are going to make and the kind of content they will put on them.

Also because last time I checked this is a Forum for adults and $5 a day doesn't float an adults boat to build a website, learn traffic, create content etc do SEO. Add up the hours and an hour of serving fries at McDonald's could be the next WSO. At least they pay minimum wage. I suspect if the average newbie out there adds up ALL The hours they are spending for this alleged passive income they will find that they are making what minimum wage used to be - IN THE 80s!

Incidentally same thing applies to your question - its not adsense or nothing. To answer your question

"Why would anyone who can do adsense, look a gift horse in
the mouth?"

How about people who look and find better gift horses staring them right in the face? I know guys making more money on affiliate income and with far LESS traffic needed

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yukon Banned 11 years ago

Originally Posted by Mike Anthony

I know guys making more money on affiliate income and with far LESS traffic needed

You know a guy that knows a guy, huh? I know Warren Buffett from watching TV, what's that worth?
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- Mike Anthony 11 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by yukon
  
  You know a guy that knows a guy, huh? I know Warren Buffett from watching TV, what's that worth?
  
  No I know of people personally who do which counts just about as much as anyone claiming on a forum to be making great money from adsense - You included. Same "worth".
  
  Personally for myself I always want to sell or resell products directly (but not everyone can do that ). The higher your profit per transaction the more feasible it is to begin making money right away with very low competition serps.
  
  by the nature of it adsense pays out the most per click on high competition serps where big dollars are being spent not on low competition keywords that newbies can actually rank for. Its just a plain poor model for a newbie. The combination of low payout with low traffic ends up killing most people starting out.
  
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IM Ash

11 years ago

Originally Posted by chikeade

Ok. I am not one to give into fear. But I hate to be naïve and ignorant. So I would like to know since this is an Adsense thread from you guys the status of the method. Is building an Adsense site in 2013 to achieve passive income a waste of time?

Adsense rocks... but don't expect it to be a passive stream of income that brings in a set amount each month. My income varies considerably - the fluctuations sometimes do not make sense but yes, you can make a good monthly income from Adsense.

When I started out with Adsense I truly believed I was pursuing a way to earn a passive income but I soon realized that it takes consistent work to bring in a good income each month - there is no such thing as set and forget with Adsense.

I pity the poor people who pay thousands of dollars for Adsense sites on Flippa - many will lose their investment if they do not have the skills to maintain the sites traffic levels. I actually went and looked at some big sales on Flippa for Adsense sites and out of about 8 that I checked - NONE of them are ranking anymore.

If you want to make a good monthly income from Adsense don't expect to do it the lazy way. Consistency is key!

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manishak

11 years ago

Choose your niche carefully for Adsense. Adsense sites do make a lot of money. So Adsense will definitely dominate this scene for this year and the future. Traffic and good updated content are the most important ingredients to monetize via Adsense.

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monetizemore

11 years ago

AdSense is a great way to earn passive income. Affiliate can be great but can be very tricky as well and you have to delve in grey areas more. I much prefer AdSense and mixing other ad networks via DFP when the traffic is more substantial. This creates a more robust form of passive income especially if your content strategy is UGC.

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Simin

11 years ago

I had an SEO Master.
And I always asked him about the SEO issue.
What do and what don't.
I thinks SEO still alive..
but if adsense... i don't know... since a long time I don't do with adsense

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bilbobaggins 11 years ago

yes you can make good money with adsense. but.....

it takes hard work and you need to play by Google's rules and build a quality site. if you build a crappy site you will get crappy earnings.

in my experience there are no short cuts to adsense riches. you need to put in the hours and learn the craft. im talking months and years. no short cuts no overnight sensation. hard work and long hours crafting quality content.
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