Is Adsense Dead?

Far from dead, with many marketers (myself included, testing the waters) doing things such as the "Xfactor or Clickbump" methods, Adsense is still a very viable monetization technique.

The key is rankings and keyword research/optimization.

I also personally think that a mixture of adsense and other monetization methods is the real winner here. Finding that "balance" is the key.

Adsense is still alive and well. I think the key is just to make it one part of a multiple stream of income approach.

Adsense is pretty much alive. It's a tougher game
though than it used to be 5-6 years ago.

The real value of Adsense sites is that they sell
very well on Flippa and you can always get 10x -
12x monthly earnings.

Per click, I find affiliate marketing makes me more
than adsense, but it takes a lot of tweaking in most
cases to optimize affiliate earnings.

While CPA and affiliate marketing often yields more money than Adsense, it is far from dead. You just have to properly optimize your page for the greatest CTR and pick profitable keywords to build a website around. Also, once it's making a decent amount of money, you can flip it for some good cash.

Adsense is in no way a method to get lots of money in a short period of time, unless you really know what you're doing and are willing to invest in a lot of domains.

nope still alive here 20cent clicks arent too bad, you always here people complaining about 1-5 cent clicks as long as it doesnt drop down to that should be ok. Biggest click I got recently was for 66cents woohoo lol..

The $20 clicks are being spent on search only, so don't expect to get any from adsense.

I've had a few $4 clicks recently, but most are around 40c.

Andrew

adsense has never worked for me. I frankly make better money from CPA offers

adsense is not dead.
i think no one use it as the only one source of income.
it is only a part of income.

I made loads when Adsense first came out and my core audience (geeks) liked clicking on the ads. Now they don't, so I have moved onto other niches.

If you do some thinking then you can make big money on adsense. My latest click through rates are 20%+, which is very nice indeed.

adsense is not dead. just target for a product.

Create an optimized page for adsense, with cpa banners and links scatter throughout. This in my opinion is the best monetization method.

The 250x250 adsense block in the middle of my main body gets me the best CTR.

It is absolutely not dead. But the hype with all the eBooks from the so called "gurus" (back in 2004) is pretty exaggerated. But, No its not dead. You can still earn a lot of money from it if you put in the right effort and work with traffic - and content if you want the visitors to stay.

But I would not choose it as my main moneymaking project. Or hmm, that maybe depends on what you are doing. I mean, if you are doing a big autoblogging-project, using AdSense isn't a bad idea at all.


Regards,
A.N

There's one site that I got to crack into the top 5 spots for a very popular keyword. For a long time, I was trying to sell a ClickBank product with no luck. So I started collecting e-mail addresses. That helped me build a big list but again, still no luck getting people to actually buy something.

So I added AdSense to the website's front page (where people come to when they find it after searching for the keyword). Almost immediately, this site started averaging $24 per day in AdSense!!

With the opt-in list, I just started sending them to "newsletter" pages back on the main website that, you guessed it, have AdSense on them. I have that setup as a separate channel and it's making money left and right.

Okay so get this. I then studied the ads and saw what kinds of headlines and ad copy were getting people to click. I then tried finding a ClickBank product that would basically give people what they'd be looking for by clicking on one of those ad links. I created an AdSense look-alike type thing where people who'd click on it would be sent to a CB product. I sent a little bit over 100 hops and NO sale. (??) So back to AdSense... and the money started coming in again.

I'm going to be trying a 4 day cash machine thing with the list to see what happens.

But I'd say AdSense is far from dead. In the case of this website, I don't have a clue what I could do to otherwise make it profitable. I guess maybe see if I find some CPA stuff that would be a good match for it?

But anyway AdSense isn't dead, for sure not. I've got a bunch of other sites that pretty much only make money because of AdSense.

No, it is not dead. Just make sure to write informative articles on your website, no trash, and no 200 words quickly put together page. Also be in total compliance with the Google TOS. Then you should be ok.